The disclosure provides, in part, follistatin polypeptides that are suitable for use in local administration and methods for use.

Compositions and methods are provided for the inhibition, treatment and/or prevention of fragile X syndrome and related disorders.

The present disclosure relates to a pharmaceutical composition for combination therapy for preventing or treating cancer, which contains a first pharmaceutical ingredient containing a drug conjugate wherein an anticancer agent is bound at one end of an amphiphilic peptide represented by SEQ ID NO 1 and a poloxamer; and a second pharmaceutical ingredient containing an anti-PD-L1 antibody; as active ingredients. The pharmaceutical composition significantly inhibits cancer growth in in-vivo experiments and exhibits an effect of significantly enhancing immunotherapeutic effect by activating immune cells in cancerous tissues. In particular, the pharmaceutical composition for combination therapy according to the present disclosure has superior tumor accumulation efficiency and selectivity as compared to existing anticancer agents, and is very stable with little toxicity to normal tissues other than cancerous tissues.

The present disclosure relates to peptide compounds and conjugate compounds, processes, methods and uses thereof for treating cancer. For example, the compounds can comprise compounds of formula

TABLE-US-00001 X.sub.1X.sub.2X.sub.3X.sub.4X.sub.5GVX.sub.6AKAGVX.sub.7NX.sub.8FKSESY (I) (SEQ ID NO: 1) (X.sub.9).sub.nGVX.sub.10AKAGVX.sub.11NX.sub.12FKSESY (II) (SEQ ID NO: 2) YKX.sub.13LRRX.sub.14APRWDX.sub.15PLRDPALRX.sub.16X.sub.17L (III) (SEQ ID NO: 3) YKX.sub.18LRR(X.sub.19).sub.nPLRDPALRX.sub.20X.sub.21L (IV) (SEQ ID NO: 4) IKLSGGVQAKAGVINMDKSESM (V) (SEQ ID NO: 5) IKLSGGVQAKAGVINMFKSESY (VI) (SEQ ID NO: 6) IKLSGGVQAKAGVINMFKSESYK (VII) (SEQ ID NO: 7) GVQAKAGVINMFKSESY (VIII) (SEQ ID NO: 8) GVRAKAGVRNMFKSESY (IX) (SEQ ID NO: 9) GVRAKAGVRN(Nle)FKSESY (X) (SEQ ID NO: 10) YKSLRRKAPRWDAPLRDPALRQLL (XI) (SEQ ID NO: 11) YKSLRRKAPRWDAYLRDPALRQLL (XII) (SEQ ID NO: 12) YKSLRRKAPRWDAYLRDPALRPLL (XIII) (SEQ ID NO: 13) wherein X.sub.1 to X.sub.21 and n can have various different values and wherein at least one protecting group and/or at least one labelling agent is optionally connected to said peptide compound at an N- and/or C-terminal end.

A composition for targeting low-density lipoprotein receptor-related protein 6 (LRP6)-overexpressed cells. The composition includes a peptide including at least one of SEQ ID NO: 1 and SEQ ID NO: 3.

The present invention relates to a chimeric construct, comprising i) an interleukin 2 (IL2) moiety and ii) a beta chain of the C4b-binding protein (C4BPβ) or at least one fragment or functional variant thereof that is capable of forming a dimeric protein.

The present disclosure provides methods of treating subjects having cognitive impairment or at risk of developing cognitive impairment, and methods of identifying subjects having an increased risk of developing cognitive impairment.

Disclosed are methods of determining activity of mTOR variants upon exposure to mTOR inhibitors, such a rapamycin or rapalogs thereof, methods for determining kinase activity of a mTOR variant, and methods for determining tumor cell response to treatment with rapamycin or rapalogs thereof. A method for determining whether a compound inhibits mTOR activity in a cell is also disclosed.

The present discloses relates to a composition, a kit or a method using an eIF4E inhibitor for diagnosis or treatment of a condition associated with increased activity of eIF4E.

The disclosure relates to Angiopoietin-1 mimetics for treating vascular diseases via agonistic activation of Tie2/TEK receptor.