The present invention provides a prophylactic or therapeutic agent for various malignant tumors, including currently intractable solid tumors, which contains an antibody having the ability to bind to human LAT1/CD98 and inducing antibody-dependent cellular cytotoxicity specifically against cancer cells as an active ingredient.

The present invention contemplates mRNA, episomal and retroviral genomic gene therapy based short-term, intermediate or long-term vaccine, immunization, immune protection or cancer—that can also be administered as a retroviral genomic gene therapy both in vivo and ex vivo—method to provide epithelial and hematological protection to humans to protect against cancer especially carcinomas, pandemic and non-pandemic viruses, bacterial infections, allergens or the cause of allergic reactions, systemic pathological conditions, cancer and anti-biowarfare agents (e.g. natural and unnatural viruses and toxins) where mucosal immunity and for some diseases hematological immunity is achieved through mRNA, episomal or genomic integrated lentiviral and gammaretroviral vector expression of dimeric immunoglobulin A1 (dIgA1), dimeric immunoglobulin A2 (dIgA2) and engineered variants. Additionally, in some embodiments a method to agglutinate cancers including carcinomas and hematological cancers to prevent metastasis with polymeric immunoglobulin A and dimeric immunoglobulin A and engineered variants. The present invention provides methods, immunoglobulin compositions and vector constructs to express potent immunoglobulins that are derived from human blood of a human currently infected with, affected by, exposed to or recovered from any of a wide range of allergens or the cause of allergic reactions, pathogens (including, viruses, virus mutants, bacterial infections and fungi) and systemic pathological ailments (including cancer and other disorders), developed from phage display technology or mice or other non-human vertebrates with engineered immune systems or humanized immune systems, transgenic mice or chimeric antibodies a fusion of non-human vertebrates (e.g. mouse or rabbit), mouse antibody V-regions, human antibodies. The immunoglobulin compositions include the heavy chain variable, diversity and joining (VDJ or Variable Heavy Region genes) segment immunoglobulin DNA and/or polypeptide sequence from humans identified to have therapeutically relevant affinity immunoglobulins against the antigen, protein or proteins of interest and either to use the exact immunoglobulin heavy chain and light chain polypeptide sequences identified from the B-cell that produced them or to modify or engineer some of the immunoglobulin heavy chain and light chain constant domains to modulate effector functions. Although, ideally there are no changes made to the immunoglobulins light and heavy chains as identified from the B-cell that produced them. Modifications may occur at the Hinge region, Constant Heavy 2 (C.sub.H2) domain and Constant Heavy 3 (C.sub.H3) domain for the immunoglobul

The present invention relates to humanized antibodies that specifically bind a polypeptide comprising peptide-6 as denoted by SEQ ID NO. 15, that is an HSP65 derived peptide. More specifically, the invention relates to humanized anti-peptide-6 antibodies, compositions, methods and uses thereof for the treatment of immune-related disorders, specifically, inflammatory disorders such as arthritis, IBD, psoriasis, diabetes and MS. The invention further provides combined compositions and kit combining the humanized antibodies of the invention and at least one anti-inflammatory agent, as well as uses of the humanized antibodies in diagnostic kits and methods.

The present invention relates to methods for detecting analytes in a sample. The methods may also be used to determine the amount of analyte in the sample. The present invention also relates to antibody or antibody-like molecules and labelled antigens for use in these methods.

A heterodimeric bispecific immunoglobulin molecule includes a first Fab or scFv fragment which specifically binds to EGFR, and a second Fab or scFv fragment which specifically binds to c-MET, and an antibody hinge region, an antibody CH2 domain and an antibody CH3 domain including a hybrid protein-protein interaction interface domain. Each of the interaction interface domains is formed by an amino acid segment of the CH3 domain of a first member and an amino acid segment of the CH3 domain of a second member. The hybrid protein-protein interface domain of the first chain is interacting with the protein-protein-interface of the second chain by homodimerization of a corresponding amino acid segment of the same member of the immunoglobulin superfamily within interaction domains.

The present invention concerns compositions and methods of use of bispecific antibodies comprising at least one binding site for a tumor-associated antigen (TAA) and at least one binding site for an antigen expressed on an effector T cell, NK cell, monocyte or neutrophil. The bispecific antibodies are of use for inducing an immune response against a TAA-expressing tumor. The methods may comprising administering the bispecific antibody in combination with one or more therapeutic agents such as antibody-drug conjugates, interferons (preferably interferon-α), and/or checkpoint inhibitor antibodies. The bispecific antibody is capable of targeting effector T cells, NK cells, monocytes or neutrophils to induce leukocyte-mediated cytotoxicity of cancer cells. The cytotoxic immune response is enhanced by co-administration of interferon, checkpoint inhibitor antibody and/or ADC. In preferred embodiments, the checkpoint inhibitor is a chimeric or humanized anti-PD1 antibody as described herein.

The present invention relates neutralizing epitopes of IL-17A and IL-17F and antibodies which bind those epitopes. The present invention also relates to the therapeutic uses of the antibody molecules and methods for producing them.

Provided herein are methods and composition for immune repertoire sequencing and single cell barcoding. In some aspects, such methods may comprise steps of: (a) forming a plurality of first vessels each comprising: (i) a single cell, and (ii) a single solid support; (b) copying onto the single solid support: (i) a first copy of a first cell polynucleotide from the single cell, and (ii) a second copy of a second cell polynucleotide from the single cell; (c) forming a plurality of second vessels each comprising (i) a single solid support from the plurality of first vessels, and (ii) a barcoded polynucleotide; and (d) amplifying (i) the first copy and the second copy with a first primer set, and (ii) the barcode with a second primer set, wherein a primer of the first primer set is complementary to a primer of the second set; and (e) forming first and second single cell barcoded sequences.

This invention relates generally to antibodies that specifically bind Toll-like Receptor 4 (TLR-4), and to methods of using the anti-TLR4 antibodies as therapeutics and to methods of using the anti-TLR4 antibodies in methods of preventing transplant rejection and/or prolonging survival of transplanted biological material.

Humanized anti-Tn-MUC1 antibodies and conjugates thereof. Conjugates comprising pyrrolobenzodiazepines (PBDs) having a labile protecting group in the form of a linker to the antibody are described.