Multivalent polymers, processes for their preparation, and their use for preparing biologically active compounds

US6677164B1 · kind B1 · utility

Assignee

• Novartis AG · CH

Inventors

• Gebhard Thoma · Lörrach, DE
• Rudolf Duthaler · Bettingen, CH
• Beat Ernst · Magden, CH
• John L. Magnani · Gaithersburg, US
• John T. Patton, Jr. · Gaithersburg, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Jun 11, 1998
• Grant date: Jan 13, 2004
• Expiry date: Jun 11, 2018

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10S436/909
• WIPO field: Pharmaceuticals
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

The present invention provides biologically active linear polypeptides that possess a plurality of biologically active groups, methods employing such peptides to target molecules to cells, and methods employing such peptides for inhibiting the binding of cells to each other.