Claims for Patent: 5,807,832

Summary for Patent: 5,807,832

Title:	Oral delivery of biologically active substances bound to vitamin B.sub.12
Abstract:	Complex of a drug, hormone, bio-active peptide, or immunogen with the carrier molecule vitamin B12 and a method for delivering the complex to the intestine of a host vertebrate in order to deliver the complex to the circulation of the host and thereby elicit a pharmacological response to the drug, hormone, bio-active molecule or to elicit a systemic immune response to the immunogen. The invention also provides a method for the production of the complex. Further, the invention provides medicaments containing the complex.
Inventor(s):	Russell-Jones; Gregory John (Willoughby, AU), Howe; Peter (West Pennant Hills, AU), de Aizpurua; Henry James (Bexley, AU), Burge; Geoffery Lewis (Thornleigh, AU)
Assignee:	Biotech Australia Pty Limited (Roseville, AU)
Application Number:	08/483,811
Patent Claims:	1. A method of treating a patient in need of treatment with a biologically active substance selected from the group consisting of a protein, a peptide, a hormone, and a polysaccharide, comprising the steps of (1) providing an orally administrable complex comprising said biologically active substance covalently linked to a vitamin B12 carrier molecule, wherein said carrier molecule is capable of binding in vivo to intrinsic factor, thereby enabling uptake and transport of the complex from the intestinal lumen of said patient via intrinsic factor to the systemic circulation of said patient, and (2) orally administering said complex to said patient so as to elicit a physiological effect associated with the presence of said biologically active substance in the systemic circulation of said patient. 2. The method according to claim 1, wherein said biologically active substance is a hormone selected from the group consisting of luteinizing hormone releasing hormone, insulin, testosterone, pregnant mare serum gonadotrophin, human chorionic gonadotrophin and inhibin. 3. The method according to claim 2, wherein said hormone is the lys-6 form of LHRH. 4. The method according to claim 1, wherein said biologically active substance is a protein, peptide, or polysaccharide antigen or hapten, wherein said antigen or hapten is selected from the group consisting of grass pollen, weed pollen, tree pollen, plant pollen, cat hair, dog hair, pig hair, or other epithelia, house dust mite, wheat chaff, and kapok antigens or haptens, or wherein said antigen or hapten is selected from the group consisting of a protein from or immunogens against influenza, measles, Rubella, smallpox, yellow fever, diphtheria, tetanus, cholera, plague, typhus, BCG, tuberculosis causing agents, Haemophilus influenza, Neisseria catarrhalis, Klebsiella pneumoniae, pneumococci, streptococci, a malarial parasite and a causative agent of coccidiosis in chickens, or wherein said antigen or hapten is a secretory product from an organism selected from the group consisting of diphtheria, tetanus, cholera, plague, typhus, and tuberculosis causing agents, Haemophilus influenza, Neisseria catarrhalis, Klebsiella pneumoniae, pneumococci, and streptococcus mutans. 5. A method of treating a patient in need of treatment with a biologically active substance, comprising the steps of (1) providing an orally administrable complex comprising said biologically active substance covalently linked to a vitamin B12 carrier molecule, wherein said carrier molecule is capable of binding in vivo to intrinsic factor, thereby enabling uptake and transport of the complex from the intestinal lumen of said patient via intrinsic factor to the systemic circulation of said patient, and (2) orally administering said complex to said patient so as to elicit a physiological effect associated with the presence of said biologically active substance in the systemic circulation of said patient, wherein said biologically active substance is a therapeutic agent selected from the group consisting of neomycin, salbutamol, pyrimethamine, penicillin G, methicillin, carbenicillin, pethidine, xylazine, ketamine hydrochloride, mephenesin and iron dextran. 6. The method according to claim 1, wherein said vitamin B12 carrier molecule is selected from the group consisting of cyanocobalamin, aquocobalamin, adenosylcobalamin, methylcobalamin, hydroxycobalamin, cyanocobalamin carbanilide, 5-0-methylbenzylcobalamin, desdimethyl, monoethylamide and methylamide analogues of cyanocobalamin, aquocobalamin, adenosylcobalamin, methylcobalamin, hydroxycobalamin, cyanocobalamin carbanilide and 5-0-methylbenzylcobalamin, coenzyme B12, 5'-deoxyadenosyl-cobalamin, chlorocobalamin, sulphitocobalamin, nitrocobalamin, thiocyanatocobalamin, adenosylcyanocobalamin, cobalamin lactone, cobalamin lactam, vitamin B12 anilide, vitamin B12 propionamide, and a vitamin B12 molecule in which one or two corrin ring side chains are free carboxylic acids. 7. The method according to claim 1, wherein said vitamin B12 carrier molecule includes a central metal atom selected from the group consisting of Ni and Zn. 8. The method according to claim 1, wherein said vitamin B12 carrier molecule is a cyanocobalamin methylamide or a cobalamin ethylamide. 9. The method according to claim 1, wherein said vitamin B12 carrier molecule is selected from the group consisting of 5,6-dichlorobenzimidazolecobalamin, 5-hydroxybenzimidazole-cobalamin, and trimethylbenzimidazolecobalamin. 10. The method according to claim 1, wherein said biologically active substance is covalently linked via a cross-linking agent to a vitamin B12 carrier molecule and said cross-linking agent is selected from the group consisting of a N-(4-azidophenylthio)phthalimide, 4,4'-dithiobis-phenylazide, dithiobis(succinimidylpropionate), dimethyl-3,3'-dithiobispropionimidate.2HCl, 3, 3 '-dithiobis(sulphosuccinimidyl-propionate), ethyl-4-azidophenyl-1, 4-dithiobutyrimidate.HCl, N-succinimidyl-(4-azidophenyl)-1,3'-dithiopropionate, sulphosuccinimidyl-2-(p-azidosalicylamido)-ethyl-1,3'-dithiopropionate, N-succinimidyl-3-(2-pyridyldithio)propionate, sulphosuccinimidyl-(4-azidophenyldithio)-propionate and 2-iminothiolane. 11. The method according to claim 10, wherein said cross-linking agent is bis(2-(succinimidyloxycarbonyloxy)-ethyl)sulphone. 12. The method according to claim 1 wherein said biologically active substance is administered orally in a formulation comprising (i) an orally administrable complex comprising said biologically active substance covalently linked via a cross-linking agent to a vitamin B12 carrier molecule, wherein (A) said carrier molecule is capable of binding in vivo to intrinsic factor, thereby enabling uptake and transport of the complex from the intestinal lumen of said patient via intrinsic factor to the systemic circulation of said patient, and (B) said cross-linking agent links said biologically active substance to a carboxyl group of an acid-hydrolyzed propionamide side chain adjacent to ring A, ring B or ring C of said carrier molecule; and (ii) an orally and pharmaceutically acceptable carrier or diluent. 13. The method according to claim 12, wherein said formulation is in an oral delivery form selected from the group consisting of a capsule, a tablet, an emulsion, a viscous colloidal dispersion, an elixir, a gel and a paste.

Details for Patent 5,807,832

Applicant	Tradename	Biologic Ingredient	Dosage Form	BLA	Approval Date	Patent No.	Expiredate
Allermed Laboratories, Inc.	N/A	animal allergens, standardized cat hair	Injection	103473	03/12/1974		2015-09-15