Claims for Patent: 12,257,285

Summary for Patent: 12,257,285

Title:	Composition of BL-8040
Abstract:	A composition comprising BL-8040 (SEQ ID NO: 1) is disclosed herein, which may be for use in treating a condition treatable by BL-8040. The composition further comprises at least one compound characterized by a relative retention time of from 0.86 to 0.88 and/or a relative retention time of from 0.71 to 0.73 (wherein a relative retention time of BL-8040 is 1) under conditions described herein.
Inventor(s):	Efrat Halbfinger, Amnon Peled, Ella Sorani
Assignee:	Biokine Therapeutics Ltd , BiolineRx Ltd
Application Number:	US18/537,973
Patent Claims:	1. A composition-of-matter comprising BL-8040 (SEQ ID NO: 1) and at least one compound characterized by a relative retention time in a range of from 0.86 to 0.88, wherein said relative retention time is determined using a first mobile phase which is an aqueous solution of 0.017 M perchlorate at a pH in a range of from about 3.0 to about 3.3, a second mobile phase which is acetonitrile, a gradient whereby a concentration of said second mobile phase increases by about 10% in about 50 minutes from an initial concentration of about 20%, a C18 reverse phase column, an injection volume in a range of from about 5 to about 20 μl, and a flow rate of about 1 ml per minute, at a temperature of about 40° C., and wherein a relative retention time of said BL-8040 (SEQ ID NO: 1) is defined as 1, the composition-of-matter being produced by a process of preparing said BL-8040 (SEQ ID NO: 1) which comprises: (a) sequentially coupling amino acids and 4-fluorobenzoic acid to a resin by solid phase peptide synthesis, thereby obtaining a linear peptide coupled to said resin; (b) cleaving said linear peptide from said resin, thereby obtaining a free linear peptide; (c) oxidizing cysteine residues of said linear peptide to form an intramolecular disulfide bond, thereby obtaining the cyclic peptide having SEQ ID NO: 1 in solution; and (d) isolating the cyclic peptide having SEQ ID NO: 1, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof. 2. The composition-of-matter of claim 1, wherein said at least one compound represents at least 20% of all compounds other than BL-8040 (SEQ ID NO: 1) in the composition-of-matter as determined according to absorption at a wavelength at about 226 nm. 3. The composition-of-matter of claim 1, wherein a total concentration ratio of said at least one compound to said BL-8040 (SEQ ID NO: 1) is at least about 0.01% and/or is no more than about 1%. 4. The composition-of-matter of claim 1, further comprising at least one compound characterized by a relative retention time in a range of from 0.71 to 0.73. 5. The composition-of-matter of claim 4, wherein said at least one compound characterized by a relative retention time in a range of from 0.71 to 0.73 represents at least 10% of all compounds other than BL-8040 (SEQ ID NO: 1) in the composition-of-matter as determined according to absorption at a wavelength at about 226 nm. 6. The composition-of-matter of claim 4, wherein a total concentration ratio of said at least one compound characterized by a relative retention time in a range of from 0.71 to 0.73 to said BL-8040 (SEQ ID NO: 1) is at least about 0.01% and/or is in a range of from about 0.03% to about 0.15%. 7. The composition-of-matter of claim 4, wherein a total concentration of said at least one compound characterized by a relative retention time in a range of from 0.86 to 0.88 and said at least one compound characterized by a relative retention time in a range of from 0.71 to 0.73 represents at least 50% of all compounds other than BL-8040 (SEQ ID NO: 1) in the composition-of-matter as determined according to absorption at a wavelength at about 226 nm. 8. A composition-of-matter comprising BL-8040 (SEQ ID NO: 1) and at least one compound characterized by a relative retention time in a range of from 0.86 to 0.88, wherein a total concentration ratio of said at least one compound to said BL-8040 (SEQ ID NO: 1) is in a range of from 0.075% to 0.225% as determined according to absorption at a wavelength at about 226 nm, wherein said relative retention time is determined using a first mobile phase which is an aqueous solution of 0.017 M perchlorate at a pH in a range of from about 3.0 to about 3.3, a second mobile phase which is acetonitrile, a gradient whereby a concentration of said second mobile phase increases by about 10% in about 50 minutes from an initial concentration of about 20%, a C18 reverse phase column, an injection volume in a range of from about 5 to about 20 μl, and a flow rate of about 1 ml per minute, at a temperature of about 40° C., and wherein a relative retention time of said BL-8040 (SEQ ID NO: 1) is defined as 1, the composition-of-matter being produced by a process of preparing said BL-8040 (SEQ ID NO: 1) which comprises: (a) sequentially coupling amino acids and 4-fluorobenzoic acid to a resin by solid phase peptide synthesis, thereby obtaining a linear peptide coupled to said resin; (b) cleaving said linear peptide from said resin, thereby obtaining a free linear peptide; (c) oxidizing cysteine residues of said linear peptide to form an intramolecular disulfide bond, thereby obtaining the cyclic peptide having SEQ ID NO: 1 in solution; and (d) isolating the cyclic peptide having SEQ ID NO: 1, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof. 9. A composition-of-matter comprising BL-8040 (SEQ ID NO: 1) and at least one compound characterized by a relative retention time in a range of from 0.71 to 0.73, said at least one compound representing at least 10% of all compounds other than BL-8040 (SEQ ID NO: 1) in the composition-of-matter as determined according to absorption at a wavelength at about 226 nm, wherein said relative retention time is determined using a first mobile phase which is an aqueous solution of 0.017 M perchlorate at a pH in a range of from about 3.0 to about 3.3, a second mobile phase which is acetonitrile, a gradient whereby a concentration of said second mobile phase increases by about 10% in about 50 minutes from an initial concentration of about 20%, a C18 reverse phase column, an injection volume in a range of from about 5 to about 20 μl, and a flow rate of about 1 ml per minute, at a temperature of about 40° C., and wherein a relative retention time of said BL-8040 (SEQ ID NO: 1) is defined as 1, the composition-of-matter being produced by a process of preparing said BL-8040 (SEQ ID NO: 1) which comprises: (a) sequentially coupling amino acids and 4-fluorobenzoic acid to a resin by solid phase peptide synthesis, thereby obtaining a linear peptide coupled to said resin; (b) cleaving said linear peptide from said resin, thereby obtaining a free linear peptide; (c) oxidizing cysteine residues of said linear peptide to form an intramolecular disulfide bond, thereby obtaining the cyclic peptide having SEQ ID NO: 1 in solution; and (d) isolating the cyclic peptide having SEQ ID NO: 1, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof. 10. The composition-of-matter of claim 9, wherein a total concentration ratio of said at least one compound to said BL-8040 (SEQ ID NO: 1) is at least about 0.01% and/or is no more than about 0.5%. 11. The composition-of-matter of claim 9, further comprising at least one compound characterized by a relative retention time in a range of from 0.86 to 0.88. 12. The composition-of-matter of claim 11, wherein a total concentration ratio of said at least one compound characterized by a relative retention time in a range of from 0.86 to 0.88 to said BL-8040 (SEQ ID NO: 1) is at least about 0.01% and/or is in a range of from about 0.075% to about 0.225%. 13. The composition-of-matter of claim 11, wherein a total concentration of said at least one compound characterized by a relative retention time in a range of from 0.86 to 0.88 and said at least one compound characterized by a relative retention time in a range of from 0.71 to 0.73 represents at least 50% of all compounds other than BL-8040 (SEQ ID NO: 1) in the composition-of-matter as determined according to absorption at a wavelength at about 226 nm. 14. The composition-of-matter of claim 1, wherein: (i) said coupling is effected using diisopropylcarbodiimide (DIC) in combination with ethyl cyanohydroxyiminoacetate and/or N-hydroxybenzotriazole; (ii) said cleaving is effected by contacting said linear peptide coupled to said resin with a solution comprising trifluoroacetic acid (TFA) and a scavenger selected from the group consisting of dithioerythritol (DTE) and dithiothreitol (DTT); (iii) the process further comprises precipitating said free linear peptide after said cleaving without concentrating said free linear peptide by evaporation prior to said precipitating; (iv) said contacting is effected by contacting an aqueous solution comprising said linear peptide at a concentration of at least 5 mg/mL with hydrogen peroxide; (v) said isolating comprises loading said cyclic peptide on a reverse phase chromatography column at a concentration of no more than 40 grams cyclic peptide per kg of said column, and eluting said cyclic peptide from said column; (vi) said isolating the cyclic peptide having SEQ ID NO: 1 comprises lyophilization, and the process further comprises grinding said cyclic peptide following said lyophilization; and/or (vii) a degree of substitution of said resin is at least 0.3 milliequivalents per gram, and/or said resin is a Rink aminomethylstyrene resin. 15. The composition-of-matter of claim 1, characterized by enhanced promotion of in vivo neutrophil migration to peripheral blood, relative to a corresponding composition-of-matter lacking a compound characterized by a relative retention time in a range of from 0.71 to 0.73 and a compound characterized by a relative retention time in a range of from 0.86 to 0.88. 16. A pharmaceutical composition comprising the composition-of-matter of claim 1, and a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier. 17. A method of treating a condition treatable by BL-8040 (SEQ ID NO: 1) and/or a condition in which inhibiting CXCR4 is advantageous and/or a condition selected from the group consisting of retinoblastoma, neuroectodermal derived tumors, large cell lung cancer, multiple myeloma, microglioma, glioma, breast cancer, pancreatic cancer, thrombocytopenia, risk of bone marrow suppression, and HIV infection in a subject in need thereof, the method comprising administering to the subject the composition-of-matter of claim 1, thereby treating the condition. 18. The composition-of-matter of claim 9, wherein: (i) said coupling is effected using diisopropylcarbodiimide (DIC) in combination with ethyl cyanohydroxyiminoacetate and/or N-hydroxybenzotriazole; (ii) said cleaving is effected by contacting said linear peptide coupled to said resin with a solution comprising trifluoroacetic acid (TFA) and a scavenger selected from the group consisting of dithioerythritol (DTE) and dithiothreitol (DTT); (iii) the process further comprises precipitating said free linear peptide after said cleaving without concentrating said free linear peptide by evaporation prior to said precipitating; (iv) said contacting is effected by contacting an aqueous solution comprising said linear peptide at a concentration of at least 5 mg/mL with hydrogen peroxide; (v) said isolating comprises loading said cyclic peptide on a reverse phase chromatography column at a concentration of no more than 40 grams cyclic peptide per kg of said column, and eluting said cyclic peptide from said column; (vi) said isolating the cyclic peptide having SEQ ID NO: 1 comprises lyophilization, and the process further comprises grinding said cyclic peptide following said lyophilization; and/or (vii) a degree of substitution of said resin is at least 0.3 milliequivalents per gram, and/or said resin is a Rink aminomethylstyrene resin. 19. The composition-of-matter of claim 9, characterized by enhanced promotion of in vivo neutrophil migration to peripheral blood, relative to a corresponding composition-of-matter lacking a compound characterized by a relative retention time in a range of from 0.71 to 0.73 and a compound characterized by a relative retention time in a range of from 0.86 to 0.88. 20. A pharmaceutical composition comprising the composition-of-matter of claim 9, and a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier. 21. A method of treating a condition treatable by BL-8040 (SEQ ID NO: 1) and/or a condition in which inhibiting CXCR4 is advantageous and/or a condition selected from the group consisting of retinoblastoma, neuroectodermal derived tumors, large cell lung cancer, multiple myeloma, microglioma, glioma, breast cancer, pancreatic cancer, thrombocytopenia, risk of bone marrow suppression, and HIV infection in a subject in need thereof, the method comprising administering to the subject the composition-of-matter of claim 9, thereby treating the condition. 22. The composition-of-matter of claim 1, wherein said at least one compound characterized by a relative retention time in a range of from 0.86 to 0.88 comprises a compound having the same molecular weight as BL-8040 (SEQ ID NO: 1) and/or a compound having a molecular weight which is higher than the molecular weight of BL-8040 (SEQ ID NO: 1) by no more than 100 Da, said molecular weight being determined by mass spectrometry. 23. The composition-of-matter of claim 8, wherein said at least one compound characterized by a relative retention time in a range of from 0.86 to 0.88 comprises a compound having the same molecular weight as BL-8040 (SEQ ID NO: 1) and/or a compound having a molecular weight which is higher than the molecular weight of BL-8040 (SEQ ID NO: 1) by no more than 100 Da, said molecular weight being determined by mass spectrometry. 24. The composition-of-matter of claim 1, wherein said process is a large-scale process of preparing in a single run of the process at least 100 grams of BL-8040 (SEQ ID NO: 1). 25. The composition-of-matter of claim 8, wherein said process is a large-scale process of preparing in a single run of the process at least 100 grams of BL-8040 (SEQ ID NO: 1). 26. The composition-of-matter of claim 9, wherein said process is a large-scale process of preparing in a single run of the process at least 100 grams of BL-8040 (SEQ ID NO: 1).