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Pasteurized therapeutically active protein compositions
| Details |
Inventors: Fernandes, Peter M.; Lundblad, John L.;
Assignee: Miles Laboratories, Inc. (Elkhart, IN)
Primary Examiner: Schain; Howard E.
Assistant Examiner:
Attorney, Agent or Firm: Giblin; James A.
Compositions containing thermally sensitive, therapeutically active proteins are pasteurized without substantial loss of therapeutic activity by mixing the protein composition with a pasteurization-stabilizing amount of a sugar or reduced sugar and of an amino acid prior to pasteurization. Pasteurized compositions containing therapeutically active proteins, which have heretofore been unattainable, can be prepared by the method of the invention. |
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DETAILED DESCRIPTION What is claimed is: 1.
A method of pasteurizing a composition comprising a thermally sensitive, therapeutically active protein selected from the group consisiting of antihemophilic factor (Factor VIII), fibronectin, antithrombin III, alpha-1-antitrypsin, and prekallikrein, which comprises (a) mixing the protein composition with from 0.
1 to 0.
5 M of at least one amino acid and a compound selected from the group consisting of sugars and reduced sugars in an aqueous medium, said compound being present in the mixture in an amount of about 54% to saturation, on a weight to volume basis, and (b) heating the mixture at a temperature of about 60.
degree.
-75.
degree.
C.
and a pH of about 5.
5-8.
0 for at least about 10 hours to pasteurize the protein composition and render it substantially free of infective hepatitis.
2.
The method of claim 1 wherein the molecular weight of the compound is about 5000 or less.
3.
The method of claim 1 wherein the pH of the mixture is about 6.
0-7.
5.
4.
The method of claim 1 wherein the compound is sucrose.
5.
The method of claim 1 wherein the amino acid is selected from the group consisting of arginine, lysine and glycine.
6.
The method of claim 1 wherein the amount of compound is sufficient to result in the retention of at least about 40% of the activity of the protein during pasteurization of the protein composition.
7.
The method of claim 1 wherein the mixture is heated in Step (b) at a temperature of about 60.
degree.
C.
8.
The method of claim 1 which further includes at least one of the steps of removing said compound from the mixture resulting from Step (b), removing said amino acid from the mixture resulting from Step (b), and removing both said compound and said amino acid from the mixture resulting from Step (b).
9.
The method of claim 8 wherein the compound and/or amino acid is removed from the mixture of Step (b) by subjecting the mixture to diafiltration.
10.
The method of claim 8 wherein the compound and/or amino acid is removed from the mixture of Step (b) by subjecting the mixture to dialysis
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