Multiarmed, monofunctional, polymer for coupling to molecules and surfaces
First Claim
1. An essentially pure water soluble polymer having a moiety located along the polymer backbone, which moiety comprises a single ionizable reactive group, wherein said polymer is represented by the structure:
- ##STR30## wherein C is carbon;
wherein R is a nonreactive moiety;
wherein Z is said moiety comprising a single ionizable reactive group;
wherein polya and polyb are nonpeptidic and nonreactive polymeric arms that may be the game or different;
wherein P and Q are nonreactive linkage fragments that may be the same or different and join polymeric arms polya and polyb, respectively, to C in the absence of aromatic rings and ester groups in said fragments, and wherein said polymer is recovered in essentially pure form by ion exchange chromatography.
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Abstract
Multi-armed, monofunctional, and hydrolytically stable polymers are described having the structure ##STR1## wherein Z is a moiety that can be activated for attachment to biologically active molecules such as proteins and wherein P and Q represent linkage fragments that join polymer arms polya and polyb, respectively, to central carbon atom, C, by hydrolytically stable linkages in the absence of aromatic rings and ester groups in the linkage fragments. R typically is hydrogen or methyl, but can be a linkage fragment that includes another polymer arm. A specific example is an mPEG disubstituted lysine having the structure ##STR2## where mPEGa and mPEGb have the structure CH3 O--(CH2 CH2 O)n CH2 CH2 -- wherein n may be the same or different for mPEGa and mPEGb and can be from 1 to about 1,150 to provide molecular weights of from about 100 to 100,000. The mPEG disubstituted lysine can be purified from a reaction mixture by chromatography in water, including gel filtration chromatography and ion exchange chromatography because the carboxyl group is ionizable. Impurities are removed, including unreacted mPEG and mPEG monosubstituted lysine, to provide the polymer in pure form. Ion exchange chromatography permits fractionation of a greater amount of polymer per run.
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49 Claims
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1. An essentially pure water soluble polymer having a moiety located along the polymer backbone, which moiety comprises a single ionizable reactive group, wherein said polymer is represented by the structure:
- ##STR30## wherein C is carbon;
wherein R is a nonreactive moiety;
wherein Z is said moiety comprising a single ionizable reactive group;
wherein polya and polyb are nonpeptidic and nonreactive polymeric arms that may be the game or different;
wherein P and Q are nonreactive linkage fragments that may be the same or different and join polymeric arms polya and polyb, respectively, to C in the absence of aromatic rings and ester groups in said fragments, and wherein said polymer is recovered in essentially pure form by ion exchange chromatography. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17)
- ##STR30## wherein C is carbon;
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18. An essentially pure water soluble polymer represented by the structure:
- wherein C is carbon;
wherein Z comprises a single ionizable reactive group;
wherein R comprises -M-polyd ;
wherein polya, polyb, and polyd are nonpeptidic and nonreactive polymeric arms that may be the same or different;
wherein P, Q, and M are nonreactive linkage fragments that may be the same or different and join polymeric arms polya, polyb, and polyd, respectively, to C in the absence of aromatic rings and ester groups in said linkage fragments, and wherein said polymer is recovered in essentially pure form by ion exchange chromatography.
- wherein C is carbon;
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19. An essentially pure water soluble polymer having a molecular weight of from about 40,000 to 100,000 wherein said polymer is represented by the structure:
- ##STR32## wherein C is carbon;
wherein R is a nonreactive moiety;
wherein Z comprises a single carboxyl moiety, --COOH;
wherein polya and polyb are polyethylene glycol arms that may be of the same or different molecular weight;
wherein P and Q are nonreactive linkage fragments that may be the same or different and join polymeric arms polya and polyb, respectively, to C in the absence of aromatic rings and carbonate ester moieties in said fragments, and wherein said polymer in recovered in essentially sure form by ion exchange chromatography.
- ##STR32## wherein C is carbon;
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20. An essentially pure monomethoxy poly(ethylene glycol) disubstituted lysine represented by the following structure:
- ##STR33## wherein mPEGa and mPEGb are monomethoxypoly (ethylene glycols) having the structure CH--(CH2 CH2 O)n CH2 CH2 --, wherein n equals from 1 to about one thousand one hundred fifty (1,150), wherein n may be the same or different for mPEGa and mPEGb, and wherein said disubstituted lysine is recovered in essentially pure form by ion exchange chromatography.
- View Dependent Claims (21, 22, 23, 24)
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25. A method of synthesizing a water soluble, branched polymer having a single ionizable reactive group, which ionizable reactive group is located along the polymer backbone, said method comprising the steps of:
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a) reacting two or more nonpeptidic and monofunctional polymers of the structure poly-W, wherein W is an active moiety located at the terminus of the polymer that provides the monofunctionality for the polymer, with a linger molecule having two or more active sites with which W is reactive and forming linkages therewith to create a branched polymer, wherein said linker molecule and said linkages do not comprise aromatic rings and ester groups and wherein the linker molecule further comprises a single reactive group with which active moiety --W is not reactive and that provides the single ionizable reactive group on the branched polymer backbone; and b) recovering the branched polymer in essentially pure form by ion exchange chromatography. - View Dependent Claims (26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38)
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39. A method for forming monofunctional monomethoxy-poly(ethylene glycol) disubstituted lysine comprising carrying out steps to perform the following rejection:
- ##STR34## and recovering the disubstituted lysine in essentially pure form by ion exchange chromatography.
- View Dependent Claims (40, 41, 42, 43, 48)
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44. A method for forming a monofunctional monomethoxy-poly(ethylene glycol) disubstituted lysine comprising carrying out steps to perform the following reactions:
- and recovering the disubstituted lysine in essentially pure form by ion exchange chromatography.
- View Dependent Claims (45, 46, 47)
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49. A polymeric derivative having a structure selected from the group consisting of:
- wherein polya and polyb are nonpeptidic and nonreactive polymeric arms that may be the same or different; and
wherein Z comprises a moiety selected from the group consisting of moieties having a single site reactive toward nucleophilic moieties, sites that can be converted to sites reactive toward nucleophilic moieties, and the reaction product of a nucleophilic moiety and moieties having a single site reactive toward nucleophilic moieties.
- wherein polya and polyb are nonpeptidic and nonreactive polymeric arms that may be the same or different; and
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