US 12,329,817 B2
Highly active NK cell and use thereof
Yoshikazu Yonemitsu, Fukuoka (JP); Yui Harada, Fukuoka (JP); and Koji Teraishi, Fukuoka (JP)
Assigned to Yoshikazu YONEMITSU, Fukuoka (JP); and GAIA BioMedicine Inc., Fukuoka (JP)
Filed by Yoshikazu Yonemitsu, Fukuoka (JP); and GAIA BioMedicine INC., Tokyo (JP)
Filed on May 12, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/196,779.
Application 18/196,779 is a division of application No. 16/612,091, granted, now 11,723,924, previously published as PCT/JP2018/018236, filed on May 11, 2018.
Claims priority of application No. 2017-095288 (JP), filed on May 12, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2023/0355676 A1, Nov. 9, 2023
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. C12N 5/0783 (2010.01); A61K 40/15 (2025.01); A61K 40/42 (2025.01); A61K 45/06 (2006.01)
CPC A61K 45/06 (2013.01) [A61K 40/15 (2025.01); A61K 40/428 (2025.01); C12N 5/0646 (2013.01); A61K 2239/48 (2023.05); C12N 2500/90 (2013.01); C12N 2501/2302 (2013.01)] 7 Claims
 
1. A population of NK cells, wherein the population is obtained from the following steps:
collecting peripheral blood mononuclear cells from a healthy volunteer using Ficoll;
adding CD3 beads to the obtained peripheral blood mononuclear cells, and incubating the mononuclear cells and beads at 4° C. for 15 minutes;
adding a separation buffer to the mononuclear cells and the beads to obtain a suspension, and centrifuging the suspension at 300×g for 10 minutes;
removing a supernatant from the centrifuged suspension to obtain a residue, suspending the residue in a separation buffer, and adding the resulting suspension to LD Column wetted beforehand with the separation buffer;
collecting an eluate from the LD Column, and centrifuging the eluate at 500×g for 5 minutes;
removing a supernatant from the centrifuged eluate to obtain resultant cells, and suspending the resultant cells in NK medium I at a density of 5×105 cells/mL which are collected as primary NK cells, and
culturing the primary NK cells in a CO2 incubator at 37° C. under 5% CO2 atmosphere;
collecting the cells on day 14 of the culturing step as the population; and
wherein the NK medium I is COSMEDIUM 008 containing 5% of human AB type serum which is obtained by inactivation at 56° C. for 30 minutes.