| CPC A61K 47/542 (2017.08) [A61P 1/16 (2018.01); A61P 3/04 (2018.01); A61P 3/10 (2018.01); A61P 11/00 (2018.01)] | 15 Claims |
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1. A derivative of IL-22 comprising a fatty acid covalently attached to an IL-22 protein, wherein
(i) the IL-22 is a variant of native mature human IL-22 (hIL-22; SEQ ID NO. 1), wherein the variant comprises 1, 2, or 3 amino acid substitutions within SEQ ID NO. 1, including an A1C substitution;
(ii) when the variant comprises 2 or 3 amino acid substitutions, the substitutions other than the A1C substitution are:
conservative substitutions; and/or
located at one or more positions selected from positions 21, 35, 64, 113 and 114 of hIL-22; and
(iii) the fatty acid is covalently attached to the substituted Cys residue at position 1.
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