Patent ID: 9675679
Date: 2017-06-13
CPC Classifications: A61K,A61P,C07K

Claim:
1. An immunoconjugate comprising: a) a ghrelin polypeptide comprising Gly-Ser-A-Phe-Leu-B, wherein: A comprises: B comprises a subsequence of 0 to 23 consecutive amino acid residues of SEQ ID NO: 2; and b) a carrier moiety, wherein the carrier moiety is selected from the group consisting of dextran, mannose, mannan, integral membrane proteins from, wherein the ghrelin polypeptide is linked at its carboxy terminus to the carrier moiety by a linker moiety, wherein the linker moiety forms a covalent bond between reactive groups on the polypeptide and carrier moiety.