Patent 10253083 was granted and assigned to Ambrx on April, 2019 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Therapeutic uses of modified relaxin polypeptides for the treatment of cardiovascular disease, treatment of heart failure, and decreasing fibrotic disorders are provided. Exemplary embodiments provide for the use of relaxin polypeptides which include one or more amino acid substitutions with natural or non-naturally encoded amino acids, and/or linkage to a water-soluble polymer, such as polyethylene glycol.