Conjugate Of Antibody And Functional Substance Or Salt Thereof, And Antibody Derivative And Compound Or Salts Thereof To Be Used In Producing Conjugate Or Salt Thereof

Abstract: The present invention provides a conjugate of an antibody and a functional substance, said conjugate having excellent desired properties, or a salt thereof. More particularly, the present invention provides a conjugate of an antibody and a functional substance, said conjugate containing a structural unit represented by formula (1) [wherein: Ig represents an immunoglobulin unit containing two heavy chains and two light chains and bonded to LA adjacent to Ig via thiol groups in the side chains of a plurality of cysteine residues in the two heavy chains and two light chains; HG represents a hydrophilic group or a monovalent group containing a hydrophilic group; CS represents a divalent group containing a cleavable moiety; ring A represents a divalent aromatic ring group which may have a substituent (wherein the divalent aromatic ring group constitutes a p-electron conjugated system together with the aforesaid cleavable moiety); V represents an oxygen atom, a sulfur atom or an amino(NH) group; LA and LB independently represent a divalent group; D represents a functional substance; and the average number n of the aforesaid bonds per immunoglobulin unit is 1.5 or more] or a salt thereof, and substances related thereto.

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