CHROMOSOME-SPECIFIC NUCLEIC ACID PROBE FOR FAMILIAL POLYPOSIS COLI

Abstract: A nucleic acid fragment capable of selectively hybridising with the human chromosome 5 at the chromosomal region 5q20-q23.

Description: Chromosome-specific nucleic acid probe for familial polyposis coli. The present invention relates to nucleic acid fragments and their use in the diagnosis and prognosis o^ adenocarcinoma especially Familial Adenomatous Polvoosis. Colorectal cancer is the second most common cancer in the United Kingdom and other developed countries in the West. Although usually not familial there is a rare dominantly inherited susceptibility to colon cancer. Familial Adenomatous Polyposis (FAP or Familial Polvoosis Coli) . During adolescence affected individuals develop from a few hundred to over a thousand adenomatous polyps in their large bowel. These have a sufficiently igh probability of giving rise to adenocarcinomas that prophylactic removal of the colon is recommended in diagnosed FAP individuals. Polyps may also occur elsewhere in the gastrointestinal tract and the condition is often associated with other extracolonic lesions, such as epidermoid cysts, jaw osteo ata and fibrous des oid 1,2,3,4 tumours. Adenomata have been sugqested to be precancerous states for the majority of colorectal tumours ' . η Knudson has suggested that in both familial and non-familial cancers, dominant genes give rise to cancer susceptibility. He further proposed that these mutations act recessively at the cellular level, and that both copies of the gene must be lost for the cancer to develop. In sporadic cases both events occur so atically while in dominant familial cases susceptibility is inherited through a germ line mutation and the cancer develops following a somatic change in the homologous allele. This model was first substantiated by the elegant molecular work on retinoblastoma . Following the linkage of the disorder to chromosome 13^ a , Cavenee et al^ a , using polymorphic DM markers for this chromosome, showed loss of heterozygσsity in tumour material compared to normal tissue ^rom the same patient, in both familial and non-familial forms. Similar results have now been obtained, following cvtogenetic evidence which suggested the localisation of the disease on a specific chromosome, for Wilm's tumours 4a ~ 7a f acoustic neuromas a as well as several other tumours a ' J - Ua > It has now been discovered that a D A orobe designated Cllpll localises to the chromosomal reqion 5g21-g22 and that this marker is closely linked to the disease gene for FA.P. Moreover 20 to 25% of sporadic cases of adenocarcinoma of the colon involve chanqes in the human chromosome 5. Accordingly the present invention provides a nucleic acid fragment capable of selectively hydridizing with the human chromosome 5 at the chromosomal region 5q20-q23. The fragments of the invention may hybridise with the 5q20-q23 region under low or high stringency conditions and will be selective in that the fraq ents do not hydridise with other human chromosomal DNA under those conditions. The nucleic acid fragment may be RNA or O A but the latter is preferred. More oreferablv the fraqment is double stranded DNA. It is preferred that the present nucleic acid fragment will hydridize at the 5q21-q22 locus. Nucleic acid fragments according to the invention may be obtained for instance by complete EcoRI digestion of human chromosome 5 (preferably after sortinq the chromosomes, for instance by flow sorting), cloning in a suitable vector and amplification in a suitable host. Nucleic acid fragments according to the invention are then obtained by EcoRI digestion o^ the amplified vector and screening for hydridization to the 5q20-q23 region. This process has been used to orepare a 3.6kb fraqment which hybridises at the 5q21-g22 region and which recognises alleles of 3.9 and 4.4kb in a TagI digest of human chromosomes 5. The fragment forms a particular aspect of the present invention and has been designated Clloll. Other nucleic acid fragments according to the invention include those which are capable of hydridizing to a Cllpll fragment although they may be lonqer or shorter than Cllpll provided that they still conform to the requirement for selective hybridisation of 5g20-g23. Such fragments may be produced by alternative digestions of human chromosome 5, by manipulation of Clloll or a portion thereof or by άe_ novo nucleic acid synthesis based on information obtained from seguencing for instance Clloll. Further fragments according to the present invention are also capable of hydridising in the 5g20-q2 region but do not hybridise with the Cllpll fragment. These may be obtained for instance by alternative digestions of human chromosome 5 affording relatively long DNA fragments which will hybridise with Cllpll but which also include flanking seguences and, optionally after screening for Cllpll hybridisation and/or hybridisation at 5g20-g23, are further cut to obtain a flanking seguence which does not overlap with Cllpll. This process may be repeated to obtain yet further fragments which still hybridise in the 5g20-g23 region but which represent flanking seguences more remote from the locus recognised bv Cllpll. The invention also comprises a process for producing a fragment as hereinbefore defined comprising digesting human chromosomal DNA, cloning the library of fragments so obtained and screening and selecting fragments which hybridise selectively at the 5g20-g23 reqion of the chromosome. For use as probes it is necessary for the fragments of the invention to be detectable after hydridisation with human DNA and this may be achieved by any known labelling technigue. Typically the probe will be labelled by incorporation of radioisotopes (for instance bv nick translation) which may be detected by autoradiography. Other labelling techniques include provision of directly detectable labels such as fluorescent labels and indirectly detectable labels such as enzyme labels. A skilled person will be aware of the techniques required for the introduction of these and other known labels and for the detection of such labels. The invention therefore also provides a probe comprising a nucleic acid fragment as defined above having a detectable label attached thereto. As discussed in more detail in the Examples, predisposition to FAP in afflicted families can be detected by heterozygosity in the 5q20-q23 region especially the 5q21-q22 region and the probes of the invention may be used to trace disease-related genes within families and to identify at-risk individuals. Accordingly the invention provides a process for presymptomatic screening of an individual in an FAP family comprising contacting DNA from the individual with a probe of the invention under suitable hybridising conditions. The process may be conducted as a pre- or post-natal screen to identify at-risk foetuses or individuals within FAP families and preferably further comprises screening relatives with and without FAP to identify and track a disease-related allele. The invention also provides a process for pathological classification of colonic tumours and precancerous oolyps comprising contacting DNA ^ro a suspect tissue sample with a probe of the invention under suitable hybridising conditions. Identification of potential or actual tumours involving a 5q20-q23 abnormality may assist in prognosis and selection o appropriate treatment. These processes may be conducted by standard methods such as by Southern blotting 30 using DNA from lymphocytes normal and/or tumour tissue obtained in blood samples or by biopsy. A general description of such restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) analysis can be found in Scientific American, August 1987, op21-22. Further details of the invention will be apparent from the following Examples which are not intended to limit the scope of the invention in any way. EXAMPLE 1 A case report of an interstitial deletion of chromosome 5 in a mentally retarded individual with o multiple developmental abnormalities and FAP° promoted us to search for linkage of FAP to restriction fragment length polymorphisms (RFLPs) revealed by DNA clones assigned to chromosome 5. Our data show that the FAP gene is on chromosome 5, most probably near bands 5q21-22. Most of the families for the study were provided by the polyposis register at St. Marks Hospital, London and by The Gastroenterology Unit, Broadgreen Hospital, Liverpool and were well characterised with respect to clinical, pathological and pedigree information. Sterile blood samples were collected from these families and lymphocytes separated out and frozen. These were subseguently transformed by Epstein-Barr Virus (EBV) to produce a permanent source of DNA 9 . The sediment of these mononucleic cell separations was also used to provide an immediate source of DNA (legend Figure 1.). Five polymorphic DNA probes assigned to chromosome 5 and mostly not regionally localised, were tested on up to 124 members from 13 different families. One of these, Clloll (cloned by T. Robbins and kindly provided by R. Williamson) from flow sorted human chromosome sample by the method of T.C. Gilliara et al Human Genetics, 68, 154-158 (1984) showed evidence for close linkage to PAP. This probe is polymorphic with TagI, producing alleles at 3.9kb and 4.4 with freguencies of about 0.92 and 0.0« (see Figure 1). Six of the families, including 79 typed individuals, were informative and these gave a combined maximum lod score o 3.26 at a recombination fraction of 0_=0. The lod scores for the linkage of FAP to LI.4 are also given and although not significant, give an estimate for the recombination fraction θ, of about 0.1 (see Table 0). The other probes (LI.7 from P. Pearson; λKS8 from A.Jeffreys and pHexXbal from R.Gravel) shoved no significant linkage vith FAP or vith each other. There vas no obvious heterogeneity between the families vith respect to the linkage of Cllpll with FAP. Assigning the most probable genotypes in all cases and assuming close linkage, the data are consistent vith no recombinants amongst 24 meioses vith no genotype predictions being necessary in 12 out of these 24 meioses. In order to relate the linkage data to the interstitial deletion g reported by Herrera et al. , in situ hybridisation vas carried out to localise Cllpll and LI.4 en chromosome 5. Probe Cllpll localises to 5q21-22 (Figure 2a) vhich is consistent vith the deletion 5ql5-22 of Herrera et al., rather than their cytogenetically indistinguishable alternative 5ql3-15. This localisation is also consistent vith a case report of a large bowel adenocarcinoma vhich has a 5ql2?-22 deletion in 12 addition to other cytogenetic abnormalities . The lack of significant linkage betveen HEXB or λHS8 and FAP is consistent vith their localisations on the long arm of chromosome 5 (Figure 2b). In the case of LI. this may be due to the small number of informative families rather than its localisation. The demonstration in -.Example 2 that more than 20X of sporadic colorectal carcinomas become homo- or hemi-zygous for chromosome 5 alleles, the appreciable linkage vith Cllpll and the coincidental 8 12 localisation of the probe vith the tvo deletions ' provides overwhelming evidence for assignment of FAP to chromosome 5 probably to 5q21-22. The marker loss data, together vith the localisation of FAP, extend Knudson's ideas to FAP and, at least, a major subset of colorectal carcinomas. The data thus suggest that becoming recessive for a gene around 5q21-22 is a key step in the progression of many colorectal - Table 0 Lod βcoreβ from two point analyses for linkage between Cllpll, LI. and FAP Recombination fraction (θ) Marker loci 0.0 0.10 0.20 0.30 0.40 Cllpll-FAP 3.26 2.66 1.88 LIB 0.44 L1.4 -FAP -2.60 0.78 0.66 0.37 0.12 ___________________________________________ t o carcinomas, both sporadic and familial. The fact that polyps from FAP patients do not yet show the recessive change, as shown in the accompanying paper , is consistent with data using G6PD markers vhich suggested that 14 polyps were not clonal . One possibility of how heterozygosity for a deficiency can give rise to localised grovth abnormalities such as the polyps is through a threshold effect involving, for example, negative control over the production of grovth factors. In this model, the normal homozygote produces enough of the FAP gene product so that random fluctuations of its level do not, or at least only very rarely, go below a threshold that permits localised excessive growth. The deficient heterozygote however, may allow random fluctuations in the production of the FAP gene product relatively frequently enough for it to go below this threshold. In those localised areas of the colon where this happens, excessive epithelial grovth may be initiated giving rise to polyps. Once initiated, this grovth may persist by, for example, some form of feedback control for production of a growth factor. This is at least one way to explain how a gene dosage effect can give rise to discontinuous growths i.e. the polyps vhich look as though they should be clonal. Presumably the polyps, once they have arisen, provide the opportunity for the second, namely recessive, change to take place, followed no doubt by other changes which lead to the overt carcinoma. The similarity in frequency of FAP throughout the vorld, together vith the relatively high proportion of cases (up to 40X) vhich may be I sporadic, namely nev mutations , suggests that most FAP families may be different mutations. At this detailed genetic level the disease may therefore be quite hetergeneous. The incidence of FAP is estimated to be at least 1/10,000 and perhaps up to 1/5,000 vhich suggests that the mutation rate to FAP could be as high as 1/25,000. Perhaps there are sequences around the FAP gene which predispose to relatively high mutation rates by, for example, encouraging small deletions following unequal intrachromosomal double crossovers or gene conversion-like events. Now thai the FAP gene has been localised, long-range DNA analysis using pulsed field gel electrophoresis and chromosome jumping techniques , together vith searches for appropriate epithelial specific messages coded for in this genetic region, should lead to the identification of the FAP gene and its function. This vill not only provide a basis for the prcsy ptomatic or prenatal diagnosis of FAP, but also lead to approach*? to counter-acting the FAP defect and may alsu provide new clues, to specific treatments for at least some forms of sporadic rcloπ carcinoma. REFERENCES*. DgSCR PT I 0\ AND EXAMPLE 1 1. Bulov, S. Danish Medical Bulletin. 34(1), 1-15 (1987). 2. Veale, A.H.O. Intestinal Polyposis, Cambridge. Cambridge University Press (1965). 3. Bussey, H.J.R. Familial polyposis coli. Baltimore. John Hopkins University Press, 1975. 4. Gardiner, E. Am. J. Bum. Genet. 3, 167-76 (1951). 5. Muto, T. et al 36(6), 2251-70 (1975). ■ 6. Horson, B.C. Clinical Radiology 35, 425-31 (1984). 7. 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EΞ.Vr'cλrΛ 2- The dominantly inherited disorder, Familial Adenomatous Polyposis (FAP or Familial Polyposis Coli), which gives rise to multiple adenomatous polyps in the colon that have a relatively high probability of progressing to a malignant adenocarcinoma 11 provides a basis for studying the role of recessive genes in the far more common colorectal carcinomas using this approach. Following a clue as to the location of the FAP gene given by a case report of an individual with an interstitial deletion of chromosome 5q, who had FAP and multiple 17 developmental abnormalities , ve have examined sporadic colorectal adinocarcinomas for loss of alleles on chromosome 5. Using a highly 1^ polymorphic "minisatellite" probe vhich maps to chromosome 5q ve have shown that at least 20* of this highly heterogeneous set of tumours loose one of the alleles present in matched normal tissue. This parallels the assignment of the FAP gene to chromosome 5 (see accompanying paper ) and suggests that becoming recessive for this gene may be a critical step in the progression of a relatively high proportion of colorectal cancers. Tumour material and adjacent normal mucosa samples were collected from about 45 cases of colorectal carcinomas, mostly from St Hark's Hospital, London. DNA preparations from these matched normal/tumour pairs were analysed for RFLP difference using a variety of probes that had been assigned to particular chromosomes. Following the clue that the FAP gene might be on chromosome 5, attention was concentrated on probeλMS β which is a locus-specific mini-satellite probe that maps to chromosome 5q34-qter(N.J. Royle and A.J. Jeffrey, unpublished). Approximately 0% of individuals (55 out of 60 in our data) are heterozygous vith this probe, shoving tvo single band alleles vith a Hinfl digests. This high level of heterozygosity makes it particlarly valuable for these types of studies. Forty four heterozygous normal/tumour pairs vere examined using Hinfl digests vith this probe (Table 1A). Of these, seven tumours shov clear allele loss (nos. 9,17,18,19,35,37,38, for examples see Fig 34) and three others shoved obvious, but less extreme changes in the ratio of one allele to the other when compared vith normal tissue (nos. 4,11,21, Fig 3.A). These latter three cases are likely to be allele loss vhich is obscured by relatively large amounts of contaminating normal tissue in the tumour sample. Overall, 23* of tumours shoved loss or alteration of an allele at this locus. The same normal/tumour pairs vere examined with a second probe, LI. which 14 15 maps approximately to 5q31 (see " Ex3mple 1) ' '. The RFLP allele frequencies detected with this probe, using ECoRl are, in our data, 0.27 and 0.73. Seventeen informative pairs were studied and, of these, four showed clear allele loss (nos. 5,19,28,35, Fig A) while tvo others shoved an obvious change in the ratio of one allele to the other (nos. 9,11). Again, ambiguous results are probably due to contaminating normal tissue in the tumour sample. The overall results vith this probe, namely 6 presumed losses out of 17, vere similar to those vith λHS8. There are not enough data to analyse any possible relationship betveen Dukes stage or tumour type or location and allele loss. I Table lb Combined λMS8 and LI. allele losses in cases where both probes are informative λKS8 LI.4 λMS8 LI.4 λHSe LI.4 λMS8 LI. Total no loss no loss no loss loss loss no loss loss loss 15 1 ? Table 1 Ad.Ca. - Adenocarcinoma; Asc. - ascending; Desc. - descending. Tumour material and adjacent normal ucosa from colorectal cancer patients, obtained during surgery, vas frozen immediately in liquid nitrogen. DNA vas analysed by standard methods, see legend to Figure 1. λHS8 detects alleles of different sizes in almost every individual so that each sample is indicated as having 2 or 1 alleles rather than particular allele sizes. The LI.4 alleles are 0.7kb (allele 1) and 0.6kb (allele 2). "-" indicates non-informative samples, due to lack of heterozygosity. A blank space indicates no information. Those tumour samples vith less certain allele loss are shown vith the most prominent remaining allele in parenthesis. The results for cases in vhich both markers λMS8 and LI.4 vere informative are summarised in Table IB. A total of 6/15, or 40%, shoved changes for one or other marker, although vith such small numbers, this is not significantly higher than the 10/44 for λHS8 alone. Four out of six vere changed for both markers, suggesting a high frequency of overall chromosomal loss. A more localised deletion or somatic recombination, vould explain case number 28 vith loss at LI. but not λMS8. One case, number 21, vith loss at λMS8 but not L1.4 is inconsistent vith these interpretations given the presumed map order centromere-FAP-L1.4-λHS8 (see accompanying paper). This could, once again, be the result of misclassification for one of the markers due to contaminating normal tissue in the tumour material. In order to obtain a more objective quantitative assessment of the allele ratios in the material given in Table 1, the autoradiographs for λMS8 vere scanned densitometrically. From the scans, the ratios of the amounts of the two alleles in tumour material over those in the matched tissues could be estimated. For true allele loss, this derived ratio should be 0, but experimental error and normal tissue contaminating the tumour vill lead to a distribution vhich should be bimodal. Preliminary results support this prediction and indicate nearly 402 (15 out of 39 cases scanned) have tumour/normal ratios in the lover part of this distribution, Fig l -~ - This suggests that a more careful assessment of allele loss might lead to a higher estimate of the proportion of tumours vhich have lost a chromosome 5 allele.- Those tumours shoving allele loss vhich vas easily detected by eye on the autoradiographs are indicated by circles in Fig 4 - I S To determine vhether the loss of alleles on chromosome 5 is specific and not simply a reflection of random loss, polymorphic markers on 6 other chromosomes vere tested, namely 7,8,11,12,13,17. These vere chosen because changes in chromosomes 7,8,12 and 17 have been reported in 16 19 colorectal tumours ~ . These tumours are difficult to karyotype and in general shov gross rearrangements and aneuploidy vith no very specific chromosomal changes. Chromosomes 13 and 11 vere tested because of their roles of retinoblastoma and Vilm's tumours respectively. The results for these other markers are shovn in table 2. In only one case vas heterozygosity not maintained, and this involved one tumour out of 21 vhich shoved the loss of an allele on chromosome 12. In addition, ten informative normal/tumour pairs associated vith the inherited cancer syndrome MEN, shoved no loss of alleles on chromosome 5 using probe λMS8 (C. Hathev, pers comm). Thus, the loss of alleles appears to be chromosome-specific and possibly specific to this tumour. Ten established cell lines derived from sporadic colonic adenocarcinomas and from a polyp from an FAP case also were tested with probe λHS8. For the colorectal lines, matching normal tissue was not available, but since the predicted frequency of homozygotes is only 1 in 10, any increase beyond this could be significant. The data in figure B show that 4 of these ten lines are clearly homozyygous nos. 5,7,9 and 10) and a fifth most probably so, (no. 6) strongly suggesting loss of a chromosome 5 as a significant genetic change in a remarkably high proportion of these tumours. The data on allele loss from cell lines are much clearer than for the fresh tumour material, as might be expected, since for the lines there is no problem of contamination by normal tissue. The Chi square sussτrruτ£ SHEET Table 2 Heterozygosity in colorectal carcinomas with chromosome-specific probes Chromosome Probe No. of patients No. of heterozygotes Ref. (Enz. detecting RFLP) tested Table 2 Tumour and normal DNA from colorectal cancer patients, hybridized with probes on chromosomes 7, 8, 11, 12, 13 and 17. Methods are as described in Figure 1. DNA was digested with the enzymes indicated in parenthesis next to the probe name. Patients showing loss of chromosome 5 alleles (Table 1) vere informative, but shoved no loss for other probes as follows: patient 4 - D7S8, D13S2; patient 5 - D13S1, D17S1; patient 9 - D11S16, D12S2, D17S1; patient 11 - D13S4; patient 7 - pλg3; patient 18 - D13S2, D17S1; patient 19 - D13S2, D13S4; patient 21 - D12S2, D13S2; patient 28 - D11S16; D13S2, D13S4, D17S1. 2 (X ) is 9 for the difference between 5/10 and the control λMS8 ho ozygote frequency of 5/60 and this is highly significant with p=0.35. 19 One of the cell lines showing λMS8 allele loss,PC/JV was derived from a carcinoma from an FAP patient, vhich is of course consistent vith the mapping of the FAP gene to chromosome 5. Hovever, nov that FAP patients are treated removal of the colon at a relatively early age to prevent cancers developing, it is not easy to obtain colorectal tumour material from FAP patients. Ve have, therefore, not yet been able to extend our observations to a larger number of familial cases of colorectal tumours. 19 The cell lilne PC/AA , derived from a polyp, did not show loss of an XHS8 allele. This is consistent with tests, using λMS8 of premalignant polyps from 11 FAP patients, which showed no loss of heterozygosity in any case. The recessive change on chromosome 5 is, thus, secondary to the initial development of a polyp (see Exam p le 1. -for- further discussion). The overall data clearly show that a relatively high proportion of sporadic colorectal carcinomas loose all or part of one chromosome 5, presumably because loss of the FAP gene function favours tumour progression. The fact that λHS8 which is near the tip of 5q, demonstrated this loss, together with the comparatively common concominant loss of an allele of the LI. locus, suggests that whole chromosome loss by non-disjunction, presumably following an initial mutation on one of the two chromosomes 5, is the commonest mechanism for becoming recessive, as has been found, for example, for retinoblastoma . It vould be expected, that this loss vould be accompanyed by reduplication since monosomy is likely to be disadvantageous for the grovth of any cell, and non-disjunction is a relatively common event. Preliminary karyotyping of several cell lines supports this (data not shown). Even if technical developments increase the proportion of tumours with chromosome 5 allele loss to around 402, there will still be a sizeable fraction of tumours in which no change on chromosome 5 is readily detectable. This could in part, of course, be due to relatively localised genetic mechanisms for producing the secondary change, such as point mutations, or small deletions, or somatic crossing over. There is however, the further important likelihood that colorectal tumours are aetiologically he erogeneous vith respect to the role of the FAP gene on chromosome 5. Those in which this activity is lost may represent a particular sub-set of colorectal tumours and this may have important implications for diagnosis and treatment. The combined studies of this and > ' the accompanying paper on the localisation of the FAP gene and its probable role in a relatively high proportion of colorectal carcinomas, uncovers for the first time an recessive genetic effect in one of the commonest of all cancers. REFERENCES DESCRIPTION! AND EXAMPLE 2 1. Knudson, A.G. Jnr., Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA 68, 820-823 (1971) 2. Cavenee, E.K. et al Nature 305, 779-784 (1983) * ' 3. 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Biochem. 1326-13 (1983) 32. Carrel, S., Cordat B & Kereπda C. , Cancer Research _ 6 3978-3984 (1976) 33 Jcneε, S.L.. Pathology 14 405-408 cl982) 34. Drevinko, E., Romsdahl, H.M., Yang, L.Y., Ahearn, H.J., & Trujillo, J.K., Cancer Research 36 467-475 (1976) 35. Rutzky, L.P. & Sicilian!, H.J. J. Nat. Cancer Inst. (1982) 36. Leibovitz, A., Cancer Res. 36 4562-45-67 (1976) FIGURE LEGENDS Figure 1. Family 79 demonstrating segregation of FAP vith a 3.9Kb fragment using the probe Cllpll. Methods. Blood samples vere collected from family members and lymphocytes separated and frozen for future transformation vith EBV . High molecular veight DNA vas extracted from both the residue of the separation and from the transformed lymphocytes. The cells were lysed in a solution containing 0.33M sucrose, 5mM MgCl, lOmH Tris-HCl pH 7.5, IX Triton X-100. Nuclei vere pelleted at 8000g at 4 β C for lOmins. and resuspended in 75mM NaCl, 25mH EDTA, 200μg/ml Proteinase K and 0.5X SDS. The mixture vas incubated overnight at 37 β C. The aqueous phase vas - e xtracted 3 times in 2mM Tris:2mM EDTA buffered phenol and once in isoamyl alcohol/chloroform (1:24). The DNA vas reprecipitated vith 1/10 volume 3H sodium acetate pH 5.2 and tvo volumes absolute alcohol and then resuspended in TE. lOμg aliquots of genomic DNA vere digested overnight vith 50 units of relriction enzyme, under the recommended conditions (Taql digests for 4-6 hours). The samples vere run in 0.82 (v/v) agarose gels for 36-48 hours, at 1-1.5 V/cm. The gels ver« depurinated in 0.25M HC1 for lOmins, denatured in NaOH for 45mins and then neutralised for 60mins. The DNA vas then transferred on to Hybond-N nylon filters 16 (Amersham) by standard procedure 32 17 Probes vere labelled vith [ PJdCTP by the oligolabelling method for 4-6 hours at 37°C. The filters vere prehybridised in 6x SSC, 0.1X SDS, 5xDenhardts solution containing 25μg/ml of denatured salmon sperm DNA for l-2hours at 65 β C. Hybridisation vas carried out overnight at 65 β C in the same solution but supplemented vith lOμCi/ml of labelled probe and 102 dextran sulphate. LI. (D5S3 i0 ) is a 1.14kb EcoRI fragment cloned into pBR322 and detects a Bglll polymorphism vith alleles Al at 7.9kb and A2 at 10.6kb. LI.7 also detects a PstI polymorphism with alleles Bl at 2.8kb and B2 at 2.3kb. LI.4 (D5S4 ) is a 0.72kb EcoRI fragment cloned into pBR322 and detects an EcoRI polymorphism producing alleles Al at 0.7kb and A2 a 0.6kb. LI.4 also detects an Rsal polymorphism vith alleles Cl at 2.4kb and C2 at 2.2kb. Cllpll is a 3.6EcoRI fragment cloned into pUC8 and is polymorphic vith TaqI producing alleles Al at 3.9kb and A2 at 4.4kb. λHS8 U produces multiple alleles vith Hinfl. HEXB 10 is a 1.5kb Xbal fragment cloned into pSP64. A l.lkb BamHI/PstI fragment detects a PstI polymorphism vith alleles Al at 1.6kb and A2 at l.Okb. Figure 2a. Representative chromosome spread shoving in situ hybridisation of probe Cl?pll. In situ hybridisation vas performed on chromosomes prepared from FHA-stimulated normal blood lymphocytes essentially as described by Harper 20 3 & Saunders The Cllpll probe vas labelled using oligoprimers and H- deoxyribonucleotides to a specific activity of 1x10 cpm/yg/ml. Slides vere vashed in 2xSSC at 39 β C, dehydrated and dipped in Ilford K-5 emulsion. They vere developed after 10 days. Figure 2b. Fine chromosome mapping of probe Cllpll and putative regional assignment of probes LI.4 and λHS8. Fine chromosome mapping was carried out with Cllpll probe, 221 silver grains were scored on chromosomes from 150 metaphases, with 22 grains (9.92) present over bands 5ql5-23 and the majority located over bands 5q21-22. Preliminary data for in situ hybridisation of the LI.4 probe localises it to band 5q31. Localisation of λHS8 vas done by i_n situ hybridisation by N.J.Royle and A.J.Jeffreys (unpublished data). The symbols Δ regions represent the interstitial deletions reported by Herrera et al FIGURE LEGENDS Fi P ure 3 Chromosome 5 allele loss in primary colorectal tumours and cell lines 3a. Primary colorectal tumours. DNA from matched normal/tumour pairs hybridised vith λKSB and LI . Methods ; DNA vas extracted from tumour biopsies (T) and normal adjacent mucosa (N) by standard methods 29 . For analysis vith λHS8, DNA vas digested vith Hinfl (New England Biolabs) and fractionated by agarose gel electrophoresis on 0.82 gels, for 60 hours at 20mA j for LI. DNA vas digested vith EcoRI (Boehringer Corp. Ltd. ) , fractionated on 1.22 agarose gels, for 18 hours at 63mA. In both cases DNA vas transferred to Hybond-N Nylon membranes (Amersham) by standard procedures 30 . Probes vere oligo-labelled 31 vith 32 P-CTP. Hybridisation and washing vere by standard rcthods * . Patient numbers refer to Table 1. 3 b. Colorectal cell lines. DNA hybridised v; th XKS8. Methods are ss in la. Cell lines are: 1 ) Coll /23 32 2) Coll 5/3 3? 3) HT29 33 4) LoVo 34 5) LS174T 35 6) SV4S 3t> 7) SV620 36 8) SV837 36 9) SV1222 36 10) PCJU 19 31 ) PC/ΛA 15 Figure 4. Densito etric Scanning of Autoradiographs vith Normal and Tumour DNA hybridised vith λMS8 Autoradiographs vere scanned vith a Joyce Loebl Chro oscan 3. Areas under the peaks are plotted as the ratio of the tvo tumour alleles, Tρ./Tp 2 , divided by the ratio of the tvo normal alleles Np./Np 2 . Those 7 cases vhich could be seen as clear allele loss are represented as • (left to right : patients 9, 18, 19, 37, 17, 38, 35) and those vith less obvious loss as o (patients 21 and 11).

Claims: CLAIMS 1. A nucleic acid fragment caoable o selectively hybridising with the human chromosome 5 at the chromosomal region 5g20-g23. 2. A double-stranded DNA fragment capable o selectively hybridising under high stringency conditions with the human chromosome 5 at the chromosomal region 5g20-g23. 3. A fragment according to claim 1 or claim 2 capable of selectively hybridising at the chromosomal region 5g21-q22 locus. 4. A fragment according to claim 3 and caoable of recognising alleles of 3.9 and 4.4 kb in a Taσl digest of human chromosomes 5. 5. A fragment according to claim 4 T 3.6 kb in length. 6. A nucleic acid orobe comprising a fragment according to any one of claims 1 to 5 and having a detectable label bound thereto. 7. A orobe according to claim β wherein the label is a radiolabel, a fluorescent label or an enzyme label. 8. A process for oroducing a fragment according to any one of claims 1 to 5 comprising digestinα human chromosomal DNA to form a library, cloning the library and screening and selecting from the cloned library fragments capable of selectively hybridising at the 5q20-q23 region of human chromosome 5. 9. A orocess for presyraotomatic screening of an individual for FAP comprising contacting a samσle of DNA from the individual with a probe according to claim 6 or claim 7 under hybridising conditions. 10. A orocess for oathological classification of colonic tumours and precancerous polyps comprisinq contacting DNA from suspect tissue sa ple with a orobe according to claim 6 or claim 7 under hybridising conditions.

Inventors: BAILEY CAROLYN JANE, BODMER WALTER FRED, MURDAY VICTORIA ALICE, WILLIAMSON ROBERT, BAILEY, CAROLYN, JANE, BODMER, WALTER, FRED, MURDAY, VICTORIA, ALICE, WILLIAMSON, ROBERT
Applicants: IMP CANCER RES TECH, IMPERIAL CANCER RESEARCH TECHNOLOGY LTD.
Application year: 1988
Main classification: C07H21
IPC codes: A61K48, C07H21, C12N15, C12Q1