Patent Abstract:
a method for interfering with the binding between p53 and mdm2 or a protein having a p53 binding site analogous to that of mdm2 , which method comprises administering a effective amount of a compound , selected from the group consisting of a peptide having up to twenty eight amino acids which is able to disrupt or prevent binding between p53 and mdm2 , or a functional peptide analogue thereof . compounds for use in the method , methods for detecting such compounds and their application in the diagnosis and treatment of tumors is also described and claimed .

Detailed Description:
the first indication of an interaction between mdm2 protein and p53 protein emerged from work on a rat cell line , clone 6 , which expressed a temperature sensitive mutant form of mouse p53 ( barak and oren , 1992 ; michalovitz , d ., et al . ( 1990 ). cell , 62 , 671 - 680 ; momand , j ., et al . ( 1992 ). cell , 69 , 1237 - 1245 ). mdm2 was readily observed to form a complex at 32 ° c . with p53 but was just detectable when cells were grown at 37 ° c . the formation of a p53 - mdm2 complex in clone 6 cells at 32 ° c . and 37 ° c . was re - examined in a quantitative manner . the results confirm previous immunoprecipitation observations that the level of mdm2 at the lower temperature is significantly elevated , approximately 10 - 30 fold greater than that at 37 ° c ., at which temperature mdm2 is only just detectable . consequently , the p53 - mdm2 complex is readily observed at 32 ° c . and not at 37 ° c . the levels of p53 also vary at the two different temperatures . however , the p53 levels are elevated approximately five fold at 37 ° c . as compared with that at 32 ° c ., -- the opposite behaviour to that of mdm2 . accordingly , the difference in the levels of p53 and mdm2 are likely to have alternative explanations . in the case of mdm2 other groups have established that the increase of mdm2 at 32 ° c . is due to increased transcription of mdm2 due to a conformational change in p53 to a presumed transcriptional active form ( barak , y ., et al . ( 1993 ). embo j ., 12 , 461 - 468 ; wu , x ., et al . ( 1993 ). genes dev ., 7 , 1126 - 1132 ). the same explanation does not apply for p53 even though wild type p53 is required for p53 expression ( deffie , a ., et al . g . ( 1993 ). mol . cell . biol ., 13 , 3415 - 3423 ), and is probably explained by the increased half life of the mutant conformation of p53 at 37 ° c . ( gannon j . v . et al ( 1991 ) nature , 349 , 802 - 806 ). data described herein after using both direct observation of the p53 - mdm2 complex by elisa and immunoprecipitation combined with the indirect inference of the loss of the bp53 - 19 epitope suggested that nearly all p53 molecules are complexed to excess mdm2 protein in c6 cells at 32 ° c . this is not consistent with the powerful p53 dependant transcriptional response seen in these cells at this temperature and suggests that either that complexing to mdm2 is unable to completely inactivate p53 in vivo or that small amounts of &# 34 ; free &# 34 ; p53 may be very active . the complex between p53 and mdm2 may be regulated in cells to release functional p53 at the individual cell level perhaps as a cell cycle dependant response . the present invention is based upon the identification of the minimal mdm2 binding site to be tfsd / glw ( seq id nos : 11 , 23 - 50 ). this site is in a location broadly reported by other groups to be the mdm2 binding domain of p53 , specifically aa1 - 41 and 13 - 57 ( oliner , j . d ., et al . ( 1993 ). nature , 362 , 857 - 860 ), aa1 - 52 ( chen , j ., et al . ( 1993 ). mol cell biol , 13 , 4107 - 14 ) and aa1 - 59 ( brown , d . r ., et al . ( 1993 ). mol . cell . biol ., 13 , 6849 - 57 .) notably , a construct generated by oliner and co - workers encompassing aa13 - 41 of p53 was not sufficient for mdm2 binding in a three hybrid protein system , and differs from our observations . the disparity might be explained by the close proximity of the fusion protein sequence adjacent to the tfsdglw sequence at aa18 - 23 as the present data does show that flanking sequences do contribute in a minor way to mdm2 binding . the tfsd / glw sequence is very closely adjacent to the transactivation domain aa20 - 42 ( unger , t ., et al . ( 1992 ). embo j ., 11 , 1383 - 1390 ), and as shown by others the binding of mdm2 to this site interferes with the transcriptional activity of p53 ( oliner , j . d ., et al . ( 1993 ). nature , 362 , 857 - 860 ). while substitution analysis of the mdm2 binding site on p53 identified the tfsd / glw sequence ( seq id nos : 2 , 3 , and 7 ) to be the key region required for mdm2 to bind p53 , other residues flanking this site also contribute in a minor way to mdm2 binding , but clearly the tfsd / glw sequence ( seq id nos : 2 , 3 , and 7 ) is a minimal target for agents that might disrupt complex formation without effecting the transactivation activity ( for which as yet the key residues are undetermined ). the first two residues tf are part of the conserved box i , and the latter four sd / glw ( seq id nos : 8 , 9 ) are outside but are also part of a region of p53 that is conserved from xenopus to man . the corresponding binding site on mdm2 for p53 has variously been reported to be between aa1 - 121 , 19 - 102 ( chen , j ., et al . ( 1993 ). mol . cell . biol ., 13 , 4107 - 14 ) together with aa102 - 294 or 249 - 491 , and also 1 - 221 ( brown , d . r ., et al . ( 1993 ). mol . cell . biol ., 13 , 6849 - 57 ). notably , a monoclonal antibody against the n - terminal region of human mdm2 , 3g5 ( maps at aa59 - 89 ) is able to immunoprecipitate mdm2 but not co - immunoprecipitate p53 ( chen , j ., et al . ( 1993 ). mol cell biol , 13 , 4107 - 14 ), an analogous observation to our findings with antibody bp53 - 19 . the binding of mdm2 to p53 peptides has obvious parallels to a similar study that used small peptides to identify the binding sites of adenovirus e1a and human papilloma virus e7 for a range of proteins including retino - blastoma protein , p107 , cyclin a and p130 ( dyson , n ., et al . ( 1992a ). j . virol ., 66 , 4606 - 4611 ). the mdm2 binding site on p53 , appears to be a single domain rather than two domains as in the case of e1a and e7 . the mdm2 binding site on p53 overlaps precisely with a highly immunogenic epitope on the protein ; many independently isolated monoclonal antibodies to p53 recognise the site , and antibodies to it are present in the sera of cancer patients ( schlichtholtz , b ., et al . ( 1993 ). cancer res ., 52 , 6380 - 6384 ). this suggests that it has an exposed and defined structure . it is possible that the amino acid sequence of the complementarity determining regions of these antibodies will show homology to the p53 binding site of mdm2 . it also suggests that anti - p53 antibodies used to examine p53 levels where high levels of mdm2 are present must be chosen with care . binding of mdm2 to this site may be regulated by phosphorylation since there is a dna - dependent kinase site at serine 20 ( less - miller , s . p . et al . ( 1990 ). mol . cell . biol ., 10 , 6472 - 6481 ) and other phosphorylation sites at serine 6 , 9 and 15 ( samad , a ., et al . ( 1986 ). proc . natl . acad . sci . u . s . a ., 83 , 897 - 901 ; meek , d . w . et al . ( 1988 ). mol . cell . biol ., 8 , 461 - 465 ; meek and eckhardt , 1988 ). the following examples are provided to exemplify various aspects of the invention and are not intended to limit the scope of the invention . clone 6 cells ( michalovitz et al ., 1990 ) were grown in dulbecco &# 39 ; s modified eagle medium ( dmem ) supplemented with 10 % fcs at either 32 or 37 ° c . the spododoptera frugiperda cell line , sf9 , was grown at 27 ° c . in excell 400 medium ( j . r . h . biosciences , sera - lab , uk ) supplemented with 5 % fcs and glutamine . the mouse mdm2 gene was obtained from a mouse prostate cell line ( lu et al ., 1992 ) by polymerase chain reaction and then cloned into a spododoptera frugiperda expression vector pvl1393 using standard dna and baculovirus expression techniques . an expression clone was identified by the production of a 90 - 95kda protein that was recognized by anti - mdm2 antibodies . p53 protein was detected using the polyclonal sera cm1 ( midgley , c . a ., et al . ( 1992 ). j . cell . sci ., 101 , 183 - 189 ), or monoclonal antibodies pab421 ( harlow e et al ., ( 1981 ) j . virol ., 39 , 861 - 869 ) and bp53 - 19 ( bartek j ., et al ( 1993 ). j . pathol ., 169 , 27 - 34 ). mdm2 was detected using rabbit anti - mdm2 polyclonal sera ( barak , y ., et al . ( 1993 ). embo j ., 12 , 461 - 468 ) or monoclonal antibody 4b2 ( chen et al ., 1993 ) and smp14 ( a previously unreported monoclonal antibody raised by us against a peptide , csrpstssrrraise ( seq id no : 10 ), containing part of the human mdm2 sequence from aal54 to 167 ( oliner , j . d ., et al . ( 1992 ). nature , 358 , 80 - 83 ) the first cysteine is not part of the mdm2 sequence but was added to provide an extra coupling option ). an antibody , pab419 , raised against sv40 large t antigen ( harlow , e ., et al . ( 1981 ). j . virol ., 39 , 861 - 869 ) was used as an irrelevant control for immunoprecipitations . cells were lysed in ice - cold net buffer ( 50 mm tris - hci , ph8 . 0 , 150 mm nacl , 5 mm edta , 1 % np40 ) containing 1 mm phenylmethylsulphonyl fluoride , for 30 min at 4 ° c . debris was removed from the cell extract by centrifugation at 14 , 000 rpm in a refridgerated eppendorf centrifuge . the immunoprecipitation procedure was essentially as previously described ( gannon , j . v ., et al . ( 1990 ). embo j ., 9 , 1595 - 1602 ) using 1 μg of purified mouse monoclonal antibody , and protein g sepharose beads ( pharmacia ) for both pre - absorption of the cell extracts and subsequent isolation of the antibody - protein complex . peptide libraries of the entire human p53 protein and a partial n - terminal region of the mouse p53 protein was obtained from chiron mimotopes p / l ( victoria , australia ). the libraries were in the form of 15 mer peptides linked to biotin via an additional peptide spacer region of serine - glycine - serine - glycine , and each peptide shared a 5 amino acid overlap with the previous peptide in the primary sequence . elisa plates were coated with 100 μof 5 μg / ml streptavidin ( vector labs ) per well and incubated overnight at 37 ° c . and then blocked with phosphate buffered saline ( pbs ) containing 2 % bovine serum albumin ( bsa ) for 1 hour at room temperature . the stock biotinylated peptides were diluted to 5 μg / ml in pbs containing 0 . 1 bsa and 50 μl of each were plated into designed wells and then incubated at room temperature for 1 hour . the plates were washed four times with pbs containing 0 . 1 % tween 20 before addition of the cell extract ( 50 μl of 1 - 4 mg / ml per well ) or purified protein . the plates were incubated at 4 ° c . for 2 - 3 hours , before washing four times with pbs containing 0 . 1 % tween 20 to remove unbound protein . in the case of cell extracts bound protein was detected with the appropriate primary antibody at 1 - 3 μg / ml , and followed by an anti - mouse horse radish peroxidase conjugate and 3 &# 39 ; 3 &# 39 ; 4 &# 39 ; 4 &# 39 ;- tetramethyl benzidine ( tmb ) substrate as in the standard elisa assay ( harlow , e ., et al ( 1988 ). antibodies : a laboratory manual . new york . cold spring harbor laboratory press and lane , 1988 ). the levels of p53 , mdm2 , and complexes thereof were determined by a two site immunoassay using stated antibodies . mouse monoclonal antibodies were used as the solid phase by incubating falcon microtitre dish wells with 50 μl of a 30 μg / ml solution of purified antibody overnight at 4 ° c . the plates were blocked with 2 % bovine serum albumin in pbs for 2 h at room temperature , and washed with pbs . cell extracts were prepared as described for immunoprecipitations and then serially two - fold diluted before adding 50 μl per well and incubating at 4 ° c . for two hours . the plates were then washed with 0 . 1 % np - 40 in pbs , before addition of 50 μl of detecting polyclonal antisera at 1 / 1000dilution . the plates were washed again with 0 . 1 % np - 40 in pbs and 50 μl of 1 / 1000 dilution peroxidase conjugated swine anti - rabbit ig serum ( dako ) was added for 2 h , then visualised by the tmb reaction . the observation that the rat cell line , clone 6 expressed a temperature sensitive mutant form of mouse p53 was reexamined using a panel of p53 monoclonal antibodies . western blots were obtained of immunoprecipitates of mdm2 , p53 and the mdm2 - p53 complex from clone 6 cells grown at 32 ° c . for 24 hrs ( fig1 a ) or continuously at 37 ° c . ( fig1 b ). the immunoprecipitates were obtained using 1 g of purified antibody which were as follows : in lanes 1 and 4 ,-- pab421 ; in lanes 2 and 5 ,-- bp53 - 19 ; and in lanes 3 and 6 ,-- 4b2 . mdm2 was detected in lanes 1 , 2 and 3 using smp14 antibody supernatant and rabbit anti - mouse horse radish peroxidase conjugate ; and p53 detected in lanes 4 , 5 and 6 using a 1 in 200 dilution of dm - 1 and swine anti - rabbit horse radish peroxidase conjugate . an irrelevant antibody , pab419 , did not immunopecipitate either mdm2 or p53 from cell extracts prepared at either 32 ° c . or 37 ° c . ( data not shown ). the molecular weight of the markers are given in kda . it was surprisingly found that one of the antibodies , bp53 - 19 , failed to immunoprecipitate p53 from clone c6 cells grown at 32 ° c . for 24 hours , but efficiently precipitated p53 from cells grown continuously at 37 ° c . ( compare fig1 a track 5 with fig1 b track 5 ), whereas pab421 precipitated p53 at both temperatures ( fig1 a track 4 and 1b track 4 ). investigations were then carried out to determine whether bp53 - 19 would co - immunoprecipitate mdm2 with p53 . from the immunoprecipitation western data in fig1 a and 1b it is clear that bp53 - 19 does not co - immunoprecipitate mdm2 from cell extracts grown at 32 or 37 ° c . ( track 2 in fig1 a and b ). other p53 antibodies such as pab421 do however co - immunoprecipitate mdm2 with p53 at 32 ° c . but not at 37 ° c . ( track 1 fig1 a and b ). conversely , antibodies against mdm2 such as 4b2 , fig1 and smp14 ( data not shown ) co - immunoprecipitate p53 at 32 ° c . but not at 37 ° c . ( track 6 fig1 a and b ). the two bands recognized by 4b2 ( and smp14 ) at just below 80 kda are truncated forms of rat mdm2 , as full length migrates on an sds - page gel with an apparent relative molecular mass of 90 kda , multiple forms of mdm2 are often observed ( chen , j ., et al . ( 1993 ). mol cell biol , 13 , 4107 - 14 ). two - site immunoassay to determine levels of mdm2 , p53 and mdm2 - p53 complex two - site immunoassays were carried out to determine the levels of mdm2 , p53 and mdm2 - ps3 complex in clone 6 cells grown at 32 ° c . for 24 hrs ( fig2 a ) or continuously at 37 ° c . ( fig2 b ). in fig2 a the coating antibodies were one of the following purified antibodies as stated in the figure legends : 4b2 , 421 and bp53 - 19 , probed with rabbit anti - p53 serum cm1 or rabbit anti - mdm2 serum , and then detected using swine anti - rabbit horse radish peroxidase conjugate and tmb as substrate . at 37 ° c . the mdm2 - p53 complex was undetectable by any combination of antibodies . the two - site immunoassays of the levels of mdm2 , p53 and mdm2 - p53 complex at 32 ° c . and 37 ° c . are consistent with the immunoprecipitation results of example 1 . a striking feature apparent from the data in fig2 a is that the levels of p53 and p53 - mdm2 complex are very similar suggesting that most , but not all , p53 is in complex with mdm2 at 32 ° c . the inability of bps3 - 19 to detect a p53 - mdm2 complex at 32 ° c . is again notable since other combinations of antibodies are able to do so . from comparison of the two - site immunoassays at 32 ° c . and 37 ° c . it is clear why mdm2 is not immunoprecipated at 37 ° c ., as the levels of mdm2 protein are very much lower and are only just detectable . no mdm2 - p53 complex could be detected by the two - site immunoassay of cell extracts prepared at 37 ° c ., see fig2 b , where the data for the 4b2 ( as the capture antibody ) and cm1 ( as the detecting antibody ) combination of antibodies is shown ( similarly antibodies pab421 or bp53 - 19 and rabbit anti - mdm2 polyclonal did not detect the complex ). the diminished level of mdm2 at 37 ° c ., less than 10 % of that at 32 ° c ., is in contrast to the situation with p53 which is elevated approximately 5 fold relative to the levels at 32 ° c . the explanation for the ability of pab421 and 4b2 only being able to coprecipitate p53 and mdm2 together at 32 ° c ., but not at 37 ° c . is consistent with difference in levels of mdm2 at the two temperatures , and also with the published observations that mdm2 expression is dependent on the &# 34 ; wild - type &# 34 ; form of p53 predominantly present at 32 ° c . the failure of bp53 - 19 to co - immunoprecipitate mdm2 or detect the p53 - mdm2 complex at 32 ° c . is unexpected for two reasons . firstly , the two - site assay suggests there is mdm2 protein in excess , which is able to form complexes with p53 as detected by the capturing antibodies pab421 and 4b2 . secondly , the two - site immunoassay at 37 ° c . suggests that bp53 - 19 is almost as efficient as pab421 at recognizing p53 in the cell extracts . the simplest interpretation for this observation is that bps3 - 19 recognizes the same region on p53 that mdm2 binds to . it has previously been shown that bp53 - 19 and mdm2 interact with the amino acid terminal end of p53 ( stephen et al manuscript in preparation ; oliner , j . d ., et al . ( 1993 ). nature , 362 , 857 - 860 ). a complete peptide library of the human p53 protein , and a partial peptide library of the mouse p53 protein were available to identify the region to which mdm2 binds . the human p53 sequence starts at peptide number 3 and ends at peptide 79 , and each peptide consists of 15 amino acids , with the last five amino acids being present in the next peptide along . the mouse p53 sequence is partial and consists of the n - terminal sequence from amino acid 1 - 92 , again each overlapping the next and previous peptide by five amino acids . these libraries consisted of 15 amino acid long sections of the p53 primary amino acid sequence , that consecutively overlapped by 5 amino acids , and were each attached to biotin via a 4 amino acid long spacer . by immobilizing the biotinylated peptides on streptavidin coated elisa plates the mdm2 binding site on p53 could be quickly identified if it was encompassed within a stretch of fifteen amino acids or less . extract containing mdm2 was added to an elisa plate with the peptide library bound to it , and the bound mdm2 protein was later detected using monoclonal antibody 4b2 and the standard elisa assay . several sources of recombinant mdm2 protein were used to challenge the p53 library , these included crude extracts and partially purified preparations of human and mouse mdm2 expressed in e . coli and also mouse mdm2 expressed in insect cells ; -- all forms identified the same peptides in the p53 library . the results using the mouse mdm2 expressed in insect cells are shown in fig3 a and b . the peptide library was challenged with insect cell extract alone , sf9 , and insect cell extract expressing mouse mdm2 , sf9 mus mdm2 . binding of mdm2 to the peptides was determined by an elisa assay using monoclonal antibody 4b2 , and then detecting bound antibody with rabbit anti - mouse ig conjugated horse radish peroxidase and tmb substrate . in fig3 c is shown the results from a control experiment using peptides 59 , 71 , 83 and 95 , as used in fig3 b but conducted in the presence or absence of extract to verify the specificity of the detecting antibody , 4b2 . the results are presented alongside the elisa readings for extract of insect cells alone not expressing mouse mdm2 . the specificity is remarkable , -- suggesting a strong interaction between mdm2 and p53 derived peptides . from the controls shown in fig3 c it can be seen that the binding is only observed in the presence of extract expressing mdm2 , and is not due to the antibody recognizing the peptide alone , moreover identical results were obtained using smp14 as the primary detecting antibody ( data not shown ). the four peptides that bind mdm2 are shown in fig4 . peptides 5 and 6 identify a site at the n - terminal end of human p53 , whereas peptides 83 and 84 identify the corresponding region in the n - terminal end of mouse p53 . collectively , these four peptides define the consensus mdm2 binding site on p53 to be -- qetfsd / glwkl ( seq id nos : 11 , 12 ), the aspartate to glycine being the only amino acid difference between the human and mouse sequence . the peptides involved in binding mdm2 are also those recognized by the p53 antibodies do - 1 and bp53 - 19 ( stephen et al , manuscript in preparation ). to define key residues on p53 that are involved in the interaction with mdm2 a form of the consensus binding site sequence - qetfsdlwkl ( seq id no : 11 )- was modified by substituting alanine at each position in the sequence and determining what effect this had on the binding of mdm2 from the insect cell extract expressing mdm2 . this experiment was conducted in concert with examining the effect on binding of the antibodies do - 1 and bp53 - 19 . the results are presented in fig5 . the amino acid sequences are as stated . in a the sequence qetfsdlwkllpenn ( seq id no : 1 ) represents the sequence of peptide 6 from fig3 and spddieqwftedpgp ( seq id no : 13 ) is an irrelevant peptide control . formally the first serine residue on the stated peptide is part of the spacer coupling the consensus peptide to biotin , since serin also precedes the consensus p53 sequence this residue was also substituted with alanine . with regard to mdm2 binding all alanine substitutions in the consensus binding site reduce the level of binding as measured by elisa , however , the key residues would appear to be tfsdlw ( seq id no : 2 ) as substitutions in these positions reduce the amount of mdm2 binding to less than 15 % of that seen with the unchanged consensus sequence . interestingly , a higher level of binding of mdm2 is observed to the smaller consensus peptide rather than to peptide 6 ( qetfsdlwkllpenn ) ( seq id no : 7 ) of the p53 peptide library reaffirming the definition of the binding site . in the case of monoclonal antibody do - 1 binding to the consensus sequence the key residues are etfsdlk ( seq id no : 14 ), with d and k being the most crucial . the importance of the aspartate residue to the do - 1 epitope is consistent with the report that do - 1 only recognizes human p53 and not mouse p53 ,-- the only difference being an aspartate to glycine change . while this difference has a critical affect on do - 1 binding it does not grossly affect the interaction of mdm2 δ with the protein or peptides . however substitution of alanine for aspartate at this position blocks binding of all three protein ligands . the ability of mdm2 to distinguish alanine from either glycine or aspartate at this position may imply that the polar environment of this region of the binding site is critical for the interaction . it has also been established from phage display libraries that the epitope of do - 1 is fsdlwkl ( seq id no : 15 ) ( stephen et al , manuscript in preparation ), which is in agreement with our observations on key residues . for the antibody bp53 - 19 the alanine substitution series identifies the key residues to be f - dlw ( seq id nos : 16 )- with the latter three residues being the most crucial , and is similar to the requirements for mdm2 binding to the consensus binding site . not surprisingly , it was found that the pre - binding of antibody bp53 - 19 onto he sqetfsdlwkl ( seq id no : 17 ) biotinylated peptide blocked binding of mdm2 to the peptide when added later ( data not shown ). the process of example 3 was repeated but using insect cells infected with baculovirus expressing mus mdm2 from sf9 cells in two 180ml 2 tissue culture flasks . the extract was prepared in approximately three mils of lysisi buffer to give a concentrated supernatant of 13 mg / ml . as before , the mdm2 binding site was defined by alanine substitution of the p53 derived peptide , sqetfsdlwl ( seq id no : 18 ) and the results are shown in fig6 . additionally other conserved substitutions were tested ( i . e those commonly seen in highly conserved proteins of identical function ) and the results are also shown in fig6 . with a higher protein concentration , ( 13 mg / ml as opposed to 1 - 4 mg / ml ) the alanine substitution experiment reveals the same six amino acids are important ( 18 tfsdlw 23 ) ( seq id no : 2 ) in addition to glutamate ( etfsdlw ) ( seq id no : 18 ). this data however establishes that the most critical residues are f - lw as these are intolerant of both alanine substitutions and some , if not all of the conserved substitutions . a further interesting observation relates to the fact that substitution of the aspartate residue for the glutamate enhances binding of mdm2 , indicating that such a residue may usefully be included in the therapeutic peptides of the invention . this also illustrates that this approach can lead to the discovery of agents that have enhanced binding to mdm2 . dyson , n ., et al . ( 1992b ). j . virol ., 66 , 6893 - 6902 . houghten , r . a ., et al . ( 1991 ). nature , 354 , 84 - 86 . lu , x ., et al ( 1992 ). cell , 70 , 153 - 161 . __________________________________________________________________________ # sequence listing - - - - ( 1 ) general information : - - ( iii ) number of sequences : 50 - - - - ( 2 ) information for seq id no : 1 : - - ( i ) sequence characteristics : ( a ) length : 15 amino - # acids ( b ) type : amino acid ( c ) strandedness : ( d ) topology : unknown - - ( xi ) sequence description : seq id no : 1 : - - gln glu thr phe ser asp leu trp lys leu le - # u pro glu asn asn 1 5 - # 10 - # 15 - - - - ( 2 ) information for seq id no : 2 : - - ( i ) sequence characteristics : ( a ) length : 6 amino - # acids ( b ) type : amino acid ( c ) strandedness : ( d ) topology : unknown - - ( xi ) sequence description : seq id no : 2 : - - thr phe ser asp leu trp 1 5 - - - - ( 2 ) information for seq id no : 3 : - - ( i ) sequence characteristics : ( a ) length : 6 amino - # acids ( b ) type : amino acid ( c ) strandedness : ( d ) topology : unknown - - ( xi ) sequence description : seq id no : 3 : - - thr phe ser gly leu trp 1 5 - - - - ( 2 ) information for seq id no : 4 : - - ( i ) sequence characteristics : ( a ) length : 5 amino - # acids ( b ) type : amino acid ( c ) strandedness : ( d ) topology : unknown - - ( xi ) sequence description : seq id no : 4 : - - phe xaa xaa leu trp 1 5 - - - - ( 2 ) information for seq id no : 5 : - - ( i ) sequence characteristics : ( a ) length : 5 amino - # acids ( b ) type : amino acid ( c ) strandedness : ( d ) topology : unknown - - ( xi ) sequence description : seq id no : 5 : - - phe xaa glu leu trp 1 5 - - - - ( 2 ) information for seq id no : 6 : - - ( i ) sequence characteristics : ( a ) length : 6 amino - # acids ( b ) type : amino acid ( c ) strandedness : ( d ) topology : unknown - - ( xi ) sequence description : seq id no : 6 : - - thr phe ser glu leu trp 1 5 - - - - ( 2 ) information for seq id no : 7 : - - ( i ) sequence characteristics : ( a ) length : 7 amino - # acids ( b ) type : amino acid ( c ) strandedness : ( d ) topology : unknown - 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