Patent Abstract:
the invention relates to the synergistic interaction of hepatocyte growth factor and gamma - interferon in the stimulation of hepatocyte growth . accordingly , the invention concerns a method of enhancing the biological activity of hgf by administering a biologically effective amount of hgf and a synergistically effective amount of ifn - γ to a patient in need .

Detailed Description:
hepatocyte growth factor ( hgf ) has been detected in a number of different tissues , including liver , lung , kidney brain , thymus , etc . although hgf is primarily known as a potent mitogen for hepatocytes , its biological activity is not limited to hepatic cells . in in vitro tests , hgf has been found to be cytotoxic to mouse sarcoma 180 cells and human mouth epidermal carcinoma ( kb ) cells [ higashiu et al ., bbrc 170 ( 1 ), 397 - 404 , 1990 ], and mitogenic for various epithelial , endothelial and melanocyte cell lines . as used herein , the term &# 34 ; hepatocyte growth factor &# 34 ; or &# 34 ; hgf &# 34 ; is used to refer to all forms of hepatocyte growth factors that exhibit biological activity . the term specifically includes hepatocyte growth factors exhibiting hepatocyte growth promoting activity in standard assays , for example as described in proc . natl . acad . sci . usa . 80 , 7229 ( 1983 ). the term specifically includes human and non - human , such as rat hgf , in mature , pre , pre - pro , or pro forms , purified from natural source , chemically synthesized or recombinantly produced . the term &# 34 ; human hepatocyte growth factor &# 34 ; or &# 34 ; hhgf &# 34 ; refers to a polypeptide encoded by the cdna sequence published by miyazawa , et al ., supra , or nakamura et al ., nature , supra , including its single - and double - chain , mature , pre , pre - pro , and pro forms , purified from natural source , chemically synthesized or recombinantly produced ( see also seq . id . no : 2 ). the sequences reported by miyazawa et al . and nakamura et al . differ in 14 amino acids . the reason for the differences is not entirely clear ; polymorphism or cloning artifacts are among the possibilities . both sequences are specifically encompassed by the term &# 34 ; hhgf &# 34 ; as defined for the purpose of the present invention . the term specifically includes &# 34 ; delta5 hhgf &# 34 ;, a variant in which 5 amino acids are deleted in the first kringle domain of native human hhgf , which was first identified and described by seki et al ., supra . both terms (&# 34 ; hgf &# 34 ; and &# 34 ; hhgf &# 34 ;) include various amino acid sequence variants of such hgf polypeptides , which may be naturally occurring alleles ( which will not require manipulation of the hgf dna ) or predetermined mutant forms made by mutating the dna , either to arrive to an allele or a variant not found in nature , provided that such variants maintain the biological activity in kind of native human hgf . such mutations typically involve substitution , deletion and / or insertion of one or more amino acids in the native amino acid sequence . the amino acid changes also may result in further modifications of hgf upon expression in recombinant hosts , e . g . introducing or moving sites of glycosylation . as used herein , &# 34 ; gamma interferon &# 34 ; or &# 34 ; ifn - γ &# 34 ; refers variously to all forms of ( human and non - human animal ) gamma interferon as are known to be biologically active in accepted gamma interferon assays , such as by inhibition of virus replication in a suitable cell line ( inhibition of encephalomyocarditis virus replication in human lung carcinoma cell line a549 for human ifn - γ ), induction of class ii antigens , heat lability , other antiviral , antitumor or immunoregulatory assays , or neutralization by antibodies having immunoreactivity for gamma interferon but not alpha - or beta - interferon , and is meant to include gamma - interferon in a mature , pro , met or des ( 1 - 3 ) ( also referred to as descystyrcys ifn - γ ) form , whether obtained from natural source , chemically synthesized or produced by techniques of recombinant dna technology . a complete description of the preparation of recombinant human gamma interferon ( hifn - γ ) including its cdna and amino acid sequences is shown in the united states patents cited hereinabove ( e . g . u . s . pat . no . 4 , 762 , 791 ). cystyrcys - lacking recombinant human gamma interferons , including variously truncated derivatives are , for example , disclosed in european publication no . 146 , 354 . non - human animal interferons , including ifn - γ , are , for example , disclosed in european publication no . 88 , 622 . the term includes variously glycosylated forms and other variants and derivatives of such interferons , whether known in the art or will become available in the future . examples of such variants are alleles , and the products of site directed mutagenesis in which residues are deleted , inserted and / or substituted ( see , for example european publication no . 146 , 354 referred to above ). ifn - γ is known to have a narrow host range , therefore , ifn - γ homologous to the animal to be treated should be used . in human therapy , the descystyrcys variant of the sequence shown , for example , in u . s . pat . no . 4 , 717 , 138 , and its counterpart ep 77 , 670 is preferably employed , and optionally the c - terminal variant in which the last 4 residues are deleted in post - translational processing . the terms &# 34 ; synergism &# 34 ;, &# 34 ; synergistic &# 34 ;, synergistically effective &# 34 ; in the context of this invention are defined according to the art accepted definition ( goodman et al ., &# 34 ; the pharmacological basis of therapeutics &# 34 ;, macmillan publishing company , inc ., new york , 1980 ). this is most easily seen in terms of constructing an isobologram which plots the dosage levels required for a specific identical biological response of each of two ingredients along the x and y axes . while simply additive effects would generate a straight line as one ingredient diminishes and the other increases , synergistic effects can be recognized by the generation of a concave curve , such that only a small increase in one component compensates for a drastic decrease in the amount of the other . in a pharmacological sense , in the context of the present invention , a &# 34 ; therapeutically effective amount &# 34 ; or hgf refers to an amount effective in stimulating hepatocyte dna synthesis in the presence of a synergistic amount of ifn - γ . the term &# 34 ; hepatocyte growth inhibitor &# 34 ; is used to refer to factors inhibiting hepatocyte growth in vivo or in vitro in standard assays , such as those based upon monitoring hepatocyte dna synthesis or liver weight . the term &# 34 ; hepatocyte growth inhibitor &# 34 ; specifically includes members of the tgf - β superfamily , e . g . tgf - β and activin ( dimers of inhibin beta a or beta b chains ). the term &# 34 ; tgf - β &# 34 ; as used throughout the specification and claims includes various sub - types of tgf - β , e . g . tgf - β 1 , - β 2 and - β 3 having hepatocyte growth inhibitory effect . hepatocyte proliferation and the effect of growth promoting and growth inhibiting factors are conveniently tested in primary cultures of hepatocytes . adult rat hepatocytes in primary culture have been extensively used to search for factors that regulate hepatocyte proliferation , accordingly , techniques for isolating and culturing rat hepatocytes are well known in the art . human hepatocytes can , for example , be obtained from whole liver perfusion on organs deemed unacceptable for transplantation , pare - downs of adult livers used for transplantation in children , fetal livers and liver remnants removed at surgery for other indications . human hepatocytes can be cultured similarly to the methods established for preparing primary cultures of normal rat hepatocytes . hepatocyte dna synthesis can , for example , be assayed by measuring incorporation of [ 3 h ] thymidine into dna , with appropriate hydroxyurea controls for replicative synthesis . nuclear labelling is confirmed by autoradiography . a method for measuring hepatocyte dna synthesis in primary culture of hepatocytes with or without aphidicolin is described by nakamura et al ., in biochem . biophys . res . comm . 122 ( 3 ), 140 - 1459 ( 1984 ), and in j . biochem . 94 , 1029 - 1035 ( 1983 ). a modified version of this technique is disclosed in the example . the effect of hgf and ifn - γ on hepatocyte growth can also be tested in animal models of liver dysfunction and regeneration , such as in rats following partial hepatectomy , or carbon tetrachloride caused hepatic injury , in d - galactosamine induced acute liver failure models , etc . ifn - γ and hgf are usually administered in the form of pharmaceutical compositions comprising an effective amount of the active ingredient in admixture with a suitable pharmaceutically acceptable vehicle and optionally other pharmaceutically acceptable additives . the term &# 34 ; pharmaceutical composition &# 34 ; refers to preparations which are in such form as to permit the biological activity of the active ingredients to be unequivocally effective , and which contain no additional components which are toxic to the subjects to which the composition would be administered . &# 34 ; pharmaceutically acceptable &# 34 ; excipients ( vehicles , additives ) are those which can reasonably be administered to a subject mammal to provide an effective dose of the active ingredient employed . hgf and ifn - γ may be administered to a subject mammal , preferably human , via any of the accepted modes of administration for agents which exhibit such activity . these methods include subcutaneus and , preferably , parenteral administration . examples of parenteral administration routes are intravenous , intrapulmonary , intraarterial , intramuscular , and intraperitoneal administration , the intravenous route being preferred . administration may be continuous or bolus dosing in sufficient amounts to maintain therapeutically effective / synergistic levels . hgf and ifn - γ may be combined in vitro before administration or separately administered simultaneously or in tandem , in either order . the compounds are usually administered as pharmaceutical compositions , usually formulated in dosage forms by methods known in the art ; for example , see remington &# 39 ; s pharmaceutical sciences , mack publishing company , easton , pa ., 15th edition 1975 . for parenteral administration , hgf and ifn - γ are typically formulated in the form of injectable solutions , suspensions or emulsions , in admixture with a suitable pharmaceutically acceptable vehicle and optionally other pharmaceutically acceptable additives . typical vehicles include saline , dextrose solution , ringer &# 39 ; s solution , etc ., but non - aqueous vehicles may also be used . the formulation of ifn - γ is preferably liquid , and is ordinarily a physiological salt solution or dextrose solution , together with conventional stabilizers and / or excipients . ifn - γ compositions may also be provided as lyophilized powders . a typical formulation may contain ifn - γ ( 20 × 10 6 u ) at 1 . 0 or 0 . 2 mg / ml , 0 . 27 mg / ml succinic acid , and disodium succinate hexahydrate 0 . 73 ml / injection at ph 5 . 0 . preferred ifn - γ formulations are disclosed in co - pending u . s . pat . ser . no 07 / 514 , 392 , filed apr . 25 , 1990 . the determination of the synergistically effective amounts and the amounts effective in inducing accelerated hepatocyte proliferation is well within the skill of the practicing physician . the actual dose for both hgf and ifn - γ will depend on the medical condition to be treated , the pathological condition and clinical tolerance of the patient involved , the properties of the ifn - γ and hgf preparations employed , including their activity and biological half - life , etc . it will be appreciated that the practitioner will adjust the dose in line with clinical experience . in order to simplify the following example , the definitions of certain terms is given hereinbelow . &# 34 ; transfection &# 34 ; refers to the taking up of an expression vector by a host cell whether or not any coding sequences are in fact expressed . numerous methods of transfection are known in the art , for example , capo 4 and electroporation . successful transfection is generally recognized when any indication of the operation of this vector occurs within the host cell . &# 34 ; transformation &# 34 ; means introducing dna into an organism so that the dna is replicable , either as an extrachromosomal element or by chromosomal integrant . depending on the host cell used , transformation is done using standard techniques appropriate to such cells . the calcium treatment employing calcium chloride as described by cohen , s . n . proc . natl . acad . sci . usa 69 , 2110 ( 1972 ); mandel et al ., j . mol . biol . 53 , 154 ( 1970 ); and more recently liljestrom et al ., gene 40 , 241 - 246 ( 1985 ), is generally used for prokaryotes or other cells that contain substantial cell - wall barriers . for mammalian cells without such cell walls , the calcium phosphate precipitation method of graham , f . and van der eb , a ., virology 52 , 456 - 457 ( 1978 ) is preferred . general aspects of mammalian host cell system transformations have been described by axel in u . s . pat . no . 4 , 399 , 216 issued aug . 16 , 1983 . transformations in yeast are typically carried out according to the method of van solingen , p ., et al ., j . bact . 130 , 946 ( 1977 ), and hsiao , c . l . et al ., proc . natl . acad . sci . usa 76 , 3829 ( 1979 ). however , other methods for introducing dna into cells such as by nuclear injection or by protoplast fusion may also be used . &# 34 ; plasmids &# 34 ; are designated by lower case p followed by capital letters and / or numbers . the starting plasmids used in the construction of the expression plasmid described in the example are commercially , available , are publicly available on an unrestricted basis , or can be constructed from such available plasmids in accord with published procedures . in addition , other equivalent plasmids are known in the art , and will be apparent to the ordinary artisan . expression vectors ( plasmids ) may contain a selection gene , also termed a selectable marker . a selection gene encodes a protein , sometimes referred to as a secondary protein , necessary for the survival or growth of a host cell transformed with the vector . examples of suitable selectable markers for mammalian cells are dihydrofolate reductase ( dhfr ), thymidine kinase or neomycin . when selectable markers are successfully transferred into a mammalian host cell , the transformed mammalian host cell can survive if placed under selective pressure . there are two widely used distinct categories of selective regimens . the first category is based on a cell &# 39 ; s metabolism and the use of a mutant cell line which lacks the ability to grow independent of a supplemented media . two examples are : cho dhfr - cells and mouse ltk - cells . these cells lack the ability to grow without the addition of such nutrients as thymidine or hypoxanthine . because these cells lack certain genes necessary for a complete nucleotide synthesis pathway , they cannot survive unless the missing nucleotides are provided in a supplemented media . an alternative to supplementing the media is to introduce an intact dhfr or tk gene into cells lacking the respective genes , thus altering their growth requirements . individual cells which were not transformed with the dhfr or tk gene will not be capable of survival in non - supplemented media . therefore , direct selection of those cells requires cell growth in the absence of supplemental nutrients . a second category is dominant selection which refers to a selection scheme used in any cell type and does not require the use of a mutant cell line . these schemes typically use a drug to arrest growth of a host cell . those cells which have a novel gene would express a protein conveying drug resistance and would survive the selection . examples of such dominant selection use the drugs neomycin , southern p . and berg , p ., j . mol . appl . genet . 1 , 327 ( 1982 ), myocophenolic acid , mulligan , r . c . and berg , p ., science 209 , 1422 ( 1980 ), or hygromycin , sugden , b . et al ., mol . cel ., biol . 5 , 410 - 413 ( 1985 ). in the following example the direct selection for dhfr production was used . &# 34 ; amplification &# 34 ; refers to the increase or replication of an isolated region within a cell &# 39 ; s chromosomal dna . amplification is achieved using a selection agent , e . g . methotrexate ( mtx ) which inactivates dhfr . amplification or the making of successive copies of the dhfr gene results in greater amounts of dhfr being produced in the face of greater amounts of mtx . amplification pressure is applied notwithstanding the presence of endogenous dhfr , by adding ever greater mtx to the media . amplification of a desired gene can be achieved by cotransfecting a mammalian host cell with a plasmid having a dna encoding a desired protein and the dhfr or amplification gene so that cointegration can occur . one ensures that the cell requires more dhfr , which requirement is met by replication of the selection gene , by selecting only for cells that can grow in successive rounds of ever - greater mtx concentration . so long as the gene encoding a desired heterologous protein has cointegrated with the amplifiable gene , replication of this gene gives rise to replication of the gene encoding the desired protein . the result is that increased copies of the gene , i . e . an amplified gene , encoding the desired heterologous protein express more of the desired heterologous protein . essentially this procedure was followed during the hhgf expression , as shown in the following example . suitable host cells for expressing the hhgf encoding dna include : monkey kidney cvi line transformed by sv40 ( cos - 7m atcc crl 1665 ); human embryonic kidney line ( 293 , graham , f . l . et al ., j . gen . virol . 36 , 59 ( 1977 )); baby hamster kidney cells ( bhk , atcc ccl 10 ) 1 chinese hamster ovary - cells - dhfr ( described by urlaub and chasin , proc . natl . acad . sci . usa 77 , 4216 ( 1980 ), etc . the host cells may be transformed with hhgf expression vectors and cultured in conventional nutrient media modified as is appropriate for inducing promoters , selecting transformants or amplifying genes . the culture conditions , such as temperature , ph and the like , are those previously used with the host cell selected for expression , and will be apparent to the ordinary skilled artisan . further details of the invention are illustrated in the following non - limiting example . the plasmid psvi6b5 , which is a broadly applicable parental vector for expression of different polypeptides was derived from plasmid psvi6b - tpa , as shown in fig6 . psvi6b5 ( transformed e . coli strain atcc no . 68 , 151 ; seq . id . no : 1 ) carries polylinker regions in place of the t - pa cdna in psvi6b - tpa . these polylinker regions provide convenient , unique restriction endonuclease recognition sites that can be used to introduce any sequence that encodes a polypeptide of interest . as illustrated in fig6 psvi6b5 was generated in four steps . the first three steps involved the removal of the bamhi , hindiii , and sali restriction sites , respectively , from psvi6b - tpa ; as a consequence , upon replacement of the t - pa cdna by the polylinker in the last step , the polylinker sites for these enzymes were unique in the resulting parental expression plasmid . a detailed description of the construction of psvi6b5 is provided in application ser . no . 07 / 441 , 514 , filed nov . 22 , 1989 , now abandoned . an hhgf cdna clone ( hlc3 ) isolated from a human leukocyte library as described by seki et al ., supra , was cloned into the expression vector psvi6b5 . the complete amino acid sequence of human leukocyte hgf is shown as seq . id . no : 2 . cho - dhfr - cells ( urlaub et al ., proc . natl . cad . sci . usa 77 , 4216 - 4220 ( 1980 )) were contransfected with the above - described psvi6b5 - based hhgf expression vector and with a dhfr selection vector pfd11 ( simonsen and levinson , proc . natl . acad . sci . usa 80 , 2495 - 2499 ( 1983 )) using the general procedure of graham and van des eb , virology 52 , 456 - 467 ( 1973 )). the latter plasmid encodes dhfr , thereby conferring methotrexate resistance on the transfected cells and allowing for selection of hhgf expressing transformants . the transformed dhfr - cells were selected by growth in glycine -, hypoxanthine - and thymidine - deficient medium . colonies that arose on this selection medium were isolated using cotton swabs and propagated in the same medium to several generations . after cell growth , the cells were amplified and selected with increasing amounts of methotrexate using standard techniques . clones that could grow in selective media , and therefore incorporated the transfected dhfr containing plasmid , were screened for the presence of secreted hgf . hgf activity in the media of these clones was assayed with the mitogenic assay described hereinbelow . alternatively , hgf activity in culture media may also be measured by incorporation of 125 i - labelled deoxyuridine into rat hepatocyte in primary culture as described by nakamura et al ., nature 342 , 440 - 443 ( 1989 ). hhgf was purified essentially as described by nakamura et al ., supra . hgf activity was assayed essentially following the method described by nakamura et al . in proc . natl . acad . sci . usa 80 , 7229 ( 1983 ). hepatocytes were isolated and purified from wistar rats weighing 150 - 180 grams each , by method of standard perfusion collagenase [ seglen , p . o ., methods in cell biology 13 , 29 - 83 ( 1976 )], washed in assay media 3 ×, and resuspended in the assay media at a concentration of 1 × 10 5 cells / ml . 100 μl of the cell suspension were added to each well of a 96 well flat bottom microtiter plate . appropriate dilutions of hgf or an other test compound were added to the cells in 100 μl volumes . the plates were incubated at 37 ° c . for 48 hours . the rate of dna synthesis was determined by pulse - labeling cultured cells with 3 h - thymidine ( 1 μci / well ) for 12 hours . the cells were then harvested onto glass fiber filters using automated cell harvester ( ph d harvester , cambridge biotech ), the glass fiber filters were transferred to counting vials , and 3 h incorporation expressed in cpms , was measured using liquid scintillation spectrometry . 1 . we have examined the effects of ifn - γ on hepatocyte proliferation . the results set forth in fig1 show that ifn - γ alone has no mitogenic effect . various combinations of hgf and ifn - γ were found to act synergistically in enhancing hepatocyte proliferation in the above - described primary rat hepatocyte cell cultures . the effect of tandem administration or hgf and ifn - γ has also been investigated . as shown in fig1 the synergy was independent of time of addition of either hgf or ifn - γ . 2 . the test results illustrated in fig2 and 3 show that ifn - β failed to synergize with hgf , whereas the synergism between ifn - α and hgf was , at best , marginal . 3 . it was found that as little as 150 pg of tgf - β , added at the initiation of culture , produced profound suppression of the hgf induced proliferation of primary rat hepatocytes ( fig3 ). 4 . as shown in fig4 u ( 100 ng ) of ifn - γ completely reversed the suppressive effect of 150 pg tgf - β . higher concentrations of ifn - γ were required to overcome the effect of higher concentrations of tgf - β . 5 . as illustrated in fig5 the suppressive effect of activin , another member of the tgf - β family , was also reversed by ifn - γ . in this experiment , the activin concentration was 10 ng / ml , and the ifn - γ concentration varied between 0 and 1000 units / ml . the results show that at concentrations exceeding about 10 units / ml , ifn - γ reversed the suppressive effect of activin , and enhanced the hepatocyte growth stimulating activity of hgf . e . coli 294 strain transformed with the plasmid psvi6b5 has been deposited with the american type culture collection , 12301 parklawn drive , rockville , md ., usa ( atcc ) on oct . 25 , 1989 , and was assigned the atcc accession no . 68 , 151 . the deposit was made under the provisions of the budapest treaty on the international recognition of the deposit of microorganisms for the purpose of patent procedure , and the regulations thereunder ( budapest treaty ). this assures maintenance of a viable culture for 30 years from the date of deposit . the organism will be made available by atcc under the terms of the budapest treaty , and subject to an agreement between genentech , inc . and atcc , which assures permanent and unrestricted availability of the progeny of the cultures to the public upon issuance of the pertinent u . s . patent or upon laying open to the public of any u . s . or foreign patent application , whichever comes first , and assures availability of the progeny to one determined by the u . s . commissioner of patents and trademarks to be entitled thereto according to 35 u . s . c . 112 and the commissioner &# 39 ; s rules pursuant thereto ( including 37 cfr 1 . 14 with particular reference to og 638 ). the foregoing written description is considered to be sufficient to enable one skilled in the art to practice the invention . the deposit of material herein does not constitute an admission that the written description is inadequate to enable the practice of any aspect of the invention , including the best mode thereof , nor is it to be construed as limiting the scope hereof . although the foregoing refers to particular preferred embodiments , it will be understood that the present invention is not so limited . it will occur to those ordinarily skilled in the art that various modifications may be made to the disclosed embodiments without diverting from the overall concept of the invention . all 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