Patent Abstract:
the present invention describes peptides capable of specifically binding to preselected micromolecules or to their natural receptor . the preselected molecules include but are not limited to drugs , vitamins , neuromediators and steroid hormones . methods of using the phage display libraries to identify peptide compositions in preselected binding interactions are also disclosed . the retrieved peptides mimicking a natural receptor binding site to preselected molecules are used as is or as ligands to re - screen the same or different libraries to find and / or derive new receptor ligands , or are used to elicit the production of antibodies capable of binding to the natural receptor . the two categories of effector molecules may find diagnostic , therapeutic or prophylactic uses . the peptides directly derived from the phage display libraries may be used as drug detectors or antidotes . the others may be used to identify , target , activate or neutralize the receptor for the preselected micromolecules , the receptor being known or unknown .

Detailed Description:
the present invention provides novel methods and compositions for identifying peptides which bind to preselected drugs or to their natural receptor . fig9 is a schematic representation of the present invention . when a phage display library is screened with a micromolecule binding to a known receptor ( opoids and steroids , for example ), the binding phage display peptides are then sequenced , synthesized and used as a drug binding tool to detect drugs in biological samples such as blood and urine , or as a drug antidote . the synthesized peptides may be alternatively used to re - screen the same or another library to retrieve novel effector molecules which are analogs of the micromolecules of interest used in first instance . the new effector molecules will possess therapeutic or prophylactic use by activating or neutralizing the natural receptor , or a diagnostic use by targeting and detecting the same receptor . alternatively , the synthesized peptides may be used to elicit the production of antibodies useful as other effector molecules having therapeutic , prophylactic or diagnostic uses . when the preselected molecule binds to an unknown receptor , the same principles apply . additionally , the peptides on phages may be used directly as immunogens to elicit the production of antibodies . in one embodiment , the invention relates to methods for identifying the peptides capable of binding to a preselected micromolecule . in certain aspects , the methods generally comprise construction of an oligonucleotide library of at least about 10 8 members which encode the peptides . each library member is joined in a reading frame to the 5 &# 39 ; region of a nucleotide sequence encoding an outer structural protein of the bacteriophage ( minor coat proteins ). appropriate host cells are transformed with the expression vectors , generally by electroporation , and the transformed cells cultured under conditions suitable for expression and assembly of bacteriophages . using an affinity screening process ( i . e ., biopanning ), bacteriophage library members are exposed to the preselected micromolecule under conditions conductive to a specific binding , and bacteriophages whose minor coat proteins have peptides which bind the micromolecule are selected . the nucleotide sequence which encodes the peptide on the selected phage may then be determined by sequencing . by repeating the affinity selection process one or more times , the peptides of interest may be enriched . by increasing the stringency of the selection , e . g ., by reducing the valency of the interaction towards substantial monovalency , peptides of increasingly higher affinity can be identified . in another aspect , the methods are concerned with expression vectors having the oligonucleotide library members joined in a reading frame with a nucleotide sequence to encode a fusion protein , wherein the library member represents the 5 &# 39 ; member of the fusion and the 3 &# 39 ; member comprises at least a portion of an outer structural protein of the bacteriophage . the first residue of the peptide encoded by the library member may be at the 5 &# 39 ;- terminus of the sequence encoding the phage coat protein . in preferred embodiments , where phage proteins are initially expressed as pre - proteins and then processed by the host cell to a mature protein , the library members are inserted so as to leave the peptide encoded thereby at the n - terminus of the phage coat protein after processing or a protein substantially homologous thereto . the invention also concerns host cells transformed with a bacteriophage expression vector having an oligonucleotide library member , joined in the reading frame to the 5 &# 39 ; region of the nucleotide sequence encoding an outer structural protein of the bacteriophage , wherein the library member encodes a peptide of at least two to about eighty - six amino acids ( four units of twenty amino acids plus terminating and intercalated cysteine residues ). generally , the oligonucleotide libraries of the invention comprise a variable codon region which codes for the peptides of interest , and optimally comprise sequences coding for one or more spacer amino acids residues such as gly or ala . the variable region may be encoded by ( nnk ) n ( seq id no : 23 ) or ( nnb ) n ( seq id no : 24 ) where n is a , c , g , or t ; k is g or t ; b is g , t or c , and n is from two to at least about 20 . in a preferred embodiment , the variable region of the oligonucleotide library member encodes a decapeptide . the variable codon region may also be prepared from a condensation of activated trinucleotides . in accordance with the present invention , novel libraries have been developed to reveal new effectors to target molecules . more particularly , we have obtained peptides that may represent discontinuous amino acids constituting mdr - binding sites using a decapeptide linear library . moreover , while other groups have sought ligands to macromolecules such as receptors , we have , on the contrary , used these libraries to seek ligands to micromolecules . for example , peptides have been obtained which bind different mdr - inducing molecules , including doxorubicin , verapamil and vinblastine . the present invention will be described hereinbelow by way of the following examples and appended figures , which purpose is to illustrate the invention rather than to limit its scope . the file of this patent contains at least one drawing executed in color . copies of this patent with color drawings will be provided by the patent and trademark office upon request and payment of the necessary fee . fig1 ( seq id nos : 1and 29 - 33 ) depicts the construction of a linear oligonucleotide library . ( a ) the vector , fuse ( seq id no : 29 ), contains two non - complementary sfil sites separated by a 14 bp &# 34 ; stuffer fragment &# 34 ;. removal of the sfil fragment allows oriented ligation of oligonucleotides with the appropriate cohesive ends . ( b ) the oligonucleotide on - 90 ( seq id no : 1 ) was synthesized with a self - complementary 3 &# 39 ; terminus and was elongated by extension of the 3 &# 39 ; end with klenow fragment . the cleavage of fill - in product with bgli released a fragment with cohesive termini complementary to sfil sites in the vector . the bgli - cleaved fragment was ligated to the vector and electro - transformed into e . coli . fig2 ( seq id nos : 20 and 38 ) depicts the amino acid frequencies of the variable region observed in randomly chosen isolates for the linear and for the circular libraries . individual isolates were sequenced with the oligo primer fuse 32 p , which is 32 nt downstream of the gene iii cloning site of fuse . 2x represents 100 % deviation from the optimal frequency that is equal to 5 %. fig3 shows the amino acid sequences ( seq . id . nos . : 3 to 11 , deduced from the dna sequences ) of the n - terminal peptides of piii of twenty - six phages isolated by four rounds of biopanning on doxorubicin - bsa coated microtiter wells . fig4 illustrates the results of elisas for four different phages ( a 4 , v 6 , v 10 , v 12 ) with immobilized doxo - bsa on wells and labelled polyclonal anti - phage serum to detect bound phages . fig5 illustrates the results of inhibition of v 6 phage binding to doxorubicin by different anticancer drugs . fig6 ( seq id nos : 29 , 31 - 32 , and 34 - 37 ) depicts the conotoxin peptide library construction . the oligonucleotide on - 51 ( seq id no : 34 ) was annealed to two &# 34 ; half - site &# 34 ; fragments on - 11 ( seq id no : 35 ) and on - 10 ( seq id no : 36 ) to form cohesive termini complementary to sfil sites in the vector . fig7 ( seq id nos : 3 , 4 , 5 , and 9 ) depicts the three - dimensional structure of four peptides , a 4 ( seq id no : 9 ), v 6 ( seq id no : 3 ), v 10 ( seq id no : 5 ) and v 12 ( seq id no : 4 ), exposed on their phages ( hydrogen atoms are omitted ). fig8 depicts a structural model of the interaction between the peptide v 6 ( seq id no : 3 ) and doxorubicin . fig9 is a schematic representation of the process and application of the present invention . sfii and bgli restriction endonucleases , t4 dna ligase , t4 kinase , klenow polymerase were obtained from boehringer mannheim . sequenase t7 was obtained from pharmacia . doxorubicin was obtained from sigma . oligonucleotides were synthesized with an applied biosystems pcr - mate and purified on odc columns ( abi ). fuse5 vector and e . coli mc1061 , k802 , k91kan were provided by g . smith , univ . of missouri , columbia , mo . and described in smith et al ., science , 228 : 1315 - 1317 ( 1985 ) and parmley & amp ; smith , gene , 73 : 305 - 318 ( 1988 ). oligonucleotides were synthesized , then inserted in the vector fuse5 . these oligonucleotides have the general structure shown in fig1 b . the 5 &# 39 ; and 3 &# 39 ; ends have a fixed sequence , chosen to reconstruct the amino acid sequence in the vicinity of the signal peptidase site . the central portion contained the variable regions which comprise the oligonucleotide library members , and may also code for spacer resides on either or both sides of the variable sequence . a collection of oligonucleotides encoding all possible decapeptides was synthesized with a self - complementary 3 &# 39 ;- terminus [ 5 &# 39 ;- cgctggccgacgtggcc ( nnk ) 10 gcggcctctgaggcctc tgaggccacgtaatacacgtggcctcagaggccgc - 3 &# 39 ;, seq . id . no . : 1 , where n is a , c , g and t ( nominally equimolar ), and k is g and t ( nominally equimolar )], while the complementary strand was synthesized by extension of the 3 &# 39 ; end with klenow polymerase . the sfii compatible ends were generated by restriction enzyme digestion of 5 μg of fill - in product with 400 units of bgli in 50 μl , as recommended by the supplier . the desired fragment was electrophoresed on 15 % ( w / v ) poly - acrylamide gel , and dna of the correct size was then excised , recovered , and purified as described in curr . protocols mol . biol . ( 1994 ). the vector fuse ( 100 μg ) was digested to completion with sfii and ethanol precipitated twice in the presence of 2 m ammonium acetate . this dna could not be self - ligated , indicating complete removal of the 14 - bp &# 34 ; stuffer &# 34 ; that lies between the sfii sites . a total of 20 μg of sfii digest of fuse5 vector was then ligated with 200 ng of purified oligonucleotide insert ( molar ratio 1 : 2 ) by an overnight incubation at 15 c . in 1 ml of t4 ligase buffer ( 20 mm tris - hcl , ph 7 . 5 , 5 mm mgcl 2 , 2 mm dtt , 1 mm atp ) and 4000 units of t4 dna ligase . the ligated dna was ethanol precipitated in the presence of 0 . 3 m sodium acetate , resuspended in 40 pl of water , and transformed by electroporation into e . coli mc1061 . ten electro - transformations , each containing 80 μl of cell suspensions ( final concentration 5 × 10 10 cells / ml ) and 2 μg of dna ( 500 μg / ml ), were performed by pulsing at 12 . 5 kv / cm for 5 msec as described in dower et al ., nucleic acids res ., 16 : 6127 - 6145 ( 1988 ). after electroporation , e . coli cells were allowed to non - selective outgrowth at 37 c for one hour in 2 ml of soc medium [ consisting of 2 % bacto tryptone , 0 . 5 % bacto yeast extract , 10 mm nacl , 2 . 5 mm kc , 10 mm mgcl 2 , 10 mm mgso 4 , 20 mm glucose ; hanahan , j . mol . biol ., 166 : 557 - 580 ( 1983 ) containing 0 . 2 mg / ml tetracycline . aliquots ( 20 μl ) of cells from each of the transformants were then removed and various dilutions plated on lb plates ( luria - bertani medium ) containing 40 mg / ml tetracycline to assess the transformation efficiency . the remainder of the cell suspension was used to inoculate one liter of l - broth containing tetracycline ( 20 mg / ml ) and was grown through approximately 10 doublings at 37 c . to amplify the library . phages from liquid cultures were obtained by clearing the supernatant twice by centrifugation ( 8000 rpm for 10 min at 4 c . ), and precipitation of phage particles with polyethylene glycol ( final concentration 3 . 3 % polyethylene glycol - 8000 , 0 . 4 m nacl ), and centrifugation as described above . phage pellets were resuspended in tbs ( 50 mm tris - hcl , ph 7 . 5 , 150 mm nacl ) and stored at 4 c . a portion of the library was used to infect k91kan cells that were plated at low density on lb tetracycline plates ( 40 mg / ml ). to analyze the diversity of the peptide sequences in the library , twelve individual clones producing infectious phages were picked , and the dna of their variable region was sequenced using sequenase t7 kit and an oligonucleotide sequencing primer fuse 32 p ( 5 &# 39 ;- tgaattttctgtatgagg - 3 &# 39 ;), seq . id . no . : 2 , which is complementary to the sequence located 32 nucleotides to the 3 &# 39 ; side of the second sfil site in the fuse5 vector . in fig2 the amino acid frequencies are deduced for the peptides encoded by oligonucleotides inserts of a sample of randomly chosen , infectious phage . constructing a library of peptides displayed on the n - terminus of processed piii necessarily alters the amino acids in the vicinity of the signal peptidase cleavage site . certain changes in the corresponding region of the major coat protein , pviii , have been shown to reduce processing efficiency , slowing or preventing the incorporation of pviii to virions ( felici et al ., j . mol . biol ., 222 : 301 - 310 ( 1991 )). if piii were similarly affected , the diversity of peptides contained in the library would be reduced ( parmley and smith , gene , 73 : 305 - 313 ( 1988 )). the finding that most amino acids appear at each position of the variable peptides of randomly chosen phage indicates that processing defects do not impose important constraints on the diversity of the library . furthermore , it is indicative that the inserted sequence in the fusion protein does not deleteriously alter the biological properties of the bacteriophage protein . doxorubicin was coupled to bsa ( manson , methods in mol . biol ., 10 : 29 - 31 ( 1993 )) by using glutaraldehyde as previously described . the doxorubicin - bsa conjugate was then diluted to 100 μg / ml in pbs , 50 μl of solution was then added to each well and used to select clones from a decapeptide library by successive rounds of biopanning on 96 - well plates ( nunc maxisorb microtiter plate ). doxorubicin - bsa conjugate was then bound to the plate overnight at 4 c ., the wells washed with pbs and blocked with 1 % bsa in pbs for 1 h at room temperature . after blocking , the wells were washed six times with pbs , the 10 10 phage particles per well of the primary decapeptide library were then added in 50 μl of 0 . 1 % bsa / pbs and the plates were incubated for 1 h at room temperature . the plates were washed 12 times with pbs to remove non - specific phages ( phages which express peptides without the desired specificity ) and the bound phages were eluted by treatment with 50 μl of 0 . 1 m hcl ( ph 2 . 2 adjusted with glycine ) or with 50 μl of 50 mm of verapamil ( competitor to doxorubicin ). neutralization of the eluate , titration , and amplifications on agar medium were carried out essentially as described in s . f . parmley and g . p . smith , gene , 73 : 305 - 313 ( 1988 )). the binding and elution reactions were repeated several times . recoveries of phages from this process are shown in fig3 where the repeated selection of phages resulted in an enrichment of phages capable of binding to doxorubicin . these results indicated that phages of higher affinity were preferentially enriched in each panning step . after four rounds of biopanning ( five rounds in the case of acidic elution ) and phage amplification , the individual phages derived from each elution screen were grown and their peptide - encoding regions sequenced . the amino acid sequences of these twenty - six phages that bound to doxorubicin is summarized in fig3 ( seq . id . nos . : 3 to 11 ). the most remarkable feature of the peptides selected by doxorubicin was that all twenty - six sequences contained tryptophan ( w ), demonstrating a striking consensus sequence wxxw ( seq id no : 22 ) or wxw ( seq id no : 25 ), of which only two isolates did not contain a w residue from the left or the right side of the sequence , but in these clones , the tryptophan residue was replaced by another aromatic amino acid phenylalanine ( f ). this is indicative of a consensus structure wherein the aromatic residues are important for the drug binding . the remaining sample of twenty - four isolates was distributed among seven different sequences in the ratio 9 : 6 : 5 : 3 : 1 . all the peptides had a high hydrophobic index . a potentially cyclic sequence vcdwwgwgic ( seq . id . no . : 3 ) had been detected in the isolate v 6 . in order to characterize the binding of individual clones , four different clones v 6 , v 10 , v 12 and a 4 together with the control phage x 1 were analyzed for binding to doxorubicin in an elisa experiment in which polyclonal anti - phage antibodies were used to detect bound phages . antisera were raised against fd - tet phage lacking insertion into piii . three rabbits were injected intramuscularly with 0 . 5 mg of fd - ted phages in freunds complete adjuvant and then boosted three times with 0 . 25 mg of fd - ted phages in incomplete adjuvant at 3 weeks intervals . the titer of the antisera was measured with an elisa using phage immobilized in maxisorb microtiter wells as described ( motti et al ., gene , 146 : 91 - 198 ( 1994 )). all rabbits produced high titer antisera after the second boost . sera collected after the third boost from one of the rabbits was used for the assays . phages from the second peg precipitation ( parmley & amp ; smith , gene , 73 : 305 - 318 ( 1988 )) were dissolved in 210 μl of 0 . 15 m nacl , microfuged for 1 min , precipitated from 200 μl of the supernatant by the addition of 21 . 2 μl of 1 m acetic acid , and by incubation for 10 min at room temperature and 10 min on ice . ( scott & amp ; smith , science , 249 : 386 - 390 ( 1990 )). phages were sedimented ( microfuged , 45 min , 4 c .) and dissolved in 60 μl of tbs . phage concentration was determined as described in parmley & amp ; smith , gene , 73 : 305 - 318 ( 1988 ). these partially purified phages were subjected to one round of screening , except that the phages were not acid eluted . instead , blocking solution [ 250 μl of nonfat dry milk ( 50 μg / ml ) in 0 , 05 % tween20 ™/ tbs ( tween20 ™: polysorbate 20 )] was added to the wells . after a 2 - h incubation at room temperature , wells were washed three times in 0 . 05 % tween20 ™/ tbs . rabbit anti - phage fd - ted serum , 100 μl of a 1 : 1000 dilution ( in blocking solution ) was added to wells and incubated overnight . wells were washed seven times in 0 . 05 % tween20 ™/ tbs and once with tbs ; 100 μl of a peroxidase - conjugated goat anti - rabbit immunoglobulin were then added ( kirkegaard & amp ; perry labs , maryland , usa , diluted 1 : 1000 ). after a 2 - h incubation at room temperature , the wells were washed seven times with 0 . 05 % tween20 ™/ tbs and once with tbs . to reveal the reaction , 100 μl of abts solution ( kirkegaard & amp ; perry labs , maryland , usa ) were added , incubated for 30 min at room temperature , and read in a microplate reader . data are reported as od 405 for sample wells minus the average blank . in each case , a significant binding of display phage to doxorubicin was observed ( fig4 ). in practice , an important aspect of the use of peptides on phage display libraries is the characterization of individual phage isolates after sequential rounds of affinity purification . isolated phages may bind to other components found on an immobilizing surface , or may bind to the protein target at sites other than the active site . in order to avoid the selection of plastic - binding phage ( adey et al ., gene , 156 : 27 - 31 ( 1995 )) we included , in our elisa experiments , empty wells and wells containing only bsa as controls . none of the four isolated phages could bind to bsa . phage v 12 showed strong binding to plastic , while phages v 10 and a 4 had moderate binding , and phage v 6 had only background binding to plastic . accordingly , at least one of the isolated phages v 6 , showed strong specific binding to doxorubicin itself . in order to test the affinity of the peptide identified in the phage v 6 , we used three different classes of cytotoxic mdr drugs : vinblastine , doxorubicin and verapamil , along with a non - mdr control drug , ara - c . phage v 6 ( 10 10 virions ) was preincubated for 1 hr at room temperature in 100 μl of 0 . 1 % bsa / pbs buffer containing different drug concentrations ( 10 - 4 m to 10 - 9 m ), and aliquots were added to microtiter wells , which were then coated with doxorubicin - bsa as previously described in example ii . after a 1 - h incubation at room temperature , the wells were washed 12 times with pbs and the remaining bound phages eluted with 50 μl of 0 . 1 m hcl ( ph adjusted to 2 . 2 with glycine ). the phages were quantitated by titration on log phase of e . coli k91kan cells plated on lb plates with 40 mg / ml tetracycline ( parmley & amp ; smith , gene , 73 : 305 - 318 ( 1988 )). vinblastine proved to be three times more efficient than doxorubicin in inhibiting the binding of phages v 6 to doxorubicin as shown by the ic 50 values of 1 . 5 × 10 - 9 m and 4 . 5 × 10 - 9 m , respectively ( fig5 ). verapamil was about 100 times less potent than vinblastine as shown by ic 50 value of 2 × 10 - 7 m . in contrast , ara - c was essentially inactive . the ic 50 derived for vinblastine , doxorubicin , and verapamil were in general agreement to the resistance profile mediated by pgp with high resistance to vinca alkaloids ( vinblastine ), intermediate resistance to anthracyclins ( doxorubicin ) and low resistance to verapamil ( boer et al ., proc . amer . ass . cancer res ., 36 : 331 ( 1995 )). accordingly , using the phage displacement assay , the binding of the v 6 phage was shown to be specific for doxorubicin , and the interaction of the phage with doxorubicin could be blocked by three mdr - drugs : vinblastine , doxorubicin and verapamil . therefore , the peptide library has proven useful to determine a receptor site which behaves like the natural receptor with respect to the binding of mdr - drugs . it was difficult to obtain doxorubicin - binding clones using a circular library c -- x 10 -- c ( seq id no : 26 ). in this particular case , the presence of the flanking cysteine residues may impose a configuration such that the peptides cannot adequately mimic the natural mdr - receptor site . this does not , however , exclude the possibility that another circular library with a different variable region length or a different complexity can be used . indeed , the fact that the v 6 clone analyzed from a linear decapeptide library showed a potential circular peptide whose structure would be c -- x 7 -- c ( seq id no : 21 ) is indicative that a library having exposed heptapeptides would be enriched in peptides mimicking the mdr - receptor site . the foregoing facts demonstrate that not all circular libraries of any length are capable of providing suitable peptides for any screening ligand . this is particularly true for constrained peptides . another approach to find properly displayed peptides binding any ligand is to first screen a linear enriched library of an adequate peptide length and to pick up clones of a high affinity by lowering the concentration of the screening ligand such that one or more peptides with a constrained conformation are retrieved and sequenced . the sequence then reveals where the cysteine residues are located in a constrained peptide . the suitable circular peptide library is then constructed in order to obtain a larger family of peptides . otherwise , ligands having affinity for a particularly conformed peptide may be so capricious that a defined library would not be suitable to discover target peptides . the v 6 peptide had been shown to be potentially cyclic and its structure is grossly c -- x 7 -- c ( seq id no : 21 ). a cyclic heptapeptide library made in accordance with the above teachings will thus further aid in retrieving other peptides analogous to the v 6 peptide . a short constrained peptide library has been described by o &# 39 ; neil et al . ( in proteins : structure , function and genetics , 14 : 509 - 515 ( 1992 )), which library had the structure c -- x 6 -- c ( seq id no : 27 ). this library has been used to retrieve a peptide containing an rgd sequence binding to platelet glycoprotein iib / iiia . the discovered peptides contained the very short rgd or kgd sequence and even though the circular library was more enriched in binding clones than the corresponding linear library x 6 , there is no indication that the peptides were representing a discontinuous peptide sequence because this type of sequence has a low level of complexity . in the present case , a discontinuous receptor sequence was obtained , bringing in proximity the aromatic residues involved in the drug binding . this is therefore the first time that peptides mimicking a complex molecule having a discontinuous receptor site have been retrieved . the obtained peptides are useful for making mdr neutralizing antibodies , since they mimic the binding site of the natural mdr receptor . alternatively , these peptides may be used as ligands themselves to reiterate the procedure in order to find doxorubicin analogs . the effect of peptide - directed antibodies has been considered problematic for discontinuous epitopes ( felici et al ., gene , 128 : 21 - 27 ( 1993 )), since peptides mimicking discontinuous epitopes have not been able to elicit the production of antibodies recognizing the natural antigen . structure modeling of established sequences using sibyl molecular graphics ( version 6 . 1a ) indicates that all of these peptides , when represented in beta - turn conformation , contain a hydrophobic envelope formed by two tryptophan residues presented in the consensus motif ( fig7 ). powell method with tripos force field and gasteiger - huckel method for charge calculation were used for computations . the dielectric constant , e = 80 , was used for solvent simulation . initially , energy minimization was carried out on the peptide alone . then , after having achieved the energy gradient of 0 . 05 kcal , the drug molecule ( doxorubicin ) was docked as close to the tryptophan pocket as possible , and energy minimization was repeated again ( fig8 ). the most important result from the experiments in molecular modeling was that doxorubicin , vinblastine and verapamil molecules could be easily docked between two indole rings of tryptophan residues . this produced a higher benefit ( up to 20 kcal / mol ) in van der walls energy , as compared to ara - c - peptide complex . while originally oriented at the angle of 30 degrees in the starting peptide , the indole rings of tryptophan resides , upon complexing on either side of the drug molecule , became nearly parallel . a molecular docking of the drug molecules used in this study into v 6 - peptide structure followed by minimization of hypothetical complexes showed that doxorubicin , vinblastine and verapamil can easily be inserted into the cavity between two tryptophans . in view of the foregoing , the v 6 peptide mimics the original mdr receptor site to elicit the production of antibodies against the natural receptor . therefore the v 6 peptide and related peptides would be useful as immunogens as well as a second screening ligands to obtain two types of effector molecules : antibodies and doxorubicin analog peptides , respectively . a circular peptide library was prepared by synthesizing oligonucleotides containing degenerate codons of nnk ( or nnb ) motif . here n is equimolar a , c , g , or t and k is equimolar g or t ( b = g , t or c ). this motif codes for all twenty amino acids at each locus in the hypervariable regions ( alternatively , the degenerate portion can be assembled by the condensation of twenty activated trinucleotides , one for each amino acid ). two to six cysteine codons are preserved to produce the characteristic frameworks and n varies for 1 to 20 in each unit separately ( n 1 , n 2 , n 3 , or n 4 ): 2 - loop cyscys ( nnk ) n1 cys ( nnk ) n2 cys alpha ( seq id no : 17 ) 3 - loop cyscys ( nnk ) n1 cys ( nnk ) n2 cys ( nnk ) n3 cyscys mu ( seq id no : 18 ) 4 - loop cys ( nnk ) n1 cys ( nnk ) n2 cyscys ( nnk ) n3 cys ( nnk ) n4 cys omega ( seq id no : 28 ) a pair of cysteine that flank a string of variable residues results in the display of the variable residues in a loop closed by a disulfide bond , as discussed above . oligonucleotides which were cloned to produce 1 - loop peptide library , have the general structure shown in fig6 . the 5 &# 39 ; and 3 &# 39 ; ends have a fixed sequence , chosen to reconstruct the amino acid sequence in the vicinity of the signal peptidase site . the central portion contained the variable regions which comprise the oligonucleotide library members , and also codes for spacer residues on either one or both sides of the variable sequence . a collection of oligonucleotides encoding all possible decapeptides was synthesized with the sequence 5 &# 39 ;- gggcc { tgt ( nnb ) 10 tgc } ggcgctctg - 3 &# 39 ; ( seq . id . no . : 12 ); where n was a , g , t and c ( nominally equimolar ), b was g , t and c ( nominally equimolar ), and three nucleotides tgt ( or tgc ) code for cysteine . this sequence , designated on - 51 , was ligated into two sfil sites of the fuse5 vector after annealing to two &# 34 ; half - site &# 34 ; oligonucleotides , on - 11 ( 5 &# 39 ;- acaggccccgt - 3 &# 39 ;; seq . id . no . : 13 ) and on - 10 ( 5 &# 39 ;- aagggccgca - 3 &# 39 ;; seq id no . : 14 ), which are complementary to the 5 &# 39 ; and 3 &# 39 ; portions of on - 51 , respectively . &# 34 ; half - site &# 34 ; oligonucleotides anneal to the 5 &# 39 ; - and 3 &# 39 ; - ends of oligonucleotide on - 51 to form appropriate sfil cohesive ends . this left the appropriate sfil site exposed without the need to digest with bgli , thus avoiding the cutting of any bgli sites that might have appeared in the variable region . the vector fuse ( 100 μg ) was digested to completion with sfil , and ethanol precipitated twice in the presence of 2 m ammonium acetate . oligonucleotides were phosphorylated with t4 kinase , and annealed by heating at 65 c . for 5 min in 20 mm tris - hcl , ph 7 . 5 , 2 mm mgcl 2 , 50 mm nacl , by mixing 1 . 5 μg on - 11 , 1 . 2 μg on - 10 and 0 . 5 μg on - 51 with 20 μg sfil - digested fuse rf dna . the mixture was allowed to cool slowly to room temperature . this represented an approximate molar ratio of 1 : 5 : 100 : 100 ( fuse5 vector : on - 51 : on - 11 : on - 10 ). the annealed structure was then ligated to sfil - cut fuse5 rf dna to produce a double - stranded circular molecule with a small , single stranded gap . these molecules were transformed into host cells under conditions described in example 1 . to sample additional diversity in the peptide libraries , the number of residues between the half cysteines was varied . this was accomplished as follows : 1 ) five separate oligonucleotide synthesis columns were prepared with the first nucleotide immobilized on resin ; 2 ) the common regions of the 3 &# 39 ; end of the oligonucleotides were synthesized ( all columns go through the same cycles to produce the cloning site , etc ., on this end ). synthesis on all column was carried out through the first cys ( or cyscys ) of the framework . 3 ) on column 1 , two degenerate codons were synthesized ; on column 2 , three degenerate codons are synthesized and so on . each column now had oligonucleotides with either 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 or 10 degenerate codons in the first hypervariable regions ; 4 ) one cys codon was now added to all columns ( this is the second cys of the omega class or the third cys of the mu class ); 5 ) the resins from all five columns were removed , mixed well , and reallocated among the five columns . each column now contains oligonucleotides with all five lengths of the first hypervariable region ; 6 ) each column was again put through either 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 , or 10 cycles of degenerate codon synthesis as before ; and the next cys codon ( or cyscys for omega ) was added ; 7 ) the resins were again removed , mixed and redistributed to the five columns , and the process was repeated through three ( for mu ) or four ( for omega ) hypervariable regions ; 8 ) the common sequence on the 5 &# 39 ; end of all the oligonucleotides was synthesized , and the oligonucleotides were removed from resins and purified as previously described . folding of the peptides to achieve biological activity may be directed by a forty amino acid conserved &# 34 ; leader peptide &# 34 ; at the n - terminus of the pre - toxin molecule . synthesized as part of a recombinant fusion protein , this leader may enhance the folding of many of the members of the library into the &# 34 ; correct &# 34 ; like framework . alternatively , allowing the cysteine framework to form in a random manner produces a variety of structures , only some of which mimic the framework . this collection provides additional multi - loop structures that add to the diversity of the peptide library . in order to minimize the possibility that one conformation would predominate , a gentle reduction to the phage in vitro was used , followed by mild oxidation to form most of the conformations . mild reduction / oxidation is accomplished by treatment with 0 . 2 to 5 mm dtt followed by extensive dialysis to non - reducing conditions . a regenerable , immobilized lipoic acid column to rapidly pass the peptide - bearing particles over can also be used . this general format for using the secondary framework structure of conotoxins can also be applied to other peptide families with biological activities as a basis for designing and constructing peptide expression - screening libraries in accordance with the present invention . the identification of the doxorubicin binding v 6 clone shows that at least a one loop c -- x 7 -- c ( seq id no : 21 ) library is useful in identifying doxorubicin binding peptides . v 6 analogs or derivatives thereof are synthesized wherein one of the tryptophan residues are substituted to ease the chemical synthesis . the residues present in the peptide derivatives are substituted in an empirical fashion ( classically called a structure - function study ). the first step is to substitute at least one of the tryptophan conserved amino acids and each other amino acid and verify the binding affinity to doxorubicin and other mdr drugs . after obtaining a good binding affinity for a selected peptide , its antagonist or agonist properties on the natural receptor is verified , in an artificial receptor system or in vivo . the dna insert from the recombinant phage is excised and reintroduced in an expression vector to produce the v 6 peptide or any related peptide by a recombinant technology . alternatively , the piii protein is excised at the end of the bacteriophage and the peptide purified by hplc . the structure of a peptide is optimized to increase its affinity and to use crystallography to design and understand the topology of a peptide . although the foregoing invention has been described in details by way of illustrations and examples for purpose of clarity and of understanding , it will be apparent that certain changes and modifications may be practiced without departing from the teachings of this invention , and these changes and modifications are within the scope of the appended claims . __________________________________________________________________________ # sequence listing - 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