Patent Abstract:
a dna encoding an immunologically cross - reactive form of diphtheria toxin fragment a , wherein the codons corresponding to val - 147 and glu - 148 of naturally - occurring diphtheria toxin are deleted from the dna .

Detailed Description:
fig1 is a representation of the nucleotide sequence and corresponding amino acid sequence of wild - type diphtheria toxin encoding dna ( seq id no : 1 ). fig2 is a schematic representation of the secondary structure within which glu - 148 resides . the drawing is based on the previously described x - ray crystallographic model of the dt dimer ( collier et al ., u . s . ser . no . 07 / 881 , 394 , herein incorporated by reference ; choe et al ., nature 357 : 216 - 222 , 1992 ). glu - 148 ( e148 ) is seen to lie on a β - strand , one residue removed from a loop connecting this strand with the adjacent , nh 2 - proximal β - strand . h - bonds between backbone n (- - -) and carbonyl o (--) atoms within these 2 strands are shown . a study was undertaken of possible second - site mutations in a glu - 148 deletion mutant construct ( termed dt delta - 148 ) which might cause reversion to toxicity . it was found that activity can be partially restored by either of two mutations : changing valine - 147 to glutamic acid ( a two - base change ), or deletion of five residues towards the amino - terminus ( a fifteen nucleotide deletion ), thereby positioning glu - 142 in the position adjacent to tyr - 149 . thus , simply deleting a crucial residue such as glu - 148 cannot insure that a second - site mutation would not restore partial activity to a recombinant toxoid . this spurred applicants to construct additional genetic aberrations in dt which would require more extensive mutations to restore toxicity , and thus would be less likely to occur naturally . first , a double amino acid deletion ( residues 147 , 148 ) was made at the active - site of dt . this mutation alone renders toxicity of the dt toxoid less than 10 - 4 that of wild - type dt with respect to levels of protein synthesis inhibition . moreover , the appropriate three base change would have to occur in order for residue 146 to mutate to a glutamic acid and restore any detectable activity . secondly , the isoleucine residue at position 364 was changed to a lysine . this residue is located in the translocation domain and plays an important role in dt &# 39 ; s translocation from the endocytic vesicle to the cytosol . independently , this mutation produces a toxoid that is 500 - fold deficient in protein synthesis inhibition compared to wild - type dt . the appropriate two base change would have to occur in order for lysine 364 to mutate to isoleucine and restore toxicity . deletions and substitutions can be generated by oligonucleotide - directed mutagenesis of the diphtheria toxin fragment a ( dta ) gene , as described below . the mutant genes can then be expressed in e . coli or any other standard expression system by standard methods , and extracts assayed for nad : ef - 2 adp - ribosyltransferase activity and for dt - specific protein by western blot analysis as described below . a plasmid encoding the f2 fragment of dt , pbrptacbamhiatgf2 , was constructed according to the method of greenfield et al . ( greenfield et al ., pnas . 80 : 6853 - 6857 , 1983 ). the f2 fragment of dt contains the naturally - occurring dt leader sequence , all of fragment a , and the n - terminal 189 amino acid residues of fragment b , so that the final construct includes amino acids 1 - 382 of seq id no : 1 . the plasmid f2 was digested with bamhi and clai . the resulting 949 base - pair fragment was ligated with bamhi - and acci - restricted m13mp19 , yielding m13mp19 - f2 . an ndei restriction site spanning the translational start codon of f2 , and a translational stop codon at arg - 192 of f2 were created by the site - directed mutagenesis procedure described by sayers et al . ( nucleic acids res . 16 : 791 , 1988 ), yielding m13mp19 - dta . the 968 base - pair ndei - hindiii fragment of m13mp19 - dta was ligated in ndei - and hindiii - restricted pt7 - 7 ( tabor , in current protocols in molecular biology , ausubel et al ., eds . ; greene , wiley - interscience , new york , 1991 , pages 16 . 2 . 1 - 16 . 2 . 11 ), and the resulting plasmid , pt7 - dta , was used as a cloning vector to prepare each of the site - directed mutagenesis constructs of dta listed in table 1 . all site - directed mutants were constructed with m13mp19 - dta template dna and the appropriate oligonucleotide . the 539 - base - pair apai - bali restricted fragment of m13mp19 - dta , which encompassed the appropriate active - site mutation , was ligated with apai - and bali - restricted pt7 - dta and used to transform competent e . coli bl21 ( de3 ) ( studier et al ., j . mol . biol . 189 : 113 , 1986 ). transformants were grown overnight in luria broth ( 100 μg / ml ampicillin ), diluted 1 / 50 in m9 minimal media ( 100 μg / ml ampicillin ), grown to od 1 . 0 , induced for 3 hours with 1 mm iptg , and harvested by centrifugation ( 3000 × g , 5 min ). cell pellets were resuspended in 1 / 30 volume 10 mm tris , 1 mm edta , ph 8 . 0 ( te )+ 5 mm cac1 2 , 5 mm mgc1 2 ; freeze - thaw cycled three times ; incubated for 15 min with 0 . 1 mg / ml lysozyme and 1 μg / ml dnasei ; clarified by centrifugation ( 10 , 000 × g , 10 min ) and desalted on g - 25 sephadex , as described earlier ( douglas et al ., j . bacteriol . 169 : 4967 , 1987 ). dta - protein was then measured by western blot analysis and adp - ribosyltransferase activity was assayed as described ( tweten et al ., j . biol . chem . 260 : 10392 , 1985 ). construction of full - length diphtheria toxin delta147 , 148 ; 364i & gt ; k and delta146 - 148 ; 364i & gt ; k . pt7 - dta delta147 , 148 and pt7 - dta delta146 - 148 were digested with apai , msci . the 539 bp apai - msci fragment spanning each active - site deletion was isolated from a 1 % agarose gel and ligated separately into apai , msci digested ptac dt ser148 ; 364i & gt ; k , yielding ptacdtdelta147 , 148 ; 364i & gt ; k and ptacdtdelta146 - 148 ; 364i & gt ; k . each plasmid was used to transform competent e . coli tg - 1 . transformants were grown overnight in luria broth + 100 μg / ml ampicillin ( l - amp ), diluted 1 / 50 in l - amp . grown to od 1 . 0 , induced for 3 h with iptg , and harvested by centrifugation ( 3000 × g , 5 min ). cell pellets were resuspended in 1 / 30 volume 10 mm tris , 1 mm edta , ph 8 . 0 ( te )+ 5 mm cac1 2 , 5 mm mgc1 2 ; freeze - thaw cycled three times ; incubated for 15 min with 0 . 1 mg / ml lysozyme and 1 μg / ml dnasei ; clarified by centrifugation ( 10 , 000 × g , 10 min ) and desalted on g - 50 sephadex , by the same method used to desalt with g - 25 sephadex , as cited above . after deletion of glu - 148 ( table 1 , mutation 1 ), the specific nad : ef - 2 adp - ribosyltransferase activity of the resulting mutant form of dta was undetectable ( less than 10 - 4 that of wild - type dta .) however , this deletion , when combined with the replacement of val - 147 by a glu residue , created a product with 6 % wild - type activity ( table 1 , mutation 7 ). in contrast , deletion of glu - 148 coupled with a tyr - 149 to glu mutation ( table 1 , mutation 12 ) yielded an inactive product . longer deletions extending from glu - 148 nh 2 - terminally as far as residue 144 ( table 1 , mutations 2 - 5 ) yielded products with no detectable adp - ribosylation activity . however , the next construct in this series ( table 1 , mutation 6 ), involving deletion of residues 143 - 148 inclusive , produced a protein with detectable ( 0 . 6 % of wild - type ) activity . in mutation 6 , unlike mutations 1 - 5 , the nh 2 - proximal residue flanking the deletion is a glutamic acid ( glu - 142 ). activity ranging between 0 . 6 % and 9 % that of wild - type dta was observed when each deletion ( mutations 1 - 5 ) was combined with substitution of the nh 2 - proximal flanking residue with glu ( table 1 , mutations 7 - 11 ). full - length diphtheria toxin constructs possessing specific active - site deletions plus the addition of a membrane translocation domain modification were also assessed for overall protein stability . western blot analysis of both full - length diphtheria toxin constructs ( delta147 , 148 ; 364i & gt ; k and delta146 - 148 ; 364i & gt ; k ) revealed a single full - length protein band with few degradation products suggesting that the structural integrity of the protein was preserved . these active - site mutation results are consistent with a model in which the local polypeptide on the nh 2 - proximal flank of glu - 148 is more flexible and less firmly anchored than the local peptide on the cooh - proximal flank . the x - ray crystallographic structure of the dt dimer ( collier et al ., u . s . ser . no . 07 / 881 , 394 ) provides support for this model . glu - 148 resides within an antiparallel β - sheet bounding the active - site cleft and is only one residue removed from a large , 10 - residue loop ( residues 137 - 146 ), which connects the glu - 148 β - strand to the adjacent , nh 2 - proximal β - strand ( fig2 ). the polypeptide backbone of the four residues immediately following glu - 148 ( residues 149 - 152 ) is involved in h - bonding typical of antiparallel β - sheet , and this bonding , together with other packing interactions , may firmly anchor this region of polypeptide within the protein . these results illustrate two discrete genetic changes , one involving a substitution and the other an additional deletion , each of which is capable of reverting an enzymatically inactive diphtheria toxin active - site deletion mutant to a partially toxic state . the levels of activity restored are in all cases less than 10 % of wild - type , but are clearly of concern if the protein is to be expressed in vivo by a live vaccine . the substitution of glu for val - 147 could occur by either of two possible two base - pair transversions of the val codon ( gtt ) to a glu codon ( gaa or gag ). in contrast , deletion of both the val - 147 codon and the glu - 148 codon leaves ser - 146 immediately adjacent to tyr - 149 ; since the ser agc codon cannot be converted into a glu codon without a change in all three nucleotides , the risk of reversion of this particular six - nucleotide deletion mutant to a mutant with some restored activity is substantially less ( a probability lower than 10 - 10 / cell / generation ) than the risk of reversion of the mutant lacking only the glu - 148 codon . moreover , the construction of a genetic diphtheria toxoid possessing both an active - site deletion and another , independent aberration ( membrane translocation dysfunction ) further reduces the risk of reversion to toxicity . either dt delta147 , 148 or delta146 - 148 coupled with 364i & gt ; k would require the appropriate five base change ( three at residue 146 or 145 and two at residue 364 ) to restore detectable toxicity . this recombinant toxoid , dt delta147 , 148 ; 364i & gt ; k was cloned , expressed in e . coli , and assessed for overall protein stability and adp - ribosyltransferase activity . western blot analysis revealed a single full - length protein with few degradation products suggesting that the stability and overall structural integrity of the protein was maintained . as anticipated , the recombinant toxoid was devoid of activity (& lt ; 10 - 4 that of wild - type toxin ). after confirming that the mutant protein so produced lacks detectable enzymatic activity , the mutants may then be analyzed for immunogenicity as follows : guinea pigs ( or another species which is naturally sensitive to the cell - killing effects of diphtheria toxin ) are immunized with the recombinant toxoid of the invention according to the following protocol : between 1 and 50 μg recombinant toxoid , suspended in 50 - 100 μl of freud &# 39 ; s complete adjuvant , is subcutaneously injected into a guinea pig on day 1 , day 12 , and day 24 . blood samples are then assayed for antitoxin antibodies by testing serial dilutions for reactivity to naturally occurring diphtheria toxin . those animals which received high enough doses of toxoid to induce antitoxoid formation can be challenged with wild type diphtheria toxin , in order to see whether the antibodies are protective . those toxoids of the invention which induce a positive response in the above assay are likely candidates for incorporation into live vaccines . appropriate live vaccine microorganisms ( cells or viruses ) genetically engineered to express a toxoid of the invention can be tested by injecting the candidate vaccine into a dt sensitive animal , and , after a 2 - 3 month incubation period , challenging the animal with either a ) a lethal dose of naturally occurring dt , or b ) multiple , serially administered doses of naturally occurring dt , so as to calibrate the range of acquired immunity . a dna sequence encoding the diphtheria toxoid of the invention can be expressed by standard methods in a prokaryotic host cell . dna encoding the diphtheria toxoid of the invention is carried on a vector operably linked to control signals capable of effecting expression in the prokaryotic host . if desired , the coding sequence can contain , at its 5 &# 39 ; end , a sequence encoding any of the known signal sequences capable of effecting secretion of the expressed protein into the periplasmic space of the host cell , thereby facilitating recovery of the protein . by way of example , a vector expressing the diphtheria toxoid of the invention , or a fusion protein including the polypeptide of the invention , can consist of ( i ) an origin of replication functional in e . coli derived from the plasmid pbr322 ; ( ii ) a selectable tetracycline resistance gene also derived from pbr322 ; ( iii ) a transcription termination region , e . g ., the termination of the e . coli trp operon ( placed at the end of the tetracycline resistance gene to prevent transcriptional read - through into the trp promoter region ); ( iv ) a transcription promoter , e . g ., the trp operon promoter , or the diphtheria toxin promoter ; ( v ) the protein coding sequence of the invention ; and ( vi ) a transcription terminator , e . g ., the t1t2 sequence from the ribosomal rna ( rrnb ) locus of e . coli . the sequences of carrier molecules , the methods used in the synthesis of the dna sequences , the construction of fusion genes , and the appropriate vectors and expression systems are all well known to those skilled in the art . similar expression systems can be designed for fusion or non - fusion polypeptides , i . e ., for expression of the polypeptide of the invention alone . these procedures are an example of , but are not limiting on , the methods of the invention . prokaryotes most frequently used are represented by various strains of e . coli ; however , other microbial strains can also be used , e . g ., c . diphtheriae . plasmid vectors are used which contain replication origins , selectable markers , and control sequences derived from a species compatible with the microbial host . for example , e . coli can be transformed using derivatives of pbr322 , a plasmid constructed by bolivar , et al . ( gene 2 : 95 , 1977 ) using fragments derived from three naturally - occurring plasmids , two isolated from species of salmonella , and one isolated from e . coli . pbr322 contains genes for ampicillin and tetracycline resistance , and thus provides multiple selectable markers which can be either retained or destroyed in constructing the desired expression vector . commonly used prokaryotic expression control sequences ( also referred to as &# 34 ; regulatory elements &# 34 ;) are defined herein to include promoters for transcription initiation , optionally with an operator , along with ribosome binding site sequences . promoters commonly used to direct protein expression include the beta - lactamase ( penicillinase ), the lactose ( lac ) ( chang et al ., nature 198 : 1056 , 1977 ) and the tryptophan ( trp ) promoter systems ( goeddel et al ., nucl . acids res . 8 : 4057 , 1980 ) as well as the lambda - derived p l promoter and n - gene ribosome binding site ( shimatake et al ., nature 292 : 128 , 1981 ). examples of microbial strains , vectors , and associated regulatory sequences are listed herein to illustrate , but not to limit , the invention . the mutant diphtheria toxoid of the invention can be expressed in any known protein expression system and then purified by standard means . for instance , diphtheria toxoids of the invention can be synthesized by organic chemical synthesis or produced as a biosynthesized polypeptide . organic chemical synthesis can be performed by conventional methods of automated peptide synthesis , or by classical organic chemical techniques . one schooled in the art can purify the diphtheria toxoid polypeptide of the invention using conventional methods of protein isolation , e . g ., methods including but not limited to precipitation , chromatography , immunoadsorption , or affinity techniques . the polypeptide can be purified from the cells , or medium of the cells , of a microbial strain genetically engineered to express the diphtheria toxoid of the invention . the purified polypeptide may be combined with a suitable carrier ( such as physiological saline ); with an adjuvant that increases the immunogenicity of the toxoid ( such as aluminum salts , bacterial endotoxins or attenuated bacterial strains ( e . g ., bcg or bordetella pertussis ), attenuated viruses , liposomes , microspheres , or freund &# 39 ; s complete or incomplete adjuvant )); and / or with additional toxoids or killed or attenuated vaccine organisms ( to form a multivalent vaccine ). such a vaccine may then be administered to a human subject by any acceptable method , including but not limited to oral , parenteral , transdermal and transmucosal delivery . administration can be in a sustained release formulation using a biodegradable biocompatible polymer , such as a microsphere , by on - site delivery using micelies , gels or liposomes , or by transgenic modes ( e . g ., by biolistic administration of the dna of the invention directly into the patient &# 39 ; s cells , as described by tang et al ., nature 356 : 152 - 154 , 1992 , herein incorporated by reference ). appropriate live carrier organisms include attenuated microorganisms such as bcg , salmonella sp ., vibrio cholerae , streptococci , listeriae , and yersiniae . the dna of the invention can be stably transfected into such a microbial strain by standard methods ( sambrook et al ., molecular cloning : a laboratory manual . cold spring harbor lab . press , new york , 1989 . ), and then would be introduced into a patient by , for example , oral or parenteral administration . once introduced into the patient , the bacterium would multiply and express the mutant form of diphtheria toxin within the patient , causing the patient to maintain a protective level of antibodies to the mutant toxin . in a similar manner , an attenuated animal virus such as adenovirus , herpes virus , vaccinia virus , polio , fowl pox , or even attenuated eukaryotic parasites such as leishmania may be employed as the carrier organism . the mutant dna of the invention can be incorporated by genetic engineering techniques into the genome of any appropriate virus , which is then introduced into a human vaccinee by standard methods . a live vaccine of the invention can be administered at , for example , about 10 4 - 10 8 organisms / dose , or a dose that is sufficient to stably induce protective levels of antitoxin . actual dosages of such a vaccine can be readily determined by one of ordinary skill in the field of vaccine technology . standard methods of assaying the toxicity of diphtheria toxin mutants employ a diphtheria toxin - sensitive tissue culture cell line , which is a line of cells bearing the diphtheria toxin receptor , e . g ., viro or bsc1 cells . the cells are treated with a known amount of the candidate mutant diphtheria toxin , with naturally occurring diphtheria toxin ( as a positive control ), or with bovine serum albumin ( as a negative control ). after incubation , a survival assay is performed by counting viable colonies ( yamaizumi , m . et al . cell 15 : 245 - 250 , 1978 ). alternatively , the extent of cell - killing can be determined by measuring the extent of inhibition of protein synthesis . after incubation with one of the diphtheria toxin samples described above , a radiolabelled amino acid ( e . g ., [ 14 c ] leu ) is added to the growth medium of the cell culture , and the decline in de novo protein synthesis is measured by scintillation counting of tca - precipitable protein . such methods are routine , and known to one skilled in the art . other embodiments are within the claims set forth below . for example , a mutant form of diphtheria toxin fragment a can be generated which lacks glu - 142 as well as val - 147 and glu - 148 , or which lacks all of the residues from glu - 142 to glu - 148 , inclusive . such deletion mutants can be generated by site directed mutagenesis ( sayers , et al ., supra ), and analyzed for enzymatic activity and immunogenicity as described above . other amino acid residues that have been shown to be essential for the biological activity of diphtheria toxin include residues his - 21 , glu - 22 , lys - 39 , gly - 52 , gly - 79 , gly - 128 , ala - 158 , and gly - 162 of the fragment a portion of diphtheria toxin , and residues glu - 349 , asp - 352 , and ile - 364 of the fragment b portion . mutants lacking any one or more of these residues , in addition to lacking both val - 147 and glu - 148 , may be generated by standard methods of site - directed mutagenesis known to one schooled in the art . table 1__________________________________________________________________________adp - ribosyltransferase activities of diphtheria toxina - fragment with active - site mutations residue #: 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 amino acid : mutation ala glu gly ser ser ser val glu tyr activity__________________________________________________________________________none 100 % 1 --* nd ** 2 -- -- nd 3 -- -- -- nd 4 -- -- -- -- nd 5 -- -- -- -- -- nd 6 -- -- -- -- -- -- 0 . 6 % 7 glu -- 6 % 8 glu -- -- 9 % 9 glu -- -- -- 6 % 10 glu -- -- -- -- 0 . 6 % 11 glu -- -- -- -- -- 4 % 12 -- glu nd__________________________________________________________________________ *-- indicates deleted residue ** nd indicates less than 10 . sup .- 4 wildtype activity __________________________________________________________________________sequence listing ( 1 ) general information :( iii ) number of sequences : 1 ( 2 ) information for seq id no : 1 :( i ) sequence characteristics :( a ) length : 1942 ( b ) type : nucleic acid ( c ) strandedness : double ( d ) topology : linear ( xi ) sequence description : seq id no : 1 : 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