Patent Abstract:
methods for the identification , production and use of derivatives of the invention obtained by preparing a dna fragment comprising at least the part of the coding sequence of staphylokinase that provides for its biological activity ; performing in vitro site - directed mutagenesis on the dna fragment to replace one or more codons for wild - type amino acids by a codon for another amino acid ; cloning the mutated dna fragment in a suitable vector ; transforming or transfecting a suitable host cell with the vector ; and culturing the host cell under conditions suitable for expressing the dna fragment . preferably the dna fragment is a 453 bp ecori - hindiii fragment of the plasmid pmex602sakb , the in vitro site - directed mutagenesis is performed by spliced overlap extension polymerase chain reaction and the mutated dna fragment is expressed in e . coli strain tg1 or wk6 . the invention also relates to pharmaceutical compositions comprising at least one of the staphylokinase derivatives according to the invention together with a suitable excipient , for treatment of arterial thrombosis .

Detailed Description:
in the above and the following the terms &# 34 ; derivatives &# 34 ;, &# 34 ; mutants &# 34 ; and &# 34 ; variants &# 34 ; are used interchangeably u . s . pat . no . 5 , 695 , 754 , issued dec . 9 , 1997 is hereby incorporated by reference . the present invention will be demonstrated in more detail in the following examples , that are however not intended to be limiting to the scope of the invention . based on the present invention several variants and improvements will be obvious for the person skilled in the art . thus random mutagenesis is likely to generate alternative mutants with reduced immunogenicity and possibly increased functional activity , whereas mutagenesis of other amino acids may yield other variants with reduced immunogenicity . the epitope specificity of a panel of 15 murine mabs ( 22 ) raised against wild - type sakstar was determined by real - time biospecific interaction analysis ( bia ) with the biacore instrument ( pharmacia , biosensor ab , uppsala , sweden ). the mabs were immobilized on the surface of the sencor chip cm5 with the amine coupling kit ( pharmacia biosensor ab ) as recommended by the manufacturer ( 25 ). immobilization was performed from protein solutions at a concentration of 20 μg / ml in 10 mmol / l sodium acetate at ph 5 . 0 at a flow rate of 5 μl / min during 6 minutes . this resulted in covalent attachment of 5 , 000 to 10 , 000 resonance unit ( ru ) of antibody ( corresponding to 0 . 035 to 0 . 07 pmol / mm 2 ). the sakstar solutions were passed by continuous flow at 20 ° c . past the sensor surface . at least four concentrations of each analyte ( range , 50 nmol / l to 50 μmol / l ) in 10 mmol / l hepes , 3 . 4 mmol / l edta , 0 . 15 mol / l nacl , and 0 . 005 % surfactant p20 , ph 7 . 2 , were injected at a flow rate of 5 μl / min during 6 minutes in the association phase . then sample was replaced by buffer , also at a flow rate of 5 μl / min during 6 minutes . after each cycle , the surface of the sensor chip was regenerated by injection of 5 μl of 15 mmol / l hcl . apparant association ( k ass ) and apparent dissociation ( k diss ) rate constants were derived from the sensorgrams as described in detail elsewhere ( 26 ). determination of the equilibrium association constants for the binding of wild - type and variant sakstar to insolubilized mabs ( table 1 ) yielded apparent association constants of 10 7 to 10 8 ( mol / l ) - 1 , which are one to two orders of magnitude lower than the apparent association constants previously obtained for the binding of these mabs to insolubilized wild - type sakstar ( 22 ). if the mabs instead of the sakstar variants are insolubilized , avidity effects of the bivalent mabs are indeed avoided . these present values are indeed in better agreement with known association constants of mabs , and therefore this &# 34 ; reversed &# 34 ; procedure was used throughout the present invention . in table 1 the column indicated with &# 34 ; compound &# 34 ; states the various staphylokinase derivatives , the column &# 34 ; substituted amino acids &# 34 ; identifies the modified wild - type residues , their position in the sequence and their substituted amino acid , and the column &# 34 ; spec . act .&# 34 ; indicates the specific activity in home units . indications &# 34 ; 17g11 &# 34 ;, &# 34 ; 26a2 &# 34 ; etc . refer to monoclonal antibodies binding to the indicated epitopes i , ii , and iii ( 22 ). epitope i is recognized by the antibody cluster 17g11 , 26a2 , 30a2 , 2b12 and 3g10 , whereas epitope ii is recognized by the antibody cluster 18f12 , 14h5 , 28h4 , 32b2 and 7f10 , and epitope iii by the antibody cluster 7h11 , 25e1 , 40c8 , 24c4 and 1a10 . deposit of certain of these hybridomas have been made in the belgian coordinated collections of microorganisms ( bccm ), laboratorium voor moleculaire biologie - plasmidencollectie ( lmbp ), universiteit gent . k . l . ledeganckstraat 35 , b - 9000 gent , belgium . the accession numbers for the hybridomas are as follows : 28h4 , lmbp1629cb ; 18f12 , lmbp1628cb ; 3g10 , lmbp1632cb ; 30a2 , lmbp1630cb ; 17g11 , lmbp1635cb ; 1a10 , lmbp1634cb ; 24c4 , lmbp1633cb ; 7h11 , lmbp1627cb and 32b2 , lmbp1631cb . construction and epitope mapping , with murine monoclonal antibodies , of &# 34 ; alanine - to - wild - type &# 34 ; reversal variants of &# 34 ; charged - cluster - to - alanine &# 34 ; mutants of staphylokinase as stated above , wild - type staphylokinase ( sakstar variant ( 9 )) contains three non - overlapping immunodominant epitopes , two of which can be eliminated by specific site - directed substitution of clusters of two ( k35a , e38a or e80a , d82a ) or three ( k74a , e75a , r77a ) charged amino acids with ala ( 22 ). the combination mutants sakstar ( k35a , e38a , k74a , e75a , r77a ) in which lys35 , glu38 , lys74 , glu75 and arg77 , and sakstar ( k74a , e75a , r77a , e80a , d82a ) in which lys74 , glu75 , arg77 , glu80 and asp82 were substituted with ala ( previously identified as sakstar . m3 . 8 and sakstar . m8 . 9 , respectively ( 22 )), were found to have a reduced reactivity with murine monoclonal antibodies against two of the three immunodominant epitopes and to absorb on average only 2 / 3of the neutralizing antibodies elicited in 16 patients by treatment with wild - type sakstar ( 22 ). these mutants also induced less antibody formation than wild - type sakstar in rabbit and baboon models , and in patients with peripheral arterial occlusion ( 22 ). however , their specific activities were reduced to approximately 50 % of that of wild - type sakstar , which would be of some concern with respect to the clinical use of these compounds . in an effort to improve the activity and stability without loss of the reduced antibody recognition , the effect of a systematic reversal of one or more of these substituted amino acids to the wild - type residues was studied . fourteen new mutants were constructed , purified and characterized in terms of specific activity , reactivity with the panel of murine monoclonal antibodies ( table 1 ), and absorption of antibodies from plasma of patients treated with wild - type sakstar ( table 2 ). the present example thus focusses on reversal from alanine to the wild - type residue of one or more of the seven amino acids of sakstar listed above i . e . k35 , e38 , k74 , e75 , r77 , e80 and d82 . the mutants are identified by the substituted amino acids in the order of their sequence in the molecule , with addition in subscript of those sequence numbers required to avoid ambiguity . for example , sakstar ( k35a , e38a , k74a , e75a , r77a ) is identified as sakstar ( keker ) and sakstar ( k74a , e75a , r77a ) as sakstar ( k 74 er ). the source of all reagents used in the present study has previously been reported ( 22 ). restriction enzymes were purchased from pharmacia , uppsala , sweden or boehringer mannheim ( mannheim , germany ). t4 dna ligase , klenow fragment of e . coli dna polymerase i and alkaline phosphatase were obtained from boehringer mannheim . enzyme reactions were performed using the conditions suggested by the suppliers . plasmid dna was isolated using a qiagen - purification protocol ( provided by westburg , leusden , the netherlands ). pmex . 602sakb ( i . e . pmex . sakstar ) was constructed as described elsewhere ( 23 ). sakstar , sakstar ( ke 38 ), sakstar ( k 74 er ), sakstar ( e 80 d ), sakstar ( keker ) and sakstar ( k 74 ered ) were produced and purified as described elsewhere ( 22 ). transformations of e . coli were performed utilizing the calcium phosphate procedure . dna sequencing was performed using the dideoxy chain termination reaction method and the automated laser fluorescent a . l . f .™ ( pharmacia ). the chromogenic substrate ( s2403 ) l - pyroglutamyl - l - phenylalanyl - l - lysine - p - nitroanaline hydrochloride was purchased from chromogenix ( belgium ). 125 i - labeled fibrinogen was purchased from amersham ( uk ). all other methods used in the present example have been previously described ( 22 , 27 ). the plasmids encoding sakstar ( keke 75 ), sakstar ( eer ), sakstar ( ee 75 ), sakstar ( k 35 e 75 r ), sakstar ( k 35 e 75 ), sakstar ( e 80 ), sakstar ( d ), sakstar ( e 75 d ), sakstar ( k 74 ) and sakstar ( e 75 ) were constructed by the spliced overlap extension polymerase chain reaction ( soe - pcr ) ( 24 ), using vent dna polymerase ( new england biolabs , leusden , the netherlands ), and available or generated sakstar variants as template . two fragments were amplified by pcr , the first one starting from the 5 &# 39 ; end of the staphylokinase gene with primer 5 &# 39 ;- caggaaacagaattcaggag - 3 &# 39 ; to the region to be mutagenized ( forward primer seq id no : 1 ), the second one from the same region ( backward primer seq id no : 2 ) to the 3 &# 39 ; end of the staphylokinase gene with primer 5 &# 39 ;- caaaacagccaagcttcattcattcagc - 3 &# 39 ;. the forward and backward primers shared an overlap of around 24 bp ( primers not shown ). the two purified fragments were then assembled together in a new primeness pcr using taq polymerase ( boehringer mannheim ). after 7 cycles ( 1 min at 94 ° c ., 1 min at 70 ° c . ), the extended product was reamplified by adding the 5 &# 39 ; and 3 &# 39 ; end primers ( see above ) to the pcr reaction and by cycling 25 times ( 1 min at 94 ° c ., 1 min 55 ° c ., 1 min at 72 ° c .). the final product was purified , digested with ecori and hindiii and cloned into the corresponding sites of pmex602sakb . the plasmid encoding sakstar ( eker ) was assembled by digestion of pmex602sakb and pmex . sakstar ( keker ) with bpm i which cuts between the codons for k35 and e38 of sakstar , and ligation of the required fragments . the plasmid encoding sakstar ( kker ) was constructed by digestion of pmex . sakstar ( keker ) and pmex . sakstar ( k 74 er ) with bpm i and religation of the required fragments . the plasmids encoding sakstar ( keer ) and sakstar ( kekr ) were constructed by two pcr using pmex . sakstar ( keker ) as template , followed by restriction ligation and recloning into pmex602sakb . the sakstar variants were expressed and purified , as described below , from transformed e coli wk6 grown either in lb medium sakstar ( eker ), sakstar ( k 74 ), sakstar ( e 75 ) and sakstar ( e 75 d )!, or in terrific broth ( tb ) ( 28 ) medium sakstar ( kker ), sakstar ( keer ), sakstar ( kekr ), sakstar ( keke 75 ), sakstar ( eer ), sakstar ( ee 75 ), sakstar ( k 35 e 75 ), sakstar ( k 35 e 75 ), sakstar ( e 80 ), and sakstar ( d )!. for derivatives produced in lb medium , a 20 ml aliquot of an overnight saturated culture was used to inoculate a 2 liter volume ( in a 5 liter flask ) of lb medium containing 100 μg / ml ampicillin . after 3 hours incubation at 37 ° c ., iptg ( 200 μm ) was added to induce expression from the tac promoter . the production phase was allowed to proceed for 4 hours , after which the cells were pelleted by centrifugation at 4 , 000 rpm for 20 min , resuspended in 1 / 20 volume ( 100 ml ) of 0 . 01 m phosphate buffer ph 6 . 5 and disrupted by sonication at 0 ° c . cell debris were removed by centrifugation for 20 min at 20 , 000 rpm and the supernatant , containing the cytosolic soluble protein fraction , was stored at - 20 ° c . until purification . for the derivatives produced in tb medium , a 4 ml aliquot of an overnight saturated culture in lb medium was used to inoculate a 2 liter culture ( in a 5 liter flask ) in terrific broth containing 100 μg / ml ampicillin . the culture was grown with vigorous aeration for 20 hours at 30 ° c . the cells were pelleted by centrifugation , resuspended in 1 / 10 volume ( 200 ml ) of 0 . 01 m phosphate buffer ph 6 . 5 and disrupted by sonication at 0 ° c . the suspension was then centrifuged for 20 min at 20 , 000 rpm and the supernatant was stored at - 20 ° c . until purification . cleared cell lysates containing the sakstar variants were subjected to chromatography on a 1 . 6 × 6 cm column at sp - sephadex , followed by chromatography on a 1 . 6 × 5 cm column of q - sepharose ( variants sakstar ( eker ), sakstar ( kker ), sakstar ( keer ), sakstar ( kekr ) and sakstar ( keke 75 )) or by chromatography on a 1 . 6 × 6 cm column phenyl - sepharose ( variants sakstar ( eer ), sakstar ( ee 75 ), sakstar ( k 35 e 75 r ), sakstar ( k 35 e 75 ), sakstar ( k 74 ), sakstar ( e 75 ), sakstar ( e 80 ), sakstar ( d ) and sakstar ( e 75 d )). the sakstar containing fractions , localized by sds - gel electrophoresis , were pooled for further analysis . protein concentrations were determined according to bradford ( 29 ). the fibrinolytic activities of sakstar solutions were determined with a chromogenic substrate assay carried out in microtiters plates using a mixture of 80 μl sakstar solution and 100 μl glu - plasminogen solution prepared as described elsewhere ( 30 ) ( final concentration 0 . 5 mm ). after incubation for 30 min at 37 ° c ., generated plasmin was quantitated by addition of 30 μl s2403 ( final concentration 1 μm ) and measurement of the absorption at 405 nm . the activity was expressed in home units ( hu ) by comparison with an in - house standard ( lot stan5 ) which was assigned an activity of 100 , 000 hu per mg protein as determined by amino acid composition ( 7 ). sds - page was performed with the phast system ™ ( pharmacia , uppsala , sweden ) using 10 - 15 % gradient gels and coomassie brilliant blue staining . reduction of the samples was performed by heating at 100 ° c . for 3 min in the presence of 1 % sds and 1 % dithioerythritol . the fibrinolytic activities of the different sakstar mutants determined with the chromogenic substrate assay are summarized in table 1 . in agreement with previous observations ( 22 ), sakstar ( k 74 er ) did not react with 4 of the 5 mabs recognizing epitope i , whereas sakstar ( ke 38 ) did not react with 3 of the 5 and sakstar ( e 80 d ) not with the 4 of the 5 mabs recognizing epitope iii . these reduced reactivities were additive in sakstar ( keker ) and in sakstar ( k 74 ered ). the reduced reactivity of sakstar ( k 74 er ) was fully maintained in sakstar ( keke 75 ) and in sakstar ( k 35 e 75 r ), largely in sakstar ( keer ), sakstar ( eer ), sakstar ( ee 75 ) and sakstar ( e 75 ), but much less in sakstar ( kekr ) and sakstar ( k 74 ), indicating that e75 is the main contributor to the binding of the 4 mabs recognizing epitope i to sakstar . however , surprisingly , binding of epitope i antibodies to sakstar ( e 75 d ) was normal in two independent preparations from expression plasmids with confirmed dna sequences . the reduced reactivity of the 3 mabs of epitope iii with sakstar ( ke 38 ) required both k35 and e38 , as demonstrated with sakstar ( eker ) and sakstar ( kker ), with sakstar ( ee 75 ) and sakstar ( k 35 e 75 ) and with sakstar ( eer ) and sakstar ( k 35 e 75 r ). the reduced reactivity of the 4 mabs of cluster iii with sakstar ( e 80 d ) was maintained in sakstar ( d ) but not in sakstar ( e 80 ). adsorption with wild - type and with &# 34 ; alanine - to - wild - type &# 34 ; reversal variants of &# 34 ; charged - cluster - to - alanine &# 34 ; staphylokinase mutants of antibodies , elicited in patients by treatment with wild - type sakstar plasma samples from 16 patients with acute myocardial infarction , obtained several weeks after treatment with sakstar ( 4 , 31 ) were used . the staphylokinase - neutralizing activity in these samples was determined as follows . increasing concentrations of wild - type or variant sakstar ( 50 μl volumes containing 0 . 2 to 1000 μg / ml ) were added to a mixture of 300 μl citrated human plasma and 50 μl buffer or test plasma , immediately followed by addition of 100 μl of a mixture containing thrombin ( 50 nih units / ml ) and cacl 2 ( 25 mm ). the plasma clot lysis time was measured and plotted against the concentration of sakstar moiety . from this curve the concentration of staphylokinase moiety that produced complete clot lysis in 20 min was determined . the neutralizing activity titer was determined as the difference between the test plasma and buffer values and was expressed in μg per ml test plasma . the results of the individual patients have been reported elsewhere ( 22 ). for the present invention , three plasma pools were made , one from 10 patients from whom sufficient residual plasma was available , one from three patients that absorbed less than 50 % of the antibodies with sakstar ( keker ) ( subpool b ) and one from three patients that absorbed & gt ; 90 % of the antibodies with sakstar ( keker ) ( subpool c ). these plasma pools were diluted ( 1 / 30 to 1 / 200 ) until their binding to sakstar substituted chips in the biacore instrument amounted to approximately 2000 ru . from this dilution a calibration curve for antibody binding was constructed using further serial two - fold dilutions . the plasma pools were absorbed for 10 min with 100 nm of the sakstar variants , and residual binding to immobilized sakstar was determined . residual binding was expressed in percent of unabsorbed plasma , using the calibration curve . the results are summarized in table 2 . whereas wild - type sakstar absorbed more than 95 % of the binding antibodies from pooled plasma of the 10 patients , incomplete absorption (& lt ; 60 %) was observed with sakstar ( k 74 er ), sakstar ( keker ), sakstar ( eker ), sakstar ( kker ), sakstar ( kekr ), sakstar ( keke 75 ), sakstar ( k 74 ) and sakstar ( k 74 ered ) but absorption was nearly complete with sakstar ( ke 38 ), sakstar ( keer ), sakstar ( eer ), sakstar ( e 38 e 75 ), sakstar ( k 35 e 75 r ), sakstar ( e 80 d ), sakstar ( e 80 ) and sakstar ( d ). these results , surprisingly , demonstrate that approximately 40 % of the antibodies elicited in patients by treatment with wild - type sakstar depend on k74 for their binding ( table 2 ). absorption with pooled plasma from 3 patients from which & lt ; 50 % of the antibodies were absorbed with sakstar ( keker ) ( subpool b ) confirmed the predominant role of k74 for antibody recognition . as expected , absorption with pooled plasma from 3 patients from which & gt ; 95 % of the antibodies were absorbed with sakstar ( keker ) ( subpool c ) was nearly complete with all variants tested . construction and epitope mapping , with murine monoclonal antibodies , of site - specific mutants of staphylokinase site - directed mutagenesis was applied to residues other than &# 34 ; charged amino acids &# 34 ; in order to identify i ) additional residues belonging to epitopes i and iii identified with the panel of murine mabs ii ) amino acids determining adsorption to antiserum from immunized patients and ii ) key residues recognized by the monoclonal antibody cluster specific for epitope ii ( as defined in example 1 above ). since functional epitopes generally comprise more than one amino acid residue critical for antibody binding , identification of additional residues in these epitopes could fuel the construction of new combination derivatives displaying a lower antigenic profile , while keeping the specific activity and the temperature stability of wild - type staphylokinase . in this example , the construction and characterization of sakstar variants in which one or at most two amino acids ( adjacent or in close vicinity ) were mutated to alanine is described . we show also that other types of substitution at key residues for binding to murine monoclonal antibodies and / or at critical residues for adsorption to antiserum from immunized patients can be identified , while keeping the modified antigenic profile . in addition , for some key amino acids , mutation into other residues than in alanine is preferable to maintain the specific activity of the variants . the mutants described under this example are listed in tables 3 and 4 . these variants were expressed in e . coli , purified and characterized in terms of specific activity , reactivity with the panel of murine monoclonal antibodies ( table 3 ), and absorption of antibodies from plasma of patients treated with wild - type sakstar ( table 4 ). the source of all reagents used in the present study has previously been reported ( 22 ), or is specified below . the template vector for mutagenesis , pmex602sakb ( i . e . pmex . sakstar ), has been described elsewhere ( 23 ). the construction of the variant sakstar ( k74 ) is described above ( example 2 ). restriction and modification enzymes were purchased from new england biolabs ( leusden , the netherlands ), boehringer mannheim ( mannheim , germany ) or pharmacia ( uppsala , sweden ). the enzymatic reactions were performed according to the supplier recommendation . the mutagenic oligonucleotides and primers were obtained from eurogentec ( seraing , belgium ). plasmid dna was isolated using a purification kit from qiagen ( hilden , germany ), as recommended . transformation - competent e . coli cells were prepared by the well - known calcium phosphate procedure . nucleotide sequence determination was performed on double strand plasmid dna with the dideoxy chain termination method , using the t7 sequencing kit ( pharmacia , uppsala , sweden ). polymerase chain reactions ( pcr ) were performed using taq polymerase from boehringer mannheim ( mannheim , germany ). the recombinant dna methods required to construct the variants described in this example are well established . the variants sakstar . m27 , sakstar . m46 , sakstar . m48 , sakstar . m44 , sakstar . m53 , sakstar . m54 , sakstar . m55 , sakstar . m67 and sakstar . m56 were constructed with the chameleon double - stranded site - directed mutagenesis kit from stratagene ( la jolla , usa ), using the pmex . sakstar vector as template , and following instructions of the supplier . the mutagenic oligonucleotides ( not shown ) were used in combination with the selection - primer ly34 ( seq id no : 3 ) 5 &# 39 ; caaaacagccgagcttcattcattcagc , which destroys the unique hindiii site located 3 &# 39 ; to the staphylokinase encoding gene into pmex . sakstar and allows to counter - select the non - mutant progeny by a hindiii digestion . the deletion of the hindiii site was in most case correlated with the presence of the desired mutation introduced by the mutagenic oligonucleotide . the variants sakstar . m58 , in which ile133 is mutated in alanine , was constructed by performing a polymerase chain reaction on the pmex . sakstar plasmid using the primer 818a ( seq id no : 1 ) located at the 5 &# 39 ; end of the sakstar gene ( 5 &# 39 ; caggaaacagaattcaggag ) and the mutagenic primer ly58 ( seq id no : 4 ) ( 5 &# 39 ; ttcagcatgctgcagttatttcttttctgcaacaaccttgg ). the amplified product ( 30 cycles : 30 sec at 94 ° c ., 30 sec at 50 ° c ., 30 sec at 72 ° c .) was purified , digested with ecori and psti , and ligated into the corresponding sites of pmexsakstar . the variants sakstar . m57 , sakstar . m127 and sakstar . m137 were constructed by performing a polymerase chain reaction using the primer 818a located at the 5 &# 39 ; end of the sakstar gene and mutagenic primers ( not shown ). the amplified product ( 30 cycles : 1 sec at 94 ° c ., 1 sec at 50 ° c ., 10 sec at 72 ° c .) was purified , digested with ecori and styi , and ligated into the corresponding sites of pmexsakstar . the variant sakstar . m2426 was constructed by performing two consecutive pcr reactions ( 30 cycles : : 30 sec at 94 ° c ., 30 sec at 50 ° c ., 30 sec at 72 ° c .). in the first reaction , a fragment of pmex . saksstar was amplified with the primers 818a and a mutagenic primer . this amplified fragment was then used as template in a second pcr reaction with a mutagenic primer in order to further elongate the fragment downstream of the styi site present in the sakstar gene ( corresponding to amino acids 130 - 131 of sakstar ). the resulting product was digested with ecori and styi , and ligated into the corresponding sites of pmexsakstar . the plasmids encoding all the other variants listed in tables 3 and 4 were constructed by the spliced overlap extension polymerase chain reaction ( soe - pcr )( 24 ) using pmex . sakstar or available plasmids encoding sakstar variants as template . two fragments were amplified by pcr ( 30 cycles : 1 sec at 94 ° c ., 1 sec at 50 ° c ., 10 sec at 72 ° c . ), the first one starting from the 5 &# 39 ; end ( primer 818a ) of the staphylokinase gene to the region to be mutagenized ( forward primer ), the second one from this same region ( backward primer ) to the 3 &# 39 ; end of the gene with primer 818d ( seq id no : 2 ) ( 5 &# 39 ; caaacagccaagcttcattcattcagc ). the forward and backward primers shared an overlap of around 24 bp ( primers not shown ). the two purified fragments were then assembled together in a second pcr reaction with the external primers 818a and 818d ( 30 cycles : 1 sec at 94 ° c ., 1 sec at 50 ° c ., 10 sec at 72 ° c .). the amplified product from this final reaction was purified , digested with ecori and hindiii and ligated into the corresponding site of pmex . sakstar . for each construction , the sequence of the variant was confirmed by sequencing the entire sakstar coding region . the sakstar variants were expressed and purified , as described below , from transformed e . coli grown in terrific broth ( tb ) medium . a 4 ml aliquot of an overnight saturated culture in lb medium was used to inoculate a 1 to 2 liter culture ( in 5 liter flask ) in terrific broth supplemented with 100 ug / ml ampicillin . the culture was incubated with vigorous aeration and at 30 ° c . after about 16 hours incubation , iptg ( 200 um ) was added to the culture to induce expression from the tac promoter . after 3 hours induction , the cells were pelleted by centrifugation at 4 , 000 rpm for 20 min ., resuspended in 1 / 10 volume of 0 . 01 m phosphate buffer ph 6 - 6 . 5 and disrupted by sonication at 0 ° c . the suspension was centrifuged for 20 min at 20 , 000 rpm and the supernatant was stored at 4 ° c . or at - 20 ° c . until purification . the material was purified essentially as described above ( example 2 ): cleared cell lysates containing the sakstar variants were subjected to chromatography on a 1 . 6 × 5 cm column of sp - sephadex , followed by chromatography on a 1 . 6 × 8 cm column of phenyl - sepharose . the sakstar containing fractions , localized by sds - gel electrophoresis , were pooled for further analysis . protein concentrations were determined according to bradford ( 29 ). sds - page was performed with the phast system ™ ( pharmacia , uppsala , sweden ) using 10 - 15 % gradient gels and coomassie brillant blue staining . reduction of the samples was performed by heating at 10 ° c . for 3 min in the presence of 1 % sds and 1 % dithioerythritol . the fibrinolytic activities of sakstar solutions were determined with a chromogenic substrate assay carried out in microtiter plates using a mixture of 80 ul sakstar solution and 100 ul glu - plasminogen solution ( final concentration 0 . 5 mm ). after incubation for 30 min at 37 ° c ., generated plasmin was quantitated by addition of 30 ul s2403 ( final concentration 100 um ) and measurement of the absorption at 405 nm . the activity was expressed in home units ( hu ) by comparison with an in - house standard ( lot stan5 ) which was assigned an activity of 100 , 000 hu per mg protein as determined by amino acid composition ( 7 ). the specific activity of the different sakstar variants are summarized in tables 3 and 4 . the methodology used to determine the reactivity of the sakstar variants with a panel of murine monoclonal antibodies was described in example 1 above . in the present example , sixty - five mutants were evaluated in detail , together with wild - type staphylokinase . the results are summarized in table 3 ( the layout of this table corresponds to the layout of table 1 , as described in example 1 ). apparent association constants at least 10 - fold lower than those of wild - type staphylokinase were considered as significant and are indicated in bold type in the table . thirty - five variants displayed a modified recognition profile by the mouse monoclonal antibodies ( mmabs ) compared to sakstar . sakstar . m3031 sakstar ( y73a )! is not recognized by 3 mmabs of cluster i ; sakstar . m8586 sakstar ( w66a )! is not recognized by 5 mmabs of cluster i ; sakstar . m128129 sakstar ( l116a , s117a )! is not recognized by 2 mmabs of cluster ii ; sakstar . m5960 sakstar ( h43a )! is not recognized by 3 mmabs of cluster ii ; sakstar . m7576 sakstar ( v45a )! is not recognized by 3 mmabs of cluster ii ; and sakstar . m9596 sakstar ( v32a )! is not recognized by 4 mmabs of cluster iii ; in these variants , uncharged residue ( s ) were modified in alanine . alanine does not constitute the only possible substituent for a particular residue . for example , variants sakstar . m103104 and sakstar . m105106 , with gly36 modified respectively in arg and in lys , displayed a similarly altered antigenic profile ( i . e ., not recognized by 3 mmabs of cluster iii ). likewise , mutation of residue his43 in ala ( sakstar . m5960 ) or in arg ( sakstar . m6162 ) resulted in a similarly modified reactivity with the monoclonal antibody panel ( not recognized by 3 mmabs of cluster ii ). however , the specific activity of these variants , 69 , 000 and 120 , 000 respectively , indicated that arg represents a prefered substitution for his43 . another aspect of this invention is illustrated by the evaluation of six other variants , in which residue tyr73 was mutated respectively in ala , phe , trp , ser , his and leu ( table 3 ). sakstar . m145146a sakstar ( y73f )! and sakstar . m171172 sakstar ( y73w )! reacted as wild - type sakstar with the monoclonal antibody panel , while the antigenic reactivities of the four other variants were altered to different levels depending on the introduced residue : sakstar . m145146c sakstar ( y73s )! was not recognized by 1 mmab of cluster i ; sakstar . m169170 sakstar ( y73h )! was not recognized by 2 mmabs of cluster l ; sakstar . m3031 sakstar ( y73a )! was not recognized by 3 mmabs of cluster i ; and sakstar . m145146b sakstar ( y73l )! was not recognized by 4 mmabs of cluster i . adsorption with wild - type and site - specific staphylokinase variants of antibodies , elicited in patients by treatment with sakstar for the present example , the three plasma pools prepared from 10 patients , as described in example 3 were used . the methodology used to evaluate the absorption with wild - type staphylokinase and with 65 sakstar variants , of antibodies elicited in patients treated with sakstar , is described in detail in example 3 . the results are summarized in table 4 . whereas wild - type sakstar and most of the variants analyzed in this example absorbed more than 95 % of the binding antibodies from pooled plasma of the 10 patients , incomplete absorption (& lt ; 60 %) was observed with sakstar . m3031 , in which tyr73 is substitued with ala , and with the combined variants sakstar . m7980 with y73a , k74a , sakstar . m8990 with y73f , k74a and sakstar . m103104 + with g36r , k74a . the predominant role of lys74 for antibody recognition has been demonstrated previously ( see example 3 ). the present results suggest that tyr73 participates to the same major epitope as lys74 , or , alternatively , that substitution at tyr73 may indirectly induce a structural modification of the &# 34 ; k74 - epitope &# 34 ;. absorption with pooled plasma from 3 patients from which & gt ; 95 % of the antibodies were absorbed with sakstar ( keker ) ( subpool c , see example 3 ) was nearly complete with most variants tested . however , incomplete absorption was observed with the variants sakstar . m103104 sakstar ( g36r )! and sakstar . m105106 sakstar ( g36k )! (& lt ; 70 %), and with the combination variant sakstar . m103104 + sakstar ( g36r , k74a )! (& lt ; 60 %). this combination variant absorbed also & lt ; 40 % of the antibodies from subpool b , and had a specific activity of 65 , 000 hu / mg (& gt ; 50 % of wild - type sakstar ). identification of selected variants of staphylokinase with more than 50 % residual specific activity , a more than 10 - fold reduced binding to murine mabs of one of the immunodominant epitopes and a less than 80 % adsorption of pooled human antibodies elicited in patients by treatment with wild - type sakstar . five of the variants constructed and characterized in the present study combined the property of a residual specific activity of ≧ 50 percent of that of wild - type sakstar with a ≧ 10 - fold reduced reactivity with one or more of the murine monoclonal antibodies and / or with less than 80 percent absorption with one of the subpools of antisera obtained from patients treated with wild - type sakstar . the results are summarized in table 5 . in the plasma pool from 10 patients treated with sakstar for acute myocardial infarction , the elicited antibodies were only adsorbed for approximately 50 % by sakstar ( keker ) and sakstar ( k 74 ered ). this reduced reactivity could be fully ascribed to the k74 , e75 , r77 epitope , with little contribution by the k35 , e38 or e80 , d82 epitopes . furthermore , the reduced antibody recognition was largely maintained in sakstar ( k 74 ), which had an intact specific activity and clearly the best activity / antigenicity ratio in man of all &# 34 ; alanine to wild - type reversal &# 34 ; variants studied . in subpool b , containing plasma from 3 patients from which sakstar ( keker ) adsorbed less than 50 % of the antibodies elicited by sakstar treatment , similar although more pronounced altered antibody recognition patterns were observed with the sakstar variants . as expected , subpool c , prepared from plasma of 3 patients from which sakstar ( keker ) adsorbed over 95 %, similar antibody recognition patterns were observed with all sakstar variants studied . the most surprising observation in man , which could not have been predicted nor extrapolated from results obtained in mice , is that only one of these 7 amino acids , namely k74 , is responsible for most of the reduction in antibody recognition of the sakstar ( keker ) and sakstar ( k 74 ered ) variants , although a subgroup of patients ( subpool c ) did not develop significant levels of antibodies against these epitopes . alternatively , sakstar ( g36k ) and sakstar ( g36r ) combined an intact specific activity with reduced murine antibody binding to epitope iii and , importantly , reduced absorption of antibodies from subpool c . the combination mutant sakstar ( g36r , k74a ) combined the reduced antibody recognition patterns of the parent variants , with maintenance of a residual specific activity of 50 percent of that of wild - type sakstar . comparative thrombolytic efficacy and immunogenicity of sakstar ( k74a , e75a , r77a ) and sakstar ( k74a ) versus sakstar in patients with peripheral arterial occlusion a 12 to 24 liter culture ( in 2 liter batches ) of the variants sakstar ( k74a , e75a , r77a ) herinafter called sakstar ( k 74 er ), or of sakstar ( k74a ), hereinafter called sakstar ( k 74 ) was grown and iptg - induced in lb medium supplemented with 100 μg / ml ampicillin , pelleted , resuspended , disrupted by sonication and cleared as described above . the compounds were purified by chromatography on a 5 × 20 cm column of sp - sephadex , a 5 × 10 cm column of q - sepharose and / or a 5 × cm column of phenyl - sepharose using buffer systems described elsewhere ( 22 , 23 ). the materials were then gel filtered on sterilized superdex 75 to further reduce their endotoxin content . the sakstar variant containing fractions were pooled , the protein concentration was adjusted to 1 mg / ml and the material sterilized by filtration through a 0 . 22 μm millipore filter . the methodology used to determine specific activity is described above ( 22 ). staphylokinase - neutralizing activity in plasma was determined as described above . quantitation of antigen - specific igg and igm antibodies was performed using enzyme - linked immunosorbent assays in polystyrene microtiter plates essentialy as described previously ( 22 ). in the igg assays , dilution curves of affinospecific anti - sakstar igg antibodies were included on each plate . these antibodies were isolated from plasma obtained from 3 patients , after thrombolytic therapy with wild - type sakstar , by chromatography on protein a - sepharose and on insolubilized sakstar , and elution of bound antibodies with 0 . 1 m glycine - hcl , ph 2 . 8 . the purity of the igg preparation was confirmed by sodium dodecylsulfate polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis . in the igm assays , titers defined as the plasma dilution giving an absorbancy at 492 nm equivalent to that of a 1 / 640 dilution of pooled plasma were determined and compared with the titer of baseline samples before treatment ( median value 1 / 410 , interquartile range 1 / 120 - 1 / 700 ). wild - type sakstar or the variants sakstar ( k 74 ) or sakstar ( k 74 er ) were administered intra - arterially at or in the proximal end of the occlusive thrombus as a bolus of 2 mg followed by an infusion of 1 mg / hr ( reduced overnight in some patients to 0 . 5 mg / hr ) in groups of 6 to 12 patients with angiographically documented occlusion of a peripheral artery or bypass graft of less than 120 days duration . patients were studied after giving informed consent , and the protocol was approved by the human studies committee of the university of leuven . inclusion and exclusion criteria , conjunctive antithrombotic treatment ( including continuous intravenous heparin ) and the study protocol were essentially as previously described ( 22 ). relevant baseline characteristics of the individual patients are shown in table 6 . the majority of pao were at the femoropopliteal level . two iliac stent and 8 graft occlusions were included . eight patients presented with incapacitating claudication , 5 with chronic ischemic rest pain , 7 with subacute ischemia and 7 with acute ischemia . one patient ( poe ) who had 2 years previously been treated with sakstar was included in the sakstar ( k 74 ) group . this patient was not included in the statistical analyses of tables 6 , 7 and 8 . table 7 summarizes the individual treatment and outcome . intra - arterial infusion , at a dose of 6 . 0 to 25 mg and a duration of 4 . 0 to 23 hrs , induced complete recanalization in 24 patients and partial recanalization in 3 . complementary endovascular procedures ( mainly pta ) were performed in 17 patients and complementary reconstructive vascular surgery following thrombolysis in 3 . no patient underwent major amputation . early recurrence of thrombosis after the end of the angiographic procedure occurred in 4 patients . bleeding complications were absent or limited to mild to moderate hematoma formation at the angiographic puncture sites except for 5 patients who required transfusion ( table 7 ). intracranial or visceral hemorrhage was not observed . circulating fibrinogen , plasminogen and α 2 - antiplasmin levels remained essentially unchanged during infusion of the sakstar moieties ( table 8 ), reflecting absolute fibrin specificity of these agents at the dosages used . significant in vivo fibrin digestion occurred as evidenced by elevation of fibrin fragment d - dimer levels . intra - arterial heparin therapy prolonged aptt levels to a variable extent ( table 8 ). antibody - related sakstar -, sakstar ( k 74 )- and sakstar ( k 74 er )- neutralizing activity and anti - sakstar , anti - sakstar ( k 74 ) and anti - sakstar ( k 74 er ) igg , were low at baseline and during the first week after the infusion ( fig3 ). from the second week on , neutralizing activity levels increased to reach median values at 3 to 4 weeks of 20 μg sakstar ( k 74 ) and 2 . 4 μg sakstar ( k 74 er ) neutralized per ml plasma in the patients treated with sakstar ( k 74 ) and sakstar ( k 74 er ), respectively , which is significantly lower than the median value of 93 μg wild - type sakstar neutralized per ml in the patients treated with sakstar ( p = 0 . 024 for differences between the three groups by kruskal - wallis analysis and p = 0 . 01 and p = 0 . 036 , respectively , for variants vs wild - type by mann - whitney rank sum test ). the levels of anti - sakstar ( k 74 ) and of anti - sakstar ( k 74 er ) igg increased to median values at 3 to 4 weeks of 270 and 82 μg / ml plasma in patients treated with sakstar ( k 74 ) and sakstar ( k 74 er ) respectively , which is significantly lower than the median value of 1800 μg anti - sakstar per ml plasma in the patients treated with sakstar (( p = 0 . 024 for differences between the three groups by kruskal - wallis analysis and p = 0 . 007 and 0 . 05 , respectively , for variants versus wild - type by mann - whitney rank sum test ). the titers of anti - sakstar ( k 74 ) and of anti - sakstar ( k 74 er ) igm increased from median baseline values of 1 / 460 and 1 / 410 to median values at 1 week of 1 / 510 and 1 / 450 in patients treated with sakstar ( k 74 ) and sakstar ( k 74 er ), respectively , which was not significantly different from the median values of 1 / 320 at baseline and 1 / 640 at week 1 in patients treated with sakstar . corresponding values at 2 weeks were 1 / 590 and 1 / 550 in patients given sakstar ( k 74 ) and sakstar ( k 74 er ), not significantly different from 1 / 930 with sakstar ( data not shown ). the antibodies induced by treatment with sakstar were completely absorbed by sakstar but incompletely by sakstar ( k 74 ) and by sakstar ( k 74 er ) confirming the immunogenicity of the k74 , e75 , r77 epitope and the dominant role of k74 in the binding of antibodies directed against this epitope . the antibodies induced by treatment with sakstar ( k 74 ) or sakstar ( k 74 er ) were 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1__________________________________________________________________________apparent equilibrium association constants ( k . sub . a × 10 . sup . 7m . sup .- 1 ) for the binding of wild - type sakstar and of sakstarvariants obtained by &# 34 ; alanine - to - wild - type &# 34 ; reversal of &# 34 ; charged - cluster - to - alanine &# 34 ; mutants to be insolubilizedmurine monoclonal antibodies ( mabs ). __________________________________________________________________________ spec . act . murine mabs (× 10 . sup . 3 epitope i epitope iicompound substituted amino acid hu / mg ) 17g11 26a2 30a2 2b12 3g10 18f12 14h5 28h4 32b2 7f10__________________________________________________________________________sakstar 130 22 13 2 . 9 7 . 8 11 38 7 . 4 19 7 . 7 2 . 4sakstar ( ke . sub . 38 ) k35a , e38a 97 15 22 4 . 2 11 7 . 9 110 10 15 12 2 . 2sakstar ( k . sub . 74 er ) k74a , e75a , r77a 110 11 & lt ;. 01 & lt ; 0 . 1 & lt ; 0 . 1 & lt ; 0 . 1 150 17 28 14 3 . 3sakstar ( keker ) k35a , e38a , k74a , e75a , r77a 50 11 & lt ; 0 . 1 & lt ; 0 . 1 & lt ; 0 . 1 & lt ; 0 . 1 110 36 26 15 2 . 0sakstar ( eker ) e38a , k74a , e75a , r77a 43 11 & lt ; 0 . 1 & lt ; 0 . 2 & lt ; 0 . 1 & lt ; 0 . 1 140 39 26 15 2 . 1sakstar ( kker ) k35a , k74a , e75a , r77a 56 9 . 2 & lt ; 0 . 1 0 . 15 & lt ; 0 . 1 & lt ; 0 . 1 52 14 29 8 . 8 2 . 3sakstar ( keer ) k35a , e38a , e75a , r77a 44 11 0 . 3 0 . 1 0 . 2 & lt ; 0 . 1 75 9 . 8 12 7 . 3 1 . 6sakstar ( kekr ) k35a , e38a , k74a , r77a 41 8 . 8 2 . 9 & lt ; 0 . 1 2 . 0 0 . 33 110 29 31 10 2 . 0sakstar ( keke . sub . 75 ) k3sa , e38a , k74a , e75a 19 13 & lt ; 0 . 1 0 . 1 & lt ; 0 . 1 & lt ; 0 . 1 180 41 37 15 1 . 6sakstar ( eer ) e38a , e75a , r77a 88 11 0 . 6 0 . 15 0 . 4 0 . 3 79 12 15 10 2 . 0sakstar ( ee . sub . 75 ) e38a , e75a 66 16 0 . 3 & lt ; 0 . 1 & lt ; 0 . 1 0 . 9 56 11 13 8 . 9 2 . 0sakstar ( k . sub . 35 e . sub . 75 r ) k3sa , e75a , r77a 68 9 . 2 & lt ; 0 . 1 & lt ; 0 . 1 & lt ; 0 . 1 & lt ; 0 . 1 60 7 . 0 13 11 3 . 3sakstar ( k . sub . 35 e . sub . 75 ) k3sa , e75a 150 17 0 . 12 & lt ; 0 . 1 0 . 16 0 . 14 40 7 . 2 13 9 . 2 4 . 2sakstar ( k . sub . 74 ) k74a 100 12 7 . 6 0 . 17 4 . 4 2 . 1 55 15 33 14 3 . 6sakstar ( e . sub . 75 ) e75a 140 13 1 . 2 & lt ; 0 . 1 & lt ; 0 . 1 & lt ; 0 . 1 46 8 . 5 14 12 3 . 4sakstar ( k . sub . 74 ered ) k74a , e75a , r77a , e80a , d82a 50 14 & lt ; 0 . 1 & lt ; 0 . 1 & lt ; 0 . 1 & lt ; 0 . 1 180 19 33 19 3 . 7sakstar ( e . sub . 80 d ) e80a , d82a 130 7 . 3 12 2 . 1 6 . 5 5 . 9 79 6 . 1 8 . 4 7 . 8 1 . 9sakstar ( e . sub . 80 ) e80a 160 13 13 3 . 3 7 . 9 10 35 7 . 4 17 8 . 6 2 . 1sakstar ( d ) d82a 160 17 12 4 . 8 7 . 3 11 31 7 . 8 17 12 2 . 7sakstar ( e . sub . 75 d ) e75a , d82a 170 20 15 3 . 1 6 . 6 7 . 2 69 8 . 1 15 14 4 . 9__________________________________________________________________________ spec . act . murine mabs (× 10 . sup . 3 epitope iii compound substituted amino acids hu / mg ) 7h11 25e1 40c8 24c4 1a10__________________________________________________________________________ sakstar 130 4 . 0 14 5 . 4 2 . 9 0 . 6 sakstar ( ke . sub . 38 ) k35a , e38a 97 & lt ; 0 . 1 & lt ; 0 . 1 & lt ; 0 . 1 1 . 0 1 . 0 sakstar ( k . sub . 74 er ) k74a , e75a , r77a 110 2 . 4 11 4 . 0 2 . 1 0 . 9 sakstar ( keker ) k35a , e38a , k74a , e75a , r77a 50 & lt ; 0 . 1 & lt ; 0 . 1 & lt ; 0 . 1 1 . 5 1 . 2 sakstar ( eker ) e38a , k74a , e75a , r77a 43 & lt ; 0 . 1 3 . 2 3 . 7 1 . 6 1 . 1 sakstar ( kker ) k35a , k74a , e75a , r77a 56 & lt ; 0 . 1 1 . 8 & lt ; 0 . 1 1 . 8 0 . 8 sakstar ( keer ) k35a , e38a , e75a , r77a 44 & lt ; 0 . 1 & lt ; 0 . 1 & lt ; 0 . 1 0 . 53 0 . 64 sakstar ( kekr ) k35a , e38a , k74a , r77a 41 & lt ; 0 . 1 & lt ; 0 . 1 & lt ; 0 . 1 0 . 63 0 . 74 sakstar ( keke . sub . 75 ) k3sa , e38a , k74a , e75a 19 & lt ; 0 . 1 & lt ; 0 . 1 & lt ; 0 . 1 1 . 2 0 . 45 sakstar ( eer ) e38a , e75a , r77a 88 & lt ; 0 . 1 2 . 6 4 . 7 1 . 1 0 . 81 sakstar ( ee . sub . 75 ) e38a , e75a 66 & lt ; 0 . 1 20 4 . 8 1 . 3 1 . 6 sakstar ( k . sub . 35 e . sub . 75 r ) k3sa , e75a , r77a 68 & lt ; 0 . 1 1 . 5 & lt ; 0 . 1 0 . 8 1 . 1 sakstar ( k . sub . 35 e . sub . 75 ) k3sa , e75a 150 & lt ; 0 . 1 1 . 8 & lt ; 0 . 1 1 . 4 1 . 5 sakstar ( k . sub . 74 ) k74a 100 2 . 9 14 4 . 9 3 . 4 1 . 2 sakstar ( e . sub . 75 ) e75a 140 4 . 5 18 5 . 0 1 . 2 2 . 1 sakstar ( k . sub . 74 ered ) k74a , e75a , r77a , e80a , d82a 50 & lt ; 0 . 1 & lt ; 0 . 1 & lt ; 0 . 1 & lt ; 0 . 1 1 . 2 sakstar ( e . sub . 80 d ) e80a , d82a 130 & lt ; 0 . 1 & lt ; 0 . 1 & lt ; 0 . 1 & lt ; 0 . 1 0 . 44 sakstar ( e . sub . 80 ) e80a 160 & lt ; 0 . 1 16 3 . 6 & lt ; 0 . 1 1 . 7 sakstar ( d ) d82a 160 & lt ; 0 . 1 0 . 18 & lt ; 0 . 1 & lt ; 0 . 1 2 . 3 sakstar ( e . sub . 75 d ) e75a , d82a 170 0 . 17 0 . 7 0 . 5 0 . 1 1 . 4__________________________________________________________________________ apparent association constants ≧ 10fold lower than those of wildtype sakstar are represented in bold type ; ≧ 65 . 000 hu / mg represented in bold type . m3 , m8 , m9 , m3 . 8 , m8 . 9 denotes sakstar variants previously stsudied ( 22 ), but in reverse order ( binding of soluble mab to insolubilized variant . table 2__________________________________________________________________________absorption with wild - type sakstar variants obtained by &# 34 ; alanine - to - wild - type &# 34 ; reversal of &# 34 ; charged - cluster - to - alanine &# 34 ; mutants , elicited with wild - type sakstar inpatients with acute myocardialinfarction . spec . act . human plasmacompound substituted amino acids (× 10 . sup . 3 hu / mg ) pool subpool b subpool c__________________________________________________________________________sakstar 130 95 95 95sakstar ( ke . sub . 38 ) k35a , e38a 97 93 91 94sakstar ( k . sub . 74 er ) k74a , e75a , r77a 110 55 43 95sakstar ( keker ) k35a , e38a , k74a , e75a , r77a 50 52 41 92sakstar ( eker ) e38a , k74a , e75a , r77a 43 50 44 95sakstar ( kker ) k35a , k74a , e75a , r77a 56 46 43 95sakstar ( keer ) k35a , e38a , e75a , r77a 44 92 87 94sakstar ( kekr ) k35a , e38a , k74a , r77a 41 56 50 93sakstar ( keke . sub . 75 ) k35a , e38a , k74a , e75a 19 48 41 92sakstar ( eer ) e38a , e75a , r77a 88 95 88 95sakstar ( ee . sub . 75 ) e38a , e7sa 66 91 90 95sakstar ( k . sub . 35 e . sub . 75 r ) k35a , e75a , r77a 68 88 89 95sakstar ( k . sub . 35 e . sub . 75 ) k35a , e75a 150 94 93 95sakstar ( k . sub . 74 ) k74a 100 59 45 95sakstar ( e . sub . 75 ) e75a 140 95 93 95sakstar ( k . sub . 74 ered ) k74a , e75a , r77a , e80a , d82a 50 49 29 89sakstar ( e . sub . 80 d ) e80a , d82a 130 89 83 92sakstar ( e . sub . 80 ) e80a 160 94 93 95sakstar ( d ) d82a 160 95 93 95sakstar ( e . sub . 75 d ) e75a , d82a 170 95 95 95__________________________________________________________________________ ≦ 80 % absorption represented in bold type ; & gt ; 65 . 000 hu / mg represente in bold type . the data represent percent ot antibodies absorbed by compound , determined from the residual binding to insolubilized sakstar . table 4__________________________________________________________________________absorptino with wild - type sakstar and with site - specific sakstar variantsof antibodieselicited with wild - type sakstar in patients with acute myocardialinfarction spec . act . human plasmacompound substituted amino acids (× 10 . sup . 3 hu / mg ) pool subpool b subpool c__________________________________________________________________________sakstar 130 95 95 95sakstar . m27 y17a , f18a 30 95 95 95sakstar . m2223 f47a & lt ; 5 90 82 97sakstar . m5051 fy6a 90 94 92 95sakstar . m46 f104a 55 95 93 95sakstar . m48 f111a 49 95 95 95sakstar . m2426 f125a & lt ; 10 93 90 95sakstar . m44 y9a 78 96 95 95sakstar . m3839 y24a 40 95 95 95sakstar . m2021 h43a , y44a & lt ; 5 95 95 95sakstar . m99100 y62v 2 92 86 95sakstar . m8384 y63a & lt ; 5 89 82 95sakstar . m2528 y62a , y63a & lt ; 5 89 83 95sakstar . m3031 y73a & lt ; 5 63 44 93sakstar . m145146a y73f 31 93 95 95sakstar . m145146b y73l 1 . 8 81 60 94sakstar . m169170 y73h & lt ; 2 76 65 95sakstar . m171172 y73w 27 73 53 93sakstar . m145145c y735 & lt ; 5 66 69 95sakstar . m165166 y73f , f76y 10 94 85 95sakstar . m7980 y73a , k74a & lt ; 5 47 28 87sakstar . m8990 y73f , k74a 5 . 6 51 34 90sakstar . m53 y91a 5 . 3 95 95 95sakstar . m54 y92a 118 94 95 95sakstar . m5960 h43a 69 95 95 95sakstar . m6162 h43r 120 95 95 95sakstar . m6364 i49a 43 95 95 95sakstar . m6566 i60a 96 95 95 95sakstar . m55 i87a 98 95 95 95sakstar . m67 i106a 93 95 95 95sakstar . m56 i120a 75 93 95 95sakstar . m57 i128a 20 95 93 95sakstar . m58 i133a 99 95 95 95sakstar . m130131 v29a , n28a 45 93 95 95sakstar . m9596 v32a 45 90 93 95sakstar . m7576 v45a & lt ; 5 91 92 95sakstar . m9798 v64a 48 94 92 95sakstar . m120121 v78a , v79a 68 93 93 95sakstar . m140141 v112a , v113a 123 95 95 95sakstar . m7374 l39a , l40a & lt ; 5 93 93 95sakstar . m9192 l68a 93 92 92 95sakstar . m124125 l81a 28 88 95 95sakstar . m128129 l116a , s117a 4 . 8 94 95 95sakstar . m127 l127a 54 93 94 95sakstar . m7172 s41a , p42a 48 95 95 95sakstar . m8182 s34a 106 95 95 93sakstar . m9394 s84a 88 95 94 95sakstar . m7778 n37a 110 95 95 95sakstar . m133134 n95a 263 / 445 95 95 95sakstar . m137 n126v 51 95 95 95sakstar . m159160 m26l 38 95 95 95sakstar . m161162 m26v & lt ; 2 95 94 95sakstar . m105016 g36k 88 88 80 69sakstar . m103014 g36r 102 89 81 70sakstar . m103104 + g36r , k74a 65 48 33 58sakstar . m3637 e19a , p20a 9 93 93 95sakstar . m8788 p23a 67 91 95 95sakstar . m8586 w66a & lt ; 5 85 78 92sakstar . m167168a a72s 190 95 93 95sakstar . m153154 d13a 46 95 94 95sakstar . m155156 d14a 30 95 94 95sakstar . m111112 d69e & lt ; 5 86 78 95sakstar . m113114 d69n 6 /( 43 ) 84 81 89sakstar . m149150 e99a 42 92 91 92sakstar . m109110a k50a 42 95 94 95sakstar . m151152a k102a 89 95 93 95__________________________________________________________________________ ≦ 80 % absorption represented in bold type ; & gt ; 65 . 000 hu / mg represente in bold type . the data represent percent of antibodies absorbed by compound , determined from the residual binding to insolubilized sakstar . table 5__________________________________________________________________________selected variants with ≧ 50 % residual activity , ≧ 10 foldreduced binding of murine mab , and ≦ 80 % absorption of human antibodies eleicited by treatment with wild - typesakstar . __________________________________________________________________________ murine mabssubstituted spec . act . (× epitope i epitope ii epitope iiiamino acids 10 . sup . 3 hu / mg ) 17g11 26a2 30a2 2b12 3g10 18f12 14h5 28h4 32b2 7f10 7h11 25e1 40c8 24c4 1a10__________________________________________________________________________k74a , e75a , r77a 110 11 & lt ;. 01 & lt ; 0 . 1 & lt ; 0 . 1 & lt ; 0 . 1 150 17 28 14 3 . 3 2 . 4 11 4 . 0 2 . 1 0 . 9k74a 100 12 7 . 6 0 . 17 4 . 4 2 . 1 55 15 33 14 3 . 6 2 . 9 14 4 . 9 3 . 4 1 . 2g36k 88 9 . 9 23 3 . 1 8 . 3 9 . 8 21 3 . 9 13 15 3 & lt ; 0 . 1 & lt ; 0 . 1 & lt ; 0 . 1 2 . 6 1 . 2g36r 102 11 24 3 . 3 10 10 27 4 . 6 14 20 3 . 4 & lt ; 0 . 1 & lt ; 0 . 1 & lt ; 0 . 1 3 . 1 1 . 2g36r , k74a 65 19 7 0 . 22 4 . 3 2 53 27 28 19 4 . 4 & lt ; 0 . 1 & lt ; 0 . 1 & lt ; 0 . 1 1 . 2 1__________________________________________________________________________ substituted spec . act . human plasma amino acids (× 10 . sup . 3 poolg ) subpool subpool__________________________________________________________________________ c k74a , e75a , r77a 110 55 43 95 k74a 100 59 45 95 g36k 88 88 80 69 g36r 102 89 81 70 g36r , k74a 48 33 58__________________________________________________________________________ table 6__________________________________________________________________________characteristics of the patients with peripheral arterial occlusiontreated withsakstar , sakstar ( k . sub . 74 ) or sakstar ( k . sub . 74 er ) age of length ofcompound clinical risk factors current locus of occluison occlusionpatient id . gender age ( yrs ) presentation relevant history smoking occlusion ( days ) ( cm ) __________________________________________________________________________sakstarmee f 67 ischemic rest hypertension , + left sfa 30 8 pain hyperlipidemiafdr m 68 claudication cad , copd , iliac stenting + left ia 14 18 ( stent ) dan m 73 claudication cad - right sfa 30 6ber f 63 lschemic rest hypertension , - left ft 18 55 pain hyperlipidemia , af and left graft ft graftdam f 43 acute ischemia hypertension , claudication + left 2 7 left arm brachial and radial arterytcr m 68 claudication hyperlipidemia , cabg , - right sfa 50 12 abdominal aortic ( popliteal aneurysm repair aneurysm ) cla m 74 acute ischemia hyperlipidemia , cad , + left pa 1 . 5 20 acute right sfa occlusionman m 65 acute ischemia diabetes , hypertension , + left eia 4 20 left eia stent ( stent ) mat m 64 subacute hypertension , cad , - right fp 3 45 ischemia aortobifemoral , left fp graft and right ft graftmean ± sem 65 ± 3 . 0 17 ± 5 . 6 21 ± 5 . 8sakstar ( k . sub . 74 ) li m 70 subacute diabetes mellitus , cabg , - right ff 10 48 ischemia right ff graft , left fp graft grafteng m 50 claudication hypertension + right sfa 28 10cdx f 48 claudication hypertension , - right pa 25 7 right pa graft graftman f 68 claudication hypertension , - right sfa ≧ 120 9 hyperilipidemia , cadvhe m 47 acute ischemia right if graft + right if 10 54 graftmul f 51 acute ischemia hypertension , right if and + right if 1 63 fp graft and fp graftbur f 67 ischemic rest diabetes mellitus , - right tf 9 . 0 38 pain hypertension truncnij f 60 ischemic rest hyperlipidemia , af graft , + left af 23 78 pain carotid artery surgery graftpoe * m 49 subacute aortic coarctation repair , - right tf 2 30 ischemia bilateral fp bypass truncvbe m 39 subacute aneurysm right sc artery - right 20 28 ischemia ( thoracic outlet syndrome ) brachial artery ( embolism ) sme f 50 subacute diabetes , hypertension , - tf trunc 18 32 ischemia bilateral ft graftwol m 67 subacute diabetes , cad , + right pa 4 25 ischemia aortabilliac graftmean ± sem 56 ± 3 . 0 23 ± 9 . 2 35 ± 6 . 4sakstar ( k . sub . 74 er ) jac f 65 acute ischemia hypertension , - right 0 . 3 5 hyperlipidemia brachial and ulnar arterymae m 74 ischemic rest copd , reimplantation + left sfa 10 50 pain superior mesenteric arterycra f 52 claudication mitral valve disease , - right ia 14 28 ventricular and atrial and fa fibrillation arteryvdb m 68 claudication hypertension , af graft , + left sfa 90 12 carotid artery surgerydun m 71 subacute dm , cad + left sfa 14 6 ischemiadel m 59 acute ischemia af and right ft graft + right ft 3 42 graftmean ± sem 65 ± 3 . 3 22 ± 14 24__________________________________________________________________________ ± 7 . 8 af aortofemoral ; cabg : coronary artery bypass grafting ; cad , coronary artery disease ; cia : common iliac artery ; copd : chronic obstructive pulmonary disease ; dm : diabetes mellitus ; ff : femorofibular ; fp : femoropopliteal ; ft : femorotibial ; ia : iliac artery ; if : iliofemoral ; pa : popliteal artery ; sfa : superficial femoral artery ; tf : tibiofibular . * previous treatment with sakstar in 1994 . table 7__________________________________________________________________________treatment and outcome in patients with peripheral arterial occlusion , treatedwith sakstar , sakstar ( k74 ) or sakstar ( k . sub . 74 er ) recanalization total dose of total durationcompound by thrombolytic of injfusion additionalpatient id . thrombolysis agent ( mg ) ( hrs ) therapy complications and remarks__________________________________________________________________________sakstarmee complete 7 . 0 5 . 0 pta puncture site bleeding , transfusion , reocclusion ( day 3 ), femorotibial graftfro complete 6 . 5 4 . 5 pta + stent pyrexia ( 39 ° c .) dan complete 7 . 5 5 . 5 pta -- eer complete 18 28 pta puncture site bleeding , transfusiondam complete 19 17 pta + stent -- tor complete 6 . 0 4 . 0 pta + -- femoropopliteal bypass graftcla complete 9 . 0 7 . 0 -- -- man complete 6 . 5 4 . 5 ( amputation left -- digit v ) mat complete 8 . 0 6 . 0 (-) -- mean ± sem 9 . 7 ± 1 . 7 9 . 1 ± 2 . 7sakstar ( k . sub . 74 ) ue complete 11 9 . 0 pta -- eng complete 12 10 pta -- cox partial 15 15 pta reocclusion after pta resistant to rt - pa , treated by surgical graft revisionman complete 9 . 0 7 . 0 pta puncture site hematoma , transfusionvhe complete 18 16 surgical graft -- revisionmul complete 16 20 pta -- bur partial 18 21 -- -- nij complete 15 21 -- -- poe * partial 6 . 0 4 . 0 rt - pa , surgical shivering and gastrointestinal graft lengthening disturbance ; presumably of allergic origin , absence of recanalization despite switch to rt - pavbe complete 18 23 stent right sc retroperitoneal hematoma ; artery , first rib hypovolemic shock ; transfusion resectionsme complete 21 19 none nonewol complete 16 22 -- -- mean ± sem 15 ± 1 . 2 16 ± 1 . 9sakstar ( k . sub . 74 er ) jac complete 14 12 -- puncture site hematoma , transfusionmae complete 9 . 0 7 . 0 pta -- cra complete 25 23 pta + stentvdb complete 9 . 0 7 . 0 pta -- dun complete 9 . 0 7 . 0 pta reocclusion after 1 day ; conservative managementdel complete 9 . 0 7 . 0 pta reocclusion after 1 week treated with rt - pamean ± sem 13 ± 2 . 6 11 ± 2 . 6__________________________________________________________________________ pta , percutaneous transluminal angioplasty * previous treatment with sakstar in 1994 . table 8__________________________________________________________________________coagulation parameters before and after administration of sakstar , sakstar ( k . sub . 74 ) or sakstar ( k . sub . 74 er ) in patientswith peripheral arterial occlusion . fibrinogen plasminogen d - dimer apttcompound ( g / l ) (%) α . sub . 2 - antiplasmin ( ng / ml ) ( s ) patient id . before after before after before after before peak before after__________________________________________________________________________sakstarmee 2 . 4 2 . 5 95 82 95 91 & lt ; 100 6 , 600 34 & gt ; 180fro 6 . 4 6 . 0 80 80 99 93 580 & gt ; 13 , 000 37 56dan 2 . 3 2 . 8 98 93 120 110 & lt ; 100 & gt ; 13 , 000 32 72eer 4 . 0 3 . 5 95 65 110 69 890 & gt ; 25 , 000 38 & gt ; 180dam 3 . 1 2 . 9 66 90 49 75 250 4 , 900 44 54tor 3 . 7 4 . 4 73 73 90 88 2 , 100 & gt ; 13 , 000 32 170cla 3 . 0 3 . 3 85 80 89 88 350 & gt ; 13 , 000 28 45man 3 . 3 4 . 1 80 82 87 84 380 4 , 200 59 63mat 3 . 4 2 . 9 95 117 90 87 1 , 100 7 , 800 25 82mean ± sem 3 . 5 ± 0 . 4 3 . 6 ± 0 . 4 85 ± 3 . 8 85 ± 4 . 9 92 ± 6 . 4 87 ± 8 . 3 650 ± 210 11 , 000 ± 2 , 100 37 100 ± 19p * 0 . 6 0 . 9 0 . 4 0 . 004 0 . 004sakstar ( k . sub . 74 ) ue 4 . 6 3 . 9 110 76 100 61 3 , 300 & gt ; 13 , 000 27 40eng 3 . 0 2 . 9 130 130 100 120 610 4 , 700 27 29cox 2 . 9 3 . 8 100 110 100 120 & lt ; 100 6 , 100 23 52man 3 . 4 3 . 7 67 67 93 103 & lt ; 100 4 , 900 27 62vhe 1 . 8 2 . 2 99 74 98 69 270 & gt ; 12 . 500 34 51mul 2 . 9 2 . 8 100 73 120 91 2 , 100 5 , 700 33 54bur 3 . 5 4 . 0 110 90 100 90 240 8 , 000 21 23nij 2 . 5 2 . 5 95 92 97 94 400 11 , 000 21 23 poe **! 2 . 3 2 . 4 98 89 100 100 & lt ; 100 4 , 800 31 68vbe 3 . 6 4 . 5 130 110 120 100 460 4 , 200 22 117sme 2 . 8 3 . 4 420 1 , 800 30 100wol 3 . 2 3 . 7 120 97 100 92 1 , 000 20 , 000 27 41mean ± sem 3 . 1 ± 0 . 2 3 . 4 ± 0 . 2 110 ± 5 . 1 93 ± 6 . 0 100 ± 2 . 3 94 ± 5 . 1 820 ± 300 8 , 300 ± 1 , 600 27 54 ± 9 . 1p * 0 . 07 0 . 007 0 . 1 0 . 001 0 . 001sakstar ( k . sub . 74 er ) jac 2 . 7 3 . 0 110 110 97 100 & lt ; 100 220 36 & gt ; 180mae 3 . 5 4 . 2 110 110 95 99 250 1 , 400 28 28cra 3 . 4 3 . 8 89 91 97 95 430 1 , 300 35 89vdb 6 . 2 6 . 6 100 100 85 90 970 3 , 700 32 42dun 4 . 2 3 . 9 100 90 93 86 200 10 , 000 31 45del 3 . 2 2 . 7 91 76 96 88 & lt ; 100 4 , 700 37 61mean ± sem 3 . 9 ± 0 . 5 4 . 0 ± 0 . 6 100 ± 3 . 5 96 ± 5 . 2 94 ± 1 . 9 94 ± 2 . 8 340 ± 140 3 , 500 ± 1 , 500 33 74 ± 23p * 0 . 8 0 . 2 1 . 0 0 . 03 0 . 06__________________________________________________________________________ for calculations of mean ± sem &# 34 ;& lt ;&# 34 ; and &# 34 ;& gt ;&# 34 ; were disregarded . * by paired student &# 39 ; s test or mannwithney test , as applicable . ** not included in calculations of mean ± sem . __________________________________________________________________________ # sequence listing - ( 1 ) general information :- ( iii ) number of sequences : 5 - ( 2 ) information for seq id no : 1 :- ( i ) sequence characteristics : ( a ) length : 20 - ( b ) type : nucleic a - # cid - ( c ) strandedness : single - ( d ) topology : unknown # 1 : ( xi ) sequence description : seq id no :# 20 ggag - ( 2 ) information for seq id no : 2 :- ( i ) sequence characteristics : ( a ) length : 28 - ( b ) type : nucleic a - # cid - ( c ) strandedness : sing - # le - ( d ) topology : unknown # 2 : ( xi ) sequence description : seq id no :# 28 catt cattcagc - ( 2 ) information for seq id no : 3 :- ( i ) sequence characteristics : ( a ) length : 28 - ( b ) type : nucleic a - # cid - ( c ) strandedness : sing - # le - ( d ) topology : unknown # 3 : ( xi ) sequence description : seq id no :# 28 catt cattcagc - ( 2 ) information for seq id no : 4 :- ( i ) sequence characteristics : ( a ) length : 41 - ( b ) type : nucleic a - # cid - ( c ) strandedness : sing - # le - ( d ) topology : unknown # 4 : ( xi ) sequence description : seq id no :# 41 tatt tcttttctgc aacaaccttg g - ( 2 ) information for seq id no : 5 :- ( i ) sequence characteristics : ( a ) length : 136 - ( b ) type : amino aci - # d - ( c ) strandedness : sing - # le - ( d ) topology : unknown # 5 : ( xi ) sequence description : seq id no :- ser ser ser phe asp lys gly lys tyr lys ly - # s gly asp asp ala # 15 - ser tyr phe glu pro thr gly pro tyr leu me - # t val asn val thr # 30 - gly val asp ser lys gly asn glu leu leu se - # r pro his tyr val # 45 - glu phe pro ile lys pro gly thr thr leu th - # r lys glu lys ile # 60 - glu tyr tyr val glu trp ala leu asp ala th - # r ala tyr lys glu # 75 - phe arg val val glu leu asp pro ser ala ly - # s ile glu val thr # 90 - tyr tyr asp lys asn lys lys lys glu glu th - # r lys ser phe pro # 105 - ile thr glu lys gly phe val val pro asp le - # u ser glu his ile # 120 - lys asn pro gly phe asn leu ile thr lys va - # l val ile glu lys # 135 - lys__________________________________________________________________________