Patent Application: US-11796593-A

Abstract:
recombinant human neurokinin - 1 receptor has been prepared by polymerase chain reaction techniques . the complete sequence of human nk1r complementary dna has been identified . expression systems , including a cho stable expression system ; and an assay using the cho expression system have been developed . nk1r , also known as substance p receptor , may be used in an assay to identify and evaluate entities that bind to the substance p receptor . the assay may also be used in conjunction with diagnosis and therapy to determine the body fluid concentration of substance p antagonists in arthritis patients .

Description:
one embodiment of the invention concerns human neurokinin - 1 receptor , said receptor being free of other human receptor proteins . in one class this embodiment concerns human neurokinin - 1 receptor , said receptor being free of other human proteins . within this class , this embodiment concerns human neurokinin - 1 receptor from human cells such as glioblastoma , said receptor being free of other proteins . in a second class , this embodiment concerns a protein comprising the 407 amino acid sequence depicted in fig1 said protein being free of other human receptor proteins . within the second class this embodiment concerns a protein consisting of the 407 amino acid sequence as shown in fig1 . the first embodiment also concerns a pharmaceutical composition for inhibiting the binding of substance p to cellular neueokinin - 1 receptor , said composition comprising an effective amount of neurokinin - 1 receptor . the first embodiment also concerns a method of inhibiting the binding of substance p to cellular human neurokinin - 1 receptor , in a patient in need of such inhibition , comprising : administration of an effective amount of human neurokinin - 1 receptor . the use of such pharmaceutical compositions and methods for antagonising the binding of substance p to in vivo neurokinin - 1 receptor is disclosed in , for example , r . m . snider , et al ., science , 251 : 435 ( january 1991 ); s . mclean , et al ., science , 251 : 437 ( january 1991 ); and wo90 / 05525 which published may 31 , 1990 , which are hereby incorporated by reference . : a second embodiment concerns a dna sequence encoding human neurokinin receptor complementary dna , said dna , said sequence being free of other human dna sequences . as will be appreciated by those of skill in the art , there is a substantial amount of redundancy in the set of condons which translate specific amino acids . accordingly , the invention also includes alternative base sequences wherein a codon ( or codons ) are replaced with another codon , such that the amino acid sequence translated by the dna sequence remains unchanged . for purposes of this specification , a sequence bearing one or more such replaced codons will be defined as a degenetate variation . also included are mutations ( exchange of individual amino acids ) which one of skill in the art would expect to have no effect on functionality , such as valine for leucine , arginine for lysine and asparigine for glutamine . one class of the second embodiment the invention concerns the nucleotide sequence of complementary dna , beginning with nucleotide 123 and ending with necleotide 1346 as shown in fig2 . within this class of the second embodiment is the dna sequence ( seq id no : 1 ) that further comprises : ## str1 ## or a degenerate variation thereof . the second embodiment the invention concerns the partial nucleotide sequence of complementary dna , as shown in fig2 or a degenerate variation thereof . a third embodiment of this invention concerns systems for expressing human neurokinin receptor . within this class of the third embodiment the neurokinin - 1 receptor comprises the nucleotide sequence of complementary dna , beginning with nucleotide 123 and ending with necleotide 1346 as shown in fig2 . a second class of this third embodiment of the invention concerns a system for the transient expression of human neurokinin - 1 receptor ( nk1r ) in a monkey kidney cell line ( cos ). a third class of this third embodiment of the invention concerns a system for the expression of human neurokinin - 1 receptor in a chinese hamster ovarian cell line ( cho ), the system comprising a vector comprising human neurokinin receptor ( nk1r ) cdna . within this class of the third embodiment is is the sub - class wherein the expression system includes within this sub - class the neurokinin - 1 receptor comprises the nucleotide sequence of complementary dna , beginning with nucleotide 123 and ending with necleotide 1346 as shown in fig2 . is subclosed into the vector prccmv . a forth embodiment of the invention concerns a method of using any of the above expression systems for determining the binding affinity of a test sample for human neurokinin - 1 receptor . in one class this embodiment concerns a method of using a chinese hamster ovarian cell line , said line transplanted with a plasmid , which plasmid comprises : ( b ) the base sequence encoding human neurokinin - 1 receptor protein , the method which comprises : ( 2 ) addition of a test sample to a solution containing 125 i - substance p and said cells ; ( 3 ) incubating the products of step ( 1 ), wherein said incubation effective for expressing said the human neurokinin - 1 receptor and effective for competitive binding of said 125 i - substance p and said test sample to said human neurokinin - 1 receptor ; ( 4 ) separating said 125 i - substance p which is bound to said human neurokinin - 1 receptor from said 125 i - substance p which is not bound ; ( 5 ) measuring the radioactivity of said 125 i - substance p which is bound to said human neurokinin - 1 receptor . in a second class this embodiment concerns a method of using a chinese hamster ovarian cell line ( cho ), said line transplanted with a plasmid which plasmid comprises ( b ) the base sequence encoding human neurokinin - 1 receptor protein , the method comprising : ( 2 ) equilibrating the product of step ( 1 ) with 3 h - myoinositol ; ( 4 ) incubating the product of step ( 3 ) with a test sample in the presence of 10 mm licl , which results in the production of inositol monophosphate ; in overview , the present invention describes methods to isolate the human neurokinin - 1 receptor ( human nk1r ) complementary dna ( cdna ) without prior knowledge of its protein sequence or gene sequence . human nk1r is a membrane receptor for the neurotransmitter substance p . polymerase chain reaction ( pcr ) technique was utilized for the isolation of human nk1r cdna . in the approach , the regions of rat nk1r applicants thought to be similar to human nk1r were identified , oligonucleotide primers corresponding to those region were designed , pcr amplification was carried out to obtain part of the nk1r cdna from human cells , and its dna sequence was determined . the remaining part of the human nk1r cdna was obtained from a human cdna library utilizing the above sequence information of human nk1r cdna . the complete sequence of the human nk1r cdna was determined , and its encoded protein sequence was deduced . among other things , such sequence information is useful in the process of developing novel substance p antagonists . three heterologous expression systems were used to express the cloned human nk1r cdna . the xenopus oocyte expression enables one to determine the biological function of human nk1r . the cos ( a monkey kidney cell line ) expression can be used to measure the ligand binding properties of human nk1r . the cho ( a chinese hamster ovarian cell line ) stable expression is suitable for natural product screen to identify potential therapeutic agent or other substances that bind to substance p receptor . this cell line can also be used as an assay kit for determining the body fluid concentration of substance p in arthritis patients . assay protocols use the heterologously expressed human nk1r for determination of the binding affinity and antagonistic activity of substance p antagonists . to isolate the human nk1r cdna in the absence of its sequence information , we developed methods to obtain three separate but overlapping cdna clones in three steps . ( i ) we have adopted the homologous cloning strategy ( 0hara et al ., 1989 , proc . nat . acad . sci ., 86 : 5673 - 5677 ) to isolate cdna clones encoding the central core region of human nk1r , with the assumption that the human nk1r sequence is similar to the published sequence ( yokota et al ., 1989 , j . biol . chem ., 264 : 17649 - 17652 ) of rat nk1r in certain areas where appropriate pcr primers can be designed . degenerate primers corresponding to the rat sequence were used in pcr amplification ( mullis and faloona , 1987 , meth . enzymol ., 155 : 335 ) to obtain the cdna encoding the central trnsmembrane core region of human nk1r from human mrna . ( ii ) after determining the sequence of the core region in human nk1r , new primers corresponding to the human sequence were designed and a second homologous pcr amplification was performed using the human primer in the core region with degenerate primers corresponding to the n - terminal sequence of rat nk1r . the cdna encoding the n - terminal region of human nk1r was thus obtained from human mrna and its sequence was determined . ( iii ) an anchored pcr strategy was developed to isolate the cdna encoding the c - terminal region of human nk1r , in which primers corresponding to the core region of human nk1r were used in combination with a primer corresponding to the sequence of a cloning vector to obtain the cdna from a human cdna library . to confirm the authenticity of the cdna encoding human nk1r , an independent pcr amplification was performed to obtain the full length cdna in a single step using primers from the 5 &# 39 ; and 3 &# 39 ; untranslated regions . three expression systems were developed for the cloned human nk1r . an transient expression in xenopus oocytes resulted from microinjection of in vitro transcribed mrna from the cloned cdna ( xenopus laevis from xenopus one , ann arbor , mich .). this system allows the measurement of biological effect of nk1r activation upon ligand binding . another transient expression in cos ( a monkey kidney cell line , atcc crl 1651 , atcc rockville md .) resulted from the transfection of the cloned cdna under the control of vital promoter into mammalian cells ( e . g ., cos ). the transfected cells are suitable for determination binding affinity of human nk1r for various ligands . stable expression of human nk1r in mammalian cells ( e . g ., cho , a chinese hamster ovarian cell line , atcc crl 9096 , atcc rockville md .) was achieved after integration of the transfected cdna into the chromosomes of the host cells . these stable cell lines will constituently express the cloned human nk1r and can be propagated infinitely . therefore , stable expression system is very useful in large scale drug screen , and can be used to determine substance p concentration in the biopsy sample of patients . to establish a stable cell line expressing the cloned human nk1r , the cdna was subcloned into the vector prccmv ( invitrogen ). the electrophysiological assay of human nk1r expressed in xenopus oocytes was based on the fact that nk1r activates the phospholipase c upon substance p binding , and phospholipase c in turn increases the intracellular calcium concentration through inositol trisphosphate ( ip 3 ) and ip 3 - gated calcium channel on intracellular membranes . the calcium increase activates calcium - gated chloride channels on plasma membranes which gives rise to a chloride current measurable by two electrode voltage clamp . the binding assay of human nk1r expressed in cos or cho is based on the use of 125 i - substance p ( 125 i - sp , from du pont , boston , mass .) as a radioactively labeled ligand which compete with unlabeled substance p or any other ligand for binding to the human nk1r . monolayer cell culture of cos or cho was dissociated by the non - enzymatic solution ( specialty media , lavallette , n . j .) and resuspended in appropriate volume of the binding buffer ( 50 mm tris ph 7 . 5 , 5 mmmncl 2 , 150 mm nacl , 0 . 04 mg / ml bacitracin , 0 . 004 mg / ml leupeptin , 0 . 2 mg / ml bsa , 0 . 01 mm phosphoramidon ) such that 200 ul of the cell suspension would give rise to about 10 , 000 cpm of specific 125 i - sp binding ( approximately 50 , 000 to 200 , 000 cells ). the activation of phospholipase c by nk1r can also be measured in cho cells by determining the accumulation of inositol monophosphate which is a degradation product of ip 3 . in addition to large scale drug screening using the stable cho cell line expressing the cloned human nk1r , other alternative applications are obvious . for example , the stable cell line can be used in the binding assay to determine the substance p concentration from biopsy samples . the human nk1r protein can also be injected into patients to reduce substance p concentration in some neurogenic inflammatory diseases . in the first step of obtaining the cdna encoding the central core region of human nk1r , human mrna was prepared from three human glioblastoma cell lines t98g , ccf - sttg1 and u87mg ( obtained from the american type culture collection , rockville , md .) by the fasttrack method ( invitrogen , san diego , calif .). synthesis of first strand cdna from 4 ug of human mrna was initiated by oligo ( dt ) primers in a total volume of 20 ul according to protocols of the brl cdna synthesis system ( brl , life technologies , inc ., gaithersburg , md .). ten ul of the first strand cdna was used as template with three rat primers ( 50 pmol rspr2s4 , 50 pmol rspr2s4h , and 100 pmol rspr7a2 ; see table i for their sequences ) in a primary pcr amplification in a total volume of 100 ul according to the geneamp protocol ( perkin elmer cetus , norwalk , conn .). thirty cycles of pcr were performed using the following parameters : 1 min of denaturation at 94 ° c ., 2 min of annealing at 40 ° c . and 4 min of extension at 72 ° c . with 2 sec of auto extension . ten ul of the primary pcr product was used as template with the same primers in a secondary pcr amplification under the same cycling conditions to further amplify the dna . ten ul of the secondary pcr product was used as template with three rat primers ( 50 pmol rspr2s4 , 50 pmol rspr2s4h , 50 pmol rspr7al and 50 pmol rspr7alh ) in 30 cycles of tertiary pcr amplification with the following parameters : 1 min of denaturation at 94 ° c ., 2 min of - annealing at 45 ° c ., and 4 min of extension at 72 ° c . with 2 sec of auto extension . the tertiary pcr product was analyzed by agarose gel electrophoresis and was found to contain a 600 bp dna fragment . this dna fragment was excised from the gel , purified by geneclean ( bio 101 , la jolla , calif . ), phosphorylated , and subcloned into sma i site of the plasmid vector bluescript sk + ( stratagene , la jolla , calif .). the dna sequence was determined by the sequenase dideoxy chain termination method ( usbc , cleveland , ohio ). sequence alignment analysis showed that this cdna fragment is similar ( 90 % identity at nucleotide level ) to the central core region of rat nk1r from amino acid 91 to 280 . after determination of the core region sequence of human nk1r , five antisense primers were synthesized based on the human sequence ( hspr3a5 , hspr5al , hspr5a2 , hspr6al and hspr6a2 ; see table ii for their sequences ). these primers would be used to obtain the n - terminal cdna sequence of human nk1r . one ug of human glioblastoma mrna and 6 um of each of the above primers was used in first strand cdna synthesis in a total volume of 20 ul according the brl cdna synthesis protocols . the cdna was extracted by phenol - chloroform , precipitated by ethanol and dissolved in 30 ul of water . ten ul of the cdna was used as template with two rat primers ( 50 pmol rsprn and 50 pmol rsprnh ) and one human primer ( 150 pmol hspr3a5 ) in the primary pcr amplification in a total volume of 100 ul . thirty cycles were performed with the following parameters : 1 min denaturation at 94 ° c ., 1 min of annealing at 55 ° c ., and 3 min of extension at 72 ° c . five ul of the primary pcr product was then used as template with two rat primers ( 50 pmol rsprn and 50 pmol rsprnh ) and one human primer ( 100 pmol hspr3a4 ) in 30 cycles of secondary pcr amplification with the same parameters . two ul of the secondary pcr product was used as template with two rat primers ( 50 pmol rsprn and 50 pmol rsprnh ) and one human primer in 30 cycles of tertiary pcr amplification with the same parameters . the tertiary pcr product was analyzed by agarose gel electrophoresis and was found to contain a 500 bp fragment . this dna fragment can hybridize with a human oligonucleotide ( hspr3a2 ), indicating it is not a non - specific by - product . this dna fragment was excised from the gel , purified by geneclean ( bio 101 ), phosphorylated , and subcloned into sma i site of the vector bluescript sk +. dna sequence analysis revealed that this fragment encodes the human nk1r n - terminal region and it also contains 5 &# 39 ; untranslated sequence . in the third step , an anchored pcr protocol was developed in which the cdna encoding the c - terminal region of human nk1r was obtained from a cdna library using sense human primers and a primer corresponding to the vector sequence . three ug of human glioblastoma mrna was primed by 2 . 5 ug of oligo ( dt ) in the first strand cdna synthesis in a total volume of 50 ul , followed by second strand cdna synthesis according the brl cdna synthesis protocols . the cdna product was then heated at 70 ° c . for 10 min . the yield of double stranded cdna was determined by incorporating 1 . 25 um of 32 p - a - dctp as tracer in the reaction . four ul of t4 dna polymerase was added to the reaction mixture and incubated at 37 ° c . for 10 min . the reaction was stopped by adding 16 ul of 250 mm edta , extracting with phenol / chcl 3 , and precipitating with ethanol . the cdna was dissolved in 50 ul of he buffer ( 10 mm hepes - lmm edta ). small size cdna was removed by the select - d ( rf ) spin column ( 5 &# 39 ; to3 &# 39 ;, boulder , colo . ), and the large size cdna was precipitated by ethanol and dissolved in 36 ul of water . four ul of 0 . 2m tris - 10 mm spermidine - 1 mm edta ( ph7 . 5 ) was added to the tube and heated at 70 ° c . for 1 min . the cdna was phosphorylated by adding 5 ul of blunt - end kinase buffer ( 0 . 5m tris ph 9 . 5 , 0 . 1m mgcl 2 , 50 mm dtt , 50 % glycerol ), 2 . 5 ul of 10 mmatp , 2 . 5 ul of polynucleotide kinase , and incubating at 37 ° c . for 30 min . the cdna was extracted by phenol / chcl 3 , precipitated by ethanol and ligated to ecori linker according to the promega ecori linker ligation protocol ( promega , madison , wis .). linker - ligated cdna was then ligated to calf intestinal phosphatase - treated ecori site of the vector bluescript sk +. one ul of the ligated plasmid dna was used as template in 30 cycles of primary pcr with two human primers ( 50 pmol hspr6s1 and 50 pmol hspr6s2 ) and 100 pmol of vector - specific primer t3 ( obtained from stratagee ) with the following parameters : 1 min of denaturation at 94 ° c ., 2 min of annealing at 55 ° c ., and 4 min of extension at 72 ° c . with 2 sec auto extension . one ul of the primary pcr product was used in 30 cycles of secondary pcr amplification with one human primer ( 100 pmol hspr6s3 ) and the same vector - specific primer t3 under the same conditions . one ul of the secondary pcr product was used in 30 cycles of tertiary pcr amplification with one human primer ( 100 pmol hspr6s4 ) and 100 pmol of vector - specific primer sk ( stratagee ) under the same conditions . a 780 bp dna fragment was detected which also hybridized to a human oligo probe hspr6s5 . this dna fragment was excised from the agarose gel , purified by geneclean ( bio 101 ), phosphorylated , and subcloned into sma i site of the vector bluescript sk +. dna sequence analysis revealed that it encodes the c - terminal region of human nk1r and contains 3 &# 39 ; untranslated sequence . since three separate but overlapping cdna clones encoding human nk1r were isolated above and the possibility of alternative pre - mrna splicing exists , it is necessary to confirm the authenticity of the full length cdna sequence by isolating a full length cdna directly . based on the above sequence in the untranslated region , primers were synthesized which should give rise to a full length cdna . using the perkin elmer cetus rna pcr amplification kit ( perkin elmer cetus ), cdna was synthesized from 1 . 5 ug of human glioblastoma mrna in a total volume of 20 ul with 50 pmol of the human primer hspr3uta5 . one half of the first strand cdna was used as template in 30 cycles of primary pcr amplification with two human primers ( 50 pmol hspr3uta5 , 50 pmol hspr5utsl ) with the following parameters : 1 min of denaturation at 94 ° c ., 2 min of annealing at 55 ° c ., and 4 min of extension at 55 ° c . with 2 sec auto extension . ten ul of the primary pcr product was used as template in 30 cycles of secondary pcr amplification with two human primers ( 50 pmol hspr3uta6 and 50 pmol hspr5uts2 ) under the same conditions . a 1350 bp dna fragment was excised from agarose gel , purified by geneclean ( bio 101 ), digested with restriction endonucleases with ecori and not i , and subcloned into the vector bluescript sk +. dna sequence analysis confirmed the general structure of the cloned human nk1r cdna . the sequence of human nk1r cdna is shown in fig2 . __________________________________________________________________________name sequence ( seq id no :. sub .-- :) position direction__________________________________________________________________________rspr2s4 tgcatggctgcattcaat ( 2 ) 238 - 255 senserspr2s4h tgcatggctgccttcaa ( 3 ) 238 - 254 senserspr7a2 acagtagatgatggggttgtacat ( 4 ) 918 - 894 antisenserspr7a1 caggtagacctgctggatgaactt ( 5 ) 864 - 841 antisenserspr7a1h caggtacacctgctggatgaactt ( 6 ) 864 - 841 antisensersprn atggataacgtccttcctat ( 7 ) 1 - 20 sensersprnh atggacaatgtgctgccca ( 8 ) 1 - 19 sense__________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________name sequence ( seq id no :. sub .-- :) position direction__________________________________________________________________________hspr3a2 gaagaagttgtggaacttgca ( 9 ) 455 - 435 antisensehspr3a1 catggagtagatactggcgaa ( 10 ) 491 - 471 antisensehspr3a4 ggatgtatgatggccatgta ( 11 ) 532 - 513 antisensehspr3a5 actttggtggctgtggctga ( 12 ) 568 - 549 antisensehspr5a1 atgcatagccaatcaccagca ( 13 ) 768 - 748 antisensehspr5a2 catagtgtgattcccactac ( 14 ) 793 - 774 antisensehspr6a1 tgcacaccacgacaatcatca ( 15 ) 888 - 868 antisensehspr6a2 ttgatgtagggcaggaggaa ( 16 ) 943 - 924 antisensehspr6s1 gcaagtctctgccaagcgcaa ( 17 ) 836 - 856 sensehspr6s2 tgatgattgtcgtggtgtgca ( 18 ) 868 - 888 sensehspr6s3 ttccacatcttcttcctcct ( 19 ) 912 - 931 sensehspr6s4 ctacatcaacccagatctct ( 20 ) 935 - 954 sensehspr6s5 tctctacctgaagaagtt ( 21 ) 950 - 967 sensehspr12uta1 caaggatggaatgttttccct ( 22 ) 1499 - 1479 antisensehspr12uta2 ( gacatgcggccgc ) aacccatactgaccctttt ( 23 ) 1478 - 1460 antisensehspr5uts1 cctcctgtctggctttagaa ( 24 ) 16 - 35 sensehspr5uts2 ( gcgcagaattc ) gtgtacagatagtaggctt ( 25 ) 86 - 105 sense__________________________________________________________________________ to express the human nk1r cdna in xenopus oocytes , the cdna was cloned into an in vitro transcription vector bluescript sk + ( stratagene ) which contains the t7 promoter for initiation of t7 rna polymerase catalyzed rna synthesis . one ug of linear plasmid dna which contained the human nk1r cdna downstream of the t7 promoter was used in the in vitro transcription reaction containing 40 mm tris ph 7 . 5 , 50 mm nacl , 8 mm mgcl 2 , 2 mm spermidine , 0 . 4 mm ctp , 0 . 4 mm atp , 0 . 4 mm utp , 0 . 16 mm gtp , 2 . 5 ul cap analog ( stratagene ), 30 mm dtt , 1 u rnase block ii ( stratagene ), 0 . 83 pmol 32 p - a - ctp and 25 u of t7 rna polymerase . the reaction tube was incubated at 37 ° c . for 1 hour . usually 5 ug of rna was synthesized as quantitated by incorporation of 32 p - a - ctp into rna . after rna synthesis , the plasmid dna was removed by adding 10 u of rnase free dnase and 1 u of rnase block ii . the reaction mixture was extracted by phenol / chcl 3 , and the unincorporated nucleotides were removed by the select - d ( rf ) spin column ( 5 &# 39 ; t03 &# 39 ;). the rna transcript was precipitated by ethanol twice and dissolved in rnase free water . oocytes were removed from xenopus frogs , treated with 2 mg / ml collagenase ( specific activity & lt ; 0 . 3 u / mg , boehringer mannheim , indianapolis , ill .) in 0r - 2 buffer ( 82 . 5 mm nacl , 2 mm kcl , 1 mmmecl 2 , 5 mmhepes , ph 7 . 4 ) for 4 hours at 19 ° c . the dissociated oocytes were incubated in or - 2 buffer supplemented by 1 . 8 mm cacl 2 , 0 . 5 mg / ml gentamycin and 0 . 5 mm theophylline at 19 ° c . overnight before injection . a 50 nl aliquot contain 2 ng of rna transcript was injected into each oocyte . the injected oocytes were incubated at 19 ° c . for 2 days before electrophysiological recording ( see example 3 for assay method ). to express the human nk1r transiently in cos , the cdna was cloned into the expression vector pcdm9 which was derived from pcdm8 ( invitrogen ) by inserting the ampicillin resistance gene ( nucleotide 1973 to 2964 from bluescript sk +) into the sac ii site . transfection of 20 ug of the plasmid dna into 10 millions cos cells was achieved by electropotation in 800 ul of transfection buffer ( 135 mm nacl , 1 . 2 mm cacl 2 , 1 . 2 mm mgcl 2 , 2 . 4 mm k 2 hpo 4 , 0 . 6 mm kh 2 po 4 , 10 mm glucose , 10 mm hepes ph 7 . 4 ) at 260 v and 950 uf using the ibi genezapper ( ibi , new haven , conn .). the cells were incubated in 10 % fetal calf serum , 2 mm glutamine , 100u / ml penicillin - streptomycin , and 90 % dmem media ( gibco , grand island , n . y .) in 5 % co 2 at 37 ° c . for three days before the binding assay . to establish a stable cell line expressing the cloned human nk1r , the cdna was subcloned into the vector prccmv ( invitrogen ). transfection of 20 ug of the plasmid dna into cho cells was achieved by electropotation in 800 ul of transfection buffer suplemented with 0 . 625 mg / ml herring sperm dna at 300 v and 950 uf using the ibi genezapper ( ibi ). the transfected cells were incubated in cho media [ 10 % fetal calf serum , 100 u / ml pennicilin - streptomycin , 2 mm glutamine , 1 / 500 hypoxanthine - thymidine ( atcc ), 90 % imdm media ( 3rh biosciences , lenexa , kans . ), 0 . 7 mg / ml g418 ( gibco )] in 5 % co 2 at 37 ° c . until colonies were visible . each colony was separated and propagated . the cell clone with the highest number of human nk1r was selected for subsequent application in the assay of example 3 . the oocyte was voltage - clamped at - 80 mv by the model 8500 intracellular preamp - clamp ( dagan , minneapolis , minn .). the recoding chamber was continuously perfused with recording buffer ( 96 mm nacl 1 , 2 mm kcl , 1 . 8 mm cacl 2 , 5 mm hepes , ph 7 . 4 ). chloride current was elicited by applying substance p ( from 0 . 1 nm to 1000 nm ) to the recording chamber . at least three oocytes were measured for each concentration . the antagonistic activity of any potential substance p antagonist can be assessed by determining the inhibition of substance p response . likewise , nk1 agonists can be identified by their ability to stimulate a response in oocytes injected with nk1r mrna but not in uninjected oocytes . the binding assay of human nk1r expressed in cos or cho is based on the use of 125 i - substance p ( 125 i - sp , from du pont , boston , mass .) as a radioactively labeled ligand which compete with unlabeled substance p or any other ligand for binding to the human nk1r . monolayer cell culture of cos or cho was dissociated by the non - enzymatic solution ( specialty media , lavallette , n . j .) and resuspended in appropriate volume of the binding buffer ( 50 mm tris ph 7 . 5 , 5 mmmncl 2 , 150 mm nacl , 0 . 04 mg / ml bacitracin , 0 . 004 mg / ml leupeptin , 0 . 2 mg / ml bsa , 0 . 01 mm phosphoramidon ) such that 200 ul of the cell suspension would give rise to about 10 , 000 cpm of specific 125 i - sp binding ( approximately 50 , 000 to 200 , 000 cells ). in the binding assay , 200 ul of cells were added to a tube containing 20 ul of 1 . 5 to 2 . 5 nm of 125 i - sp and 20 11 of unlabeled substance p or any other test compound . the tubes were incubated at 4 ° c . or at room temperature for 1 hour with gentle shaking . the bound radioactivity was separated from unbound radioactivity by gf / c filter ( brandel , gaithersburg , md .) which was pre - wetted with 0 . 1 % polyethylenimine . the filter was washed with 3 ml of wash buffer ( 50 mm tris ph 7 . 5 , 5 mm mncl 2 , 150 mm nacl ) three times and its radioactivity was determined by gamma counter . illustrative of this method of using these expression systems are the results shoen in fig3 . these results show the competitive binding of substance p ( sp ), substance k ( sk ) and human neurokinin - 1 receptor ( nk1r ) in the cos assay . the activation of phospholipase c by nk1r can also be measured in cho cells by determining the accumulation of inositol monophosphate which is a degradation product of ip 3 . cho cells were seeded in 12 - well plate at 250 , 000 cells per well . after incubating in cho media for 4 days , cells were loaded with 0 . 025 uci / ml of 3 h - myoinositol by overnight incubation . the extracellular radioactivity was removed by washing with phosphate buffered saline . licl was added to the well at final concentration of 0 . 1 mm with or without antagonist , and continued incubation at 37 ° c . for 15 min . substance p was added to the well at final concentration of 0 . 3 nm to activate the human nk1r . after 30 min of incubation at 37 ° c ., the media was removed and 0 . 1n hcl was added . each well was sonicated at 4 ° c . and extracted with chcl 3 / methanol ( 1 : 1 ). the aqueous phase was applied to a 1 ml dowex ag 1x8 ion exchange column . the column was washed with 0 . 1n formic acid followed by 0 . 025m ammonium formate - 0 . 1n formic acid . the inositol monophosphate was eluted with 0 . 2m ammonium formate - 0 . 1n formic acid and quantitated by beta counter . __________________________________________________________________________sequence listing ( 1 ) general information :( iii ) number of sequences : 27 ( 2 ) information for seq id no : 1 :( i ) sequence characteristics :( a ) length : 122 base pairs ( b ) type : nucleic acid ( c ) strandedness : single ( d ) topology : linear ( ii ) molecule type : cdna to mrna ( ix ) sequence description : seq id no : 1 : gaaaaagccttccaccctcctgtctggctttagaaggaccctgagcccca50ggcgccacgacaggactctgctgcagaggggggttgtgtacagatagtag100ggctttaccgcctagcttcgaa 122 ( 2 ) information for seq id no : 2 :( i ) sequence characteristics :( a ) length : 18 base pairs ( b ) type : nucleic acid ( c ) strandedness : single ( d ) topology : linear ( ii ) molecule type :( xi ) sequence description : seq id no : 2 : tgcatggctgcattcaat 18 ( 2 ) information for seq id no : 3 :( i ) sequence characteristics :( a ) length : 17 base pairs ( b ) type : nucleic acid ( c ) strandedness : single ( d ) topology : linear ( ii ) molecule type :( xi ) sequence description : seq id no : 3 : tgcatggctgccttcaa 17 ( 2 ) information for seq id no : 4 :( i ) sequence characteristics :( a ) length : 24 base pairs ( b ) type : nucleic acid ( c ) strandedness : single ( d ) topology : linear ( ii ) molecule type :( xi ) sequence description : seq id no : 4 : acagtagatgatggg gttgtacat24 ( 2 ) information for seq id no : 5 :( i ) sequence characteristics :( a ) length : 24 base pairs ( b ) type : nucleic acid ( c ) strandedness : single ( d ) topology : linear ( ii ) molecule type :( xi ) sequence description : seq id no : 5 : caggtag acctgctggatgaactt24 ( 2 ) information for seq id no : 6 :( i ) sequence characteristics :( a ) length : 24 base pairs ( b ) type : nucleic acid ( c ) strandedness : single ( d ) topology : linear ( ii ) molecule type :( xi ) sequence description : seq id no : 6 : caggtacacctgctggatgaactt24 ( 2 ) information for seq id no : 7 :( i ) sequence characteristics :( a ) length : 20 base pairs ( b ) type : nucleic acid ( c ) strandedness : single ( d ) topology : linear ( ii ) molecule type :( x i ) sequence description : seq id no : 7 : atggataacgtccttcctat20 ( 2 ) information for seq id no : 8 :( i ) sequence characteristics :( a ) length : 19 base pairs ( b ) type : nucleic acid ( c ) strandedness : single ( d ) topology : linear ( ii ) molecule type :( xi ) sequence description : seq id no : 8 : atggacaatgtgctgccca19 ( 2 ) information for seq id no : 9 :( i ) sequence characteristics :( a ) length : 21 base pairs ( b ) type : nucleic acid ( c ) strandedness : single ( d ) topology : linear ( ii ) molecule type :( xi ) sequence description : seq id no : 9 : gaagaagttgtggaacttgca21 ( 2 ) information for seq id no : 10 :( i ) sequence characteristics :( a ) length : 21 base pairs ( b ) type : nucleic acid ( c ) strandedness : single ( d ) topology : linear ( ii ) molecule type :( xi ) sequence description : seq id no : 10 : catggagtagatactggcgaa21 ( 2 ) information for seq id no : 11 :( i ) sequence characteristics :( a ) length : 20 base pairs ( b ) type : nucleic acid ( c ) strandedness : single ( d ) topology : linear ( ii ) molecule type :( xi ) sequence description : seq id no : 11 : ggatgtatgatggccatgta20 ( 2 ) information for seq id no : 12 :( i ) sequence characteristics :( a ) length : 20 base pairs ( b ) type : nucleic acid ( c ) strandedness : single ( d ) topology : linear ( ii ) molecule type :( xi ) sequence description : seq id no : 12 : actttggtggctgtggctga20 ( 2 ) information for seq id no : 13 :( i ) sequence characteristics :( a ) length : 21 base pairs ( b ) type : nucleic acid ( c ) 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