Patent Application: US-15493202-A

Abstract:
the biased residue of an expressible biased peptide library is conveniently altered , without synthesizing a new dna mixture , by using a dna encoding said peptide which includes a suppressible stop codon , said codon encoding the biased residue , whereby the amino acid appearing at the biased position may be altered simply by introducing the same dna mixture into a different suppressor strain .

Description:
methods and compositions are provided for the construction of biased peptide libraries ( as hereafter defined ) in which a biased amino acid is encoded by a suppressible stop codons . the biased residue is a residue which is fixed for all members of a given library . in conventional biased peptide libraries , to generate each new biased library , a new degenerate oligonucleotide cassette , with the biased codon changed to encode a different amino acid and , must be synthesized and cloned into the vector . thus , preparation of a panel of twenty different biased libraries , differing in terms of the choice of amino acid at the biased position , but not - in terms of the location of the biased residue within the peptide , would conventionally require synthesis of twenty differently biased oligonucleotide cassettes . the use of suppressor strains , such as the amber ( tag ) suppressing strains of e . coli , would allow the synthesis of a single degenerate oligonucleotide cassette to generate such a panel of different biased libraries . in one embodiment , the biased library cassette would contain the tag codon in the position of the desired bias . the cassette would be cloned into the appropriate vector . the amino acid present at the biased position would depend on the strain of e . coli used to propagate the library . for example , an e . coli strain with a supd genotype would insert serine in place of the tag codon . while a strain with a supe genotype would insert glutamine in place of the tag codon . presently available amber suppressor strains allow the biased amino acid to be one of at least 14 different amino acids . the term “ library ” generally refers to a collection of chemical or biological entities which can be screened simultaneously for a property of interest . ( they may be screened sequentially , if desired , but simultaneous screening is more efficient .) typically , they are related in origin , structure , and / or function . the term “ combinatorial library ” refers to a library in which the individual members are either systematic or random combinations of a limited set of basic elements , the properties of each member being dependent on the choice and location of the elements incorporated into it . typically , the members of the library are at least capable of being screened simultaneously . randomization may be complete or partial ; some positions may be randomized and others predetermined , and at random positions , the choices may be limited in a predetermined manner , or the relative frequency of appearance of the allowed choices may be adjusted as desired . the ability of one or more members of such a library to recognize a target molecule is termed “ combinatorial recognition ”. a combinatorial peptide library is a combinatorial library whose members are peptides having three or more amino acids connected via peptide bonds . the peptides may be linear , branched , or cyclic , and may include nonpeptidyl moieties . the amino acids are not limited to the naturally occurring amino acids . the peptides need not , but may , be of the same length . the individual peptides are referred to as peptide ligands ( pl ). an “ expressible peptide library ” is one in which all component peptides are obtainable by expressing a gene encoding the peptide . hence , the amino acids are limited to the 20 genetically encoded amino acids . a “ displayable peptide library ” is one in which all the component peptides are either directly expressible , or can be obtained by chemical or enzymatic modification of the originally expressed peptide in situ , i . e ., on the surface of a cell or virus . a biased combinatorial library is one in which , at one or more positions in the library member , only one of the possible basic elements is allowed for all members of the library , i . e ., the biased positions are invariant . a biased combinatorial peptide library is one in which , at one or more ( but not all ) biased residue positions ( counted from the n - terminal ) of the peptides , all peptides of the library exhibit the same amino acid , i . e ., these biased positions exhibit “ constant ” residues . typically , 1 , 2 , or 3 positions are variable positions , and indeed in the peptide are held constant , and the remaining positions can be any amino acid . the biased library may be constructed by cloning an oligonucleotide mixture , which encodes the biased peptides , into copies of the appropriate expression vector . ideally , each molecule of the oligonucleotide mixture is inserted into a different vector molecule . the oligonucleotide cassette used to construct the biased library encodes both variable residues and constant residues . the variable residues may be encoded by an ( nnk ) n coding scheme , where n may be a , c , g , or t and k is g or t and each nnk codon encodes an amino acid in the peptide . the nnk codon encodes all twenty genetically encoded amino acids . other codons are described in ladner , u . s . pat . no . 5 , 223 , 409 . from 2 - 20 different amino acids can be represented at each variable position of an expressible peptide library . a “ panel of combinatorial libraries ” is a collection of different ( although possibly overlapping ) and separately screenable . a “ structural panel ” is a panel as defined above where there is some structural relationship between the member libraries . for example , one could have a panel of 20 different biased peptide libraries where , in each library , the middle residue is held constant as a given amino acid , but , in each library the constant residue is different , so , collectively , all 20 possible genetically encoded amino acids are explored by the panel . a “ scanning residue library ” refers to the preparation of panel of biased combinatorial peptide libraries such that the position of the constant residue shifts from one library to the next . for example , in library 1 , residue 1 is held constant as a particular residue aa , in library , residue 2 is , and so forth through two or more ( usually all ) positions of the peptide . one may have structured panels of libraries in which one may define subpanels , too . for example , in one subpanel , the middle residue aa 1 may be the same for all libraries , but the libraries also have a constant residue aa 2 which is scanned through all other residue positions . a library screening program is a program in which one or more libraries ( e . g ., a structured panel of biased peptide libraries ) are screened for activity . the libraries may be screened in parallel , in series , or both . in serial screening , the results of one screening may be used to guide the design of a subsequent library in the series . the size of a library is the total number of molecules in it , whether they be the same or different . the diversity of a library as the number of different molecules in it . “ diversity ” does not measure how different the structures of the library ; the degree of difference between two structures is referred to here as “ disparity ” or “ dispersion ”. the “ disparity ” is quantifiable in some respects , e . g ., size , hydrophilicity , polarity , thermostability , etc . the average sampling frequency of a library is the ratio of size to diversity . the sampling frequency should be over the detection limit of the assay in order to assure that all members are screened . the combinatorial libraries usually will have a diversity of at least 10different structures . preferably , the initial , surrogate - generating library is of high diversity , e . g ., preferably at least about 10 6 , more preferably at least about 10 9 different members . while a peptide library is preferred , a library composed of a different class of compounds ( e . g ., peptoids or nucleic acids ) is acceptable if there would be a detectable preference for binding the activity - mediating binding sites of the target protein . a nonsense suppressor system is an organism or a cell free expression system which , when expressing a dna comprising a nonsense ( tag , taa or tga ) codon , will place amino acid into the nascent polypeptide chain at the amino acid position corresponding to that nonsense codon , rather than interpreting it as a “ stop ” ( termination ) codon and terminating chain synthesis . an amber suppressor system suppresses the amber codon ( tag ); ochre ( taa ) and opal ( tga ) suppressor systems are analogously defined . ( the corresponding mrna codons substitute u for t .) the organism may be a prokaryotic or a eukaryotic cell . preferred eukaryotes are yeast cells such as s . cerevisiae . the preferred prokaryotes are bacteria , and especially e . coli and s . typhimurium . it is not necessary that the system suppress the nonsense codon in every molecule of messenger rna read . preferably the efficiency of suppression is at least 5 %, more preferably at least 10 %, even more preferably at least 50 %, still more preferably at least 90 %, most preferably at least 95 %. the efficiency of nonsense suppression is affected by the sequence surrounding the nonsense codon in the mrna , especially the two bases following the codon in the case of amber ( uag ) codons , the efficiency of suppression depends on the next base as follows : a & gt ; g & gt ; u , c . suppression is strongest when the trailing codon is aux . an exception to the rule that c reduces efficiency exists when this trailing codon is cux . given the nature of the genetic code , when an amber codon is followed by an leu , ser , or arg codon it is feasible to change that trailing codon to a codon favorable to amber suppression : in the context of a phage display library , this means that the trailing codon should be randomized such that , if it encodes leu , arg or ser , it does so via a suppression - favoring triplet . if the efficiency is less than 100 %, the library will contain some level of truncated peptide , i . e ., consisting only of the peptide encoded by the mrna up to the nonsense codon . if a phage display system were used , this truncated polypeptide would not be incorporated into the mature phage and so would not interfere with the system . however , any fusion system where the peptide was a carboxy - terminal fusion would contain some truncated peptide . it is possible that this fragment will bind to the target molecule . however , one may readily ascertain whether particular phage are bound by virtue of full - length or truncated peptide by ( 1 ) sequencing the displayed peptide , ( 2 ) transforming the recovered binding phage to a non - suppressor expression system , ( 3 ) using a non - suppressor expression system as a control , or ( 4 ) synthesizing and testing the putative binding peptide , and , optionally , the potentially competitive truncated peptide . another consideration is the specificity of the insertion . a suppressor system could insert just a single amino acid in every case , in which event it is absolutely specific . or it could insert one of a small number of different amino acids . for example , one suppressor known in the art inserts glu 80 % of the time , and gln 20 %. preferably , at least for suppressors other than of glu or gln , the specificity of insertion is at least 95 %, more preferably at least 99 %. a lack of specificity causes the problem that the peptide deduced by sequencing the relevant dna of a target - binding phage may not in fact be the target - binding peptide . however , since the invention contemplates placing the same phage library in a plurality of different suppressor systems , it should become readily apparent which peptide binds target most strongly . the ability to suppress a nonsense codon is imparted by a suppressor trna gene . the following amber suppressor trna genes are available . codon amino acid suppressed gene inserted reference uag supd serine steege , ( 1983 ) uag supe glutamine inokuchi et al ., ( 1979 ) uag supf tyrosine goodman et al ., ( 1968 ) uag / uaa supg lysine gorini , ( 1970 ) uag supp leucine thorbjarnardottir et al ., ( 1985 ) yashimura et al ., ( 1984 ) uag glyt glycine prather et al ., ( 1981 ) uag synthetic alanine normanly et al ., trnaala ( 1990 ) uag synthetic cysteine normanly et al ., trnacys ( 1990 ) uag synthetic glutamic normanly et al ., trnaglua acid / gluta ( 1990 ) mine uag synthetic glycine normanly et al ., trnagly1 ( 1990 ) uag synthetic histidine normanly et al ., trnahisa ( 1990 ) uag synthetic lysine normanly et al ., trnalys ( 1990 ) uag synthetic phenylalanine normanly et al ., trnaphe ( 1990 ) uag synthetic proline normanly et al ., trnaproh ( 1990 ) uag synthetic arginine normanly et al ., ftoirδ26 ( 1990 ) uga trpt tryptophan raftery et al ., ( 1984 ) in e . coli , the amber suppressing genes represent the majority of the described suppressor genes . there are , however , also suppressor genes for the other termination codons in e . coli taa - ochre and tga - opal . many of the ochre suppressors , unfortunately , suppress both taa and tag . there has been some work to increase the number of available opal suppressors ( mcclain et al ., 1990 ). this set is still less than the available amber suppressor strains . the availability of independent amber and opal suppressor genes would allow the construction of a strain expressing two suppressor genes , one amber and one opal . this makes it possible to construct a biased library that has two different suppressible codons at two different biased positions . thereby producing a double biased library . in the extreme case of all 20 possible opal and amber suppressors , then a single oligonucleotide cassette with a single opal codon and a single amber codon could be used to generate 400 different double biased libraries . ochre suppressors unfortunately suppress both uaa and uag . however , if exceptions are identified which suppress only ochre , they could be used . for techniques of constructing nonsense suppressor mutants of normal transfer rna genes , see kleina , et al ., j . mol . biol ., 213 : 705 - 17 ( 1990 ); normanly , et al ., j . mol . biol ., 213 : 719 - 26 ( 1990 ); miller , et al ., genome , 31 : 905 - 8 ( 1989 ). new suppressor strains could be generated by mutagenesis and / or recombinant dna techniques , as described by miller ( 1991 ) and martin et al ., ( 1996 ). while most of the suppressor systems which have been studied have been nonsense suppressors , it is also possible for a sense codon to be suppressed , so that whether that codon encodes are amino acid or another is dependent on whether expression occurs in a suppressor or a non suppressor strain . this type of suppression , which is called missense suppression , can occur as a result of altering either the anticodon , or the acceptor stem ( and hence the charged aa ), of the wild type transfer rna . suppressor mutants are known which cause the gly codons ggg and gga to be interpreted as arginine codons , or a glutamine residue to be transferred in response to the tyrosine codon uag . strong missense suppressors are rare because efficient substitution would have damaging effects on the function of other given . in a preferred biased peptide library embodiment , an internal residue is constant , so that the peptide sequence may be written as where xaa is either any naturally occurring amino acid , or any amino acid except cysteine , m and n are chosen independently from the range of 2 to 20 , the xaa may be the same or different , and aa 1 is the same naturally occurring amino acid for all peptides in the library but may be any amino acid . thus , the peptides of this embodiment are 5 - 41 amino acids long . more preferably , m and n are chosen independently from the range of 4 to 9 . thus , the length of t - he more preferred peptides is 9 to 19 amino acids . preferably , aa 1 is located at or near the center of the peptide . more preferably , aa 1 is either ( a ) at least five residues from both ends of the peptide , or ( b ) is in the middle 50 % of the peptide . more preferably , that m and n are not different by more than 2 ; most preferably m and n are equal . even if the chosen aa 1 is required ( or at least permissive ) of the tp binding activity , one may need particular flanking residues to assure that it is properly positioned . if aa 1 is more or less centrally located , the library presents numerous alternative choices for the flanking residues . if aa 1 is at an end , this flexibility is diminished . the most preferred libraries are those in which aa 1 is tryptophan ( w ), lysine ( l ), tyrosine ( y ), phenylalanine , aspartic acid ( d ), and cysteine ( c ). the effect of fixing one position in a library is to increase the occurrence of that particular residue from 1 in 20 to 20 in 20 , an increase of 20 fold . thus in theory if a particular residue is required for binding in the middle of the peptide , the rate of finding clones would be 20 fold higher than if a random residue were used . therefore by using 20libraries with one fixed residue the chances of finding members that bind to the target protein would be increased [ 20 ×(# of residues conserved for binding )] when compared to using completely random libraries . these 20 libraries ( or at least a subset of them ) would be effective against any target and no prior knowledge of the sequence for the peptide ligand would be required . ligands that bind to functional domains tend to have both constant as well as unique features . therefore , by using “ biased ” peptide libraries , one can ease the burden of finding ligands . for example , hpq occurs in most streptavidin - binding peptides , which bind with the hpq side chains oriented inward so as to interact with the biotin - binding site of the tp streptavidin . some of the residues that participate in binding biotin also interact with the peptides ; however , the peptides adopt an alternate method of utilizing binding determinants ( biochemistry 31 : 9350 - 4 ( 1992 )[ 93003082 ], crystal structure and ligand - binding studies of a screened peptide complexed with streptavidin , p . c . weber , m . w . pantoliano & amp ; l . d . thompson ). therefore , if one starts off with a biased library e . g . x ( 6 ) — h — x ( 6 ), then one finds many binding peptides in a short period of time because that library will be rich in peptides having the cognate binding site . the example above showed a biased library with one residue held constant . the net effect of this is to increase the number of peptides with the constant residue in that position . if this residue at this position is helpful for binding , then the number of individuals per library that will bind to the target protein will be increased . if all the amino acids are represented equally , then the number of potential binding peptides is increased 20 fold in a library made up of the 20 naturally occurring amino acids . libraries using different ratios of amino acids will be enriched according to the proportion of each residue in the starting library . of course , if the library is biased with a constant residue which happens to disrupt binding , the screening results will be negative . therefore , it may be advantageous to screen a plurality ( a panel ) of different biased peptide libraries in parallel . one could have a constant trp , another , a constant glu , etc . if two residues were held constant and both were required for binding , then the incidence of binders would be increased by a much larger amount . the incidence of occurrence is independent at each position , therefore holding two residues constant is multiplicative : in a simple case of equal representation , 20 fold for each site or 400 fold overall . evidence supporting this was found in the use of a two residue biased library to enrich for peptides which bind to src homology 3 domains ( sh3 ) ( proc . natl . acad . sci . usa . 93 : 1540 - 1544 ( 1996 ) distinct ligand preferences of src homology 3 domains from src , yes , abl , cortactin , p53 bp2 , plcgamma , crk , and grb2 . a . sparks , j . rider , n . hoffman , d . fowlkes , l . quilliam , and b . kay ). the authors found an increase in the titers of sh3 - binding phage approximately 100 fold over random libraries of the same size and complexity . this is close to the theoretical increase for these libraries (( 2 codons for p divided by 31 possible codons ) 2 = 240 fold increase ). in the present invention , if the library is biased at two positions , either one or both positions may be encoded by a suppressible codon . if both positions are so encoded , then either the same or different codons may be used . if the codons are the same , then the encoded aa ( in a suppressor strain context ) will be the same at both positions . if they are different , then these positions are independently determined by the choice of a suitable strain suppressing both codons as desired . the use of libraries biased at two positions known to be required for binding is an extremely powerful tool . however , to make parallel biased libraries which collectively include all eleven amino acid peptides , with , in each individual biased library , two constant residues , would require passing 110 libraries ( 11 positions for fixed residue 1 × 10 positions for fixed residue 2 ×) through 400 ( 20 for position 1 times 20 for position 2 ) different suppressor strains , or 880 libraries through 200 different suppressor strains , etc ., for a total of 44 , 000 possibilities . ( there being a tradeoff between the number of libraries and the number of strains .) even if one of the constant residues were always the middle residue , there would be 4 , 000 possibilities . while screening this number of possibilities may be possible , the increase in the number of binding peptides would probably not justify the complexities of the task . it is desirable to enrich for residues that are important for protein - peptide interactions . these residues contain side chains that can interact with other amino acids and are less likely to pack tightly , allowing a greater degree of freedom for interaction with other ligands . a study of residues at protein binding sites showed an overrepresentation of r , h , w , and y ( villar and kauvar , febs letters 349 : 125 - 130 ( 1994 ) amino acid preferences at protein binding sites ). a compilation of peptide sequences derived from the phage display against a series of proteins reveals that the amino acids are not found in equal amounts , that is to say that some amino acids appear in peptides that bind to various targets more frequently than other amino acids . a graph which shows the raw incidence of residue occurrence in peptides binding to any of 16 proteins is shown in fig1 ; fig2 shows the effect of correcting for codon usage . there is a clear overrepresentation of aromatic residues , proline , cysteine and aspartic acid . biased libraries with these residues fixed or scanning through the displayed peptide are preferred , whereas biased libraries with residues that are underrepresented ( such as alanine , methionine , and lysine ) are less preferred , with libraries containing the remaining residues as fixed or scanning residues are of intermediate interest . as new peptides are described for additional targets , this data set should be updated and reevaluated . nonetheless , the trends are quite clear . an empirical way of determining which residues are preferred would be to take a representative mixture of proteins and bind to them a random synthetic peptide library . after washing away the peptides that did not bind , the remaining peptides could be eluted and the molar ratio of residues remaining bound could be determined . the profile should tell which residues result in peptides which would bind to the original mixture of proteins . this approach would also work on an individual target , providing initial information on residues important for binding . an alternative method for determining which residues are preferred would be to take the mixture of proteins and use a set of phage display libraries in which one residue of the displayed peptide is fixed to select for binding phage . after several rounds of affinity selection , the libraries with the greatest number of binding phage should be those where the fixed residue is contributing to the binding of the displayed peptides . while certain synthetic strategies have been discussed above , the present invention is not limited , other than vis - a - vis use of a suppressible codon , to any particular method of synthesizing a combinatorial peptide library with one or more predetermined positions held constant , or with a particular mixture of amino acids at a given position . a peptide library may be prepared by biological or nonbiological synthesis methods ; the present invention requires use of a biological method . in a biological synthesis method , a gene encoding the peptides of interest is expressed in a host cell so that the peptides are displayed either on the surface of the cell or on the outer coat of phage produced by the cell . of course , to achieve diversity , the gene must be randomized at those codons corresponding to variable residues of the peptide . it thus is not a single dna , but rather a dna mixture , which is introduced into the host cell culture , so that each cell has the potential , depending on which dna it receives , of expressing any of the many possible peptide sequences of the library . ( on average , each cell will express only one of the sequences of the mixture .) the gene may be randomized by , in the course of synthesis , using a mixture of nucleotides rather than a pure nucleotide during appropriate synthetic cycles . the synthesis cycles may add one base at a time , or an entire codon . in screening phage libraries , it is also routine to immobilize the tp on a solid support , since nonbinding phage can be removed . ( science 249 : 404 - 6 ( 1990 ) [ 90333257 ], random peptide libraries : a source of specific protein binding molecules , j . j . devlin , l . c . panganiban & amp ; p . e . devlin ; science 249 : 386 - 90 ( 1990 ) [ 90333256 ], searching for peptide ligands with an epitope library , j . k . scott & amp ; g . p . smith ; gene 128 : 59 - 65 ( 1993 )[ 93285470 ], an m13 phage library displaying random 38 - amino - acid peptides as a source of novel sequences with affinity to selected targets , b . k . kay , n . b . adey , y . s . he , j . p . manfredi , a . h . mataragnon & amp ; d . m . fowlkes ). a structured panel of biased peptide libraries may be prepared by cloning the dna mixture comprising the suppressible stop codon into a plurality of different suppressor strains , simultaneously or sequentially . alternatively , phage from one library may be used to infect a different suppressor strain to obtain a new library belonging to the same structured panel . the libraries of a structured panel may be synthesized and screened in any order . the target may be any material , whether a unitary compound or a mixture or composite of some kind , for which it is desirable to find a binding peptide . suitable molecular targets include peptides , proteins , carbohydrates , lipids and combinations thereof ( e . g ., glyloproteins ), other organic compounds , organo - metallic compounds , and minerals . suitable composite targets include cells , tissues and organs . suitable mixtures include biological fluids such as blood , urine , cerebrospinal fluid and semen , and extracts of plant and animal tissues , as well as nonbiological fluids such as waste waters , and rocks or minerals . if the target is a protein , the target protein may be a naturally occurring protein , or a subunit or domain thereof , from any natural source , including a virus , a microorganism ( including bacterial , fungi , algae , and protozoa ), an invertebrate ( including insects and worms ), or the normal or cancerous cells of a vertebrate ( especially a mammal , bird or fish and , among mammals , particularly humans , apes , monkeys , cows , pigs , goats , llamas , sheep , rats , mice , rabbits , guinea pigs , cats and dogs ). alternatively , the target protein may be a mutant of a natural protein . mutations may be introduced to facilitate the labeling or immobilization of the target protein , or to alter its biological activity ( an inhibitor of a mutant protein may be useful to selectively inhibit an undesired activity of the mutant protein and leave other activities substantially intact ). the target protein may be , inter alia , a glyco -, lipo -, phosphor or metalloprotein . it may be a nuclear , cytoplasmic , membrane , or secreted protein . it may , but need not , be an enzyme . the known binding partners ( if any ) of the target protein may be , inter alia , other proteins , oligo - or polypeptides , nucleic acids , carbohydrates , lipids , or small organic or inorganic molecules or ions . the biological activity or function of the target protein may be , but is not limited to , being a the binding protein may have more than one paratope and they may be the same or different . different paratopes may interact with epitopes of different binding partners . an individual paratope may be specific to a particular binding partner , or it may interact with several different binding partners . a protein can bind a particular binding partner . through several different binding sites . the binding sites may be continuous or discontinuous ( vis - a - vis the primary sequence of the protein ). bienz , m ; 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