Patent Application: US-52805795-A

Abstract:
cd46 is a family of human cell surface glycoprotein with cofactor activity for factor i mediated cleavage of complement components c3b and c4b . disclosed are novel nucleic acid sequences arising from splice variants or derivatives thereof of the structural gene encoding the family of proteins . from these sequences recombinant derived proteins and antibodies thereto can be produced . the proteins can resemble native cd46 isoforms or comprise new permutations of exons within the structural gene . the nucleic acids , proteins and antibodies have utility as probes , diagnostic reagents and therapeutic agents .

Description:
using the sequence of the 23 n - terminal amino acids previously obtained from the 66 and 56 kda α and β chains of cd46 ( purcell et al . ( 1989 ) immunol . cell biol . 67 , 279 - 389 ), five oligonucleotide probes were synthesized ( table 1 ) using an applied biosystems 380a dna synthesizer ( applied biosystems inc .). short oligonucleotides containing either the full component of redundant codons , or longer oligonucleotides selected to have the most likely codon using the algorithm of lathe et al . ( 1985 ) j . mol . biol . 183 , 1 - 12 , were end - labelled with γ 32 datp using t4 polynucleotide kinase ( maxam and gilbert ( 1977 ) methods in enzymology 65 , 499 - 560 ) and unincorporated label removed with a sepharose g - 25 spun column . a human placental cdna library containing 5 × 10 6 independent clones in the λgt11 vector ( clonetech ) was plated at a density of 5 × 10 4 p . f . u . per 15 cm plate and plaque dna transferred in triplicate and covalently linked to nylon membranes ( hybond - n , amersham ; huynh et al . ( 1988 ) dna cloning i , a practical approach , glover ( ed ), oxford pp 47 - 48 . filters were probed with three pools of oligonucleotides in hybridization buffer containing 5 × pe ( 1 × pe = 0 . 133 m phosphate / 1 mm edta buffer , ph 6 . 9 ). 7 % sds , 0 . 5 % blotto ( dried skim milk powder ), 1 polyethylene glycol 2000 at 42 ° c . and washed with 2 × ssc ( 0 . 3m , nacl , 0 . 03m sodium citrate ph 7 . 0 ), 0 . 1 % sds at 2 ° c . below the lowest melting temperature of the oligonucleotides in the pool ( reed and mann , 1985 ). clones hybridizing with two or more of the pools were selected for further screening with both pools and individual oligonucleotides . after four rounds of screening , six clones ( pm5 . 1 , 0 . 2 , 0 . 3 , 0 . 6 , 0 . 8 and 0 . 10 ), were isolated and phage dna prepared by the de52 - sepharose method ( benson and taylor ( 1984 ) bio techniques , 2 , 126 - 127 ). inserts from cdna clones were prepared by digesting with ecori and isolating insert bands by electrophoresis on an 0 . 8 % agarose gel and subcloning into the pvz plasmid vector for sequencing and other analyses . dna analysis . the nucleotide sequences of the cd46 cdna clones were determined by the dideoxynucleotide chain termination method using the t4 polymerase , sequenase ii ( tabors and richardson ( 1987 ) proc . natl . acad . sci . u . s . a ., 84 , 4767 - 4777 ) ( united states biochemical corporation ) from double and single stranded templates of cdna clone in the pvz vector . products were analyzed on denaturing acrylamide gels containing urea . the sequencing strategy included using internal oligonucleotide primers , and using clones containing cdna inserts truncated by the mung bean exonuclease iii method ( sambrook et al . ( 1989 ) molecular cloning , a laboratory manual ( 2nd ed ), cold spring harbour laboratory ) to sequence both strands of each clone . sequences were collated and corrected and sequence searches performed with the aid of a vax computer using the melbsys and dbquery suite of programs . the nucleotide sequences of these clones were mostly identical , having a single open reading frame , however five of the six clones differed at the 3 &# 39 ; end of the long open reading frame . clone pm5 . 2 had a shorter 3 &# 39 ; untranslated region than clone pm5 . 6 but was otherwise identical . the complete nucleotide sequence of the pm5 . 1 clone , which had the longest contiguous coding sequence , is shown in fig1 a - 1d ( seq id no : 1 ). the pm5 . 1 clone encodes a protein of 377 amino acids from the single long open reading frame , commencing from an initiation codon ( atg ) at nucleotide position 33 or at position 102 . the amino acid sequence commencing from the cys at amino acid position 35 is identical to that obtained experimentally from purified cd46 ( purcell et al . ( 1990 ) immunogenetics , 31 , 21 - 28 ) and the sequence of the first 34 amino acids corresponds with that predicted for a typical leader peptide that is cleaved to generate the mature protein ( von heijne ( 1986 ) nucleic acids res ., 14 , 4683 - 4690 ). the molecular weight calculated for the mature protein is 38 , 353 da , which correlates well with earlier analyses of deglycosylated cd46 ( purcell et al . ( 1989 ) immunol . cell biol ., 67 , 279 - 281 ) and biosynthetically labelled mcp precursor ( ballard et al . ( 1988 ) j . immunol ., 141 , 3923 - 3929 ). there are three potential n - linked glycosylation sites ( fig1 a - 1d ) and multiple potential o - linked glycosylation sites , many of which exist in a region between amino acids 253 and 280 . the addition of carbohydrate at these sites would account for the increased molecular weight of the mature protein . a stretch of 23 hydrophobic amino acids from position 295 to 317 are consistent with a membrane spanning domain ( kyte and doolittle ( 1982 ) j . mol . biol ., 157 , 105 - 132 ). the rest of the open reading frame encodes a cytoplasmic tail of 26 mostly charged amino acids . four regions of approximately 60 amino acids were identified at the nh 2 - terminal end of the mature protein that have between 18 - 35 % amino acid identity ( fig2 ), and these each contain the consensus of the family of complement regulatory molecules and can therefore be considered as short consensus sequence repeat ( scr ) units of this family of molecules ( reid et al . ( 1986 ) immunol . today , 7 , 230 - 234 ). the pm5 . 3 , pm5 . 6 and pm5 . 10 clones each have segments of coding sequence deleted at regions 3 &# 39 ; to the segment encoding the four scr units of the prototype pm5 . 1 clone ( fig1 a - 1d ). the pm5 . 10 clone lacks 93 bp of nucleotide sequence that encodes 16 of the 23 amino acids of the cytoplasmic tail and a portion of the 3 &# 39 ; untranslated sequence of the pm5 . 1 clone ( fig1 fig3 a - 3c , seq id nos : 4 - 10 ). since this 93 bp fragment contains the termination codon ending the open reading frame of pm5 . 1 , the new reading frame of pm5 . 10 includes a segment of sequence that forms the initial portion of the 3 &# 39 ; untranslated sequence in pm5 . 1 . therefore , the cd46 molecule encoded by pm5 . 10 has a cytoplasmic tail of 33 amino acids , 23 of which differ from those encoded by pm5 . 1 ( seq id no : 7 )( fig3 a - 3d ). this new tail would be longer by 7 amino acids , but would also have a high proportion of charged amino acids . the pm5 . 10 clone is not full - length and lacks the sequence at the 5 &# 39 ; end that would encode the leader peptide ( fig4 a - 4e ), however the remainder of the nucleotide sequence is identical to pm5 . 1 . the nucleotide sequence of the pm5 . 10 clone perfectly matches within that of a mcp cdna clone isolated independently , without a single nucleotide different ( lublin et al . ( 1988 ) j . exp . med ., 168 , 181 - 194 ). the pm5 . 3 clone also lacks the 93 bp fragment absent in pm5 . 10 , but has an additional deletion of 42 bp from a region encoding the second half ( 14 amino acids ) of the ser / thr rich region ( fig3 a - 3c ( seq id no : 8 ), fig4 a - 4e ) removing two potential o - linked carbohydrate addition sites and five kink forming pro residues . since loss of this segment of dna does not change the reading frame the remainder of the cd46 protein encoded by this clone would have the same amino acid sequence as that encoded by pm5 . 10 . the pm5 . 6 clone also lacks the 93 bp fragment absent in pm5 . 10 , but has an additional deletion of 37 bp from a region encoding the second half ( 12 amino acids ) of the hydrophobic transmembrane domain resulting from the use of a cryptic splice acceptor sequence ( tgttgtcccgtacag , seq id no : 4 ) at the 3 &# 39 ; and of this deleted segment ( fig3 a - 3c , fig4 a - 4e ). the absence of this fragment changes the reading frame and the cd46 protein encoded by the pm5 . 6 clone would have 34 different amino acids at the carboxyl - terminus compared to cd46 protein from the other clones . subsequently , the resulting cd46 molecule ( seq id no : 6 ) would have hydrophilic and predominantly charged amino acids substituting for half of the transmembrane domain , and this may lead to secretion of this version of cd46 from the cell . the pm5 . 6 clone had a 3 &# 39 ; untranslated region that was 465 bp longer than the pm5 . 1 clone ( fig1 b ). a second independent clone , pm5 . 2 , had the same set of deletions as pm5 . 6 , but was 286 bp shorter than pm5 . 6 in the 3 &# 39 ; untranslated region . neither a poly ( a ) signal sequence ( aataaa ) nor a poly ( a ) tail was found in the 3 &# 39 ; untranslated sequences of any of the clones . the sequence of the pm5 . 8 clone was identical to the pm5 . 1 clone in the portion encoding the nh 2 leader and four scr regions , however the sequence after nucleotide 890 of pm5 . 1 was different to any sequence derived from all the other clones , ( fig3 b ) seq id no : 9 and 10 ) and results from reading through of the cdna into an intron sequence after the fourth scr ( see below ). if protein were encoded by this new sequence it would contain a stretch of 16 hydrophobic amino acids possibly serving as a membrane spanning sequence , although this is a little shorter than typically found ( kyte and doolittle ( 1982 ) j . mol . biol ., 157 , 105 - 132 ). the putative cytoplasmic tail of this version of cd46 would also contain a high proportion of charged amino acids . the structure of the proteins derived from the 5 alternative versions of cd46 cdna clones isolated from the human placental cdna library are summarized in fig4 . rna was prepared from fresh human placental tissue using guanidinium isothiocyanate method ( chirgwin et al . ( 1979 ) biochem ., 18 , 5294 - 5299 ) and poly ( a )+ rna isolated by chromatography on oligo ( dt ) cellulose ( aviv and leder , ( 1972 ) proc . natl . acad . sci . u . s . a ., 69 , 1408 - 1412 ). rna was denatured and size fractionated on a 1 % agarose gel in the presence of 0 . 8 % formaldehyde and blotted onto nylon membranes using 0 . 1m naoh transfer buffer . filters were prehybridized with 4 × pe defined earlier , 50 % formamide , 7 % sds , 0 . 5 % blotto ( skim milk powder ), 1 % polyethylene glycol at 42 ° c . then hybridized with either pm5 . 1 cdna insert labelled with 32pα - atp by nick transplantation , or with oligonucleotides complimentary to sequence spania the splice site or to or deleted segments of the cdna clones ( table 2 ). oligonucleotides were end - labelled using t4 polynucleotide kinase as before . filters were washed in 1 × ssc at 60 ° c . for the cdna probes or 1 × ssc at 1 ° c . below the tdmin for the oligonucleotides . the size and number of cd46 mrna species was determined in samples of spleen from human and gibbonape cell lines ( fig5 a - 5b ). each of the samples tested had a dominant band at 3 . 2 kb and the spleen infiltrated with hairy cell leukaemia ( fig5 c ) had two other fainter bands of 4 . 8 and 7 . 7 kb . using densitometric scanning equivalent levels of the 3 . 2 kb cd46 mrna were observed in spleen from patients with non - hodgkins lymphoma and polycythemia vera and in the human cell - lines peer and u937 and in the gibbon ape cell line 144 - mla . the 144 - mla line is chronically infected with the gibbon ape leukaemia virus which encodes a virion surface glycoprotein ( su70 ) that bears a cross - reactive antigenic epitope of cd46 recognised by the e4 . 3 mab ( purcell et al . ( 1989 ) leukocyte typing iv white cell differentiation antigens , pp 653 - 655 , oxford university press ). the e4 . 3 mab to cd46 recognised thirty fold more protein at the surface of 144 - mla cells than other human cell lines , however the equivalent levels of cd46 mrna supports the earlier finding that the e4 . 3 mab predominantly reacts with the gibbon ape leukaemia virus surface gp70 molecules on the 144 - mla cell . the spleen sample infiltrated with hairy cell leukaemia showed a ten fold greater level of the 3 . 2 kb cd46 mrna than the other spleen samples and the histopathologically normal spleen from a trauma patient had twenty fold less cd46 mrna than the spleen samples infiltrated by neoplastic cells . this again showed that malignant tissue samples and cell - lines contain ten to twenty fold more cd46 than the corresponding non - malignant cell and shows that this is due to elevated transcription of cd46 rna . size variations of around 100 bp in the 3 . 2 kb band , as predicted from the sequence of the clones , were beyond the resolution capability of these gels . to verify the existence of , and examine the relative proportion of , the alternatively spliced cd46 rna species predicted from the clones , a series of antisense oligonucleotides were constructed that would differentially hybridize with alternately spliced cd46 mrna ( table 2 ). these were used to probe northern blots of poly ( a ) + rna from human placenta ( fig6 ). when a cd46 cdna insert from the pm5 . 1 clone was used as a probe three bands were noted , a broad band at 3 . 2 kb as with the other human cells , a band of 1 . 9 kb and a fainter band of 5 . 2 kb . the 1 . 9 kb band probably relates to the use of cryptic polyadenylation signals ( aatata or aatgaa ) found at positions 1579 and 1592 of the pm5 . 1 clone . these sequences were apparently used by the clone of mcp isolated by lublin et al . ( 1988 ) j . exp . med ., 168 , 181 - 194 . hybridization with the on63 oligonucleotide , specific for rna lacking the 93 bp segment of the pm5 . 1 clone between positions 1115 and 1208 ( i . e ., corresponding to the pm5 . 3 , pm5 . 6 and pm5 . 10 clones ), yielded a faint band of 3 . 2 kb ( arrowed in fig6 lane d ) showing that rna lacking the 93 bp segments is a genuine component of the pool of cd46 mrna . hybridization with the on46 oligonucleotide , specific for rna containing the 93 bp segment ( pm5 . 1 ) yielded a predominant 3 . 2 kb cd46 band ( fig6 lane c ). hybridization with the on35 oligonucleotide , which is specific for rna containing pm5 . 3 type of deletion of 42 bp , also yielded the 3 . 2 kb cd46 rna band verifying that a subpool of cd46 rna contains this deletion ( fig6 lane d ). hybridization of the on44 oligonucleotide , which is specific for rna retaining the 42 bp deletion yielded a very faint 3 . 2 kb cd46 rna band showing that a subpool of cd46 rna retains this deleted segment ( fig6 lane e ). hybridization with the on68 oligonucleotide , which is specific for the new ( intron ) sequence of the pm5 . 8 clone , did not result in the detection of any rna bands ( fig6 lane f ). the results show that the pm5 . 1 , pm5 . 3 , pm5 . 6 and pm5 . 10 cdna clones of cd46 isolated from the placental cdna library result from the presence of corresponding alternative rna species for cd46 and are not a result of rearrangements during the construction of the library or other manipulations . placental poly ( a ) + rna and total rna was treated with rnase - free dnase and used as a template for the synthesis of cdna with 100 u molony murine leukemia virus reverse transcriptase . reactions of 5 μg poly ( a ) + rna or 50 μg total rna ; 12 . 5 μm ( each ) dntps , 0 . 25 μm on24 , and oligo ( dt ) 16 - 20 mer or random hexamers as primers were incubated at 37 ° c . for 1 hour , then dna was amplified by polymerase chain reaction ( pcr ) in 0 . 5 mm mgcl 2 , 10 mm tris hcl ( ph 8 . 3 ), 50 mm kcl , 200 mm ( each ) dntps , 4utaq dna polymerase ( amersham ). pairs of oligonucleotides were added to a final concentration of 1 μm and template was added at 2 μl , 1 μg , or 1 ng per 50 μl reaction for first strand cdna , genomic dna and cdna clones respectively . to label the product the dctp concentration was reduced to 100 mm and 0 . 5 μl α 32 p - dctp was added . after 3 min . at 95 ° c . reactions were subjected to 30 cycles of denaturation ( 93 ° c ., 1 min .) annealing ( see table 2 , 2 min . ), and elongation , ( 72 ° c ., 1 min ). unlabelled pcr products were size fractionated on a 1 . 5 % agarose gel transferred to hybond n + in 0 . 5m naoh , 1 . 5m nacl for probing with oligonucleotides . radiolabelled pcr samples were analyzed by electrophoresis on 6 % acrylamide gels containing urea with sequencing reactions as size markers and autoradiographed at - 70 ° c . on xar - 5 or xrp film . to overcome the weak hybridization signals obtained in northern blots using the type specific oligonucleotide probes , placental poly ( a )+ cytoplasmic rna was converted to cdna with reverse transcriptase by priming with on24 or with oligo ( dt ) and alternate cdnas for cd46 amplified by polymerase chain reaction ( pcr ) using cd46 primers on57 and on24 that hybridize outside the region of alternative splicing . electrophoresis of labelled amplification products from the different cd46 clones and from placental cdna on 6 % acrylamide gels revealed a number of different sized bands ( fig7 a ), including bands corresponding in size to those amplified from the pm5 . 1 , pm5 . 3 , pm5 . 6 and pm5 . 10 clones on ( 391 , 256 , 261 and 298 bp respectively ). several additional bands ( 219 , 247 , 289 , 304 and 349 bp ) were observed from placental cdna samples primed with both on24 and oligo ( dt ). while several of these extra bands differ from the 391 bp pm5 . 1 -- type band by sizes that may correspond to the deletion of different sets of the 37 , 42 and 93 bp segments ( eg . 349 = 391 - 42 , or 219 = 391 - 37 - 42 - 93 ) or of the 27 and 75 bp segments between the 42 , 37 and 93 bp regions ( eg . 289 = 391 - 75 - 27 , or 249 = 391 - 42 - 75 - 27 ) the structure of these and their significance requires further investigation . a doublet of 415 and 419 bp which is larger than the pcr products from any of the clones was also produced from cdna primed with on24 but not with oligo ( dt ). the rna molecules giving rise to these bands either lack a poly ( a ) tail or exist in the 5 . 2 kb poly ( a )+ rna pool which would be reverse transcribed to the region of alternative splicing at low efficiency and may not be functionally important . none of the bands in the cdna samples arose due to amplification of contaminating clones or genomic dna because no bands were obtained after pcr from various controls including reaction mixes lacking template dna , cdna reaction mixes lacking reverse transcriptase ( hence containing only rna ), an aliquot of reverse transcriptase enzyme mix used in cdna synthesis and genomic dna . to confirm the identity of the different bands amplified from cdna , unlabelled pcr products were transferred to nylon filters after agarose gel electrophoresis and probed with the type -- specific oligonucleotides ( fig7 b - 7g ). probing with on63 for the 93 bp deletion of pm5 . 3 , pm5 . 6 and pm5 . 10 ( fig7 d ) revealed a smear of bands from the position of the pm5 . 10 band to below the pm5 . 3 and pm5 . 6 bands . probing within the 93 bp sequence with on46 showed a smear of several bands around the size of the pm5 . 1 band ( fig7 f ). probing with on44 for the 42 bp sequence deleted in pm5 . 3 ( fig7 c ) detected several bands corresponding in size to the bands from the pm5 . 1 , pm5 . 6 and pm5 . 10 clones . the on35 probe spanning the 42 bp deletion ( fig7 e ) also detected several bands including one of similar size to the pm5 . 3 band . the on45 probe which lies within the 37 bp deletion ( fig7 g ) detected several bands corresponding to pm5 . 1 , pm5 . 3 and pm5 . 10 . each of these oligonucleotide probes confirmed the existence of rna molecules in placenta that have the deletions identified in the cd46 cdna clones however these probes detected with more pcr products amplified from cdna than accounted for by amplification from the clones . this shows that several of the extra bands seen in fig7 a result from different combinations of the deleted segments contained in the clones . because the on36 oligonucleotide which spans the site of the 37 bp deletion failed to discriminate pm5 . 6 from the other cd46 clones when used as a probe in hybridization studies , we used on35 as a primer to amplify placental cdna prepared with oligo ( dt ) priming by pcr ( fig8 a ). a product of 756 bp was amplified from the pm5 . 6 clone and from placental cdna but not from controls . two larger bands of unknown identity were also obtained from the pcr with placental cdna . these results show that the 37 bp deletion of the pm5 . 6 and pm5 . 2 clones is due to rna with this structure and not due to cloning artifact . further , pcr amplification reactions were performed on cdna from cytoplasmic rna and genomic dna using primers at either side of the boundaries of the deleted segments and the regions separating these to locate the intron / exon junctions ( table 3 ). after pcr across their boundaries , the 42 and 93 bp deleted segments , and the 45 bp region between the site of the pm5 . 8 alteration and before the 42 bp deletion of pm5 . 3 , were each found to be separate exons yielding larger or no bands with genomic dna template compared with cdna template . introns were located within the 75 bp region between the 42 and 37 bp deletions and the 5 &# 39 ; boundary of the 37 bp deletion site . by contrast , no intron was identified at the 3 &# 39 ; boundary of the 37 bp deletion , but rather at the boundary of the adjacent 27 bp region and the 93 bp segment . this suggests that the 37 and 27 bp regions are combined to form a single exon . the existence of an intron at the position where the pm5 . 8 sequence differs from the other clones and the presence of a consensus splice donor sequence ( aaggtacaa ) at the site of sequence divergence led us to examine if this clone resulted from the failure to splice this intron . genomic dna from placenta and cdna made by priming poly ( a )+ cytoplasmic rna with random hexamers were used as template in pcr using on85 and on83 to amplify across the region of sequence difference ( fig8 b ). a band of 300 bp was produced from the pm5 . 8 control and from genomic dna , but not from cdna or other controls , showing the different sequence in pm5 . 8 is due to the failure of removal of this intron . the technique of pcr has been applied to examine the alternative rnas from different tissues using on85 prepared to a unique stretch of nucleotide sequence in the fourth scr ( table 2 ) and on24 in the 3 &# 39 ; intranslated region beyond the alternatively spliced region . these were used in pcr using single stranded cdna template reverse transcribed from rna from many cell types including several placenta , peripheral blood leukocytes , leukaemia cells from patients with several different malignancies , spleen from trauma , leukaemia and lymphoma patients and cell lines derived from lymphoid and solid tumours . this analysis has shown several interesting points ; i ) the serine / threonine rich region of cd46 is composed of three separate exons , the third of these was deleted from the pm5 . 3 clone of the cd46 the second is the 45 bp region between the sites of the pm5 . 3 and pm5 . 8 deletions and the first is another 45 bp segment that is not represented in any of our placental cdna clones ; ii ) the first of the three ser / thr region exons is rarely included in spliced rna in placenta ; iii ) the third ser / thr region exon is rarely included in spliced rna from several cell - lines , but is commonly spliced from rna from placentae ; iv ) the second ser / thr region exon is alternatively spliced in the rna of most tissues examined to date ; v ) one 93 bp exon containing an inframe termination condon is alternately spliced to yield two different cytoplasmic tails corresponding to the two cytoplasmic tails found in our pm5 . 1 and pm5 . 10 clones , all cell types examined to date have alternately spliced this exon in the pool of rnas encoding several cd46 isotypes ; vi ) a third type of cytoplasmic tail used in the pm5 . 6 clone arises is some cell types due to the use of a cryptic splice acceptor sequence within the second of two exons encoding the transmembrance domain , generating a potentially secreted from of cd46 . the pcr technique has been useful in mapping the intron / exon boundaries and identifying that different spliced rna species exist in different cell types , however most cd46 rna splice variants are common to all cell types . synthetic peptides corresponding to the alternative carboxyl - terminal sequences were used to generate antiserum specific for cd46 isoforms . these cd46 isotype - specific antisera were used in conjunction with our e4 . 3 monodonal antibody which reacts with all isotypes of cd46 in an enzyme linked immunosorbant assay that specifically detects cd46 variants containing the alternative fragments of nucleic acid identified in the alternative cdna clones ( pm5 . 1 , 5 . 3 , 5 . 6 and 5 . 8 ). as will be apparent from the foregoing , the presence of spliced rnas encoding cd46 was totally unexpected . the above described examples and conclusions were consolidated to characterize the molecular events leading to the isoform heterogeneity and polymorphic expression of cd46 . in particular cd46 and rna from different tissues was examined . fourteen alternatively spliced rna transcripts ( several of which correspond to pm . 5 series clones described above ) were found to be differently expressed , explaining the heterogenous nature of cd46 in tissue . tissues . heparinized blood from healthy donors or leukemic patients with chronic or acute leukemia was fractionated by centrifugation through ficoll - paque ( pharmacia , uppsala , sweden ) or mono - poly resolving medium ( icn , irvine , calif .) according to manufacturers instructions , to obtain lymphocytes and granulocytes . the ebv - transformed b cell line was produced in the research center for cancer and transplantation , the university of melbourne . full term placentae , a resected colon tumor and adjacent normal colon were separately homogenized for rna extraction or teased into single cell suspensions for protein extraction . semen samples obtained from healthy volunteers were used unfractionated for rna extraction ; spermatozoa were isolated from protein analysis by liquefying for 30 min at room temperature , centrifuging for 10 min at 700 g and washing (× 4 ) with phosphate buffered saline . western blot . cell lysates were prepared at 5 × 10 7 cells / ml ( or 5 × 10 8 spermatozoa / ml ) in 0 . 5 % nonidet - p40 in 10 mm tris , 0 . 15 nacl , ph 7 . 4 containing 1 mm edta and 1 mm phenylmethylsulfonyl fluoride . cell lysates were acid / base dissociated by the techniques of swack et al . ( 1987 ) biotechniques , 5 , 564 - 571 and 30 μg aliquots of protein ( measured using the biorad protein assay ) were separated by sds - page under non - reducing conditions ( see laemmli ( 1970 ) nature 227 , 680 - 685 ). proteins were electroblotted onto immobilon p membrane ( millipore , bedford , mass .) and the remaining protein - binding sites were blocked with 2 % casein . the cd46 isoforms were detected by the anti - cd46 monoclonal antibody , e4 . 3 described in sparrow et al . ( 1983 ) hum . immunol . 7 , 1 - 15 , followed by incubation with horseradish peroxidase - conjugated anti - mouse igg reagent ( dakopatts , denmark ) and visualisation with a cobalt - enhanced diaminobenzidine substrate . cdna synthesis and pcr amplification . total rna was prepared using the guanidinium isothiocyanate method ( chirgwin et al . ( 1979 ) biochem . 18 , 5294 - 5299 ). first strand cdna was synthesized from 10 μg rna in 25 μl using 200 u murine leukemia virus reverse transcriptase ( brl , gaithersburg , md . ), 0 . 25 mm datp , dgtp , dttp , dctp ( each ) and 0 . 5 μg random hexamer oligonucleotides . pcr amplification was performed with 1 u ` replinase ` ( nen , boston , mass . ), 5 μl first strand cdna , 0 . 2 mm datp , dgtp , dttp , dctp ( each ) and 1 μm each of primers p1 and p2 in 50 mm tris - hcl ( ph9 . 0 ), 20 mm ( nh 4 ) 2 so 4 , 1 . 5 mm mgcl 2 , with or without 2 . 5 μci α 32 p ! dctp . after 2 min at 95 ° c ., 1 min ), annealing ( 57 ° c ., 2 min ), and elongation ( 72 ° c ., 2 min ). stringent precautions were taken to avoid cross - contamination between the rna and cdna samples , including their preparation in a laboratory in which cd46 clones and pcr products were never handled . controls , including no cdna and individual cdna clones are templates , were included in each pcr to confirm that cross - contamination did not occur . analysis of pcr products . the amplified pcr product was extracted with chloroform , and 5 μl aliquots ( 5 % of total product ) were electrophoresed on 6 % denaturing polyacrylamide gels and autoradiographed . for nucleotide sequencing , bands were excised and eluted in 0 . 5m nh 4 oac , 10 mm mgoac , 1 mm edta , 0 . 1 % sds for 16 hrs at 4 ° c ., then precipitated with ethanol . 25 % of each sample was reamplified with the same primers , extracted with chloroform and purified using elutip - d columns ( schleicher and schuell , dassel , germany ). the sample was denatured with 0 . 2m naoh , neutralised , precipitated with ethanol and sequenced using 32 p !- labelled primers and t7 dna polymerase ( amersham , poole , uk ). to assess the expression of each splice variant in different tissues , cdna was amplified in the absence of α 32 p ! dctp and electrophoresed on 6 % denaturing polyacrylamide gels , electroblotted onto nylon membranes in 45 mm tris - borate , 2 mm edta , fixed with 0 . 25m naoh , 1 . 5m nacl , and probed with oligonucleotides specific for alternatively spliced exons or groups of exons ( see fig1 for location of exons ). western blot analysis of the different m r forms of cd46 protein in 16 tissues demonstrated several important features of cd46 protein heterogeneity ( fig9 ). 1 ) a 76 kda isoform ( termed γ ) was observed in ebv - transformed b cells ( lane 5 ) and two of the three leukemic samples ( lanes 8 , 10 ). 2 ) lymphocytes from healthy donors and cells from leukemic patients contained cd46 isoforms that resolves into two major clusters of bands at 66 and 56 kda ( termed α and β respectively , previously called upper and lower ), whose relative abundance varied according to an autosomal codominant polymorphism ( 9 ). the three phenotypes are : α - predominant ( lanes 1 and 8 ); α and β in equal proportions ( lanes 2 and 9 ); and β - predominant ( lanes 3 and 10 ). 3 ) some placentae expressed an isoform of 63 kda ( termed ξ , lanes 14 - 16 ), not seen in the other tissues , in addition to the α and β isoforms ( lanes 13 - 16 ). 4 ) spermatozoa expressed a unique 35 kda form of cd46 ( termed δ , lanes 6 and 7 ) not found in the other tissues examined , they did not express the α and β isoforms . it was also noted that granulocytes showed isoforms up to 78 kda ( termed ζ ) together with the typical α and β isoforms ( lane 4 ). both normal colon and colon carcinoma tissue from a single donor expressed predominantly α cd46 isoforms with no difference between malignant and normal tissue ( lanes 11 and 12 ). thus , there are two types of polymorphism apparent here : a ) allelic differences in the proportions of α and β isoforms ; and b ) tissue differences in expression of the α , β , γ , δ , ξ and ζ isoforms . to investigate alternative splicing of cd46 mrna , we first identified all alternatively spliced rnas from the tissues described above , a number of placentae and lymphocyte samples , and from hemopoietic cell lines . rna from these tissues was converted to cdna and amplified , and all new splice variants identified were sequenced . no alternative splicing of rna in the scr region was observed ( data not shown ), thus excluding exon 1 - 6 ( fig9 ) from contributing to protein heterogeneity . amplification and sequencing between the fourth scr and the 3 &# 39 ; untranslated region ( primers p1 and p2 , fig1 a ), however , identified 14 differently spliced rnas . sequencing indicated that most transcripts were derived from the alternative splicing of exons 8 , 9 , 12 and 13 shown in fig1 b , fig1 , but other rnas contained new sequence immediately downstream of the scr region ( fig1 c , seq id nos : 11 and 12 ). this sequence was designated exon 7 ( stp a ) because of its position in cd46 mrna and its derived amino acid sequence , and completes the description of the exons identified in genomic clones for cd46 . the nucleotide sequence of exon 7 was homologous to the sequence of the two other stp - encoding exons , as there was 69 % identity with exon 8 , ( seq id no : 17 ), and 62 % identity with exon 9 . the splicing of exons 7 , 8 and 9 ( seq id no : 19 ) did not change the reading frame but effected the number of potential o - glycosylation sites as this region is rich in ser and thr residues . exon 10 is of unknown uk significance and its boundary with exon 11 not yet comprehensively delimited . exon 13 encoded a cytoplasmic tail ( fig1 , d3 , seq id no : 15 ) or all ( fig1 , d4 , seq id no : 16 ) of exon 12 changed the reading frame , giving rise to a third cytoplasmic tail and removing part of the transmembrane region . thus , alternative splicing of five exons ( 7 , 8 , 9 , 12 and 13 ) results in cd46 rnas encoding protein isoforms with three different cytoplasmic tails and with differences in the length of both the hydrophobic transmembrane region and the stp - rich region of the glycoprotein . to determine the relative expression of the 14 rna transcripts in different tissues , rna from each tissue examined in fig9 was converted to cdna and amplified by pcr using primers p1 and p2 ( seq id nos : 31 and 32 , respectively ), spanning the alternatively spliced region . amplification of cd46 cdna clones ( fig1 a ) and multiple analysis of rna samples showed that , although amplification did not allow the estimation of the total amount of cd46 in the sample , it is provided an accurate and reproducible estimation of the relative proportions of the different cd46 rna variants . we note that no additional splice patterns were produced by this procedure , indicating that homologous recombination during amplification did not occur in these experiments . when α 32 p ! dctp was incorporated into the pcr products , the 14 transcripts migrated as only 6 bands after electrophoresis ( fig1 b ) due to the similar size of some of the exons . to identify the distribution of each transcript , unlabelled pcr products were electrophoresed , transferred onto nylon filters and probed with oligonucleotides specific for each splice variant ( see fig1 for location of probes ). fifteen oligonucleotides were used to determine the distribution of the 14 rnas ( representative gels in fig1 c - i ). five observations merit particular attention : 1 ) cd46 rnas containing exon 7 ( fig1 c ) were preferentially expressed in ebv - transformed b cells ( lane 5 ) and in two leukemic samples ( lanes 8 and 10 ). rnas containing exon 7 were also expressed in placentae , although to a lesser extent ( lanes 13 - 16 ). 2 ) the ratio of the quantity of transcripts containing exon 8 , to transcripts in which exon 8 have been deleted , was equivalent to the ratio of α and β isoforms detected on western blots in every tissue excepting sperm ( fig9 d , 11e ). this demonstrated that the α isoforms were derived from rnas in which exon 8 had been inserted , and the β isoforms from rnas in which exon 8 had been deleted . 3 ) probing for the deletion of exon 9 demonstrated that rna transcripts of this type occurred in 3 or the 4 placentae examined ( fig1 f , lanes 14 - 16 ). 4 ) a transcript in which exons 12 and 13 were deleted occurred only in semen ( fig1 i , lanes 6 and 7 ). 5 ) rna transcripts both with and without exon 13 were present in every tissue and the ratio of these two groups of transcripts was similar in all tissues ( fig1 g , 11h ), thus , each splice variant displayed a different distribution of expression , with tissue specific and allelic variations in splicing and with some rnas expressed in every tissue . apart from three cases listed below , all of the different protein isoforms observed in each of the 16 tissues investigated ( fig9 ) correlated with the expression of a transcript with the appropriate sequence ( fig1 a - 11i ); all of this data is summarised in fig1 . fig1 a - 13g summarizes the nucleic acid sequence , amino acid assignments and exon assignments of exons 7 to 14 . fig1 - a includes seq id nos : 11 and 12 ; fig1 - b includes seq id nos : 17 and 18 ; fig1 - c includes seq id nos : 19 and 20 ; fig1 - d includes seq id nos : 21 and 22 ; fig1 - e includes seq id nos : 23 , 24 and 25 ; fig1 - f includes seq id nos : 26 and 27 ; and fig1 - g includes seq id nos : 28 , 29 and 30 . deletion of exons 12 and 13 would have little effect on protein m r , as they code for few amino acids , but exons 7 , 8 and 9 , which encode stp rich protein , could be expected to significantly change the m r due to o - linked glycosylation of the mature protein . transcript a has no deletions and gives rise to the γ isoform of 74 kda seen in ebv - transformed and leukemic cells . transcript c has deleted exon 7 and gives rise to an α isomer of cd46 ( 66 kda ). the deletion of exon 8 in transcript e gives rise to the β isoform of cd46 ( 56 kda ). transcript g has deleted exon 9 and has only been found in low levels in some placentae . the expression of the corresponding protein was too low to be detected by western blot . transcript i has deleted exons 7 and 9 , is expressed by some placentae , and has a corresponding isoform of 63 kda ( ξ ). transcript k , in which all three stp - encoding exons ( 7 - 9 ) have been deleted , is expressed by some placentae at sufficiently high levels to encode detectable protein , however distortion in the gel at this site obscured detection . transcripts b , d , f , h , j and l are similar to transcripts a , c , e , g , i and k respectively , but have also deleted exon 13 , and so encode an alternative cytoplasmic tail . neither transcript m ( generated by the aberrant splicing of exon 12 , described in 12 ), nor a corresponding protein isoform was detected in these tissues however this isoform may define a soluble form , as seen for instance in seminal fluid . transcript n is expressed only in sperm and is derived from the deletion of exons 7 , 8 , 12 and 13 , giving rise to a protein of 35 kda ( δ ). thus in almost all cases , the transcripts produced after the insertion or deletion of various exons were translated to produce the appropriate m r protein isoform . three cases in which the distribution of rna transcripts did not correlate with the distribution of their corresponding protein isoforms were noted . ( i ) a unique higher m r protein isoform was found in granulocytes and no unique rna transcript was observed , this possibly reflects cell - specific differences in glycosylation . ( ii ) some rna transcripts predicted to encode protein isoforms of lymphocytes were detected in semen , however these protein isoforms were not detected in isolated spermatozoa , indicating that semen rna contains rna from other cells . ( iii ) the 35 kda protein isoform observed in spermatozoa was of slightly lower m r than that predicted from the rna sequence . this could be due to the alternative usage of translational start sites previously suggested for other molecules in sperm , or possibly to different glycosylation patterns . these discrepancies suggest that , although the primary determinant of cd46 protein heterogeneity is the expression of alternatively spliced rna , other factors can influence expression . it will be apparent from examples 4 to 7 describing tissues from a single donor and the same tissues from different donors that cd46 displays both a genetic polymorphism and an extensive tissue polymorphism , with 14 different mrna transcripts , coding for different protein isoforms , identified in 16 tissues . in the genetic polymorphism , the difference in the two alleles determines the splicing of exon 8 , which gives rise to variable proportions of the α ( 66 kda ) and β ( 56 kda ) chains with αα , αβ and ββ phenotypes . the second , and perhaps more interesting polymorphism , is that which occurs in different tissues and which gives rise to additional different protein isoforms of cd46 described in fig1 . these are : the γ isoform ( 74 kda , transcripts a , b ); the δ isoform of sperm 35 kda , transcript n and the ξ isoform of placenta ( 63 kda , transcripts i , j ). tumour cells , such as ebv - transformed cells and leukemic cells , have the longest stp region , with no exons deleted ( fig4 a - 4e ). the reason for this is not apparent , but may extend the active part of the molecule above the more extensive glycocalyx of tumour cells . by contrast some placentae may have only a short stalk as exon 9 is deleted . the placenta - specific isoforms may be related to the allotypic reactivity of tlx . there are also transcripts for three cytoplasmic tails , two of which appear to be present in all cells , and the third in spermatozoa . example 8 below suggests that these tails generate different intracellular signals . the deletion of exons in the cytoplasmic region do not significantly change the m r of the protein and are not easily resolved by sds - page ( fig1 ), however the expression of each cytoplasmic tail has been confirmed using antipeptide antibodies . it is likely that more ( native ) protein isoforms exist in other tissues . the sequences of the different cd46 variants were subjected to a computer analysis and homologies with sequences of known function were determined using &# 34 ; prosearch &# 34 ;: lee f . kolakowski &# 39 ; s search of protein sequences against amos bairoch &# 39 ; s prosite database . sequences corresponding to known phosphorylation sites and nuclear localisation sites were identified . ( a ) a sequence associated with cyclic amp - dependent phosphorylation ( kkgt ) was identified in the &# 34 ; cyt1 &# 34 ; cytoplasmic tail corresponding to the pm5 . 1 clone . this tail also contained the consensus sequence for protein kinase c dependent phosphorylation ( thr ). ( b ) sequences associated with casein kinase 2 phosphorylation were identified in both the cyt 1 ( pm5 . 1 ) and cyt 2 ( pm5 . 3 , pm5 . 10 ) cytoplasmic tails ( thre and tpae respectively ). ( c ) the sequence kkkgk of the cyt 2 cytoplasmic tail has been identified as a nuclear localisation signal . these results are suggestive of a signal role possibly phosphorylation based for portions of the cd46 molecule remote from the scr domains active in the complement cascade . the activity status of the scr domains could trigger this signal role through , for instance , conformation changes in the molecule . the signal is conceivably implicated in feedback or cascade enhancement roles . fig1 a14 - d depict a cdna sequence and amino acid sequence for cd46 isoform pm5 . 3 . the coding sequence is at nucleotides 83 - 1192 . the signal polypeptide is encoded at nucleotides 83 - 184 , and the mature polypeptide is encoded is encoded at nucleotides 185 - 1192 . nucleotides 939 - 983 encode exon 8 ( stp - b ). nucleotides 1123 - 1247 encode exon 14 ( cyt - 2 and the 3 &# 39 ; ut ). fig1 a - 15e depict a cdna sequence and amino acid sequence for cd46 isoform pm5 . 6 . the coding sequence is at nucleotides 29 - 1147 . the signal polypeptide is encoded at nucleotides 29 - 130 , and the mature polypeptide is encoded at nucleotides 131 - 1147 . nucleotides 885 - 971 encode exons 8 and 9 ( stp - bc ). exon 11 is intact , and ends at nucleotide 1046 . a cryptic splice - site has led to loss of exon 12a , causing a frame - shift in translation of subsequent exons . exon 12b ( nucleotides 1047 - 73 ) is followed by exon 14 ( nucleotides 1074 - 1986 ). translation of exons 12b and 14 predicts a unique cytoplasmic tail of about 34 amino acids . fig1 a - 16d depict a cdna sequence and amino acid sequence for cd46 isoform pm5 . 8 . the coding sequence is at nucleotides 94 - 1065 . the signal polypeptide is encoded at nucleotides 94 - 195 , and the mature polypeptide is encoded at nucleotides 196 - 1065 . exon 6 is intact , and ends at nucleotide 949 . intron 6 ( 413 nucleotides ) has not been spliced out , and a read - through translation of the 353 nucleotide portion of intron 6 predicts a unique c - terminal sequence of 39 amino acids . pm5 . 8 includes 353 of the 413 nucleotides of intron 6 ( 85 %). it is to be understood that the description , specific examples and data , while indicating preferred embodiments , are given by way of illustration and exemplification and are not intended to limit the present invention . various changes and modifications within the present invention will become apparent __________________________________________________________________________sequence listing ( 1 ) general information :( iii ) number of sequences : 46 ( 2 ) information for seq id no : 1 :( i ) sequence characteristics :( a ) length : 1659 base pairs ( b ) type : nucleic acid ( c ) strandedness : double ( d ) topology : linear ( ii ) molecule type : cdna ( vii ) immediate source :( b ) clone : pm5 . 1 ( ix ) feature :( a ) name / key : cds ( b ) location : 34 .. 1167 ( ix ) feature :( a ) name / key : sig . sub .-- peptide ( b ) location : 34 .. 135 ( ix ) 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