Patent Application: US-31287094-A

Abstract:
a novel method of detecting antibodies to thrombomodulin in plasma or serum as an indication of an individual &# 39 ; s propensity to thrombosis or inflammation is disclosed . a method for identifiying patients at risks of thrombosis or glomerular nephritis by monitoring autoantibodies to truncated soluble thrombomodulin is revealed . a preferred method is an elisa assay to detect antibodies to thrombomodulin .

Description:
an enzyme - linked immunosorbent assay ( elisa ) is disclosed which can be used to identify patients with antibodies to thrombomodulin . in order to run the assay , it is necessary to obtain a truncated , soluble human thrombomodulin which essentially lacks the cytoplasmic and transmembrane domains of thrombomodulin , or at least one of several fragments of thrombomodulin . by &# 34 ; essentially lacks &# 34 ; it is meant that the sequence chosen may have a few of the amino acids normally associated with the transmembrane domain , but not so many that the thrombomodulin becomes insoluble . in the sequence of human thrombomodulin cdna ( seq id no : 1 ) as published by suzuki , et al ., the cytoplasmic and transmembrane domains are identified as amino acid residues 497 - 575 . ( suzuki , et al ., &# 34 ; structure and expression of human thrombomodulin , a thrombin receptor on endothelium acting as a cofactor for protein c activation ,&# 34 ; embo j 6 : 1891 ( 1987 )) the truncated soluble human thrombomodulin or its fragments can be made using recombinant dna techniques or using any known method of synthesizing or purifying protein . the plasmid puc18tm containing the entire nucleotide coding sequence for human thrombomodulin can be obtained from eli lilly and company ( indianapolis , ind .) via the agricultural research culture collection under number nrrl - b18524 and utilized to make a suitable recombinant soluble human thrombomodulin . the nucleic acid sequence listing and characterization of this soluble human thrombomodulin is disclosed in european patent application no . 0 412 841 , which is herein incorporated by reference . dna constructs are then produced by the polymerase chain reaction using the plasmid puc18tm as a template for the following human thrombomodulin fragments : a truncated , soluble form of thrombomodulin lacking the transmembrane and cytoplasmic domains (&# 34 ; soluble thrombomodulin &# 34 ; or &# 34 ; stm &# 34 ;) ( seq id no : 3 ); an amino terminal lectin domain (&# 34 ; tm - lectin &# 34 ; domain ) ( seq id no : 5 ); an egf 1 - 6 domain (&# 34 ; tm1 - 6 &# 34 ; domain ) ( seq id no : 7 ); an egf 456 domain (&# 34 ; tm456 &# 34 ; domain ) ( seq id no : 9 ); and a serine / threonine rich chondroitin sulfate attachment domain (&# 34 ; tm - cs &# 34 ; domain ) ( seq id no : 11 ). cdna sequences for the full length fragments are given in seq id no : 2 , seq id no : 4 ( tm - lectin ); seq id no : 6 ( tm1 - 6 domain ); seq id no : 8 ( tm 456 domain ) and seq id no : 10 ; ( tm - cs domain ). the desired form of thrombomodulin may be inserted into an appropriate expression vector , such as the rsv ( rouse sarcoma virus ) expression vector , and the vector transfected into human 293 cells for expression . the resultant protein is purified to homogeneity using anion exchange and thrombin affinity chromatography , described in detail in example 9 . dna constructs of the tm - lectin ( seq id no : 5 ), tm1 - 6 ( seq id no : 7 ), tm456 ( seq id no : 9 ), and tm - cs ( seq id no : 11 ) domains are preferably cloned into the rsv vector modified to add a 24 amino acid epitope for the calcium - dependent monoclonal antibody hpc - 4 as described in rezaie , et al ., &# 34 ; the function of calcium in protein c activation by thrombin and the thrombin - thrombomodulin complex can be distinguished by mutational analysis of protein c derivatives ,&# 34 ; j biol chem 267 : 26104 - 26109 ( 1992 ), which is herein incorporated by reference . after the vector is transfected into human 293 cells and expressed , the resultant proteins are purified using hpc - 4 affinity chromatography . a purification procedure is given in example 10 . the purified recombinant human thrombomodulin ( seq id no : 3 ) and the four particular domains ( seq id no : 5 , seq id no : 7 , seq id no : 9 , and seq id no : 11 ) can each be incorporated as the plate - binding component of elisa assays to detect antibodies to human thrombomodulin . the preferred plate - binding component of the elisa assay for screening patient samples for antibodies to thrombomodulin is the soluble thrombomodulin ( seq id no : 3 ). however , antibodies to specific domains of thrombomodulin may correlate with specific disease manifestations . for example , antibodies to the egf domains ( seq id no : 7 and seq id no : 9 ) which inhibit protein c activation may be associated with thrombosis , while antibodies to the lectin ( seq id no : 5 ) or chondroitin sulfate domains ( seq id no : 11 ) may be associated with other manifestations . moreover , the antibody reactivity to these general domains may be further localized to smaller epitopes , which may also be used in the elisa assay . in the elisa assay , protein fragment of interest such as the recombinant soluble thrombomodulin ( seq id no : 3 ), for example , is coated onto wells of a microtiter plate . a blocking buffer is applied to the wells to prevent subsequent nonspecific binding of the patient antibodies to the plastic wells . dilute patient plasma or serum or purified igg extracted from patient plasma or serum is added to microtiter wells and incubated overnight to allow only antibodies specific for stm which may be present to bind to the stm attached to the microtiter wells . after washing to remove all unbound antibodies , an enzyme linked anti - human antibody ( e - ab complex ) is added to the microtiter wells such as alkaline phosphatase conjugated anti - human igg . after incubation to allow the anti - human antibody of the e - ab complex to specifically bind the patient stm antibodies , the microtiter wells are washed again to remove all excess e - ab complex . to determine the degree of specific antibody binding to stm , a suitable substrate for the enzyme of the e - ab complex is added to the microtiter wells . the enzyme - substrate reaction generates an end product with either color , fluorescent , chemiluminescent , or radioactive properties . the amount of end product measurable by color intensity or radioactivity is proportional to the amount of specific antibody binding . examples of substrates include p - nitrophenyl phosphate for visual detection , methylumbelliferyl phosphate for fluorescent detection , and 125 iodine for radioactive detection . to one skilled in the art , it is apparent that there are a variety of other e - ab complexes available for antibody detection which may include combinations of other enzymes and anti - human antibodies , and the invention is not limited to this example . reactivity of the patient sample is compared to standard reference antisera obtained from an individual with lupus anticoagulant . results from the plate - binding elisa can be analyzed in terms of percent (%) maximal binding as follows : ## equ1 ## where a stm / patient is the absorbance obtained from the microtiter well containing stm and patient plasma ; ablank / patient , absorbance from the microtiter well containing only patient plasma ; a stm / max , absorbance from the microtiter well containing stm and standard reference antisera ; and a blank / max , absorbance from the microtiter well containing only standard reference antisera . a stm / max - a blank / max represents maximal reactivity of antibody to thrombomodulin ( hereinafter referred to as &# 34 ; reference standard &# 34 ;). the plate - binding elisa assay is to be utilized in screening patients with lupus , lupus anticoagulant , unexplained thrombosis , or similar diseases associated with thromboembolism or inflammation for the presence of antibodies to human thrombomodulin . the presence of these antibodies will be used to predict patients most at risk for thrombosis and / or inflammation . recombinant soluble thrombomodulin ( stm ) ( seq id no : 3 ) encoded by the cdna construct given in seq id no : 2 was suspended in a coating buffer ( tbs ) containing 0 . 15m nacl and 0 . 02m tris - hcl , ph 7 . 5 , at a concentration of 10 μg / ml . about 50 μl of the stm suspension was added to each well in every other row on a microtiter plate , and the plates were incubated overnight at 4 ° c ., thus allowing the stm to adhere to the plastic wells . after removal of the remaining fluid , the microtiter wells were washed twice with a wash buffer consisting of 0 . 15m nacl , 0 . 02m tris - hcl , ph 7 . 5 , and 0 . 1 % tween 20 ( polyoxyethylensorbitan monolaurate ). the microtiter wells were then filled once with 200 μl of blocking buffer ( 10 % nonfat dry milk in tbs ) to block non - specific binding and washed twice with the wash buffer . plasma samples were then applied to the microtiter plate at 50 μl / well as follows : 1 ) patient plasma diluted 1 : 100 in diluting buffer ( 2 % nonfat dry milk in tbs ) into an stm well ; 2 ) patient plasma diluted 1 : 100 in diluting buffer into a blank well ; 3 ) standard reference antiserum obtained from a patient with lupus anticoagulant ( hereinafter referred to as &# 34 ; max &# 34 ;) diluted 1 : 100 with diluting buffer into an stm well ; and 4 ) standard reference antisera ( max ) control diluted 1 : 100 with diluting buffer into a blank well . the microtiter plate was incubated overnight at 4 ° c ., giving antibodies present in the plasma the opportunity to bind to the stm . after washing three times with wash buffer , about 50 μl of alkaline phosphatase conjugated goat anti - human igg ( or a mixture of igg , igm , and iga ) at 0 . 1 μg / ml in diluting buffer was applied to each well . following a four hour incubation at room temperature , the microtiter wells were washed four times with wash buffer . about 50 μl of p - nitrophenyl phosphate substrate at 1 mg / ml in substrate buffer ( 100 mm diethanolamine , 5 mm mgcl 2 , and 0 . 02 % sodium azide ) was applied to each microtiter well . after a thirty minute incubation for color development , the microtiter wells were analyzed for absorbance ( a ) at 405 mμ using a microtiter plate reader . results were analyzed in terms of percent (%) maximal binding . using this assay , 201 normal blood donors were evaluated for antibody reactivity to the truncated recombinant thrombomodulin . as graphically depicted in fig1 the average reactivity of normal donors was 3 . 85 % compared to the reference standard . an arbitrary cut - off was set at 17 . 4 % of the reference standard and represents three standard deviations of the normal , or a 98 % confidence interval . only 4 of the 201 normal donors had reactivity above the cut off value of 7 . 4 %. there was no correlation between antibody to thrombomodulin reactivity and age , sex , height , weight , smoking status , pregnancy or use of oral contraceptives . elisa assay for antibodies to thrombomodulin using plasma from lupus anticoagulant patients the elisa assay was performed as given in example 1 using plasma from patients with lupus anticoagulant and the results are given in fig2 . among 61 patients , 18 were found to have significantly elevated values of antibodies to thrombomodulin . these anti - thrombomodulin antibodies did not bind to the egf 456 thrombomodulin fragment in a similar elisa assay . elisa assay for antibodies to thrombomodulin using plasma from patients with unexplained thrombosis the elisa assay was performed as given in example 1 using plasma from patients with unexplained thrombosis , and the results are given in fig3 . among 200 patients , 15 were found to have significantly elevated values of antibodies to thrombomodulin . elisa assay for antibodies to thrombomodulin using plasma from patients who experienced premature atherosclerosis and myocardial infarction the elisa assay was performed as given in example 1 using plasma from patients with premature atherosclerosis and myocardial infarction , and the results are given in fig4 . among 30 patients , 4 were found to have significantly elevated values of antibodies to thrombomodulin . elisa assay for antibodies to thrombomodulin using plasma from patients with systemic lupus erythematosus the elisa assay was performed as given in example 1 using plasma from patients with systemic lupus erythematosus ( sle ), and the results are given in fig5 . twenty of twenty - eight patients with sle demonstrated elevated values of antibodies to thrombomodulin . elisa assay for antibodies to thrombomodulin using plasma from patients with systemic lupus erythematosus and nephritis the elisa assay was performed as given in example 1 using plasma from patients with lupus anticoagulant and nephritis . among 14 patients with lupus nephritis , 13 were found to have significantly elevated values of antibodies to thrombomodulin . in contrast , of 14 patients with systemic lupus erythematosis but without nephritis , only eight patients demonstrated antibodies to thrombomodulin . thus , these antibodies indicate a risk factor for nephritis in systemic lupus erythematosis patients . it further illustrates the importance of the protein c pathway in inflammatory disease as well as thrombotic disease . the plate - binding elisa assays described above can also be conducted with fragments of the thrombomodulin molecule . as illustrated in example 7 below , different populations of antibodies , which may correspond to various disease states , recognize several portions of the whole thrombomodulin molecule . monitoring changes in the reactivity of antibodies to various fragments of the thrombomodulin molecule may provide information as to the progression of a patient &# 39 ; s disease . elisa assay for antibodies to thrombomodulin fragments using normal donor plasma the plate - binding elisa assay described in example 1 was also conducted for each of the thrombomodulin fragments obtained by expression of the lectin domain ( seq id no : 5 ) encoded by seq id no : 4 , egf 1 - 6 domain ( seq id no : 7 ) encoded by seq id no : 6 , egf 456 domain ( seq id no : 9 ) encoded by seq id no : 8 , and the serine / threonine rich domain containing chondroitin sulfate ( seq id no : 11 ) encoded by seq id no : 10 . reactivity to the whole stm molecule was used as a control . the microtiter plates were prepared by adding 50 μl of a 10 μg / ml suspension of each fragment in coating buffer to a series of wells . the results of the elisa assays are depicted in fig6 in a tmab epitope mapping . antibodies to thrombomodulin were shown to recognize several portions of the whole thrombomodulin molecule . reactivity was observed with each thrombomodulin fragment , and an immunodominant epitope was not observed . it is apparent from this epitope mapping that screening for antibodies to thrombomodulin using only one fragment of the thrombomodulin molecule would miss several antibodies . therefore , while the four thrombomodulin fragments could be used as the plate - binding component in an elisa assay , stm would be preferred in a routine assay so as to achieve maximum reactivity in a screening assay . however , it may be desired to categorize the type of antibody found in the patient is blood stream , and this could be done by differential elisa assays using different thrombomodulin fragments . thrombomodulin antibody igg inhibition of protein c activation by recombinant soluble thrombomodulin the ability of thrombomodulin antibody igg to inhibit soluble thrombomodulint &# 39 ; s acceleration of thrombin - dependent protein c activation was determined using a chromogenic assay . patient antibody 30 mg / ml ( 200 μm ) total igg was added to 4 nm thrombomodulin , providing a 20 , 000 molar excess of antibody , and incubated overnight ( 16 h ). a 10 μl aliquot was then used to determine thrombomodulin activity in a 70 μl reaction containing 1 μm human protein c , 120 μm calcium , and 1 . 2 nm human thrombin which was allowed to proceed for 10 minutes at 37 ° c . the reaction was terminated , and free thrombin was inhibited by the addition of 10 μl bovine atiii to a final concentration of 1 . 8 μm ( 125 μg / ml ). the resulting activated protein c was determined by its ability to hydrolyze spectrozyme pca and the resulting rate of para - nitroanalide formed monitored at 405 nm using a kinetic microtiter plate reader . the assay was performed without the addition of patient antibody igg as a control sample . as given in fig7 the results are expressed in terms of the amount of activated protein c obtained in the patient sample as a percent of that obtained in the control sample with no antibody . none of the seven normal controls showed significant inhibition of protein c activation . in three of six patients , protein c activation was inhibited by 40 %- 70 % ( to 60 % to 30 % of control ). to purify the protein , the conditioned medium from the human 293 cells producing the recombinant soluble thrombomodulin was harvested . after concentrating from 20 liters to 2 liters ( 100 ×) using a 10 , 000 molecular weight cut off membrane ( amicon , beverly , mass . ), the concentrated conditioned media is then batch absorbed to 200 ml of qae ( pharmacia , uppsala , sweden ) preswollen in 0 . 02m tris - hcl , ph 7 . 5 , 0 . 15m nacl ( tbs ), placed into a 2 . 5 ml × 40 cm column , washed with tbs , and batch eluted with 2m nacl in 0 . 02m tris - hcl , ph 7 . 5 . the eluted material was dialyzed extensively versus tbs and 5 mm cacl 2 ( tbs - ca ++ ). the dialyzed eluate from qae was then applied to a thrombin affinity column equilibrated in tbs - ca ++ . the immobilized thrombin affinity column was prepared by linking bovine thrombin at 5 mg / ml to affigel 10 ( bio - rad laboratories , hercules , calif .) and inactivating the protease with dfp . after loading , the thrombin column is washed with 0 . 4m nacl in 0 . 02m tris - hcl , ph 7 . 5 , 5 mm cacl 2 and finally eluted with 2m nacl in 0 . 02m tris - hcl , and 1 mm edta . the resulting stm was further fractionated by anion exchange on a mono - q column ( pharmacia , uppsala , sweden ) into a form lacking chondroitin sulfate eluting in low salt ( 0 . 45m nacl ) and into a form containing chondroitin sulfate eluting in high salt ( 1 . 2m nacl ). the purified protein was then utilized in the elisa assay . for each hpc - 4 modified protein , the conditioned medium from the human 293 cells producing the protein was harvested . after concentrating from 20 liters to 2 liters ( 100 ×) using a 10 , 000 molecular weight cut off membrane ( amicon ), the concentrated conditioned media were purified in a single step by immunoaffinity chromatography on a 1 . 5 ml × 20 cm column of immobilized hpc - 4 ( 5 mg / ml ) monoclonal antibody coupled to affigel 10 ( bio - rad ). the column was washed with 200 ml of a buffer containing 1m nacl , 0 . 02 % nan 3 , 20 mmtris - hcl , ph 7 . 5 , and 1 mm ca ++ , followed by a 200 - ml wash with 0 . 1m nacl , 0 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( 2 ) information for seq id no : 7 :( i ) sequence characteristics :( a ) length : 275 amino acids ( b ) type : amino acid ( d ) topology : linear ( ii ) molecule type : protein ( xi ) sequence description : seq id no : 7 : 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no : 8 :( i ) sequence characteristics :( a ) length : 345 base pairs ( b ) type : nucleic acid ( c ) strandedness : single ( d ) topology : linear ( ii ) molecule type : cdna ( iii ) hypothetical : no ( iv ) anti - sense : no ( vi ) original source :( a ) organism : homo sapiens ( ix ) feature :( a ) name / key : cds ( b ) location : 1 .. 345 ( xi ) sequence description : seq id no : 8 : 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gactccggcaaggtggacggtggcgacagcggctctggcgagcccccg48aspserglylysvalaspglyglyaspserglyserglyglupropro151015cccagcccgacgcccggctccaccttgactcctccggccgtggggctc96proserprothrproglyserthrleuthrproproalavalglyleu202530gtgcattcg105valhisser35 ( 2 ) information for seq id no : 11 :( i ) sequence characteristics :( a ) length : 35 amino acids ( b ) type : amino acid ( d ) topology : linear ( ii ) molecule type : protein ( xi ) sequence description : seq id no : 11 : aspserglylysvalaspglyglyaspserglyserglyglupropro151015proserprothrproglyserthrleuthrproproalavalglyleu202530valhisser35__________________________________________________________________________