Patent Application: US-16194102-A

Abstract:
gustducin is a taste receptor cell heterotrimeric guanine nucleotide binding protein . disclosed herein is the amino acid sequence of the gamma subunit of gustducin , as well as polynucleotide sequences encoding the γ subunit . also disclosed are methods of modifying taste involving agents that inhibit or activate the gustducin γ subunit , methods for identifying such taste modifying agents and various taste modifying agents .

Description:
the present invention is illustrated by the following examples wherein example 1 describes the cloning of dna sequences encoding the γ subunit of mouse , rat and human gustducin ; example 2 presents an analysis of the gustducin γ subunit amino acid sequence ; example 3 describes the results of northern blot and in situ hybridizations examining the tissue and cell expression of gustducin γ subunit ; example 4 describes the generation of gustducin γ subunit specific polyclonal antibodies ; example 5 presents results of immunocytochemistry experiments showing the concomitant expression of gustducin β and γ subunits in taste receptor cells ; example 6 describes the interaction as measured by trysin protection assays of gustducin γ subunit with gβ subunits , gβ subunits and receptors ; example 7 presents assays demonstrating gustducin γ subunit participation in bitter taste transduction ; and example 8 describes methods for identifying taste modifying agents having the capability to affect interactions between the gustducin γ subunit and effectors and also describes methods for utilizing such taste modifying agents to modify taste by mimicking or inhibiting sweet or bitter tastes . gustducin γ subunit dna was isolated by reverse transcription - polymerase chain reaction ( rt - pcr ) on single taste receptor cells , followed by differential screening of cdna libraries from single taste cells . briefly , individual taste receptor cells were isolated by limited enzymatic dispersal of circumvallate papillae from transgenic mice that express a green fluorescent protein ( gfp ) transgene from the gustducin promoter . live gfp - positive taste receptor cells were identified by their green fluorescence , while live gfp - negative taste receptor cells were picked according to their bipolar morphology and lack of green fluorescence . messenger rna from each single taste cell was reverse transcribed into cdna , which was then amplified by pcr . pcr products were divided into three portions for the following uses : ( a ) target dna for profiling gene expression ; ( b ) single cell cdna library construction ; ( c ) generation of probes with which to differentially screen single cell cdna libraries . the cdna library from a gfp - positive ( i . e ., β - gustducin - expressing ) cell was screened with “ self probe ” ( the pcr products from the same cell ) and “ non - self probe ” ( the pcr products from a gfp - negative taste cell ). of 40 , 000 plaques screened , 60 clones were self - probe - positive , but negative with the non - self probe . two of these clones contained an open reading frame of 201 bp , predicted to encode a 67 amino acid long protein homologous to known g protein γ subunits . the dna and deduced amino acid sequences of the mouse clone 1 ( 1qseq183 ) are set out in seq id nos : 1 and 2 , while the dna and deduced amino acid sequences of the mouse clone 2 ( 1qseq146 ) are set out in seq id nos : 3 and 4 . there is one amino acid difference between the two sequences at position 51 . using the open reading frame as a query sequence , a search of dna sequence databases identified as homologous two partially sequenced est clones from cdna libraries of human brain and rat mixed organs . neither clone was identified in the database as encoding a g protein γ subunit . the dna sequence in the database for the rat est clone ( accession number ai454466 ) is set out in seq id no : 5 . the human est clone ( accession number h46116 ) was ordered from the image consortium and resequenced . resequencing of the clone revealed various differences . following the naming convention of γ subunits , the γ subunit encoded by the clone was designated gγ13 but is referred to herein as the gustducin γ subunit . the dna and deduced amino acid sequence of the resequenced clone are set out in seq id nos : 6 and 7 . the rat and human clones respectively encode γ subunits with 98 . 5 % and 95 . 5 % amino acid identity to the sequence encoded by the mouse gustducin γ subunit clone . the predicted gustducin γ subunit protein is smaller in length than all other known γ subunits , with a calculated molecular weight of 7 . 9 kda . searching databases of human genomic dna with the human cdna sequence ( seq id no : 6 ) identified a clone from the telomeric region of the short arm of human chromosome 16 ( 16p13 . 3 ) ( accession number al031033 ) that contained the gustducin γ subunit transcript . the 949 base pair human coding dna was distributed over 2 . 6 kb of genomic dna . see seq id nos 8 and 9 . like other γ subunit genes , the gustducin γ subunit gene is composed of three exons and two introns : the first exon contains only the 5 ′ flanking region , the second exon contains the translation initiation site and the codons for the first thirty - three amino acids , while the third exon contains the rest of the coding sequence and the 3 ′ flanking region . the second intron of the gustducin γ subunit is shifted seven amino acids toward the carboxy terminus in comparison with γ subunit genes γ1 , γ4 , γ5 , γ8cone , in which the second intron is precisely located two amino acid residues downstream of a highly conserved arginine residue . in the gustducin γ subunit amino acid sequence , seq id no : 8 , the conserved arginine residue is at amino acid position 24 . alignment of the amino acid squence of the gustducin γ subunit with the published amino acid sequences of other γ subunits ( fig1 ) revealed that it is the most divergent member of the γ family , most similar to gγ8cone ( 33 % amino acid identity ). see table 1 below wherein the percent identity between subunits is shown above the diagonal and the percent similarity between subunits is shown below the diagonal . to examine the general distribution of expression of gustducin γ subunit in non - taste tissues , northern blot analysis with human rnas was carried out . dna probes were generated by random primed radiolabeling of the human gustducin γ subunit cdna . a multiple tissue northern blot ( clontech ) was hybridized sith the human sequence dna probe . each lane contained 1 μg of human poly a + rna from pbl , lung , placenta , small intestine , liver , kidney , spleen , thymus , colon , skeletal muscle , heart and brain . the probes hybridized predominantly to a 1 . 2 kb mrna in brain and weakly to a 6 . 2 kb mrna from brain . the 1 . 2 kb mrna was also present at low levels in small intestine and thymus . the higher molecular weight transcript could be the unprocessed primary rna transcript . to confirm that gustducin γ subunit was expressed in taste receptor cells , 33 p - labelled rna gustducin γ subunit probes generated by in vitro transcription in the presence of p - 33 labeled utp were used for in situ hybridization of frozen sections ( 8 μm ) of mouse lingual tissue . hybridization was performed in 10 mm tris containing 0 . 6m nacl , 0 . 02 % ficoll , 0 . 02 % pvp , 1 mm edta , 0 . 1 % bsa , 0 . 5 mg / ml salmon sperm dna , 0 . 5 mg / ml yeast total rna , 0 . 5 mg / ml yeast trna , 10 % dextran sulphate 0 . 05 mg / ml polyadenylic acid , 0 . 1 % sds and 50 % formamide at 50 ° c . for 12 - 14 hours in a humid chamber . slides were washed sequentially in 2 × ssc and 0 . 2 × ssc at 55 ° c . for 1 hour each . slides were coated with kodak ntb - 2 nuclear track emulsion and exposed at 4 ° c . for three weeks and then developed , fixed and stained . gustducin γ subunit was selectively expressed in taste receptor cells , but absent from the surrounding lingual epithelium , muscle or connective tissue . sense probe controls showed no non - specific hybridization to lingual tissue . to determine which g protein subunits were expressed in taste bud - containing tissue , probes from the 3 ′ flanking region of mouse gustducin γ subunit , gusducin α subunit , β1 and β3 cdnas were hybridized to amplified cdnas from a single circumvallate papilla or a similar - sized piece of non - gustatory lingual epithelium . gustducin α subunit , β3 and gustducin γ subunit were only expressed in taste bud - containing tissue , while β1 was expressed in both gustatory and non - gustatory lingual epithelia . next , the pattern of expression of gustducin γ subunit , gustducin α subunit and gβ subunits in individual taste cells was examined . single cell rt - pcr products of example 1 were hybridized with the same set of g protein subunit probes . all of the cells that expressed gustducin α subunit also expressed gustducin γ subunit and β3 . most of the of the gustducin β subunit - positive cells also expressed β1 . antibody substances ( including monoclonal and polyclonal antibodies , chimeric and humanized antibodies , and antibody domains including fab , fab ′, f ( ab ′) 2 and single chain domains , and fv or single variable domains ) that are specific for the gustducin γ subunit may be developed using isolated natural or recombinant gustducin γ subunit polypeptide products or host cells expressing such products on their surfaces . the antibody substances may be utilized for blocking or inhibiting the binding activities of gustducin and for purifying gustducin materials of the invention . murine gustducin γ subunit peptides respectively comprising amino acids 18 - 32 and 47 - 59 of seq id no : 1 were synthesized by zymed laboratories inc . using fmoc chemistry . the peptides were conjugated to keyhole limpet hemocyanin . the peptides were individually used to inoculate rabbits to raise polyclonal anti - peptide antisera specific for each peptide . on day 0 , preimmune sera was collected from each rabbit and then the 0 . 5 mg of a peptide in freund &# 39 ; s adjuvant was injected subcutaneously into each animal . on days 21 and 42 , two boosters of 0 . 5 mg of a peptide in incomplete freund &# 39 ; s adjuvant ( ifa ) were injected subcutaneously . on day 52 , a 8 ml sample of test antiserum was bleeded . on day 60 , another booster was injected and on day 73 , fifty ml antiserum was collected from each animal . to determine if the gustducin β and γ subunits colocalized to the same taste receptor cells , the polyclonal antisera was used to carry out immunocytochemistry on murine lingual epithelium . three micron thick frozen sections of murine lingual tissue ( previously fixed in 4 % paraformaldehyde and cryoprotected in 20 % sucrose ) were blocked in 3 % bsa , 0 . 3 % triton x - 100 , 2 % goat serum and 0 . 1 % na azide in pbs for 1 hour at room temperature and then incubated for 8 hours at 4 ° c . with purified antibody against gustducin β subunit or antiserum against gustducin γ subunit ( 1 : 1000 ), plus the appropriate secondary antibody . in some cases , the osculating faces of the adjacent sections were imaged , one of the images rotated 180 ° and superimposed with the other . about one third of taste receptor cells in circumvallate , foliate and fungiform papillae were positive for either gustducin α subunit or γ subunit . longitudinal sections of the γ subunit - positive taste cells displayed the elongated bipolar morphology typical of α subunit - positive cells . analysis of adjacent transverse sections indicated that the vast majority of γ subunit - positive cells were α subunit - positive , and vice versa ; the few exceptions were apparently due to the physical absence of particular taste cells in the adjacent section as the level of the section ascended above the cells &# 39 ; apical end . the osculating faces of two adjacent oblique sections were stained with the two types of antibodies , then the images were superimposed revealing fully coincident expression of the two g protein subunits . these results are consistent with the expression profiling described in example 3 , and demonstrate that the gustducin α and γ subunits are expressed in the same subset of taste receptor cells . the colocalization of the gustducin β and γ subunits in taste receptor cells suggested their interaction to transduce taste receptor cell responses . the interaction was confirmed using a trypsin protection assay that detects the direct interaction of g protein α and γ subunits . the assay is based on the fact that γ subunits , in the absence of β subunits , can interact directly with α subunits , and that this interaction apparently dictates which βγ dimer associates with which α subunit . see rahmatullah & amp ; robishaw , j . biol . chem ., 269 : 3574 - 3580 ( 1994 ). to monitor g protein α and γ subunit interactions , gustducin γ and β subunit dnas were transcribed and translated in vitro using the promega tnt system , mixed in a 3 : 1 ratio , and incubated for 15 minutes at 30 ° c . in buffer g [ 15 mm na - hepes ph 8 . 0 , 250 mm nacl , 0 . 6 mm edta , 0 . 6 mm dtt , 5 mm mgcl 2 , 0 . 1 mm gdp and 0 . 3 % polyoxyethylene 10 - lauryl ether ( lpx )]. the assay was initiated by adding tosyl - l - phenylalanine chloromethyl ketone ( tpck ) treated - trypsin ( 0 . 5 μg ), incubated for 1 hour at 30 ° c ., and terminated with 3 μg soybean trypsin inhibitor ( sbti ) ( 15 min , at 30 ° c .). the samples were analyzed on 12 % sds - page , gels were fixed , enhanced with en 3 hance ( nen ), dried and exposed to x - ray film . gustducin γ subunit protected gustducin β subunit from tryptic digestion to a significant extent . other gγ subunits were also tested in the assay . gγ1 , which interacts with the rod transducin α subunit , also appeared to interact with gustducin α subunit , albeit to a lesser extent . the cone γ8 subunit ( the cone transducin α subunit partner ) and gγ5 were unable to protect the gustducin β subunit from trypsin digestion . the expression of β3 and β1 in the gustducin β and γ subunit - expressing cells described in example 3 suggested that these β subunits might interact with gustducin α subunit and γ subunit to form heterotrimers . to determine which β and gustducin γ subunit combinations were capable of forming dimers another trypsin assay was utilized . β monomers are cleaved at numerous sites by trypsin , whereas βγ dimers are cleaved at a single site , resulting in the appearance of a 26 - kda fragment of the β subunit . see schmidt et al ., j . biol . chem ., 267 : 13807 - 13810 ( 1992 ). plasmid dnas ( 0 . 5 μg ) encoding β1 subunit was transcribed and translated in vitro , in the presence or absence of plasmid dna ( 0 . 5 μg ) coding for the gustducin γ subunit . aliquots ( 10 μl ) of the cotranslated βγ mix or β subunit alone were digested by tpck - treated trypsin ( 1 μg ) in a final volume of 20 μl ( with 50 mm na - hepes ph 8 . 0 ). after incubation for 1 hour at 30 ° c ., the digestions were stopped by addition of 6 μg sbti as described above . protected fragments of β subunits were analyzed on 15 % sds - page . detection was as described above . in the assay , β1 formed dimers with gustducin γ subunit that were protected from trypsin digestion . taken together , the trypsin assay results described above and the colocalization results described in example 5 ( interaction of gustducin γ and α subunits with β3 and β1 in taste receptor cells ) suggested that gustducin γ subunit forms heterotrimers with gustducin α subunit and β3 or β1 to transduce taste responses . to confirm this idea , yet another trypsin sensitivity assay was utilized . five μl aliquots of in vitro translated gustducin α subunit were incubated with 5 μg of purified taste membranes or control non - taste membranes , 0 . 1 mm gdp , 1 μm gtpγs , with or without 5 mm of the bitter compound denatonium , plus a 10 μl aliquot of cotranslated β1 / gustducin γ subunit or β2 / γ2 dimer , or 10 μl rabbit reticulocyte lysate ( the minus βγ control ) for 1 hour at 30 ° c ., followed by digestion with trypsin as described in ming et al ., proc . natl . acad . sci . usa , 95 : 8933 - 8938 ( 1998 ). the addition of β1 / gustducin γ subunit enhanced activation of gustducin α subunit by taste receptor - containing membranes stimulated by denatonium . in contrast , β2 / γ2 did not enhance activation . in control experiments , β1 / gustducin γ subunit did not enhance activation of gustducin α subunit by non - taste membranes , i . e ., the activation of β - gustducin required ( 1 ) taste receptor - containing membranes , ( 2 ) denatonium and ( 3 ) a gustducin γ subunit - containing βγ dimer . hence , gustducin α subunit , β1 and gustducin γ subunit can associate with each other to form a functional heterotrimeric g protein capable of interacting with denatonium - responsive taste receptors . moreover , the coincident expression of β3 and gustducin γ subunit with gustducin βsubunit in the taste receptor cells suggests that they also form a heterotrimer in vivo . to confirm that gustducin γ subunit does indeed function in taste transduction rapid time course quench - flow experiments were carried out essentially as described in tarelius et al ., pp . 193 - 202 in spielman et al ., eds ., experimental cell biology of taste and olfaction . current techniques & amp ; protocols , crc press , boca raton ( 1995 ). it has been shown previously in such experiments that denatonium and sucrose octa - acetate cause the rapid ( 50 - 200 msec ) generation of inositol triphosphate ( ip 3 ) in murine taste tissue , but not in control non - taste tissue . furthermore , it has been shown that the denatonium response depends upon a novel phospholipase c ( plc ) β2 isotype specifically expressed in taste receptor cells . tongues were excised from 6 to 8 week old female swr mice , and lingual papillae removed . one vallate and two foliate papillae and nongustatory control tissue from the dorsal eminence of the peeled epithelium were placed in ice - cold mops buffer ph 6 . 9 ( 50 mm mops , 100 mm nacl , 0 . 081 mm cacl2 and 2 . 5 mm mgcl2 ), containing 10 mm egta , 1 mm dtt , and a protease inhibitor cocktail [ 1 mg / ml , specific for serine , cysteine , aspartic and metallo - proteinases ( sigma )]. tissue collected from twenty - five tongues was homogenized in mops - egta buffer ph 6 . 9 , without the enzyme inhibitors , and centrifuged ( 1000 × g for 20 min . at 4 ° c .). the recovered supernatant ( at a protein concentration of about 30 μg / ml ), was used for rapid kinetic experiments . the tissue was prepared fresh and kept at 4 ° c . prior to the quench flow experiment and loaded into the quench flow module ( qfm ) in small batches just seconds prior to injection . the addition of denatonium benzoate to murine taste tissue induced the generation of ip 3 to slightly more than twice the basal level . ip 3 generation was not affected by the addition of either buffer or antibody alone . however , when the taste tissue was preincubated with either of two antisera ( example 4 ) to gustducin γ subunit , the addition of denatonium did not increase ip3 levels appreciably . in contrast , preincubation of the taste tissue with normal igg did not reduce the denatonium - stimulated generation of ip 3 . likewise , preincubation with antibodies against γ1 or γ3 did not reduce denatonium - stimulated generation of ip 3 . these results demonstrate that βγ subunit pairs containing the gustducin γ subunit mediate the denatonium - responsive activation of taste tissue plc β2 to generate ip 3 . generation of ip 3 in taste receptor cells leads to increases in intracellular calcium ion levels which in turn leads to cell depolarization and release of neurotransmitter ( s ). gustducin γ subunits may be utilized in methods to identify taste modifying agents that are capable of mimicking , blocking or inhibiting particular tastes . as indicated below , the specific identification methods are designed by analogy to procedures employed to characterize activation and effector functions of known g proteins . the assays may also be used to test activity of gustducin γ polypeptides of the invention . a first type of method identifies taste modifying agents that mimic or block the effect of an activated taste receptor on the gustducin or transducin α subunit . for example , one method contemplated by the invention is analogous to an assay described in cheung et al ., febs letters , 279 ( 2 ), 277 - 280 ( 1991 ) wherein evidence of peptide activation of various g proteins was an increase in the rate of gtpγs binding by g protein β subunits . ( gtpγs is a nonhydrolyzable form of gtp .) the method therefore may include the steps of incubating incubating phospholipid vesicles having gustducin γ subunit associated in biologically active form with a g protein β subunit ( e . g ., gβ1 or gβ2 ) and gustducin β subunit ( bound to gdp ) or transducin a subunit ( bound to gdp ), adding radioactively labeled gtpγs in the presence and absence of an agent , and measuring the rate of gtpγs binding by the β subunit in the presence of the agent compared to the rate in the absence of the agent . an increase in the rate of binding indicates that the agent is a taste stimulator and a decrease in the rate of binding indicates that the agent is a taste inhibitor . another method of the first type is analogous to a different assay described in cheung et al ., febs letters , 279 ( 2 ), 277 - 280 ( 1991 ) wherein evidence of peptide activation of various g proteins was an increase in the rate of g protein β subunit gtpase activity . this method may therefore comprise the steps of incubating phospholipid vesicles having gustducin γ subunit associated in biologically active form with a g protein β subunit ( e . g ., gβ1 or gβ2 ) and gustducin α subunit ( bound to gdp ) or transducin β subunit ( bound to gdp ), adding gtp in the presence and absence of an agent , and measuring the rate of conversion of gtp to gdp by the α subunit in the presence of the agent compared to the rate in the absence of the agent . an increase in the rate of conversion indicates that the agent is a taste stimulator and a decrease in the rate of conversion indicates that the agent is a taste inhibitor . a second type of method identifies taste modifying agents that mimic or block the effect of gustducin γ subunit on an effector . the method includes the steps of incubating gustducin γ subunit associated in biologically active form with a g protein β subunit ( e . g ., gβ1 or gβ2 ) and phospholipase c , adding 3 h - myoinositol in the presence and absence of an agent , and measuring inositol trisphosphate generation in the presence of the agent in comparison to in the absence of the agent . an increase in inositol trisphosphate generation indicates the agent is a taste stimulator and a decrease in inositol trisphosphate generation indicates that the agent is a taste inhibitor . peptides ( e . g ., fragments of antibodies to gustducin γ subunit and peptides corresponding to portions of gustducin γ subunit ) that mimic or compete with a binding activity of the gustducin γ subunits may be taste modifying agents . these peptides are likely to affect the interaction of the gustducin / transducin γ subunits with sensory receptors , cellular effectors and / or their associated α and β subunits . examples of taste modifying peptides contemplated by the invention are : a ) peptides comprising about amino acid 1 through about amino acid 14 of seq id no : 7 , b ) peptides comprising about amino acid 18 through about amino acid 32 of seq id no : 7 , c ) peptides comprising about amino acid 31 through about amino acid 40 of seq id no : 7 , d ) peptides comprising about amino acid 47 through amino acid 59 of seq id no : 7 , and e ) peptides comprising about amino acid 56 through about amino acid 67 of seq id no : 7 . peptides of a ) correspond to regions involved in the interaction of gustducin γ subunit with the a subunit and effectors such as plc . peptides of c ) correspond to regions involved in the interaction of the gustducin γ subunit with β subunit . peptides of e ) correspond to regions involved in the interaction of the gustducin γ subunit with taste receptor . antibodies specific for peptides of b ) and d ) blocked the generation of ip 3 in taste tissue . lipid modification ( e . g ., farnesylated or geranylgeranylated ) of the carboxy terminus of peptides of c ) is expected to enhance the taste modifying activity of the peptides . while the present invention has been described in terms of preferred embodiments , it is understood that variations and improvements will occur to those skilled in the art . therefore , it is intended that the appended claims cover all such equivalent variations which come within the scope of the invention as claimed . ggctggctac caccgacgcc cccgacgcc atg gag gag tgg gat gtg ccc cag 113 atg aag aag gag gta gag agc ctc aag tac caa ctg gcc ttc aag agg 161 met lys lys glu val glu ser leu lys tyr gln leu ala phe lys arg gag atg tcg tcc aag acc atc ccc gag ctt ctc aag tgg att gag gat 209 gga atc ccc aag gac ccc ttc ctg aac cca gac ctg atg aag aac aac 257 cct tgg gta gag aag gcc aag tgc acc atc cta tga gcctgaccca 303 lys tyr gln leu ala phe lys arg glu met ser ser lys thr ile pro asn pro asp leu met lys asn asn pro trp val glu lys ala lys cys ggctggctac caccgacgcc cccgacgcc atg gag gag tgg gat gtg ccc cag 113 atg aag aag gag gta gag agc ctc aag tac caa ctg gcc ttc aag agg 161 met lys lys glu val glu ser leu lys tyr gln leu ala phe lys arg gag atg tcg tcc aag acc atc ccc gag 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val thr pro val pro ala ala glu asn pro phe arg asp lys arg met lys gly glu thr pro val asn ser thr met ser ile gly gln ala arg lys met val glu gln leu lys ile glu ala ser leu cys arg ile lys val ser lys ala ala ala asp leu met thr tyr cys asp ala his ala cys glu asp pro leu ile thr pro val pro thr ser glu asn pro leu thr gly val ser ser ser thr asn pro phe arg pro gln lys val thr val gln gln leu arg met glu ala ser ile glu arg ile lys val ser lys ala ser ala asp leu met ser tyr cys glu glu his ala arg asn asp pro leu leu met gly ile pro thr ser glu asn pro phe lys