Patent Application: US-64356396-A

Abstract:
in one aspect , the present invention provides a method of diagnosing renal tissue damage or disease by measuring endogenous expression of op - 1 by renal tissue of a mammal in which a depression of endogenous expression relative to undamaged or undiseased mammalian renal tissue indicates a diagnosis that the mammal is afflicted with renal tissue damage or disease . also disclosed are methods of diagnosing renal tissue damage or disease in a mammal . the methods involve detecting and / or measuring the expression of the op - 1 gene or protein in the mammal . depression of op - 1 expression may be used to diagnose renal tissue damage or disease .

Description:
the invention is based on the discovery of a family of structurally related morphogenic proteins ( bmps ), also called osteogenic proteins ( ops ), and more particularly that various of these proteins play an important role , not only in embryogenesis , but also in tissue and organ maintenance and repair in juvenile and adult mammals . morphogenic proteins which have been identified include bmp 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , op - 1 and op - 2 ( murine and human ), vgr - 1 , vgl , dpp , gdf - 1 , cmbp - 2a , cmbp - 2b , 60a , and the inhibin / activin class of proteins . other recombinant proteins include cop1 , cop3 , cop4 , cop5 , cop7 , and cop16 . while , as explained herein , the morphogen have significant homologies and similarities in structure , it is hypothesized that variants within the morphogenic protein genes may have specific roles in specific tissue involving , for example , stimulation of progenitor cell multiplication , tissue specific or tissue preferred phenotype maintenance , and / or stimulation or modulation of the rate of differentiation , growth or replication of tissue cells characterized by high turnover . the effect on the long - term physiology , maintenance and repair of particular tissues by particular species of the morphogens is currently unknown in any significant detail . however , methods useful in determining which particular tissues express which particular morphogen ( s ), and for finding changes which stimulate or depress morphogen expression in vivo , would enable discovery and development of strategies for therapeutic treatment of a large number of diseased states , and provide drugs designed to implement the strategy . this invention provides such methods and , more specifically , two generic processes for obtaining data which ultimately will permit determination of structure / activity relationships of specific naturally occurring mammalian morphogens and drugs capable of modulating their production . for example , using the assay of the invention , it has been determined that op - 1 , first found in bone and demonstrated to be osteoinductive , is synthesized primarily in kidney , bladder , and adrenal tissue . this surprising discovery , coupled with the observation that patients with kidney disease often express loss of bone mass , suggests that the bone loss in these patients may be due to pathologic depression of op - 1 synthesis in kidney , and suggests that administration of op - 1 systemically or stimulation of op - 1 expression and secretion by the kidney may arrest bone loss , or effect remineralization through increased bone formation ( i . e ., osteogenesis ). there are two fundamental aspects of the invention . one aspect involves an assay to determine tissues and cell types capable of synthesis and secretion of the morphogens ; the other involves the use of the identified cell types configured in a screening system to find substances useful therapeutically to modulate , i . e ., stimulate or depress , morphogen expression and / or secretion . the assay to determine the tissue of origin of a given morphogen involves screening a plurality ( i . e ., two or more ) different tissues by determining a parameter indicative of production of a morphogen in the tissue , and comparing the parameters . the tissue ( s ) of origin will , of course , be the tissue that produces that morphogen . the other assay of the invention involves screening candidate compounds for their ability to modulate the effective systemic or local concentration of a morphogen by incubating the compound with a cell culture that produces the morphogen , and assaying the culture for a parameter indicative of a change in the production level of the morphogen . useful candidate compounds then may be tested for in vivo efficacy in a suitable animal model . these compounds then may be used in vivo to modulate effective morphogen concentrating in the disease treatment . morphogens are broadly distributed in developing and adult tissue . for example , dpp and 60a are expressed in both embryonic and developing drosophila tissue . vgl has been identified in xenopus embryonic tissue . vgr - 1 transcripts have been identified in a variety of murine tissues , including embryonic and developing brain , lung , liver , kidney and calvaria ( dermal bone ) tissue . in addition , both cbmp2b and cbmp3 have been identified in lung tissue . recently , vgr - 1 transcripts also have been identified in adult murine lung , kidney , heart , and brain tissue , with particularly high levels in the lung ( see infra ). gdf - 1 has been identified in human adult cerebellum and in fetal brain tissue . in addition , recent northern blot analyses indicate that op - 1 is encoded by multiple transcripts in different tissues . this potential alternative splicing is consistent with the hypothesis that the longer transcripts may encoded additional proteins ( e . g ., bicistronic mrna ) and each form may be tissue or developmentally related . op - 1 and the cbmp2 proteins , both first identified as bone morphogens , have been identified in mouse and human placenta , hippocampus , calvaria and osteosarcoma tissue as determined by identification of op - 1 and cmbp2 - specific sequences in cdna libraries constructed from these tissues ( see u . s . ser . no . 422 , 699 , incorporated herein by reference ). additionally , the op - 1 protein is present in a variety of embryonic and developing tissues including kidney , liver , heart and brain as determined by western blot analysis and immunolocalization ( see infra ). op - 1 - specific transcripts also have been identified in both embryonic and developing tissues , most abundantly in developing kidney , bladder , adrenal and ( see infra ). op - 1 also has been identified as a mesoderm inducing factor present during embryogenesis . moreover , op - 1 has been shown to be associated with satellite cells in the muscle and associated with potential pluripotential stem cells in bone marrow following damage to adult murine endochondral bone , indicating its morphogenic role in tissue repair and regeneration . in addition , a novel protein gdf - 1 comprising a 7 cysteine skeleton , has been identified in neural tissue ( lee , 1991 , proc . nat . aca . sci . 88 : 4250 - 4254 ). knowledge of the tissue distribution of a given morphogen may be useful in choosing a cell type for screening according to the invention , or for targeting that cell type or tissue type for treatment . the proteins ( or their mrna transcripts ) are readily identified in different tissues using standard methodologies and minor modifications thereof in tissues where expression may be low . for example , protein distribution may be determined using standard western blot analysis or immunocytochemical techniques , and antibodies specific to the morphogen or morphogens of interest . similarly , the distribution of morphogen transcripts may be determined using standard northern hybridization protocols and a transcript - specific probe and hybridization conditions . as defined herein a protein is morphogenic if it is capable of inducing the developmental cascade of cellular and molecular events that culminate in the formation of new , organ - specific tissue and comprises at least the conserved c - terminal six cysteine skeleton or its functional equivalent ( see supra ). specifically , the morphogens generally are capable of all of the following biological functions in a morphogenically permissive environment : stimulating proliferation of progenitor cells ; stimulating the differentiation of progenitor cells ; stimulating the proliferation of differentiated cells ; and supporting the growth and maintenance of differentiated cells , including the &# 34 ; redifferentiation &# 34 ; of transformed cells . details of how the morphogens detectable according to the methods of this invention first were identified , as well as a description on how to make , use and test them for morphogenic activity are disclosed in u . s . ser . no . 667 , 274 , filed mar . 11 , 1991 and u . s . ser . no . 752 , 764 , filed aug . 30 , 1991 , the disclosures of which are hereby incorporated by reference . as disclosed therein , the morphogens may be purified from naturally - sourced material or recombinantly produced from procaryotic or eucaryotic host cells , using the genetic sequences disclosed therein . alternatively , novel morphogenic sequences may be identified following the procedures disclosed therein . particularly useful proteins include those which comprise the naturally derived sequences disclosed in table ii . other useful sequences include biosynthetic constructs such as those disclosed in u . s . pat . no . 5 , 011 , 691 , the disclosure of which is incorporated herein by reference ( e . g ., cop - 1 , cop - 3 , cop - 4 , cop - 5 , cop - 7 , and cop - 16 ). accordingly , the morphogens detectable according to the methods and compositions of this invention also may be described by morphogenically active proteins having amino acid sequences sharing 70 % or , preferably , 80 % homology ( similarity ) with any of the sequences described above , where &# 34 ; homology &# 34 ; is as defined herein above . the morphogens detectable according to the method of this invention also can be described by any of the 6 generic sequences described herein ( generic sequences 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 and 6 ). generic sequences 1 and 2 also may include , at their n - terminus , the sequence ## str6 ## table ii , set forth below , compares the amino acid sequences of the active regions of native proteins that have been identified as morphogens , including human op - 1 ( hop - 1 , seq . id nos . 5 and 16 - 17 ), mouse op - 1 ( mop - seq . id nos . 6 and 18 - 19 ), human and mouse op - 2 ( seq . id nos . 7 , 8 , and 20 - 23 ), cbmp2a ( seq . id no . 9 ), cbmp2b ( seq . id no . 10 ), bmp3 ( seq . id no . 26 ), dpp ( from drosophila , seq . id no . 11 ), vgl , ( from xenopus , seq . id no . 12 ), vgr - 1 ( from mouse , seq . id no . 13 ), gdf - 1 ( from mouse , seq . id nos . 14 , 32 and 33 ), 60a protein ( from drosophila , seq . id nos . 24 and 25 ), bmp5 ( seq . id no . 27 ) and bmp6 ( seq . id no . 28 ). the sequences are aligned essentially following the method of needleman et al . ( 1970 ) j . mol . biol ., 48 : 443 - 453 , calculated using the align program ( dnastar , inc .) in the table , three dots indicates that the amino acid in that position is the same as the amino acid in hop - 1 . three dashes indicates that no amino acid is present in that position , and are included for purposes of illustrating homologies . for example , amino acid residue 60 of cbmp - 2a and cbmp - 2b is &# 34 ; missing &# 34 ;. of course , both these amino acid sequences in this region comprise asn - ser ( residues 58 , 59 ), with cbmp - 2a then comprising lys and ile , whereas cbmp - 2b comprises ser and ile . table ii__________________________________________________________________________hop - 1cys lys lys his glu leu tyr valmop - 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . hop - 2 . . . arg arg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . mop - 2 . . . arg arg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . dpp . . . arg arg . . . ser . . . . . . . . . vgl . . . . . . lys arg his . . . . . . . . . vgr - 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . gly . . . . . . . . . cbmp - 2a . . . . . . arg . . . pro . . . . . . . . . cbmp - 2b . . . arg arg . . . ser . . . . . . . . . bmp3 . . . ala arg arg tyr . . . lys . . . gdf - 1 . . . arg ala arg arg . . . . . . . . . 60a . . . gln met glu thr . . . . . . . . . bmp5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . bmp6 . . . arg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 5hop - 1ser phe arg asp leu gly trp gln aspmop - 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . hop - 2 . . . . . . gln . . . . . . . . . . . . leu . . . mop - 2ser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . leu . . . dpp asp . . . ser . . . val . . . . . . asp . . . vgl glu . . . lys . . . val . . . . . . . . . asnvgr - 1 . . . . . . gln . . . val . . . . . . . . . . . . cbmp - 2aasp . . . ser . . . val . . . . . . asn . . . cbmp - 2basp . . . ser . . . val . . . . . . asn . . . bmp3 asp . . . ala . . . ile . . . . . . ser glugdf - 1 . . . . . . . . . glu val . . . . . . his arg60a asp . . . lys . . . . . . . . . . . . his . . . bmp5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . bmp6 . . . . . . gln . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 15hop - 1trp ile ile ala pro glu gly tyr alamop - 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . hop - 2 . . . val . . . . . . . . . gln . . . . . . sermop - 2 . . . val . . . . . . . . . gln . . . . . . serdpp . . . . . . val . . . . . . leu . . . . . . aspvgl . . . val . . . . . . . . . gln . . . . . . metvgr - 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . lys . . . . . . . . . cbmp - 2a . . . . . . val . . . . . . pro . . . . . . hiscbmp - 2b . . . . . . val . . . . . . pro . . . . . . glnbmp3 . . . . . . . . . ser . . . lys ser phe aspgdf - 1 . . . val . . . . . . . . . arg . . . phe leu60a . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . glybmp5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . bmp6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . lys . . . . . . . . . 20 25hop - 1ala tyr tyr cys glu gly glu cys alamop - 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . hop - 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . sermop - 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . dpp . . . . . . . . . . . . his . . . lys . . . provgl . . . asn . . . . . . tyr . . . . . . . . . provgr - 1 . . . asn . . . . . . asp . . . . . . . . . sercbmp - 2a . . . phe . . . . . . his . . . glu . . . procbmp - 2b . . . phe . . . . . . his . . . asp . . . probmp3 . . . . . . . . . . . . ser . . . ala . . . glngdf - 1 . . . asn . . . . . . gln . . . gln . . . . . . 60a . . . phe . . . . . . ser . . . . . . . . . asnbmp5 . . . phe . . . . . . asp . . . . . . . . . serbmp6 . . . asn . . . . . . asp . . . . . . . . . ser 30 35hop - 1phe pro leu asn ser tyr met asn alamop - 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . hop - 2 . . . . . . . . . asp . . . cys . . . . . . . . . mop - 2 . . . . . . . . . asp . . . cys . . . . . . . . . dpp . . . . . . . . . ala asp his phe . . . servgl tyr . . . . . . thr glu ile leu . . . glyvgr - 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . ala his . . . . . . . . . cbmp -. . . . . . . . . ala asp his leu . . . ser2acbmp -. . . . . . . . . ala asp his leu . . . ser2bgdf - 1leu . . . val ala leu ser gly ser ** . . . bmp3 . . . . . . met pro lys ser leu lys pro60a . . . . . . . . . . . . ala his . . . . . . . . . bmp5 . . . . . . . . . . . . ala his met . . . . . . bmp6 . . . . . . . . . . . . ala his met . . . . . . 40hop - 1thr asn his ala ile val gln thr leumop - 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . hop - 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . leu . . . ser . . mop - 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . leu . . . ser . . . dpp . . . . . . . . . . . . val . . . . . . . . . . . . vgl ser . . . . . . . . . . . . leu . . . . . . . . . vgr - 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . cbmp - 2a . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . cbmp - 2b . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . bmp3 ser . . . . . . . . . thr ile . . . ser ilegdf - 1leu . . . . . . . . . val leu arg ala . . . 60a . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . bmp5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . bmp6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 50hop - 1val his phe ile asn pro glu thr valmop - 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . asp . . . . . . hop - 2 . . . his leu met lys . . . asn ala . . . mop - 2 . . . his leu met lys . . . asp val . . . dpp . . . asn asn asn . . . . . . gly lys . . . vgl . . . . . . ser . . . glu . . . . . . asp ilevgr - 1 . . . . . . val met . . . . . . . . . tyr . . . cbmp - 2a . . . asn ser val . . . serlys ilecbmp - 2b . . . asn ser val . . . serser ilebmp3 . . . arg ala ** gly val val pro gly ilegdf - 1met . . . ala ala ala . . . gly ala ala60a . . . . . . leu leu glu . . . lys lys . . . bmp5 . . . . . . leu met phe . . . asp his . . . bmp6 . . . . . . leu met . . . . . . . . . tyr . . . 55 60hop - 1pro lys pro cys cys ala pro thr glnmop - 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . hop - 2 . . . . . . ala . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . lysmop - 2 . . . . . . ala . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . lysdpp . . . . . . ala . . . . . . val . . . . . . . . . vgl . . . leu . . . . . . . . . val . . . . . . lysvgr - 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . lyscbmp - 2a . . . . . . ala . . . . . . val . . . . . . glucbmp - 2b . . . . . . ala . . . . . . val . . . . . . glubmp3 . . . glu . . . . . . . . . val . . . glu lysgdf - 1asp leu . . . . . . . . . val . . . ala arg60a . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . argbmp5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . lysbmp6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . lys 65 70hop - 1leu asn ala ile ser val leu tyr phemop - 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . hop - 2 . . . ser . . . thr . . . . . . . . . . . . tyrmop - 2 . . . ser . . . thr . . . . . . . . . . . . tyrvgl met ser pro . . . . . . met . . . phe tyrvgr - 1val . . . `. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . dpp . . . asp ser val ala met . . . . . . leucbmp - 2a . . . ser . . . . . . . . . met . . . . . . leucbmp - 2b . . . ser . . . . . . . . . met . . . . . . leubmp3 met ser ser leu . . . ile . . . phe tyrgdf - 1 . . . ser pro . . . . . . . . . . . . phe . . . 60a . . . gly . . . leu pro . . . . . . . . . hisbmp5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . bmp6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 80hop - 1asp asp ser ser asn val ile leu lysmop - 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . hop - 2 . . . ser . . . asn . . . . . . . . . . . . argmop - 2 . . . ser . . . asn . . . . . . . . . . . . argdpp asn . . . gln . . . thr . . . val . . . . . . vgl . . . asn asn asp . . . . . . val . . . argvgr - 1 . . . . . . asn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . cbmp - 2a . . . glu asn glu lys . . . . . . . . . . . . cbmp - 2b . . . glu tyr asp lys . . . val . . . . . . bmp3 . . . glu asn lys . . . . . . val . . . . . . gdf - 1 . . . asn . . . asp . . . . . . val . . . arg60a leu asn asp glu . . . . . . asn . . . . . . bmp5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . bmp6 . . . . . . asn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85hop - 1lys tyr arg asn met val val argmop - 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . hop - 2 . . . his . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . lysmop - 2 . . . his . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . lysdpp asn . . . gln glu . . . thr . . . valvgl his . . . glu . . . . . . ala . . . aspvgr - 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . cbmp - 2aasn . . . gln asp . . . . . . . . . glucbmp - 2basn . . . gln glu . . . . . . . . . glubmp3 val . . . pro . . . . . . thr . . . glugdf - 1gln . . . glu asp . . . . . . . . . asp60a . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ile . . . lysbmp5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . bmp6 . . . . . . . . . trp . . . . . . . . . . . . 90 95hop - 1ala cys gly cys hismop - 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . hop - 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . mop - 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . dpp gly . . . . . . . . . argvgl glu . . . . . . . . . argvgr - 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . cbmp - 2agly . . . . . . . . . argcbmp - 2bgly . . . . . . . . . argbmp3 ser . . . ala . . . arggdf - 1glu . . . . . . . . . arg60a ser . . . . . . . . . . . . bmp5 ser . . . . . . . . . . . . bmp6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100__________________________________________________________________________ ** between residues 56 and 57 of bmp3 is a val residue ; between residues 4 and 44 of gdf1 lies the amino acid sequence gly -- gly -- pro -- pro . as is apparent from the foregoing amino acid sequence comparisons , significant amino acid changes can be made within the generic sequences while retaining the morphogenic activity . for example , while the gdf - 1 protein sequence depicted in table ii shares only about 50 % amino acid identity with the hop1 sequence described therein , the gdf - 1 sequence shares greater than 70 % amino acid sequence homology ( or &# 34 ; similarity &# 34 ;) with the hop1 sequence , where &# 34 ; homology &# 34 ; or &# 34 ; similarity &# 34 ; includes allowed conservative amino acid changes within the sequence as defined by dayoff , et al ., atlas of protein sequence and structure vol . 5 , supp . 3 , pp . 345 - 362 , ( m . o . dayoff , ed ., nat &# 39 ; l biomed . res . fd &# 39 ; n , washington d . c . 1979 .) the currently most preferred protein sequences detectable as morphogens in this invention include those having greater than 60 % identity , preferably greater than 65 % identity , with the amino acid sequence defining the conserved six cysteine skeleton of hop1 ( e . g ., residues 43 - 139 of seq . id no . 5 ). these most preferred sequences include both allelic and species variants of the op - 1 and op - 2 proteins , including the drosophila 60a protein . accordingly , in still another preferred aspect , the invention includes detection of morphogens comprising species of polypeptide chains having the generic amino acid sequence referred to herein as &# 34 ; opx &# 34 ;, which defines the seven cysteine skeleton and accommodates the identities between the various identified mouse and human op1 and op2 proteins . opx is presented in seq . id no . 29 . as described therein , each xaa at a given position independently is selected from the residues occurring at the corresponding position in the c - terminal sequence of mouse or human op1 or op2 ( see seq . id nos . 5 - 8 and / or seq . id nos . 16 - 23 ). once a morphogen is identified in a tissue , its level may be determined either at the protein or nucleic acid level . by comparing the levels of production of a given morphogen among different tissues , it is possible to determine the tissue ( s ) of origin of that morphogen . the level of production of the morphogen op - 1 in different tissues is one example of a morphogen having a tissue of origin , i . e ., the kidney , which contains a cell type that can also be used as the cell type which is used to screen , according to the invention , different compounds for their potential effects on morphogen ( op - 1 ) production . the level of op - 1 varies among different tissue types . in order to screen compounds for their effect on the production of op - 1 by a given cell type , it may be desirable to determine which tissues produce levels of op - 1 which are sufficiently high to show a potential decrease and sufficiently low to show a potential increase in production . different tissues may be screened at the rna level as follows . any probe capable of hybridizing specifically to a transcript , and distinguishing the transcript of interest from other , related transcripts may be used . because the morphogens to be detected in the methods of this invention share such high sequence homology in their c - terminal domain , the tissue distribution of a specific morphogen transcript may best be determined using a probe specific for the &# 34 ; pro &# 34 ; region of the immature protein and / or the n - terminal heterogeneous region of the mature protein . another useful probe sequence is the 3 &# 39 ; non - coding region immediately following the stop codon . these portions of the sequence vary substantially among the morphogens of this invention , and accordingly , are specific for each protein . for example , a particularly useful vgr - 1 - specific probe sequence is the pvuii - saci fragment , a 265 bp fragment encoding both a portion of the pro region and the n - terminus of the mature sequence . similarly , particularly useful mop - 1 - specific probe sequences are the bstxi - bgli fragment , a 0 . 68 kb sequence that covers approximately two - thirds of the mop1 pro region ; a stui - stui fragment , a 0 . 2 kb sequence immediately upstream of the 7 - cysteine domain , and an eari - psti fragment , a 0 . 3 kb fragment containing the 3 &# 39 ; untranslated sequence . similar approaches may be used , for example , with hop - 1 ( seq . id no . 16 ) or human or mouse op - 2 ( seq . id nos . 20 and 22 ). using morphogen - specific oligonucleotides probes , morphogen transcripts can be identified in mammalian tissues , using standard methodologies well known to those having ordinary skill in the art . briefly , total rna from mouse embryos and organs from post - natal animals is prepared using the acid guanidine thiocyanate - phenolchloroform method ( chomczynski et al ., anal . biochem . 162 : 156 - 159 , 1987 ). the rna may be dissolved in tes buffer ( 10 mm tris - hcl , 1 mm edta , 0 . 1 % sds , ph 7 . 5 ) and treated with proteinase k ( approx . 1 . 5 mg per g tissue sample ) at 45 ° c . for 1 hr . poly ( a ) + rna selection on oligo ( dt )- cellulose ( type 7 , pharmacia lkb biotechnology inc ., piscataway , n . j .) may be done in a batch procedure by mixing 0 . 1 g oligo ( dt )- cellulose with 11 ml rna solution ( from 1 g tissue ) in tes buffer and 0 . 5m nacl ). thereafter the oligo ( dt ) cellulose is washed in binding buffer ( 0 . 5m nacl , 10 mm tris - hcl , 1 mm edta , ph 7 . 5 ) and poly ( a ) + rna is eluted with water . poly ( a ) + rna ( 5 or 15 μg / lane ) is fractionated on 1 or 1 . 2 % agarose - formaldehyde gels ( selden , in current protocols in molecular biology , ausubel et al . eds ., pp . 1 - 4 , 8 , 9 , greene publishing and wiley - interscience , new york , 1991 ). 1 μl of 400 μg / ml ethidium bromide is added to each sample prior to heat denaturation ( rosen et al ., focus 12 : 23 - 24 , 1990 ). following electrophoresis , the gels are photographed and the rna is blotted overnight onto nytran nitrocellulose membranes ( schleicher & amp ; schuell inc ., keene , n . h .) with 10 × ssc . the membranes are baked at 80 ° c . for 30 - 60 min . and irradiated with uv light ( 1 mw / cm 2 for 25 sec .). the northern hybridization conditions may be as previously described ( ozkaynak et al ., embo j . 9 : 2085 - 2093 , 1990 ). for re - use , the filters may be deprobed in 1 mm tris - hcl , 1 mm edta , 0 . 1 % sds , ph 7 . 5 , at 90 °- 95 ° c . and exposed to film to assure complete removal of previous hybridization signals . one probe which may be used to screen for transcripts encoding a morphogen includes a portion of or the complete op - 1 cdna , which may be used to detect the presence of op - 1 mrna or mrnas of related morphogens . the sequence of the murine cdna gene is set forth in seq id no : 14 . op - 1 mrna expression was analyzed in 17 day mouse embryos and 3 day post - natal mice by sequentially hybridizing filters with various probes . probes from regions other than the highly conserved 7 - cysteine domain were selected because this region is highly variable among members of the tgf - β superfamily . fig1 shows the fragments of op - 1 , used as probes in the northern hybridizations . the solid box indicates the putative signal peptide and the hatched box corresponds to the tgf - β - like domain that contains the seven cysteine residues . asterisks indicate the potential n - glycosylation sites . the arrow marks the location of the cleavage site for op - 1 maturation . three solid bars below the diagram indicate the op - 1 specific fragments used in making 32 p - labeled probes ( 0 . 68 kb bstxi - bgli fragment , 0 . 20 kb stui -- stui fragment and 0 . 34 kb eari - psti non - coding fragment ). hybridization with a probe that covers approximately two thirds of the pro region ( the 0 . 68 kb bstxi - bgli fragment ), reveals a 4 kb message and 3 messages at 1 . 8 kb , 2 . 2 kb and 2 . 4 kb ( fig2 b and d , and fig3 ). in the northern hybridization of fig2 equal amounts ( 15 μg ) of poly ( a ) + rna were loaded into each lane , electrophoresed on a 1 % agarose - formaldehyde gel , blotted and hybridized . a 0 . 24 - 9 . 49 kb rna ladder ( bethesda research labs , inc .) was used as size standard . the same filter was used for sequential hybridizations with labeled probes specific for op - 1 ( panels b and d ), vgr - 1 ( panel c ), and ef - tu ( panel a ). panel a : the ef - tu specific probe ( a control ) was the 0 . 4 kb hindiii - saci fragment ( part of the coding region ), the saci site used belonged to the vector ; panel b : the op - 1 specific probe was the 0 . 68 kb bstxi - bgli fragment ( two thirds of the pro region and upstream sequences of the mature domain , not including any sequences from the 7 - cysteine domain ); panel c : the vgr - 1 specific probe was the 0 . 26 kb pvuii - saci fragment ( part of the pro region and the amino - terminal sequences of the mature domain , including the first cysteine ) ( lyons et al ., 1989 , proc . nat . aca . sci . 86 : 4554 , hereby incorporated by reference ). panel d : the op - 1 ( 3 &# 39 ; flanking ) specific probe was the 0 . 34 kb eari - psti fragment ( 3 &# 39 ; untranslated sequences immediately following the sequences encoding op - 1 ). in fig3 the tissues to be used for rna preparation were obtained from two week old mice ( panel a ) or 5 week old mice ( panel b ), with the exception of poly a + rna which was obtained from kidney adrenal gland of two week old mice ( panel b ). equal amounts of poly a + rna ( 15 μg for panel a and 5 μg for panel b ) were loaded into each well . after electrophoresis ( 1 . 2 % agarose - formaldehyde gels ) and blotting , rna was hybridized to the op - 1 specific 3 &# 39 ; flanking probe described in the legend of fig2 ( panel d ). the 0 . 24 - 9 . 5 kb rna ladder was used as size standard . the arrowheads indicate the op - 1 specific messages . the lower section of panels a and b show the hybridization pattern obtained with the ef - tu specific probe ( a control ). although the size of the vgr - 1 specific message is close to the 4 kb op - 1 species ( fig2 panel c ), the op - 14 kb mrna is somewhat larger . to further rule out cross - hybridization with a non - op - 1 message , the 0 . 2 kb stui -- stui fragment which represents the gene specific sequences immediately upstream of those encoding the 7 - cysteine domain was used . this probe gave a hybridization pattern similar to the one shown in fig2 panel b ( data not shown ). a third probe , the 0 . 34 kb eari - psti fragment containing 3 &# 39 ; untranslated sequences , also confirmed the pattern ( fig2 panel d ). thus , the same four op - 1 specific messages were observed with three distinct probes . the appearance of a new 4 kb op - 1 mrna species was initially interpreted as cross hybridization of the op - 1 probe with vgr - 1 mrna , which is approximately this size ( fig2 panel c ). however , the 4 kb message was detected with three different op - 1 specific probes , including one specific to the 3 &# 39 ; untranslated region , and moreover it was separated from vgr - 1 message on the basis of size . most likely , therefore , the 4 kb mrna ( and the three species of 1 . 8 kb , 2 . 2 kb and 2 . 4 kb ) results from alternative splicing of op - 1 transcripts . the 4 kb op - 1 mrna could also represent a bicistronic mrna . the 4 kb message is a minor species in kidney , while it is more prominent in adrenal tissue . the level of op - 1 expression was compared in different tissues using poly ( a ) + rna prepared from brain , spleen , lung , kidney and adrenal gland , heart , and liver of 13 day post - natal mice . the rna was analyzed on northern blots by hybridization to various probes ( fig3 . equal amounts of mrna , as judged by optical density , were fractionated on agarose formaldehyde gels . ethidium bromide staining of the gels revealed some residual ribosomal rna in addition to the mrna and provided another assurance that the mrna was not degraded and that there was not significant quantitative or qualitative variation in the preparation . as control for mrna recovery , ef - tu ( translational elongation factor ) mrna was probed ( assuming uniform expression of ef - tu in most tissues ). a great variation in the level of op - 1 expression was observed in spleen , lung , kidney and adrenal tissues whereas ef - tu mrna levels appeared relatively constant in these tissues ( fig3 panel a ). the highest level of op - 1 mrna was found in the kidneys . uniformly lower levels of ef - tu mrna were found in brain , heart and liver ( fig3 panel a ). additional analysis of op - 1 mrna showed the presence of significant amounts of op - 1 mrna in the bladder ( data not shown ). in summary , next to kidney , bladder and adrenal tissue , brain tissue contained the highest levels of op - 1 rna , whereas heart and liver did not give detectable signals . op - 1 mrna patterns display qualitative changes in the various tissues . of the four messages found in brain , the 2 . 2 kb message is most abundant whereas in lung and spleen the 1 . 8 kb message predominates . levels of the 1 . 8 - 2 . 4 kb in the kidney op - 1 mrna are approximately two times higher in 3 day post - natal mice than in 17 day embryos , perhaps reflecting phases in bone and / or kidney development . mrna was also prepared from carefully separated renal and adrenal tissues of 5 week old mice . northern blot analysis ( fig4 panel b ) revealed that the high levels of 2 . 2 kb mrna were derived from renal tissue whereas the 4 kb mrna was more prominent in adrenal tissue . the detection of of op - 1 message primarily in the kidney but also in bladder links op - 1 expression specifically with the urinary tract . interestingly , the related vgr - 1 is also expressed at significant levels in kidney although its main site of expression in lung . once the tissue - specific expression of a given morphogen is known , cell types known to exist in that tissue or cell lines derived from that tissue can be screened , in a similar manner , to identify the cell type within that tissue that is actually responsible for the tissue specific synthesis and secretion of the morphogen . once a cell type which produces the morphogen in an amount sufficient to detect increases or decreases in the production level of the morphogen upon exposure to a compound is identified , it may be used in tissue culture assay to rapidly screen for the ability of compound to upregulate or down regulate the synthesis and secretion of the morphogen . the level of morphogen production by the chosen cell type is determined with and without incubating the cell in culture with the compound , in order to assess the effects of the compound on the cell &# 39 ; s ability to synthesize or secrete the morphogen . this can be accomplished by detection of the level of production of the morphogen either at the protein or mrna level . cell cultures derived from kidney , adrenals , urinary bladder , brain , or other organs , may be prepared as described widely in the literature . for example , kidneys may be explanted from neonatal , new born , young or adult rodents ( mouse or rat ) and used in organ culture as whole or sliced ( 1 - 4 mm ) tissues . primary tissue cultures and established cell lines , also derived from kidney , adrenals , urinary , bladder , brain , or other tissues may be established in multiwell plates ( 6 well , 24 well , or 96 well ) according to conventional cell culture techniques , and are cultured in the absence or presence of serum for a period of time ( 1 - 7 days ). cells may be cultured , for example , in dulbecco &# 39 ; s modified eagle medium ( gibco , long island , n . y .) containing serum ( e . g ., fetal calf serum at 1 %- 10 %, gibco ) or in serum - deprived medium , as desired , or in defined medium ( e . g ., containing insulin , transfertin , glucose , albumin , or other growth factors ). samples for testing the level of morphogen production include culture supernatants or cell lysates , collected periodically and evaluated for op - 1 production by immunoblot analysis of a portion of the cell culture itself , collected periodically and used to prepare polya + rna for rna analysis ( sambrook et al ., eds ., molecular cloning , 1989 , cold spring harbor press , cold spring harbor , n . y .). to monitor de novo op - 1 synthesis , some cultures are labeled with 35 s - methionine / 35 s - cysteine mixture for 6 - 24 hours and then evaluated for morphogen production by conventional immunoprecipitation methods ( sambrook et al ., eds ., molecular cloning , 1989 , cold spring harbor press , cold spring harbor , n . y .). alternatively , the production of morphogen or determination of the level of morphogen production may be ascertained using a simple assay for a parameter of cell growth , e . g ., cellular proliferation or death . for example , where a morphogen is produced by a cultured cell line , the addition of antibody specific for the morphogen may result in relief from morphogen inhibition of cell growth . thus , measurement of cellular proliferation can be used as an indication of morphogen production by a tissue . in order to quantitate the production of a morphogenic protein by a cell type , an immunoassay may be performed to detect the morphogen using a polyclonal or monoclonal antibody specific for that morphogen . for example , op - 1 may be detected using a polyclonal antibody specific for op - 1 in an elisa , as follows . 1 μg / 100 ul of affinity - purified polyclonal rabbit igg specific for op - 1 is added to each well of a 96 - well plate and incubated at 37 ° c . for an hour . the wells are washed four times with 0 . 16m sodium borate buffer with 0 . 15m nacl ( bsb ), ph 8 . 2 , containing 0 . 1 % tween 20 . to minimize non - specific binding , the wells are blocked by filling completely with 1 % bovine serum albumin ( bsa ) in bsb for 1 hour at 37 ° c . the wells are then washed four times with bsb containing 0 . 1 % tween 20 . a 100 ul aliquot of an appropriate dilution of each of the test samples of cell culture supernatant is added to each well in triplicate and incubated at 37 ° c . for 30 min . after incubation , 100 ul biotinylated rabbit anti - op - 1 serum ( stock solution is about 1 mg / ml and diluted 1 : 400 in bsb containing 1 % bsa before use ) is added to each well and incubated at 37 ° c . for 30 min . the wells are then washed four times with bsb containing 0 . 1 % tween 20 . 100 ul strepavidin - alkaline ( southern biotechnology associates , inc . birmingham , ala ., diluted 1 : 2000 in bsb containing 0 . 1 % tween 20 before use ) is added to each well and incubated at 37 ° c . for 30 min . the plates are washed four times with 0 . 5m tris buffered saline ( tbs ), ph 7 . 2 . 50 ul substrate ( elisa amplification system kit , life technologies , inc ., bethesda , md .) are added to each well incubated at room temperature for 15 min . then , 50 ul amplifier ( from the same amplification system kit ) is added and incubated for another 15 min at room temperature . the reaction is stopped by the addition of 50 ul 0 . 3m sulphuric acid . the od at 490 nm of the solution in each well is recorded . to quantitate op - 1 in culture media , a op - 1 standard curve is performed in parallel with the test samples . polyclonal antibody is prepared as follows . each rabbit is given a primary immunization of 100 ug / 500 ul e . coli - produced op - 1 monomer ( amino acids 328 - 431 of seq . id no : 11 ) in 0 . 1 % sds mixed with 500 ul complete freund &# 39 ; s adjuvant . the antigen is injected subcutaneously at multiple sites on the back and flanks of the animal . the rabbit is boosted after a month in the same manner using incomplete freund &# 39 ; s adjuvant . test bleeds are taken from the ear vein seven days later . two additional boosts and test bleeds are performed at monthly intervals until antibody against op - 1 is detected in the serum using an elisa assay . then , the rabbit is boosted monthly with 100 ug of antigen and bled ( 15 ml per bleed ) at days seven and ten after boosting . monoclonal antibody specific for a given morphogen may be prepared as follows . a mouse is given two injections of e . coli produced op - 1 monomer ( amino acids 328 - 431 in seq id no : 11 ). the first injection contains 100 ug of op - 1 in complete freund &# 39 ; s adjuvant and is given subcutaneously . the second injection contains 50 ug of op - 1 in incomplete adjuvant and is given intraperitoneally . the mouse then receives a total of 230 ug of op - 1 ( amino acids 307 - 431 of seq id no : 11 ) in four intraperitoneal injections at various times over an eight month period . one week prior to fusion , the mouse is boosted intraperitoneally with 100 ug of op - 1 ( 15 - 139 ) and 30 ug of the n - terminal peptide ( ser293 - asn309 - cys ) conjugated through the added cys residue to bovine serum albumin with smcc crosslinking agent . this boost is repeated five days ( ip ), four days ( ip ), three days ( ip ) and one day ( iv ) prior to fusion . the mouse spleen cells are then fused to myeloma ( e . g ., 653 ) cells at a ratio of 1 : 1 using peg 1500 ( boehringer mannheim ), and the cell fusion is plated and screened for op - 1 - specific antibodies using op - 1 ( 307 - 431 ) as antigen . the cell fusion and monoclonal screening are according to procedures widely available in the art . the neutralizing monoclonal is identified by its ability to block the biological activity of op - 1 when added to a cellular assay which responds biologically to added op - 1 . 8 . identification of op - 1 producing cell line which displays op - 1 surface receptors during the process of routinely testing the effects of increasing concentrations of op - 1 and tgf - β on the proliferation of various cell lines , a cell line was identified which , surprising , appears not only to synthesize and secrete op - 1 , but also to display cell surface receptors to which the secreted op - 1 binds and acts to inhibit proliferation of the cells . this cell line was identified after the following observations . addition of increasing concentrations of op - 1 or tgf - β failed to increase or decrease the relatively low basal rate of proliferation of the cells . however , addition of a monoclonal antibody , which neutralizes the activity of op - 1 , resulted in a large increase in the proliferation of the cells . in addition , simultaneous addition of the same quantity of op - 1 neutralizing monoclonal to a fixed amount of op - 1 resulted in an increase in proliferation which was intermediate between the low basal level observed with op - 1 alone and the high level observed with the monoclonal alone . this cell line , which is an epithelial cell line that was derived from a bladder cell carcinoma , may be used in an assay of the invention . the parameter to be tested according to the invention is cellular proliferation . thus , a compound ( s ) that increases or decreases the level of op - 1 production may be tested on this cell line as follows . a simple medium flux screening assay can be configured in a standard 24 or 96 well microtiter dishe , in which each well contains a constant number of a cell line having the characteristics described above . increasing concentrations of an op - 1 neutralizing monoclonal antibody is added from left to right across the dish . a constant amount of different test substances is added from top to bottom on the dish . an increase in the synthesis and secretion of op - 1 ( over its constitutive ( non - induced ) level ) will be indicated by an increase in the amount of op - 1 neutralizing antibody required to release the cells from the antimitogenic activity of op - 1 . a decrease in the synthesis and secretion of op - 1 ( below its constitutive ( repressed ) level ) will be indicated by the observation that decreased concentrations of the op - 1 neutralizing monoclonal antibody will be required to release the cells from the antimitogenic activity of op - 1 . one of the major advantages of this assay is that the end point , i . e ., the dilution of antibody which has an effect on cell proliferation , is a measure of mitosis , or an increase in the number of cells per well . because several convenient and rapid assays exist for quantitating cell numbers , this assay is faster and requires significantly fewer steps to perform . the assay may be performed as follows . after addition of appropriate concentrations of the op - 1 neutralizing monoclonal antibody and test substances to the wells containing the cells , the dishes are placed in an incubator at 37 ° c . for a period of 1 - 3 days . after completion of incubation / growth period , the dishes are removed and the cells in the individual wells are washed and stained with a vital stain , such as crystal violet . washing and staining procedures are well - known in the art . the cells are then lysed and the stain dissolved in a constant amount of a solvent , such as ethanol . quantitations of the dissolved stain , which is readily performed on an automated plate vendor , allows for direct quantitation of the number of cells in each well . the above - described assay has the advantages of being rapid and easy to perform because it requires few steps . another advantage is intrinsic to the assay ; drugs which are screened according to this procedure that result in cell death ( i . e ., cytotoxic substances ) are immediately , identifiable without the need of operator observation . in addition , although drugs that stop the growth of the cells ( i . e ., cytostatic substances ) are scored as positive due to failure to see increases in cell numbers , they are automatically scored as suspect due to the failure of the highest concentrations of op - 1 neutralizing monoclonal antibody to release the cells from the antimitogenic activity of op - 1 . the screening methods of the invention is used to test compounds for their effect on the production of morphogenic protein by a given cell type . examples of compounds which may be screened include but are not limited to chemicals , biological response modifiers ( e . g ., lymphokines , cytokines , hormones , or vitamins ), plant extracts , microbial broths and extracts medium conditioned by eukaryotic cells , body fluids , or tissue extracts . the invention may be embodied in other specific forms without departing from the spirit or essential characteristics thereof . the present embodiments are therefore to be considered in all respects as illustrative and not restrictive , the scope of the invention being indicated by the appended claims rather than by the foregoing description , and all changes which come within the meaning and range of equivalency of the claims are therefore intended to be embraced therein . __________________________________________________________________________sequence listing ( 1 ) general information :( iii ) number of sequences : 33 ( 2 ) information for seq id no : 1 :( i ) sequence characteristics :( a ) length : 97 amino acids ( b ) type : amino acid ( c ) strandedness : single ( d ) topology : linear ( ii ) molecule type : protein ( ix ) feature :( a ) name / key : protein ( b ) location : 1 .. 97 ( d ) other information : / label = generic - seq - 1 / note = &# 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( 2 ) information for seq id no : 33 :( i ) sequence characteristics :( a ) length : 372 amino acids ( b ) type : amino acid ( d ) topology : linear ( ii ) molecule type : protein ( xi ) sequence description : seq id no : 33 : 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