Patent Application: US-44590995-A

Abstract:
a pharmaceutical composition for use in the prophylaxis or treatment of pathological conditions resulting from the presence of superoxide radicals , comprising a manganese - superoxide dismutase enzyme and a pharmaceutically acceptable excipient . the mnsod enzyme is in native form and has substantially the amino acid sequence of seq id no : 17 or seq id no : 29 and is free of pyrogens consisting of macromolecular substances native to bacillus stearothermophilus or bacillus caldotenax . processes for producing the novel pharmaceutical composition and a method for the prophylaxis or treatment of pathological conditions resulting from the presence of superoxide radicals utilizing the novel composition are also disclosed .

Description:
the following protocol was adopted for the molecular cloning of the b . stearothermophilus sod gene . the first step in the cloning of the encoding gene was to design an oligonucleotide which demonstrated sufficient homology to the structural gene to allow its detection by dna / dna hybridisation experiments . analysis of the amino acid sequence indicated that amino acids 17 through 34 represented a peptide exhibiting minimal translational degeneracy . accordingly , a 50 mer antisense oligonucleotide was synthesised ( fig1 ) in which nucleotide bases used in positions of codon degeneracy corresponded to those most frequently used in b . stearothermophilus genes . to test that the synthesised oligonucleotide hybridised to a specific sequence in the b . stearothermophilus genome , southern blot experiments were undertaken . the oligonucleotide was radiolabelled and used in dna / dna hybridisation reactions against b . stearothermophilus nca1503 genomic dna cleaved with various restriction enzymes . under the conditions employed ( see the examples below ) the probe was shown to hybridise strongly to the following discrete restriction fragments ; a 2 . 45 kb bcli , 5 . 1 kb clai , 6 . 8 kb ecori , 3 . 4 kb hindiii , 20 kb psti , 3 . 2 kb sali , 3 . 5 kb ssti and a 17 kb xhoi fragment . having demonstrated the specificity of the oligonucleotide probe , a plasmid library of the b . stearothermophilus genome was constructed by ligating sized ( approx . 8 kb ), partially digested ( sau3a ) chromosomal dna with bamhi - cleaved pat153 dna . the resultant ligation mixtures were transformed into e . coli w5445 and transformants selected on l - agar containing ampicillin . of the 6 , 000 apr transformants obtained , 4 , 125 proved to be tcs . upon analysis of the plasmids of 50 random representatives of the 4 , 125 presumptive recombinant clones , 46 were shown to contain inserts . each apr tcs recombinant clone was individually screened by in situ colony hybridisation , using the radiolabelled oligonucleotide as a probe . the probe was shown to hybridise strongly to two different recombinant clones . plasmid dna was isolated from each clone and designated pbcm1 and pbcm2 . a restriction map of these two plasmids is illustrated in fig2 . these maps demonstrate that the insert of pbcm1 was 4 . 7 kb , while that of pbcm2 was 6 . 85 kb in size . comparative analysis of dna fragments generated by digestion ( singularly or in double combinations ) with various restriction enzymes indicated that the insert of pbcm2 entirely encompassed that of pbcm1 , and furthermore , that the insert of pbcm1 was in the opposite orientation , relative to the vector , to that of pbcm2 . in order to localise the position of the sod structural gene within cloned dna present in pbcm1 and pbcm2 , each plasmid was restricted with various endonucleases and the resultant fragments subjected to southern blot analysis . one of the smallest restriction fragment which hybridised to the oligo probe was shown to be a 1 . 6 kb ecoriss ti fragment common to both plasmids . accordingly this fragment was gel purified from pbcm2 dna and ligated to m13mp18 and m13mp19 similarly cleaved with ecori and ssti . the ligation mixes were transformed into e . coli tg1 and plated on 2xyt agar in h - top agar overlays containing xgal and iptg . recombinant plaques , identified by their colourless appearance , were utilised to prepare template dna . representative templates derived from each m13 vector were than subjected to nucleotide sequence analysis using universal primer . translation of the dna sequence obtained from both templates into amino acid sequence failed to yield an orf encoding a polypeptide homologous to the published mnsod sequence . this suggested that sod resided within the central portion of this fragment . thereafter , the complete sequence of the insert was determined using two different strategies : ( i ) oligonucleotides specific to the sequence derived from the above two templates were synthesised and used to extend the previously determined sequence ; ( ii ) the 3 . 0 kb hindiii fragment of pbcm2 which encompasses the cloned 1 . 6 kb ecori - ssti fragment was isolated by electroelution , circularised by self - ligation , fragmented by sonication , the staggered ends generated blunt - ended by treatment with t4 polymerase , and gel purified fragments of 500 to 1000 bp inserted into - the smai site of m13mp8 . template dna was prepared from 100 of the recombinant clones obtained . the nucleotide sequence data obtained was assembled into one contiguous sequence using the computer software of dnastar inc . the sequence illustrated in fig3 represents a 1294 bp portion of the sequence obtained which encompasses the sod structural gene , and was determined on both dna strands . translation of the nucleotide sequence illustrated in fig3 revealed the presence of an orf of 615 bp beginning with an aug codon ( nt 387 ) and terminating with a uaa codon ( nt 1001 ). the deduced polypeptide was 204 aa in length and , with the exception of the n - terminal met , exhibited perfect conformity to the experimentally determined aa sequence of mnsod ( brock and walker , 1980 ). a sequence beginning at 438 and ending at 488 exhibited near perfect complimentarity to the oligo probe utilised to identify the gene . the three positions at which mismatch occurred ( nt . 465 , 477 and 483 ) all resulted in neutral g . t pairing , accounting for efficient binding of the oligo to b . stearothermophilus - derived dna encoding sod . the translational initiation codon was preceded by a sequence ( 5 &# 39 ;- caaaaggaggaga - 3 &# 39 ;) ( seq id no : 9 ) exhibiting strong complimentarity to the 3 &# 39 ;- termini of the bacillus subtilis 16s rrna ( 3 &# 39 ;- ucuuuccuccacu - 5 &# 39 ;) ( seq id no : 10 ). a sequence exhibiting dyad symmetry occurs immediately 3 &# 39 ; to the translational stop codon ( nt 1007 to 1036 ), and probably represents a rho - independent transcriptional terminator . the putative rna stem - loop structure formed would have a dg of - 22 . 2 kcal . a second putative orf was identified 3 &# 39 ; to sod , initiating with an aug codon at nt 1133 and preceded by a sequence exhibiting reasonable complimentarity to the b . subtilis 16s rrna . the encoded putative polypeptide exhibits no homology to any protein currently found in the pir database . the sod structural gene exhibits a g + c content of 53 . 1 %, and its codon usage is illustrated in table 2 . to elicit the overexpression of sod in e . coli use was made of the plasmids pmtl1003 and pmtl1013 , part of a series of expression vectors recently constructed in this laboratory . derived from pmtl4 ( chambers et al ., 1988 ), pmtl1003 replicates from a mutant cole1 replicon ( 600 copies per cell ; minton et al ., 1988 ), encodes puc8 - derived bla and lacz &# 39 ; ( messing and vieria , 1982 ), and incorporates the psc101 partition function ( par ; miller et al ., 1983 ), the e . coli rrnb double terminator ( brosius et al ., 1981 ) and the pmtl20 polylinker cloning region ( chambers et al ., 1988 ). transcription of lacz &# 39 ; is under the control of a synthetic trp promoter . pmtl1013 differs from pmtl1003 only in that the bla gene ( apr ) has been replaced with the tet ( tcr ) gene . these expression vectors were derived in the following manner ( see fig4 for details ). the 5 &# 39 ; end of the bla gene ( apr ) was isolated , together with the double transcriptional termination signals ( t1 and t2 ) of the rrnb operon , from the plasmid pkk223 - 3 as a 831 bp scai / smai fragment , and inserted between the ecorv and scai sites of pmtl4 , to give pmtl7 . a 385 bp taqi fragment carrying the psc101 par stability determinant ( miller et al ., 1983 ) was then inserted between the ecorv and scai sites to yield pmtl8 . the remaining manipulations were designed to both reduce the size and remove unwanted restriction sites from the final vector . pmtl8 was cleaved with sali and eco47 , blunt - ended with s1 nuclease and self - ligated to give pmtl9 . this 58 bp deletion removed the unique sali , eco47 , and bamhi sites and a number of taqi and haeii sites . a 322 bp haeli fragment was then deleted from pmtl9 , reducing the number of haeii and taqi sites in the final vector , pmtl10 , by one , and removing the unique psti and hindiii sites . although this deletion removed part of the psc101 par fragment , pmtl10 was shown experimentally to exhibit 100 % segregationally stability in cells grown in the absence of antibiotic selection . the final modification made to the basic vector backbone was to employ site - directed mutagenesis to introduce a unique ecorv site between par and the cole1 origin of replication . this was achieved by first cloning the 530 kb taqi fragment of pmtl10 encompassing this region into the acci site of m13mp8 . a mutagenic oligonucleotide was then employed to introduce the desired ecorv restriction site using site - directed mutagenesis . the mutated taqi fragment was then reisolated and ligated to the 1 . 44 kb and 430 kb taqi fragments of pmtl10 . the modified vector obtained was designated pmtl100 . in order to place the expression of a heterologous gene under the transcriptional control of an extraneous promoter it is necessary to insert the structural gene in the correct orientation adjacent to the appropriate transcriptional signals . such manipulative procedures are enhanced by the facility for directional cloning and by the existence of a means of detecting the insertion of the foreign dna . one of the simplest systems , exemplified by the puc and m13 series of vectors ( vieira and messing , 1982 ) is that involving inactivation of the b - galactosidase a - peptide encoded by lacz &# 39 ;. vectors carrying a functional lacz &# 39 ; confer a blue colouration to the colonies or plaques of appropriate e . coli hosts in the presence of the chromogenic substrate xgal . inactivation of the gene ( ie ., by the insertion of heterologous dna ) results in the colourless ( white ) colonies / plaques . in the puc and m13 vectors , the lacz &# 39 ; gene is proceeded by its natural lac po promoter region . in the vectors pmtl1003 and pmtl1013 , we wished to retain the utility of the lacz &# 39 ; selection system but replace the lac promoter with that of the trp promoter . to achieve this site - directed mutagenesis of m13mt120 dna was used to remove a pvuii site within the 3 &# 39 ; end of lacz &# 39 ; ( leaving the pvuii site 5 &# 39 ; to the lac po unique ) and to create a unique hpai site 3 &# 39 ; to the + 1 of the lac po at the same time an ndei site was created at the start of the lacz &# 39 ; gene , such that the atg of the ndei recognition sequence ( catatg ) corresponded to the aug translational initiation codon of lacz &# 39 ;. although not relevant to the expression of sod , its presence will aid in the future expression of other genes . eg ., an ndei site may be created at the equivalent position in any heterologous gene to be expressed , and then used to insert the gene at the ndei site of the modified lacz &# 39 ;. this places the aug start codon of the gene to be expressed at the optimum distance from the shine - dalgarno of the lacz &# 39 ; gene , maximising subsequent translational of rna transcripts . a 830 bp hindiii - psti restriction fragment carrying a synthetic e . coli trp promoter was isolated from plasmid pdr720 ( russell and bennett 1982 ), blunt - ended by treatment with polik and inserted between the pvuii and hpai sites of the modified m13mtl120 vector . this manipulation effectively substituted the natural lac promoter with that of trp nb . the same strategy may be employed to replace lac po with any other promoter element !. the trp promoter / lacz &# 39 ;/ polylinker region was then removed from the m13 vector as a 388 bp haeii fragment and cloned into one of the two haeii sites of pmtl100 , in the indicated orientation ( fig5 ) to give pmtl1003 . the vector pmtl1013 is analogous to pmtl1003 , except that the bla gene has been replaced with the pbr322 tet gene . the tet gene was isolated from pbr322 as a 1 . 43 kb ecori - avai fragment ( balbas et al ., 1986 ), blunt - ended with polik and inserted into the smai site of m13mp10 . site - directed mutagenesis was then employed . to remove restriction enzyme sites for clai , hindiii , ecorv , bamhi , sphi , and sali . the respective nucleotide substitutions were : a to t , nt 27 ; t to a , nt 28 ; t to c , nt 187 ; c to t , nt 379 ; t to c , nt 565 , and ; c to t , nt 656 ( nucleotide positions correspond to the pbr322 sequence , balbas et al ., 1986 ). the modified tet gene was then excised as a approx . 1 . 43 kb ecori - bamhi fragment inserted into the hpai site of pmtl28 ( see fig6 ), re - isolated as a bamhi - bcli fragment and ligated to a 1 . 85 kb fragment of pmtl1003 generated by cleavage of pmtl1003 with sspi and drai . the final plasmid obtained was designated pmtl1013 ( fig7 ). the sod gene was isolated from pbcm2 as a 1 . 3 kb nrui - hindiii fragment ( fig3 ), cloned between the smai and hindiii restriction sites of puc9 and then re - excised as a similarly sized ecori - hindiii fragment . this fragment was then inserted , following blunt - ending by treatment with polik , into smai site of the pmtl1003 . two recombinant plasmids ( pbcm3 and pbcm4 ), representing the two possible orientations of insertion of the cloned fragment , were chosen for further study . in the case of pbcm3 ( fig8 ), sod was orientated such that its expression could be enhanced by transcriptional read - through from the vector trp promoter . two analogous plasmids pbcm5 ( equivalent to pbcm3 ) and pbcm6 ( equivalent to pbcm4 ) were generated by using pmtl1013 in place of pmtl1003 . cells harbouring pbcm3 and pbcm4 were grown in complex media ( 2xyt ), supplemented with 100 1m mnso 4 , and transcription from the vector trp promoter induced in late exponential phase by the addition of indole acrylic acid ( 20 lg / ml ). cells were removed from the cultures at hourly intervals , disrupted by sonication and the sod activity of the extract determined following removal of cell debris by centrifugation . the maximum level of mnsod produced by cells carrying pbcm3 , 62 , 275 units per ml of culture ( equivalent to 12 , 210 u / mg soluble protein ), was attained after 10 h ( fig9 ). by reference to the specific activity of pure mnsod ( 25 , 000 u / mg ), this equated to 47 % of the cells soluble protein . confirmation of these levels was obtained by densiometric scanning of coomassie blue stained gels following sds - page of total cell extracts ( see fig1 ). that high expression was due to the vector trp promoter was indicated by the low level of sod produced ( 10 . 9 units per ml of culture ) by cells harbouring pbcm4 . the surprising ability of e . coli to support high level of expression of the b . stearothermophilus sod gene is consistent with the observation that its encoding region makes little use of modulator codons ( a single cgg and a gga codon are used ), exhibits a codon bias characteristic of highly expressed e . coli genes and is preceded by a near to consensus ribosome binding site . the levels of sod expression directed by pbcm3 were examined in a range of e . coli hosts with varying degrees of native sod activity ( table 3 ). in this case transcription from the trp promoter was induced late in their exponential phase following tryptophan depletion from the minmal salts medium described in the examples . inexplicably , hosts carrying a mutant sodb locus produced significantly lower levels of recombinant sod than either a soda or wt host . previous studies have shown that sod mutants exhibit enhanced sensitivity to methyl viologen ( carlioz and touati , 1986 ), a commercial weed killer known to generate superoxide free radicals in e . coli . it was therefore of interest to see whether the b . stearothermophilus enzyme was capable of complementing the enhanced sensitivity of the e . coli strain qc781 to methyl viologen . strain qc781 with and without pbcm3 was therefore grown in the presence of 10 - 5m methyl viologen and the effect on growth rate quantified . the results are illustrated in fig1 . expression of recombinant sod was seen to alleviate the growth inhibitory effect of the drug , but did not completely restore growth rates to those attained by qc781 in the absence of methyl viologen . this is in contrast to similar experiments undertaken with a cloned yeast mnsod ( schrank et al ., 1988 ). the production of the mnsod gene of b stearothermophilus and b . caldotenax will be described in more detail in the following examples . the bacterial strains and recombinant vectors utilised are listed in table i . b . stearothermophilus was grown at 58 ° c . and ph of 7 . 0 with an air flow rate of 1 vvm in the following medium ; sucrose ( 4 %), yeast extract ( 5 %), kh 2 po 4 ( 1 %), mgso 4 . 7h 2 o ( 0 . 054 %), mncl 2 . 4h 2 o ( 0 . 003 %), fecl 3 . h 2 o ( 0 . 0014 %), citric acid monohydrate ( 0 . 064 %), polypropylene glycol p - 2000 ( 0 . 01 %). e . coli was routinely cultured in l - broth ( 1 % tryptone , 0 . 5 % yeast extract , 0 . 5 % nacl ). solidified medium ( l - agar ) consisted of l - broth with the addition of 2 % ( w / v ) agar ( bacto - difco ). antibiotic concentrations used for the maintenance and the selection of transformants were 50 lg / ml ampicillin , 15 lg / ml tetracycline , 30 lg / ml kanamycin and 5 lg / ml chloramphenicol . repression of the trp promoter , when necessary , was obtained by the presence of an excess of tryptophan in the media ( 100 lg / ml ). the medium used in the pilot scale production of recombinant sod in e . coli contained glucose ( 1 . 4 %), nh 4 so 4 ( 0 . 25 %), kh 2 p 4 ( 0 . 3 %), k 2 hpo 4 ( 0 . 2 %), na . citrate ( 0 . 005 %), yeast extract - difco ( 0 . 5 %), mgso 4 ( 1 %) and trace elements ( 1 . 0 %). stock solution of trace elements edta . na 2 ( 0 . 5 %), fecl 3 . 6h 2 o ( 0 . 05 %), zno ( 0 . 005 %), cucl 2 . h 2 o ( 0 . 001 %), cono3 . 6h 2 o ( 0 . 001 %) and nh 4 mo 7 o 24 ( 0 . 001 %). the culture was grown at 37 ° c . at a ph 7 . 0 + 0 . 1 with an air flow rate of 1 vvm . under these conditions exponential growth ceased after about 8 hours at which time the culture was harvested . plasmids were purified from cleared lysates prepared using a brij - lysis procedure ( clewell et al ., 1969 ) and subsequent caesium chloride - ethidium bromide density gradient centrifugation ( colman et al ., 1978 ). a rapid , small scale plasmid purification technique ( holmes and quigley , 1981 ) was also employed for screening purposes . chromosomal dna from the donor b . stearothermophilus was prepared essentially as described by marmur ( 1961 ). restriction endonucleases and dna ligase were purchased from bethesda research laboratories ( brl ) and used in the buffers and under the conditions recommended by the supplier . transformation of e . coli was essentially as described by cohen et al . ( 1972 ). digests were electrophoresed in 1 % agarose slab gels on a standard horizontal system ( brl model h4 ), employing tris - borate - edta buffer . electrophoresis of undigested dna was at 125 v , 50 ma for 3 h , while digested dna was - electrophoresed at 15 v , 10 ma for 16 h . fragment sizes were estimated by comparison with fragments of phage k dna cut with both hindiii and ecori . fragments were isolated from gels using electroelution ( mcdonnell et al ., 1977 ). m13 bacteriophage clones were sequenced by the dideoxynucleotide method of sanger et al ( 1977 ) using a modified version of bacteriophage t7 dna polymerase , &# 34 ; sequenaser &# 34 ; ( tabor and richardson , 1987 ). experimental conditions used were as stated by the supplier ( usb corp .). sequencing of double - stranded plasmid dna was by a modification of the klenow polymerase - dideoxynucleotide method developed by chen and seeburg ( 1985 ). experimental conditions used were as stated by the supplier ( bcl ). dna restriction fragments were transferred from agarose gels to &# 34 ; zeta probe &# 34 ; nylon membrane by the method of reed and mann ( 1985 ). gels were partially depurinated with 0 . 25m hcl ( 15 min ) prior to transfer in 0 . 4m naoh transfer solution . transfer was carried out for 4 - 16 h by capillary elution prior to hybridisation . bacterial colonies were screened for desired recombinant plasmids by in situ colony hybridisation as described by grunstein and hogness ( 1977 ), using nitrocellulose filter disks ( schleicher and schull , 0 . 22 lm ). oligonucleotide probes were end - labelled by the addition of c - 32p ! datp to the 5 &# 39 ;- hydroxyl terminal with t4 polynucleotide kinase ( maxam and gilbert , 1977 ). unincorporated nucleotides were removed by chromatography through sephadex g - 25 disposable columns as specified by the manufacturer ( pharmacia ). hybridisations using the 5 &# 39 ;- end - labelled 50 mer oligonucleotide probe were carried as described by sambrook et al ( 1989 ) at a temperature of 55 ° c . for 2 or more h . filter washes were carried out at 45 ° c ., several times of 5 min duration . coupled priming oligonucleotide - directed mutagenesis was carried out using the suppressor selection protocol of carter et al ( 1985 ). mutants were identified by the differential temperature hybridisation method described by carter et al ( 1984 ) using radiolabelled oligonucleotide as probe . the segregational stability of plasmid vectors was analysed using continuous culture . cells were grown in a lh500 series fermenter and control package in a 1 litre continuous culture vessel in a working volume of 600 ml . the growth medium employed was the simple salts medium of tempest ( 1969 ). cultures were maintained at 37 ° c ., ph 7 . 0 and with an aeration rate of 1 vvm . following inoculation , cultures were allowed to grow batchwise for 4 to 5 h before the flow of fresh medium was initiated . samples were removed periodically and serially diluted onto isosensitest agar and colonies , screened for plasmid encoded b - lactamase production . bacteria were grown in 1 liter batch culture and 100 ml samples taken at various stages in the growth phase . samples were cooled on ice , centrifuged 13 , 000 g for 120 minutes and resuspended and frozen in 5 ml 50mm phosphate buffer ( ph 7 . 8 ). the cells were disrupted using a mse ultrasonic disintegrator ( 150 w ) at medium frequency , amplitude 2 , for three . 30 second intervals on ice . cell debris was removed by centrifugation at 10 , 000 g for 5 minutes . sod activity was measured by monitoring the inhibition of reduction of ferric cytochrome c , as described by mccord and fridovich ( 1979 ). protein concentration was determined by the method of bradford ( 1976 ). sod activity was also visualised following page , the gel was soaked in a solution of nitro - blue tetrazolium reagent before adding riboflavin . this procedure was fully described by beauchamp and fridovich ( 1971 ). although the level of expression of recombinant sod obtained in batch culture was of a high order of magnitude , it was of interest to see whether high production rates could be translated to conditions more closely resembling those employed for commercial production of recombinant proteins . accordingly , an 8 l pilot - scale culture was carried out using the minimal salts medium described herein . the inoculum for the seed was provided by freshly transformed cells plated out onto l - agar supplemented with tryptophan ( 100 lg / ml ) and ampicillin ( 100 lg / ml ) for promoter repression and selection , respectively . the seed was provided by a 500 ml 2 × lb culture supplemented with mnso 4 , ampicillin and tryptophan . the seed was grown at 37 ° c . at 200 rpm for 7 h . once inoculated the culture was allowed to go its full course before harvesting , relying on tryptophan starvation to switch on the trp promoter late in the cultures exponential phase of growth , when cell densities will be at their highest . cells were harvested by centrifugation , and the cell paste bagged , flash frozen and stored at - 80 ° c . until extracted . the level of sod expression obtained from the pilot scale cultures were consistent with those obtained in shake flask experiments . following purification characterisation of the purified recombinant sod identified the protein as a dimer , with each subunit having a molecular weight of approximately 21 , 000 dal and an isoelectric point of 5 . 5 . from the above results it can be seen that the gene ( sod ) encoding bacillus stearothermophilusmn - superoxide dismutase has been cloned in escherichia coli and its entire nucleotide sequence determined . with the exception of the post - translationally cleaved n - terminal methionine residue , the predicted amino acid sequence exhibits 100 % similarity to the previously determined amino acid sequence . the recombinant mnsod was shown to be functionally active in e . coli , both in vitro and in vivo , and was expressed to 47 % of the cells soluble protein by coupling its transcription to the e . coli trp promoter . the oligonucleotide probe utilised to clone the b . caldotenax gene was radiolabelled and used in dna / dna hybridisation reactions against b . caldotenax yt1 genomic dna cleaved with various restriction enzymes . under the conditions employed ( see below ) the probe was shown to hybridise strongly to various discrete restriction fragments , including a 4 . 1 kb hindiii fragment . accordingly , hindiii - cleaved genomic dna of approximately this size was isolated from agaorose gels and ligated to hindiii cut puc19 plasmid dna . the resultant ligation mixtures were transformed into e . coli tg1 and transformants selected on l - agar containing . ampicillin and xgal . a total of 1100 recombinants ( white colonies ) were individually screened by in situ colony hybridisation , using the radiolabelled oligonucleotide as a probe . the probe was shown to hybridise strongly to 4 different recombinant clones . plasmid dna from one of these clones was isolated and designated pbcm7 . in order to localise the position of the sod structural gene within cloned dna present in pbcm7 , plasmid dna was restricted with various endonucleases and the resultant fragments subjected to southern blot analysis . one of the smallest restriction fragments which hybridised to the oligo probe was shown to be a 1 . 9 kb acci fragment . this fragment was gel purified from pbcm7 dna circularised by self - ligation , fragmented by sonication , the staggered ends generated blunt - ended by treatment with t4 polymerase , and gel purified fragments of 500 to 1000 bp inserted into the smai site of m13mp8 . template dna was prepared from 100 of the recombinant clones obtained . the nucleotide sequence data obtained was assembled into one contiguous sequence using the computer software of dnastar inc . the sequence illustrated in fig1 represents a 780 bp portion of the sequence obtained which encompasses the sod structural gene , and was determined on both dna strands . translation of the nucleotide sequence illustrated in fig1 revealed the presence of an orf of 615 bp beginning with an aug codon ( nt 30 ) and terminating with a uaa codon ( nt 643 ). over the region illustrated in fig1 there were 35 nucleotide differences to the equivalent region of the b . stearothermophilus genome . of these , 21 occurred in the coding region of the gene , resulting in two amino acid differences between the two encoded polypeptides . thus the bcmnsod contains glu and ile amino acid residues at positions 103 and 188 , respectively , whereas the bsmnsod contains asp and val amino acids at the equivalent respective positions . as with the b . stearothermophilus gene , the translational initiation codon - was preceded by a sequence ( 5 &# 39 ;- caaaaggaggaga - 3 &# 39 ;) ( seq id no : 9 ) exhibiting strong complimentarity to the 3 &# 39 ;- termini of the bacillus subtilis 16s rrna ( 3 &# 39 ;- ucuuuccuccacu - 5 &# 39 ;) ( seq id no : 10 ). similarly , a sequence - exhibiting dyad symmetry occurs immediately 3 &# 39 ; to the translational stop codon ( nt 654 to 677 ), and probably represents a rho - independent transcriptional terminator . in this case , however , the putative rna stem - loop structure formed would have a higher dg (- 26 . 4 kcal ) than the equivalent structure found downstream of the b . stearothermophilus gene ( dg - 22 . 2 kcal ) due to a single difference in the nucleotide sequence , viz . a ` t ` to ` c ` substitution . the sod structural gene exhibits a g + c content of 52 . 8 %, and its codon usage is illustrated in table 2 . to elicit the high expression of the bcmnsod gene , equivalent plasmids were constructed to those described above . in this case the 1 . 9 kb acci fragment was inserted into the acci site of pmtl1003 , to give the recombinant plasmids pbcm8 ( see fig1 ) and pbcm9 . in the case of pbcm8 ( fig1 ), sod was orientated such that its expression could be enhanced by transcriptional read - through from the vector trp promoter . two analogous plasmids pbcm10 ( equivalent to pbcm8 ) and pbcm11 ( equivalent to pbcm9 ) were generated by using pmtl1013 in place of pmtl1003 . cells harbouring pbcm8 and pbcm9 were grown in complex media ( 2xyt ), supplemented with 100 μm mnso 4 , and transcription from the vector trp promoter induced in late exponential phase by the addition of indole acrylic acid ( 20 lg / ml ). cells were removed from the cultures at hourly intervals , disrupted by sonication and the sod activity of the extract determined following removal of cell debris by centrifugation . the levels of expression attained mirrored those observed with the b . stearothermophilus recombinant clones . thus the maximum level of mnsod produced by cells carrying pbcm8 , 90 , 710 units per ml of culture ( equivalent to 9 , 913 u / mg soluble protein ), was attained after 10 h ( fig9 ). by reference to the specific activity of pure mnsod ( 25 , 000 u / mg ), this equated to 40 % of the cells soluble protein . confirmation of these levels was obtained by densiometric scanning of coomassie blue stained gels following sds - page of total cell extracts ( see fig1 ). that high expression was due to the vector trp promoter was indicated by the low level of sod produced ( 8 . 9 units per ml of culture ) by cells harbouring pbcm9 . the ability of e . coli to support high level of expression of the b . caldotenax sod gene was consistent with the observation that its encoding region makes little use of modulator codons ( a single cgg and a ggg codon are used ), exhibits a codon bias characteristic of highly expressed e . coli genes ( grosjean and friers , 1982 ), and is preceded by a near to consensus ribosome binding site . purified , pyrogen - free bs mnsod was produced from a culture of bs by the following procedure . after harvesting , cells of bs were broken by high pressure homogenisation and the crude extract batch purified by fractional elution on de - 23 cellulose . the 0 . 4 m fraction containing mnsod was chromatographed sequentially as follows : the 30 % pure enzyme was depyrogenated and purified to homogeneity by ion exchange gradient chromatography on q - sepharose at ph 7 . 5 and by gel filtration on sephaenyl s - 200 . the half life of bs mnsod was assessed using a guinea - pig model . the effect of endogenous cu / znsod interference due to erythrocyte haemolysis was negated by the addition of 5 mm cyanide to the assay system . no adverse antigenicity was observed in groups of guinea - pigs ( n = 12 ) receiving 1 , 2 and 10 mg / kg body weight / 6 hrs ( 4 animals / group ) respectively via the intra - peritoneal route . post - mortem investigation of animals sacrificed at 48 and 96 hours respectively ( 2 animals / dose / time ) revealed no deleterious effect on internal organs and gross pathology was normal . a standard ( ringers ) solution for cardiac perfusion was supplemented with 0 . 1 mg / l of bs mnsod provided in vials containing 5 mg enzyme , 10 mg lactose and 5μmoles tris hcl . six mini - pigs were divided into two groups of 3 animals per group and subjected to procedure which mimicked human open - heart surgery . specifically , the animals were maintained for 2n hours with clamped aortas while infusing with the test solutions . at the end of the test period the aortic clamps were removed , normal blood supplies reconnected and standard methods used to restore normal sinus rhythm . the animals were monitored in the post - operative period and the test animals ( those infused with bs mnsod - containing solutions ) exhibited near normal cardiac function , and survived for one month at which time they were sacrificed for pathological examination . no signs of myocardial infarction or other abnormal cardiac tissue pathology was evident . the animals in the control group exhibited cardiac malfunctions and were all dead after one week . table i__________________________________________________________________________bacterial strains and plasmid / phage vectorsstrain / plasmid relevant characteristics source__________________________________________________________________________strains : b . stearothermophilus nca1503b . caldotenax yt1e . coli tg1 k12 d ( lac - pro ) supe thi hsdd5 / carter et al ., f &# 39 ; trad36 proa + b + laciqz m15 1985e . coli w5445 pro leu thi thr supe44 lacy tona hsdm minton et al ., 1983 hsdr rpsle . coli qc781 f -, lac - 4169 u ( soda :: mudiipr13 ) 23 d . touati , institut institut jacques monod , cnrs paris , francee . coli qc773 gc4468 u ( sodb - kan ) 1 - d2 kmr d . touatie . coli qc799 soda sodb , cmr kmr d touatie . coli bmh71 - 18 k - 12 , d ( lac - pro ) supe thi mutl :: tn10 kramer et al ., mutl f &# 39 ;- pro a + b + laciqz dm15 1984plasmids : pbr322 apr , tcr bolivar et al ., 1977pat153 apr , tcr twigg & amp ; sherratt , 1980puc8 / 9 apr , lacz &# 39 ; vieira & amp ; messing , 1982psc101 tcr , apr cohen and chang , 1978pkk223 - 3 apr , trp po adman & amp ; brosius , 1985pdr720 apr , trp po russell & amp ; bennett , 1982pmtl4 apr , chamber et al ., 1988pmtl20 / 23 apr , lacz &# 39 ; chambers et al ., 1988pmtl7 apr , this studypmtl8 - 10 apr , par this studypmtl100 apr , par this studypmtl1013 apr , par trp po :: lacz &# 39 ; this studypmtl1013 tcr , par trp po :: lacz &# 39 ; this studypbcm1 pat153 + bsmnsod , apr , tcs this studypbcm2 pat153 + bsmnsod , apr , tcs this studypbcm3 pmtl1003 + bsmnsod , apr this studypbcm4 pmtl1003 + bsmnsod , apr this studypbcm5 pmtl1013 + bsmnsod , tcr this studypbcm6 pmtl1013 + bsmnsod , tcr this studypbcm7 pmtluc19 + bsmnsod , apr this studypbcm8 pmtl1003 + bsmnsod , apr this studypbcm9 pmtl1003 + bsmnsod , apr this studypbcm10 pmtl1013 + bsmnsod , tcr this studypbcm11 pmtl1013 + bsmnsod , tcr this studypmtl28 apr , lacz &# 39 ; this studym13 phage : mp8 , 18 & amp ; 19 lacz &# 39 ; messing & amp ; vieira , 1982mtl20 lacz &# 39 ; chambers et al ., 1982__________________________________________________________________________ table 2__________________________________________________________________________codon usage of the bsmnsod and bcmnsod genesbs bc bs bc bs bc bs bc__________________________________________________________________________uuu phe2 3 ucu 0 1 uau tyr 2 2 ugu cys 0 0uuc 6 5 ucc ser 1 0 uac 6 6 ugc 0 0uua leu0 0 uca 0 0 uaa ter 1 1 uga ter 0 0uug 8 9 ucg 5 5 uag 0 0 ugg trp 6 6cuu 4 5 ccu 0 0 cau his 4 4 cgu 2 2cuc leu3 3 ccc pro 0 0 cac 5 5 cgc arg 3 3cua 0 0 cca 3 3 caa gln 3 3 cga 0 0cug 4 2 ccg 10 10 cag 0 0 cgg 1 1auu 5 7 acu 0 0 aau asn 4 4 agu ser 0 0auc ile4 3 acc thr 1 1 aac 13 13 agc 5 5aua 0 0 aca 3 2 aaa lys 11 10 aga arg 0 0aug met3 3 acg 7 8 aag 1 2 agg 0 0guu 3 2 gcu 2 1 gau asp 3 2 ggu 3 4guc val2 2 gcc ala 4 3 gac 5 5 ggc gly 11 10gua 0 0 gca 5 5 gaa glu 12 12 gga 1 0gug 3 3 gcg 9 11 gag 6 7 ggg 0 1__________________________________________________________________________ ter corresponds to translational termination codon . bc corresponds to the b . caldotenax gene . bs corresponds to the b . stearothermophilus gene . embolden codons correspond to those codons recognised as modulators of translation in e . coli . table 3______________________________________levels of expression of native and recombinant sod in e . coli . sod specific . sup . bhost phenotype . sup . a plasmid activity ( u / mg ) ______________________________________tg1 a +, b + -- 55 . 5qc781 a -, b + -- 36qc773 a +, b - -- 1 . 9qc799 a -, b - -- 1 . 6tg1 a +, b + pbcm3 12 , 000qc781 a -, b + &# 34 ; 12 , 000qc773 a +, b - &# 34 ; 5 , 000qc799 a -, b - &# 34 ; 4 , 000tg1 a +, b + pbcm8 9 , 913qc781 a -, b + &# 34 ; 3 , 650qc773 a +, b - &# 34 ; 2 , 581qc799 a -, b - &# 34 ; 1 , 944______________________________________ . sup . a phenotypes a and b refer to the soda and sodb gene , respectively , or - indicating whether the gene is functional (+) or defective (-). . sup . b the levels of sod expression directed by pbcm3 / 8 in a range of e . coli hosts , exhibiting varying degrees of native sod activity , were estimated by assaying sod levels in cell extracts ( table 3 ). in this case transcription froj the trp promoter was induced late in their exponential phase following tryptophan depletion from the media ( 2xyt ). __________________________________________________________________________sequence listing ( 1 ) general information :( iii ) number of sequences : 29 ( 2 ) information for seq id no : 1 :( i ) sequence characteristics :( a ) length : 29 base pairs ( b ) type : nucleic acid ( c ) strandedness : double ( d ) topology : linear ( ii ) molecule type : dna ( genomic )( iii ) hypothetical : no ( iii ) anti - sense : no ( vi ) original source :( a ) organism : escherichia coli ( xi ) sequence description : seq id no : 1 : ttgacaattaatcatcgaactagttaact29 ( 2 ) information for seq id no : 2 :( i ) sequence characteristics :( a ) length : 6 base pairs ( b ) type : nucleic acid ( c ) strandedness : double ( d ) topology : linear ( ii ) molecule type : dna ( genomic )( xi ) sequence description : seq id no : 2 : ttgaca6 ( 2 ) information for seq id no : 3 :( i ) sequence characteristics :( a ) length : 6 base pairs ( b ) type : nucleic acid ( c ) strandedness : double ( d ) topology : linear ( ii ) molecule type : dna ( genomic )( xi ) sequence description : seq id no : 3 : ttaact6 ( 2 ) information for seq id no : 4 :( i ) sequence characteristics :( a ) length : 6 base pairs ( b ) type : nucleic acid ( c ) strandedness : double ( d ) topology : linear ( ii ) molecule type : dna ( genomic )( xi ) sequence description : seq id no : 4 : tcaatt6 ( 2 ) information for seq id no : 5 :( i ) sequence characteristics :( a ) length : 6 base pairs ( b ) type : nucleic acid ( c ) strandedness : double ( d ) topology : linear ( ii ) molecule type : dna ( genomic )( xi ) sequence description : seq id no : 5 : acagtt6 ( 2 ) information for seq id no : 6 :( i ) sequence characteristics :( a ) length : 17 base pairs ( b ) type : nucleic acid ( c ) strandedness : double ( d ) topology : linear ( ii ) molecule type : dna ( genomic )( xi ) sequence description : seq id no : 6 : attaatcatcgaactag17 ( 2 ) information for seq id no : 7 :( i ) sequence characteristics :( a ) length : 33 base pairs ( b ) type : nucleic acid ( c ) strandedness : double ( d ) topology : linear ( ii ) molecule type : dna ( genomic )( xi ) sequence description : seq id no : 7 : gcttactccccatccccccagtgaattcccctg33 ( 2 ) information for seq id no : 8 :( i ) sequence characteristics :( a ) length : 15 base pairs ( b ) type : nucleic acid ( c ) strandedness : double ( d ) topology : linear ( ii ) molecule type : dna ( genomic )( xi ) sequence description : seq id no : 8 : agtacgcagcttggc15 ( 2 ) information for seq id no : 9 :( i ) sequence characteristics :( a ) length : 13 base pairs ( b ) type 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