Patent Application: US-47125195-A

Abstract:
substantially isolated and purified eukaryotic nucleotide sequences encoding for plant phospholipases are disclosed which can be inserted into an expression vector and used for the recombinant expression of substantially purified phospholipases . an exemplary phospholipase d cdna clone contains a 2424 - bp open reading frame encompassing 808 amino acids .

Description:
the following example describes the sequencing of pld cdna and expression of pld using the cdna insert . it is to be understood that this example is provided by way of illustration only and nothing therein should be taken as a limitation upon the overall scope of the invention . the references referred to herein are incorporated by reference . pld was purified from 2 - d postgermination endosperm of castor bean ( ricinus communis l . var . hale ) ( 18 ). after electrophoresis in an sds / 8 % polyacrylamide minigel , the protein was electroblotted onto a polyvinylidine difluoride membrane with 0 . 195m glycine / 25 mm tris as the transfer buffer . the membrane filter was stained with 0 . 1 % coomassie blue in 40 % methanol for 2 min followed by destaining with 40 % methanol for 3 min . the pld band was excised and sequenced up to 25 amino acid residues using an automated gas - phase protein sequenator . anti - pld antibodies were raised in rabbits using the purified pld as antigen ( 18 ). two degenerate oligonucleotides were synthesized based on the n - terminal amino acid sequence : a 29mer gargaracngtnggnttyggnaarggngt ( seq id # 3 ) and a 20mer ytntaygcnacnatngakyt ( seq id # 4 ), wherein n is inosine , r is a or g , y is t or c , and k is t or g . the 5 &# 39 ; ends of the degenerate 29mer and 20mer were 32 p - labelled with t 4 polynucleotide kinase . a λunizap cdna library from castor bean endosperm after 3 d imbibition was generously provided by sean coughlan ( pioneer hi - bred international ). the cdna library was transformed into e . coli strain xli . plaques were transferred onto nylon filters in duplicate . the filters were hybridized with 32 p - labelled oligonucleotides in a solution of 6x ssc , 10 mm ( na ) 3 po 4 , 1 mm edta , 0 . 5 % sds , 0 . 1 % nonfat dried milk , and 50 μg / ml denatured salmon sperm dna for 18 hours . the hybridization temperatures were 59 ° c . and 40 ° c . for the 29mer and 20mer , respectively . after hybridization , the filters were washed 3 times ( 5 min each ) with a washing solution of 3x ssc and 0 . 1 % sds at room temperature followed by one wash at the hybridization temperature with the same solution . plaque purification was carried out to isolate the positive clones . the cdna insert from the positive clone was digested with various restriction enzymes and the fragments were subcloned into the pbluescript plasmids , sk and / or ks . the complete dna sequence was determined by using sequenase 2 kit according to the manufacturer &# 39 ; s instruction ( us biochemicals ). vector pbluescript - based primers , universal forward and reverse , t 3 , t 7 , sk , and ks , were used in most sequencing reactions . pld cdna - based primers were also synthesized for clarifying the ambiguities . the final sequence was determined from both strands . comparison of pld nucleic acid and amino acid sequences with other sequences and other analyses were done with the genetics computer group software ( university of wisconsin ). the excised cdna insert in the pbluescript sk (-) was transformed into e coli jm 109 . fifty microliter of the overnight cultures of transformants were added to 25 ml lb medium with 50 μg / ml ampicillin . the cells were incubated at 37 ° c . with shaking for 3 hours , and then iptg ( isopropyl - 1 - thio - β - d - galactopyranoside ) was added to a final concentration of 2 mm . the induced cells were cultured at 30 ° c . overnight and harvested with centrifugation at 6 , 000 g for 10 min . the cells were resuspended in the buffer containing 50 mm tris - hcl ( ph 8 . 0 ), 150 mm nacl , 0 . 25 mm phenylmethylsulfonyl fluoride , 2 mm edta , and then pelleted by centrifugation . the cells were lysed by sonication in the resuspension buffer and cell debris were removed by centrifugation at 10 , 000 g for 5 min . proteins in the supernatant were assayed for pld activity and also subjected to page followed by immunoblot analysis using anti - pld antibodies . to express pld without the 30 amino acid n - terminal leader sequence , oligonucleotides with added ecori site were used as primers for polymerase chain reaction . the pld cdna in sk plasmid served as the template for pcr ( polymerase chain reaction ). the pcr mixture ( 100 μl ) contained 10 ng of the template dna , 2 . 5 mm mgcl 2 , 0 . 2 mm dntp , and 100 pmoles of each primer . the thermocycle profiles for the pcr were : 2 cycles , 92 ° c ., 2 min / 42 ° c ., 1 min / 72 ° c ., 1 min ; 30 cycles , 92 ° c ., 1 min / 42 ° c ., 30 s / 72 ° c ., 30 s ; 2 cycles ; 92 ° c ., 1 min / 42 ° c ., 30 s / 72 ° c ., 6 min . the resulting fragment was digested with ecori and electrophoresed on a 1 % agarose gel . the band was excised , eluted , and ligated with the expression vector pgex - 2t ( pharmacia ) containing glutathione s - transferase fusion protein . the ligated plasmid was transformed into e . coli jm 109 . the procedures for pld induction and lysate preparation were the same as above . the glutathione s - transferase fusion polypeptide was cleaved with human plasma thrombin ( 0 . 5 unit / ml ) at room temperature for 1 hour . castor bean rna was isolated using a cetyltrimethylammonium bromide extraction method as described previously ( 20 ). total rna was subjected to denaturing formaldehyde / agarose gel electrophoresis , and transferred onto a nylon membrane . after transfer , the rna was fixed on the filters by crosslinking by uv illumination . northern blots were prehybridized in a solution of 6x ssc , 0 . 5 % sds , and 100 μg / ml salmon sperm dna at 68 ° c . the probe was the 2834 - bp ecori - kpn1 fragment labelled with α - 32 p ! dctp by random priming . hybridization were performed in the same solution at 68 ° c . overnight . the blots were washed with 1x ssc and 0 . 1 % sds followed by 0 . 2x ssc and 0 . 1 % sds at 68 ° c . and exposed to x - ray film . the assay reaction mixture contained 100 mm mes ( 4 - morpholineethanesulfonic acid ), ph 6 . 5 , 25 mm cacl 2 , 0 . 5 mm sds , 1 % ( v / v ) ethanol , 2 mm pc ( phosphatidylcholine , egg yolk ) containing dipalmitoylglycero - 3 - phospho choline - methyl - 3 h ! choline . detailed procedures for the substrate preparation , reaction conditions , and product separation were previously described ( 18 ). the release of 3 h ! choline into aqueous phase was quantitated by scintillation counting . the hydrolysis and transphosphatidylation products , pa ( phosphatidic acid ) and phosphatidylethanol respectively , were analyzed by tlc . the lipids were made visible by spraying the chromatogram with 10 % cuso 4 in 8 % phosphoric acid followed by heating the plate at 170 ° c . for 10 min ( 21 ). the castor bean cdna library was first screened using the 29mer as probe . a number of positive clones with different signal to noise ratios were isolated and then screened with the 20mer . the clones that hybridized with both probes were analyzed further to confirm their identity . the cdna inserts of these clones were excised in vivo with the helper phage r344 ( stratagene ) to the pbluescript sk (-). approximately 300 bases from both ends of these cdna inserts were sequenced by the dideoxynucleotide method using sk and universal reverse primers . the deduced amino acid sequence from one clone matched perfectly with the n - terminal amino acid sequence determined from the purified pld , and the full dna sequence of this clone was determined . the 2834 - bp cdna clone ( seq id # 1 ) contains a 2424 - bp open reading frame between nucleotide 171 and 2595 , encompassing 808 amino acids ( se id # 2 ). the atg codon at the position 171 is most likely to be translation initiation because it is in the same open reading frame as the n - terminal sequence of pld determined from direct sequencing of the purified pld and is immediately preceded by a termination codon . in addition , the sequence surrounding the atg ( agaaatggc ) conforms closely to the known consensus sequence ( aacaatggc ) for the initiating methionine in plants ( 22 ). a consensus sequence of polyadenylation signal ( a or u ) aauaa ) was observed starting at the position 2659 of the 3 &# 39 ; untranslated region . this position relative to the poly ( a ) + tail appears to be remote since the polyadenylation signal typically precedes the end of the message by 15 to 30 nucleotides ( 23 ). at the position 20 bases upstream from the start of the poly ( a ) + tail , a sequence ( uaaucca ) partially resembling the consensus sequence was observed , which is the probable polyadenylation signal for the pld mrna . it should be noted that although the consensus polyadenylation signal has been identified in some plant genes , unlike the highly conserved counterpart in animals , the plant signal sequence is not well conserved and sometimes even absent ( 22 ). to confirm the identity of the pld clone , the pbluescript sk harboring the 2834 - bp cdna insert ( seq id # 1 ) was used for pld protein induction . addition of iptg induced the synthesis of soluble and functional pld . cell extracts from e . coli jm 109 containing pbluescript alone did not contain detectable pld activity under the present assay conditions . the cdna insert in the vector produced a trace level pld activity without iptg induction . after addition of iptg , approximately 20 - fold increase in pld activity was observed in the cell extract . as with the pld activity found in the castor bean extract , the expressed pld catalyzes both the hydrolysis and transphosphatidylation reactions . in particular , the fig1 graph represents pld activity measured by the release of 3 h ! choline from dipalmitoyl - glycero - 3 - p - methyl - 3 h !- choline by cell free extract of e . coli jm109 transformed with pbluescript sk alone or sk harboring the pld cdna clone . + and - iptg indicates the protein extracts from jm109 with the cdna clone in sk grown in the presence or absence of iptg , respectively . iptg was also added to the sk without the pld cdna insert . the fig2 photograph depicts tlc analysis of hydrolysis and transphosphatidylation products produced by the expressed pld in e . coli extracts . pld activity was assayed in the presence of 1 % ethanol . lanes 1 , transformed with sk ; 2 , transformed with pgex - 2t containing the pld cdna without the 30 amino acid leader peptide ; 3 and 4 , transformed with the full length pld cdna which are un - induced and induced with iptg , respectively ; 5 , pld from the extract of 2 - d postgermination castor bean endosperm ; 6 and 7 , standard phosphatidylethanol ( pet ) and phosphatidic acid ( pa ), respectively , ( avanti polar lipids inc .). the lipids were made visible by spraying the chromatogram with 10 % cuso 4 in 8 % phosphoric acid followed by heating the plate at 170 ° c . for 10 min ( 21 ). soluble extracts derived from cultures of either induced or un - induced cells containing the sk plasmid were tested for the pld polypeptide by probing the western blot with anti - pld antibodies . only the iptg - induced extract is immunopositive and no truncated or partially degraded pld was detected on the protein immunoblot . specifically , crude protein extract ( 12 , 000 g supernatant ) of transformed e . coli was separated by sds - page on 8 % gels , transferred to polyvinylidine difluoride membranes , and probed with anti - pld antibodies . these results are shown in fig3 a wherein : lane 1 , transformed with sk ; 2 and 3 , iptg uninduced and induced cells , respectively , transformed with pgex - 2t containing the pld cdna without the 30 amino acid leader peptide ; 4 , the same extract as the lane 3 treated with human thrombin ; 5 , transformed with the full length pld cdna . the asterisk indicates the pld - glutathione s - transferase fusion protein . in fig3 b : lanes 1 , pld from the extract of 2 - d postgermination castor bean endosperm ; 2 and 3 , iptg induced and un - induced cells , respectively , transformed with the full length pld cdna . the gel a was run for a prolonged period to enhance the separation of the pld - glutathione s - transferase fusion protein from the pld , and thus proteins smaller than 35 kd were run off the gel . comparison of the deduced protein sequence ( seq id # 2 ) to the n - terminal amino acid sequence of the purified castor bean pld revealed that the translation product contained a leader peptide of 30 amino acids . to gain insights into the role of the peptide , a pcr dna fragment without the first 261 nucleotides was ligated with pgex - 2t vector to express pld without the 30 n - terminal amino acid leader sequence . this plasmid was then expressed in e . coli jm 109 , producing a pld ( minus the first 30 amino acids ) fused to glutathione - s - transferase . the fusion protein was recognized by anti - pld antibodies as shown in fig3 a . there also appeared a number of smaller immunopositive bands which were absent in the cell free extract of the same plasmid without iptg induction , suggesting partial degradation of the expressed pld in e . coli . after cleavage of the fusion protein with thrombin , a new immunoreactive band with a molecular weight similar to that of the pld expressed from the full length cdna was visible on the immunoblot , indicating the release of the pld polypeptide from the fused glutathione s - transferase . in contrast to the pld expressed using the full length cdna , the pld expressed without the leader sequence showed no catalytic activity either before or after thrombin cleavage of pld from the fusion protein ( fig2 ). the deduced amino acid sequence of the open reading frame corresponds to a protein of 808 amino acids with a predicted molecular weight of 92 , 386 and pl of 5 . 7 . excluding the first 30 n - terminal amino acids which are absent in mature pld , the predicted molecular weight is 89 , 000 , and the estimated pl is 5 . 5 . the molecular weight of the purified castor bean pld was estimated at 92 , 000 from sds - gels , which is in agreement with that deduced from the full length cdna and is 3 , 000 larger than the mature pld predicted from the amino acid sequence . however , when the full length cdna clone of castor bean pld was expressed in e . coli , the resulting pld protein exhibited a molecular weight of approximately 89 , 000 , migrating faster than the pld from castor bean endosperm ( fig3 b ). this result suggests that ( i ) the 30 amino acid leader peptide of the expressed pld may be removed in e . coli and ( ii ) the pld in castor bean may normally be post - translationally modified . a search for the consensus sequences of protein modifications identified several potential sites of phosphorylation by ca 2 + - calmodulin dependent protein kinase , protein kinase c , and tyrosine kinase ( 24 ). biochemical evidence for the phosphorylation of pld , however , remains to be reported . a secondary structure model for the pc - pld has been deduced , which predicts a generally hydrophilic protein . a hydrophilicity plot ( 25 ) shows that most hydrophobic regions are scattered between residues 400 - 600 and that the n - terminal leader peptide is hydrophobic ( see fig4 ). the primary structure of the castor bean pld does not contain a long stretch of non - polar residues ( the longest is 5 residues at 513 - 518 ) nor any signals indicative of covalent lipid attachment reported for other organisms . a computer search of the genbank data base using the fasta search program ( 26 ) identified that the n - terminal amino acid sequence of cabbage pld ( 29 amino acids reported ; 19 ) showed significant similarity with the castor bean pld . the castor bean and cabbage pld share 75 % ( 21 / 28 ) amino acid identity . when conservative amino acid substitutions ( k / r , f / t / w , n / q , s / t , e / d , and v / i / l ) were taken into account , the sequence similarity increased to 89 % ( 25 / 28 ). immunoblot analysis using the anti - pld antibodies found that plds from various plant species possess common antigenic determinants ( 14 ). these results suggest that pld sequences in plants may be highly conserved . except for the partial cabbage pld sequence , the predicted amino acid sequence of the pc - pld had no significant identity to any sequence from genbank reported to date . northern blot analysis of rna derived from radicle and endosperm of 2 - d postgermination castor bean revealed a single 2 . 7 - kb band that hybridized with the 2 . 8 - kb pld probe ( fig5 ). in this experiment , total rna ( 20 μg / lane ) was electrophoresed through 1 % agarose gel , transferred to a nylon membrane , and probed with a 2 . 8 - kilobase pair pld cdna . rna was isolated from endosperm ( lane e ) and radicle ( lane r ) of 2 - d postgermination castor bean . the size of the message is in agreement with that derived from the cdna sequence . the apparent difference in the intensity of the bands from the endosperm and radicle suggests that the expression of pld was much higher in radicle than in endosperm . the molecular organization of the pld gene in castor bean was determined by southern hybridization analysis of genomic dna digested with various restriction endonucleases . digestion with ecori that does not cut the probe region produced two hybridization signals , while digestion with bamhi which cuts once in the probe region gave 2 hybridization signals ( data not shown ). the simple hybridization pattern at high stringency suggests that castor bean genome may contain one or two gene copies of the pc - pld . the pattern of hybridization at lower stringency shows a more complex pattern of signals suggestive of the presence of related gene families ( data not shown ). the identity of the cdna clone as castor bean pld has been established by several lines of independent evidence . ( i ) expression of this clone in e . coli , an organism in which pld activity was undetectable under the present assay conditions , results in high levels of pld activity . ( ii ) the deduced amino acid sequence of the cdna is in perfect agreement with the chemically determined n - terminal amino acid sequence of the purified castor bean pld and exhibits significant similarity to the n - terminal sequence of cabbage pld . ( iii ) the protein expressed from the cdna in e . coli is recognized by anti - pld antibodies . introduction of the pld cdna clone into e . coli results in the synthesis of a protein capable of catalyzing both hydrolysis and transphosphatidylation reactions . the ability of transferring the phosphatidyl moiety to a primary alcohol is characteristic of plds from plants and animals , and the two reactions are generally considered to be mediated by the same protein based on biochemical studies ( 13 ). however , it had not been unambiguously demonstrated if the two reactions are catalyzed by the same polypeptide . some studies have suggested that two active sites on one enzyme or two separate polypeptides are involved in the two reactions ( 27 ). the present results using the cloned pld expressed in e . coli provide conclusive evidence that both the hydrolysis and transphosphatidylation reactions are catalyzed by one single pld protein . nucleotide sequencing analysis indicates that a stretch of 30 amino acid residues precedes the mature n - terminal amino acid sequence determined directly from the purified pld . it is likely that the leader peptide is removed during pld maturation . this notion is supported by the fact that the n - terminal amino acid sequence of the purified cabbage pld shares substantial sequence similarity with that of the mature castor bean pld . expression of the full length cdna clone in e . coli results in the production of catalytically active pld whereas expression of pld without the leader sequence leads to the accumulation of a non - functional protein . the pld expressed from the full cdna is well protected from host cell proteolytic cleavage . on the other hand , the expression of pld cdna without the leader sequence produced a number of polypeptides which were smaller than the fusion protein and yet immunoreactive to anti - pld antibodies , suggesting that these polypeptides were derived from the degradation of the expressed pld . based on these observations , it is suggested that this leader peptide is involved in proper folding of pld to form functional pld and protect it from degradation . the 30 n - terminal amino acid peptide may also serve as a transit signal peptide . this sequence , however , lacks a stretch of core hydrophobic residues required for endomembrane targeting and also the distinct regions of transit peptides for mitochondria ( 28 ). it starts with met - ala , is positively charged , and is relatively rich in hydroxylated amino acids ( t + s = 5 / 30 ), all of which are the characteristics for plastid targeting peptides ( 28 ). however , the intracellular location of pld is yet to be established . plant pld has been reported to be soluble in cytoplasm and associated with plastids , endoplasmic reticulum , mitochondrial membranes , and protein bodies , depending upon sources and types of tissues studied ( 5 , 12 , 18 ). our recent immunocytochemical localization of pld in castor bean tissues has found that pld is present mostly in vacuoles , endoplasmic reticulum , some in plastids and plasma membrane , but little in mitochondria , golgi apparatus , and glyoxysomes . whether or not the leader peptide is able to target protein into plastids or vacuoles remain to be shown by direct evidence from protein import studies . the sequences of two enzymes that hydrolyze the same terminal phosphodiesteric bond of other phospholipids have been reported : a phosphatidylinositol - glycan - specific pld from bovine serum ( 29 ) and a sphingomyelin - hydrolyzing pld from the gram - positive bacterium corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis ( 30 ). the size of the castor bean pld is comparable to that of the bovine phosphatidylinositol - glycan - specific pld which is comprised of 817 amino acids ( 90 . 2 kd ) plus a signal peptide of 23 amino acids . comparison of the castor bean pld with the bovine pld did not identify any significant sequence similarity . no conserved sequences have been observed among the castor bean , bovine , and bacterial pld . the lack of sequence similarity may reflect the fact that these plds are specific for the head groups of phospholipids . the cloned bovine phosphatidylinositol - glycan pld does not hydrolyze pc ( 29 ). although the cloned castor bean pld has not been tested for its activity on phosphatidylinositol - glycan , previous studies with the purified castor bean pld found that the castor bean pc - hydrolyzing pld even failed to use phosphatidylinositol as substrate ( 15 ). except for the homology found between the castor bean pld and partial cabbage pld sequences , database searches against the castor bean pld sequence did not detect significant similarity with the nucleotide and protein sequences of other lipolytic enzymes . 2 . brown , h . a ., gutowski , s ., moomaw , c . r ., slaughter , c ., and sternweis , p . c . 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