Patent Application: US-46069495-A

Abstract:
a novel cyclin , termed prad1 , is disclosed , along with the nucleic acid sequence that encodes human prad1 . antibodies that bind specifically to prad1 and cell lines and transgenic animals containing dna that encodes prad1 are also disclosed . in addition , methods of using the antibodies or fragments of the nucleic acid sequence , for example , to diagnose a neoplastic condition by detecting expression of prad1 or to modulate cellular proliferation , are disclosed .

Description:
fig1 is a southern blot of msp1 - digested dna probed with the 5 &# 39 ; pth gene probe ( lanes 1 , 2 ) and 3 &# 39 ; pth gene probe ( lanes 3 , 4 ). fig2 a and 2b are a diagrammatic representation of ( 2a ) the normal pth gene , and ( 2b ) the two fragments resulting from the rearrangement in tumor m . fig3 is diagrammatic representation of the d11s287 region , indicating known restriction sites and the locations of the 500 bp fragment , the 1 . 6 kb xhoi fragment , and probe b . fig4 is a northern analysis of d11s287 expression in various cell types . fig5 is a diagrammatic representation of thd11s287 rearrangements in two parathyroid adenomas , and he relative locations of probe b and a series of cloned cdna segments . fig6 a - 6g are a representation of the nucleotide sequence and predicted amino acid sequence of human prad1 ( seq id no : 1 ) cdna . fig7 is an illustration of sequence homology between the &# 34 ; cyclin box &# 34 ; region of human prad1and the corresponding regions of some a - type , b - type , and g1 cyclins . fig8 is a northern blot analysis of d11s287 human prad1 ( seq id no : 1 )! expression in various cell types . fig9 a and 9b are ( 9a ) a northern blot analysis of hela cell rna probed with a human prad1cdna ( seq id no : 1 ) probe , an h4 histone probe , and 28s rrna ; and ( 9b ) b a graph depicting the results of the northern blot . fig1 a - 10d an analysis of the biological activity of recombinant human prad1 . previous studies on dna from cells of a benign parathyroid adenoma ( reported in arnold et al ., j . clin . invest . 83 : 2034 - 2040 , 1989 ) revealed evidence of a dna rearrangement involving the parathyroid hormone ( pth ) chromosomal locus ( at chromosome 11 , band p15 ) and a segment of dna ( identified as human genome database assignment d11s287 ) which normally maps to chromosome 11 , band q13 . it is now known that ( a ) although a number of previously - identified oncogenes ( including int - 2 and hst - 1 ), as well as the translocation breakpoint marker bcl - 1 and possibly the gene for multiple endocrine neoplasia type i ( men - i ), map to the 11q13 region , the so - called d11s287 locus rearranged in at least some parathyroid adenomas is distinct from these previously - described markers ; ( b ) d11s287 mrna , while detectable in all tissues analyzed , is significantly overexpressed in those parathyroid adenomas which have a 11q13 / 11p15 chromosomal rearrangement , and also in certain lymphomas ( notably centrocytic lymphomas ) characterized by rearrangement of the bcl - 1 locus ; and ( c ) the d11s287 locus is amplified and expressed in many squamous cell and mammary carcinomas . this evidence suggests that d11s287 ( also referred to herein as human prad1 , for parathyroid adenoma ) is a newly - identified oncogene which figures in a variety of types of neoplasms . human prad1cdna ( seq id no : 1 ) has been cloned and sequenced by the methods described in detail below , yielding the sequence shown in fig6 . the longest open reading frame , starting at the first atg codon , encodes a predicted protein of 295 amino acids ( m r 33 , 729 ). screening the genbank peptide database with this sequence reveals significant homology only to members of the cyclin family , with greatest similarity in the region conserved among cyclins , ranging from 19 . 1 % to 33 . 6 % identity , and 44 . 1 % to 59 . 2 % similarity . the human prad1 ( seq id no : 1 ) protein ( prad1 ) has significant sequence similarities to all three types of cyclins ( a , b , and cln cyclins ), but cannot readily be assigned to any one type . this suggests that prad1may represent a new and different cyclin family member . prad1nrna is expressed in many tissues and is highly conserved across species ( fig7 ). as with other cyclin mrnas expressed in human cells ( pines et al ., cell 58 : 833 - 846 , 1989 ; pines et al ., nature 346 : 760 - 763 , 1990 ), human prad1mrna levels vary across the cell cycle ( fig9 ), consistent with but not proving a role in cell cycle regulation . the peak in prad1mrna levels occurs late in the cell cycle or in g1 . bacterially expressed recombinant human prad1 , produced as described in detail below , was used to further investigate the link between human prad1and the cyclins . cyclins are known to form complexes with p 34 cdc2 protein kinase , leading to its activation which can be assayed using exogenous histone h1 as a substrate . in addition , cyclin / p34 cdc2 complexes can be purified by exploiting the ability of beads linked to p13 suc1 , another cell cycle protein , to avidly bind p34 cdc2 and , in turn , co - purify any proteins complexed with p34 cdc2 ( draetta et al ., cell 56 : 829 - 838 , 1989 ). when recombinant human prad1was added to clam embryo interphase cell lysates ( which lack endogenous cyclins and contain inactive p34 cdc2 ) , both p34 cdc2 and prad1were bound by p13 suc1 - beads ( fig1 ). as prad1does not bind to protein a - sepharaose beads , its binding to p13 suc1 - beads is most likely due to its interaction with p34 cdc2 or a closely related protein . furthermore , kinase activity was induced by the addition of the human prad1 ( seq id no : 1 ) in vitro translation product to interphase lysates ( fig1 ). this kinase activity was lower than that seen with cyclin a . cyclin b provided a negative control ; for reasons not yet understood , our cyclin b translation product was not capable of activating p34 cdc2 in this type of assay . the difference between the activities induced by cyclin a and human prad1may be specific to this clam assay system , or may reflect a genuine difference between the functions of , or the substrate specificities conferred by , cyclin a vs . human prad1 . both prad1and a nucleotide encoding prad1are useful for the preparation of diagnostic tools for the classification and / or prognosis of lymphomas , breast cancers , and squamous cell cancers , as well as other cancers characterized by a high level of expression and / or amplification of the prad1gene . for example , prad1or an antigenic peptide fragment of prad1could be used in accordance with standard methods ( see , e . g ., harlow et al ., antibodies : a laboratory manual , cold spring harbor laboratory , cold spring harbor , n . y ., 1988 ; yanaihara et al ., u . s . pat . no . 4 , 855 , 406 ; and slamon et al ., u . s . pat . no . 4 , 918 , 162 ; all of which are herein incorporated by reference ) to raise polyclonal or monoclonal antibodies capable of forming immune complexes with prad1 , and useful for detecting abnormally high levels of prad1in a given tissue sample . similarly , a hybridization probe prepared from a segment of at least 8 ( and preferably greater than 250 ) nucleotides of human prad1 - encoding rna , human prad1 cdna ( seq id no : 1 ) or human prad1genomic dna may be employed as a means for determining the number of copies of prad1present in the genomic dna of a given sample , or the level of prad1mrna expressed in cells of such sample . the nucleic acids of the invention may also be used therapeutically . oligonucleotides which are antisense to human prad1mrna ( or which express rna that is antisense to human prad1mrna ) may be synthesized to serve as an anticancer therapy in those cases diagnosed as having a rearrangement or amplification of human prad1 : such oligonucleotides would be introduced into tumor cells in vivo as a means to reduce production of prad1in such cells , and thereby to reduce neoplastic growth induced by an overabundance of prad1 . ( see , for example , weinberg et al ., u . s . pat . no . 4 , 740 , 463 , herein incorporated by reference .) by linking a prad1sequence to a selected tissue - specific promoter or enhancer and introducing by standard methods ( e . g ., as described by leder et al ., u . s . pat . no . 4 , 736 , 866 , herein incorporated by reference ) the resultant hybrid gene into an animal embryo at an early developmental stage ( e . g ., the fertilized oocyte stage ), a transgenic animal which expresses elevated levels of prad1 in the selected tissue ( e . g ., breast , squamous cell , b - lymphoid cell , parathyroid , and others ) can be produced . the form of prad1utilized can be one which encodes a prad1 similar to that of the animal species used , or it can encode the prad1homolog of a different species ( e . g ., human ). such an animal would be useful as an in vivo model for neoplastic disease in the selected tissue . in addition , cells derived from . such a transgenic animal may be used to establish an immortal cell line that retains at least some of its differentiated characteristics while proliferating indefinitely in vitro . alternatively , one could stably transfect primary cells ( e . g ., a type that has proven difficult to maintain in culture , such as pituitary cells ) with a prad1gene linked to an appropriate promoter ( e . g ., the metallothionin promoter ) which ensures high levels of expression of the gene , and thereby establish an immortal cell line derived from such primary cells . prad1sequences may be particularly useful in this regard because overexpression of prad1 ( at least in parathyroid tissues ) appears to trigger the proliferation of normally quiescent cells without causing them to completely lose their differentiated phenotype . the dna abnormality in parathyroid tumor m was initially characterized by southern analysis of mspi digests using probes specific for the 5 &# 39 ; and 3 &# 39 ; regions in the pth gene ( see below ), which revealed a unique , tumor - specific band . fig1 illustrates these southern blots of tumor m ( t ) and peripheral blood leukocyte ( l ) dna pairs . mspi - digested dna was probed with the 51 pth gene probe ( lanes 1 , 2 ) and 3 &# 39 ; pth gene probe ( lanes 3 , 4 ). squares indicate the normal gene ( 6 . 3 kb ); arrows indicate the rearranged allele ( 1 . 5 kb in lane 1 , 5 . 4 kb in lane 3 ). there is an mspi site within the dna to which the 31 probe hybridizes ( see fig2 a ); therefore , a smaller band ( 2 . 2 kb ) representing the most 3 &# 39 ; section of the normal pth gene is present in lanes 3 and 4 . the intensities of the bands representing the abnormal allele were approximately equal to those representing the normal allele . thus , in tumor m , as in tumor y ( arnold et al ., 1989 ), a clonal rearrangement of the pth gene has occurred : in every tumor cell , one of the two alleles of the pth gene remains normal but the other is disrupted . fig2 ( a ) illustrates the normal pth gene , with the positions of its three exons ( vasicek et al ., proc . natl . acad . sci . usa 80 : 2127 - 2131 , 1983 ), the 5 &# 39 ; and 3 &# 39 ; probes used in mapping and cloning , and the mspi sites indicated . in comparison , fig2 ( b ) shows the two fragments resulting from the rearrangement in tumor m : one consists of the 5 &# 39 ; pth gene sequences plus juxtaposed non - pth dna ( stippled area ), while the other consists of 3 &# 39 ; pth gene sequences plus juxtaposed non - pth dna ( cross - hatched area ). in each fragment , the location of the breakpoint is shown by a diagonal line . the locations of several restriction enzyme sites , determined by southern blot analysis of tumor dna , are indicated : ecori ( r ), bamhi ( b ), hindiii ( h ), xhoi ( x ), ssti ( s ), mspi ( m ). the locations and sizes of the 1 . 5 kb and 5 . 4 kb rearranged mspi fragments , ( shown in fig1 ) are indicated above each fragment . below each fragment , lines ending in arrow tips depict the 1 . 5 kb and 16 kb cloned tumor dna fragments . analysis with multiple additional restriction enzymes indicated that the gene is separated into two parts , with the breakpoint located in the first intron ( fig2 b ). consequently , upstream regulatory elements and the first , non - coding exon in the 5 &# 39 ; fragment are separated from the coding sequences in the 3 &# 39 ; fragment . each pth gene fragment remains internally intact ( within the limits of sensitivity of restriction mapping ), but has become juxtaposed to non - pth dna . to identify the rearranged non - pth dna ( shaded and cross - hatched areas in fig2 b ), two dna fragments containing pth gene sequences plus breakpoint - adjacent dna were cloned from tumor m dna . one was a 16 kb bamhi fragment containing approximately 8 kb of non - pth gene dna adjacent to 8 kb of 3 &# 39 ; pth gene sequences ( fig2 b ). genomic southern blots of normal dna probed with subclones spanning most of the 8 kb of non - pth dna showed diffuse smears that did not yield to attempts at competition with excess human dna ( sealy et al ., 1985 ). this indicated that the non - pth dna in the 16 kb fragment contained sequences highly repeated in the human genome , and precluded its chromosomal localization . we also cloned a 1 . 5 kb ecori fragment containing approximately 1 kb of the pth gene &# 39 ; s 5 &# 39 ; region plus 500 bp of juxtaposed non - pth dna ( fig2 b ). probing normal human dna blots with the subcloned 500 bp fragment demonstrated that it contained single - copy dna ; in situ hybridization and analysis of somatic cell hybrids revealed that the 500 bp fragment &# 39 ; s normal chromosomal location is 11q13 . hybridization of the 500 bp breakpoint - adjacent dna fragment to an rna blot of six parathyroid adenomas , including two with pth gene rearrangements , was negative . to identify transcribed sequences near the breakpoint that could have been affected by the rearrangement , we walked along the chromosome by probing a normal human genomic library with the 500 bp subcloned fragment . we obtained a bacteriophage clone with a 14 kb insert , but northern blot analyses revealed no hybridization of subclones spanning the entire insert . mapping of the 14 kb insert showed that the 500 bp fragment was at one end , and demonstrated that the adjacent cloned dna had a restriction map identical to that of the genomic dna juxtaposed to tumor m &# 39 ; s rearranged 5 &# 39 ; pth gene fragment . ( compare fig2 b and 3 ). at the other end of the 14 kb insert was a 1 . 6 kb xhoi fragment ( fig3 ) identical in size to an xhoi fragment 1 kb from tumor y &# 39 ; s d11s287 breakpoint ( arnold et al ., 1989 ). we subcloned these two independent 1 . 6 kb xhoi fragments ( one from the above normal phage clone and one from a tumor y - derived clone ) and used them sequentially to probe blots of normal human genomic dna digested with 7 restriction enzymes . with every enzyme , the two probes hybridized to precisely comigrating fragments . in addition , restriction maps of the two 1 . 6 kb fragments themselves were identical for all 6 enzymes used . thus , the 1 . 6 kb xhoi fragment linked tumor m &# 39 ; s breakpoint - adjacent dna with that of tumor y ( d11s287 ), confirming that the 11q13 breakpoints in the two adenomas are both in the d11s287 region , separated by 15 kb . the composite restriction map of the unrearranged d11s287 region is shown in fig3 in which restriction sites for the enzymes hindiii ( h ), bamhi ( b ), ecori ( e ), saci ( s ), mspi ( m ) and xhoi ( x ) are indicated . the locations of the 500 bp fragment , the 1 . 6 kb xhoi fragment , and probe b are shown . this map is derived from the maps of the phage clones described above and by arnold et al . ( 1989 ), and southern blots of dna from tumors m and y . the proximity of the 11q13 breakpoints suggested that the rearrangements could have similar functional consequences . because none of the dna between the two tumors &# 39 ; breakpoints is transcribed in parathyroid cells , we looked for transcribed sequences distal to tumor y &# 39 ; s breakpoint . we used fragment b ( fig3 ), a breakpoint - adjacent dna fragment from tumor y , to probe a blot containing total rna from human placenta , several parathyroid adenomas lacking pth gene rearrangements , and tumors m and y . we also hybridized probe b to another blot containing total rna from placenta and from another parathyroid adenoma ( tumor f ) that was found recently to contain a clonal rearrangement of the pth and d11s287 loci ( friedman et al ., 1990 ); southern blotting indicated that tumor f &# 39 ; s rearrangement closely resembled tumor y &# 39 ; s . fig4 presents the results of the northern blots , in which 10 micrograms of total rna was probed with probe b ( top panels ), and with a 28s rrna probe ( bottom panels ). size determination was based on the migration of 28s rrna . lanes contain the following samples : lanes 1 , 7 : placenta ; lanes 2 , 3 , 4 : parathyroid adenomas without pth gene or d11s287 rearrangements ; lanes 5 , 6 , 8 : tumors y , m , and f , respectively ; lanes 7 and 8 are a separate northern filter . the middle panel is a longer exposure of lanes 1 - 6 in the top panel . in lanes 5 and 8 ( tumors y and f ) a faint band was visible , larger than the highly - overexpressed 4 . 5 kb band , which was not seen in lane 6 ( tumor m ) ( data not shown ). exposure times : top row ( probe b ): lanes 1 - 6 , 17h ; lanes 7 and 8 , 12h ; middle row ( probe b ): all lanes , 52h ; bottom row ( 28s rrna ): all lanes , 1 . 5h . an approximately 4 . 5 kb transcript ( slightly smaller than the 28s rrna band ) was seen in all lanes of fig4 . however , the intensity of the 4 . 5 kb band in tumors m , y and f was roughly 15 - fold greater than that in any of the other specimens . we demonstrated that the 4 . 5 kb band represents polyadenylated rna by finding its intensity amplified in poly a + rna ( data not shown ). parathyroid adenoma m initially was identified as having an abnormal pth gene during studies of the monoclonality of parathyroid adenomas ( tumor 1 in arnold et al ., n . eng . j . med . 318 : 658 - 662 , 1988 ). all tumor specimens were frozen in liquid nitrogen shortly after surgical removal . extraction of high molecular weight dna , restriction enzyme digestion and southern blotting were performed as previously described ( arnold et al ., n . eng . j . med ., 309 : 1593 - 1599 , 1983 ). total rna was isolated by the guanidinium thiocyanate / cesium chloride method , electrophoresed on a denaturing formaldehyde - agarose gel , and transferred to nitrocellulose or nylon filters ( sambrook et al ., molecular cloning , a laboratory manual , 2nd edn . cold spring harbor laboratory press , cold spring harbor , n . y ., pp . 7 . 19 - 7 . 22 , 7 . 37 - 7 . 39 , 11 . 31 - 11 . 32 , 1989 ). hybridization conditions were similar to those used for southern filters . blots were washed at high stringency ( 0 . 1 × ssc , 65 °). pth gene fragments used as hybridization probes were the 775 bp bglii fragment ( 5 &# 39 ; pth probe ) and the 2 . 6 kb ssti - ecori fragment ( 3 &# 39 ; pth probe ) from ppthg108 ( igarashi et al ., mol . cell . biol . 6 : 1830 - 1833 , 1986 ) ( fig2 a ). the 500 bp fragment and probe b ( fig3 ) were subcloned into puc - 18 from the breakpoint - adjacent dna of the phage clones containing the rearranged pth gene fragment plus juxtaposed dna from tumor m ( see above ), and tumor y ( arnold et al ., 1989 ), respectively . the 1 . 6 kb xhoi fragment from the 14 kb insert cloned from the normal human genomic library was also sub - cloned into puc - 18 . the 1 . 6 kb xhol fragment from tumor y was subcloned from a xphage 2001 clone containing the 17 kb hindiii fragment of tumor y &# 39 ; s unrearranged d11s287 allele ( arnold et al ., 1989 ). all the above probes were random - primed and labelled with 32 p ! datp ( feinberg & amp ; vogelstein , anal . biochem . 132 : 6 - 13 , 1983 ). the 28s rna oligonucleotide was end - labelled with 32 p ! datp ( sambrook et al ., 1989 ) and used to probe the northern filters to control for the amount of high molecular weight rna present in each lane . to clone the rearranged 5 &# 39 ; pth gene fragment ( fig2 b ), an ecori library of tumor genomic dna was constructed using the λzapii vector ( stratagene ). this library was screened with the 5 &# 39 ; pth gene probe , and the rearranged allele was distinguished from the normal allele by size , as dna blots predicted that the rearranged ecori fragment would be 1 . 5 kb in size , and the normal fragment 3 . 5 kb . one clone containing the rearranged gene was identified in 1 × 10 6 plaques that were screened . to clone the rearranged 3 &# 39 ; pth gene fragment ( fig2 b ), a bamhi library of tumor genomic dna was constructed in embl - 3 . because restriction mapping indicated that both the normal and rearranged 3 &# 39 ; pth bamhi fragments were 16 kb in size , the library was screened with the 3 &# 39 ; pth probe ( expected to hybridize to both the normal and rearranged pth alleles ) and then with the 5 &# 39 ; pth probe ( expected to hybridize only to the normal allele ). one clone containing the rearranged allele was identified in 6 . 5 × 10 3 plaques screened . as predicted , it contained 8 kb of 3 &# 39 ; pth gene sequences and 8 kb of newly - juxtaposed dna . most of this 8 kb was sub - cloned in roughly 2 kb units into puc - 18 , and used to probe southern filters of normal genomic dna . prereassociation was performed by sonicating 1 mg of human placental genomic dna and incubating it for 10 - 60 min with 50 - 100 ng of labelled repeat - containing subcloned dna . this mix was then hybridized to a southern filter containing normal human dna using standard conditions . the genomic library used to obtain the 14 kb insert was a partial sau - 3a digest of normal human dna cloned into an embl - 3 like vector ( clontech ). chromosomal mapping using human - mouse somatic cell hybrids ( shows et al ., adv . hum . genet . 12 : 341 - 452 , 1982 ; shows et al ., somatic cell mol . genet . 10 : 315 - 318 , 1984 ); southern blotting ( naylor et al ., j . exp . med . 57 : 1020 - 1027 , 1983 ); and in situ hybridization ( zabel et al ., cytogenet . cell genet . 39 : 200 - 205 , 1985 ; nakai et al ., cytogenet . cell genet . 43 : 215 - 217 , 1986 ) was performed as previously described . a λgt11 placental cdna library ( clontech ) was screened with radiolabeled probe b . a clone denominated xp1 - 4 and another similar phage clone were isolated . probe b and the insert of xp1 - 4 were sequenced . the region of genomic and cdna overlap was followed in probe b by a gt splice donor sequence in only one orientation , confirming hybridization data which had suggested transcription in the left to right orientation , as shown in fig5 . the next probe was made by polymerase chain reaction amplification of the 3 &# 39 ; region of the xp1 - 4 cdna insert , and used to rescreen the same library . from 5 × 10 5 pfu of this library , one of 16 positive clones , xp1 - 5 , had an insert extending further downstream . the psti / ecori fragment of λp1 - 5 was then used to rescreen the library , and 12 similar clones , the longest of which was λp2 - 3 , were obtained . the sequence of the insert of λp2 - 3 revealed polyadenylation signals and a polya stretch of 16 nucleotides in an appropriate position , consistent with the expected orientation . standard methods for library screening and probe labeling were used ( davis et al ., basic methods in molecular biology ( elsevier , n . y ., amsterdam , london , 1986 ). these clones are illustrated in fig5 together with a schematic representation of pth / d11s287 rearrangements in two parathyroid adenomas . the 5 &# 39 ; pth region ( 11p15 , thick lines ) was juxtaposed to the d11s287 region ( 11q13 , thin lines ) in each of these adenomas . the breakpoints in the d11s287 region are 15 kb apart . genomic probe b is shown as a darkened box , whose open area represents the first exon of prad1 . also shown are restriction maps of the inserts of representative overlapping prad1cdna clones , xp1 - 4 , xp1 - 5 , and xp2 - 3 ; and the deduced restriction map of the prad1cdna . the coding region is shown as a crosshatched box . scale of 1 kb is shown as arrows . symbols used for restriction sites are : b . bamhi ; e , ecori ; h , hindiii ; p , psti . the inserts of the clones λp1 - 4 , λp1 - 5 , and λp2 - 3 shown in fig5 and of other independent clones , were subcloned into pgem7zf (+) ( promega ). sequences were obtained using the double - stranded dna sequencing technique ( dideoxy method ) with modified t7 dna polymerase ( sequenase ; u . s . biochemical corporation ), as described by the manufacturer . several oligonucleotides were synthesized as internal primers to facilitate sequencing . the coding region was sequenced in both orientations and in at least two independent clones . set forth in fig6 are the nucleotide sequence and predicted . amino acid sequence of human prad1cdna ( seq id no : 1 ). nucleotide numbers are on the right . nucleotide 3495 , shown as w , indicates a or t because the sequences of two independent clones did not agree . nucleotide 4017 is shown as r , meaning a or g , for the same reason . fig7 illustrates sequence homology between the &# 34 ; cyclin box &# 34 ; region of the predicted prad1protein ( prad1 ) and that of a - type cyclins ( human and clam cyclin a ) ( swenson et al ., cell 47 : 861 - 870 , 1986 , and wang et al ., nature 343 : 555 - 557 , 1990 ); b - type cyclins ( human cyclin b and s . pombe cdc13 ) ( pines et al ., cell 58 : 833 - 846 , 1989 ; and booher et al ., embo j . 7 : 2321 - 2327 , 1988 ), and one s . cerevisiae g1 cyclin ( cln3 ) ( nash et al ., embo j . 7 : 43354346 , 1988 ; cross et al ., mol . cell . biol . 8 : 4675 - 4684 , 1988 ) clam cyclin a and s . pombe cdc13 homologies with prad1are representative of those found in their families ; cln3 alignes with prad1more closely than does cln1 or 2 . identical amino acids are shown as |. conservative substitutions are shown as *. alignment was made with the assistance of the bestfit program ( devereux et al ., nucl . acids res . 12 : 387 - 395 , 1984 ) and conservative amino acids are grouped as follows : d , e , n , q ; h , k , r ; a , g , p , s , t ; i , l , m , v ; f , w , y . amino acid numbers are on the right in this figure . rnas were prepared for northern blot analysis from the indicated tissues by standard procedures ( davis et al ., 1986 ). 10 μg total rna was loaded and separated on an agarose - formaldehyde gel , blotted onto nitrocellulose , and hybridized with probe b or the 28s rrna oligonucleotide . the filters were washed at high stringency ( 0 . 1 × ssc , 60 ° c .) and autoradiographed . fig8 illustrates a northern blot analysis of total rna from human thyroid ( lane 1 ), human placenta ( lane 2 ), bovine parathyroid ( lane 3 ), bovine thyroid ( lane 4 ), bovine lymph node ( lane 5 ), bovine skeletal muscle ( lane 6 ), murine heart ( lane 7 ), and murine liver ( lane 8 ). prad1rna ( shown in the upper panel ) is approximately 4 . 5 kb in size , slightly smaller than the 28s rrna ; 28s rrna hybridization is shown in the lower panel . fig9 ( a ) shows a northern blot analysis of total rna from hela s3 cells after release from g1 / s block . hela s3 cells ( american type culture collection ), maintained in dulbecco modified eagle medium ( dmem , gibco ) with 7 % fetal bovine serum ( fbs ), were synchronized at the g1 / s boundary by sequential thymidine - aphidicolin treatment ( heintz , et al ., mol . cell . biol . 3 : 539 - 550 , 1983 ) with a slight modification . log - phase cells were incubated in complete medium ( dmem with 7 % fbs , penicillin g , and streptomycin ) with addition of 2mm thymidine ( sigma ) for 12 h . after release from thymidine block by 3 washes with pbs , the cells were incubated for 10 h with 24 μm deoxycytidine ( sigma ) and 24 μm thymidine , recovered by trypsinization , counted , and aliquoted equally ( 5 . 0 × 10 4 cells / cm 2 ). incubation with 5 μg / ml aphidicolin ( sigma ) for 14 h was followed by release from g1 / s block with 4 dmem washes and incubation in complete medium . 3 h ! thymidine ( nen ) was added to an aliquot 15 min before each indicated time point ; a 30 min incubation and harvesting for trichloroacetic acid ( tca ) precipitation followed . rnas from parallel aliquots were extracted ( chomczynski et al ., anal . biochem . 162 : 156 - 159 , 1987 ) at the indicated times ; time zero was just before release from aphidicolin . rnas ( 5 μg per lane ) were blotted onto nitrocellulose and sequentially hybridized with the prad1λp1 - 4 cdna insert , human h4 histone pf0108x ( pauli et al ., science 236 : 1308 - 1311 , 1987 ), and a 28s rrna oligonucleotide as described above . human prad1trna is shown in the upper panel of fig9 ( a ); h4 histone mrna in the middle panel shows the pattern expected in well - synchronized cells ( heintz et al ., 1983 ); and 28s rrna is shown in the lower panel as a control for rna loading . in fig9 ( b ) are compared the relative amounts of human prad1 mrna ----, h4 histone mrna --∘--, and 3 h ! thymidine incorporation --□-- of hela s3 cells after release from g1 / s block . the signals of the blot shown in fig9 ( a ) were measured by densitometry and normalized to the 28s rrna to produce the graph of fig9 ( b ). clam embryo interphase cell lysates lacking endogenous cyclins were prepared by adding 100 μm emetine during first mitosis , as described previously ( luca et al ., j . cell biol . 109 : 1895 - 1909 , 1989 ), followed by homogenization and centrifugation at 150 , 000 × g . aliquots of the supernatant were frozen in liquid nitrogen . 35 s ! methionine - labeled prad1was produced in a reticulocyte lysate in vitro translation system ( promega ) according to manufacturer &# 39 ; s instructions , by using a plasmid ( denominated pp1 - 8 ) containing the xp1 - 4 insert in pgem7zf (+) ( promega ). to produce prad1in e . coli , pt4r - 1 was constructed by insertion of the xp1 - 4 insert into the ncoi and bamhi sites of pet - 3d ( studier et al ., meth . enzym . 108 : 60 - 89 , 1990 ). bl21 ( de3 ) cells were transformed with pt4r - 1 , cultured , and treated with 0 . 4 mm isopropylthio - beta - galactosidase ( iptg ) for 3 h to induce prad1expression . the induced product was purified from cell culture as inclusion bodies ( gardella et al ., j . biol . chem 265 : 15854 - 15859 , 1990 ). on sds - polyacrylamide gels , the apparent sizes of the in vitro translation product and the bacterially - expressed product were the same ( m r 35 kd ). rabbit anti - prad1antisera were raised against a synthetic peptide corresponding to amino acids 9 - 37 of prad1 . antisera were assayed by immunoprecipitation of the in vitro translation product . antisera specificity was shown by comparison with normal rabbit serum and by successful competition with the ( 9 - 37 ) peptide ( data not shown ). thawed clam embryo lysate ( 16 . 5 μl ) and bacterially - expressed prad1 ( 5 . 5 μl ) were mixed and incubated at 18 ° c . for 30 min before transfer to 4 ° c ., dilution with 4 volumes of buffer a ( 50 mm tris ph 7 . 4 , 150 mm nacl , 5 mm edta , 5 mm egta , 1 mm ammonium molybdate ) and addition of p13 suc1 - or protein a - sepharose , followed by mixing for 1 h . beads were then pelleted and washed in buffer a + 0 . 5 % tween - 20 ; in buffer b ( 50 mm tris ph 7 . 4 , 1 . 0m nacl , 5 mm edta , 5 mm egta , 1 mm molybdate , 0 . 5 % tween - 20 ); and finally in buffer a without tween - 20 , all at 4 ° c . washed beads were boiled in sds sample buffer for 3 min and the supernatant split into three samples for electrophoresis . gels were silver stained or blotted onto nitrocellulose filters and reacted with rabbit antibodies generated against bacterially - expressed , full - length s . pombe cdc2 protein or prad1peptide as above . antibody binding was visualized by alkaline phosphatase - linked secondary antibodies , according to the manufacturer &# 39 ; s directions ( promega ). fig1 demonstrates that prad1 protein added to clam embryo cell lysates binds to p13 suc1 - sepharose beads and activates histone h1 kinase activity . bacterially expressed prad1was incubated with a clam embryo interphase lysate lacking endogenous cyclins a and b . the lysates were then mixed with p13 suc1 - or protein a - sepharose beads . the bound material was eluted , electrophoresed and either silver stained ( a ) or immunoblotted with anti - prad1 antiserum ( b ) or anti - cdc2 antiserum ( c ). lane m shows molecular weight markers ( from top to bottom ) of 116 , 94 , 68 , 56 , 40 , and 31 kd . lane 1 shows whole clam embryo interphase lysate plus 18 ng prad1protein . lanes 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , and 6 represent clam embryo lysate to which 0 , 18 , 45 , 225 , or 18 ng of prad1 , respectively , were added ; these mixes were then assayed for material binding to p 13 suc1 - sepharose ( lanes 2 - 5 ) or protein a - sepharose ( lane 6 ) beads . lane 7 shows bacterially - expressed prad1 . arrows indicate the positions of prad1and cdc2 marker proteins . equal volumes of clam embryo interphase lysate and reticulocyte lysate containing 32 p !- labeled kinase products were then examined by sds - page , followed by autoradiography . synthetic clam cyclins a and b ( westendorf et al ., j . cell biol . 108 : 1431 - 1444 ; swenson et al ., cell 47 : 861 - 870 , 1986 ) and prad1mrnas were transcribed and translated as described above . translation product ( 3 μl ) and clam embryo lysate ( 3 μl ) were mixed . samples were frozen immediately in liquid nitrogen . the remainder was incubated for 30 min at 18 ° c . and then frozen . samples were diluted with 1 volume of ice - cold buffer a , thawed on ice , and mixed with an equal volume of kinase mix ( 40 nm hepes ph 7 . 3 , 20mm mgcl 2 , 10 mm egta , 0 . 2 mg / ml histone h1 , 10 μm camp - dependent kinase inhibitor ( sigma ), 0 . 5 mci / ml λ - 32 p ! atp and incubated at 23 ° c . for 10 min . double - strength sds sample buffer was then added and the entire mix was analyzed by sds - page followed by autoradiography , as shown in fig1 ( d ). __________________________________________________________________________sequence listing ( 1 ) general information :( iii ) number of sequences : 8 ( 2 ) information for seq id no : 1 :( i ) sequence characteristics :( a ) length : 4244 base pairs ( b ) type : nucleic acid ( c ) strandedness : single ( d ) topology : linear ( ii ) molecule type : cdna ( ix ) feature :( a ) name / key : cds ( b ) 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