Patent Application: US-86520397-A

Abstract:
the invention is based on the finding that furin belongs to a family of endoproteolytically active enzymes and relates to a process in the in vitro cleavage of a protein by treating the protein in the presence of ca 2 + ions with furin , or an endoproteolytically active fragment , derivative or fusion protein of furin . the invention can be used for the biological production of a protein by culturing genetically engineered cells expressing a pro - form of the protein as well as furin and isolating the protein formed . the invention also relates to a pharmaceutical composition comprising one or more pharmaceutically acceptable carriers , diluents or adjuvants , as well as an endoproteolytically active amount of furin , or a fragment or derivative of furin having an endoproteolytic activity .

Description:
there will now be given an example of a process according to the invention in which the endoproteolytic activity of furin is used in the processing of the precursor of the von willebrand factor ( pro - vwf ) as a substrate . with regard to the structure of prepro , pro and mature vwf , reference is made to verweij et al ., embo j . 5 , 1986 , 1839 - 1847 , and verweij et al ., j . biol . chem . 263 , 1988 , 7921 - 7924 . pro - vwf consists of a pro - polypeptide ( 741 amino acid residues ) and , at the c terminus , mature vwf ( 2050 amino acid residues ). as explained in the above publications , mature vwf is formed from pro - vwf by proteolytic processing next to the paired basic amino acids lys762 - arg763 , and cos - 1 cells are a suitable host for the synthesis of constitutively secreted vwf after transfection of full - length prepro - vwf cdna . the activity of furin in endoproteolytic processing was tested for both pro - vwf and the mutant pro - vwfgly763 described by voorberg et al ., embo j . 9 , 1990 , 797 - 803 . the dna coding for this mutant pro - vwfgly763 contains a guanosine instead of an adenosine in the 2407 position of full - length prepro - vwf cdna . as a result of this mutation , the cleavage site lys762 - arg763 of the propolypeptide is replaced by lys762 - gly763 in the pro - vwf precursor protein mutant . identification of translation products encoded by full length fur cdna transfected into cos - 1 cells to further characterize the fur gene product furin , experiments were performed to synthesize this protein in eukaryotic cells under the control of the sv40 late promoter and to use this material in an approach to elucidate its function . to identify the translation products of the fur gene , an immunological approach was selected . a polyclonal antiserum raised in rabbits to a recombinant furin hybrid protein as described in &# 34 ; materials and methods &# 34 ; was used . in western blot analysis of proteins in total lysates of bacteria transformed with pmj109 , pmj119 or pew1 dna , the polyclonal antiserum recognized β - gal - δfurin1 , 336trpe - as - δfurin1 and gst - δfurin2 , respectively . in control experiments , the antiserum did not react with the trpe - encoded polypeptide chain of anthralinate synthetase or glutathion - s - transferase . using this antiserum , western blot analysis was performed to detect fur gene - encoded proteins in cos - 1 cells transfected with psvlfur . based upon nucleotide sequence data of fur cdna , synthesis of a primary translation product with a calculated molecular weight of 87 kda may be expected . two proteins with apparent molecular weights of about 90 kda and 100 kda , respectively , were detected in transfected cos - 1 cells as compared to non - transfected cos - 1 cells ( results not shown ). the presence of two forms of furin in cos - 1 cells transfected with psvlfur dna indicates that furin is subject to post - translational modification . it is possible , that the 100 kda protein is a glycosylated form of the primary product of about 90 kda . however , it is also tempting to speculate that the 100 kda polypeptide would represent the pro - form , while the 90 kda polypeptide represents mature furin , generated by proteolytic ( auto ) processing of the peptide bond between residues 107 and 108 . it is noted that non - transfected cos - 1 cells also contain small amounts of immunoreactive material with apparent molecular weights of 90 , 60 and 40 kda . although the identity of these proteins remains to be established , it is conceivable that the 90 kda protein represents a low amount of endogenous furin . the data indicate that the transfected fur genetic sequences are indeed transcribed and translated making it possible to test the biological function of the fur products . in transfection experiments with 10 μg psvlvwf dna , the 360 kda pro - vwf precursor protein and the 260 kda mature vwf protein were found in virtually equal proportions in the conditioned medium . the formation of mature vwf in the cells obtained by transfection is attributed to a processing by endogenous furin , which is expressed in cos - 1 cells as shown by northern blot analysis of mrna isolated from cos - 1 cells and by immuno - precipitation analysis with a polyclonal rabbit anti - furin serum . in a similar transfection experiments of cos - 1 cells with 10 μg psvlvwfgly763 dna , it was found that pro - vwfgly763 was formed and secreted constitutively in the culture medium as a 360 kda protein . there was no endoproteolytic processing to mature vwf ( 260 kda ). the same result was found when a cotransfection of 5 μg psvlvwfgly763 dna and 5 μg psvlfur dna was carried out . no processing of pro - vwfgly763 to mature vwf was observed . on the other hand , when cos - 1 cells were cotransfected with 5 μg psvlvwf dna and 5 μg psvlfur dna , a complete processing of pro - vwf to mature vwf was found . psvlfur contains a 4 . 1 kb full - length fur cdna fragment , starting 117 nucleotides upstream of the atg start codon and ending 21 nucleotides downstream of the poly - a addition site cloned into the ecori site of psvl ( wells et al ., nucl . acids res . 11 , 1983 , 7911 - 7925 ). in psvlfur , expression of the fur cdna sequences is under control of the sv40 late promoter . pmj109 consists of a 2 . 2 kb smai / smai human fur cdna fragment molecularly cloned into the hindiii site of plasmid pur291 ; the 2 . 2 kb fur cdna encompasses the carboxyterminal region of furin , which in pmj109 is fused in phase to the β - galactosidase ( β - gal ) encoding sequences using the polylinker region constructed just in front of the stop codon in lacz . pmj119 consists of the same 2 . 2 kb fur cdna fragment but here molecularly cloned into the smai site of plasmid path1 , which results in the in phase fusion of the furin sequences to the first 336 amino acid residues of the trpe - encoded portion of anthranilate synthetase ( 336trpe - as ). finally , in case of pew1 , a 3 . 5 kb bglii / ecori fur cdna fragment is cloned into pgex - 3x and fused in phase to glutathion - s - transferase ( gst ). upon proper induction of protein synthesis in bacteria transformed with pmj109 , pmj119 or pew1 , production of relatively large quantities of β - gal - δfurin1 ( mw 170 kda ), 336trpe - as - δfurin1 ( mw 90 kda ) and gst - δfurin2 ( mw 100 kda ), respectively , was observed . polyclonal anti - furin antibodies were raised in rabbits to the β - gal - δfurin1 hybrid protein synthesized in bacteria transformed by pmj109 . for immunizations , partially purified hybrid protein preparations were used . upon size fractionation of the bacterial proteins by sds - page , the gel region containing the hybrid protein was excised and the protein content removed electrophoretically . western blotting experiments with extracts of transfected cos - 1 cells were performed as follows . cos - 1 cells transfected with 10 μg of psvlfur dna were maintained 48 hr post - transfection in serum - free medium . at this time , the cells were washed twice with 10 mm sodium phosphate ( ph 7 . 4 ), 0 . 14 m nacl and then lyzed in &# 34 ; immunoprecipitation buffer ( ipb )&# 34 ; consisting of 10 mm tris - hcl ( ph 7 . 8 ), 150 mm nacl , 5 mm edta , 1 % ( v / v ) nonidet p - 40 , 10 mm benzamidine , 5 mm n - ethylmaleimide and 1 mm phenylmethylsulfonyl fluoride ( pmsf ). an aliquot of the cell extract was run under reducing conditions on a 8 % ( w / v ) sds - polyacrylamide gel and , subsequently , proteins were transferred to nitrocellulose ( schleicher and schuell ). detection of furin was performed by incubating the blot with the rabbit anti - furin serum described above . monkey kidney cos - 1 cells were propagated in iscove &# 39 ; s modified minimal medium , supplemented with fetal calf serum ( 10 % v / v ) and antibiotics penicillin ( 100 u / ml ) and streptomycin ( 100 μg / ml )!. twenty four hours upon seeding , the semi - confluent cells were transfected with 20 μg of dna in 2 ml of iscove &# 39 ; s modified minimal medium , supplemented with 200 μg / ml deae - dextran . the transfection procedure used included a chloroquine chock ( luthman and magnusson , nucl . acids res . 11 , 1983 , 1295 - 1308 ). after transfection , cells were maintained in the medium described above for 48 hours . prior to radiolabelling , medium was removed and the cells incubated for 1 h in rpmi medium , lacking methionine . subsequently , cells were labelled for 4 hours in the presence of 35 s ! methionine ( 50 μci / ml , specific activity & gt ; 800 ci / mmol ), followed by a chase of 14 hours with unlabelled methionine ( final concentration 1 mm ). after centrifugation for 5 min at 13 , 000 × g , the labelled culture media were adjusted to 1 × ipb . preclearance of the media was performed by incubating twice with gelatin - sepharose and , subsequently , with preformed complexes of rabbit pre - immune serum with protein a - sepharose . immunoprecipitation of radiolabelled vwf - related proteins was carried out by preformed complexes of an igg preparation , derived from rabbit anti - vwf ( dakopatts , glostrup , denmark ) with protein a - sepharose . immunoprecipitates were extensively washed with ipb and pelleted through a discontinuous 10 - 20 % ( w / v ) sucrose gradient dissolved in ipb supplemented with 0 . 5 % desoxycholate and 10 mm tris - hcl ( ph 7 . 8 ), respectively . immunoprecipitates were analysed under reducing conditions on a 5 % sds - polyacrylamide gel . __________________________________________________________________________ # sequence listing - ( 1 ) general information :- ( iii ) number of sequences : 12 - ( 2 ) information for seq id no : 1 :- ( i ) sequence characteristics :# acids ( a ) length : 6 amino ( b ) type : amino acid ( c ) strandedness : single ( d ) topology : linear - 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