Patent Application: US-47018795-A

Abstract:
the present invention provides purified and isolated polynucleotide sequences encoding human plasma platelet - activating factor acetylhydrolase . also provided are materials and methods for the recombinant production of platelet - activating factor acetylhydrolase products which are expected to be useful in regulating pathological inflammatory events .

Description:
the following examples illustrate the invention . example 1 presents a novel method for the purification of paf - ah from human plasma . example 2 describes amino acid microsequencing of the purified human plasma paf - ah . the cloning of a full length cdna encoding human plasma paf - ah is described in example 3 . example 4 presents the results of an assay evidencing the enzymatic activity of recombinant paf - ah transiently expressed in cos 7 cells . example 5 describes the expression of human paf - ah in e . coli . example 6 presents a protocol for purification of recombinant paf - ah from e . coli and assays confirming its enzymatic activity . results of a northern blot assay for expression of human plasma paf - ah rna in various tissues and cell lines are presented in example 7 . paf - ah was purified from human plasma in order to provide material for amino acid sequencing . initially , low density lipoprotein ( ldl ) particles were precipitated from plasma with phosphotungstate and solubilized in 0 . 1 % tween 20 and subjected to chromatography on a deae column ( pharmacia , uppsala , sweden ) according to the method of stafforini et al . ( 1987 ), supra , but inconsistent elution of paf - ah activity from the deae column required reevaluation of the solubilization and subsequent purification conditions . tween 20 , chaps ( pierce chemical co ., rockford , ill .) and octyl glucoside were evaluated by centrifugation and gel filtration chromatography for their ability to solubilize ldl particles . chaps provided 25 % greater recovery of solubilized activity than tween 20 and 300 % greater recovery than octyl glucoside . ldl precipitate solubilized with 10 mm chaps was then fractionated on a deae sepharose ® fast flow column ( an anion exchange column ; pharmacia ) with buffer containing 1 mm chaps to provide a large pool of partially purified paf - ah (&# 34 ; the deae pool &# 34 ;) for evaluation of additional columns . the deae pool was used as starting material to test a variety of chromatography columns for utility in further purifying the paf - ah activity . the columns tested included : blue sepharose ® fast flow ( pharmacia ), a dye ligand affinity column ; s - sepharose ® fast flow ( pharmacia ), a cation exchange column ; cu chelating sepharose ® ( pharmacia ), a metal ligand affinity column ; fractogel s ( em separations , gibbstown , n . j . ), a cation exchange column ; and sephacryl - 200 ( pharmacia ), a gel filtration column . these chromatographic procedures all yielded low , unsatisfactory levels of purification when operated in 1 mm chaps . subsequent gel filtration chromatography on sephacryl s - 200 in 1 mm chaps generated an enzymatically active fraction which eluted over a broad size range rather than the expected ˜ 44 kda size . taken together , these results indicated that the ldl proteins were aggregating in solution . different ldl samples were therefore evaluated by analytical gel filtration chromatography for aggregation of the paf - ah activity . samples from the deae pool and of freshly solubilized ldl precipitate were analyzed on superose 12 ( pharmacia ) equilibrated in buffer with 1 mm chaps . both samples eluted over a very broad range of molecular weights with most of the activity eluting above 150 kda . when the samples were then analyzed on superose 12 equilibrated with 10 mm chaps , the bulk of the activity eluted near 44 kda as expected for paf - ah activity . however , the samples contained some paf - ah activity in the high molecular weight region corresponding to aggregates . other samples eluted paf - ah activity exclusively in the ˜ 44 kda range when they were subsequently tested by gel filtration . these samples were an ldl precipitate solubilized in 10 mm chaps in the presence of 0 . 5m nacl and a fresh deae pool that was adjusted to 10 mm chaps after elution from the deae column . these data indicate that at least 10 mm chaps is required to maintain non - aggregated paf - ah . increase of the chaps concentration from 1 mm to 10 mm after chromatography on deae but prior to subsequent chromatographic steps resulted in dramatic differences in purification . for example , the degree of paf - ah purification on s - sepharose ® fast flow was increased from 2 - fold to 10 - fold . paf - ah activity bound the blue sepharose ® fast flow column irreversibly in 1 mm chaps , but the column provided the highest level of purification in 10 mm chaps . the deae chromatography was not improved with prior addition of 10 mm chaps . chromatography on cu chelating sepharose ® after the blue sepharose fast flow column concentrated paf - ah activity 15 - fold . it was also determined that paf - ah activity could be recovered from a reduced sds - polyacrylamide gel , as long as samples were not boiled . the activity of material eluted from the cu chelating sepharose ® column when subjected to sds - polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis coincided with a major protein band when the gel was silver stained . the novel protocol utilized to purify paf - ah for amino acid sequencing therefore comprised the following steps which were performed at 4 ° c . human plasma was divided into 900 ml aliquots in 1 liter nalgene ® bottles and adjusted to ph 8 . 6 . ldl particles were then precipitated by adding 90 ml of 3 . 85 % sodium phosphotungstate followed by 23 ml of 2m mgcl 2 . the plasma was then centrifuged for 15 minutes at 3600 g . pellets were resuspended in 800 ml of 0 . 2 % sodium citrate . ldl was precipitated again by adding 10 g nacl and 24 ml of 2m mgcl 2 . ldl particles were pelleted by centrifugation for 15 minutes at 3600 g . this wash was repeated twice . pellets were then frozen at - 20 ° c . ldl particles from 5 l of plasma were resuspended in 5 l of buffer a ( 25 mm tris - hcl , 10 mm chaps , ph 7 . 5 ) and stirred overnight . solubilized ldl particles were centrifuged at 3600 g for 1 . 5 hours . supernatants were combined and filtered with whatman 113 filter paper to remove any remaining solids . solubilized ldl supernatant was loaded on a deae sepharose ® fast flow column ( 11 cm × 10 cm ; 1 l resin volume ; 80 ml / minute ) equilibrated in buffer b ( 25 mm tris - hcl , 1 mm chaps , ph 7 . 5 ). the column was washed with buffer b until absorbance returned to baseline . protein was eluted with an 8 l , 0 - 0 . 5m nacl gradient and 480 ml fractions were collected . this step was necessary to obtain binding to the blue sepharose ® fast flow column below . fractions were assayed for acetylhydrolase activity essentially by the method described in example 4 . active fractions were pooled and sufficient chaps was added to make the pool ˜ 10 mm chaps . the deae pool was loaded overnight at 4 ml / minute onto a blue sepharose ® fast flow column ( 5 cm × 10 cm ; 200 ml bed volume ) equilibrated in buffer a containing 0 . 5m nacl . the column was washed with the equilibration buffer at 16 ml / minute until absorbance returned to baseline . paf - ah activity was step eluted with buffer a containing 0 . 5m kscn ( a chaotropic salt ) at 16 ml / minute and collected in 50 ml fractions . this step resulted in greater than 1000 - fold purification . active fractions were pooled , and the pool was adjusted to ph 8 . 0 with 1m tris - hcl ph 8 . 0 . the active pool from blue sepharose ® fast flow chromatography was loaded onto a cu chelating sepharose ® column ( 2 . 5 cm × 2 cm ; 10 ml bed volume ; 4 ml / minute ) equilibrated in buffer c [ 25 mm tris - hcl , 10 mm chaps , 0 . 5m nacl , ph 8 . 0 ( ph 7 . 5 also worked )], and the column was washed with 50 ml buffer c . paf - ah activity was eluted with 100 ml 50 mm imidazole in buffer c and collected in 10 ml fractions . fractions containing paf - ah activity were pooled and dialyzed against buffer a . in addition to providing a 15 - fold concentration of paf - ah activity , the cu chelating sepharose ® column gave a small purification . the cu chelating sepharose ® pool was reduced in 50 mm dtt for 15 minutes at 37 ° c . and loaded onto a 0 . 75 mm , 7 . 5 % polyacrylamide gel . gel slices were cut every 0 . 5 cm and placed in disposable microfuge tubes containing 200 μl 25 mm tris - hcl , 10 mm chaps , 150 mm nacl . slices were ground up and allowed to incubate overnight at 4 ° c . the supernatant of each gel slice was then assayed for paf - ah activity to determine which protein band on sds - page contained paf - ah activity . paf - ah activity was found in an ˜ 44 kda band . protein from a duplicate gel was electrotransferred to a pvdf membrane ( immobilon - p , millipore ) and stained with coomassie blue . a photograph of the pvdf membrane is presented in fig1 . as presented in table i below , approximately 200 μg paf - ah was purified 2 × 10 6 - fold from 5 l human plasma . in comparison , a 3 × 10 4 - fold purification of paf - ah activity is described in stafforini et al . ( 1987 ), supra . table 1__________________________________________________________________________ vol . activity total activity prot . conc . specific activity % recovery fold purificationsample ( ml ) ( cpm × 10 . sup . 6 ) ( cpm × 10 . sup . 9 ) ( mg / ml ) ( cpm × 10 . sup . 6 ) step cum . step cum . __________________________________________________________________________plasma 5000 23 116 62 0 . 37 100 100 1 1ldl 4500 22 97 1 . 76 12 84 84 33 33deae 4200 49 207 1 . 08 46 212 178 3 . 7 124blue 165 881 14 0 . 02 54200 70 126 1190 1 . 5 × 10 . sup . 5cu 12 12700 152 0 . 15 82200 104 131 1 . 5 2 . 2 × 10 . sup . 5sds - page -- -- -- -- -- -- -- ˜ 10 2 . 2 × 10 . sup . 6__________________________________________________________________________ in summary , the following steps were unique and critical for successful purification of plasma paf - ah for microsequencing : ( 1 ) solubilization and chromotography in 10 mm chaps , ( 2 ) chromatography on a blue ligand affinity column such as blue sepharose ® fast flow , ( 3 ) chromatography on a cu ligand affinity column such as cu chelating sepharose ®, and ( 4 ) elution of paf - ah from sds - page . for amino acid sequencing , the ˜ 44 kda protein band from the paf - ah - containing pvdf membrane described in example 1 was excised and sequenced using an applied biosystems 473a protein sequencer . n - terminal sequence analysis of the ˜ 44 kda protein band corresponding to the paf - ah activity indicated that the band contained two major sequences and two minor sequences . the ratio of the two major sequences was 1 : 1 and it was therefore difficult to interpret the sequence data . to distinguish the sequences of the two major proteins which had been resolved on the sds gel , a duplicate pvdf membrane containing the ˜ 44 kda band was cut in half such that the upper part and the lower part of the membrane were separately subjected to sequencing . the n - terminal sequence obtained for the lower half of the membrane was : a search of protein databases revealed this sequence to be a fragment of human serum albumin . the upper half of the same pvdf membrane was also sequenced and the n - terminal amino acid sequence determined was : this sequence did not match any protein in the databases searched and was different from the n - terminal amino acid sequence : which was reported for erythrocyte cytoplasmic paf - ah in stafforini et al . ( 1993 ), supra . the novel sequence ( seq id no : 2 ) was utilized for cdna cloning of human plasma paf - ah as described below in example 3 . a full length clone encoding human plasma paf - ah was isolated from a macrophage cdna library . poly a + rna was harvested from peripheral blood monocyte - derived macrophages . double - stranded , blunt - ended cdna was generated using the invitrogen copy kit ( san diego , calif .) and bstxi adapters were ligated to the cdna prior to insertion into the mammalian expression vector , prc / cmv ( invitrogen ). the resulting plasmids were introduced into e . coli strain xl - 1 blue by electroporation . transformed bacteria were plated at a density of approximately 3000 colonies per agarose plate on a total of 978 plates . plasmid dna prepared separately from each plate was retained in individual pools and was also combined into larger pools representing 300 , 000 clones each . the macrophage library was screened by the polymerase chain reaction utilizing a degenerate antisense oligonucleotide pcr primer based on the novel n - terminal amino acid sequence described in example 2 . the sequence of the primer is set out below in iupac nomenclature and where &# 34 ; i &# 34 ; is an inosine . the codon choice tables of wada et al ., nuc . acids res ., 19s : 1981 - 1986 ( 1991 ) were used to select nucleotides at the third position of each codon of the primer . the primer was used in combination with a primer specific for either the sp6 or t7 promoter sequences , both of which flank the cloning site of prc / cmv , to screen the macrophage library pools of 300 , 000 clones . all pcr reactions contained 100 ng of template cdna , 1 μg of each primer , 0 . 125 mm of each dntp , 10 mm tris - hcl ph 8 . 4 , 50 mm mgcl 2 and 2 . 5 units of taq polymerase . an initial denaturation step of 94 ° c . for four minutes was followed by 30 cycles of amplification of 1 minute at 94 ° c ., 1 minute at 60 ° c . and 2 minutes at 72 ° c . the resulting pcr product was cloned into pbluescript sk - ( stratagene , la jolla , calif .) and its nucleotide sequence determined by the dideoxy chain termination method . the pcr product contained the sequence predicted by the novel peptide sequence and corresponds to nucleotides 1 to 331 of seq id no : 7 . the pcr primers set out below , which are specific for the cloned pcr fragment described above , were then designed for identifying a full length clone . ______________________________________sense primer ( seq id no : 5 ) 5 &# 39 ; tatttctagaagtgtggtggaactcgctgg 3 &# 39 ; antisense primer ( seq id no : 6 ) 5 &# 39 ; cgatgaattcagcttgcagcagccatcagtac 3 &# 39 ; ______________________________________ pcr reactions utilizing the primers were performed as described above to first screen the cdna pools of 300 , 000 clones and then the appropriate subset of the smaller pools of 3000 clones . three pools of 3000 clones which produced a pcr product of the expected size were then used to transform bacteria . dna from the transformed bacteria was subsequently screened by hybridization using the original cloned pcr fragment as a probe . colonies were blotted onto nitrocellulose and prehybridized and hybridized in 50 % formamide , 0 . 75m sodium chloride , 0 . 075m sodium citrate , 0 . 05m sodium phosphate ph 6 . 5 , 1 % polyvinyl pyrolidine , 1 % ficoll , 1 % bovine serum albumin and 50 ng / ml sonicated salmon sperm dna . the hybridization probe was labeled by random hexamer priming . after overnight hybridization at 42 ° c ., blots were washed extensively in 0 . 03m sodium chloride , 3 mm sodium citrate , 0 . 1 % sds at 42 ° c . the nucleotide sequence of 10 hybridizing clones was determined . one of the clones , clone sah 406 - 3 , contained the sequence predicted by the original peptide sequence of the paf - ah activity purified from human plasma . the dna and deduced amino acid sequences of the human plasma paf - ah are set out in seq id nos : 7 and 8 , respectively . clone sah 406 - 3 contains a 1 . 52 kb insert with an open reading frame that encodes a predicted protein of 441 amino acids . at the amino terminus , a relatively hydrophobic segment of 41 residues precedes the n - terminal amino acid ( the isoleucine at position 42 of seq id no : 8 ) identified by protein microsequencing . the encoded protein may thus have either a long signal sequence or a signal sequence plus an additional peptide that is cleaved to yield the mature functional enzyme . the presence of a signal sequence is one characteristic of secreted proteins . in addition , the protein encoded by clone sah 406 - 3 includes the consensus gxsxg motif seq 10 no : 11 ( corresponding to amino acids 271 - 275 of seq id no : 8 ) that is believed to contain the active site serine of all known mammalian lipases , microbial lipases and serine proteases . see chapus et al ., biochimie , 70 : 1223 - 1224 ( 1988 ) and brenner , nature , 334 : 528 - 530 ( 1988 ). table 2 below is a comparison of the amino acid composition of the human plasma paf - ah of the invention as predicted from seq id no : 8 and the amino acid composition of the purportedly purified material described by stafforini et al . ( 1987 ), supra . table 2______________________________________ clone sah 406 - 3 stafforini et al . ______________________________________ala 26 24asp & amp ; asn 48 37cys 5 14glu & amp ; gln 36 42phe 22 12gly 29 58his 13 24ile 31 17lys 26 50leu 40 26met 10 7pro 15 11arg 18 16ser 27 36thr 20 15val 13 14trp 7 not determinedtyr 14 13______________________________________ the amino acid composition of the mature form of the human plasma paf - ah of the invention and the amino acid composition of the previously purified material that was purportedly the human plasma paf - ah are clearly distinct . to determine whether clone sah 406 - 3 encodes a protein having paf - ah activity , the prc / cmv expression construct was transiently expressed in cos 7 cells . three days following transfection by a deae dextran method , cos cell media was assayed for paf - ah activity . cells were seeded at a density of 300 , 000 cells per 60 mm tissue culture dish . the following day , the cells were incubated in dmem containing 0 . 5 mg / ml deae dextran , 0 . 1 mm chloroquine and 5 - 10 / μg of plasmid dna for 2 hours . cells were then treated with 10 % dmso in phosphate - buffered saline for 1 minute , washed with media and incubated in dmem containing 10 % fetal calf serum previously treated with diisopropyl fluorophosphate ( dfp ) to inactivate endogenous bovine serum paf - ah . after 3 days of incubation , media from transfected cells were assayed for paf - ah activity . assays were conducted in the presence and absence of either 10 mm edta or 1 mm dfp to determine whether the recombinant enzyme was calcium - independent and inhibited by the serine esterase inhibitor dfp as previously described for plasma paf - ah by stafforini et al . ( 1987 ), supra . negative controls included cells transfected with prc / cmv either lacking an insert or having the sah 406 - 3 insert in reverse orientation . paf - ah activity in transfectant supernatants was determined by the method of stafforini et al . ( 1990 ), supra , with the following modifications . briefly , paf - ah activity was determined by measuring the hydrolysis of 3 h - acetate from [ acetyl - 3 h ] paf ( new england nuclear , boston , mass .). the aqueous free 3 h - acetate was separated from labeled substrate by reversed - phase column chromatography over octadecylsilica gel cartridges ( baker research products , phillipsburg , pa .). assays were carried out using 10 μl transfectant supernatant in 0 . 1m hepes buffer , ph 7 . 2 , in a reaction volume of 50 μl . a total of 50 pmoles of substrate were used per reaction with a ratio of 1 : 5 labeled : cold paf . reactions were incubated for 30 minutes at 37 ° c . and stopped by the addition of 40 μl of 10m acetic acid . the solution was then washed through the octadecylsilica gel cartridges which were then rinsed with 0 . 1m sodium acetate . the aqueous eluate from each sample was collected and counted in a liquid scintillation counter for one minute . enzyme activity was expressed in counts per minute . as shown in fig2 media from cells transfected with sah 406 - 3 contained paf - ah activity at levels 4 - fold greater than background . this activity was unaffected by the presence of edta but was abolished by 1 mm dfp . these observations demonstrate that clone sah 406 - 3 encodes an activity consistent with the human plasma enzyme paf - ah . pcr was used to generate a protein coding fragment of human plasma paf - ah cdna from clone sah 406 - 3 which was readily amenable to subcloning into an e . coli expression vector . the subcloned segment began at the 5 &# 39 ; end of the human gene with the codon that encodes ile 42 ( seq id no : 8 ), the n - terminal residue of the enzyme purified from human plasma . the remainder of the gene through the native termination codon was included in the construct . the 5 &# 39 ; sense pcr primer utilized was : 3 &# 39 ; and contained an xbai cloning site as well as a translation initiation codon ( underscored ). the 3 &# 39 ; antisense primer utilized was : and encompassed the termination codon of sah 406 - 3 and contained an ecorv cloning site . pcr reactions were performed essentially as described in example 3 . the resulting pcr product was digested with xbai and ecorv and subcloned into a pbr322 vector containing the trp promoter immediately upstream of the cloning site . e . coli strain xl - 1 blue was transformed with the expression construct and cultured in l broth containing 100 μg / ml of carbenicillin . transformants from overnight cultures were pelleted and resuspended in lysis buffer containing 50 mm tris - hcl ph 7 . 5 , 50 mm nacl , 10 mm chaps , 1 mm edta , 100 μg / ml lysozyme , and 0 . 05 trypsin - inhibiting units ( tiu )/ ml aprotinin . following a 1 hour incubation on ice and sonication for 2 minutes , the lysates were assayed for paf - ah activity by the method described in example 4 . e . coli transformed with the expression construct generated a product with paf - ah activity . see table 3 in example 6 . recombinant human plasma paf - ah expressed in e . coli was purified to a single coomassie - stained sds - page band by a method similar to that described in example 1 for native paf - ah . the following purification steps were performed at 4 ° c . pellets from 50 ml paf - ah producing e . coli cultures were lysed as described in example 5 . solids were removed by centrifugation at 10 , 000 g for 20 minutes . the supernatant was loaded at 0 . 8 ml / minute onto a blue sepharose ® fast flow column ( 2 . 5 cm × 4 cm ; 20 ml bed volume ) equilibrated in buffer d ( 25 mm tris - hcl , 10 mm chaps , 0 . 5m nacl , ph 7 . 5 ). the column was washed with 100 ml buffer d and eluted with 100 ml buffer a containing 0 . 5m kscn at 3 . 2 ml / minute . a 15 ml active fraction was loaded onto a 1 ml cu chelating sepharose ® column equilibrated in buffer d . the column was washed with 5 ml buffer d followed by elution with 5 ml of buffer d containing 100 mm imidazole with gravity flow . fractions containing paf - ah activity were analyzed by sds - page . the results of the purification are shown in table 3 wherein a unit equals μmol paf hydrolysis per hour . the purification product obtained at 4 ° c . appeared on sds - page as a single intense band below the 43 kda marker with some diffuse staining directly above and below it . the recombinant material is significantly more pure and exhibits greater specific activity when compared with paf - ah preparations from plasma as described in example 1 . table 3__________________________________________________________________________volume activity total act . prot conc specific activity % recovery fold purificationsample ( ml ) ( units / ml ) ( units × 10 . sup . 3 ) ( mg / ml ) ( units / mg ) step cum . step cum . __________________________________________________________________________lysate4 . 5 989 4451 15 . 6 63 100 100 1 1blue 15 64 960 0 . 07 914 22 22 14 . 4 14 . 4cu 1 2128 2128 0 . 55 3869 220 48 4 . 2 61__________________________________________________________________________ when the same purification protocol was performed at ambient temperature , in addition to the band below the 43 kda marker , a group of bands below the 29 kda marker correlated with paf - ah activity of assayed gel slices . these lower molecular weight bands may be proteolytic fragments of paf - ah that retain enzymatic activity . a preliminary analysis of expression patterns of human plasma paf - ah mrna in human tissues was conducted by northern blot hybridization . rna was prepared from human brain , heart , kidney , placenta , thymus and tonsil using rna stat 60 ( tel - test &# 34 ; b &# 34 ;, friendswood , tex .). additionally , rna was prepared from the human hematopoietic precursor - like cell line , thp - 1 ( atcc tib 202 ), which was induced to differentiate to a macrophage - like phenotype using the phorbol ester phorbolmyristylacetate ( pma ). tissue rna and rna prepared from thp - 1 cells prior to and 1 to 3 days after induction were electrophoresed through a 1 . 2 % agarose formaldehyde gel and subsequently transferred to a nitrocellulose membrane . the full length human plasma paf - ah cdna , sah 406 - 3 , was labelled by random priming and hybridized to the membrane under conditions identical to those described in example 3 for library screening . initial results indicate that the paf - ah probe hybridized to a 1 . 8 kb band in the thymus , tonsil , and to a lesser extent , the placental rna . in addition , expression of the human plasma paf - ah transcript was observed in the thp - 1 cell rna at 1 day but not 3 days following induction . while the present invention has been described in terms of specific embodiments , it is understood that variations and modifications will occur to those skilled in the art . accordingly , only such limitations as appear in the appended claims should be placed on the invention . __________________________________________________________________________sequence listing ( 1 ) general information :( iii ) number of sequences : 11 ( 2 ) information for seq id no : 1 :( i ) sequence characteristics :( a ) length : 17 amino acids ( b ) type : amino acid ( d ) topology : linear ( ii ) molecule type : peptide ( xi ) sequence description : seq id no : 1 : phelysas pleuglyglugluasnphelysalaleuvalleuileala151015phe ( 2 ) information for seq id no : 2 :( i ) sequence characteristics :( a ) length : 16 amino acids ( b ) type : amino acid ( d ) topology : linear ( ii ) molecule type : peptide ( xi ) sequence description : seq id no : 2 : ileglnvalleumetalaalaalaserpheglyglnthrlysilepro151015 ( 2 ) information for seq id no : 3 :( i ) sequence characteristics :( a ) length : 11 amino acids ( b ) type : amino acid ( d ) topology : linear ( ii ) molecule type : peptide ( xi ) sequence description : seq id no : 3 : metlysproleuvalvalphevalleuglygly1510 ( 2 ) information for seq 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