Patent Application: US-69478810-A

Abstract:
the present invention is directed to the use of a compound stimulating deubiquitinating activity in a cell for the manufacture of a medicament for enhancing the expression of integral membrane proteins on the cell surface . especially , the invention is directed to the use of such compound for the manufacture of a medicament for the treatment of a disease of condition selected from the group consisting of cystic fibrosis , diabetes insipidus , hypercholesterinaemia and long qt - syndrome - 2 .

Description:
in example 1 , the a 2a - adenosine receptor was employed as a model protein for the following reasons : ( i ) the a 2a - adenosine receptor is a prototypical g protein - coupled receptor and thus a representative of a class of & gt ; 1000 receptors ( many of which are of obvious therapeutic interest because they serve as drug targets ). ( ii ) g protein - coupled receptors have been documented to incur a folding problem ; in other words , a large portion of newly synthesized protein ( 50 %) is subject to degradation in the endoplasmic reticulum and does not reach the plasma membrane ( petaja - repo et al ., 2000 & amp ; 2001 ; pankevych et al ., 2003 ). this is similar to the situation with many other membrane proteins with multiple transmembrane spans , specifically with cftr ( jensen et al ., 1995 ; rowntree and harris , 2003 ). ( iii ) there is at least one disease where mutations cause retention of a g protein - coupled receptor in the endoplasmic reticulum : in some instances , diabetes insipidus results from point mutations of the gene encoding the v 2 - vasopressin receptor that can be linked to er - retention of the receptor ( oksche and rosenthal , 1998 ). in example 2 , the effect of usp - 4 , mg 132 and bortezomib , respectively , on the expression of the δf508 - mutation of cftr was examined . membranes ( 100 μg / assay ) that had been prepared from pc12 cells or hek293 cells transiently transfected with the appropriate plasmids were incubated in a final volume of 0 . 3 ml containing 50 mm tris . hcl ( ph 8 . 0 ), 1 mm edta , 5 mm mgcl2 , 8 μg / ml adenosine deaminase and concentrations of [ 3 h ] zm241385 ( specific activity ˜ 20 ci / mmol ) covering the range of 0 . 2 to 20 nm in the presence of 100 μm gtpγs ( klinger et al ., 2002 ). after 60 min at room temperature , the reaction was terminated by rapid filtration over glass fiber filters . nonspecific binding was determined in the presence of 10 μm xac and amounted to 40 % at the highest concentration of [ 3 h ] zm241385 . the data points were fitted by non - linear regression to the equation describing a rectangular hyperbola . assays were performed in duplicate . cells were grown in 6 - well plates . the adenine nucleotide pool was metabolically labelled by incubating confluent monolayers for 16 h with [ 3 h ] adenine ( 1 μci / well ) as described ( kudlacek et al . 2001 ). after the preincubation , fresh medium was added that contained 100 μm ro201724 ( a phosphodiesterase inhibitor ) and adenosine deaminase ( 2 u / ml ) to remove any endogenously produced adenosine . after 1 h , camp formation was stimulated by the a 2a - selective agonist cgs21680 ( 1 nm to 1 μm ) for 15 min and the reaction was stopped by adding 2 . 5 % perchloric acid with 100 μm camp ( 1 ml / dish ). the supernatant ( 0 . 9 ml ) was aspirated , neutralized with 100 μm of 0 . 4 m koh , and diluted with 1 . 5 ml 50 mm tris - hcl , ph 8 . 0 . [ 3 h ] camp was isolated by sequential chromatography on dowex ag 50w - x4 and neutral alumina columns ( salomon ( 1991 ). assays were performed in triplicate . hek293 cells stably expressing flag - tagged a 2a - adenosine receptor were washed three times with phosphate buffered saline ; subsequently , the membranes were solubilized in ice cold lysis buffer [ 50 mm tris . hcl , ph 7 . 5 , 1 mm edta , 150 mm nacl containing 1 % nonidet p - 40 ( vol / vol ), protease inhibitors ( complete , roche molecular biochemicals ) and , where indicated , 10 mm n - ethylmaleimide ( nem )] for 1 h on ice . the insoluble material was collected by centrifugation at 16 , 000 × g for 10 min at 4 ° c . the supernatant was processed for immunoprecipitation , each step of which was conducted with constant rotation at 4 ° c . then 40 μl of a 50 % ( vol / vol ) suspension of anti - flag m2 affinity gel ( sigma chemical ) was added and the sample was incubated overnight . the beads were collected by centrifugation and washed three times in 1 ml tris - buffered saline . immune complexes were dissociated in sds - polyacrylamide sample buffer containing 20 mm dithiothreitol by incubation for 1 h at 37 ° c . or , alternatively , for 5 min at 95 ° c . proteins were transferred to nitrocellulose membranes ( immobilon - p , millipore ) by using a semidry transfer system ; immunodetection was achieved by using monoclonal peroxidase - conjugated anti - flag and anti - ha antibodies to detect the flag epitope of the a 2a r and the ha - epitope of ubiquitin respectively . the gfp moiety in usp4 was detected with an anti - gfp antiserum ( living colors a . v .) and a horseradish peroxidase conjugated anti - rabbit igg secondary antibody . the immunoreactive bands were developed with the enhanced chemiluminescence detection kit ( pierce supersignal ). transiently transfected hek - 293 cells were investigated 1 day after transfection on an inverted epifluorescence microscope ( zeiss axiovert 200m ) using a 63 - fold oil immersion objective and filter sets , which discriminate between cfp and yfp fluorescence ( chroma technology corp . ; brattleboro , vt .). images were captured with a cooled ccd - kamera ( coolsnap fx ; photometrics , roper scientific , tucson , ariz .) and stored in and processed with metaseries software ( release 4 . 6 metafluor and metamorph ; universal imaging ). hek293 cells ( 1 * 10 6 cells ) were transfected with plasmids encoding cftr or cftr - δf508 ( gfp - tagged ) and / or co - transfected with effector plasmids . after 16 h , the cells were treated with the varying concentrations of compounds . after 24 h , the cells were harvested in phosphate - buffered saline , lysed by a freeze - thaw cycle and homogenized by sonication . the homogenate was resuspended in reducing laemmli sample buffer ( 50 mm tris . hcl , ph 6 . 8 , 20 % glycerol , 0 . 1 % bromphenol blue , 2 % sds and 20 mm dithiothreitol ); aliquots ( 15 % of the original culture ) were resolved on a denaturing polyacrylamide gel ( monomer concentration in the stacking gel and in the running gel 4 and 8 % respectively ) and electrophoretically transferred to a nitrocellulose membrane . immunodetection was done with an antiserum directed against gfp as the primary antibody and an anti - rabbit igg coupled to horseradish peroxidase as the secondary antibody . immunoreactive bands were revealed by enhanced chemiluminescence ( ecl kit , super signal pierce ). cultured hek293 cells were transfected with plasmids encoding cftr or cftr - δf508 ( gfp - tagged ) and / or co - transfected with plasmids encoding usp4 ( or an appropriate control plasmid ) by using the capo 4 - precipitation method . sixteen hours after transfection the cells were treated with varying concentrations of compounds . at a specific time point ( here 24 h ) the cells are trypsinized , fixed in ethanol , permeabilized and stained with propidium iodide ( pi ). the stained cells are subjected to facs analysis usp4 enhances the cell surface expression of the a 2a - adenosine receptor in order to visualize the a 2a - adenosine receptor in living cells , the receptor was tagged on its carboxyl terminus with the cyan - fluorescent protein ( cfp , a spectrally shifted variant of the green fluorescent protein of aequoria victoria ). this receptor binds ligands and activates its downstream signalling cascade in a manner indistinguishable from the untagged receptor ( data not shown ). fluorescent microscopy revealed that , when expressed in hek293 cells , a large portion of the receptor accumulates within the cell ( fig1 a ). if the cells are cotransfected with a plasmid driving the expression of the deubiquinating enzyme usp4 , the fluorescently tagged a 2a - adenosine receptor was found predominantly at the plasma membrane ( fig1 b ). in the current model , quality control in the endoplasmic reticulum is thought to require ubiquitination of the carboxyl terminus ( kostova and wolf , 2003 ). therefore , it was investigated whether a truncation of the carboxyl terminus of the a 2a - receptor ought to render the receptor insensitive to the action of usp4 . this was the case : a comparison of fig1 c and fig1 d shows that the absence and presence of usp4 does not affect the portion of fluorescent receptor that is trapped within the cell . finally , it was investigated whether inhibition of proteosomal degradation would , furthermore , relax quality control and thus allow the receptor to escape from the endoplasmic reticulum . the addition of the proteasome inhibitor mg132 did , in fact , augment the amount of receptor at the cell surface ( cf . fig1 e and fig1 a ); in the presence of both , usp4 and mg132 , essentially all of the receptor was found at the cell surface ( fig1 f ). coexpression of usp4 results in the accumulation of deubiquitinated a 2a - receptor in order to show that usp4 utilized the a 2a - receptor as substrate , hek293 cells were transiently cotransfected with plasmids encoding for the flag - tagged a 2a - adenosine receptor , ha - tagged ubiquitin and gfp - tagged usp4 . the a 2a - adenosine receptor was immunoprecipitated with anti - flag antibodies from detergent lysates of cells that either coexpressed only ha - tagged ubiquitin ( fig2 a , lanes 1 , 2 ) or the combination of ha - tagged ubiquitin and usp4 ( fig2 b , lanes 4 , 5 ): receptor bands were detected with anti - flag antibody ( blots shown on top ); in the absence of usp4 , the flag - reactive immunostaining was seen in the range of ˜ 48 - 50 kda ( fig2 a top , lanes 1 , 2 ); in the presence of usp4 , the flag - tagged receptor migrated at ˜ 40 - 42 kda ( fig2 b top , lanes 1 , 2 ). lanes 3 and 6 represent the negative controls , that is immunoprecipitation was carried out with cellular lysates that lacked the a 2a - adenosine receptor but contained ha - tagged ubiquitin and — in lane 6 — usp4 . regardless of the conditions , immunoreactivity was neither recovered in the ˜ 40 - 42 kda nor in the ˜ 48 - 50 kda range . thus , the immunostaining was specific . the nitrocellulose membranes were stripped and stained with anti - ha antibodies ( fig2 a & amp ; b , bottom blots ). in cells cotransfected with the plasmids encoding the flag tagged a 2a - adenosine receptor and ha - tagged ubiquitin , the ha - antibody stained a ˜ 48 - 50 kda band . this corresponded to the ubiquitinated form of a 2a - receptor , because this band was also stained with the anti - ha antibody ( cf . fig2 a top and bottom blots ). in contrast , when coexpressed with usp4 , the a 2a - receptor , which migrated as a band of 40 - 42 kda ( fig2 b , top , lanes 4 & amp ; 5 ), was not detected with the anti - ha antibody . this band , therefore represents the deubiquitinated species of the receptor . as documented in fig1 , usp4 caused a redistribution of the cfp - tagged a 2a - receptor to the cell surface . it is conceivable that relaxing quality control by coexpressing usp4 allowed unfolded receptors to escape from the endoplasmatic reticulum . in order to rule out this possibility , binding assays were performed with [ 3 h ] zm241385 , a specific and selective a 2a - receptor antagonist ( palmer et al ., 1995 ). fig3 a shows a set of representative saturation curves for specific binding of [ 3 h ] zm241385 to membranes from hek293 cells that were either solely transfected with a plasmid driving the expression of ( either the cfp or the flag - tagged ) a 2a - receptor or of the receptor and usp4 . the coexpression of usp4 ( fig3 , red symbols ) increased b max but did not affect the affinity of the radioligand . this effect of usp4 depended on the carboxyl terminus of the a 2a - receptor , for it was not seen with the truncated forms a 2a - receptor -( 1 - 311 ) or a 2a - receptor ( 1 - 360 ), which lack the last 100 and the last 50 amino acids respectively ; representative saturation curves are shown in fig3 b ; b max averaged from several saturation experiments are shown in the bar diagram in fig3 c . the model of quality control in the endoplasmatic reticulum leads to the assumption that all steps are reversible provided that the carboxyl terminus of the membrane protein has not yet been engulfed by the proteasome ( kostova and wolf , 2003 ). accordingly , it was investigated whether the action of usp4 and of proteasome inhibition is additive . this was the case . as can be seen from the average b max - values summarized in fig3 c , sole addition of mg132 caused a pronounced increase in the amount of functional receptors , but the combined presence of both , usp4 and mg132 resulted in a dramatic increase in the number of receptors . the a 2a - adenosine receptor is a prototypical g s - coupled receptor , thus activation of the receptor leads to stimulation of adenylyl cyclase . the binding data showed that coexpression of usp4 increased the number of functional receptors . this conclusion was verified independently by measuring agonist - induced cellular camp accumulation . in cells that expressed usp4 , the agonist cgs21680 elicited a larger maximum effect than in cells that only expressed the a 2a - adenosine receptor ( fig4 ). it should be noted that this is not a non - specific effect that can , for instance , be accounted for by an increased responsiveness of the catalytic moiety of adenylyl cyclase in the presence of usp4 . control experiments revealed that cells expressing solely the a 2a - receptor or the a 2a - receptor and usp4 did not differ in their responsiveness to forskolin . all experiments shown so far relied on transient transfection to demonstrate the ability of usp4 to enhance the expression of the a 2a - receptor . therefore , also pc12 cells , a rat pheochromocytoma cell line , in which the a 2a - receptor is physiologically expressed at high levels , were employed . addition of the proteasome inhibitor mg132 also resulted in an increase in the membrane concentration of the a 2a - receptor (▴ in fig5 ). in contrast , the lysosomal inhibitor choloroquine did not affect the a 2a - receptor levels (▾ fig5 ). usp - 4 , mg 132 and bortezomib enhance expression of the cftr - δf508 mutation : in a first example , membranes from transfected cells were prepared and immunoblotted for gfp - tagged cftr or cftr - δf508 , respectively ( by using an antibody directed against the fluorescent protein ). fig6 shows that cftr accumulates as a protein of ˜ 170 kda , i . e . the size expected for the sum of the mass cftr and gfp ( fig6 , 2nd lane ). the membrane extract was also treated endoglycosidase h . the rationale for this experiment is as follows : membrane proteins are core glycosylated in the endoplasmatic reticulum . core gylcosylation is sensitive to endoglycosidase h . if the protein has reached the golgi ( and then trafficked to the plasma membrane ), it acquires additional sugar moieties and becomes resistant to endoglycosidase h . it is evident from lane 3 in fig6 that endoglycosidase h treatment reduces the apparent size of cftr ; thus , the bulk of the protein is still in the er . the following lanes examine the expression of cftr - δf508 ( all extracts were treated with endoglycosidase h ): lane 4 is the control , that is cells expressing cftr - δf508 ; in lanes 5 , 6 , 7 and 8 cells expressing cftr - δf508 were treated overnight ( i . e . for 16 h ) with 100 nm mg132 , 20 μm kifunensine , 1 μm and 100 nm bortezomib , respectively . if one compares the intensity of staining of these lanes to lane 4 , it is evident that all treatments — with the exception of mg132 — led to the accumulation of cftr - δf508 . it is also evident that 100 nm bortezomib ( last lane on the right hand side ) was more effective than 1 μm bortezomib ( adjacent lane ). because cftr is tagged with a fluorescent protein , expression in individual cells can be monitored by fluorescence activated cell sorting ( facs ). by contrast with fluorescence microscopy ( where individual cells are picked ), facs allows to survey the entire cell population . in addition , facs has the advantage that it allows for reasonable sample throughput ; finally , automation and scale - up is readily possible . transiently transfected hek293 cells were fixed in ethanol 24 h after transfection as mentioned above and then stained with propidium iodide to label the dna : the rationale was to examine the distribution of cells in the cell cycle (= to see if the expression of cftr or of cftr - δf508 was toxic or if the compounds employed killed the cells / drove them into apoptosis ). the original data set is shown on the right hand side of the figures , respectively ( see e . g . fig7 c ): the x - axis is the propidium iodide fluorescence ( note that the scale is linear ). the y - axis is the gfp - fluorescence (= fluorescence associated with cftr ; note that the scale is logarithmic ) and each dot corresponds to a cell . the quadrangle delineates the cells that express cftr . one can plot the cell counts against the propidium iodide fluorescence of the transfected cells ( such as shown in , for example , fig7 b ): this gives a peak of cells ( denoted by m1 ) that have a 2n content of dna ( g1 - cells ), a shoulder of cells that have a dna content of larger than 2n ( denoted by m3 and representing cells that are in s - phase ) and a second peak of cells that have a dna content of 4n ( denoted by m2 and representing cells in g2 and m - phase ). the distribution of cells expressing cftr and cftr - δf508 was comparable ( cf . fig7 , showing the result of cftr expression and fig8 , showing the result of cftr - δf508 - expression ) and comparable to that seen in untransfected cells ( not shown ). thus , expression of these proteins is not toxic . fig7 a and fig8 a , respectively , show the distribution of cftr - or cftr - δf508 - associated fluorescence . it is evident that cftr accumulates on average to higher levels : the peak is seen at 3 - 4 * 10 2 fluorescence units , while for cftr - δ508 the peak is at 10 2 fluorescence units . using the facs assay , it was tested whether enzymatic deubiquitination by usp - 4 raised the accumulation of cftr - δf508 ; this is documented in fig9 and 10 , respectively : the control situation is shown in fig9 : i . e . the original data set with the quadrangle defining the gfp - expressing cells = cftr - δf508 - expressing cells ( fig9 b ), the cell cycle distribution based on the propidium iodide fluorescence ( fig9 a ) and the level of gfp -(= cftr - δf508 )- associated fluorescence ( fig9 c ). fig1 shows the data set for cells cotransfected with a plasmid driving the expression of usp4 : a comparison of fig9 c and fig1 c readily shows that the cftr - δf508 - associated fluorescence increases upon co - expression of usp4 ( please note again the logarithmic scale ): under control conditions ( fig9 c ), there are essentially no cells at 10 3 fluorescence units ; in contrast , in the presence of usp - 4 , there is a substantial portion of cells containing cftr - δf508 - associated fluorescence at this range ( fig1 c ). finally , if one compares the distribution of propidium iodide - fluorescence ( fig9 a and fig1 a , respectively ), it is evident that expression of usp4 does not affect the cell cycle distribution and does not increase the fraction of cells in the sub - 2n fraction . in other words : expression of usp - 4 is not toxic and does not cause apoptosis . fig1 , 12 , 13 and 14 document the effect of increasing concentrations of bortezomib administered to the cells ( 10 nm - fig1 ; 100 nm - fig1 ; 1 - fig1 ) and of 1 μm mg132 ( fig1 , bottom ) on the expression of cftr - δf508 . if one compares the cftr - δf508 - associated fluorescence in fig1 a and 12 a to the control ( fig8 a ), it is evident that the expression of cftr is increased ( the fluorescence shifts to higher intensities ; please note again that the axis is logarithmic ). however , if one examines the original data set ( fig8 c and fig1 c and fig1 c , respectively ), it is evident that the number of cells with low propidium iodide fluorescence increases ( marked by an ellipse in fig1 c and fig1 c ) with increased bortezomib concentration : these cells are apoptotic and have shut down translation ( i . e . they do not make cftr - δf508 and are hence not found in the quadrangle ). thus if one examines the cell cycle distribution of cftr - δf508 expressing cells ( fig1 b , 13 b ), one can see that cells in g1 are particularly sensitive to proteasome inhibition ( the peak of the g1 - cells — denoted by m1 — is greatly reduced ). this is however not the case with 10 nm bortezomib ( fig1 b ): the cell cycle distribution is essentially the same as the one shown in control cells expressing cftr - δf508 ( fig8 b ). nevertheless , bortezomib substantially increases the level of cftr - δf508 ( fig8 c and fig1 c ). fig1 demonstrates the effect of 1 μg mg 132 on hek293 cells : as with bortezomib at higher dosages , while mg 132 enhances cftr - δf508 - expression , there is also a pronounced apoptotic effect to be observed . cohen f e , kelly j w . 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