Patent Application: US-201013256315-A

Abstract:
the present invention provides methods for diagnosing cell proliferation and / or differentiation disorders , compounds and methods for treating the same and methods for identifying agents potentially useful in the treatment of cell proliferation and / or differentiation disorders .

Description:
the present invention will now be described in detail with reference to the following figures which show : fig1 . schematic drawing of arf tumour suppressor signaling . the arf tumour suppressor is a central component of the cellular defence against oncogene activation . a high percentage of leukaemia and melanoma patients have arf mutations . arf knock out mice develop tumours with high frequency . arf activates p53 by stabilizing the protein through inhibition of hdm2 , which is the e3 ubiquitin ligase of p53 . however , studies on p53 and arf knock out mice showed there is also an arf tumour suppressor pathway that is p53 independent ; fig2 a the sequence encoding n - terminal region of fmn2 . there are 2 possible start codons in exon1 and these are shown as bold ; fig2 b the sequence encoding c - terminal region of fmn2 . the sequence which we targeted by sirna is shown as bold ; fig3 . the complete cdna sequence of fmn2 ; upper case letter shows fmn2 protein coding region ( protein sequence is in fig1 ). lower case letter shows 3 ′ utr from human genome database . predicted start codon by human genome project is shown underlined . a new start codon and coding sequence that was discovered by this study is shown in grey shading . fig4 . schematic drawing of fmn2 sequences . fmn2 gene positions ( from 1 statg - tga ). ( atg ) chr1 : 238 , 321 , 604 - 238 , 704 , 077 ( tga ). sequence 1 : from 1 st atg of exon1 to exon1 and exon2 junction using primer fmn2ex1f2 and fmn2ex1 - 2r1 . sequence 2 : from 2 nd atg of exon1 to exon1 and exon2 junction using primer fmn2ex1f3 and fmn2ex1 - 2r1 . sequence 3 : from exon1 and exon2 junction to the end of exon4 using primer fmn2ex1 - 2f1 and fmn2ex4 - 5r1 ( from reported start codon ). sequence 4 : entire exon5 using primer fmn2ex5f1 and fmn2ex5r1 ( from reported start codon ). sequence 5 : from the beginning of exon13 to exon18 including stop codon using primer fmn2ex13f1 and fmn2ex18r1 ( from reported start codon ). arrowheads indicate positions which we detected by mass spectrometry ; fig5 . determination of nucleolar protein dynamics . a . the proteomes in three cell populations are encoded by incorporation of stable isotope derivatives of arginine ( silac method ). cells are metabolically labeled with arg0 , arg6 and arg10 for at least five cell doubling and are then treated with iptg for 0 , 4 , and 8 hours or 0 , 16 and 24 hours to induce p14arf , respectively . cells are mixed and nucleoli purified and analysed by mass spectrometry . the analysis is repeated three times with a common zero point . b . c . spectra of peptides of p14arf , indicating increasing amounts p14arf recruited to nucleolus . d . dynamic profile of p14arf . y axis is in units of normalized fold change of p14arf . fig6 . comparison of different methods to measure nucleolar protein dynamics . a . live u2os cells expressing gfp - arf during doxycyclin induction ( 5 μg ml − 1 ) and imaged for 24 hours . the changes in the intranucleolar . gfp fluorescence signals ( blue curves ) were compared to the changes in levels of the induced p14arf detected in isolated nucleoli by silac . error bars are s . d . from fluorescence measurement on five individual cells in each case . b . expression pattern of transiently transfected nucleolar proteins and gfp - arf in u2os cells . fig7 . dynamic profiles of nucleolar proteins . a . all proteins showing change from first to last time points . b . hierarchical clustering of 3500 proteins using fold change data . c . the time course change of the top 50 proteins showing the largest percentage changes are shown by time point 4 hr after induction in p53 negative e6 cells . fig8 . expression pattern of the fmn2 . narf2 ( a - h ), e6 ( l - p ) cells a . and u2os ( a - h ) hela ( l - p ) cells b . were fixed and stained with dapi for dna ( blue ), and anti - fmn2 antibody or anti - p14arf antibody ( green ). cells were incubated for 24 hours with or without iptg to induce exogeneous p14arf expression . fig9 . microarray analysis during arf activation . narf2 cells were incubated for 24 hours with iptg to induce exogeneous arf expression . we chose fmn2 , hdm2 , p21 , p14arf , coilin , b23 , nucleoln , atm / atr , and fibrillarin from our final datasets and showed as a log 2 ratio . fig1 . sirna approach for fmn2 . narf2 cells were treated with control , dna - pk , or fmn2 sirna and harvested 48 hours with or without 24 hours iptg induction . fig1 . a - b . effects of fmn2 depletion . c . effects of iptg and d . arf induction and uv on fmn2 induction . e . arf induction and effect on fmn2 association with p53 . fig1 . a . effects of fmn2 depletion on p21 expression . b . effect of ubc9 depletion on fmn2 induction by arf . c - e . sirna approach for fmn2 . fig1 c shows that fmn2 stabilizes p21 by preventing the proteosome pathways . fig1 shows protein sequence of fmn2 and the antigen regions for antibody production . human fmn2 amino acid sequence is shown . new additional sequence which was identified in this study is shown in grey ( 1a . a .- 143a . a .). antigen sequences are shown in bold ( see also methods and fig1 a ). the antigen region of commercially available fmn2 anti - body ( abnova ) was also shown in grey ( see also methods ). fig1 shows the results of a western blot showing the rescue of fmn2 depletion with sirna for pa28γ and skp2 ; fig1 a shows a schematic representation of the fmn2 protein and domains . the schematic shows the region of the protein used to generate the monoclonal antibody ( m22ab ) and the polyclonal antibody ( p31ab ). the schematic also shows the regions of the protein from which the two truncated conjugated polypeptides mcherry - fmn2 ex6 - 12 and mcherry fmn2 ex 13 - 18 were generated ; fig1 b shows co - localisation analysis for the two antibodies p31ab and m22ab ; fig1 c shows the specificity of p31ab for the overexpressed polypeptide in mcherry fmn2 ex 13 - 18 ; fig1 a shows the results of immunoprecipitation ( ip ) analysis using the fmn2 antibodies p31ab and m22ab ; fig1 shows the co - localisation of fmn2 and p21 ( cip1 ); fig1 a and 18b shows the results of studies into detecting the promoter for fmn2 ; fig1 c shows a schematic representation of the promoter and arf responsive enhancer element of fmn2 ; and fig1 shows the results of fmn2 expression analysis between lung primary and cancer cells ; and fig2 shows a model of the p14 arf - fmn2 pathway . cells were grown for at least five cell divisions in l - arginine -, l - arginine 13 c 6 14 n 4 -, or l - arginine 13 c 6 15 n 4 - labelling media before arf induction . for induction of exogenous p14arf , iptg was added at a final concentration of 1 mm to all cells and incubated for 4 , 8 , 16 , and 24 hours , respectively . the experiment was repeated with to give a total of five time points with untreated arg0 cells as a common zero time point . nucleoli were isolated from narf2 and e6 as previously described ( http :// www . lamondlab . com / f5nucleolarprotocol . htm ). isolated nucleolar proteins were separated on nupage 4 - 12 % bis - tris gel and excised into 12 slices . peptides resulting from in - gel digestion were extracted from the gel pieces , desalted and concentrated on reverse - phase c18 tips , and eluted into 96 - well plates for automated mass spectrometry analysis . mass spectrometric analysis was performed by liquid chromatography ( agilent hp1100 ) combined with tandem mass spectrometry ( lc ms / ms ) using a ltq obitrap ( abi ). for the ltq obitrap , precursor ion spectra ( m / z 350 - 1 , 500 ) and product ion spectra ( m / z 70 - 1 , 500 ) of the four most intense ions were collected for 1 s . the ltq - ft - icr instrument was operated in the data - dependent mode to acquire high - resolution precursor ion spectra ( m / z 300 - 1 , 500 , r ¼ 25 , 000 and ion accumulation to a target value of 10 , 000 , 000 ) in the icr cell . the three most intense ions were sequentially isolated for accurate mass measurements by selected ion monitoring ( sim ) scans ( 10 da mass window , r ¼ 50 , 000 , and a target accumulation value of 50 , 000 ). the ions were simultaneously fragmented in the linear ion trap with a normalized collision energy setting of 27 % and a target value of 2 , 000 . stringent criteria were required for protein identification in the international protein index database using the mascot program ( matrix science ) and ltq - ft - icr data : at least two matching peptides per protein , a mass accuracy within 3 p . p . m . ( average absolute peptide mass accuracy was 0 . 7 p . p . m . ), a mascot score for individual peptides of better than 20 , and a delta score of better than 5 . experiments with a reversed database26 indicated that , under these conditions , proteins with two matching peptides were identified with a false positive rate of less than 0 . 1 per cent . protein ratios were calculated for each arginine - containing , peptide as the peak area ratio of arg6 / arg0 and arg10 / arg0 of each single scan mass spectrum . the peptide ratios were averaged for all arginine - containing peptides sequenced for each protein and normalized to zero ( x − 1 ). normalized inverted ratios were calculated for ratios smaller than one [ 1 −( 1 / x )]. ms - quant ( http :// msquant . sourceforge . net /), an in - house developed software program was used to evaluate the certainty in peptide identification and in peptide abundance ratio . gfp - arf cells were cultured in willco thin glass - bottomed microwell dishes ( intracel ), mounted on a deltavision spectris microscope ( applied precision ) fitted in a transparent environmental chamber ( solent scientific ). cells were imaged 60 ×( na 1 . 4 ) plan apochromat objective . twelve optical sections separated by 0 . 5 mm were recorded for each field and each exposure lasted for 0 . 05 s . after recording the first time points , doxycycline was added at a final concentration of 5 μg ml − 1 and cells were imaged for 2 - 3 h ( softworx image processing software , applied precision ). nucleoli or nuclei ( see fig6 ) were outlined manually and five nucleoli / nuclei were measured from two independent experiments . sirna duplex oligonucleotides were synthesised by mwg and transfected using interferin ( polyplus ) as per manufacturers instruction . in brief , cells were plated the day before transfection at the concentration of 2 × 10 5 cells per well in 6 well plates . the following day , cells were transfected with the final concentration of 5 nm of sirna oligonucleotides in fresh media , final volume of 2 . 2 ml . cells were incubated for additional 48 hours prior to harvesting . iptg was added for 24 hours unless otherwise stated . sirna sequences were described here ( control : cagucgcguuugcgacugg , fmn2 - guauaccaggucuccucaa ). mg132 was purchased from merck chemicals and used at the final concentration of 50 μm . narf2 and narf2 - e6 cell lines were provided by dr . gordon peters ( cancer research uk london research institute ) and have been described previously ( stott et al , 1998 ; brookes et al , 2002 ; rocha et al , 2003 ). narf2 cells , a derivative of the human osteosarcoma u2os cells containing an isopropyl β - d - thiogalactopyranoside ( iptg )- inducible p14 arf gene , have been described previously ( stott et al ., 1998 ). the narf2 - e6 cells are a derivative of narf2 cells but contain , in addition , constitutively expressed human papillomavirus ( hpv ) e6 protein . total narf2 cell rna were isolated using the rneasy mini kit ( quiagen ), with dnase i treatment , according to manufacturer &# 39 ; s instruction . total rnas were labelled with one - color microarray - based gene expression system ( agilent technologies ). all microarray experiments have proceeded in embl &# 39 ; s genomics core facility in heidelberg , germany . labeled cdna quality were analysed by nanodrop nd - 1000 uv - vis spectrophotometer . labeled cdna were hybridized on whole human genome oligo dna microarray ( human wg 4 × 44 k : agilent technologies ). scanned data were analysed by genespring gx software according to manufacture &# 39 ; s instruction ( agilent technology ). we have analysed the nucleolar protein dynamics of the arf tumour suppressor pathway using mass - spectrometry - based organellar proteomics and stable isotope labelling , i . e ., silac ( fig5 a ) ( ref . 4 - 6 ). we performed a quantitative analysis of the nucleolar proteome from a human arf inducible model cell line , called narf2 , and comparing with another arf inducible and p53 negative cell line , called e6 ( ref . 1 - 3 ). narf2 is a stable cell line established from u2os human osteosarcoma cells . endogenous arf expression is prevented in u2os cells by hyper methylation of the arf gene promoter region . however , these cells also contain an exogenous , inducible copy of the wild type arf gene whose expression can be induced in narf2 cells by addition of iptg . the e6 cell line is established from narf2 and expresses human papillomavirus ( hpv ) e6 protein that inactivates p53 . we detected peptides from arf protein ( fig5 b ) and compared that dynamic time course change in narf2 and e6 cell line ( fig5 c ). the result showed that arf protein level was dramatically increased in both cell lines during iptg induction as we expected . next , we compared mass spectrometry data with signal intensity from fluorescence microscope live - cell image ( fig6 ). the datasets suggested that fold change data of the arf was matched with the signal intensity from our microscope ( fig6 a ). we chose some other proteins to compare with our masspec data , and their behaviours were matched with the fold change data that we detected ( fig6 b ). the data document time course changes in the levels of thousands of nucleolar proteins during arf induction ( fig7 a & amp ; b ). for example , formin - 2 ( fmn2 ) ( ref . 7 & amp ; 8 ), which has a role in cytokinesis and from our data in cancer , is dramatically increased during induction of arf both in p53 positive and negative cell lines ( fig7 b & amp ; c ). this result suggests that formin - 2 could be a novel partner of the arf protein or may mediate arf - dependent downstream mechanisms . we performed that immunocytochemistry to confirm the expression of fmn2 with or without iptg induction in these cell lines ( fig8 ). although fmn2 was expressed at low levels without iptg in narf2 and e6 cell lines , the expression level was increased 24 hours after iptg treatment . we didn &# 39 ; t detect such a change in u2os cells showing that fmn2 induction is not a result of iptg treatment per se . we also checked the fmn2 expression level in hela cells because this cell line has endogenous arf expression . we detected more fmn2 expression than in u2os cells which do not express endogenous arf . these data indicate a positive correlation between arf and fmn2 expression . we also performed microarray analysis to assay the rna levels of these genes ( fig9 ). the fmn2 rna level showed a high ratio of 10 fold or more increase after induction of exogenous arf . this result emphasizes that fmn2 mrna expression was controlled by arf and thus arf is affecting the expression of the fmn2 promoter , either directly , or indirectly . to analyse the function of the fmn2 protein in cells , we designed five sirnas to suppress fmn2 expression . one of them was successful in suppressing fmn2 expression ( fig1 ). we didn &# 39 ; t see any effect on p53 or hdm2 , which is an e3 ubiquitin ligase , but the cyclin dependent kinase inhibitor p21 was severely reduced . ( fig1 a ). other experiments showed that fmn2 knock - down does not affect puma levels but does reduce p21 . in contrast , sirna knock - down of dna - pk causes a decrease in the levels of both puma and p21 ( fig1 b ). therefore , fmn2 shows specificity , and either stabilizes the levels of the p21 protein and / or accelerates p21 expression during oncogene activation . these findings are reproducible and show that fmn2 expression either stabilizes p21 , or enhances its expression or both ( fig1 c ). sirna experiments . sirna duplex oligo ribonucleotides were synthesised by mwg and transfected using interferin ( polyplus ) as per manufacturers instruction . in brief , cells were plated the day before transfection at the concentration of 2 × 10 5 cells per well in 6 well plates . the following day , cells were transfected with the final concentration of 5 nm of sirna oligoribonucleotides in fresh media , final volume of 2 . 2 ml . cells were incubated for a further 48 hours prior to harvesting . iptg was added for 24 hours unless otherwise stated . sirna sequences are described here ( control : 5 ′- cagucgcguuugcgacugg - 3 ′, fmn2 - 5 ′- guauaccaggucuccucaa - 3 ′, pa28γ - 5 ′- gaaucaauaugucacucua - 3 ′, skp2 - 5 ′- acucaaguccagccauaag - 3 ′).). antibody production . fmn2 mouse monoclonal and rabbit polyclonal antibodies were produced by dundee cell products ( dundee , uk ). the oligopeptides ( ctehvrappapsrsr , mhsirtveikvpeieec , kdsqalqtgeldsahs ) for tc supernatant of mouse ascites hybridoma clone were synthesised to establish fmn2 - m22ab ( fig1 a ) and oligopeptides ( crqkkgkslykikpr , ckprhdsgikakismkt ) were synthesised to establish fmn2 - p31ab . immunoprecipitation . immunoprecipitations were carried out as previously described ( trinkle - mulcahy et al ., 2006 ). nuclear lysates were prepared from narf2 stable cell lines . purified nuclei were resuspended in ripa buffer to solubilize proteins . fmn2 proteins were immunoprecipitated using an anti - fmn2 - m22ab monoclonal antibody and an anti - fmn2 - p31ab ( fig1 ). samples were divided in two and for input samples were isolated from one half of each nuclear lysate . all cell images were recorded using the deltavision spectris fluorescence microscope ( applied precision ). cells were imaged using a 60 × ( na 1 . 4 ) plan apochromat objective . twelve optical sections separated by 0 . 5 μm were recorded for each field and each exposure ( softworx image processing software , applied precision ). fig1 . shows the rescue of fmn2 depletion with sirna for pa28γ and skp2 . detection of protein levels for endogenous fmn2 , skp2 , pa28g , p21 , p14arf and actin following transfection of narf2 cells using either sirnas for fmn2 ( see fig1 a for location of sirna target sequence ), pa28γ , skp2 and control ( control ) with / without p14arf induction (+/ blank ). an equivalent amount of narf2 extract was loaded for each lane and the proteins separated by sds page , electroblotted and probed both with a monoclonal anti - pa28γ and polyclonal anti - fmn2 , anti - skp2 , anti - p21 , anti - p14arf and with anti - actin as a loading control . the p21 inactivation observed following fmn2 depletion was partially rescued by co - transfection with both pa28γ sirna / skp2 sirnas . these data suggesting that p21 inactivation by fmn2 depletion is caused by both a ubiquitin dependent degradation pathway ( skp2 ) and ubiquitin independent pathway ( pa28γ ) ( a model is shown in fig2 ). establishment of fmn2 specific antibodies . a . mouse monoclonal anti - fmn2 antibody ( m22ab ) and rabbit polyclonal anti - fmn2 antibody ( p31ab ) were established by injecting synthesised fmn2 oligopeptides ( see fig1 a ). to confirm the antibody specificity , fmn2 partial cdna sequence was fused with mcherry red fluorescence protein cdna ( mcherry - fmn2ex6 - 12 & amp ; mcherry - fmn2ex13 - 18 ). fig1 a also shows the fmn2 protein structure and indicates the positions for sirna used for fmn2 knock - down , peptides sequences used as antigens to raise anti - fmn2 antibodies , and motifs . the fh2 domain is almost entirely α helical and can be subdivided into five subdomains with somewhat arbitrary boundaries . these include an n - terminal “ lasso ”, a “ linker ” segment , a globular “ knob ” subdomain , a coiled - coil region , a carboxy - terminal “ post2 subdomain the dimer formation is mediated by a unique interactions of “ lasso ” with “ post ” of the partner fh2 , exhibiting a closed ring structure . it has been proposed that the dep domain could play a selective role in targeting dep domains - containing proteins to specific subcellular membranous sites , perhaps even to specific g protein - coupled signaling pathways . fig1 b shows co - localisation analysis for fmn2 m22ab - p31ab . narf2 cells were fixed and stained with mouse monoclonal anti - fmn2 antibody ( m22ab ) and rabbit polyclonal anti - fmn2 antibody ( p31ab ) following p14arf induction . fig1 c shows the results of expression of mcherry - fmn2 partial plasmids . hela cells were fixed and stained using polyclonal anti - fmn2 antibody ( p31ab ) after transfection with pmcherry - fmn2ex6 - 12 and pmcherry - fmn2ex13 - 18 . scale bar is 10 μm . the arrows indicate transfected cells . as can be seen transient expression of pmcherry - fmn2ex13 - 18 which includes the antigen sequence recognised by fmn2 - p31ab , was strongly stained by fmn2 - p31ab . this same fmn2 - p31ab antibody did not stain cells after transient expression of pmcherry - fmn2ex6 - 12 , which doesn &# 39 ; t include the peptide sequences used as antigens to raise anti - fmn2 antibodies ( arrow ). fig1 . shows the results of immunoprecipitation ( ip ) analysis using fmn2 specific antibodies . immunoprecipitations were performed as previously shown ( trinkle - mulcahy et al ., 2006 ). narf2 cell nuclear lysates were isolated after p14arf induction and equal amount of lysates were mixed with either the fmn2 polyclonal antibody ( fmn2p31ab ) or with monoclonal antibody ( fmn2m22ab ). fractionation was also confirmed by checking the b23 protein as a nuclear marker and tubulin as a cytoplasmic marker ( fig1 b ). an equivalent amount of ip extract was loaded for each lane and the proteins separated by sds page , electroblotted and probed with anti - fmn2 antibody e . g . ip with a monoclonal anti - fmn2 and blotting with polyclonal anti - fmn2 ( lane m ) ( see fig1 a ). as can be seen , clear isolation of fmn2 was shown after ip compared with input lane ( lysate without antibody ). p21 was also detected in the fmn2 ip . narf2 cell nuclear lysates are isolated with / without p14arf induction and equal amount of lysates were mixed with fmn2 polyclonal antibody ( fmn2 p31ab ). an equivalent amount of the total nuclear lysate ( input ), precipitated sample ( ip ) and flow - through samples ( ft ) was loaded for each lane and the proteins separated by sds page , electroblotted and probed with antibodies including anti - fmn2 m22ab , anti - pa28γ , anti - skp2 and anti - b23 as a loading control for input and ft ( see fig1 c ). narf2 cells were fixed and stained with rabbit anti - fmn2 p31ab and anti - p21 antibody with / without p14arf induction . fig1 shows that majority of fmn2 and p21 signals were both co - localised in the nuclei . this result is consistent with the ip result presented in fig1 . two fmn2 promoter deletion plasmids upstream of first atg (+ 1 ) were constructed ( left panel fig1 a ). narf2 cells were fixed and stained with anti - p14arf antibody with / without p14arf induction following transfection with plasmids mcherry - fmn2p - 2k , mcherry - fmn2p - 1k or mcherry without promoter . as can be seen mcherry - fmn2p - 2k which has approximately 2000 bases of upstream sequence of the fmn2 gene was upregulated in p14arf induced cells . however , mcherry - fmn2p - 1k which has only 1000 bases of upstream sequence from the fmn2 gene did not show upregulation in response to p14arf induction ( arrow ) ( see fig1 a right - hand panel ). the same experiment was carried out with narf2 - e6 ( p53 negative cell ) cells ( see fig1 b ). this shows the same result as seen with narf2 cells . these results indicate that the fmn2 promoter / regulatory region upstream of the fmn2 gene ( approximately − 2000 bases ) includes one or more elements which confer induction by arf that is p53 independent . finally , fig1 c shows a summary of the fmn2 promoter analysis . the fmn2 promoter region was also characterised and the arf inducible element was determined ( chromosome 1 ,+ strand approximately from 238319604 to 238321603 , genome browser ). human lung primary fibroblast cells ( atcc - ccl - 211 ) and human lung adenocarcinoma cells ( atcc - crl - 5868 ) were fixed and stained with anti - fmn2 - p31ab , anti - fmn2 - m22ab , anti - p21 and anti - p14arf antibodies . fig1 shows that the fmn2 gene was up regulated in human lung cancer cells , as compared with human lung primary cells , as we observed in tissue culture cells such as u205 , hela , narf2 , and narf2 - e6 cell lines , i . e . enhanced fmn2 expression after oncogene activation ( see also fig8 ). these data show that elevated fmn2 expression may occur in multiple forms of cancer as well as in model tissue culture systems . fig2 model of p14arf - fmn2 pathway . we found a novel tumour suppressor pathway that is p53 independent . p14arf induced by oncogene activation up regulates the fmn2 gene independent of p53 . fmn2 , either directly or indirectly , inhibits p21 degradation including both ubiquitin - dependent and independent pathways . 1 . rocha s . and perkins n . d ., arf the integrator : linking nf - kappab , p53 and checkpoint kinases . cell cycle , 6 , 756 - 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