Patent Application: US-86124997-A

Abstract:
a novel human corticotropin releasing hormone receptor which is a splice variant of the human crh 2 receptor subfamily and is designated human crhr2γ . fragments of crhr2γ . nucleic acid molecules which encode crhr2γ and fragments , expression vectors comprising the nucleic acid molecules , and host cells containing the expression vectors . antibodies and antibody fragments capable of binding the novel receptor . nucleic acid molecules capable of hybridizing with the above nucleic acid molecules . use of the novel receptor and receptor fragments , antibodies and antibody fragments in testing compounds for crh antagonist activity and in treating diseases .

Description:
the present invention relates to a novel crhr2 protein . more particularly , the invention relates to an isolated nucleic acid encoding a novel splice isoform of the crhr2 subfamily . this new subfamily member is designated crhr2γ . nucleic acids encoding crhr2γ were identified in a human brain amygdala cdna library using a dna probe consisting of rat crhr2 sequence obtained by polymerase chain reaction ( pcr ) amplification . cloning and sequencing of crhr2γ cdna a 536 - bp polymerase chain reaction (&# 34 ; upcr &# 34 ;) fragment containing the nucleotides 1 - 536 of rat crhr2α receptor cdna ( coding region ) was used to screen a λgt11 human brain amygdala cdna library ( clontech ). the probe was labeled with α - 32 p ! dctp using a random primed labeling kit ( gibco - brl ). the plaques were lifted onto nitrocellulose membranes ( schleicher & amp ; schuell ), then denatured , neutralized and rinsed . the membranes were prehybridized at 60 ° c . in 6 × ssc , 0 . 05 × blotto ( 1 × blotto : 5 % non - fat dry milk , 0 . 02 % sodium azide ) and 100 μg / ml herring sperm dna for 2 hours and then hybridized at the same condition with 1 × 10 6 cpm / ml labeled probe overnight . membranes were washed with 2 × ssc / 0 . 1 % sds consecutively at rt and 60 ° c . for 30 minutes each , then twice with 0 . 5 × ssc / 0 . 1 % sds at 60 ° c . for 30 minutes . approximately 8 . 5 × 10 5 phage plaques were screened and 5 unique hybridization - positive plaques were isolated and purified . λ phage dna was isolated by qiagen lambda kit and further characterized by southern analysis . after subcloning cdna inserts into pbluescript ii sk ( stratagene ), the dna sequence of both strands was determined using automated fluorescent dideoxynucleotide chain termination methodology ( rosenthal , a . and chamock - jones , d . s . 1993 ). of the five positive cdna clones , one was homologous to the human crhr1 ( hcrhr1 ) subtype but revealed the inclusion of putative intronic sequence . four of the cdna clones represented genes of the human crhr2 ( hcrhr2 ) receptor subfamily . two of these clones contained sequence that indicated a novel member of the hcrhr2 receptor subfamily which was an alternatively spliced form to the α or β hcrhr2 receptors . these clones included novel nucleotide sequence and predicted amino acid sequence in the presumptive extracellular portion of the receptor protein . human crhr2γ contains a 1555 - bp insert with a 1191 - bp open reading frame encoding 397 - a . a . protein ( sequence i . d . no . 1 ). compared to known rat crhr2α , this clone showed approximately 87 % identity at the nucleotide level over the entire coding region and 90 % identity at the amino acid level . when compared to the hcrhri ( vita et al ., 1993 ), hcrhr2γ is approximately 72 % similar at the nucleotide and amino acid level . identity between hcrhr2γ and hcrhr2α is more significant with 97 % identity . according to the hydrophobicity analysis of hcrhr2γ amino acid sequence , it contains seven hydrophobic regions corresponding to seven putative transmembrane domains ( toppred ii algorithm ), and five potential n - linked glycosylation sites in the n terminus ( sequence i . d . no . 2 ). in all the species of cloned crhr2 ( kishimoto et al ., 1995 ; lovenberg et al , 1995 ; perrin et al , 1995 ), all but one of the potential n - link glycosylation sites are preserved among them . to obtain additional 5 &# 39 ; sequence and validate the identity of the various alternatively spliced forms of the hcrhr2 gene , we used anchor pcr strategies to assess the sequence of the 5 &# 39 ; end of messenger rna containing sequence from the common region of the hcrhr2 subfamily . three consecutive antisense oligonucleotide primers ( sequence i . d . 4 , 5 , 6 ) were designed from the common sequence of hcrhr2 , 3 &# 39 ; from the putative splice site . after examining human brain hypothalamus , hippocampus and frontal cortex rna by nested rounds of rt - pcr , we isolated an 5 &# 39 ; race clone ( from frontal cortex mrna ) with identical overlapping sequence to the hcrhr2γ clone and additional 5 &# 39 ; non - coding sequence . the original crhr2γ clone isolated from the human brain amygdala cdna library contained a single codon deletion of three nucleotides ( cag ), at 425 - 427 of sequence i . d . 1 , compared to human homologs of crhr α and β . the deleted three nucleotides ( cag ) are present at a putative splice site in crhr2γ and may reflect inaccuracy of splicing or an alternative splicing choice at the splice junction for this individual cdna clone . the codon , cag , which encodes for the amino acid glutamine , represents the consensus sequence at the 3 &# 39 ; end of intronic sequence . both forms of crhr2 gamma transcripts , those with and without the codon 425 - 427 of sequence i . d . 1 , have been detected at approximately equal levels by reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction amplification ( rt - pcr ) of mrna from human brain . thus , both transcript forms appear to be naturally transcribed , alternatively spliced forms of the crhr2 gene . interestingly , unlike many other genes encoding g - protein - coupled receptors which lack introns in their coding sequence , the crh receptor family appears to generate multiple isoforms by alternative rna splicing . the mouse crh receptor gene comprises at least 12 exons , spanning more than 14 kb ( chen et . al ). based on preliminary cloning and pcr analysis , we believe there might be more than two intron / exon spliced sites in hcrhr2 gene . within the neuropeptide receptor family ( segre , g . r . and goldring s . r ., 1993 ), a rat growth hormone releasing hormone ( ghrh ) receptor gene has been reported that contains numerous introns within the coding region ( mayo , k e ., 1992 ). the mrna of porcine calcitonin receptor ( ctr ) gene also encompasses 14 exons with 12 exons encoding the protein ( zolnierowicz s . et al , 1994 ). the human glucagon receptor gene spans over 5 . 5 kb and is interrupted by 12 introns ( lok s . et al ., 1994 ) the type i human vasoactive intestinal peptide ( vip ) receptor gene spans approximately 22 kb and is composed of 13 exons and 12 introns ( sreedharan s . p . et al ., 1995 ). extensive alternative splicing of mrna represents a unique characteristic in this crh / calcitonin / ghrh / glucagon / vip family of g protein - coupled seven transmembrane domain receptors . to detect the human crhr2γ message in various brain regions , we used the rt - pcr to examine the total and / or poly - a enriched rna of human brain tissues . specific oligonucleotide primers ( sequence i . d . 7 , 8 ) were used to pcr amplify crhr2γ sequences . the resulting products were electrophoretically separated through an agarose gel and subsequently blotted to a nitrocellulose membrane for hybridization analysis with a 32 p - labeled dna probe for crhr2γ . the signal for crhr2γ was detected most abundantly in the human amygdala and hippocampus . for expression studies , the full length crhr2 γ cdna ( original cdna library clone ) was subcloned between the xhol and xbal restriction sites of expression vector phchm3ar ( shen et al ., 1995 ), creating the crhr2 γ expression plasmid ph - a10 - 18 . this vector is a modification of phebo , an epstein barr viral origin of replication plasmid ( sugden et al ., 1985 ) into which a cmv immediate early promoter , a multicloning site , and the sv40 small t intron and early poly adenylation signal regions have been added . this plasmid replicates episomally in primate cells expressing the ebv nuclear antigen 1 ( shen et al ., 1995 ). a stable cell line expressing crhr2 γ was established by transfecting the plasmid ph - a10 - 18 into hek293ebna cells ( invitrogen ) using lipofectamine ( gibcobrl ). this plasmid contains the crhr2 γ gene under the control of the cmv immediate early promoter , the ebv orip for maintenance of the plasmid as an extrachromosomal element in the appropriate cells ( nonrodent mammalian cells expressing ebna ), and the hph gene from e . coli to yield resistance to hygromycin b . hek293ebna cells were grown in dulbecco &# 39 ; s modified eagle medium containing 10 % fetal bovine serum at 37 ° c . in a humid environment with 5 % co 2 . cells were plated at a density of 4 × 10 5 cells / well in a 6 - well plate and transfected with 1 μg of plasmid per well the following day . within 24 hours after transfection , the cells were expanded into 150 mm plates ; within 24 hours after expansion , hygromycin b was added to the media at a concentration of 300 μg / ml to select for transfectants . all cells resistant to hygromycin b after a week must be harboring the plasmid within them ; since no integration is necessary for the maintenance of the plasmid within these cells , all transfected cells are essentially the same and no further subcloning was necessary . 125 l - tyr - 0 - sauvagine was used in receptor binding studies with membranes isolated from hek293ebna cells expressing the crhr2 γ receptor . buffer consisted of 50 mm hepes , 10 mm mgci 2 , 2 mm egta , and 1 μg / ml each of aprotinin , leupeptin , and pepstatin at a final ph of 7 . 0 . bacitracin at 0 . 15 mm and ovalbumin at 0 . 1 % were added to the buffer on the day of use . assays were performed at 23 ° c . for 4 hours in a final volume of 200 μl in 96 - well microtiter plates . reactions were initiated by the addition of 10 - 20 μg of membrane homogenates and terminated by rapid filtration through presoaked ( 0 . 3 % polyethyleneimine ) glass fiber filters using an inotech 96 - well harvester . the filters were washed quickly 3 × with ice - cold solution ( pbs + 0 . 01 % tritonx - 100 , ph7 . 2 ), dried briefly , then placed into polystyrene tubes and counted on an isomedic 10 / 880 γ counter ( counting efficiency ˜ 80 %). data was analyzed by nonlinear regression analysis using the computer program macligand . determinations were made from at least 3 separate experiments . saturation experiments were performed with 23 different concentrations of sauvagine over the range of 4 pm to 100 nm , using increasing concentrations of 125 l - tyr - 0 - sauvagine from 4 pm to 1 nm , and 0 . 25 nm 125 l - tyr - 0 - sauvagine spiked with unlabelled sauvagine from 1 nm to 100 nm . nonspecific binding was defined by the presence of 1 μm a - helical crh ( 9 - 41 ). the data analysis indicates the presence of two affinity states of the receptor : the high affinity receptor has a kd of ˜ 60 pm , and the low affinity one of ˜ 5 nm . the bmax of the high affinity receptor is ˜ 100 fmole / mg protein and that of the low affinity receptor is ˜ 1 . 6 pmole / mg protein . displacement studies looked at varying concentrations of r / h crh , a - helical crh ( 9 - 41 ), urotensin , and urocortin for their ability to displace 60 - 70 pm 125 l - tyr - 0 - sauvagine . the approximate ic50s determined for these peptides are : r / h crh 25 nm ; a - helical crh ( 9 - 41 ) 7 nm ; urotensin 5 nm ; urocortin 2 nm . hek293ebna cells expressing the crhr2 γ were incubated in dmem with low serum ( 0 . 1 % fbs ) at 37 ° c ., 5 % co 2 for at least 2 hrs before the addition of isobytylmethoxyxanthine ( ibmx ) to the media at a final concentration of 0 . 1 mm . the cells were incubated with the ibmx for 30 minutes ; test peptides or compounds were then added to the media and incubated therein for 25 - 30 min . the media was then aspirated from the cells and replaced with ice cold sodium acetate buffer containing 1 mm ibmx . the cells were then disrupted by a freeze - thaw , followed by sonication . supernatants were assayed for camp levels with perseptive diagnostics eia kit . results indicate that respective ec 50 of r / h crh & gt ; urotensin & gt ; sauvagine for camp stimulation at this receptor . the crh receptor antagonist a - helical crh ( 9 - 41 ) inhibits the stimulation of both r / h crh and sauvagine . chalmers , d . t ., lovenberg , t . w ., & amp ; 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( 1994 ). isolation , characterization , and chromosomal localization of the porcine calcitonin receptor gene . identification of two variants of the receptor generated by alternative splicing . journal of biological chemistry . 269 ( 30 ), 19530 - 8 . __________________________________________________________________________sequence listing ( 1 ) general information :( iii ) number of sequences : 8 ( 2 ) information for seq id no : 1 :( i ) sequence characteristics :( a ) length : 1558 nucleotides ( b ) type : nucleic acid ( c ) strandedness : single ( d ) topology : linear ( ii ) feature :( a ) name / key : cds ( b ) location : 152 ... 1342 ( iii ) sequence description : seq id no : 1 : 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