Patent Application: US-4947393-A

Abstract:
the invention provides a method for detecting the presence of ard 1 protein in a sample . the method includes the steps of providing labeled or immobilized anti - ard 1 antibody in a reaction zone , introducing sample into the reaction zone such that ard 1 protein in the sample , if present , will react with said antibody to form an immunological complex , and detecting the formation of said immunological complex . cells , nucleotide and amino acid sequences and vectors associated with ard 1 are also described .

Description:
the present invention includes the discovery of a newly recognized member of the adp - ribosylation factor ( arf ) super family termed ard 1 . we have isolated the polynucleotide encoding ard 1 from both human and rat libraries , as described below . in addition , ard 1 has been transfected into a host cell and expressed . upon expression , a 64 - kda guanine nucleotide - binding protein containing an 18 - kda , functional arf domain at its carboxy terminus termed ard 1 ( for arf domain ) was found . recombinant human ard 1 , and a recombinant truncated species containing only the arf domain following expression , activated cholera toxin adp - ribosyltransferase in a gtp - dependent manner , consistent with the conclusion that 15 amino acids adjacent to the amino terminus of arf proteins are not required for toxin activation . the ard 1 protein of the present invention is useful for stimulation of cholera toxin adp - ribosyltransferase . thus , as a reagent for synthetic biochemistry , it can stimulate toxin - catalyzed ribosylation of such molecules as agmatine in a gtp - dependent manner . it can also be used as a reagent in diagnosis of adp - ribosylation deficiency disease . ard 1 includes a gtp binding region , and may be used for binding gtp . it is also useful for generation of anti - ard 1 antibodies , and as a reagent in assays for ard 1 and for antibodies against ard 1 . moreover , ard 1 is a member of the arf superfamily , and may be used in general in the same way as known arf proteins . ard 1 , a new member of the arf family , was identified by molecular cloning from cdna libraries and by rapid amplification of cdna ends ( race ) type pcr . nucleotide and amino acid sequences of human and rat ard 1 are , respectively , 92 % and 96 % identical . in all rat tissues tested , 3 . 7 - kb and 4 . 1 - kb ard 1 mrnas were detected . a cdna probe specific for the ard 1 coding region hybridized with poly ( a ) + rna of similar sizes from rat , mouse and rabbit brains , and human cultured cells . the specific probe additionally hybridized to a somewhat different size mrna from chicken brain . sequence and hybridization data are thus consistent with the conclusion that these arf - related proteins are highly conserved in eukaryotic cells . the unique 64 - kda ard 1 protein is much larger than other monomeric guanine nucleotide - binding proteins and consists of two distinct domains . one domain is a carboxy - terminal arf domain and the remainder , doesn &# 39 ; t have homology with other known arf domains . in fact , the sequence of the non - arf domain has no homology to any sequences in the genbank data base and contains no motif known to be conserved in any guanine nucleotide - binding proteins . these conserved motifs , denoted gx 1 x 2 x 3 x 4 gk , dx 1 x 2 g , and nkxd using the single letter amino acid code , are conserved in other gtp - binding proteins including heterotrimeric g proteins , and ras , rho , and rab proteins . unlike rab , ras , rho , and g 60 , arf and ard 1 have an aspartic acid ( d ) at position x 2 in gx 1 x 2 x 3 x 4 gk . like g 60 , but unlike the ras super family , x 1 and x 2 in the dx 1 x 2 g sequence of ard 1 and arfs are valine ( v ) and glycine ( g ), respectively . the arf domain contains several motifs common to all arfs , such as gldgagk , dvgg , and nkqd , which are considered to be responsible for gtp - binding ( see fig1 ). the cat sequence is , however , represented by dar . the conserved alanine , based on homology to ras , is thought to be involved in guanine nucleotide - binding . in fact , a recombinant protein , representing the arf domain of ard 1 had the ability to bind gtp , while the entire ard 1 protein , under the same conditions did not bind gtp . the reason is unclear , although it is possible that when bound to a nitrocellulose membrane , the conformation of the larger protein limits accessibility of gtp to the binding site . it has been suggested that the amino terminus of arf is critical for its function , since mutant arf 1 protein lacking the amino - terminal 17 amino acids was unable to stimulate cholera toxin - catalyzed adp - ribosylation of g s α in the presence of dmpc / cholate , although it still possessed gtp . sub . γ s binding activity that no longer required dmpc / cholate ( kahn , et al . j . biol . chem . 267 : 13039 - 13046 ( 1992 )). similarly , ard 1 fusion protein or its arf domain fusion protein did not have demonstrable arf activity in the presence of sds , dmpc / cholate or cardiolipin , all of which are effective in supporting activity of arfs ( noda , et al . biochim . biophys . acta 1034 : 195 - 199 ( 1990 ); serventi , et al . in : current topics in microbiology and immunology 175 , ( aktories , k . ed ) pp . 43 - 67 , springer - verlag , berlin heidelberg ( 1992 ); tsai , et al . proc . natl . acad . sci . ( usa ) 84 : 5139 - 5142 ( 1987 )). in the presence of tween 20 , however , ard 1 protein stimulated toxin - catalyzed adp - ribosylation of agmatine in a gtp - dependent manner . removal of the non - arf domain from ard 1 protein significantly diminished its arf activity and increased the gtp concentration required for half maximal activity , suggesting some role for the non - arf domain in its arf - like activity . clearly , however , these data are consistent with the notion that toxin activation does not require the amino - terminal 15 amino acids of arf , although they may contribute to interaction with phospholipids . as a first step , we isolated cdna from a human hl - 60 lambda library that had homology with known arf sequences . [ α - 32 p ] datp ( 6 , 000 ci / mmol ), [ α - thio 35 s ] datp ( 1 , 350 ci / mmol ), and [ α - 32 p ] gtp ( 800 ci / mmol ) were purchased from dupont - new england nuclear ; [ adenine - 14 c ] nad ( 273 ci / mol ) from amersham ( arlington heights , ill . ); random - primed dna labeling kit and gdpβs from boehringer mannheim ( indianapolis , in ); human fetal brain cdna and rat brain cdna lambda zap library from stratagene ( la jolla , calif . ); competent e . coli dh5α ( maximal efficiency ), terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase and psport 1 from life technology ( gaithersburg , md . ); plasmid purification kit from qiagen ( chatsworth , calif . ); dna sequencing kit from united states biochemical corp . ( cleveland , ohio ); amv reverse transcriptase , noti , sali , rnase inhibitor ( rnasin ) and t4 dna ligase from promega ( madison , wis . ); centricon 100 from amicon ( danvers , mass . ); nylon membrane ( nytran ) and nitrocellulose membrane from schleicher and schuell ( keene , nh ); thermus aquaticus dna polymerase from perkin - elmer / cetus ( norwalk , conn . ); glutathione , glutathione - agarose , cardiolipin , dmpc , cholate , and nad from sigma ( st . louis , mo . ); and ag1 - x2 from bio - rad ( richmond , calif .). oligonucleotides were synthesized using an applied biosystems 380b dna synthesizer . a cyclic , amp - differentiated hl - 60 lambda zap library ( 5 × 10 5 plaques ) was screened by plaque hybridization with arf 2b cdna ( price , et al . proc . natl . acad . sci . ( usa ) 85 : 5488 - 5491 ( 1988 )) and a mixture of oligonucleotides denoted xarfc as described by tsuchiya et al ., ( j . biol . chem . 266 : 2772 - 2777 ( 1991 )). the only clone (# 76 ) that was positive with the arf 2b cdna and negative with oligonucleotides specific for arfs 1 - 6 ( tsuchiya et al ., j . biol . chem . 266 : 2772 - 2777 ( 1991 )) was plaque - purified , the insert was excised in vivo by the method of short et al . ( nucleic acids res . 16 : 7583 - 7600 ( 1988 )). the insert was then purified using qiagen , and sequenced by the sanger et al . method ( proc . natl . acad . sci . ( usa ) 74 : 5463 - 5467 ( 1977 )). the 1660 - bp insert ( nucleotides 706 - 2365 in table i ) included an open reading frame ( 1207 - 1722 ) encoding an arf domain of 172 amino acids . table i nucleotide and protein alignment of human and rat ard i - 22 ctgtggcgcttcccctgcgagg human 1 matlvvnklg agvdsgrqgs rgtavvkvle ( seq id no : 2 ) human 1 atggctaccctggttgtaaacaagctcgga gcgggagtagacagtggccg gcagggcagc cgggggacagctgtagtgaaggtgctagag ( seq id no : 1 ) rat ------------ ------------------ -------- --------------------- -------- g ----- g -------- t -- g --- human 31 cgvcedvfsl qgdkvprlll cghtvchdcl human 91 tgtggagtttgtgaag atgtcttttctttg caaggagacaaagttccccgtcttttgctt tgtggccataccgtctgtcatgactgtc tc rat ----- t ----------------- c --- c -- -------- t -------- t -- c ----- c --- -------- c -- a ------------------ human 61 trlplhgrai rcpfdrqvtd lgdsgvwglk human 181 actcgcctacctcttcatggaagagcaatc cgttgcccatttgatcgacaagtaacagac ta cgtgattcaggtgtctggggattgaaa rat t ----- t -- g ---- g -------------- a --------- -------------- g ------ --- -- a ----------------- t ------ human 91 knfallelle rlqngpigqy gaaeesigis human 271 aaaaattttgctttattggagcttttggaa cgactgcag aatgggcctattggtcagtat ggagctgcagaagaatccattgggatatct rat ------------ c -- ------- --- a --- -- tt ---- a ----- a - a ------------- --------------- g -- c ------- ---- human 121 gesiircded eahlasvyct vcathlcsec human 361 ggagagagcatcattcg ttgtgatgaagat gaagctcaccttgcctctgta tattgcact gtgtgtgcaactcatttgtgctctgag tgt rat -------- t -------- c ------------ --------- g ---- a ----- g -- c ------ -------- g ----- c -------- a ------ human 151 sqvthstxtl akhrrvplad kphektmcsq human 451 tctcaagttactcattctacaaagacatta gcaaagcacaggcgagttcctctagctgat aaacctcatgagaaaactatgtgctctcag rat -------------------------- tc - g -- c ----- t ------ -- g ------------ -------------- g -- c -- g human 181 hqvhaiefvc leegcqtspl mccvckeygk human 541 caccaggtgcatgccattgagtttgtttgc ttggaagaag gttgtcaaactagcccactc atgtgctgtgtctgcaaagaatatggaaaa rat -------- a ----- - --------------- ---------- c ------------ t -- t --- -------------------------- ---- human 211 hqghkhsvle peanqirasi ldmarcirtf human 631 caccagggtcacaag cat tcagtattggaa ccagaagctaatcagatccgagcatcaatt ttagatatggctcactgcatacggacc rat ----------------- c ------ c ---- g ----------- c ----------- g ------ c ------------- --------- a ------ human 241 teeisdysrk lvgivqhibg geqivedgig human 721 acagaggaaatctcagattattccagaaaa ttagttggaattgtgcagcacattgaagga ggagaacaaatcgtggaagatggaattgga rat -- t ----- g --------------------- --- ----- g ----- t --------------- ----------- a ------------------ human 231 ma aenarscira yfydlhetlc human 811 atggctcacacagaacatgtaccagggact gcagagaatg cccggtcatgtattcgagct tatttttat gatctacatgaaactctgtct rat ----------- g --- -- c -- c ----- t --- ----------- a -- a ------ g - ca ----- ------- c ---- t - g ----------- t --- human 301 rqeemalsvv da hvrekliw lrqqqedmti human 901 cgtcaagaagaaatg gctctaagtgttgtt gatgctcatgttcgtgaaaaattgatttgg ctcaggcagcaacaagaagatatgacta rat -------------------- c --------- ----- c -------- a ------ c ---- ---- -- t -------------- g ------------ human 331 llsevsaacl hcektlqqdd crvvlakqei human 991 ttgttgtcagaggtttctgcagcctgcctc cactgtgaaaagactttgcagcaggatgat tgtagagttgtcttggcaaaacaggaaatt rat c - c ----- cc ------- aa ------- t --- -- t --------------------------- -- c -------------------- a ----- c huhan 361 rl t qqqftevadh iqlqasipvt human 1081 acaaggttactggaaacattgcagaaacag ag cagcagctttacagaagttgcagatcac attcagttggatgccagcatccctgtcact rat ----- a --- t - a ------ c ----------- ------------------------------ ----------- ------ t -- t -- a ------ human 391 ftkdnrvhig pkmeirvvtl gldgagktti human 1171 tttacaaaggataatcgagttcacattgga ccaaaaatggaaattcgggtcgttacgtta ggattggatggtgctggaaaaactactatc rat ----------- c -- ca ----- t - t ------ -- c ------- ---- a -- a -- a -- c -- a --- ----- a ----------------------- t human 421 lf qpiptigfnv etveyknlkf human 1261 ttgtttaagttaaaacaggatgaattcatg tc cagcccatgttttaacgtg gaaactgtagaatataaaaatc taaaattc rat ----- c ---------- - a -------- t --- ----- t -------------------- t --- -------- g ----- c ------------ --- human 451 tiwdvggkhk lrplw khyyl ntqavvfvvd human 1351 actatttgggatgtag gtggaaaacacaaa ttaagaccattgtggaaacattattacctc aatactcaagctgttgtgtttgttgtag at rat -- c ----------- g ---- a ---------- --------------------------- --- ----- a ----------- a -------- t -- c human 481 sshrdrisea hselakllte kelrdallli human 1441 agcagtcatagagacagaattagtgaagca cacagcgaacttgcaaagttgttaacggaa aaagaactccgagatgctctgctcctgatt rat -------- c ------ --------------- -------------- g ----------- a --- -------- t -------- ct - a --- t ---- human 511 nk fa lsveeitell slhklccgrs human 1531 tttgctaacaaacaggatgttgctggagca ag c tgtctagaagaaatcactgaactactc agtctccataaattatgctgtggccgtagc rat -------------------- c ----- g --- -- t -- g -- t ----------- c ----- t --- ----------- --------- c -- aa - g --- human 541 wyiqgcdars gmglyegldw lsrqlvaagv human 1621 tggtatattcagggctgtgatgctcgaagt ggtatgggactgtatgaagggttggactgg cg ctctcagcaacttgtagctgctggagta rat ------------------------------ g ---------- c -- c --------------- -- g -- c ----------- g ----- c ----- g human 571 dv l human 1711 ttggatgttgcttgattttaaaggcagcag ttgtttgaagttttgtggttaaaagtaact ttgcacataaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaatgca rat --------------- 1801 tctcaaaagatggt aatttaggatgcatat atatatatatatatataaaggaatcttgga ttgggaattcagtactttgctttaa aaaaa 1891 ttttgtggcagaattaaatttctaattgac gcagattagattgaattaaatagaaactta ttgaatatacattcttttaaaaagtatatt 1981 tgttatttaagtttttcagataatatgtga ccaatatactgggaaagaggtagtcacaga gaaagggtaagtgaaggtttattctttcag 2071 tgaaaaaagaatagccaattgagtgcctaa tgagacctctgtgtgaagcaagtgaagtat agctgcttctt ttaacctgccttttcactg 2161 aatgttggcagcatttagtagtagaaatga cagttgcttaatgaaa tagaatccaaacta catatttggataataggattactttatgtt 2251 tatgttcagagttaacagaac acctttaat gctaagaactataaggtacagaaaattaat actttatatagtgttttattaactttctcc 2341 tacagcattttgtataaaacacaatgaggg agtgaaatgttacccaattaggcttgtcag gttagtaataaactgaacagtaataaaact 2431 gtggaagtaattggatctgaatttatgaaa gacccatttccaggactgaacctaggtcag agctctaaattggtccttctatttttcaac 2521 aaatttaaagtaatatttctttctaatata atattgcatcctttgtgggaatgactatag gtaaaatgtag taagtaacgcagaaccagg 2611 gttggctttatttaaaagctagtgacctaa atagaaagcgaacttc aagagaagttgtaa gtacagtggcaaatgcttattacttacttc 2701 aaactgtttcccaaaataagt gcatttatt ttgacaataaaacttaaggctgttcatgag aaggccttgaaaagttactctagaggaaaa 2791 atgtctaaagaaaaaaaaaattcaaaaagt ttacattaattattcagtgttgtgagtaaa taaaaatgtgtgctctttactgtttttcat 2881 ttttaaagaatattattatggaagcacgat ttatttaaataggtacattgagactttttt ttttaatgttctgatacattaggatgaagt 2971 taaatcttaaatcttattagttgaattgtt gtaaggacagtgatgtctggtaacaagatg tgactttttgg tagcactgttgtggttcat 3061 tcttttcaaatctatttttgtttaaaaaca atacaagttttagaaa acaaagcattaaaa aaaaagcctatcagtattatgggcaatatg 3151 taaataaataaatgtaatatt tcatccttt atttttcaggtaaaaggtcatgctgttaca ggtgtagtttgtgtgcataaataatacttc 3241 cgaattaaattatttaatatttgactgatt tcaataactgtgaaaataaaaaggtgttgt attgcttgtgag table i illustrates the nucleotide and deduced amino acid sequences of human and rat ard 1 cdna . the human ard 1 deduced amino acid sequence is shown in single - letter code above the nucleotide sequence on the respective codon of the human ard 1 coding region . differences in rat ard nucleotide sequences are shown below the human sequence . the rat ard 1 sequence is available from positions corresponding to 61 to 1726 of human ard 1 . the human nucleotide sequence shown is seq id no : 1 the rat nucleotide sequence shown is seq id no : 3 and the translated human amino acid sequence shown is seq id no : 2 . an oligonucleotide specific for this sequence ( j1r ) is shown in table ii and was used to screen a human fetal brain cdna lambda zap library ( 5 × 10 5 plaques ). among eight positive clones , # 7 - 3 contained nucleotides 7 - 1826 and clone # 7 - 8 contained nucleotides 726 - 3225 . in this sequence , about 1200 nucleotides preceded the arf region without a stop codon in the same reading frame . table ii__________________________________________________________________________oligonucleotides used in the analysis of ard 1 sequencename ## str1 ## __________________________________________________________________________jlr aatgggctgcatgaattcatcctgttttaa ( seq id no : 3 ) complementary to bases 1270 to 1299 of human ard 1 . jk721rc cctccttcaatgtgctgcacaattcc ( seq id no : 4 ) complementary to bases 757 to 782 of human ard 1 . jk723rii tgagtaacttgagaacactc ( seq id no : 5 ) complementary to bases 445 to 464 of human ard 1 . jk728r tgccctgccggccactgtctactcccgctccgagcttgttta ( seq id no : 6 ) complementary to bases 17 to 58 of human ard 1 . jknot gactagttctagatcgcgagcggccgcccttcacctaggtctgttacttgtcg ( seq id no : 7 ) complementary to bases 226 to 248 of human ard 1 with 30 bases added at 5 &# 39 ; end to introduce noti site . jk8ex ggcctggttccgcggatggctaccctggttgta ( seq id no : 8 ) bases 1 to 18 of human ard 1 with 15 bases added at 5 &# 39 ; end to introduce ligation - independent cloning site . jk3ex ggcctggttccgcggatggaaattcgggtc ( seq id no : 9 ) bases 1207 to 1221 of human ard 1 with 15 bases added at 5 &# 39 ; end to introduce ligation - independent cloning site . jkexr ctgcgcctcg ctcctcaagcaacatccaa ( seq id no : 10 ) complementary to bases 1711 to 1725 of human ard i with 14 bases added at 5 &# 39 ; end to introduce ligation - independent cloning site . jk5exr ctgcgcctcgctccttttggtccaatgtg ( seq id no : ll ) complementary to bases 1192 to 1206 of human ard 1 with 14 bases added at 5 &# 39 ; end to introduce ligation - independent cloning__________________________________________________________________________ site . to further characterize the 5 &# 39 ; - terminus of this cdna , 5 &# 39 ; - race was carried with the poly ( a ) + rna from imr - 32 human neuroblastoma cells . poly ( a ) + rna ( 5 μg ) from imr - 32 human neuroblastoma cells was reverse - transcribed with the primer jk721rc , as shown in table ii ( 100 ng ) by amv reverse transcriptase ( 20 units ) in 50 mm tris - hcl , ph 8 . 3 , 7 mm mgcl 2 , 40 mm kcl , 1 mm dithiothreitol , dntps ( 1 mm each ), bovine serum albumin ( 0 . 1 mg / ml ), rnasin , 20 units ( total volume 20 μl ) at 42 ° c . for 3 hours . te ( 10 mm tris - hcl , ph 7 . 5 , 1 mm edta ), 1 ml , was added and the mixture was concentrated ( centricon 100 ). after addition of 2 ml of 0 . 2 × te , it was concentrated again to 50 μl . the reverse transcribed products ( 46 μl ) were tailed with terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase ( 30 units ) at 37 ° c . for 5 minutes in 0 . 1m potassium cacodylate , ph 7 . 2 , 2 mm cacl 2 , 0 . 2 mm dithiothreitol , 0 . 2 mm datp followed by heat inactivation of the enzyme ( 65 ° c ., 5 min ). the preparation ( 20 μl ) was subjected to pcr ( 40 cycles : 95 ° c ., 30 seconds ; 50 ° c ., 30 seconds ; 72 ° c ., 60 seconds ) with 200 ng each of primers salad and saladtt ( table iii ) and 400 ng of primer jk723rii ( table ii ) in 10 mm tris - hcl , ph 8 . 3 , 50 mm kcl , 1 . 5 mm mgcl 2 , 0 . 01 % gelatin , dntp , 200 μm each , 0 . 1 % tween , taq dna polymerase , 2 . 5 units ( total volume , 100 μl ). te ( 1 ml ) was added to the pcr products and the mixture was concentrated ( centricon 100 ). te ( 2 ml ) was added followed by concentration to 30 μl and transfer of a sample ( 1 μl ) to a second pcr amplification ( 40 cycles : 95 ° c ., 30 seconds ; 50 ° c ., 30 seconds ; 72 ° c ., 30 seconds ) with 400 ng each of primers salad ( table iii ) and jknot ( table ii ). preparations were digested with noti and sali , ligated into plasmid psport1 , and used to transform competent dh5α cells , which were then grown on lb / agar plates containing ampicillin , 100 μg / ml . table iii__________________________________________________________________________oligonucleotides used in the analysis of ard 1name sequence , 5 &# 39 ;- 3 &# 39 ; __________________________________________________________________________ra4cf atgggcctcaccat ( seq id no : 12 ) bases 1 to 14 of rat arf 4 . harf4 - codar tctcactgatggccatagca ( seq id no : 13 ) complementary to bases 396 to 415 of rat and human arf 4 cdna . hra4cr tcatttgacagcca ( seq id no : 14 ) complementary to bases 514 to 527 of rat and human arf 4 cdna . reknot gactagttctacatcgcgagcggccgccctggatatctaaccaaggacat ( seq id no . : 34 ) bases 552 to 571 of rat arf 4 with 40 bases added at 5 &# 39 ; ## str2 ## rdklcf ttgatagaattggtctaggcttgttacaac ( seq id no : 15 ) bases 574 to 603 of rat arf 4 cdna ( just after stop codon ). rdklr gttgtaacaagcctagaccaattctatcaa ( seq id no : 16 ) complementary to rdk1cfrdk3r ggctaaacagcaacattgttcttggtaaacaataattggcaacaaaac ( seq id no : 17 ) complementary to bases 677 to 724 of rat arf 4 cdna ( after first polyadenylation signal ). rdk4r tcagtgagttccaagggggtaactttaaaacattattggtgtgggctc ( seq id no : 18 ) complementary to bases 855 to 902 of rat arf 4 cdna ( after second polyadenylation signal ). rakriia tggaatcggaacttccagatcctcatcgtccgagtccgattcactctg ( seq id no : 19 ) complementary to bases 127 to 174 of rat riiαcdna ( regulatory subunit of camp - dependent protein kinase ) ( 30 ). saladtt ctcgtggacgatgttgctgtcgacccacgcgtccg ( t ) 20 ( seq id no : 20 ) ## str3 ## salad ctcgtggacgatgttgctgtcgacccacgcgtccg ( seq id no : 21 ) r2scr tttgtacaagatcgtcgttttgccagctgcatctaagcc ( seq id no : 22 ) used for screening . rdk5not gactagttctagatcgcgagcggccgccaccaccgctatgggc ( seq id no : 23 ) ## str4 ## site . rdksal1 ctcgtggacgatgtgctggtcgacagctgcccaaaccgtctcag ( seq id no : 24 ) complementary to bases 638 to 655 with 26 bases added at s &# 39 ; ## str5 ## rdksal2 ctcgtggacgatgtgctggtcgacgttaacactcaaaacagattt ( seq id no : 25 ) complementary to bases 833 to 850 with 27 bases added at 5 &# 39 ; ## str6 ## rdksal3 ctcgtggacgatgtgctggtcgactcgaaaaatcattttattaggaataattcca ( seq id no : 26 ) complementary to bases 1362 to 1389 with 27 baseo added at ## str7 ## __________________________________________________________________________ following transfection of the reverse transcribed , pcr amplified sequences into competent dh5α cells , we isolated clones corresponding to ard 1 . colonies were screened with probe jk728r ( table ii ) that had been labeled with [ α - 32 p ] datp and terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase . positive clones ( 33 ) were selected and grown in lb containing ampicillin , 100 μg / ml . plasmid dna was purified and digested with sal i and not i . longer inserts (˜ 350 bp ) from seven clones were sequenced . a consensus sequence of the 5 &# 39 ; - terminal sequences of four are shown in table i ; three clones had shorter inserts . four clones with the longest inserts had an initiation codon atg accompanied by a at - 3 and g at position 4 . this sequence is believed favorable for translation initiation ( kozak , et al . j . cell . biol . 108 : 229 - 241 ( 1989 )). the putative open reading frame of this gene , termed ard 1 , consisted of 1722 nucleotides encoding a protein of 574 amino acids with an arf related domain at the carboxyl terminus . we anticipated that human and rat ard 1 were likely similar , so we isolated clones corresponding to rat ard 1 . a rat brain lambda zap ii library ( 6 × 10 5 plaques ) was screened with an oligonucleotide r2scr ( table iii ) that yielded clone 2 a containing an insert that corresponded to nucleotides 61 - 1973 of human ard 1 . a comparison of the rat and human sequences is provided in table i . nucleotide and deduced amine acid sequences of ard 1 coding regions from rat and human are 92 % and 98 % identical , respectively , without any gaps . the nucleotide sequence of the arf domain of human ard 1 is 60 - 66 % identical to those of the mammalian arfs ; the deduced amino acid sequences are 55 - 60 % identical or 69 - 72 % similar including conservative placements ( table iv ). table iv______________________________________comparison of nucleotide and deduced amino acid sequencesof the arf domain of human ard 1 ( 172 amino acids ) to thoseof mammalian arfsmammalian percentage identity to hard 1arf nucleotides amino acids______________________________________harf 1 62 59 ( 71 )* harf 2 66 59 ( 72 ) harf 3 65 60 ( 72 ) harf 4 66 59 ( 72 ) harf 5 62 56 ( 72 ) harf 6 60 55 ( 69 ) ______________________________________ * identical plus conservative replacements programs used were pc / gene fastscan for nucleotide sequence and pc / gene palign ( open gap cost , 1 ; unit gap cost , 1 ) for amino acid sequence some of the regions common to arfs thus far identified that are believed to be involved in guanine nucleotide binding and tp hydrolysis are also conserved in ard 1 ( fig1 ), i . e ., gldgagk ( 411 - 417 ), dvgg ( 454 - 457 ), and nkqd ( 513 - 516 ); cat , however , is missing and replaced with dar ( 547 - 549 ) . to analyze the expression of ard 1 , we probed northern blots of rna from various tissues . poly ( a ) + rna was isolated from total rna ( chomyczynski , et al . anal . biochem . 162 : 156 - 159 ( 1987 )) using oligo ( dt ) chromatography ( chirgwin , et al . biochemistry 18 : 5294 - 5299 ( 1979 )). poly ( a ) + rna ( 5 μg ) was then fractionated by electrophoresis in 1 . 2 % agarose / formaldehyde gels and transferred to nytran . prehybridization and hybridization were carried out at 42 ° c . in hybridizaton buffer of 5 × ssc ( 1 ×= 0 . 15m nacl , 0 . 015m sodium citrate , ph 7 . 0 ), 5 × denhardt &# 39 ; s solution ( 1 ×= 0 . 02 % ficoll , 0 . 02 % polyvinylpyrrolidone , 0 . 02 % bovine serum albumin ), 10 mm tris - hcl , ph 7 . 4 , 0 . 1 % sds , 10 % dextran sulfate , denatured salmon sperm dna , 0 . 1 mg / ml , 40 % formamide . filters were washed at 55 ° c . once with 2 × ssc , 0 . 5 % sds and twice with 0 . 5 × ssc , 0 . 5 % sds . filters were exposed to kodak xar film at - 80 ° c . with an intensifying screen . human arf 1 coding region cdna was prepared as described by bobak et al . ( proc . natl . acad . sci . ( usa ) 86 : 6101 - 6105 ( 1989 )). human ard 1 coding region cdna was generated by pcr as described above . an ard 1 coding region cdna clone hybridized with 4 . 2 - kb and 3 . 7 - kb mrnas from all rat tissues examined ( fig2 ). this probe also hybridized with bands of similar size in poly ( a ) + rna from mouse and rabbit brain and human fibroblasts . poly ( a ) + rna from imr - 32 cells , however , hybridized very weakly while rna from undifferentiated hl - 60 cells did not hybridize detectably . however , all samples of poly ( a ) + rna hybridized essentially equally well with a human arf 1 coding region cdna ( fig3 ). to assess the ability of ard 1 to enhance cholera toxin adp - ribosyltransferase , recombinant gst - ard 1 fusion proteins were prepared . three ard 1 fusion proteins with glutathione s - transferase ( gst ) were synthesized employing a ligation - independent cloning method ( haun et al . gene 112 : 39 - 43 ( 1992 )), using clone # 7 - 3 and oligonucleotide primers as indicated in table ii . for gst - p8 ( containing the entire sequence from met 1 to ala 574 ), oligonucleotides jk8ex and jkexr ( table ii ) were used . for gst - p3 ( the arf domain from met 403 to ala 574 ), oligonucleotides jk3ex and jkexr ( table ii ) were used . for gst - p5 ( the non - arf sequence from met 1 to lys 402 ) oligonucleotides jk8ex and jk5exr ( table ii ) were used . the fusion proteins were purified with glutathione - agarose by well known methods as described in smith et al . ( gene 67 : 31 - 40 ( 1988 )). to test the ability of each fusion protien to bind gtp we performed the following experiments . fragment p3 ( 2μg ), p8 ( 4 μg ), and sarf ii ( 0 . 2 μg ) were subjected to electrophoresis in 4 - 20 % polyacrylamide gels with sds and transferred to nitrocellulose . the membrane was incubated in 50 mm tris - hcl , ph 7 . 5 , 150 mm nac1 , 2 mm dithiothreitol , 2 . 5 mm edta , soybean trypsin inhibitor , 10 μg / ml , 0 . 5 mm pmsf , 0 . 3 % bovine serum albumin , 0 .#% tween 20 ( binding buffer ) at room temperature for 2 h , transferred to fresh binding buffer containing 8 mm mgcl 2 and [ α - 32 p ] gtp ( 800 ci / mmol ), 1 μci / ml , for 2 h , washed three times with binding buffer for 5 min , briefly dried , and exposed to kodak xar film at - 80 ° c . overnight with intensifying screen . the affinity of gst - p3 for gtp was apparently lower than that of gst - p8 , p8 or sarf ii . gtp concentrations required for half - maximal activation were less than 10 μm with gst - p8 , p8 , and sarf ii and ˜ 50 μm with gst - p3 . through the use of specific primers , as discussed above , gst - p8 contained the entire ard 1 protein , gst - p3 contained the carboxy - terminal arf domain , and gst - p5 contained the non - arf domain . the recombinant arf domain of ard 1 bound gtp after sds - page and transfer to nitrocellulose membrane , whereas p8 , which contained the entire sequence of ard 1 , exhibited no detectable binding ( fig4 ). it is possible that the longer p8 protein was unable to bind gtp due to a conformational change when attached to the nitrocellulose membrane . the shorter gst - p3 protein , however , was able to bind gtp even after attachment to the nitrocellulose membrane . as shown in fig5 ard 1 fusion proteins did not stimulate adp - ribosylation by cholera toxin in the presence of sds , dmpc / cholate , or cardiolipin , which to differing degrees enhanced the activity of sarf ii . in the presence of 0 . 3 % tween 20 , however , recombinant ard 1 , p8 , and gst - p8 increased the toxin adp - ribosyltransferase in a dose - dependent manner ( fig6 ). stimulation of cholera toxin - catalyzed adp - ribosylation of agmatine was assayed to evaluate arf activity of the recombinant proteins . reaction mixtures contained 50 mm potassium phosphate ( ph 7 . 5 ), 4 mm mgcl 2 , 30 mm dithiothreitol , ovalbumin ( 0 . 3 mg / ml ), 0 . 2 mm [ adenine - 14 c ] nad ( 0 . 05 μci ), 20 mm agmatine , 0 . 3 % tween 20 , cholera toxin ( 0 . 5 μg ), 1 mm gtp or 0 . 1 mm gdpβs , and the indicated amount of sarf ii or recombinant protein ( total volume 200 μl ). after incubation at 30 ° c . for 1 hour , duplicate samples ( 80 μl ) were transferred to columns of ag1 - x2 , equilibrated with water and eluted five times with five 1 ml washes of water . the eluate , containing [ 14 c ] adp - ribosylagmatine , was collected for radioassay . in the presence of 0 . 3 % tween 20 , recombinant ard 1 , p8 , and gst - p8 , increased the toxin adp - ribosyltransferase in a dose - dependent manner ( fig6 ). the activity of gst - p3 was clearly less , whereas p3 had little if any activity . maximal activation seemed to be similar ; half - maximal activation was achieved with 0 . 5 μm p8 , 0 . 75 μm gst - p8 and 2 μm gst - 3 ( fig6 ). sarf ii also stimulated the toxin transferase activity in tween 20 ( fig7 ), although to a lesser extent than it did in the presence of sds , dmpc / cholate , or cardiolipin ( fig5 ). gst - p5 , p5 , or gst did not enhance cholera toxin activity ( data not shown ). activity of the recombinant ard 1 proteins was dependent on gtp ( fig7 ), as is the case with the arfs . monoclonal antibodies against ard 1 could be useful for the reasons cited above and can be produced by the following method . monoclonal antibodies to ard 1 are generated using conventional techniques , such as those disclosed in basic methods in molecular biology 351 ( davis , et al ., 1986 ). briefly , ten mice are each innoculated intraperitoneally with 500 μg of human ard 1 antigen in a 1 : 1 emulsion with complete freund &# 39 ; s adjuvant . thereafter , the mice are boosted with three additional injections at 15 day intervals of the same amount of antigen in a 1 : 1 emulsion with incomplete freund &# 39 ; s adjuvant . three days following the third booster injection , the mice are sacrificed and the spleens are harvested . the spleen cells are separated and fused with myeloma cells according to the method of kohler and milstein by combining the spleen cells with mouse myeloma cells in a ratio of 6 : 1 , centrifuging at 4000 × g for 10 minutes , loosening the pellet with 1 ml 50 % peg , adding 9 ml dmem , centrifuging again at 600 × g for 10 minutes , and growing the cells in hat in a 96 well tissue culture plate . positive clones are expanded and the supernatant is screened against ard 1 . once antibodies against ard 1 have been produced they can be used in assays such as an elisa , as discussed below . a sample from either an organism or a hybridoma is screened for the presence of ard 1 using a conventional elisa . briefly , 200 μl of purified ard 1 is added to a well of a microtiter plate and is permitted to bind to the plastic plate for 48 hours at 4 ° c . the well is washed with 0 . 15m nacl containing 0 . 05 % tween 20 . sample is mixed with pbs containing 0 . 05 % tween 20 and bsa at 0 . 1mg / ml , and aliquots are added to the treated plastic well . plates are incubated for 1 hr at room temperature , washed , and 200μl of 1 : 400 goat - antimouse igg conjugated to alkaline phosphatase is added . after a 1 hour incubation , the well is again washed , after which 200 μl of p - nitrophenyl phosphate is added . color development takes about one hour ; development of color indicates a positive assay . from the above data it is tempting to speculate that ard 1 is related to a new family of larger arf proteins and representing larger gtp - binding proteins that contain a domain with arf structure and function as well as another domain whose function is at present unknown . it can be appreciated that the previous experiments are only illustrative of specific embodiements of the present invention . this invention should not be limited to those embodiments disclosed by the aforementioned experiments , but only by the following claims . __________________________________________________________________________sequence listing ( 1 ) general information :( iii ) number of sequences : 34 ( 2 ) information for seq id no : 1 :( i ) sequence characteristics :( a ) length : 3312 base pairs ( b ) type : nucleic acid ( c ) strandedness : single ( d ) topology : linear ( ii ) molecule type : cdna ( iii ) hypothetical : no ( iv ) anti - sense : no ( ix ) feature :( a ) name / key : cds ( b ) location : 1 .. 1725 ( xi ) sequence description : seq id no : 1 : 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