Patent Application: US-66076596-A

Abstract:
the ability to improve the conversion of ε - rhodomycinone to daunorubicin can be conferred on a bacterial host transformed with a recombinant vector comprising a dna coding for an appropriate protein useful for that conversion . furthermore , the bacterial host may have a mutation that blocks the function of a gene of daunorubicin metabolism .

Description:
the present invention provides an isolated dna molecule encoding an ε - rhodomycinone conversion protein . the dna molecule typically consists essentially of the sequence of seq id no : 1 , which sequence will be referred to as the &# 34 ; dnrt &# 34 ; sequence . the deduced amino acid sequence of the ε - rhodomycinone conversion protein encoded by seq id no : 1 is shown in seq id no : 2 . the dna molecule of the invention may comprise all or part of the 2 . 97 kb saci - bsaai fragment of fig1 . when the dna molecule of the invention comprises only part of the 2 . 97 kb saci - bsaai fragment , the part must function as an ε - rhodomycinone conversion protein . the part is typically at least 1 . 52 kb in length . the invention includes a dna molecule which encodes an ε - rhodomycinone conversion protein having a sequence at least 75 % identical to the sequence of seq id no : 2 . the sequence may be at least 80 %, at least 90 %, at least 95 %, at least 98 % or at least 99 % identical to the sequence of seq id no : 2 . the sequence of seq id no : 2 may be modified by substitution , deletion , insertion , extension , functionalisation or chemical modification . a substitution , deletion , insertion or extension may involve one or more amino acids , for example one , two , three , four , five , eight , fifteen or twenty amino acids . in general , the physicochemical nature of seq id no : 2 should be preserved in a modified sequence . the modified sequence should generally be similar in charge , hydrophobicity / hydrophilicity and size . candidate substitutions are those which lead to an amino acid from one of the following groups being substituted by a different amino acid from the same group : dna molecules encoding the modified sequences may be made using conventional techniques . for example , they may be made using conventional dna synthesis , site - directed mutagenesis and recombinant dna techniques . suitable techniques are described in sambrook et al ( 1989 ) molecular cloning : a laboratory manual , 2nd ed ., cold spring harbor laboratory , cold spring harbor , n . y . for dnrt to be expressed , the dna may carry its own transcriptional control sequence and , in particular , its own promoter which is operably connected to the gene and which is recognised by a host cell rna polymerase . alternatively , the insert dna or restriction fragment may be ligated to another transcriptional control sequence in the correct fashion or cloned into a vector at a restriction site appropriately located neighboring a transcriptional control sequence in the vector . an insert dna or restriction fragment carrying a dnrt gene may be cloned into a recombinant dna cloning vector . any autonomously replicating and / or integrating agent comprising a dna molecule to which one or more additional dna segments can be added may be used . typically , however , the vector is a plasmid . a preferred plasmid is the high copy number plasmid pwhm3 or pij702 [ katz et al ., j . gen . microbiol . 129 : 2703 ( 1983 )]. other suitable plasmids are pij385 [ mayeri et al ., j . bacteriol . 172 : 6061 ( 1990 )], pij680 ( hopwood et al ., genetic manipulation of streptomyces . a laboratory manual , john innes foundation , norwich , uk , 1985 ), pwhm601 [ guilfoile and hutchinson , proc . natl . acad . sci . usa 88 : 8553 ( 991 )] or pset152 [ bierman et al ., gene 116 : 43 - 49 ( 1992 )]. any suitable technique may be used to insert the insert dna or restriction fragment thereof into the vector . insertion can be achieved by ligating the dna into a linearized vector at an appropriate restriction site . for this , direct combination of sticky or blunt ends , homopolymer tailing , or the use of a linker or adapter molecule may be employed . the recombinant vector is used to transform a suitable host cell . the host cells may be ones that are daunorubicin - or doxorubicin - sensitive , i . e ., cannot grow in the presence of a certain amount of daunorubicin or doxorubicin , or that are daunorubicin - or doxorubicin - resistant . the host may be a microorganism . strains of s . peucetius that do not or do produce anthracyclines , respectively , may therefore be transformed . the s . peucetius dnr - orf6 mutant strain ( atcc 55761 , date of deposit apr . 16 , 1996 ) represents a particularly suitable host . it was obtained by introduction of the internal 0 . 411 - kb bsaa1 segment of the dnr - orf6 gene , cloned on a temperature - sensitive plasmid such as pkc1139 ( m . bierman et al ., gene 116 : 43 - 49 ), into the 29050 strain and subsequent isolation of apramycin resistant transformants in which the recombinant plasmid has recombined with the dnr - orf6 gene and inactivated it ( see also example 1 ). transformants of streptomyces strains are typically obtained by protoplast transformation . the conversion process can be carried out either by using directly the free or immobilized transformed cells . the recombinant vectors of the present invention may also be used to transform a suitable host cell , which produces daunorubicin , in order to enhance the bioconversion of ε - rhodomycinone to daunorubicin . the host cells may be ones that are daunorubicin - or doxorubicin - resistant , i . e ., can grow in the presence of any amount of daunorubicin or doxorubicin . strains of s . peucetius , in particular s . peucetius 29050 and other strains of streptomyces spp that produce anthracyclines may therefore be transformed . transformants of streptomyces strains are typically obtained by protoplast transformation . ( ii ) transforming the said host with a vector of the invention , and in this process the host cell may be cultured at from 20 ° to 40 ° c ., for example from 30 ° to 37 ° c . the insert dnas are obtained from the genomic dna of s . peucetius 29050 . this strain has been deposited at the american type culture collection , rockville , md ., usa under the accession number atcc 29050 . a strain derived from s . peucetius 29050 , like s . peucetius 27952 , may also be used , which typically is also able to convert ε - rhodomycinone to daunorubicin . insert dnas may therefore be obtained by : ( a ) preparing a library of the genomic dna of s . peucetius 29050 or a strain derived therefrom ; ( b ) screening the library for clones with the ability to convert ε - rhodomycinone to daunorubicin in the s . peucetius dnrt mutant ; and ( c ) obtaining an insert dna from a recombinant vector that forms part of the library and that has been screened as positive for the ability to convert ε - rhodomycinone to daunorubicin in the s . peucetius dnrt mutant . the dnrt mutant strain ( atcc 55762 , date of deposit apr . 16 , 1996 ) is obtained by insertional inactivation of the dnrt gene present in s . peucetius 29050 in a way analogous to that described above for the inactivation of the dnr - orf6 gene , as explained in example 2 . to obtain the dnrt gene , the library may be prepared in step ( a ) by partially digesting the genomic dna of s . peucetius 29050 or a strain derived therefrom ; or by screening a library of s . peucetius genomic dna that has been enriched for , or specifically contains , the cluster of daunorubicin biosynthesis genes . the restriction enzyme mboi is preferably used for genomic dna , but for the library containing the cluster of daunorubicin biosynthesis genes , the restriction enzymes saci or bsaai are preferred . the dna fragments thus obtained can be size fractionated ; fragments from 3 to 5 kb in size are preferred for genomic dna and 2 . 1 kb saci or 1 . 3 to 3 . 3 kb bsaai for dna fragments from the library containing the cluster of daunorubicin biosynthesis genes . these fragments are ligated into a linearized vector such as pwhm3 , pij702 or pkc505 [ m . a . richardson et al ., gene 61 : 231 ( 1987 )]. host cells are transformed with the ligation mixture . typically , the host cells cannot produce daunorubicin and can be daunorubicin - and doxorubicin - sensitive ; for example , sensitive to 10 microgram or less of daunorubicin or doxorubicin per ml . for example , s . peucetius dnrt mutant protoplasts [ stutzman - engwall and hutchinson , proc . natl . acad . sci . usa 86 : 3135 ( 1988 ) and otten et al ., j . bacteriol . 172 : 3427 ( 1990 )] may be transformed . in step ( b ), the transformants thus obtained are screened for the ability to convert the accumulated ε - rhodomycinone to daunorubicin and excrete daunorubicin . clones able to convert ε - rhodomycinone to daunorubicin are identified by chromatographic analysis of extracts of a culture medium containing ε - rhodomycinone for the presence of daunorubicin . such clones are isolated and recombinant vectors contained therein are extracted . on digestion of the recombinant vectors with suitable restriction enzymes in step ( c ), the s . peucetius 29050 dna inserted into each vector may be identified , sized and mapped . in this way , it may be checked that the vector contains an insert dna of the invention . further , two or more overlapping inserts may be isolated that are wholly or partly embraced within the dna of the invention . these may be fused together by cleavage at a common restriction site and subsequent ligation to obtain a dna of the invention , and pared in length using appropriate restriction enzymes if necessary . restriction fragments of an insert dna that contains the dnrt gene may be obtained in step ( c ) also by cleaving an insert dna with an appropriate restriction enzyme . the following examples illustrate the invention . e . coli strains dh5α or jm109 , which are sensitive to ampicillin and apramycin , are used for subcloning dna fragments . s . peucetius dnr - orf6 mutant that does not produce daunorubicin glycosides is used for expression of the dnr - orf6 or dnrt genes . the plasmid cloning vectors are puc18 / 19 [( yanisch - perron et al ., gene 33 : 103 ( 1985 )] and pwhm3 [ vara et al ., j . bacteriol . 171 : 5872 ( 1989 )]. e . coli dh5a and jm109 are maintained on lb agar ( sambrook et al ., molecular cloning . a laboratory manual , 2nd ed . cold spring harbor press , cold spring harbor , n . y ., 1989 ). when selecting for transformants , ampicillin or apramycin are added at concentrations of 100 microgram / ml and 50 microgram / ml , respectively . s . peucetius dnr - orf6 is maintained on isp4 agar ( difco laboratories , detroit , mich .) for the preparation of spores and on r2ye agar ( hopwood et al ., genetic manipulation of streptomyces . a laboratory manual , john innes foundation , norwich , uk , 1985 ) for the regeneration of protoplasts . dna samples are digested with appropriate restriction enzymes and separated on agarose gels by standard methods ( sambrook et al ., molecular cloning . a laboratory manual , 2nd ed . cold spring harbor press , cold spring harbor , n . y ., 1989 ). agarose slices containing dna fragments of interest are excised from a gel and the dna is isolated from these slices using the geneclean device ( bio101 , la jolla , calif .) or an equivalent . the isolated dna fragments are subcloned using standard techniques ( sambrook et al ., molecular cloning . a laboratory manual , 2nd ed . cold spring harbor press , cold spring harbor , n . y ., 1989 ) into e . coli for routine manipulations , including dna sequencing , and e . coli / streptomyces shuttle vectors or streptomyces vectors for expression and biotransformation experiments . competent cells of e . coli are prepared by the calcium chloride method ( sambrook et al ., molecular cloning . a laboratory manual , 2nd ed . cold spring harbor press , cold spring harbor , n . y ., 1989 ) and transformed by standard techniques ( sambrook et al ., molecular cloning . a laboratory manual , 2nd ed . cold spring harbor press , cold spring harbor , n . y ., 1989 ). s . peucetius dnr - orf6 mycelium is grown in r2ye medium ( hopwood et al ., genetic manipulation of streptomyces . a laboratory manual , john innes foundation , norwich , uk , 1985 ) and harvested after 48 hr . the mycelial pellet is washed twice with 10 . 3 % ( wgt / vol ) sucrose solution and used to prepare protoplasts according to the method outlined in the hopwood manual ( hopwood et al ., genetic manipulation of streptomyces . a laboratory manual , john innes foundation , norwich , uk , 1985 ). the protoplast pellet is suspended in about 300 microlitres of p buffer ( hopwood et al ., genetic manipulation of streptomyces . a laboratory manual , john innes foundation , norwich , uk , 1985 ) and a 50 microlitre aliquot of this suspension is used for each transformation . protoplasts are transformed with plasmid dna according to the small - scale transformation method of hopwood et al . ( hopwood et al ., genetic manipulation of streptomyces . a laboratory manual , john innes foundation , norwich , uk , 1985 ), stutzman - engwall and hutchinson [ proc . natl . acad . sci . usa 86 : 3135 ( 1988 )] or otten et al . [ j . bacteriol . 172 : 3427 ( 1990 )]. after 17 hr of regeneration on r2ye medium at 30 ° c ., the plates are overlayed with 25 to 50 microgram / ml of thiostrepton and allowed to grow at 30 ° c . until sporulated . s . peucetius dnr - orf6 transformants harboring a plasmid of the invention ( pwhm954 ) are inoculated into liquid r2ye medium containing 10 microgram / ml of thiostrepton . after 2 days of growth at 27 °- 30 ° c ., 2 . 5 - 3 . 5 ml of this culture is transferred to 25 - 35 ml of the gps production medium [ m . l . dekleva , j . a . titus , and w . r . strohl . can . j . microbiol . 31 : 287 ( 1985 )] containing 10 μg / ml of thiostrepton and incubated at 27 °- 30 ° c . for 3 - 5 days on a rotary shaker at 250 - 280 rpm . the cultures are incubated in a water bath at 55 ° c . for 60 min after the addition of 25 milligram / ml of oxalic acid to hydrolyze the glycosidic forms of the anthracycline metabolites . the metabolites are extracted from the cultures with the same volume of acetonitrile : methanol ( 1 : 1 , vol : vol ) at 30 ° c . for 30 - 50 min on a rotary shaker at 280 rpm . the extract is filtered and the filtrate is analyzed by reversed - phase high pressure liquid chromatography ( rp - hplc ). rp - hplc is performed by using a vydac c 18 column ( 4 . 6 × 250 mm ; 5 micrometers particle size ) at a flow rate of 0 . 385 ml / min . mobile phase a is 0 . 1 % trifluoroacetic acid ( tfa , from pierce chemical co .) in h 2 o and mobile phase b is 0 . 078 % tfa in acetonitrile ( from j . t . baker chemical co .). elution is performed with a linear gradient from 20 to 60 % phase b in phase a in 33 minutes and monitored with a diode array detector set at 488 nm ( bandwidth 12 micrometers ). daunorubicin and doxorubicin ( 10 microgram / ml in methanol ) are used as external standards to quantitate the amount of these metabolites isolated from the cultures . pwhm959 ( fig3 ) was constructed by subcloning a 411 bp bsaai internal fragment ( 693 bp downstream of the hypothetical translational start site of dnr - orf6 ) into a unique hincii site of puc19 , and transferring this construction as an ecori - hindiii fragment into plasmid pkc1139 ( m . bierman et al ., gene 116 : 43 - 49 ). the vector pkc139 contains a temperature - sensitive replicon that functions well at temperatures below 34 ° c . the 29050 strain was transformed with pwhm959 , and transformants were selected with apramycin ( 25 μg / ml ) at 30 ° c . colonies from this transformation were grown in 5 ml liquid r2ye containing apramycin ( 10 μg / ml ) at 30 ° c . for two days , then transferred to 39 ° c . for 5 - 7 days , to eliminate the autonomous vector and to select transformants in which homologous recombination between the cloned dna and the chromosome had occured . a 0 . 5 ml portion of these cultures was plated on isp4 plates containing apramycin ( 25 μg / ml ) to verify integration of the plasmid . one of the resulting colonies , with the apramycin - resistant phenotype was examined by southern analysis to verify the disruption of the dnr - orf6 gene . the chromosomal dna was digested with bamhi and probed with the pwhm959 dna . the probe hybridized to 7 . 2 kb and 1 . 7 kb fragments for the dnr - orf6 mutant strain , which is consistent with the insertion of the plasmid pkc1139 into the dnr - orf6 gene . the wild - type strain showed the expected 2 . 0 kb bamhi dnr - orf6 fragment . pwhm962 ( fig3 ) was constructed by subcloning a 555 bp acci - nari internal fragment ( 227 bp downstream of the hypothetical translational start site of dnrt ) into a unique acci site of puc19 , and transferring this construction as an ecori - hindiii fragment into pkc1139 . the 29050 strain was transformed with pwhm962 , and after selecting for apramycin resistance , the transformants were grown under apramycin selection at 39 ° c . to cause loss of the non - integrated plasmid . dna from one of the resulting apramycin resistant colonies was analyzed by southern blot - hybridization to affirm disruption of the dart gene . bamhi digested chromosomal dna was probed with the 555 bp acci - nari fragment used for the inactivation and found to hybridize to 8 . 2 kb and 4 . 9 kb fragments for the dart mutant strain . this is consistent with the insertion of the plasmid pkc1139 into the dnrt gene since the wild - type strain showed the expected 6 . 0 kb bamhi dart fragment . cloning of the dnrt gene encoding an enzyme required for the conversion of e - rhodomycinone to daunorubicin several of the cosmid clones described by stutzman - engwall and hutchinson [ proc . natl . acad . sci . usa 86 : 3135 ( 1988 )] and otten et al . [ j . bacteriol . 172 : 3427 ( 1990 )], such as pwhm335 or pwhm337 , or similar clones obtained from equivalent strains , representing from approximately 20 up to 90 kb of s . peucetius 29050 genomic dna , are digested with bamhi + sphi , the dnas were combined with the pwhm3 vector or an equivalent vector that is capable of replication in both e . coli and streptomyces spp . that has been digested with bamhi + sphi and religated , and the resulting mixture of plasmids is used to transform e . coli dh5α to ampicillin resistance ( or to the resistance appropriate for selection of the vector used ). the plasmid dnas from several ampicillin resistance e . coli clones were introduced into the s . peucetius dnrt mutant , and the transformants were analysed for the bioconversion of ε - rhodomycinone to daunorubicin according to the method described in the materials and methods section . plasmids with inserts encompassing the region of the restriction map shown in fig1 were isolated and the desired insert subcloned as a 2 . 97 kb saci - bsaai dna fragment into the saci and hincii sites of the polylinker region of puc19 , then moving the gene as an ecori - hindiii segment into the polylinker region of pwhm3 to obtain pwhm954 . s . peucetius dnrt ( pwhm954 ) transformants were prepared as described in the materials and methods section and these were tested for the ability to bioconvert ε - rhodomycinone to daunorubicin . pwhm954 dna was introduced in the s . peucetius dnr - orf6 mutant by the protoplast - mediated transformation method described above , using thiostrepton ( 10 μg / ml ) for selection of the recombinant strain . s . peucetius dnr - orf6 ( pwhm954 ) transformants were verified by re - isolation of pwhm954 according to the plasmid isolation protocol described in hopwood et al . ( genetic manipulation of streptomyces . a laboratory manual , john innes foundation , norwich , uk , 1985 ) and the pwhm954 dna analyzed by restriction enzyme digestion according to the standard methods described by sambrook et al . ( molecular cloning . a laboratory manual , 2nd ed ., cold spring harbor , n . y ., 1989 ). enhanced conversion of ε - rhodomycinone ( rho ) to daunorubicin by s . peucetius dnr - orf6 transformants harboring the pwhm954 plasmid carrying the dnrt gene the s . peucetius dnr - orf6 mutant carrying pwhm954 was grown for 12 days at 28 ° c . on slants of r2ye agar medium containing 50 μg / ml of thiostrepton . the spores of this culture are collected and suspended in 300 ml erlenmeyer flasks containing 30 ml of r2ye liquid medium containing 10 μg / ml of thiostrepton and the flasks were shaken for 2 days at 30 ° c . on a rotary shaker running at 280 rpm in a 5 cm diameter cicle . three ml of this culture were used to inoculate 30 ml of the gps medium containing 10 μg / ml of thiostepton in 300 ml erlenmeyer flasks . the flasks were incubated at 30 ° c . for 5 days under the same conditions described for the seed cultures , then placed in a water bath at 55 ° c . for 60 min after the addition of 25 mg / ml of solid oxalic acid to hydrolyze the glycosidic forms of the anthracycline metabolites . the metabolites were extracted from the cultures with 30 ml of acetonitrile : methanol ( 1 : 1 vol / vol ) at 30 ° c . for 30 minutes on a rotary shaker at 280 rpm . the extract was filtered and the filtrate analyzed by reverse - phase high pressure liquid chromatography ( rp - hplc ). rp - hplc was performed by using vydac c 18 column . ( 4 . 6 + 250 mm ; 5 μm particle size ) at a flow rate of 0 . 385 ml / min . mobile phase a is 0 . 1 % trifluoroacetic acid ( tfa from pierce chemical co .) in h 2 o and mobile phase b is 0 . 078 % tfa a acetonitrile ( from j . t . baker chemical co .) elution was performed with a linear gradient from 20 to 60 % phase b in phase a in 33 minutes and monitored with a diode array detector set 488 nm ( bandwidth 12 μm ). daunorubicin ( dnr ) and doxorubicin ( dxr ) ( 10 μg / ml in methanol ) were used as external standards to quantitate the amount of these methabolites isolated from the culture ( table 1 ). table 1______________________________________rho , dnr concentration ratio in extracts of cultures ofs . peucetius dnr - orf6 mutant transformed with pwhm954containing the dnrt genestrain rho dnr dxr rho / dnr ratio______________________________________atcc 29050 77 1 nd . sup . b 77dnr - orf6 14 . 5 3 . 6 0 . 7 4dnr - orf6 / pwhm954 0 . 4 9 . 4 0 . 5 0 . 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( 2 ) information for seq id no : 4 :( i ) sequence characteristics :( a ) length : 443 amino acids ( b ) type : amino acid ( c ) strandedness :( d ) topology : linear ( ii ) molecule type : protein ( xi ) sequence description : seq id no : 4 : 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