Patent Application: US-86030097-A

Abstract:
a peptide having the structure of the p277 sequence of hsp60 in which one or both cysteine residues are replaced by valine residues and / or in which the thr 19 residue is replaced by lys , has substantially the same biological activity as p277 but with substantially improved stability . the novel p277 analogues may be used for every purpose that p277 can be used .

Description:
whenever a “ peptide of sequence i ” is mentioned in the invention , also salts and functional derivatives thereof are contemplated , as long as the biological activity of the peptide with respect to diabetes is maintained . “ salts ” of the peptide i contemplated by the invention are physiologically acceptable organic and inorganic salts . “ functional derivatives ” of the peptide i as used herein covers derivatives which may be prepared from the functional groups which occur as side chains on the residues or the n - or c - terminal groups , by means known in the art , and are included in the invention as long as they remain pharmaceutically acceptable , i . e ., they do not destroy the activity of the peptide insofar as its similarity to the known activity of p277 is concerned , do not confer toxic properties on compositions containing it and do not adversely affect the antigenic properties thereof . such “ functional derivatives ” are not intended to comprehend such changes which effectively convert one amino acid to another . subject to the above qualifications , these derivatives may , for example , include aliphatic esters of the carboxyl groups , amides of the carboxyl groups produced by reaction with ammonia or with primary or secondary amines , n - acyl derivatives of free amino groups of the amino acid residues formed by reaction with acyl moieties ( e . g ., alkanoyl or carbocyclic aroyl groups ) or o - acyl derivatives of free hydroxyl group ( for example that of seryl or threonyl residues ) formed by reaction with acyl moieties . the peptide of sequence i of the invention can be used as immunogen in pharmaceutical compositions , particularly vaccines for the alleviation and treatment of iddm , as well as an antigen in diagnostic compositions for the diagnosis of iddm . these pharmaceutical and diagnostic compositions , which may be prepared in a manner known in the art , also form part of the present invention . when used for therapeutic treatment or as a prophylactic vaccine , the peptide of the present invention is preferably administered with a biologically active carrier which promotes the th1 → th2 shift of the autoimmune t cells . t cells of the cd4 helper type are classified in two groups according to the cytokines they secrete when activated ( mosmann and coffman , 1989 ): th1 cells secrete il - 2 and ifn - γ , while th2 cells secrete il - 4 and il - 10 . such a vehicle is preferably a fat emulsion comprising 10 - 20 % triglycerides of plant and / or animal origin , 1 . 2 - 2 . 4 % phospholipids of plant and / or animal origin , 2 . 25 - 4 . 5 % osmo - regulator , 0 - 0 . 5 % anti - oxidant , and sterile water to 100 %. such vehicle is most preferably intralipid or lipofundin . use of such vehicles is described in an israeli patent application ( identified by applicant &# 39 ; s reference 9523 ) filed on even date with the date of filing of the israeli application on the present invention ( identified by applicant &# 39 ; s reference 9451a ), with the same applicant as the present application , the entire contents of which are hereby incorporated herein by reference . the therapeutic composition in accordance with the present invention may be administered orally or parenterally , such as subcutaneously , intramuscularly , intravenously , intranasally or intrarectally . the examples herein establish the effectiveness of therapeutic treatment with the compounds and compositions of the present invention in scientifically accepted animal models of human iddm . ( i ) mice . inbred female mice of the nod / lt strain were supplied by the animal breeding center of the weizmann institute of science , rehovot , israel . these micef spontaneously develop autoimmune diabetes at 14 to 17 weeks of age that mimics iddm in humans . ( ii ) peptides . peptides were synthesized by standard fmoc chemistry using an abimed synthesizer ( frg ) and purified on hplc by reverse phase chromatography . sequences were confirmed by amino acid analysis . the following peptides were synthesized : the p277 peptide ; the control peptide p278 of the sequence : asn - glu - asp - gln - lys - ile - gly - ile - glu - ile - ile - lys - arg - thr - leu - lys - ile ( seq id no : 10 ), corresponding to positions 458 - 474 of the human hsp60 molecule ; fragments of p277 : the amino half of p277 ( p277 . n ), the carboxy half of p277 ( p277 . c ), and p277c combined with p278 ( p277 . c - p278 ); the peptide p277 ( lys 19 ); and peptide p277 with various amino acid substitutions for the two cysteine residues in the sequence as follows : p277 with bridged — sh groups ( p277 ( bridged cys — cys )); p277 with both cysteine residues replaced by valine ( p277 ( val 6 - val 11 )) or by serine ( p277 ( ser 6 - ser 11 )). ( iii ) treatment and follow - us . mice were treated with emulsions of p277 , of the other peptides , or of bovine serum albumin ( bsa , purchased from sigma , st . louis , mo ., usa ) in volumes of 0 . 1 ml injected subcutaneously into the back . the antigens were diluted in pbs and emulsified in an equal volume of mineral oil ( incomplete freund &# 39 ; s adjuvant ( ifa ); sigma ) or 10 % intralipid . the mice were tested for blood glucose levels at 10 a . m . in a non - fasting state as described ( elias et al ., 1991 ) at the time of treatment ( 7 , 12 , 15 , or 17 weeks of age ) and , in those mice that survived , at the age of 40 weeks . significant hyperglycemia was considered to be a glucose concentration of 11 . 1 mm / l or greater because this concentration of blood glucose was 3 standard deviations higher than the mean blood glucose concentration measured in 100 healthy mice ( not shown ). histological examination of the islets of the pancreas was done on sections stained with hematoxylin and eosin . the sections were scored independently by two observers who both were unaware of the identity of the groups . the chi square test was used to ascertain the statistical differences between the various treatments . ( iv ) t - cell proliferation assay . cells of clone c9 and spleen - cell suspensions obtained from female nod mice were assayed for t - cell proliferation as described previously ( elias et al ., 1991 ). briefly , 1 × 10 5 clone cells / ml or 1 × 10 6 splenocytes / ml were incubated in quadruplicate for 72 hr in 0 . 2 ml of culture medium in microtiter wells in the presence or absence of various antigens at 5 μg / ml . proliferation was measured by the incorporation of [ 3 h ]- thymidine into dna during the final 12 hr of incubation . the results were computed as the stimulation index : the ratio of the mean test cpm in the presence of antigen to the mean background cpm in the absence of antigen . standard deviations between quadruplicates were always & lt ; 10 % of the mean cpm . the background was & lt ; 1000 cpm in splenocyte experiments and & lt ; 200 cpm with c9 cells . the spleen of each mouse was tested separately . results of each group of mice are shown as the mean ± sd . to test whether either of the two 12 - amino acid halves of the p277 peptide , alone or combined , are effective in nod mice as is p277 , female nod mice were treated at the age of 7 weeks by subcutaneous inoculation of 50 μg of various peptides in oil . the status of the mice by 40 weeks of age was determined . the results are shown in table 1 . it can be seen that the control hsp60 peptide p278 had no effect on development of disease : of the 40 mice treated , all were diabetic and 90 % were dead by 40 weeks of age . in contrast , the p277 peptide completely prevented death and cured 60 ! of the 20 treated mice . the fragments of p277 were less effective : the amino half of p277 ( p277 . n ), the carboxy half of p277 ( p277 . c ) and a mixture of both ( p277 . n , p277 . c ) worked about half as well as did the intact p277 . peptide p277 . c was synthesized attached to peptide p278 to produce a longer peptide ; however , p277 . c - p278 was not any better than p277 . c . alone . therefore , it can be concluded that the full therapeutic effect requires the intact p277 peptide . nod females were treated with 100 μg of peptide in a - 0 . 2 cc emulsion of mineral oil ( ifa ) administered subcutaneously . mice were treated at 12 weeks of age and the incidence of diabetes was performed at 30 weeks . as shown in table 2 , p277 ( val 6 - val 11 ) was as effective as p277 in treatment of diabetes , the incidence of diabetes in untreated mice being 80 %, while p277 and p277 ( val 6 - val 11 ) treated mice show an incidence of 22 % and 23 %, respectively . on the other hand , neither p277 ( bridged cys — cys ) nor p277 ( ser 6 - ser 11 ) had any therapeutic effect . two additional variants of p277 , in which the cysteine residues at position 6 and 11 were replaced by alanine or 7 - aminobutyric acid residues , were also not effective when tested in vitro both on the clone c9 cells and on nod splenic t - cells . as these two peptides were not recognized by anti - p277 specific t cells ( not shown ), they were not further tested in vivo for therapeutic effect . since the reason for replacing the cysteines was the problematic stability of the p277 peptide , the stability of the p277 ( val 6 - val 11 ) was tested at several time points after its synthesis . the p277 peptide is unstable and deteriorates even under strict conditions ( lyophilized powder in vacuum , − 20 ° c .). in order to compare the stability of p277 with its p277 ( val 6 - val 11 ) analog , both peptides were synthesized at the same time and stored as dry powder at − 20 ° c . at 1 , 9 and 20 weeks after the date of synthesis , an aliquot was weighed , dissolved and tested . the readout for the stability of the peptide was its ability to stimulate the t cell clone c9 . fig1 demonstrates the results of the experiment . it can be seen that , while the native p277 lost most of its effect within 9 weeks and all of it by 20 weeks after synthesis , p277 ( val 6 - val 11 ) was unchanged after 20 weeks of storage . as it is believed that the instability of p277 is caused by the cysteine residues , it is expected that any of the analogs of the present invention which retain the biological activity of p277 will have an improved stability over p277 in a manner similar to that demonstrated in this example for p277 ( val 6 - val 11 ). treatment of nod female mice with p277 or p277 ( val 6 - val 11 ) reverses insulitis nod female mice were treated at 12 weeks of age with 100 μg / mouse of unmodified p277 or p277 ( val 6 - val 11 ) in 0 . 1 cc emulsion of mineral oil ( incomplete freund &# 39 ; s adjuvant ), subcutaneously . control mice received an emulsion of pbs and mineral oil . at 6 months of age , 5 mice of each group were sacrificed , their pancreas removed and fixed in bouin and sections were stained by hematoxylin : eosin . the insulitis was scored in a blind fashion . since the control mice developed severe diabetes , they were sacrificed at 5 months of age . by then , the control mice blood glucose levels were in the range of 29 - 48 mmol / l . the results are shown in table 3 . at 12 weeks of age , the time of treatment , about 60 !% of the islets in the untreated mice showed intra - islet insulitis , about 20 % of the islets had peri - islet insulitis , and about 20 % of the islets showed no insulitis . intra - islet infiltration is considered to be a severe form of insulitis associated with lack of β - cell function . as shown in table 3 , a marked divergence in the appearance of the islets developed in the two treated groups compared to control mice treated with the oil alone . the mice treated with the oil ( control ) showed a progressive fall in the proportion of unaffected islets and only 10 % normal islets could be seen by 22 weeks of age , a time when all of the mice were overtly diabetic . about 67 % of the islets showed intra - islet insulitis at 22 weeks and the remaining 23 % of the islets showed peri - islet insulitis . in contrast , the mice treated with p277 or with p277 ( val 6 - val 11 ) showed a rise in the numbers of normal islets ( between 25 % and 52 %) and a fall in the number of islets with intra - islet insulitis ( between 6 % and 17 %). the islets with peri - islet insulitis rose to about . 31 %- 69 %. thus , p277 and p277 ( val 6 - val 11 ) treatments were associated with an improved histological picture consistent with reversal of the degree of insulitis persisting for over 3 months after treatment . fifteen additional experiments have been done in which groups of 10 nod female mice each were treated with p277 ( v ) in oil or with oil alone at the ages of 12 - 15 weeks . of the total of 150 mice treated with oil alone , 90 % developed diabetes and 85 % died by the age of 32 weeks . in contrast , the p277 ( v ) treated mice showed an incidence of diabetes of only 50 % ( p & lt ; 0 . 01 ) and only 20 % died of severe disease ( p & lt ; 0 . 01 ). therefore , late treatment with p277 ( v ) was effective in arresting the development of lethal diabetes . peptide therapy of type i diabetes using p277 ( val 6 - val 11 ) in lipid emulsions autoimmune destruction of the insulin - producing β - cells in the pancreas is mediated by t - lymphocytes . an inflammatory infiltrate develops around the pancreatic islets at 5 - 8 weeks of age and β - cell destruction leading to insulin deficiency and overt diabetes becomes manifested at : 14 - 20 weeks of age affecting almost 100 % of female nod mice by 35 - 40 weeks of age . nod female mice were treated with 100 μg of peptide p277 ( val 6 - val 11 ) per mouse subcutaneously in 0 . 1 ml of pbs or of a 10 % lipid emulsion composed of 10 % soybean oil , 1 . 2 % egg phospholipids and 2 . 25 % glycerol ( intralipid , kabi pharmacia ab , sweden ). the incidence of diabetes at 6 months of age and the production of anti - p277 ( val 6 - val 11 ) antibodies was followed . diabetes was diagnosed as persistent hyperglycemia , blood glucose levels over 11 . 1 mmol / l measured at least twice at weekly intervals with beckman glucose analyzer ii . successful peptide treatment was assayed by maintenance of a normal blood glucose concentration ( less than 11 . 1 mmol / l ), remission of the intra - islet inflammation of the pancreatic islets ( insulitis ) and induction of antibodies to the therapeutic peptide as an indicator of a th2 - type immune response . the results are shown in table 4 . as can be seen from table 4 , treatment with a peptide of the present invention administered in intralipid was effective in reducing the incidence of diabetes and death . peptides p277 and p277 ( val 6 - val 1 ) are immunologically cross - reactive cells of the t - cell clone c9 isolated from prediabetic nod mice were incubated with peptides p277 ( closed circles ), p277 ( val 6 - val 11 ) ( open circles ), p277 ( ser 6 - ser 11 ) ( closed squares ) and p277 ( bridged cys — cys ) ( open lozenges ). the results are shown in fig2 . the clone c9 was found to manifest a positive proliferation response only to peptides p277 and p277 ( val 6 - val 11 ). this proves that p277 and p277 ( val 6 - val 11 ) are cross - reactive and that the peptides p277 ( ser 6 - ser 11 ) and p277 ( bridged cys — cys ), which are not effective therapeutically , are not immunologically cross - reactive . newly diagnosed iddm patients show t - cell proliferative responses to both d277 and p277 ( val 6 - val 11 ) newly diagnosed ( 2 - 4 weeks ) iddm patients were tested in a proliferation assay . peripheral blood lymphocytes were isolated from whole heparinized blood on ficol - hypaque , and screened in vitro for proliferation , measured as 3 h - thymidine incorporation , induced by hsp60 peptides p277 , p277 ( val 6 - val 13 ) and control peptide p278 . the t cell proliferative response is depicted as stimulation index ( si ): the ratio between peptide - stimulated thymidine incorporation and background ( no antigen added ) thymidine incorporation by the t cells . as shown in table 5 , newly diagnosed iddm patients respond to p277 ( val 6 - val 11 ) as well as to the p277 peptide . therefore , p277 ( val 6 - val 11 ) is immunologically equivalent to p277 . since the therapeutic effect of p277 is mediated by immunological recognition , the fact that p277 ( val 6 - val 11 ) is immunologically cross - reactive with p277 , indicates it can be used instead of p277 in treating diabetes . twenty one iddm patients and fourteen healthy blood - donors were screened for anti - hsp60 and p277 ( v ) by means of the proliferation assay of example 7 . tables 6 and 7 show the proliferative t cell response ( stimulation index ; si ) of each individual to control antigen ( control ag ), i . e ., tetanus toxoid and influenza virus — texas strain , to whole recombinant hsp60 and to p277 ( v ). si values of 3 or greater were considered to be positive . table 8 is a summary table showing that 86 % and 52 % c ) of the patients responded to hsp60 and to p277 ( v ) compared to 21 % and 14 % of the controls ( p & lt ; 0 . 05 ). thus , the iddm group was significantly positive for t cell responses to hsp60 and p277 ( v ). this leads to the conclusion that the incidence of hsp60 and p277 ( v ) reactive individuals is higher among iddm patients than among healthy people . the p277 ( lys 19 ) peptide differs from p277 by one amino - acid . in order to confirm that p277 ( lys 19 ) is an autoantigen in nod iddm , we compared t - cell proliferation to peptide p277 and to peptide p277 ( lys 19 ). fig3 demonstrates that t cells of female nod spleens proliferated to the p277 ( lys 19 ) peptide to the same extent as to p277 . there was no response to the control peptide p278 . the above results were confirmed using clone c9 , a diabetogenic nod t - cell clone that was found to respond to the human peptide p277 ( elias et al ., 1991 ). c9 cells were found to proliferate to the p277 ( lys 19 ) peptide to the same extent as to the p277 peptide ( fig4 ). the present inventors have previously reported that advanced insulitis present in 3 month old female nod mice could be arrested by treating the mice with a single injection of human p277 ; the treated mice developed a lower incidence of clinically overt diabetes and death from severe hyperglycemia . to test whether the peptide p277 ( lys 19 ), that is the self mouse p277 peptide , was also effective , we treated 3 month old female nod mice with 100 μg of either human p277 or p277 ( lys 19 ) in ifa . peptides p277 or p277 ( lys 19 ) at a concentration of 2 mg / ml in phosphate buffered saline ( pbs ) were emulsified with an equal volume of incomplete freund &# 39 ; s adjuvant ( ifa ). groups of 10 female 3 - month old nod mice were injected subcutaneously with 0 - 1 ml ( 100 μg peptide ) of emulsion containing either peptide . control mice were injected with an emulsion of pbs and ifa . mice were bled every 4 weeks and blood glucose levels were determined with beckmann glucose analyser ii . the incidence of hyperglycemia and death from diabetes was scored at 6 months of age . mice were considered diabetic if their blood glucose was greater than 11 mmol / l . the results are shown in table 9 . at 6 months of age , 90 % of the control mice were overtly hyperglycemic and 60 % had died of diabetes . in contrast , treatment with either p277 or p277 ( lys 19 ) prevented both diabetes ( 40 % and 50 % incidence , respectively ) and death ( 10 % and 20 % incidence , respectively ). thus , the mouse self peptide p277 ( lys 19 ) seems to be as effective as the foreign p277 in the therapy of advanced insulitis . these results show that the proliferative responses of nod t cells detected using the human hsp60 molecule and its p277 peptide are the equivalent of an autoimmune response to mouse hsp60 and to the mouse p277 ( lys 19 ) sequence . this was demonstrated for the diabetogenic c9 t cell clone as well as for the spontaneous response developing in the spleens of prediabetic mice . moreover , p277 ( lys 19 ) was as effective as p277 in the treatment of diabetes in nod mice . spleen t cells of age and sex matched mice of other strains did not manifest a spontaneous t - cell proliferative response to p277 ( not shown ). the finding of autoimmunity to a mouse hsp60 sequence targeted by diabetogenic t cells supports the general belief that iddm is caused by an autoimmune process . streptozotocin ( stz ) is a beta - cell specific toxin which can cause toxic diabetes by destroying the beta - cells within 24 - 48 h if one dose of 200 mg / kg is injected . given in small subtoxic doses it induces in genetically susceptible mice insulitis leading to diabetes . the inflammatory process can take 20 - 30 days , depending on the dose of stz . the regular protocol for stz - induced diabetes is a dose of 200 mg stz per kg body weight , given in 5 equal doses of 40 mg / kg on consecutive days ( like and rossini , 1976 ) and the model is called low - dose stz . we found that if the total dose is reduced to 150 mg / kg ( 30 mg / kg × 5 ), diabetes develops within 80 - 100 days . this slowly progressing form of stz - induced diabetes probably better resembles the autoimmune diabetes in humans and is of the same duration as the preclinical stage of the spontaneous diabetes in nod mice ( castano and eisenbarth , 1990 ). moreover , the acute toxic effects are diminished as the dose is reduced . the 60 kda heat shock protein ( hsp60 ) plays a role in both nod ( elias et al ., 1990 ) and stz - induced ( elias et al ., 1994 ) diabetes . we have previously shown that both antibody and t cell proliferative responses to hsp60 occur before the onset of overt diabetes . t cell clones specific to hsp60 were derived from prediabetic nod mice and could adoptively transfer insulitis and hyperglycemia in young nod ( elias et al ., 1991 )) or τγ ∠ δ nod mice . the nod diabetogenic t cell clones recognize a 24 amino acid long peptide of the hsp60 sequence 437 - 460 we call p277 . stz - induced diabetes is also accompanied by anti - p277 t cell responses at the preclinical stage . previous examples have shown that the p277 ( val 6 - val 11 ) peptide protects nod mice . the present experiment tests the efficacy of p277 ( v ) treatment in the low dose stz model . male mice , 10 per group , were treated with a dose of stz 30 mg / kg , daily for 5 days . one week later , the mice were treated with 100 μg of either p277 ( v ) in oil , a peptide of glutamic acid decarboxylase ( gadp34 ) described by kaufman et al , 1993 , as being involved in the diabetes of nod mice , or oil alone . the treatment was repeated on day 85 . on day 100 , the mice were bled and their blood tested for hyperglycemia ( glucose concentration greater than 15 nmol / l ). the results are summarized in fig5 . it can be seen that the mean blood glucose of the groups of mice treated with gadp34 or untreated were in the hyperglycemic range . in contrast , the mean blood glucose of the mice treated with p277 ( v ) was in the normal range . thus , p277 ( v ) can be effective in treating diabetes induced in male c57bl / ksj mice by stz as well as the spontaneous diabetes developing in the genetically disparate female nod mice . the applicability of p277 ( v ) therapy is not limited to diabetes of only one cause or to only one genotype or gender . all references cited herein , including journal articles or abstracts , published or corresponding u . s . or foreign patent applications , issued u . s . or foreign patents , or any other references , are entirely incorporated by reference herein , including all data , tables , figures , and text presented in the cited references . additionally , the entire contents of the references cited within the references cited herein are also entirely incorporated by reference . reference to known method steps , conventional method steps , known methods or conventional methods is not in any way an admission that any aspect , description or embodiment of the present invention is disclosed , taught or suggested in the relevant art . the foregoing description of the specific embodiments will so fully reveal the general nature of the invention that others can , by applying knowledge within the skill of the art ( including the contents of the references cited herein ), readily modify and / or adapt for various applications such specific embodiments , without undue experimentation , without departing from the general concept of the present invention . therefore , such adaptations and modifications are intended to be within the meaning and range of equivalents of the disclosed embodiments , based on the teaching and guidance presented herein . it is to be understood that the phraseology or terminology herein is for the purpose of description and not of limitation , such that the terminology or phraseology of the present specification is to be interpreted by the skilled artisan in light of the teachings and guidance presented herein , in combination with the knowledge of one of ordinary skill in the art . bendelac a , carnaud c , boitard c , bach j f . 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