Patent Application: US-1575498-A

Abstract:
polypeptide compounds and nucleotide sequences promoting resistance to eutypa dieback in plants the subject of the invention is a nucleotide sequence coding for an enzyme with eutypine reductase activity , capable of metabolizing the eutypine synthesized in plants by a fungus of the eutypa lata or libertella blepharis type . the overproduction of eutypine reductase by the plant host of the fungus enables the consequences of the presence of this fungus in plants to be attenuated or even eradicated .

Description:
i -- demonstration of a toxic substance synthesized by eutypa lata , eutine . study of its mode of action and its fate in grapevine cells . the limited localization of the fungus in the trunk and the arms of the varieties and the generalization of the symptoms throughout the aerial apparatus suggest that the fungus acts at a distance by the intermediary of one or more toxic substances . this molecule was isolated and identified , then its mode of action and its fate were studied in grapevine cells . among the 15 secondary metabolites synthesized in vitro by e . lata and characterized chemically , one molecule toxic for the grapevine was detected with the aid of various biotests . it is 4 - hydroxy - 3 -( 3 - methylbut - 3 - en - 1 - ynyl ) benzaldehyde , called eutypine . several convergent facts have made it possible to show that eutypine participates in the expression of the symptoms of eutypa dieback in the grapevine : eutypine always proves to be absent from healthy grapevines and is found in the sap , the leaves , the stems and the inflorescences of infected plants . this result was obtained by using gas chromatography coupled in tandem to a m a s s spectrophotometer ( gc - ms - ms ). however , this method of identification has not made it possible to determine the eutypine present in the grapevine tissues ; eutypine reproduces certain symptoms of the disease when it is applied to grapevine vitroplants ; eutypine induces ultrastructural alterations in the leaves of vitroplants approximately similar to those observed on plants affected by eutypa dieback : hypertrophy of the chloroplasts , dilation of the thylakoids , retraction of the plasmalemma , lysis of the cytoplasm , vesiculation of the endomembranes leading to the total deformation of the structure of the leaves of the cells ; the eutypine applied to simplified biological systems causes more serious symptoms in the varieties sensitive to eutypa dieback than in varieties of grapevines tolerant to this disease . for example , the protoplasts obtained from grapevine leaves of the cabernet sauvignon variety exhibit a lower tolerance to eutypine than the protoplasts of the merlot variety . all of the data obtained lead to the conclusion that eutypine is implicated in the appearance of the symptoms of the disease . at the level of the plant , it is synthesized by the mycelium in spring and transported by the sap , it migrates towards the herbaceous organs . the variation of the quantity of eutypine synthesized might explain , for example , the fact that a variety of grapevine harbouring the parasitic fungus does or does not exhibit symptoms . the investigation of the mode of action of eutypine in the grapevine cells was made possible owing to the availability of eutypine in the unlabelled form and in the radioactive form , labelled with carbon 14 . it has been demonstrated that eutypine , a lipophilic weak acid , penetrates into the grapevine cells by passive diffusion . this toxic molecule then accumulates in the cytoplasm by an acid trapping mechanism and , owing to its lipophilic character , inserts itself into the lipids of the membranes . eutypine affects the functioning of the membrane systems of the grapevine cells . it causes the acidification of the cytoplasm , the reduction of leucine transport , the activation at low dose of the consumption of oxygen and its inhibition above 160 μm , and a diminution of the energy load of the cells . these results strongly suggest that eutypine acts a mobile transporter of protons ( protonophore ). the mode of action of eutypine was confirmed by investigating its effects on the functioning of mitochondria . eutypine acts as a decoupling agent of oxidative phosphorylation . the complete decoupling of the mitochondria is attained at concentrations of eutypine close to 150 μm . the decoupling effect of eutypine is due to a protonophore effect linked to the dissociable alcohol function of the molecule since a structural analogue which bears a methyl function in the place of the dissociable function has only a very weak effect on the functioning of the mitochondria . all of these data demonstrate that eutypine acts as a mobile transporter of protons . the protonophore activity of eutypine may , on its own , account for the physiological adverse effects caused by the toxic molecule . grapevine cells , placed in the presence of eutypine ( c 14 ), produce a radioactive compound identified by mass spectrometry . it is a hydroxylated derivative of eutypine , 4 - hydroxy - 3 -( 3 - methylbut - 3 - en - 1 - ynyl ) benzylic alcohol , called eutypinol . this compound does not show toxicity to the grapevine , even at high concentrations , because it does not possess protonophore activity ( table i ). table i______________________________________effect of eutypinol on the viability of protoplasts obtained from leaves of vitroplants of vitis vinifera cv . cabernet sauvignon treatment viability after 48 hours______________________________________control 88 eutypine 100 μm 67 200 μm 0 eutypinol 200 μm 86 500 μm 83______________________________________ the protoplasts ( 4 . 5 × 10 5 / ml ) are cultured in the presence of eutypine or eutypinol for 48 hours . in order to demonstrate a relationship between the capacity to metabolize eutypine by the grapevine tissues and the behaviour of the different varieties of grapevine towards eutypa dieback , the detoxification activities of the protoplasts of leaves of the grapevine varieties ugni blanc ( very sensitive ), cabernet sauvignon ( sensitive ) and merlot ( tolerant ) were compared ( table ii ). table ii______________________________________degradation of eutypine by protoplasts of different varieties of vitis vinifera detoxification sensitivity to eutypa activity varieties dieback in vineyard ( pmol / min / 10 . sup . 5 cells ) ______________________________________ugni blanc very sensitive 7 . 9 cabernet sauvignon sensitive 10 . 1 merlot tolerant 13 . 6______________________________________ the protoplasts ( 10 6 / ml ) obtained from leaves of vitroplants are incubated for 1 hour at 30 ° c . in the presence of eutypine ( 100 μm ; 0 . 4 kbq ). then , the phenylacetylenic compounds are extracted , separated by thin layer chromatography and the metabolic rate of eutypine is calculated after determination of the radioactivity associated with eutypine and eutypinol . it is evident that the protoplasts of the varieties used in the experiments can convert eutypine into eutypinol . the variety merlot , considered to be tolerant to eutypa dieback in the grapevineyard , possesses a detoxification activity very much greater than that of ugni blanc , a variety very sensitive to the disease . furthermore , the detoxification activity of the variety cabernet sauvignon , a variety which is also sensitive , is less than that of the variety merlot . these data clearly show the existence of a relationship between the ability of these varieties to metabolize eutypine and their behaviour in the vineyard with regard to eutypa dieback the conversion of eutypine to eutypinol is catalyzed by a non - membrane enzyme , which specifically requires nadph as co - factor . its activity is reduced by reductase inhibitors such as disulfiram and parahydroxymercuribenzoic acid , confirming its membership of this group of enzymes . it has been called &# 34 ; eutypine reductase &# 34 ;. the reaction scheme is shown below . ## str2 ## ii . investigation of a gene coding for a protein exhibiting a &# 34 ; eutypine reductase &# 34 ; activity in a heterologous systems . the objective was to isolate a gene coding for a protein exhibiting a &# 34 ; eutypine reductase &# 34 ; activity . it is recognized that the overexpresssion of a gene of a given species in this same species often leads to an overall diminution of the expression of the endogenous gene and of the transgene . on the other hand , the overexpression of a heterologous gene ( belonging to a species different from that which is transformed ) does not cause this phenomenon . in order to avoid the phenomenon of co - suppression , a search was made among the different species of grapevine for the presence of an enzyme capable of detoxifying eutypine . among the species studied , vigna radiata ( vr ) showed the highest capacity to reduce eutypine . the isolation of the protein was thus performed starting from the tissues of this species . the protein exhibiting a &# 34 ; eutypine reductase &# 34 ; activity was purified to homogeneity according to the following protocol , then sequenced . the seeds of mung bean ( vigna radiata l . r . wilcz ) were soaked overnight in aerated water . the seeds were then rinsed with water and sown on vermiculite . the plantlets were harvested after 4 days of culture at 23 ° c . and the hypocotyls ( 2 cm ) were cut for the extraction of the enzyme . five hundred grams of hypocotyls of mung bean were ground in liquid nitrogen in a bead grinder of the dangoumea type . one hundred grams of powder obtained were homogenized in 2 volumes of extraction buffer composed of 0 . 1m of k - phosphate ( ph 8 . 0 ), 10 % of glycerol ( wt / v ), 1 % of polyvinylpyrrolidone m 40 , 000 , 30 mm na ascorbate and 5 mm of dithiothreitol ( dtt ). the homogenate was centrifuged for 20 min at 48 , 000 g . the supernatant thus obtained was subjected to a double precipitation with ammonium sulfate at 30 and 70 % saturation . the pellet obtained from the precipitation with 70 % ammonium sulfate was dissolved in a small volume of 0 . 1 m k - phosphate buffer ( ph 8 . 0 ) containing 10 % of glycerol and 1 mm of dtt . the enzymatic extract was desalted on a column of sephadex g25 ( pd 10 , pharmacia ), then purified in 6 successive steps : ionic interaction chromatography on a column of hydroxylapatite ( econo - pac htp , biorad ); molecular exclusion chromatography on a column of superose 12 hr of type fplc ( pharmacia ); ion exchange chromatography on a monoq 5 / 5 column of fplc type ( pharmacia ); alternatively , the er protein could be purified from mung bean seeds by applying the following procedure : five hundred grams of hypocotyls of mung bean were ground in a propeller grinder in the presence of two volumes of extraction buffer composed of 0 . 1 m of borate buffer ( ph 8 . 0 ), 10 % of glycerol ( wt / v ), 1 % of polyvinylpyrrolidine 40 , 000 and 4 mm of dithiothreitol ( dtt ). the homogenate was centrifuged for 20 min at 48 , 000 g . the supernatant thus obtained was subjected to a double precipitation with ammonium sulfate at 30 and 70 % of saturation . the pellet obtained from the precipitation with 70 % ammonium sulfate was dissolved in a small volume of 25 mm k - phosphate buffer ( ph 8 . 0 ) containing 10 % of glycerol and 1 m of ammonium sulfate . the enzymatic extract was purified in 5 successive steps : ionic interaction chromatography on a column of hydroxylapatite ( econo - pac htp , biorad ); molecular exclusion chromatography on a column of superose 12 hr of type fplc ( pharmada ); ion exchange chromatography on a monoq 5 / 5 column of fplc type ( pharmacia ); the protein thus purified to homogeneity by sds - page was hydrolysed overnight at 30 ° c . by a lysine endoprotease and the peptides released were separated by hplc on a reverse phase deae - c18 column . five of the separated peptides were sequenced with the aid of an applied biosystems 470 microsequencer . with the aid of degenerate primers derived from these peptide sequences , a dna fragment was amplified by the pcr procedure (&# 34 ; polymerase chain reaction &# 34 ;). a reverse pcr then made it possible to isolate the 3 &# 39 ; and 5 &# 39 ; parts of this clone . finally , the full length clone was then isolated by choosing the primers suitable for the 3 &# 39 ; and 5 &# 39 ; ends and was sequenced several times . the complementary dna possesses an open reading frame of 975 nucleotides . the amino add sequence deduced indicates that the clone codes for a polypeptide composed of 325 amino acids . the size of the protein is estimated at 36 kd and has an expected pi of 6 . 34 . the sequence of the vrer gene exhibits homologies ( between 20 and 26 % of identity at the amino acid level ) with the proteins of the family of the dihydroflavonol reductases , and with the hc toxin of maize . in order to verify that the protein encoded in this gene exhibits a &# 34 ; eutypine reductase &# 34 ; activity and is capable of reducing eutypine , this protein was overexpressed in a bacterial system , escherichia coli which is incapable of reducing eutypine in the natural state . for that , the complementary dna of the vrer gene was cloned in an expression vector , then transferred into the bacteria . the lysate of these bacteria which overexpress the protein corresponding to the vrer gene uses the co - factor nadph to reduce eutypine . the production of eutypinol was demonstrated by thin layer chromatography of a bacterial lysate incubated in the presence of radioactive eutypine . all of these data show that the protein corresponding to the vrer gene exhibits a &# 34 ; eutypine reductase &# 34 ; activity in vitro . the protein encoded in the vrer gene was characterized biochemically . it has a km of 16 . 4 m for eutypine , which represents an excellent affinity of this enzyme for the substrate eutypine . it was also investigated whether this protein was capable of reducing other substrates . the family of the benzaldehydes ( benzaldehyde and some of its derivatives such as methylbenzaldehyde , methoxybenzaldehyde , nitrobenzaldehyde , fluorobenzaldehyde possessing a group in the meta and para position ), linear aldehydes such as decylaldehyde or hexanal , or other cyclic compounds possessing an aldehyde function like 4pyridine carbaldehyde or 2 - fluoraldehyde are also reduced by the er protein in the presence of nadph . the objective of this study was to verify whether the expression of the vrer gene in grapevine cells is capable of increasing their capacity to metabolize eutypine to eutypinol . for that , the vrer gene was introduced into a binary transformation vector , then integrated into the calluses of the grapevine cv gamay . the transformed calluses were then confronted with eutypine in order to analyze their behaviour and to determine the level of resistance of the plant to eutypine . the vrer gene was integrated into the binary plasmid pga ( an g et al ., binary vectors . in plant molecular biology manual a3 . kluwer acad . pub ., dordrecht , the nederlands , 1 - 19 ) between the right ( rb ) and the left ( lb ) borders . this binary vector contains the genes for resistance to kanamycin and tetracycline . the gene of interest was cloned into the t - dna , behind the 35s promoter of the camv which enables it to be expressed in plant cells . the schematic representation of the binary vector pga - er thus obtained is given in fig2 . the plasmid pga - er was introduced into agrobacterium tumefaciens strain c58 . the presence of this plasmid in the bacteria transformed on selective medium ( kanamycin 10 mg / l and tetracycline 5 mg / l ) was confirmed by pcr analysis . the c58 strain of agrobacterium tumefaciens containing the plasmid pga - er is then designated abc58er . it will be used subsequently to carry out transformation experiments on calluses of vitis vinifera cv gamay . the transformation experiments were carried out on calluses of vitis vinifera cv gamay , obtained from epidermal cells of the fruit . the genetic transformation of the calluses of vitis vinifera cv gamay was carried out via the agrobacterium tumefaciens strain abc58 - er , containing the binary vector pag - er . the calluses , cultured for 8 days in a 55 mm petri dish ( 10 calluses per dish ), were immersed in the bacterial suspension for 20 minutes . the inoculum was then removed by aspiration and the calluses were dried for 5 minutes in the hood . they were then transferred to a new medium , on the top of which a paper disk was placed , and cultured in the dark at a temperature of 28 ° c . at the end of a o - culture for 48 hours , the calluses were rinsed carefully with culture medium containing 400 mg / l of carbenicilin ( antibiotic intended to eliminate the bacteria ), dried on blotting paper and transferred to a new medium with 400 mg / l of carbenicillin . the selection pressure was applied 7 days after inoculation : the calluses were transferred to a selective &# 34 ; gamay &# 34 ; medium containing a selective antibiotic ( kanamycin at 75 mg / l ), in addition to carbenicillin . the calluses were maintained on the &# 34 ; gamay &# 34 ; medium , subcultured every 20 days on fresh selective medium and placed in a culture chamber at 24 ° c ., with an illumination of 100 μmol . m - 2 . sec - 1 and a photoperiod of 16 hours . three months later , after 4 successive subcultures on selective new medium , calluses tolerant to kanamycin were obtained . they were then maintained on selective culture media containing 75 mg / l of kanamycin . the verification of the integration of the vrer gene in the genome of the grapevine calluses expressing marked resistance to kanamycin was performed by the pcr ( polymerase chain reaction ) method and by molecular hybridization ( southern blot ). finally , the level of expression of the transgene was determined by western blot , with the aid of antibodies directed against the er protein . the genetically transformed grapevine calluses and expressing the vrer transgene have then been confronted with eutypine to determine the level of resistance acquired by these tissues to eutypine . two biotests were used . the first ( biotest i ) is based on the confrontation of grapevine cells cultured in suspension with eutypine applied at different concentrations . the second makes use of grapevine calluses cultured on culture media containing eutypine . in the biotest i , the percentage of dead cells was estimated by means of the erythrosine reagent . the concentration of eutypine inducing a percentage of dead cells of 50 % is determined in the wildtype strain and in the transformed varieties . the results presented in table iii show that the cells of the transformed grapevine varieties exhibit an ld 50 2 to 2 . 5 times higher than that recorded for the untransformed wildtype variety . eutypine concentration causing the mortality of 50 % ( ld50 ) of the transformed ( ga , gb , gc , gd ) or untransformed ( gwt ) grapevine cells , grown in suspension in the presence of this toxic molecule . ______________________________________ cellular grapevine varieties gwt ga gb gc gd______________________________________ld50 ( μm of eutypine ) 100 255 250 230 225______________________________________ gwt : wildtype variety , untransformed . ga , gb , gc , gd : transformed grapevine strains the biotest ii reveals that the transformed grapevine calluses have acquired a level of resistance to eutypine very much greater than the capacity of the untransformed calluses . the results presented below show that the calluses of the wildtype variety do not develop in the presence of 500 μm of eutypine and necrose very rapidly . on the other hand , the ga variety , grown in the presence of eutypine supplied at a concentration which is usually lethal for these tissues , does not exhibit necroses and shows a growth practically similar to that of the control tissues which develop in the absence of eutypine ( fig3 ). all of these results indicate that the introduction and expression of the vrer gene in the grapevine cells confer a greater resistance to this toxic molecule . it is due to the overproduction in the transformed grapevine cells of the er protein , capable of metabolizing eutypine to eutypinol , a molecule non - toxic for the grapevine . these data show the efficacy of this gene for the detoxification of eutypine . the transformation experiments were also performed on calluses of vitis vinifera cv ugni blanc by making use of the same experimental protocol as that used for the transformation of the calluses of vitis vinifera cv . gamay . the analysis of the behaviour of the calluses of vitis vinifera cv ugni blanc towards eutypine was performed by using biotest ii . the results presented below show that the grapevine calluses have acquired a level of resistance to eutypine very much higher than that of the untransformed calluses . in the presence of 500 μm , the calluses of the wildtype variety necrose rapidly and do not develop . at this concentration , the growth of the calluses of the transformed ub variety is practically unaffected ( table iv ). these results demonstrate the efficacy of this gene for detoxifying eutypine in the grapevine tissues . development of the transformed ( ubt ) and untransformed ( ubwt ) calluses of vitis vinifera cv ugni blanc cultured in the presence of 500 μm of eutypine . ______________________________________ mean mass of a callus cell varieties ( mg ) ______________________________________ubwt 25 ubt 150______________________________________ iv -- preparation of antibodies directed against the protein encoded in the vrer gene . in order to obtain antibodies directed against this protein , the following procedure was used . the cdna fragment bearing the active part of the vrer gene was cloned into the vector pt7 . 7 ( tabor s et al ., 1985 , proc . natl . acad . sci . usa , 82 , 1047 - 1078 ) at the ecori sites . it was then introduced in e . coli . after having confirmed by southern blot that the plasmid has been correctly integrated , it was verified that the bacterial strains selected produce the er protein capable of metabolizing eutypine into eutypinol . the bacteria carrying the vrer transgene were placed at 42 ° c . for 20 minutes , then the production of the recombinant protein was allowed to proceed at 37 ° c . for 1 hour . after centrifugation , the bacteria were resuspended in a 0 . 1 m tris hcl buffer ( ph 8 . 0 ), 1 mm edta , 0 . 1 m nacl supplemented with lysozyme ( 1 mg / ml ). after incubation at 37 ° c . for 15 minutes , the solution was treated with 0 . 2 mg / ml of dnase in the presence of pmsf ( 0 . 2 mm ) and mgcl 2 ( 4 mm ) for 15 minutes . after centrifugation at 12 , 000 g for 10 minutes at 4 ° c ., the protein pellet containing the recombinant protein was washed with a 3m urea solution . after centrifugation , the protein extract was denatured in the 0 . 1 m tris hcl buffer ( ph 7 . 5 ) containing urea ( 6m ). the denatured proteins were then concentrated 5 times ( centricon 10 ). an aliquot ( 50 μg ) of the protein extract containing the recombinant protein was fractionated by preparative electrophoresis ( 12 % polyacrylamide gel in the presence of sds ). the proteins were then transferred to a nitrocellulose membrane and the recombinant protein was located by staining with coomassie blue . a band of nitrocellulose bearing the recombinant protein was cut out and used as implant for the immunization of two rabbits ( eurogentec company ). four implantations were made during the first two months of immunization and the finally bleeding was done 1 month after the last immunization . the anti - er protein antibodies were partially purified by exhaustion of the rabbit serum against the total proteins of e . coli . the proteins extracted from wildtype e . coli are deposited on a nitrocellulose membrane , then this latter is placed in the serum obtained from the rabbits . this operation is repeated several times until the serum is exhausted . after verification , the serum thus obtained is used in western blot analyses . __________________________________________________________________________ # sequence listing - - - - ( 1 ) general information : - - ( iii ) number of sequences : 4 - - - - ( 2 ) information for seq id no : 1 : - - ( i ) sequence characteristics : ( a ) length : 975 base - # pairs ( b ) type : nucleic acid ( c ) strandedness : double ( d ) topology : linear - - ( ii ) molecule type : cdna - - ( ix ) feature : ( a ) name / key : cds ( b ) location : 1 .. 975 - - ( xi ) sequence description : seq id no : 1 : - - atg agc acc gcc gct gga aaa cta gtc tgt gt - # c acc ggc gct tccggt 48 met ser thr ala ala gly lys leu val cys va - 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# 20 - # 25 - - ctc gaa cgc ggc tac acc gtg aag gcc acc gt - # t cgc gac acg aat gat147 leu glu arg gly tyr thr val lys ala thr va - # l arg asp thr asn asp 30 - # 35 - # 40 - - ccc aaa aag gta gat cac ttg ctc agc ctt ga - # t ggt gcg aag gag aga195 pro lys lys val asp his leu leu ser leu as - # p gly ala lys glu arg 45 - # 50 - # 55 - - ttg cat ctc gtg aag gcg aat ctt cta gaa ga - # a ggt tcc ttt gac tct243 leu his leu val lys ala asn leu leu glu gl - # u gly ser phe asp ser 60 - # 65 - # 70 - - gcc gtt gaa ggt gtt cac gct gtg ttt cac ac - # t gct tct ccc ttt ttc291 ala val glu gly val his ala val phe his th - # r ala ser pro phe phe 75 - # 80 - # 85 - # 90 - - aac gat gcc aaa gat ccg cag act gag ttg tt - # g gac ccg gca gtg aag339 asn asp ala lys asp pro gln thr glu leu le - # u asp pro ala val lys 95 - # 100 - # 105 - - ggg act ctg aat gtt ctg aaa tcg tgt gtg aa - # c tcg ccc acg ctg aaa387 gly thr leu asn val leu lys ser cys val as - # n ser pro thr leu lys 110 - # 115 - # 120 - - cgc gtc gtt tta act tct tct att gct gca gt - # t gcg ttc agc gac agg435 arg val val leu thr ser ser ile ala ala va - # l ala phe ser asp arg 125 - # 130 - # 135 - - cct aaa aac cct gat gtt gtg gtt gac gag ac - # t tgg tat tct gac ccg483 pro lys asn pro asp val val val asp glu th - # r trp tyr ser asp pro140 - # 145 - # 150 - - gaa tac tgt aag aga aca ggg tta tgg tat aa - # c ctt tca aag act ctg531 glu tyr cys lys arg thr gly leu trp tyr as - # n leu ser lys thr leu 155 1 - # 60 1 - # 65 1 -# 70 - - gcc gaa gat gct gcc tgg aaa ttt gcg aaa ga - # a aac aac att gacctg 579 ala glu asp ala ala trp lys phe ala lys gl - # u asn asn ile asp leu 175 - # 180 - # 185 - - gtt aca atg aac cca gca ttg gtt gtt gga cc - # t ctc ttg caa cca gtg627 val thr met asn pro ala leu val val gly pr - # o leu leu gln pro val 190 - # 195 - # 200 - - ctt aat act agc gct gct ata gtt tta ggt tt - # a gtt aat ggg gcg aaa675 leu asn thr ser ala ala ile val leu gly le - # u val asn gly ala lys 205 - # 210 - # 215 - - aca ttt aaa aat gct tct ttg gga tgg gtc ga - # c gtg aaa gat gtt gca723 thr phe lys asn ala ser leu gly trp val as - # p val lys asp val ala220 - # 225 - # 230 - - ttg gcc cat att cta gca tat gag aat gct tc - # g gct aat gga aga tat771 leu ala his ile leu ala tyr glu asn ala se - # r ala asn gly arg tyr 235 2 - # 40 2 - # 45 2 -# 50 - - tta cta gtt gag aga gta gca cac ttt gga ga - # t gct gcc aag atttta 819 leu leu val glu arg val ala his phe gly as - # p ala ala lys ile leu 255 - # 260 - # 265 - - cga gat tta tac cca aca ttg caa att cca ga - # c aag tgt gaa gac gat867 arg asp leu tyr pro thr leu gln ile pro as - # p lys cys glu asp asp 270 - # 275 - # 280 - - aag cca tta gaa cca ata ttt cag gtt tcg aa - # g gaa aaa gca aag agc915 lys pro leu glu pro ile phe gln val ser ly - # s glu lys ala lys ser 285 - # 290 - # 295 - - ttg ggg att gac tat att cct ttg gaa gtg ag - # c ctc aag gac act gtg963 leu gly ile asp tyr ile pro leu glu val se - # r leu lys asp thr val300 - # 305 - # 310 - - gag agc ttg aag gaa aag aag ttt ctg aaa gt - # t taatgttacc cttcaagaaa 1016 glu ser leu lys glu lys lys phe leu lys va - # l 315 3 - # 20 3 - # 25 - - cgtggaaacc ttcttatgcc tatgcttgag gtaaacttag tgttaaataa at -# ggaaagtg 1076 - - atgtaagttc tgtaataagt gattcttgga ctggtttttt ctggtgacaa gt -# ttcaaaaa 1136 - - tgagtgacca tggtagagtc tgcgttccag attgtatcct tgtgatattg ta -# ttagtaga 1196 - - agatgtttgt tgcagctaat gcacccatta ttatgttttt atcaaaaaaa aa -# aaaaaa 1254 - - - - ( 2 ) information for seq id no : 4 : - - ( i ) sequence characteristics : ( a ) length : 325 amino - # acids ( b ) type : amino acid ( d ) topology : linear - - ( ii ) molecule type : protein - - ( xi ) sequence description : seq id no : 4 : - - met ser thr ala ala gly lys leu val cys va - # l thr gly ala sergly 1 5 - # 10 - # 15 - - tyr ile ala ser trp leu val lys phe leu le - # u glu arg gly tyr thr 20 - # 25 - # 30 - - val lys ala thr val arg asp thr asn asp pr - # o lys lys val asp his 35 - # 40 - # 45 - - leu leu ser leu asp gly ala lys glu arg le - # u his leu val lys ala 50 - # 55 - # 60 - - asn leu leu glu glu gly ser phe asp ser al - # a val glu gly val his 65 - # 70 - # 75 - # 80 - - ala val phe his thr ala ser pro phe phe as - # n asp ala lys asp pro 85 - # 90 - # 95 - - gln thr glu leu leu asp pro ala val lys gl - # y thr leu asn val leu 100 - # 105 - # 110 - - lys ser cys val asn ser pro thr leu lys ar - # g val val leu thr ser 115 - # 120 - # 125 - - ser ile ala ala val ala phe ser asp arg pr - # o lys asn pro asp val130 - # 135 - # 140 - - val val asp glu thr trp tyr ser asp pro gl - # u tyr cys lys arg thr 145 1 - # 50 1 - # 55 1 -# 60 - - gly leu trp tyr asn leu ser lys thr leu al - # a glu asp ala alatrp 165 - # 170 - # 175 - - lys phe ala lys glu asn asn ile asp leu va - # l thr met asn pro ala 180 - # 185 - # 190 - - leu val val gly pro leu leu gln pro val le - # u asn thr ser ala ala 195 - # 200 - # 205 - - ile val leu gly leu val asn gly ala lys th - # r phe lys asn ala ser210 - # 215 - # 220 - - leu gly trp val asp val lys asp val ala le - # u ala his ile leu ala 225 2 - # 30 2 - # 35 2 -# 40 - - tyr glu asn ala ser ala asn gly arg tyr le - # u leu val glu argval 245 - # 250 - # 255 - - ala his phe gly asp ala ala lys ile leu ar - # g asp leu tyr pro thr 260 - # 265 - # 270 - - leu gln ile pro asp lys cys glu asp asp ly - # s pro leu glu pro ile 275 - # 280 - # 285 - - phe gln val ser lys glu lys ala lys ser le - # u gly ile asp tyr ile290 - # 295 - # 300 - - pro leu glu val ser leu lys asp thr val gl - # u ser leu lys glu lys 305 3 - # 10 3 - # 15 3 -# 20 - - lys phe leu lys val 325__________________________________________________________________________