Patent Application: US-201113993453-A

Abstract:
the present invention relates to a method for diagnosis and / or prognosis of multiple sclerosis or to monitor the efficacy of a therapy and / or to screen for a treatment for multiple sclerosis comprising measuring the amount or assessing the cellular localization of one or more specific molecular species in stimulated oligodendrocyte cells .

Description:
m03 - 13 cells — the m03 - 13 cells are an immortal human - human hybrid cell line ( cellutionbiosystem inc ., canada ) with the phenotypic characteristics of primary oligodendrocytes , derived from the fusion of human rhabdomyosarcoma with oligodendrocytes obtained from adult human brain . they were grown in dulbecco &# 39 ; s modified eagles medium ( dmem ), containing 4 . 5 g / l glucose , supplemented with 10 % fbs , 100 u / ml penicillin and 100 m / ml streptomycin . hek293 — the hek293 derived from human embryonic kidney cells ( american type culture collection , atcc , usa ), were grown in dulbecco &# 39 ; s modified eagles medium ( dmem ), containing 4 . 5 g / l glucose , supplemented with 10 % fbs , 100 u / ml penicillin and 100 μg / ml streptomycin . primary cultures of mouse cortical neurons — cortical neuronal cultures were prepared from foetal mice ( 14 - 16 days gestation ). embryos were decapitated , and the neocortices were dissected , dissociated and plated in eagle &# 39 ; s minimal essential medium ( gibco , auckland , new zealand ) supplemented with 20 mmol glucose ( sigma chemical ), 2 mmol glutamine ( gibco ), 5 % foetal bovine serum ( gibco ) and 5 % horse serum ( gibco ) on 96 - well culture plates , which were prepared by incubation overnight with 40 g / ml poly - d - lysine ( sigma - aldrich ) and subsequent rinsing with water . glial cell replication was halted at 5 days in vitro ( div ), by 2 days exposure to 10 mol cytosine arabinoside . cultures were kept in a 5 % co2 and 95 % air atmosphere at 37 ° c . ; at 7 div they were shifted into a growth medium identical to the plating medium , but lacking foetal serum . cultures were used for experiments at 13 - 14 div . the cells were kept in a 5 % co 2 and 95 % air atmosphere at 37 ° c . authors generated clones of human oligodendrocytes , expressing the firefly luciferase ( de wet et al ., 1997 ), or the green fluorescent protein ( gfp ) gene ( chalfie et al ., 1994 ) under the control of anyone of mbp , α - sma , olig - 2 or machr m1 promoters ( see below for gene accession numbers ). the dna sequences corresponding to 1 kb 5 ′ flanking region ( promoter ) of the mbp , olig - 2 , or machr m1 genes ( see below ) were inserted in the firefly luciferase reporter vector pgl3 . 0 basic ( promega ) or gfp reporter vector . the mo3 - 13 cells were transfected with recombinant vectors using lipofectamine 2000 ( invitrogen ). such cells represent a cell system for easy and fast detection of factors or drugs or molecules modifying oligodendrocyte differentiation measured by luminometry or by flow cytometric analysis for luciferase or gfp , respectively . protocol 1 — incubating the cells in medium with 0 - 0 . 2 % foetal bovine serum ( fbs , sigma ) in the presence of 100 nm pma ( sigma - aldrich ) ( time range : 30 min - 4 days ); protocol 2 — incubating the cells with 100 - 200 μm h 2 o 2 in complete medium ( time range : 30 min - 4 days ). anti mbp ( cat . # ab980 ), anti p - creb ( cat . # 06 - 519 ), anti plp ( cat # ab15454 ), anti mag clone 513 ( cat # mab1567 ), anti olig - 1 ( cat . # mab5540 ) and anti olig - 2 ( cat . # ab9610 ) antibodies were purchased by millipore . anti α - sma ( cat . # a5228 ) and anti machr ( cat # m9808 ) antibodies were purchased by sigma . anti p - erk1 / 2 ( e - 4 ) antibodies were purchased by santa cruz biotechnology ( cat . # sc - 7383 ). total cells lysates were obtained in ripa buffer ( 50 mm tris - hcl , ph 7 . 5 , nacl 150 mm , 1 % np40 , 0 . 5 % deoxycholate , 0 . 1 % sds ) containing 2 . 5 mm na - pyrophosphate , 1 mm β - glycerophosphate , 1 mm navo 4 , 1 mm naf , 0 . 5 mm pmsf , and a cocktail of protease inhibitors ( roche , usa ). the cells were kept for 15 min at 4 ° c . and disrupted by repeated aspiration through a 21 - gauge needle . cell lysates were centrifuged for 10 min at 11 , 600 × g and the pellets were discarded . fifty micrograms of total proteins were subjected to sds - page under reducing conditions . after electrophoresis , the proteins were transferred onto a nitrocellulose filter membrane ( biorad , uk ) with a trans - blot cell ( bio - rad laboratories , uk ) and transfer buffer containing 25 mm tris , 192 mm glycine , 20 % methanol . membranes were placed in 5 % non - fat milk in phosphate - buffered saline , 0 . 5 % tween 20 ( pbst ) at 4 ° c . for 2 hr to block the nonspecific binding sites . filters were incubated with specific antibodies before being washed three times in pbst and then incubated with a peroxidase - conjugated secondary antibody ( ge - healthcare , uk ). after washing with pbst , peroxidase activity was detected with the ecl system ( ge - healthcare , uk ). the filters were also probed with an anti α - tubulin antibody ( sigma , usa ). protein bands were revealed by ecl and , when specified , quantified by densitometry using scionlmage software . densitometric values were normalized to α - tubulin . cells were grown to semiconfluency in 60 - mm culture dishes . after trypsin detachment , 5 × 10 5 cells are suspended in 1 ml of phosphate buffered saline ( pbs ) and fixed overnight with 1 % formaldehyde at room temperature . next , cells were permeabilized with 0 . 1 % triton x - 100 for 40 min at 4 ° c ., washed 4 × with pbs containing 2 % fbs , 0 . 01 % nan3 , 0 . 1 % triton x - 100 ( buffer a ), and incubated for 45 min at 4 ° c . with 1 : 50 dilution of rabbit polyclonal anti - human mbp ig . the cells were then washed twice with the same buffer and incubated for 45 min at 4 ° c . with cy3 - conjugated anti -( rabbit igg ) ig at 1 : 50 dilution . control cells were incubated with cy3 - conjugated anti -( rabbit igg ) ig alone . after two washes in buffer a , cells were resuspended in pbs and analyzed by flow cytometry using fac scan ( bd , heidelberg , germany ) and winmdi software . cells , grown to semiconfluence in 100 - mm culture dishes in complete medium , were collected by scraping them into a buffer containing 100 mm kcl , 3 mm nacl , 3 . 5 mm mgcl 2 , 1 . 25 mm egta , 10 mm pipes 2 mm navo 4 , 10 mm phenylarsine oxide , 5 mm naf , and the cocktail of protease inhibitors . cells were then disrupted by sonication ( 2 - 10 sec pulses at 100 w ) and centrifuged at 600 × g for 10 min . next , the supernatants were centrifuged at 100 , 000 × g for 45 min . fifty micrograms of cytosol proteins were subjected to western blotting analysis for myelin basic protein ( mbp ) as described above . rna isolation and real - time pcr were performed as follow : total rna was extracted using tri - reagent according to the protocol provided by the manufacturer ( sigma , usa ). total rna ( 4 μg ) was reverse transcribed with omniscript reverse transcriptase ( quiagen , usa ) by oligo - dt primers for 60 min at 37 ° c . in 40 μl reaction volumes . real - time pcr was performed with an abi 5700 or abi prism - 7900ht sequence detection system ( applied biosystems inc ., usa ). reactions were carried out in 96 - well optical reaction plates in a 50 μa final volume containing 25 μl of the sybr - green ( applied biosystems inc ., usa ) pcr master mix , 1 . 25 μl of each gene - specific primer , 40 ng of sample cdna . gene - specific primers were designed to selectively amplify α - sma and mbp and relative expression values were normalized using glucose - 6 - phosphate dehydrogenase ( g6pd ). the sybrgreen ( applied biosystems inc ., usa ) fluorescence was measured at each extension step . the threshold cycle ( ct ) value reflects the cycle number at which the fluorescence measurement reached an arbitrary threshold . melting curve analysis was performed to determine the specificity of the reaction . real - time pcr was conducted in triplicate for each sample and the mean value was calculated . primers for human α - sma and mbp , and g6pd used are the following : m03 - 13 cells were grown on glass coverslip under culture conditions described in the specific experiments . then , the medium was removed and cells immediately fixed in 3 . 7 % paraformaldehyde in pbs with 2 % sucrose for 5 min at 22 ° c . for olig - 2 staining , after 2 washes in pbs with 2 % sucrose , cells were permeabilized for 5 min at 4 ° c . with 0 . 1 % triton x - 100 in 20 mm hepes , 300 mm sucrose , 50 mm nacl , 3 mm mgcl 2 . the cells , after blocking with 20 % goat serum in pbs for 45 min at 4 ° c ., were labelled with primary rabbit polyclonal anti human olig - 2 antibody . the cells were washed and labelled with secondary cy3 - conjugated anti rabbit igg ( jackson immunoresearch , usa ). for mbp and α - sma staining , after fixation , the cells were permeabilized for 10 min at 4 ° c . with 0 . 01 % saponin ( sigma - aldrich , from quillaj a bark ) in pbs . the cells , after blocking with 20 % fbs in pbs with 0 . 01 % saponin for 30 minutes at 4 ° c ., were labelled with primary rabbit - polyclonal anti human mbp antibody or with primary mouse - polyclonal anti human α - sma antibody . the cells were washed and labelled with secondary cy3 - conjugated anti - rabbit igg ( jackson immunoresearch , usa ) or with secondary cy2 - conjugated anti - mouse igg ( jackson immunoresearch , usa ). for all staining , controls were incubated with secondary antibodies alone . after treatment with nuclear marker , 4 ′, 6 - diamidino - 2 - phenylindole ( dapi ), the coverslips were briefly washed first , in pbs and then in distilled water , and finally mounted on glass slides for microscopy examination . cells were analyzed with a zeiss lsm 510 meta laser scanning confocal microscope . images were analysed using the imagej software : the threshold was set on the maximum fluorescence value of the sample treated only with secondary antibody and , for each sample , were quantify 25 cells . the purification of igg fractions from serum of ms and control subjects was carried out by affinity chromatography on a / g sepharose columns ( pierce , rockford , ill .). the protein concentration of immunoglobulin fractions thus prepared was assessed spectrophotometrically and used in oligodendrocyte differentiation cell models . in the study were included men and women between 15 and 50 years of age who meet all the following criteria : diagnosis of relapsing / remitting ms , according to mcdonald criteria ; an expanded disability scale score ( edss ) between 0 and 5 . 0 ; lesions detected by mri compatible with the diagnosis of multiple sclerosis ; at least one acute episode in the last 12 months . control samples include other neurological disorders affected patients ( including inflammatory , degenerative diseases not involving direct or indirect de - myelinization , i . e . : cerebral cancers , stroke , vasculitis , etc ) that need differential diagnosis with multiple sclerosis . control patients were selected by sex and age to be similar to multiple sclerosis patients . all the patients were subjected to csf collection by lumbar puncture to execute the routine laboratory analysis in the hospital where they were hospitalized . a quantity of 1 - 2 ml of csf was sent to our laboratories to carry out the investigations of our interest . at the same time a blood sample , from each patients , was collected to purify the igg fractions from blood serum . patients gave written informed consent before any study - related procedures was performed . statistical differences were evaluated using a student &# 39 ; s t - test for unpaired samples . the authors have developed 2 different protocols to differentiate human oligodendrocyte m03 - 13 cells . cells were grown i ) in medium with 0 - 0 . 2 % serum in presence of 100 nm pma or ii ) in complete medium in presence of low doses ( 200 μm ) of hydrogen peroxide . then , the expression or the localization of specific differentiation markers was evaluated at different times . the authors first evaluated the effects of 30 min exposure to 100 nm pma on p - creb and p - erk1 / 2 levels in cells pre - incubated for 16 h in medium containing 0 . 2 % fbs . it is known that both proteins are signalling molecules involved in oligodendrocyte differentiation ( afshari et al ., 2001 ; chandran et al ., 2003 ). fig1 a shows that pma significantly increases the levels of p - creb and p - erk1 / 2 . different experimental evidences suggest that α - smooth muscle actin ( α - sma ) can be considered a negative oligodendrocyte differentiation marker ; in schwann cell - like cells derived from the bone marrow , the withdrawal of differentiation stimulus is accompanied with the generation of sma expressing cells ( shea et al ., 2010 ); moreover , the treatment of neural stem cells derived from rat spinal cord with bone morphogenetic protein ( bmp ) inhibits oligodendrocyte formation and generate sma expressing cells ( chandran , 2003 ). therefore , the authors evaluated the expression of p - creb , p - erk1 / 2 , α - sma and olig - 2 protein levels after 24 h of differentiation with 100 nm pma in absence of serum . as can be shown in fig1 b , p - erk1 / 2 , p - creb and olig - 2 levels increased thus , were induced by differentiation . on the contrary , differentiation of the cells was accompanied with a decrease in α - sma levels . the levels of mbp were then evaluated by flow cytometric analysis at 24 h and 4 days of differentiation . fig1 c shows that pma 100 nm in medium without serum induces a time - dependent increase in mbp protein levels . moreover , the authors evaluated the effects of pma on the translocation of the specific oligodendrocyte differentiation marker olig - 2 from nucleus to cytosol . this protein is located in the nucleus during the early stage of oligodendocyte maturation steps and then migrates from the nucleus to the cytoplasm , becoming inactive . fig1 d shows confocal microscopy images of m03 - 13 cells immunostained with antibodies directed against olig - 2 , in not differentiated cells the signal is mainly localized in the nucleus while after 24 h of treatment with 100 nm pma in medium without serum a cytoplasmic staining of the cells became evident . the levels of machr m1 protein were measured at 24 h and 4 days of differentiation with 100 nm pma in absence of serum . as shown in fig1 e , machr m1 level increased after 4 days of differentiation . the authors used the second protocol to differentiate the oligodendrocytes , stimulating m03 - 13 cells with low doses of hydrogen peroxide for 30 min - 4 days , then they evaluated the expression of oligodendrocyte differentiaton markers . the authors found that stimulation of cells with 200 μm h 2 o 2 for 4 days in complete medium decreasesα - sma and induces p - creb levels ; the p - erk1 / 2 levels were , instead , not affected . the generic antioxidant n - acetyl - cysteine ( nac ) reverted hydrogen peroxide effects , while the inhibitor of the membrane nadph oxidase aebsf , did not ( fig2 a ). hydrogen peroxide stimulation also increases total mbp protein levels as measured by flow cytometric analysis ( fig2 b ). following differentiation , mbp translocates from cytosol to lipid rafts membrane microdomains ; therefore the authors , as a further marker of cell differentiation , also determined cytosolic mbp levels by cell fractionation and western blotting analysis . treatment of the cells for 4 days with 200 μm hydrogen peroxide in complete medium or 100 nm pma in absence of serum decreases cytosolic mbp levels according with its translocation to the membrane compartment ( fig2 c ). fig2 d shows confocal microscopy images of m03 - 13 cells immunostained with antibodies directed against olig - 2 ; in not differentiated cells the signal is mainly localized in the nucleus while after the treatment with hydrogen peroxide a cytoplasmic staining of the cells became evident already after 30 min increasing further at 24 h . the effects of 100 nm pma in serum - free medium or of 200 μm hydrogen peroxide in complete medium for 1 and 4 days on α - sma , mbp or olig - 2 protein levels were also evaluated by confocal microscopy analysis . fig2 e shows that the signal derived from antibodies directed against α - sma decreased both in cells stimulated by pma and with h 2 o 2 , compared to not differentiated ( n . d .) cells . in addition , in m03 - 13 cells immunostained with antibodies directed against mbp , the signal increased in cells treated with 100 nm pma in serum - free medium , compared with not differentiated cells and accumulated in cellular processes either at 1 day or 4 days of treatment ; similar increase and cellular pattern of fluorescent signal were observed in the cells treated with 200 μm h 2 o 2 in complete medium ( fig2 f ). finally , in cells treated with 100 nm pma in serum - free medium , as well as in cells treated with 200 μm h 2 o 2 in complete medium , olig - 2 fluorescent signal progressively increased at 1 day and 4 days compared to not differentiated cells ( fig2 g ). overall these data demonstrate that stimulation of cells with low doses of hydrogen peroxide induces the differentiation of oligodendrocyte precursors to differentiated cells . in conclusion , the authors have studied the oligodendrocyte differentiation markers p - creb , p - erk1 / 2 , α - sma , mbp , machr m1 and olig - 2 and have observed that : p - creb : increases with differentiation p - erk1 / 2 : increases with differentiation α - sma : decreases with differentiation mbp : increases with differentiation machrm1 : increases with differentiation olig - 2 : translocates from nucleus to cytosol and increases with differentiation therefore , such markers are useful for diagnosis , prognosis , to follow up efficacy of a therapy and for the development of treatment for multiple sclerosis . the following examples demonstrate that incubation of human oligodendrocyte cells with biological fluids from ms patients ( csf or serum igg ) inhibits cell differentiation . csf from ms patients inhibits the differentiation of m03 - 13 cells after 24 h of treatment and after 4 days of treatment oligodendrocytes were treated for 24 h with 100 nm pma in medium without serum in absence ( differentiated , diff ) and presence of 30 % csf from control ( ctr ) or ms patients and then subjected to western blotting analysis of p - erk1 / 2 ( fig3 ), α - sma ( fig4 ) and olig - 2 ( fig5 ) levels . flow cytometric analysis of mbp protein levels ( fig6 ), pcr analysis of mbp mrna levels ( fig7 ), immunofluorescence staining and confocal microscopy analysis of olig - 2 ( fig8 and 10 ) and mbp ( fig9 ) were also performed . in differentiated oligodendrocytes in presence of csf from ms patients , the levels of p - erk1 / 2 and olig - 2 were significantly lower and the levels of α - sma significantly higher compared to controls ( fig3 , 4 , 5 , respectively ). the protein and mrna levels of mbp were significantly lower compared to those in presence of csf from control patients ( fig6 , 7 , 9 ). finally , csf from ms patients completely inhibits olig - 2 translocation from nucleus to cytosol in oligodendrocytes differentiated for 24 h ( fig8 ). moreover confocal analysis confirmed that olig - 2 levels were significantly lower compared to those in presence of csf from control patients ( fig1 ). oligodendrocytes were treated for 4 days with 100 nm pma in medium without serum in absence ( differentiated , diff .) and presence of 30 % csf from control ( n ) or ms patients and then subjected to confocal analysis of α - sma , mbp , and olig - 2 . in oligodendrocytes differentiated in presence of csf from ms patients the levels of α - sma ( fig1 ) were significantly lower and the levels of mbp ( fig1 ) and olig - 2 ( fig1 ) significantly higher compared to those in the csf of control patients . 30 min exposure to csf from ms patients inhibits late differentiation of m03 - 13 cells it is known that creb is a mediator of signal transduction pathways that operates at different stages of oligodendrocyte development and differentiation . in particular , the expression pattern of creb protein suggests a role of this protein at the later stages of differentiation . for this reason , the authors have also evaluated the effects of csf from ms patients on p - creb protein levels in oligodendrocytes differentiated for 4 days . thirty min exposure of the cells with csf from ms patients reduces p - creb protein levels compared to csf from controls ( fig1 ). serum iggs from ms patients inhibit differentiation : decrease of p - erk1 / 2 levels the authors have analyzed the effects of serum igg from ms patients on p - erk1 / 2 levels . serum igg from ms patients reduced p - erk1 / 2 levels compared to those found in samples incubated in the presence of igg of control patients either at 30 min ( fig1 ) or 24 h of differentiation ( fig1 ). serum iggs from ms patients inhibit differentiation : decrease of p - creb levels the authors have analyzed the effects of serum igg from ms patients on p - creb levels after 30 min of differentiation . serum igg from ms patients reduced p - creb levels compared to those in controls ( fig1 ). serum iggs from ms patients inhibit differentiation : decrease of olig - 2 levels the authors have analyzed the effects of serum igg from ms patients on olig - 2 levels . serum igg from ms patients reduced olig - 2 levels compared to those found in samples incubated in the presence of serum igg of control patients at 24 h of differentiation ( fig1 ). serum iggs from ms patients inhibit differentiation : increase of α - sma protein and mrna levels the authors have analyzed the effects of serum igg from ms patients on α - sma protein and mrna levels after 24 h of differentiation . serum igg from ms patients increased α - sma protein levels after 1d ( fig1 ) and 4d ( fig2 ) differentiation and mrna ( fig2 ) levels after 1d differentiation compared to those of samples incubated with serum igg of control patients . serum iggs from ms patients inhibit differentiation : decrease of mbp protein levels the authors have analyzed the effects of serum igg from ms patients on total ( by flow cytometry and confocal analysis ) and cytosolic mbp protein levels by western blotting analysis , after 24 h of differentiation . either total or cytosolic mbp protein levels were significantly lower in cells treated with serum igg from ms compared to those in samples incubated with serum igg of control patients ( fig2 , 23 , 24 ). in addition , the effects of serum igg from ms patients on total mbp protein levels by confocal analysis , after 4 days of differentiation were measured . mbp protein levels were significantly lower in cells treated with serum igg from ms compared to those in cells treated with igg of control patients ( fig2 ). serum iggs from ms patients interfere with translocation from nucleus to cytosol of olig - 2 after 24 of differentiation and decrease olig - 2 levels after 24 h and 4 days of differentiation the authors have analyzed the effects of serum igg from ms patients on olig - 2 localization by confocal microscopy . serum igg from ms patients inhibits the translocation of olig - 2 from nucleus to cytosol after 24 h of differentiation ( fig2 ). in addition , the effects of serum igg from ms patients on olig - 2 protein levels by confocal analysis , after 1 and 4 days of differentiation were measured . olig - 2 protein levels were significantly lower in cells treated with serum igg from ms compared to those in cells treated with serum igg from control patients after 1d ( fig2 ) and 4d ( fig2 ). serum iggs from ms patients inhibit differentiation : decrease in machr m1 protein levels the authors have analyzed the effects of serum igg from ms patients on machr m1 protein levels after 4 days of differentiation . serum igg from ms patients decreased machr m1 protein levels compared to those found in samples from serum iggs of control patients ( fig2 ). to ascertain whether the effects of biological fluids from ms patients on several differentiation markers were specific for oligodendrocyte cells , the authors carried out experiments on mouse cortical primary neurons and on hek293 cells . the mouse neurons were incubated for 30 min with csf from ms or control patients and p - creb levels were analyzed ( fig3 a ). in another set of experiments mouse neurons were stimulated for 30 min with serum iggs from ms and control patients and p - creb ( fig3 b ), α - sma ( fig3 c ) or p - erk1 / 2 ( fig3 d ) levels were analyzed . none of these experiments highlighted differences in the expression of differentiation markers between the two experimental groups . the authors also tested the effects of serum iggs from one control and from two ms patients on p - erk1 / 2 levels after 24 h of differentiation in both m03 - 13 cells and hek293 cells . fig3 shows that serum iggs from ms patients decreased p - erk1 / 2 protein levels in oligodendrocyte cells compared to differentiated cells , while did not affect p - erk1 / 2 levels in hek293 cells demonstrating the cell specificity of the effects of serum igg from ms patients . in conclusion , the authors have studied the oligodendrocyte differentiation markers p - creb , p - erk1 / 2 , α - sma , mbp , machr m1 and olig - 2 in the presence of differentiation stimulus and ms biological samples and have observed that : p - 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