Patent Application: US-52613695-A

Abstract:
provided are dna sequences , recombinant dna molecules and hosts transformed with them which produce annexin xi polypeptides and methods of making and using these products . also provided are antibodies generated against all or an immunogenic portion of annexin xi and methods for using these antibodies .

Description:
fig1 . panel a depicts the nucleotide sequence ( seq id no : 1 ) [ and ] of clone pct101 . fig1 . panel b depicts the deduced amino acid sequence ( seq id no : 2 ) of clone pct101 . nucleotides are numbered from the 5 &# 39 ;- proximal atg , which precedes the single open reading frame . amino acids are represented by the single letter code . the 3 &# 39 ; end of the pct101 clone is indicated . the four nucleotides from the end of pct101 to the poly ( a ) tail were derived from the overlapping pct20 clone ; fig2 depicts a comparison between the annexin xi amino acid sequence ( seq id no : 4 ) predicted from pct101 and the sequences of two other annexins ( seq id no . 13 ), ( seq id no . 14 ); fig3 depicts a comparison between the sequence of the spa ( panel a ) ( seq id no : 15 )-( seq id no : 23 ) and est peptides ( panel b ) ( seq id no : 24 )-( seq id no : 32 ) and portions several annexins ; fig4 depicts the nucleotide sequence of clone pct105 ( seq id no : 3 ); fig5 depicts the deduced amino acid sequence of clone pct105 ( seq id no : 4 ). the bracketed sequence is present in bovine type ii annexin xi , but not in bovine type i annexin xi ; fig6 depicts the nucleotide sequences in the regions of the exon - intron junctions of the bovine annexin xi gene ( seq id no : 33 )-( seq id no : 36 ). annexin xi clones were originally isolated from a chondrocyte cdna lambda gtll library . the largest , pct20 , had an insert approximately half the size of the predominant species detected using this cdna as a probe on northern blots of chondrocyte rna . analysis of clones indicated that internal ecori sites in the cdnas were not methylated to protect against subsequent digestion by this restriction enzyme during construction of the cdna library . subsequently , clones corresponding to full - length mrna were isolated from an additional chondrocyte cdna library and a synovial cell cdna library prepared as described below . chondrocytes were isolated by collagenase - digestion from articular cartilage of radial carpal joints of 7 to 11 day old calves according to towle et al . ( biochem . biophys . res . comm . 121 : 134 , 1984 ). cells were washed and resuspended in dulbecco &# 39 ; s modified eagle &# 39 ; s medium ( dmem ) with 5 % fetal calf serum , and plated at 10 6 cells per cm 2 in 75 cm 2 flasks . synovial tissue was excised from the same radial carpal joints and cleaned of adherent connective and fat tissue . minced tissue was incubated for 4 h in 0 . 08 % clostridial collagenase . partially - digested tissue was rinsed and placed in 75 cm 2 flasks (˜ 2 gm per flask ) in dmem . cultures were incubated for 3 days during which time synovial cells adhered to the culture flasks . synovial tissue was removed , medium replaced and cultures incubated until cells appeared confluent . confluent cells were removed from the flask by trypsin treatment ( 0 . 25 %) and passaged by dividing cells from one flask into three . cells were cultured at 37 ° in a humidified atmosphere of 5 % co 2 95 % air . chondrocytes and synovial cells were maintained in dmem supplemented with ascorbate ( 50 μg / ml ), hepes ( 10 mm ) ph 7 . 3 , penicillin ( 100 units / ml ), and streptomycin ( 50 μg / ml ) and 10 % fetal calf serum except where indicated . chondrocytes in primary culture were incubated in dmem containing 5 % fetal calf for 24 h . medium was replaced with serum - free dmem and incubation continued for 24 h prior to harvesting cells for rna extraction . total cellular rna was extracted from cell cultures using the guanidinium thiocyanate - phenol - chloroform procedure ( chomczynski et al ., anal . biochem . 162 : 156 , 1987 ). routine manipulations and analysis of nucleic acids were as described by sambrook et al . ( molecular cloning : a laboratory manual , cold spring harbor press , cold spring harbor , n . y ., 1989 ). double - stranded cdna was synthesized using oligo ( dt ) 12 - 18 as a primer on 5 μg oligo ( dt )- selected chondrocyte or synovial cell rna . synthesis utilized moloney murine leukemia virus reverse transcriptase , ribonuclease h and dna polymerase i using the cdna synthesis kit from pharmacia ( piscataway , n . j .). [ α 32 p ] dctp was included to monitor cdna size . blunt ends were generated with klenow fragment of dna polymerase i and the cdnas ligated with not i / eco ri adapters exactly as described by pharmacia . adaptor - modified cdnas were phosphorylated and size selected on sepharose 4b ( pharmacia ). double stranded cdnas larger than ˜ 1 . 4 kb were ligated into dephosphorylated eco ri - cut lambda zap ii ( stratagene , la jolla , calif .) recombinant phage were packaged using the packagene system ( promega , madison , wis .) and plated on xl1 - blue cells . annexin xi was initially identified by expression - library screening of a chondrocyte cdna library in lambda gt11 using an antibody to the 57 kd latent form of the matrix metalloprotease stromelysin . the antiserum was raised by immunizing a rabbit with stromelysin purified from bovine cartilage - conditioned medium ( treadwell et al ., arch . biochem . biophys . 251 : 724 , 1986 ). the predominant protein in this preparation was stromelysin , but we believe the annexin protein was present as a minor contaminant in the immunizing material . several cross - hybridizing partial cdnas were identified in the lambda gtll library and the largest ( 1 . 2 kb ) was subcloned into puc19 and m13 vectors for probe generation , restriction analysis and sequencing . purified cdna insert from a selected recombinant plasmid ( pct20 ) was labeled with [ α 32 p ] dctp by random - primed synthesis ( feinberg et al ., anal . biochem . 137 : 266 , 1984 ) and used to screen un - amplified , size - selected (& gt ; 1 . 4 kb ) chondrocyte and synovial cell cdna libraries generated in the lambda zap ii vector ( described above ). approximately 150 , 000 independent recombinant phage were screened , and approximately one in 10 , 000 hybridized with the pct20 probe ( one in 30 , 000 for the synovial cell library ). four cdna clones , with inserts approximately 2300 nucleotides long , were selected for further analysis . pbluescript sk (-) phagemids were released from cross - hybridizing clones by the in vivo excision procedure and recovered by plating on xl1 - blue cells grown at 42 ° in the presence of ampicillin as described by stratagene . fragments generated by digestion of each of these cdnas with restriction endonucleases were analyzed and subcloned into m13mp18 and m13mp19 phages . single stranded dnas from two clones ( pct101 and pct105 ) were completely sequenced on both strands by the dideoxy chain - termination method using the primer within m13 or primers based on internal cdna sequences . unmodified t7 dna polymerase was used with [ in conjunction with ] deaza - dgtp [ was used ] to resolve ambiguous sequences near the 5 &# 39 ; end . the cdnas within pct101 and pct105 were identical except for a short segment , 108 base pairs in pct101 and 114 in pct105 , near the 5 &# 39 ; end . additional sequence data ( approximately 200 bases in from the internal and flanking eco ri sites ) were obtained from cross - hybridizing clones . fig1 a and 1b shows the amino acid sequence predicted from nucleotide sequence of pct101 cdna . the 2300 base - pair cdna lacks sequence corresponding to a poly ( a ) tail but has two potential polyadenylation signals . the two potential polyadenylation signals and putative ribosome binding sites are underlined . a poly ( a ) sequence terminates pct20 , an overlapping partial clone from the original lambda gtll library corresponding to mrna polyadenylated downstream from the somewhat unusual signal ( auuaaa ) at nucleotide 2182 . clones representing mrnas polyadenylated at the internal signal ( nucleotide 1797 ) were not found . furthermore , transcripts detected by northern blot hybridization were ˜ 2 . 4 kb and not ˜ 2 . 2 kb as expected for mrna utilizing the internal polyadenylation signal . assuming a poly ( a ) tail of 100 to 200 nucleotides , pct101 appears to be a complete or nearly complete copy of the mrna . pct125 , cloned from the synovial cell library , is identical to pct101 at the 5 &# 39 ; end . the most 5 &# 39 ;- proximal atg in pct101 exists in a context resembling the consensus sequence for eukaryotic initiation codons ( kozak , j . mol . biol . 196 : 947 , 1987 ). nucleotides are numbered from this potential initiation codon ; however , the surrounding sequence is not optimal for translation initiation , and no upstream termination codon interrupts the open reading frame extending from the 5 &# 39 ; end of the cdna to the tga at position 1507 . it remains possible that pct101 and pct105 cdnas are incomplete and that the coding region extends beyond the 5 &# 39 ; ends of these clones . assuming that the 5 &# 39 ; atg opens the coding region , a 502 amino acid - protein with a calculated molecular mass of 54 , 018 daltons ( including methionine ) and isoelectric point 7 . 66 is predicted by this cdna . the deduced protein sequence was used to search protein data bases for similar proteins . dna and protein sequence data were analyzed using the genetics computer group sequence analysis software package . the blast network service of the national center for biotechnology information was used to search the following protein databases : protein identification resource release 30 . 0 , swiss protein release 20 . 0 , and translated genbank release 70 . 1 , update to 8 / 30 / 91 . annexin family proteins were retrieved , those most similar being annexins iv , vii , and the first tetrad of vi ( 61 , 58 , and 59 % identity , respectively , within the core domain ). the non - conserved amino terminal domain , however , resembles only annexin vii . this similarity is a reflection of the simple amino acid composition of these domains , which are rich in glycine , tyrosine , and proline with frequent occurrence of the tripeptide tyr - pro - gly . alignment of annexin xi with sequences of human annexin vii ( synexin ) and bovine annexin iv is shown in fig2 . annexin repeats in the core domain are aligned and displayed according to the scheme of pepinsky et al . ( j . biol . chem . 263 : 10799 , 1988 ). the amino terminal domains of annexins xi and vii were aligned using the gap program by the introduction of two gaps ( shown as dots ). the 17 amino acid consensus sequence is underlined . analysis of the deduced annexin xi protein revealed the presence of several characteristic motifs in addition to the annexin repeats . a potential site for asparagine - linked glycosylation exists within the amino terminal domain . however , there is no obvious signal sequence , and analysis of the protein in cell extracts using anti - peptide antibodies ( see below ) indicated an intracellular localization . numerous serine and threonine residues are potential targets for phosphorylation by protein kinase c and casein kinase ii . whether these sites are actually phosphorylated has not been determined . in order to identify annexin xi protein in cells , antisera were generated against two peptides predicted from sequence of pct101 cdna ( the sequences of the peptides are double - underlined in fig2 ). peptides were synthesized corresponding to a sequence in the amino terminal domain ( spa peptide : amino acids 181 - 193 of pct101 ) and a sequence in the connecting peptide between the second and third repeat of the annexin core domain ( est peptide : amino acids 345 - 357 of pct101 ), both non - conserved regions among annexins . fig3 illustrates a comparison of the annexin xi sequences used for synthetic peptides with other annexin proteins and shows that these peptides are derived from regions which are not conserved among annexins . to generate this figure , the annexin xi sequence was aligned using the bestfit program with sequences of other annexins . human lipocortins ( annexins ) i , iii and v ( pepinsky et al . ( supra ), annexin vi ( sudhof et al ., proc . natl . acad . u . s . a ., 85 : 664 , 1988 ), synexin ( annexin vii ) ( burns et al ., proc . natl . acad . sci . u . s . a . 86 : 3798 , 1989 ), and vac - β ( annexin viii ) ( hauptmann et al ., eur . j . biochem . 185 : 63 , 1989 ) and bovine sequences for calpactin i heavy chain ( annexin ii ) ( kristensen et al ., biochemistry 25 : 4497 , 1986 ) and annexin iv ( hamman et al ., biochem . biophys . res . comm ., 156 : 660 , 1988 ) are shown . shaded residues correspond to positions of identity between the respective protein and the synthetic peptide . asterisks indicate residues not present in the short amino terminal domains of annexins iv and v , which initiate within the range of the peptides . the peptides were separately conjugated to klh using mbs ( harlow et al ., antibodies : a laboratory manual , cold spring harbor press , cold spring , harbor , n . y ., 1988 ). cysteine residues were added to the carboxy terminus of each peptide for the purpose of coupling to carrier protein . rabbits were immunized according to the following protocol . three rabbits were injected subcutaneously with each peptide - klh conjugate ( 150 to 200 μg peptide ) emulsified in complete freund &# 39 ; s adjuvant ; at 21 - day intervals , animals were boosted with the same antigens in incomplete freund &# 39 ; s adjuvant . they were bled 10 days after injection and the sera tested by direct binding enzyme - linked immunosorbent assay using a 96 - well plate coated with ˜ 50 ng free peptide per well . peptides were conjugated directly to aminoethyl bio - gel p2 ( biorad laboratories ) ( cole et al ., cell 64 : 703 , 1991 ). briefly , 50 μl mbs ( 25 mg / ml in dimethyl formamide ) was added to 10 mg resin ( hydrated according to manufacturers recommendations ) in 1 . 0 ml 10 mm kpo 4 ph 7 . 4 . resin was mixed gently for 1 h , washed with ice - cold phosphate buffer , and resuspended in 0 . 5 ml 10 mm hepes ( ph 6 . 6 ) containing 1 mg synthetic peptide . conjugation proceeded for 3 h . 2 - mercaptoethanol was added to a concentration of 10 mm , and after 30 min , the resin was washed with 20 mm tris - hcl , 150 mm nacl , 0 . 02 % nan 3 ph 7 . 8 ( tbs ). 200 μl antiserum was diluted to 10 ml with tbst ( tbs with 0 . 05 % tween 20 ) and mixed for 1 h with the respective resin conjugate . the resin was washed with five volumes of tbst . bound antibody was eluted with 250 μl glycine hcl , 100 mm nacl ph 2 . 5 and neutralized with tris base . the rabbit antisera were evaluated by immunoblot analysis of chondrocyte extracts and immuno - precipitation of annexin xi translated from rna transcribed in vitro from pct101 . for immunoblot analysis proteins which were extracted from chondrocyte monolayer cultures with egta and triton x - 100 were reduced and resolved ( 200 μg per lane ) on sds 9 % polyacrylamide gels . proteins were transferred to immobilon and visualized by immunochemical staining using antiserum to spa - peptide at 1 : 3 , 500 dilution as a primary antibody , the same antiserum pre - incubated 15 min with 5 μg spa peptide , antibody affinity - purified from the same antiserum on spa - peptide conjugated to amino - ethyl resin , antiserum to the est - peptide at 1 : 1000 dilution , and the same antiserum preincubated with 5 μg of the est - peptide , antibody affinity - purified from the same antiserum using the est - peptide - resin conjugate or by staining with coomassie blue . phosphorylase b ( 92 kda ) bovine serum albumin ( 68 kda ), ovalbumin ( 45 kda ), and carbonic anhydrase ( 30 kda ) were used to estimate molecular mass . for protein translated in the presence of [ 35 s ] methionine from rna transcribed in vitro from pct101 rna was immunoprecipitated as described using anti - peptide antisera and resolved by sds - page . antiserum to spa - peptide , the same antiserum preincubated with 5 μg spa - peptide , the same antiserum preincubated with 5 μg spa - peptide , antiserum to est - peptide , or the same antiserum preincubated with 5 μg est - peptide . antisera prepared against the two synthetic peptides each identified a ˜ 56 kda protein in chondrocyte extracts . the anti - spa serum reacted very strongly and quite specifically with this protein on immunoblots , while un - purified anti - est serum recognized multiple proteins in addition to the ˜ 56 kda protein . the protein translated from rna transcribed in vitro from pct101 co - migrated on sds - page with the ˜ 56 kda immunoreactive chondrocyte protein and was immunoprecipitated by each antiserum . furthermore , preincubation of each antiserum with the corresponding free peptide prevented both immunoprecipitation and detection of protein on immunoblots . these results demonstrate the specificity of the anti - peptide antisera and identify a chondrocyte protein , ˜ 56 , 000 molecular weight , as annexin xi . northern blot analysis of chondrocyte rna demonstrated that pct101 cdna probes hybridized to produce a single major signal slightly above 2 . 4 kb . ( a minor signal occasionally visible near the position of 28 s ribosomal rna probably represents unprocessed or partially - processed transcript , since it was not evident in oligo - dt - selected rna .) annexin xi transcripts were present at comparable levels in a variety of specialized bovine cells including chondrocytes , synovial cells at third passage , sbac adrenal cortical cells , and mdbk kidney epithelial cells . annexin xi was identified among proteins extracted from bovine cells using anti - peptide antibodies on immunoblots . the ˜ 56 kda protein was present in approximately equal relative abundance in egta - triton extracts prepared from each cell type . protocols for northern blot analysis and immunoblot analysis are described below . annexin xi recombinant plasmid pct10 was linearized by digestion with hind iii , which cleaves within the multiple cloning site downstream from the cdna insert . one μg plasmid was transcribed using t3 rna polymerase and the pharmacia in vitro transcription kit following the recommendations of the supplier for the 7 - methyl guanosine capping protocol and dnaase i digestion . reaction products were extracted with phenol and chloroform , precipitated with sodium acetate and ethanol , and dissolved in 20 μl water . one μl of rna was translated 60 min at 37 ° in a 10 μl reaction using micrococcal nuclease - treated rabbit reticulocyte lysate ( promega ) supplemented with [ 35 s ] methionine . chondrocytes and cells from established bovine cell lines were placed in 75 cm 2 flasks and cultured for 3 days , medium being changed 24 h before extraction of cell proteins . protein extraction from confluent monolayers was performed on ice . cells were washed twice with serum - free minimal eagle &# 39 ; s medium . five ml buffer a ( tbs with 10 mm egta ) was added to each flask . the protein in the &# 34 ; egta extract &# 34 ; was recovered after 5 min . five ml buffer a containing 0 . 5 triton x - 100 was added to each flask , and after 5 min the &# 34 ; egta - triton &# 34 ; extract was recovered . protein solutions were stored in aliquots at - 40 ° prior to immunoblot analysis . translation products were diluted to 100 μl with sds - page sample buffer containing 1 % 2 - mercaptoethanol and boiled for 3 min . samples were centrifuged 12 , 000 g 5 min and the supernatants diluted with four volumes of tbs containing 1 % triton x - 100 , 0 . 5 % tween 20 , 10 mm edta , 1 μg / ml aprotinin . antiserum ( 2 μl ) was added , mixtures were incubated for 1 h , and the immune complexes were captured on protein a sepharose . beads were washed with the same buffer . four bovine cell lines were obtained as frozen cells from american type culture collection , rockville , md . these cell lines are described by the supplier as follows : sbac is a normal endocrine cell line derived from adrenal cortex and responsive to adrenocorticotropic hormone . cpae are normal endothelial cells derived from pulmonary artery and possessing angiotensin - converting enzyme activity . mdbk are hypo - diploid kidney cells of epithelial - like morphology . ebtr cells are normal and hypo - diploid fibroblast - like cells derived from embryonic trachea . frozen cells were thawed and diluted to 3 × 10 5 cells / ml in minimum essential eagle &# 39 ; s medium with non - essential amino acids and earle &# 39 ; s balanced salt solution . medium was supplemented with heat inactivated newborn calf serum at 10 % ( 20 % for cpae cells ). cells were cultured in 75 cm 2 flasks , with media changes at three - day intervals , until confluent . cells were passaged as for synovial cells . synovial cells ( third passage ) and cells from bovine cell lines were incubated three days after sub - culturing , medium being replaced 24 h before extraction of rna for northern blot analysis . ten to 15 μg total rna was resolved on 1 % agarose formaldehyde gels and transferred to nitrocellulose by capillary blotting . blots were baked under vacuum and prehybridized in 5 × sspe ( 1 × is 180 mm nacl , 10 mm napo 4 , 1 mm edta , ph 7 . 7 ), 50 % formamide , 1 % n - lauryl sarcosine , 1 × denhardt &# 39 ; s ( ficoll , polyvinyl pyrrolidone , and bovine serum albumin each at 0 . 02 %), and 100 μg / ml boiled , sonicated salmon sperm dna . cdna inserts of plasmids were purified on low gel - temperature agarose and labeled with [ α 32 p ] dctp by random primed synthesis ( feinberg et al ., supra ). probes were denatured by boiling and added at 10 ng / ml to the same buffer used for hybridization . hybridization was for 18 h at 42 °. blots were washed at 65 ° with 0 . 2 × sspe 1 % n lauryl sarcosine . nitrocellulose was exposed to x - ray film with intensifying screen at - 40 ° c . for 1 - 3 days . proteins present in acetone - or immuno - precipitates , were solubilized by boiling 3 min in 25 μl sds sample buffer containing 2 % 2 - mercaptoethanol . proteins were resolved on 9 % polyacrylamide gels . gels were equilibrated with 20 mm tris base , 150 mm glycine , 15 % methanol and the resolved proteins electrophoretically transferred to immobilon . membranes were blocked by incubation for 1 hr at 37 ° in 3 % gelatin prepared in tbs . membranes were incubated for 1 hr with antisera or affinity - purified anti - peptide antibodies ( 10 to 50 ng per ml in tbst 1 % gelatin ), washed with tbst , and incubated 1 hr with 1 : 7500 dilution of alkaline phosphatase - conjugated goat anti - rabbit igg ( promega ). the blots were washed with tbst and developed with nitroblue tetrazolium and 5 - bromo - 4 - chloro - 3 - indolyl phosphate as the chromogenic substrate . there is a potential site of n - linked glycosylation within the amino terminal domain . to determine whether annexin xi protein was glycosylated on asparagine , protein extracted from chondrocytes by egta and triton x - 100 was incubated with n - glycanase and then subjected to immunoblot analysis using anti - peptide antibodies . enzymatic treatment did not alter the mobility of the immunoreactive species on sds - page . furthermore , annexin xi was undetectable in chondrocyte culture medium or the egta - extract of live cells but was extracted by egta in the absence of detergent from hypotonically - lysed chondrocytes ( results not shown ). these observations suggest that annexin xi was predominantly intracellular . described below are a series of experiments demonstrating the existence of alternatively spliced annexin xi transcripts capable of encoding proteins which differ near the amino terminus . clones pct101 and pct105 represent these distinct forms of bovine annexin xi ( type i and type ii respectively ). the pct105 and pct101 cdnas were identical except for a short segment , 109 bp in pct101 and 115 bp in pct105 , where the two sequences were completely different ; this sequence divergence within the pct101 coding regions did not disrupt the reading frame . translation of the two species of mrna would result in two kinds of annexin xi proteins differing at the amino terminal ends . fig4 depicts the partial nucleotide ( seq id no : 3 ) of the pct105 cdna clone ; fig5 depicts the deduced amino acid sequence ( seq id no : 4 ) of the pct105 cdna clone . the 5 &# 39 ; proximal atg common to both annexin xi cdnas approximates the consensus initiation context defined by kozak ( j . mol . biol . 196 : 947 , 1987 ). this is most likely used to initiate the type i protein , since alternative sites would result in a protein substantially different in size from the ˜ 56 kda annexin xi identified by immunoblotting using anti - peptide antisera . however , three additional in frame methionine codons exist within the variant region of the type ii mrna , and one conforms even more closely to the consensus initiation sequence . should this alternative site be utilized for translation initiation , the product would be a ˜ 49 kd polypeptide . this polypeptide would include a stretch of twelve neutral , mostly hydrophobic residues near the amino terminus . the sequence weakly conforms to the consensus signal sequence defined by von heijne ( j . mol . biol . 184 : 99 , 1985 ), suggesting that at least some annexin xi may be secreted by the conventional route to function extracellularly . the antibodies described above would recognize both forms of annexin xi and therefore cannot be used to determine whether both transcripts are translated . the two proteins could be distinguished by size if the internal methionine codon initiated translation of the type ii protein . immunoblot analysis of bovine chondrocyte extracts using anti - peptide antisera described above identified a 56 kda protein . a minor 50 kda protein visible on a blot from an over - loaded ( 500 μg protein ) sds polyacrylamide gel may represent type ii protein or a type i degradation product . anti - peptide antisera based on the sequence predicted from the variant regions of pct101 and pct105 can likely be used for analysis of the two annexin xi isoforms . type i and type ii specific labeled oligonucleotide probes were used in an attempt to identify the two annexin xi transcripts by northern blot analysis . type i transcripts were readily visualized ; however , type ii transcripts were not observed , even on blots of 20 μg polya + chondrocyte rna . accordingly , type ii mrna , if present , is expressed at much lower levels than type i mrna in this cell type . in order to verify that the pct105 clone represented an annexin xi transcript , cdnas reverse transcribed from chondrocyte or mdbk cell rna were analyzed by polymerase chain reaction ( pcr ) amplification . the strategy was to co - amplify cdnas derived from the two classes of mrna using pairs of primers that span the region of sequence divergence identified in the pct101 and pct105 clones . to increase the specificity of pcr , we carried out two sequential sets of 28 - cycle reactions using different pairs of specific primers . c : aggtttggcacgttggatcctccaa ( seq id no : 7 ) common to pct101 and pct105 ( antisense ) restriction sites introduced to facilitate cloning of pcr products are underlined . all oligonucleotides were purchased from oligos etc . ( medford , oreg .). some of these oligonucleotides were also used as sequencing primers and hybridization probes for anlysis of pcr products and clones . pcr amplifications were carried out in a biosycler thermal cycler ( bios corp ., new haven , conn .). reaction mixtures ( 100 μl ) contained 100 pmol of each primer , 200 μm each of the four deoxynucleoside triphosphates , 5 units taq polymerase ( promega , madison , wis . ), and template ; the buffer supplied by promega was optimized with respect to mg + 2 concentration for each primer pair using cdna templates . aliquots of pcr products , untreated or digested with restriction endonucleases that cut within the variant regions of pct101 and pct105 , were resolved by agarose gel electrophoresis and transferred to biotrans nylon membranes ( icn , irvine , calif .). oligonucleotides designed from the variant region sequences ( d - h ) were labeled at the 5 &# 39 ;- ends using t4 polynucleotide kinase for use as hybridization probes . cell culture and rna extraction were as described above . complimentary dna was synthesized in a 15 μl reaction using moloney murine leukemia virus reverse transcriptase and the first strand cdna synthesis kit from pharmacia ( piscataway , n . j .). the supplied notl - oligo d ( t ) 18 oligonucleotide served to prime synthesis on 3 μg total rna from chondrocytes or mdbk ( bovine kidney epithelial ) cells . the resulting single strand cdnas ( 5 μl ) were templates for pcr using primers ( a and c ) that span the segment of sequence divergence between the pct101 and pct105 cdna clones . amplification was for 28 cycles , each consisting of a 30 sec denaturation step ( 94 °), a 30 - sec annealing ( 56 °) step , and a 30 sec extension ( 72 °) step . one μl of each product was further amplified through 28 - cycles ( same profile ) using primers b and c . in order to specifically amplify the low abundance type ii mrna , pairs of primers , one specific to pct105 and one common to both cdnas ( a and h or f and c ), were used to re - amplify the product of the first pcr ( 5 μl ). dna synthesized in the reactions was analyzed by restriction endonuclease digestion and southern blot hybridization . the amplified products and restriction fragments visualized by autoradiography were the sizes expected from cdna sequences of pct101 and pct105 . these data provide strong evidence for the presence of both classes of annexin xi transcripts in mdbk cells and chondrocytes . because the efficiency of reverse transcriptase varies with the template , this pcr assay can not be considered quantitative . however , these results taken with the fact that type ii species could not be detected on northern blots , suggest that the type ii transcript is a minor mrna in these cells . alternative splicing generates two classes of annexin xi mrna ( type i and type ii ). alternative splicing of identical annexin xi primary transcripts could generate the mrna diversity indicated by the pct101 and pct105 cdna clones . in order to determine whether the two variant sequences are encoded by the same region of the genome , various pair - wise combinations of primers corresponding to the divergent and common regions of pct101 and pct105 were used to amplify bovine genomic dna by pcr . pcr products were digested with restriction endonucleases specific to each putative exon , and the resulting dna fragments were resolved by agarose gel electrophoresis were analyzed by southern blot hybridization . the first amplification reaction contained 100 pmol each of 5 &# 39 ; primer a and 3 &# 39 ; primer c with 10 μg bovine genomic dna ( clonetech , palo alto , calif .) as template . three cycles of 1 min denaturation ( 94 °), 30 sec annealing ( 56 °), 2 . 5 min extension ( 72 °) were followed by 25 cycles with the same parameters except that the denaturation time was 30 sec . the product ( 5 μl ) of the first pcr amplification was used as the template in a second amplification ( same parameters ) employing 100 pmol each of primers b and c . the major product of the second amplification reaction , ˜ 2 . 5 kb , was cloned as two restriction fragments into pgem3z ( promega , madison , wis .). aliquots of the reaction mixture containing 200 ng of the 2 . 5 kb dna were digested with nhei for cloning into xbai - digested pgem3z or with nhei plus bamhi for ligation into xbai and bamhi digested vector . restriction digests were heat - inactivated , passed over chromaspin 400 ( clontech , palo alto , calif . ), ethanol precipitated and ligated with appropriately digested vector . competent dh5α cells ( brl , bethesda , md .) were transformed , and transformants were selected on ampicillin plates . positive colonies were identified by standard hybridization techniques using oligonucleotides labeled at the 5 &# 39 ; end . these experiments established that : 1 ) a genomic fragment ˜ 2 . 5 kb was amplified by primers designed from sequence spanning the variant regions of pct101 and pct105 ; 2 ) restriction endonucleases specific to each of the variant regions cleaved the pcr products , and 3 ) the deduced order of putative exons in the gene is 5 &# 39 ; common , type ii - specific , type i - specific , and 3 &# 39 ; common . primers bracketing the variant segment of pct101 and pct105 cdnas were used to amplify the region of the annexin xi gene containing the two putative alternatively spliced exons . the ˜ 2 . 5 kb pcr product was cloned , and the cloned dna was sequenced . fig6 depicts the nucleotide sequences in the regions of exon - intron junctions as determined by sequencing pcr clones . exons and introns were identified by comparison of the cdna sequences with that of the cloned genomic pcr product . this analysis confirms that the type i - specific and type ii - specific sequences are arranged as neighboring discrete exons in the bovine genome . the exon / intron junctions are in good agreement with consensus sequences for these regions ( mount , nucl . acids res . 10 : 459 , 1982 ). split codons , g at the 3 &# 39 ; boundary of the 5 &# 39 ; common exon spliced to gu of the type i - specific and type ii - specific exons , encode the glycine residue that precedes the divergence of the two annexin xi deduced proteins . the 3 &# 39 ; borders of these exons separate ( rather than split ) codons , as does the 5 &# 39 ; border of the 3 &# 39 ; common exon . thus , either of the two specific exons serve as the adaptor necessary to join the 5 &# 39 ; and 3 &# 39 ; common exons without shifting the reading frame . the primary transcript of a single annexin xi gene can apparently be processed into either of two different mrnas , each having one of two specific exons . such alternative splicing , the mutually - exclusive utilization of exons in the processed rna , in most cases has evolved from an exon duplication event ( breitbart et al ., ann . rev . biochem . 56 : 467 , 1987 ). while we have described alternative rna splicing as a means of generating two annexin xi gene products our experiments do not exhaust the possibilities for additional splicing variants . alternative splicing of annexin xi may be regulated . if so , identification of conditions associated with elevated expression of the type ii species might provide a clue to the function ( s ) of this novel annexin . such conditions would also facilitate an examination of the biosynthetic processing of the two types of protein . human annexin xi can be easily cloned from an appropriate cdna library using bovine annexin xi cdna as a probe . suitable cdna libraries include : human monocyte , u937 cells , phorbol myristate - stimulated , human adrenal , and human kidney ( clontech , palo alto , calif .). purified cdna insert from pct101 or pct105 can be labeled with [ α 32 p ] dntp by random - primed synthesis ( feinberg et al ., supra ) and used to screen an appropriate human cdna library . positive clones can be sequenced and should have & gt ; 80 % homology to bovine annexin xi . in an alternative approach , oligonucleotide probes , designed based on the sequence of bovine annexin xi ( seq id no : 1 ), can be used to isolate a bovine annexin xi clone from a bovine chondrocyte cdna library . this bovine annexin xi clone can be used in place of pct101 or pct105 cdna to isolate human annexin xi . oligonucleotide probes , designed based on the sequence of bovine annexin xi ( seq id no : 1 ) may be used to directly screen a human cdna library as described above . those skilled in the art will recognize that the probes should be selected from regions of bovine annexin xi that are not significantly homologous to other annexins ( e . g ., annexin vii or annexin iv ). in another alternative approach , the oligonucleotide primers described above ( seq id no : 5 and seq id no : 7 ) can be used to amplify a human annexin xi fragment from human genomic dna ( e . g ., available from clontech , palo alto , calif .) by polymerase chain reaction . the amplified fragment is then 32 p - labeled , e . g ., by the random - primed synthesis method of feinberg et al . ( supra ) and used to probe a human genomic ( e . g ., a human leukocyte ) dna library in order to isolate the full - length human annexin xi clone . polypeptide fragments of annexin xi can be generated by proteolysis . limited or complete proteolysis by elastase or proteinase k can be used to generate fragments of varied length since they hydrolyze peptide bonds rather non - specifically . plasmin and other proteases which hydrolyze peptide bonds in a more structure and sequence dependent manner may also be used to generate useful polypeptide fragments . polypeptide fragments generated by proteolytic digestion can be isolated by column chromatography . fragments may also be produced by genetic engineering techniques or by standard techniques of chemical peptide synthesis . desirable polypeptide fragments are those which inhibit inflammation . such fragments may , e . g ., inhibit phospholipase a 2 activity , as measured , e . g ., using the assay described by wallner et al . ( u . s . pat . no . 4 , 950 , 646 or they may inhibit in vivo inflammation as assayed by the method of parente ( eur . j . pharmacol . 99 : 233 , 1984 ; hereby incorporated by reference ). other desirable polypeptide fragments inhibit coagulation . coagulation inhibiting activity can be measured using the assay described by reutelingsperger et al . ( eur . j . biochem . 151 : 625 , 1985 ). because annexins inhibit phospholipase a 2 activity , annexin xi and polypeptide fragments thereof will be useful for reducing inflammation associated with arthritis , allergies , dermatologic disorders , ophthalmic disorders , and collagen diseases . in addition , since annexins have anti - coagulant activity , annexin xi and polypeptide fragments thereof will be useful for inhibiting coagulation . the polypeptides of the invention can be administered in an effective amount either alone or in combination with a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier or diluent . the polypeptides and compositions can be administered alone or in combination with other therapeutic agents . if appropriate , multiple therapeutic annexin xi peptides ( e . g ., multiple biologically - active annexin xi fragments ) may be administered either simultaneously or sequentially . the polypeptides and compositions of the invention may be administered by any convenient means , e . g ., intravenously , intra - articularly , orally , intramuscularly , or intranasally . annexin xi and immunogenic polypeptide fragments thereof can be used to screen for autoantibodies associated with a variety of pathological states . similarly , antibodies raised against annexin xi and immunogenic polypeptide fragments thereof can be used to measure annexin xi levels in synovial fluid for the purpose of detecting pathologic conditions . such antibodies can be used in any standard format such as a radioimmunoassay , an elisa assay , or a western blot . increased levels of anti - annexin xi autoantibodies may be present in patients treated with corticosteroids ( e . g ., patients receiving corticosteroids as a treatment for inflammatory diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis ). it has been proposed that autoantibodies against another annexin ( lipocortin - 1 ) are responsible for &# 34 ; steroid resistance &# 34 ; in patients receiving prolonged treatment with corticosteroids ( goulding et al ., annals rheum . diseases 48 : 843 , 1989 ). accordingly , monitoring of anti - annexin xi autoantibodies may provide a means by which to monitor corticosteroid treatment . increased levels of anti - annexin xi autoantibodies may also be present in patients with inflammatory diseases such as systemic lupus erythematosus . detection of such autoantibodies using annexin xi may be useful in diagnosis of inflammatory diseases . annexin xi can be used in a radioimmunoassay , an elisa assay , a western blot , or any other standard format immunoassay to measure anti - annexin autoantibody levels in human sera or synovial fluid . such assays might employ annexin xi and detectably labeled rabbit antihuman igm or rabbit antihuman igg antibody . anti - annexin xi antibodies can be used in a standard immunoassay to measure annexin xi levels in human sera of synovial fluid . altered annexin xi levels may be associated with a number of inflammatory diseases such as arthritis . antibodies capable of specifically forming an immune complex with annexin xi can be produced by standard techniques ( see harlow et al , supra ) using intact annexin xi or immunogenic fragments thereof . annexin xi fragments can be generated by digestion of annexin xi with proteases or by synthesizing peptides chemically . __________________________________________________________________________ # sequence listing - 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