Patent Application: US-75263396-A

Abstract:
short - chain peptides replicating fragments of functional domains derived from lfa - 1 and icam - 1 parent protein sequences serve to modulate the icam / lfa binding interaction . in one aspect of the invention , this modulation serves to block interprotein binding reactivity , as a peptide of the invention binds to a target protein in a manner that precludes the normal binding reaction between icam - 1 and lfa - 1 . in another aspect of the invention , this modulation enhances the reactivity of a first peptide , as a second peptide induces a conformational change in the target protein from a first conformation to a second , more reactive , conformation . the peptides are used according to a method including the steps of providing the proteins and applying them to a population of cells .

Description:
the following examples provide , by way of example , specific methodology that may be utilized to practice preferred forms of the invention . table 1 below identifies synthetically produced amino acid residue sequences replicating functional domain polypeptide fragments from the parent proteins ( lfa - 1 and icam - 1 ) upon which they are based . parent protein amino acid residue sequences of the integrin lfa - 1 include the β or cd18 subunit ( sequence id no . 1 ) and the α or cd11a subunit ( sequence id no . 2 ). the icam - 1 or cd54 ( sequence id no . 3 ) sequence was used as another parent protein . these functional domains were selected to include suspected icam / lfa interprotein binding sites . the fragments were arbitrarily selected in sub - regions over the domains of interest as short - chain sequences for synthetic replication , with each sequence having no more than about 30 amino acid residues , in order to reduce the molecular weight and reduce the chance of provoking an immune system response in mammals injected with the peptides . these selected sequences are identified as sequence id nos . 4 - 15 in table 1 . in particular , the synthetic peptides reproduced sub - regions of sequence id no . 3 within positions 25 - 95 , and these respective sub - regions randomly overlapped . other parent protein regions included positions 130 - 160 of sequence id no . 1 , as well as sequence id no . 2 positions 260 - 290 and 465 - 495 . table 1 provides a specific positional cross - reference between the synthetic peptide sequences and the parent protein sequences according to the sequence listing . those synthetic peptide sequences having a designation including a &# 34 ; ljcrf &# 34 ; prefix were synthesized on commercial order by la jolla cancer research foundation of la jolla , calif . using a model 430a peptide synthesizer ( manufactured by abi of foster city , calif .). this entire peptide synthesis was conducted according to standard solid phase protocols employing t - butyloxy - carbamate amino acid chemistry ; i . e ., standard techniques described in atherton and sheppard , solid phase peptide synthesis , which generally follow the protein synthesis techniques as identified in merrifield , automated synthesis of peptides , 150 science 178 - 185 ( oct . 1965 ). the remaining sequences were synthesized according to the same protocols at the university of kansas , department of pharmaceutical chemistry , in lawrence , kans . table 1______________________________________short chain synthetic peptidesand sequence listing comparison to natural proteins sequence residue positionaldesignation id length comparison to______________________________________icam ( cd54 ) basedpeptides sequence id no . 3tjs - 1 - 149a 4 21 28 - 48 ( cys at position 48 of seguence id no . 3 is gly at position 21 of sequence id no . 4 ) sc - 1 - 232 5 . sub . a 22 28 - 48ljcrf - 1 6 21 28 - 48 ( cys at position 48 of ( sc - 3 - 146 ) sequence id no . 3 is gly at position 21 of sequence id no . 4 ) sc - 3 - 150 7 12 37 - 48 ( ile at position 37 of sequence id no . 3 is cys at position 1 of sequence id no . 7 ) rb - 1 - 51 8 . sub . b 12 37 - 48 ( ile at position 37 of sequence id no . 3 is cys at position 1 of sequence id no . 8 ) mc - 1 - 80 9 11 38 - 48 ( cys at position 48 of sequence id no . 3 is gly at position 11 of sequence id no . 9 ) sc - 3 - 111 10 10 28 - 37ljcrf - 2 11 25 53 - 77 ( sc - 3 - 213 ) ljcrf - 3 12 24 67 - 90ljcrf - 7 13 10 33 - 42ljcrf - 8 14 . sub . c 12 33 - 43rb - 1 - 52 15 . sub . b , c 12 33 - 43lfa - 1 β ( cd18 ) basedpeptides sequence id no . 1ljcrf - 4 16 25 134 - 159 ( met at position 139 of sequence id no . 1 was not synthetically reproduced because of the problem with oxidation of met ) lfa - 1 α ( cd11a ) basedpeptides sequence id no . 2ljcrf - 5 17 24 466 - 491 ( leu leu at positions 478 and 479 of sequence id no . 2 were not synthetically reproduced because of the prob - lem of synthesizing three leu in a row ) ljcrf - 6 18 24 262 - 286 ( arg at position 281 of sequence id no . 2 was not synthetically reproduced because the first attempt at synthesis had difficulty in replicating this residue ) rb - 1 - 88 19d 24 262 - 286 ( arg at position 281 of sequence id no . 2 was not synthetically reproduced because the first attempt at synthesis had difficulty in replicating this residue ) ______________________________________ notes : a -- xaa is coumarin . b -- cyclic peptide having a disulfide bond between cys and / or pen residues formed by dropwise addition of 2 % ( aquequs ) potassium ferricyanide solution to a dilute solution of their respective linear peptides at ph 7 . 8 . c -- xaa is penicillamine . d -- xaa is fluorescein isothiocyanate . an antibody binding assay was performed to demonstrate that peptides of the invention can change the ability of anti - lfa - 1 and anti - icam - 1 mabs to bind with to human t - cells . the t - cells were selected as molt3 cells , a leukemia - derived human t - cell line that was purchased from american type culture collection of rockville , maryland , and which had a catalog number crl - 1552 . a 1 ml quantity of the molt3 inoculum was warmed to 37 ° c . and transferred by pipette into about 25 ml of a growth culture medium including rpmi 1640 lymphocyte growth medium ( fisher scientific of st . louis , miss .) mixed with 10 % by volume fetal calf serum , 100 units / ml penicillin , 100 μg / ml streptomycin and 2 mm glutamine . the inoculated culture was incubated for three to four days at 37 ° c . under a normal atmosphere having about 5 % co 2 added thereto . this culture was capable of being maintained indefinitely by siphoning away the top ( non - cell containing ) layer and adding 50 ml ( or more ) of growth culture medium at intervals of three to four days . an aqueous buffer solution including dulbecco &# 39 ; s phosphate buffered saline and bovine serum albumin (&# 34 ;- pbs / bsa solution &# 34 ;) was prepared for use , and included a mixture of 200 mg kh 2 po 4 , 1 . 15 g na 2 hpo 4 , 100 mg cacl 2 , 200 mg kcl , 100 mg mgcl 2 . 6h 2 o , 8 g nacl , with distilled water added to a final 1 liter volume at room temperature , thus , forming a &# 34 ; pbs &# 34 ; solution of ph 7 . 4 to which was added 0 . 5 % by weight bovine serum albumin . an aliquot of about 7 ml was removed from the incubated culture medium and subjected to washing with the pbs / bsa solution . the washing procedure was initiated by placing the aliquot in a centrifuge ( model gt422 from jouan , distributed piruscio & amp ; assoc . of manchester , miss .) at 1400 rpm for 6 . 5 minutes to separate the cells from the growth medium . the supernatant fluid was decanted , a 5 ml portion of pbs / bsa solution was transferred by pipette into the pellet , and the mixture was again centrifuged as before . the resulting supernatant fluid was decanted and the cells from the pellet were resuspended in pbs / bsa solution at a titer of about 1 × 10 6 cells / ml . a 500 μl portion of the solution containing the resuspended cells was placed in a microcentrifuge ( marathon 13k / m from fisher scientific of st . louis , miss .) at 3500 rpm for six minutes , to provide a washed pellet . the washed pellet was resuspended in a 25 μl peptide cocktail including pbs solution mixed with 455 nmol of the ljcrf - 1 peptide described in table 1 above . the cells were incubated with the peptide cocktail at 37 ° c . for 45 minutes . after incubation with the peptide cocktail , several antibodies were successively mixed into the incubated solution . a 75 μl portion of anti - igm solution ( a mixture of 10 μl of goat anti - human igm stock purchased from jackson immuno research of westgrove , pa . ; and 65 μl of pbs / bsa solution ) was added to the peptide cocktail for blocking of nonspecific binding of the secondary antibody . the resulting mixture was incubated for 10 minutes on ice . about 0 . 1 μg of a primary antibody including mouse igg anti - human cd11a ( purified according to conventional protocols at the university of kansas department of pharmacology and toxicology from an american type culture hybridoma cell line having catalogue number hb - 202 ) was next stirred into the mixture , which was then incubated for 30 minutes at room temperature . the incubated mixture was placed in a microcentrifuge at 3500 rpm for six minutes to remove the cells from the mixture , and the cell pellet was washed two times by adding 500 μl aliquots of pbs / bsa solution and microfuging to remove non - bound antibodies from the cells as before . the resulting washed pellet was resuspended in 100 μl of a secondary antibody cocktail including 5 μl of fluorescein isothiocyanate (&# 34 ; fitc &# 34 ;) labeled goat anti - mouse igg ( from caltag of south san francisco , calif .) and 95 μl of pbs / bsa solution . the resulting solution was incubated for 30 minutes at room temperature in the dark . the incubated solution including the secondary antibody cocktail was microfuged at 3500 rpm for six minutes to remove the cells from the solution , and the cell pellet was washed two times with 500 μl portions of pbs / bsa solution , as before , to remove unbound antibodies . the washed pellet was resuspended in 500 μl of pbs / bsa solution , and the mixture was assayed in a flow cytometer ( facscan from becton - dickinson of san jose , calif .) to obtain a fluorescein fluorescence intensity analysis at 520 nm following laser excitation of the individual cells at 488 nm . identical peptide assays to that described above were conducted for several of the synthetic peptides listed in table 1 , using respective 455 nmol amounts of each peptide in the corresponding peptide cocktails . in these additional assays , mouse igg anti - human cd54 ( purchased from cambridge research biochemicals of wilmington , del .) was substituted for the primary antibody in each instance where the peptide was based on an lfa - 1 positional reference . the facscan computer was used to calculate the relative amount of antibody bound per cell using the computer generated median of the peak . fig2 and 3 provide sample curves produced by this instrumentation , and each includes a two dimensional plot of fluorescence intensity ( x axis ) versus relative number of cells ( y axis ) for the synthetic peptides sc - 3 - 111 ( sequence id no . 10 corresponding to an above average 51 % blocking efficiency at a 4550 μm concentration ) and ljcrf - 1 ( sequence id no . 6 corresponding to an above average 65 % blocking efficiency at 4550 μm ). in fig2 by way of example , a first sc - 3 - 111 ( sequence id no . 10 ) peptide sample median peak value at a has an intensity value of 128 . 74 . a control sample was obtained from an identical procedure to that of the sc - 3 - 111 ( sequence id no . 10 ) sample , but one without the step of adding a synthetic peptide cocktail . a control sample median peak value at b has an intensity value of 264 . 41 . accordingly , shifting of peak a away from peak b in the direction of arrow 20 indicates , by a reduction of cell fluorescence intensity values , that less mouse igg anti - human cd11a is specifically bound to the t - cells . the degree of shifting was quantified by applying a calculation for percentage change : the shifting of peak a in the negative direction of arrow 20 indicates successful antibody blocking , i . e ., the peptides modulated the antibody to t - cell binding interaction by inhibiting or blocking the antibody from attaching to its complimentary lfa or icam target . similarly , a shifting of peak a in the opposite ( positive ) direction of arrow 22 would indicate an enhanced level of binding as compared to the control . fig4 ( for sample ljcrf - 4 at 4550 μm ) is similar to fig2 and 3 , but the + 447 % curve shift occurs in a positive direction , which indicates enhancement of the anti - icam antibody binding activity , not inhibition thereof . table 2 , in part , provides a summary of the facscan results for each of the peptides from which results were obtained . most samples received multiple measurements , and the results varied appreciably for repeat tests within a given concentration . accordingly , the table 2 facscan results include an average value for all of the median intensity peak values thus obtained ; e . g ., fig4 depicts a + 447 % median peak enhancement for ljcrf - 4 at 4550 μm , which was one enhancement value out of five such values that contributed to the overall average of + 275 ± 33 in table 2 . standard error was calculated for each peptide as the standard deviation in the population of median peak intensity values divided by the square root of the number of intensity values . the results of table 2 indicate that several icam - 1 or lfa - 1 peptides having lengths from about 10 - 25 amino acid residues serve to regulate the binding of antibodies which are specific for the ligands of these peptides . for example , an icam - 1 derived peptide such as sc - 3 - 111 can bind with the ligand lfa - 1 and inhibit the binding of a monoclonal antibody that is specific for lfa - 1 . the ljcrf - 2 peptide exhibited a capacity to block antibody binding at a 4550 μm concentration , but functioned to enhance such binding at a 2275 μm concentration . an assay was performed to demonstrate that short - chain peptides can inhibit or enhance the intercellular adhesion between human t - cells by modulating the lfa / icam binding interaction between respective cells . as before , the t - cells were molt3 cells prepared in rpmi 1640 growth medium according to example 2 . an approximate 7 ml aliquot of the growth medium was centrifuged ( jouan model gt422 at 1400 rpm for 6 . 5 minutes ), and the supernatant fluid was decanted . the pellet was resuspended in the supernatant fluid at titer of about 1 × 10 6 cells / ml , with the excess supernatant fluid being retained for future resuspension of the peptides . a 228 nmol quantity of the ljcrf - 1 ( sequence id no . 6 ) peptide described in table 1 was diluted with the supernatant fluid to a 500 μl final volume , and filtered in microcentrifuge filter tubes ( 0 . 22 micron filter ; 3500 rpm for 6 minutes ). serial dilution of the filtered peptide with supernatant fluid was conducted to yield five 125 μl peptide solutions to give respective concentrations of about 115 μm , 230 μm , 460 μm , 910 μm , and 1 . 82 mm . at each concentration , a 125 μl portion of the cell suspension was pipetted into each 125 μl portion of the peptide solutions to yield combined samples having a 250 μl volume . the 250 μl samples were seeded into individual wells in a 48 - well tissue culture grade plate ( from costar of cambridge , md .) and incubated at 37 ° c . for 30 minutes . each sample received 5 μl of 2 , 5 - methyl dihydroxy cinnamate (&# 34 ; mdhc &# 34 ;) for a 10 μm final concentration , and was subsequently incubated for about 10 hours at 37 ° c . mdhc induces intercellular clumping of human t - cells ( tibbetts , butler , and benedict , submitted ) by activating the lfa / icam binding interaction between respective cells . pictures were taken of five random fields per sample using an olympus photomicroscope having a 0 . 8 mm field at 400 × magnification , and a 3 . 2 mm field of view at 100 × magnification . the amount of clumping observed was quantified by determining the mean number of clumps per field ± a standard error . the assay was repeatedly conducted for most of the short - chain peptides of table 1 , and these results are summarized below in table 2 . fig5 , and 7 replicate photographs taken from exemplary peptide assays . fig5 is a photograph of the control sample having no peptides and no mdhc added , from which essentially no clumping of cells is observed . fig6 depicts a photograph taken from a sample having mdhc added with no synthetic peptides , and demonstrates substantial clumping of cells . fig7 depicts a photograph taken from the ljcrf - 6 ( sequence id no . 18 ) peptide assay at 910 μm , and demonstrates an almost total inhibition of mdhc induced clumping activity . any sample having a score of &# 34 ;+++&# 34 ; or &# 34 ;++++&# 34 ; is considered to have a significant ability to modulate t - cell binding interaction . this is similar to results obtained by incubating similarly treated cells with antibody against either lfa or icam . the homotypic adhesion assay assesses the actual ability of a candidate peptide to modulate the ability of t - cells to adhere with one another . at high concentrations , some of these peptides can function as blockers of intercellular adhesion , while having a capacity for functioning as binding enhancers at lower concentrations in growth medium ; e . g ., icam - derived ljcrf - 2 at respective 910 and 460 μm concentrations , and lfa - derived derived ljcrf - 4 at respective 230 and 460 μm concentrations . after taking the photographs in example 3 ( and in some instances no photographs were taken ), cell metabolic activity was assessed by an mtt assay . a 37 . 5 μl portion of mtt dye ( purchased from sigma of st . louis , mo . ), i . e ., 3 - 4 , 5 - dimethyl thiazole - 2yl !- 2 , 5 - diphenyl tetrazolium bromide ; thiazolyl blue ) was added to each well , and incubated with the cells at 37 ° c . for about six hours . after incubation , a 250 μl quantity of a mtt solubilization solution ( of a type that may be purchased from either fischer scientific of st . louis , mo . or bcd labs of lawrence , kans .) was added to each well , and incubated with the cells at room temperature overnight . in the morning , the spectrophotometric absorption of each plate was determined at 570 nm in a microplate elisa reader manufactured by cambridge technologies of water - town , mass ., in order to assess cell viability as an indicator of potential peptide toxicity . the mtt assay is an index of the metabolic activity of the cells ; any decrease in mtt absorbance reflects a decrease in metabolic activity ., or indicates cell death . some samples indicated a decrease in metabolic activity , especially at the higher concentrations , e . g ., ljcrf - 5 at 1820 μm . in other samples , cellular respiration was enhanced , e . g ., mc - 1 - 80 at 910 μm . the precise reasons for the observed decrease in metabolic activity are unknown , because this decrease may be caused by a number of factors . the possible causes of a decrease in metabolic activity include peptide toxicity , peptide toxicity in combination with mdhc , a simple reduction in the cellular metabolic rate . another possible cause of metabolic decline is that the peptides may cause the bound t - cells to die by apoptosis in a process similar to the thymic winnowing of immature t - cells . t - cells have very specific antigen receptors that serve to recognize foreign or non - self antigen complexes , and receive a first signal when they contact their particular antigen . after this initial contact , t - cells are activated to become cytotoxic t - cells by a second signal , i . e ., the lfa / icam binding interaction . if the second signal never arrives , the cell is never activated , and is eventually induced to die by apoptosis . the peptides may induce this type of cellular death in these leukemic t - cells which are already activated by blocking the second signal ( cytotoxic activation signal ). accordingly , the peptides may be utilized to induce specific immune tolerance by causing the deaths of t - cells that recognize antigens that are present at a specific time of treatment . the ljcrf - 2 and ljcrf - 4 peptides (&# 34 ; modulator peptides &# 34 ;) of table 1 demonstrated a significant positive intensity shift in the corresponding facs analysis of table 2 , i . e ., a positive intensity shift indicating a capacity for enhancing the lfa / icam interaction between the t - cells and the antibody binding interaction . following these results , a further assay was performed to ascertain the effect of sequentially combining short - chain blocker peptides with the short - chain modulator peptides of the invention . it was discovered that a combination of specific blocker and modulator peptides significantly improves the level of observed binding enhancement as quantified by a flow cytometric assay using fluorescinated peptides . the antibody binding assay of example 2 was twice repeated at a peptide concentration of 4550 μm , each time substituting a 455 nmol quantity of synthetic peptide selected from the group consisting of icam - based peptide sc - 3 - 111 ( sequence id no . 10 ) and lfa - based peptide ljcrf - 4 ( sequence id no . 16 ) in respective assays . following incubation for 30 minutes at 37 ° c . after introduction of the first peptides , both incubated culture were supplemented by an additional quantity of fitc - labeled rb - 1 - 88 ( sequence id no . 19 ) peptide in a quantity sufficient to provide a 1 . 90 μm concentration in the cell / pbs solution . following addition of the rb - 1 - 88 ( sequence id no . 19 ) peptide , the mixture was incubated for 30 minutes at 4 ° c ., washed three times with 500 μl pbs / bsa , resuspended in 500 μl pbs / bsa and immediately subjected to a flow cytometer analysis as before . table 3 presents the results of this analysis , which are also depicted in fig8 ( sc - 3 - 111 ) and 9 ( ljcrf - 4 ). fig9 depicts binding of rb - 1 - 88 to t cells and the ability of ljcrf - 4 to enhance the binding . conversely , fig8 demonstrates that the sc - 3 - 111 peptide had no effect upon the ability of cell surface icam - 1 to bind rb - 1 - 88 . the results of table 3 and fig9 indicate that the ljcrf - 4 peptide significantly enhanced the binding of rb - 1 - 88 peptide to icam - 1 . similar enhancement of the rb - 1 - 88 peptide binding avidity was not observed in the presence of sc - 3 - 111 peptide , inasmuch as the negative 8 % blocking shift ( fig8 ) is probably not significant in terms of laboratory error . the peptides that serve to promote interprotein binding capacities do so according to the steps of : ( 1 ) binding to the protein ligand at a first site , and ( 2 ) changing the conformation of the protein ligand to make a second site more available for binding with the corresponding monoclonal antibody or peptide counterpart to the protein ligand . by way of example , the lfa - derived ljcrf - 4 modulator peptide inherently targets a corresponding icam protein . the resultant enhanced icam / lfa - type of reactive binding must result from a conformational change , but cannot result from phosphorylation - induced conformational changes because icam configuration is generally not influenced by cellular phosphorylation pathways . table 2__________________________________________________________________________peptide results comparison antibody bindingpeptides ( facs analysis ) homotypic adhesion mtt ( sequence id no .) tests conc . tests conc . test conc . peptide derivation run μm ! fluorescence . sup . 1 mab run effect amount μm ! runs % viability μm ! __________________________________________________________________________sc - 3111 icam - 1 11 4550 - 29 ± 2 cd11a 3 block +++ 1820 3 69 1820 ( 10 ) 6 2275 - 12 ± 4 cd11a 3 block ++++ 910 3 89 910 1 block ++ 460 2 95 460 1 block + 230 2 93 230 2 85ljcrf - 1 icam - 1 8 4550 - 29 ± 3 cd11a 2 block +++ 1820 2 66 1820 ( 6 ) 6 2275 - 12 ± 2 cd11a 2 block ++ 910 2 92 910 1 block +++ 460 2 93 460 2 94 2 112sc - 3 - 152 icam - 1 5 4550 - 43 ± 7 cd11a 2 block ++++ 1820 2 43 1820ljcrf - 2 4 2275 + 48 ± 8 cd11a 1 block +++ 910 2 38 910 ( 11 ) 1 enhance ++ 460 2 38 460 1 enhance +++ 230 2 38 230 2 38ljcrf - 3 icam - 1 2 4550 - 13 ± 19 cd11a 2 38 ( 12 ) 2 38 1 111 1 109 1 111 1 97mc - 1 - 80 icam - 1 1 125 ( 9 ) 1 108 1 89 1 110ljcrf - 4 lfa - 1β 1 6825 + 521 cd54 1 block +++ 1820 2 11 1820 ( 16 ) 5 4550 + 275 ± 33 cds4 1 block ++++ 910 3 60 910 2 2275 + 3 ± 1 cd54 1 block ++++ 460 3 94 460 1 enhance +++ 230 3 101 230 1 enhance +++ 115 3 99 115sc - 3 - 223 lfa - 1β 2 block ++++ 1820 1 75 1820 identical to 2 block ++++ 910 1 108 910ljcrf - 4 ! 1 block +++ 460 1 112 460 ( 16 ) 1 block +++ 230 1 109 230 1 block ++ 115 1 103 115ljcrf - 5 lfa - 1α 1 4550 - 17 cd54 1 block ++++ 1820 3 20 1820 ( 17 ) 1 block ++++ 910 3 52 910 1 block ++ 460 2 81 460 1 block ++ 230 2 84 230 1 block ++ 115 2 95 115ljcrf - 6 lfa - 1α 1 4550 - 4 cd54 1 block +++ 1820 1820 ( 18 ) insert 1 111 1 109 1 111 1 97__________________________________________________________________________ . sup . 1 % change from control of the medium fluorescence intensity table 3______________________________________sequentially combinedblocker and modulator peptidespeptide sequence id facs analysis ( rb - 1 - 88 binding ) ______________________________________sc - 3 - 111 10 - 8ljcrf - 4 16 + 145______________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________sequence listing ( 1 ) general information :( iii ) number of sequences : 19 ( 2 ) information for seq id no : 1 :( i ) sequence characteristics :( a ) length : 769 amino acids ( b ) type : amino acid ( d ) topology : both ( ii ) molecule type : protein ( iii ) hypothetical : no ( vi ) original source :( a ) organism : homo sapiens ( f ) tissue type : tonsil ( ix ) feature :( a ) name / key : region ( b ) location : 1 .. 22 ( d ) other information : / labels = signal / note = &# 34 ; signal sequence &# 34 ;( ix ) feature :( a ) name / key : region ( b ) location : 449 .. 496 ( d ) other information : / label = repeat / note = &# 34 ; cysteine rich repeat &# 34 ;( ix ) feature :( a ) name / key : region ( b ) location : 497 .. 540 ( d ) other information : / label = repeat / note = &# 34 ; cysteine rich repeat &# 34 ;( ix ) feature :( a ) name / key : region ( b ) location : 541 .. 581 ( d ) other information : / label = repeat / note = &# 34 ; cysteine rich repeat &# 34 ;( ix ) feature :( a ) name / key : region ( b ) location : 582 .. 617 ( d ) other information : / label = repeat / note = &# 34 ; cysteine rich repeat &# 34 ;( ix ) feature :( a ) name / key : domain ( b ) location : 701 .. 723 ( d ) other information : / label = trans / note = &# 34 ; transmembrane domain &# 34 ;( ix ) feature :( a ) name / key : domain ( b ) location : 724 .. 769 ( d ) other information : / label = cyto / note = &# 34 ; cytoplasmic domain &# 34 ;( x ) publication information :( a ) authors : pigott , power ,( b ) title : lfa - 1 amino acid sequence ( b2 ) ( from humantonsil )( c ) journal : the adhesion molecule facts book ( f ) pages : 96 - 96 ( g ) date : 1993 ( k ) relevant residues in seq id no : 1 : from 1 to 769 ( xi ) sequence description : seq id no : 1 : 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( 2 ) information for seq id no : 2 :( i ) sequence characteristics :( a ) length : 1170 amino acids ( b ) type : amino acid ( d ) topology : linear ( ii ) molecule type : protein ( iii ) hypothetical : no ( vi ) original source :( a ) organism : homo sapiens ( g ) cell type : t - cell ( h ) cell line : hl - 60 ( ix ) feature :( a ) name / key : region ( b ) location : 1 .. 25 ( d ) other information : / label = signal / note = &# 34 ; signal sequence &# 34 ;( ix ) feature :( a ) name / key : region ( b ) location : 32 .. 79 ( d ) other information : / label = repeat / note = &# 34 ; repeat i &# 34 ;( ix ) feature :( a ) name / key : region ( b ) location : 82 .. 132 ( d ) other information : / label = repeat / note = &# 34 ; repeat ii &# 34 ;( ix ) feature :( a ) name / key : region ( b ) location : 339 .. 391 ( d ) other information : / label = repeat / note = &# 34 ; repeat iii &# 34 ;( ix ) feature :( a ) name / key : region ( b ) location : 392 .. 446 ( d ) other information : / label = repeat / note = &# 34 ; repeat iv &# 34 ;( ix ) feature :( a ) name / key : region ( b ) location : 447 .. 508 ( d ) other information : / label = repeat / note = &# 34 ; repeat v &# 34 ;( ix ) feature :( a ) name / key : region ( b ) location : 509 .. 567 ( d ) other information : / label = repeat / note = &# 34 ; repeat vi &# 34 ;( ix ) feature :( a ) name / key : region ( b ) location : 568 .. 629 ( d ) other information : / label = repeat / note = &# 34 ; repeat vii &# 34 ;( ix ) feature :( a ) name / key : domain ( b ) location : 170 .. 349 ( d ) other information : / label = idomain / note = &# 34 ; i - domain &# 34 ;( ix ) feature :( a ) name / key : domain ( b ) location : 1089 .. 1112 ( d ) other information : / label = trans / note = &# 34 ; transmembrane domain &# 34 ;( ix ) feature :( a ) name / key : domain ( b ) location : 1113 .. 1170 ( d ) other information : / label = cyto / note = &# 34 ; cytoplasmic domain &# 34 ;( x ) publication information :( a ) authors : pigott , power ,( b ) title : lfa - 1 amino acid sequence ( alphal ) ( frompma - stimulated hl - 60 cells )( c ) journal : the adhesion molecule facts book ( f ) pages : 94 - 95 ( g ) date : 1993 ( k ) relevant residues in seq id no : 2 : from 1 to 1170 ( xi ) sequence description : seq id no : 2 : 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