Patent Application: US-68594596-A

Abstract:
disclosed are a protein capable of receiving pge , a recombinant dna coding for said protein , a vector having said dna , a transformant carrying said vector , and a method for producing said protein wherein said transformant is cultured in a culture medium , the protein being useful not only in cloning other pge receptor genes , clarifying the structure of pge receptors and elucidating the function of pge , but also in searching for pge antagonists and agonists and so on .

Description:
pges for the present invention include pge 1 and pge 2 , with preference given to pge 2 . the capability of receiving pge 2 means that the receptor is capable of specifically binding to pge 2 or a similar substance in the transmembrane domain , and that the structural change due to such ligand binding induces activation of related gtp - binding protein in the intracellular domain . the protein of the present invention , which is capable of receiving pge ( hereinafter also referred to as pge receptor ), is preferably a protein which is capable of receiving pge 2 ( hereinafter also referred to as pge 2 receptor ), and may be of several types , including human , chicken and mouse , and may be a glycoprotein resulting from sugar chain binding to the sugar - binding site or a complex protein such as phosphoprotein resulting from phosphorylation at the phosphorylation site . pge 2 receptors of the mouse type include a polypeptide having the amino acid sequence comprising a series of the amino acid sequence of fig1 ( seq id no : 2 ) a polypeptide having the amino acid sequence comprising a series of the amino acid sequence of fig4 ( seq id no : 4 ) and a polypeptide having the amino acid sequence comprising a series of the amino acid sequence of fig5 . any pge 2 receptor is acceptable , as long as it is capable of receiving pge 2 and activating gtp - binding protein . the receptor - g protein coupling may be examined in several ways . one example is to examine modulation of the finding affinity of the receptor by guanine nucleotides ( ann . rev . biochem . 56 , 615 - 649 ( 1987 )). specifically , it may be a mutein resulting from deletion of at least one constituent amino acid from said amino acid sequence , replacement of at least one constituent amino acid by another amino acid , or addition of at least one amino acid , and may be a functional fragment . the pge receptor subtype may be of ep 1 , ep 2 or ep 3 ( α , β ), with preference given to the ep 2 receptor and the ep 3 receptor . the gene which codes for the pge receptor may be any one , as long as it codes for the pge receptor . for example , the gene which codes for the ep 3 α receptor , a mouse pge 2 receptor subtype , the gene which codes for the ep 3 β receptor , a mouse pge 2 receptor subtype and the gene which codes for the ep 2 receptor , a mouse pge 2 receptor subtype are exemplified by a gene having the base sequence comprising a series of the 1 - 1095 bases shown in fig1 ( seq id no : 1 ) a gene having the base sequence comprising a series of the 1 - 1083 bases shown in fig4 and a gene having the base sequence ( seq id no : 3 ) comprising a series of the 1 - 1539 bases shown in fig5 respectively . the vector according to the present invention , which harbors a recombinant dna containing a gene which codes for pge receptor , can , for example , be produced by : ( 2 ) synthesizing a single - stranded complementary dna ( cdna ) and then a double - stranded dna from said rna , ( 5 ) cultivating the thus - obtained transformant and then isolating the plasmid containing the desired dna therefrom by an appropriate method ( e . g ., colony hybridization using a dna probe ), ( 6 ) cleaving out the desired cloned dna from said plasmid , and ( 7 ) ligating said cloned dna to the downstream of the promoter in the vehicle . the rna which codes for the pge receptor can be obtained from various pge - receptor - expressing cells known to those of ordinary skill in the art , such as mouse mastocytoma line p - 815 cells and il - 3 dependent cell line bnu - cl3 cells . methods of preparing rna from pge - receptor - expressing cells include the guanidine thiocyanate method j . m . chirgwin et al ., biochemistry , 18 , 5294 ( 1979 )!. other suitable methods known to those skilled within this art are also within this invention . using the thus - obtained rna as a template in combination with reverse transcriptase , a cdna is synthesized in accordance with , for example , the method of h . okayama et al . molecular and cellular biology , 2 , 161 ( 1982 ) and 3 , 280 ( 1983 )!, and the resulting cdna is inserted to a plasmid . other methods for recombinantly synthesizing cdna , known to those skilled in the art are also within the claimed invention . examples of the plasmid for cdna insertion include plasmids derived from escherichia coli such as pbr322 gene , 2 , 95 ( 1977 )!, pbr325 gene , 4 , 121 ( 1978 !, puc12 gene , 19 , 259 ( 1982 )!, puc13 gene , 19 , 259 ( 1982 )!, puc118 and puc119 methods in enzymology , 153 , 3 - 11 ( 1987 )! and those derived from bacillus subtilis such as pub110 biochemical and biophysical research communications , 112 , 678 ( 1983 )!, but any other can be used for this purpose , as long as it is replicable in the host . examples of the method of insertion to the plasmid include that described by t . maniatis et al . in molecular cloning , cold spring harbor laboratory , page 239 ( 1982 ). the plasmid incorporating said cdna may be a plasmid obtained by using a cdna library with escherichia coli x1776 host prepared by inserting a cdna synthesized from human normal diploid cell mrna to the pcd vector see okayama et al ., molecular cell biology , 3 , 280 ( 1983 )!, which cdna library is available from dr . okayama at the research institute for microbial diseases , osaka university . the plasmid thus obtained is introduced to an appropriate host such as a bacterium of the genus escherichia or bacillus . example bacteria of the genus escherichia include escherichia coli k12dh1 proceedings of the national academy of science , usa , 60 , 160 ( 1968 )!, m103 nucleic acids research , 9 , 309 ( 1981 )!, ja221 journal of molecular biology , 120 , 517 ( 1978 )!, hb101 journal of molecular biology , 41 , 459 ( 1969 )! and c600 genetics , 39 , 440 ( 1954 )!. example bacteria of the genus bacillus include bacillus subtilis mi114 gene , 24 , 255 ( 1983 )! and 207 - 21 journal of biochemistry , 95 , 87 ( 1984 )!. methods of transformation include the calcium chloride method and calcium chloride / rubidium chloride method described by t . maniatis in molecular cloning , cold spring harbor laboratory , page 249 ( 1982 ). from the transformants thus obtained , the desired clone is selected using a known method , such as colony hybridization gene , 10 , 63 ( 1980 )! or dna base sequencing proceedings of the national academy of science , usa , 74 , 560 ( 1977 ); nucleic acids research , 9 , 309 ( 1981 )!. a microorganism carrying a vector having a cloned dna containing a base sequence which codes for the pge receptor is thus obtained . methods of such isolation include but are not limited to the alkali method h . c . birmboim et al ., nucleic acids research , 1 , 1513 ( 1979 )!. the above plasmid having a cloned recombinant dna containing a gene which codes for the pge receptor can be used as such or after being cleaved out with restriction enzyme as necessary . the cloned gene is ligated downstream of a promoter , in a vehicle ( vector ) suitable for its expression , to yield an expression vector . example vectors include the above - mentioned plasmids derived from escherichia coli ( e . g ., pbr322 , pbr325 , puc12 , puc13 , puc118 , puc119 ), plasmids derived from bacillus subtilis ( e . g ., pub110 , ptp5 , pc194 ), yeast - derived plasmids ( e . g ., psh19 , psh15 ), bacteriophages such as λ phage , animal viruses such as retrovirus and vaccinia virus and plasmids for animal expression ( e . g ., pcdnai , pdkcr - dhfr ). the gene may have atg ( base sequence which codes for an appropriate signal peptide as desired ) as a translational initiation codon at its 5 &# 39 ;- terminal and taa , tga or tag ( preferably tga ) as a translational termination codon at its 3 &# 39 ;- terminal . to express the gene , a promoter is ligated to the upstream thereof . any promoter can be used for the present invention , as long as it is appropriate for the host used to express the gene . examples of preferred promoters include the t7 promoter , trp promoter , lac promoter , rec a promoter , λpl promoter or lpp promoter , when the transformation host is a bacterium of the genus escherichia ; the spo1 promoter , spo2 promoter or pen p promoter when the host is a bacterium of the genus bacillus ; and the pho5 promoter , pgk promoter , gap promoter or adh promoter when the host is a yeast . preference is given to the case in which a bacterium of the genus escherichia is used as host in combination with the trp promoter or t7 promoter . when the host is an animal cell , preferable promoters include the sv40 - derived promoter and retrovirus promoter , with preference given to the sv40 - derived promoter . the thus - constructed vector , harboring a dna , is used to produce a transformant . examples of the host include bacteria of the genus escherichia , bacteria of the genus bacillus , yeasts and animal cells . examples of the bacteria of the genus escherichia and of the genus bacillus include the same as specified above . examples of the yeasts include saccharomyces cerevisiae ah22r , na87 - 11a and dkd - 5d . example animal cells include simian cells cos - 7 , vero , chinese hamster ovarian cells cho , mouse l cells and human fl cells . the bacteria of the genus escherichia can be transformed in accordance with the method described in the proceedings of the national academy of science , usa , 69 , 2110 ( 1972 ), gene , 17 , 107 ( 1982 ) and other publications known to those skilled in the art . bacteria of the genus bacillus can be transformed in accordance with the method described in molecular and general genetics , 168 , 111 ( 1979 ) and other publications , for instance . yeasts can be transformed in accordance with the method described in the proceedings of the national academy of science , usa , 75 , 1929 ( 1978 ), for instance . animal cells can be transformed in accordance with the method described in virology , 52 , 456 ( 1973 ), for instance . a transformant resulting from transformation with a vector harboring the cdna of pge receptor is thus obtained . for cultivating a transformant whose host is a bacterium of the genus escherichia or bacillus , it is appropriate to use a liquid medium supplemented with carbon sources , nitrogen sources , minerals and other substances necessary for the growth of the transformant . example carbon sources include glucose , dextrin , soluble starch and sucrose . example nitrogen sources include organic or inorganic substances such as ammonium salts , nitrates , corn steep liquor , peptone , casein , meat extract , soybean cake and potato extract . example minerals include calcium chloride , sodium dihydrogen phosphate and magnesium chloride . yeasts , vitamins , growth promoters and other additives may be added . the ph of the medium is preferably about 6 to 8 . examples of media preferably used to cultivate escherichia bacteria include the m9 medium containing glucose and casamino acid miller , journal of experiments in molecular genetics , 431 - 433 , cold spring harbor laboratory , new york ( 1972 )!. to increase promoter efficiency as necessary , a chemical agent such as 3β - indolyl acrylic acid may be added . when the host is a bacterium of the genus escherichia , cultivation is normally carried out at about 15 ° to 43 ° c . for about 3 to 24 hours , with aeration and / or stirring as necessary . when the host is a bacterium of the genus bacillus , cultivation is normally carried out at about 30 ° to 40 ° c . for about 6 to 24 hours , with aeration and / or stirring as necessary . examples of media for cultivating a transformant whose host is a yeast include burkholder &# 39 ; s minimal medium bostian , k . l . et al ., proceedings of the national academy of science , usa , 77 , 4505 ( 1980 )!. it is preferable to adjust the medium to a ph of about 5 to 8 . cultivation is normally carried out at about 20 ° to 35 ° c . for 24 to 72 hours , with aeration and / or stirring as necessary . examples of media for cultivating a transformant whose host is an animal cell include mem medium science , 122 , 501 ( 1952 )!, dmem medium virology , 8 , 396 ( 1959 )!, rpmi1640 medium journal of the american medical association , 199 , 519 ( 1967 )! and 199 medium proceedings of the society for the biological medicine , 73 , 1 ( 1950 )!. these media may be supplemented with about 5 to 20 % fetal bovine serum . the ph is preferably about 6 to 8 . cultivation is normally carried out at about 30 ° to 40 ° c . for 15 to 60 hours , with aeration and / or stirring as necessary . separation and purification of pge receptor of the present invention from the culture described above can , for example , be achieved as follows : in extracting the pge receptor of the present invention from cultured bacterial , yeast or animal cells , the cells are collected by a known method after cultivation and suspended in a buffer containing a protein denaturant , such as guanidine hydrochloride , to elute the desired pge receptor extracellularly . in another method , the cells are disrupted by ultrasonication , lysozyme treatment and / or freeze - thawing , after which they are centrifuged to separate the pge receptor of the invention . the method using a combination of lysozyme and ultrasonication is preferred . for purifying the pge receptor of the present invention from the supernatant , known methods of separation and purification can be used in combination as appropriate . such known methods of separation and purification include those based on solubility differences such as salting - out and solvent precipitation , those based mainly on molecular weight differences such as dialysis , ultrafiltration , gel filtration and sds - polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis , those based on charge differences such as ion exchange chromatography , those based on specific affinity such as affinity chromatography , those based on hydrophobicity differences such as reverse - phase high performance liquid chromatography , and those based on isoelectric point differences such as isoelectric focusing . the thus - obtained pge receptor of the present invention may be prepared as a dry powder by dialysis and lyophilization . it is appropriate to add serum albumin etc . as a carrier in storing the pge receptor , since its adsorption to the container is prevented . the pge receptor of the present invention , substantially pure , is thus obtained . the substantially pure protein of the present invention has a protein content of not less than 95 % ( w / w ), preferably not less than 98 % ( w / w ). the pge receptor thus obtained itself , or a transformant expressing it or a moiety thereof can be used to screen substances exhibiting antagonistic or agonistic activity thereon by , for example , a ligand - binding test . the pge receptor , as such , can also be used as a pge - masking protein . the transformant obtained according to the present invention , which expressed the pge receptor , and parts thereof can be efficiently used to obtain antibodies against said receptor . abbreviations for bases , amino acids , solvents and others used in the present specification and drawings attached thereto are based on abbreviations specified by the iupac - iub commission on biochemical nomenclature or abbreviations in common use in relevant fields . some examples are given below . when an optical isomer may be present in amino acid , it is of the l - configuration , unless otherwise stated . these abbreviations may represent residues of corresponding compounds capable of forming a peptide bond . the present invention is hereinafter described in more detail by means of the following examples , which are not to be construed as limitative to the present invention . the following clone cell lines which were obtained in the examples mentioned below were deposited at the institute for fermentation , osaka , japan ( ifo ), and at the fermentation research institute ( national institute of bioscience and human - technology ), agency of industrial science and technology , ministry of international trade and industry , japan ( fri ) under the budapest treaty . their accession numbers on the deposit dates are shown in table 1 below ( the deposit dates are indicated in parenthesis ) table 1______________________________________clone cellline ifo fri______________________________________mp660 / kcr ifo 50366 ferm bp - 3803 ( example 1 ) ( march 11 , 1992 ) ( march 18 , 1992 ) mp653 / kcr ifo 50397 ferm bp - 4183 ( example 2 ) ( january 28 , 1993 ) ( february 10 , 1993 ) cho / ep . sub . 2 ifo 50396 ferm bp - 4182 ( example 4 ) ( january 28 , 1993 ) ( february 10 , 1993 ) ______________________________________ ( 1 ) amplification of mouse cdna fragment having base sequence homology to human txa 2 receptor cdna by the pcr ( polymerase chain reaction ) method a single - stranded cdna was synthesized from mouse lung total rna by using random hexanucleotides as primers . pcr primers were designed based on the human txa 2 receptor cdna ( hpl ) sequences corresponding to the putative third and sixth transmenbrane domains of the receptor m . hirata et al ., nature 349 , 617 ( 1991 )!. mouse lung cdna served as template in 30 cycles of pcr with 1 min of denaturation at 95 ° c ., 0 . 5 min of annealing at 60 ° c ., and 1 . 5 min of extension at 72 ° c . on a zymoreactor ( atto corp ., tokyo , japan ). a single 418 - base pair cdna fragment was amplified and subcloned into pbluescript sk (+) ( stratagene ). a clone isolated ( lt3 ) showed a sequence 78 % homologous to the corresponding region of the human cdna ( hpl ). ( 2 ) cloning mouse prostaglandin e 2 receptor ( ep 3 α cdna mouse lung cdna prepared by an oligo ( dt ) priming method was size - selected (& gt ; 1 . 8 kilobases ) and inserted into the ecori site of λ zapii dna ( stratagene ) with ecori adaptors ( new england biolabs , inc .). the 1 . 9 × 10 5 clones derived from the cdna library were screened by hybridization with lt3 obtained in ( 1 ) above . hybridization was carried out at 58 ° c . in 6 × ssc ( 900 mm nacl and 90 mm sodium citrate ) containing 5 × denhardt &# 39 ; s solution ( 0 . 1 % ficoll , 0 . 1 % polyvinylpyrrolidone , and 0 . 1 % bovine serum albumin ) and 0 . 5 % sodium dodecyl sulfate , and filters were washed at 60 ° c . in 2 × ssc containing 1 % sodium dodecyl sulfate . among several clones hybridizing positively to lt3 , we picked up one ( ml64 ) showing a signal apparently weaker than others . using this clone as a hybridization probe , the cdna library of mouse mastocytoma p - 815 cells was screened for a full - length clone . from 7 . 2 × 10 5 clones of the p - 815 λ zapii library , nine clones were isolated and subjected to sequence analysis . nucleotide sequencing was carried out on double - stranded templates using the dideoxy chain termination method . a full - length dna clone having a 1 , 095 bp open reading frame , mp660 , was thus obtained . fig1 shows the base sequence ( seq id no : 1 ) of the cdna of mp660 and the amino acid sequence ( seq id no : 2 ) deduced therefrom . with respect to the amino acid sequence , the overlined portions , the sites marked with ★ and the sites marked with  denote transmembrane domains i through vii , extracellular domain n - glycosylation sites and sites of phosphorylation by camp - dependent protein kinase , respectively . the cdna of mp660 was cleaved out with ecori and inserted to pcdnai ( invitrogen ) and subcloned , followed by transfection of this plasmid dna to cos - 1 cells by the deae - dextran method d . j . sussmann and g . milman , mol . cell . biol ., 4 , 1641 ( 1984 )!. after 72 - hour cultivation , cells were harvested and cell membranes were separated m . hirata al ., nature , 349 , 617 ( 1991 )!. using these cell membranes , various 3h !- labeled prosteglandins were assayed for binding activity ; 3h !- pge 2 was found to show specific binding . also , the pge 2 receptor obtained was identified as the subtype ep 3 α receptor . fig2 shows inhibitory activities of various ligands on the binding of 3h !- pge 2 to the mp660 - transfected cell membrane panel &# 34 ; a &# 34 ; is for inhibitory activities of various prostaglandins (◯: pge 2 ; : pge 1 ; ▪: iloprost ; δ : pgf 2 α ; □: pgd 2 ); panel &# 34 ; b &# 34 ; is for inhibitory activities of prostaglandin - like substances (▴: m & amp ; b28 , 767 ; : gr63799x ; δ : butaprost ; ◯: sc - 19220 !. specificity of this binding is shown in fig2 a . the binding of 3 h ! pge 2 was inhibited by unlabeled pgs in the order of pge 2 = pge 1 & gt ; iloprost , a pgi 2 analogue & gt ; pgf 2 α & gt ; pgd 2 . because pge receptor is pharmacologically subdivided into three receptor subtypes , ep 1 , ep 2 , and ep 3 , with different agonist and antagonist profiles , the specificity of this 3 h ! pge 2 binding using ligands specific for pge receptor subtypes was further characterized . as shown in fig2 b , among various pge analogues , only ep 3 - specific agonists , gr 63799x and m & amp ; b 28 , 767 , specifically competed for the 3 h ! pge 2 binding with equal potency , and they were more potent than pge 2 itself . on the other hand , no competition was found at all with either an ep 1 - specific antagonist , sc - 19220 , or an ep 2 - specific agonist , butaprost . 3 h ! pge 2 did not bind to membranes of untransfected cells . these results established that mp660 encodes the ep 3 subtype of pge receptor . to obtain cells that stably express the receptor gene , cdna transfection was conducted by the method described by nakajima et al . j . biol . chem ., 267 , 2437 ( 1992 )! to establish a cell line . specifically , the ecori fragment of mp660 was inserted to pdkcr - dhfr s . oikawa et al ., biochem . biophys . res . commun ., 164 , 39 ( 1989 )!, a eukaryotic cell expression vector having the mouse dhfr gene as a selection marker . this plasmid was transfected to cho - dhfr ( lacking dihydrofolate reductase activity ) cells g . urlaub and l . a . chasin , proc . natl . acad . sci . usa , 77 , 4216 ( 1980 )! by the calcium phosphate method f . l . graham and a . j . van der eb , virology , 52 , 456 ( 1973 )!. the cells were subjected to selection culture in α - modified eagle &# 39 ; s medium s . oikawa et al ., biochem . biophys . res . commun ., 164 , 39 ( 1989 )! which contained no ribonucleoside and deoxyribonucleoside and which contained 100 unit / ml penicillin , 100 μg / ml streptomycin and 10 % dialyzed bovine fetal serum ( cell culture laboratories ). the cells which proliferated were cloned and clone cells were obtained . ep 3 α receptor cdna transfection was confirmed by the rna blotting method . using thus - obtained cho cells which constantly express the ep 3 α receptor mp660 / kcr cells ; ifo50366 ; ferm bp - 3803 !, the effect of pge 2 on forskolin - stimulated camp synthesis or m & amp ; b28 , 767 , an ep 3 - specific agonist was assessed . it was thus found that camp synthesis in mp660 / kcr cells is inhibited by the co - presence of these substances ( see fig3 ; : pge 2 ; □: m & amp ; b28 , 767 ). as shown in fig3 the transfected cho cells showed a dosedependent decrease to pge 2 in forskolin - induced cellular camp accumulation . m & amp ; b 28 , 767 , an ep 3 - specific agonist , also inhibited forskolin - induced camp synthesis and was more potent than ( pge 2 ( ic 50 of m & amp ; b 28 , 767 = 1 × 10 - 12 m ; ic 50 of pge 2 = 1 × 10 - 10 m ). total rnas from various mouse tissues were isolated by the acid guanidinium thiocyanate - phenol - chloroform method p . chomczynski and n . sacchi , anal . biochem ., 162 , 156 ( 1987 )!. next , from this total rnas , poly ( a )+ rnas were purified using oligotex dt 30 ( takara shuzo , kyoto , japan ). poly ( a ) + rnas ( 10 μg ) from each tissue were separated by electrophoresis on a 1 . 2 % agarose gel , transferred onto nylon membranes ( hybond - n , amersham corp . ), and hybridized with a 32 p - labeled ecori / bam hi fragment of mp660 clone . hybridization was carried out at 68 ° c . in 6 × ssc , and filters were washed at 68 ° c . in 1 × ssc . eventually , a 2 . 3 kb strong band appeared from tissues on which pge 2 is pharmacologically active , such as the kidney , stomach and uterus , and from p - 815 cells . another band appeared near 7 . 0 kb from these tissues and cells . ( 1 ) cloning mouse prostaglandin e 2 receptor ( ep 3 β ) cdna in substantially the same screening method as in example 1 , using ml64 as a hybridization probe , several clones were isolated from mouse mastocytoma p - 815 cdna library . restriction analysis of the isolated clones displayed at least two types of cdnas , one type represented by mp660 obtained in example 1 and another type represented by mp653 . sequencing analyses revealed that mp653 had a 1 , 083 base pair ( bp ) open reading frame . fig4 shows the base sequence ( seq id no : 3 ) of the cdna of mp653 and the amino acid sequence ( seq id no : 4 ) deduced therefrom as compared with those of mp660 . mp653 is identical to mp660 in the nucleotide sequence except deletion of an 89 - bp sequence in the coding region of the putative c - terminal tail of the receptor in mp660 - encoded receptor ( fig5 ). deletion of this 89 - bp sequence creates another reading frame downstream from this junction , which extends coding region until a new stop codon placed on 77 - bp downstream from the stop codon of mp660 . as a consequence , a 30 - amino - acid ( aa ) c - terminal fragment of the mp660 - encoded receptor ( peptide - α ) was replaced with a new 26 - aa fragment ( peptide - β ) in the c - terminal end of mp653 - encoded receptor . ( 2 ) expression of the mp653 cdna in cos - 1 cells and ligand - binding assay the cdna of mp653 was cleaved out with ecori and inserted to pcdnai ( invitrogen ) and subcloned , followed by transfection of this plasmid dna to cos - 1 cells by the deae - dextran method d . j . sussmann and g . milman , mol . cell . biol ., 4 , 1641 ( 1984 )!. after 72 - hour cultivation , cells were harvested and cell membranes were separated m . hirata et al ., nature , 349 , 617 ( 1991 )!. using these cell membranes , various 3 h !- labeled prostaglandins were assayed for binding activity ; 3 h !- pge 2 was found to show specific binding . also , the pge 2 receptor obtained was identified as the subtype ep 3 β receptor . the result of inhibitory activities of various ligands on the binding of 3 h !- pge 2 to the mp653 - transfected cell membrance was substantially the same as on the binding of 3 h !- pge 2 to the mp660 -- transfected cell membrance obtained in example 1 . mp660 -- encoding receptor is designated as ep 3 α ( containing the peptide - α ) and mp653 - encoding one as ep 3 β ( containing the peptide - β ). to obtain cells that stably express the receptor gene , cdna transfection was conducted by the method described by nakajima et al . j . biol . chem ., 267 , 2437 ( 1992 )! to establish a cell line . specifically , the ecori fragment of mp653 was inserted to pdkcr - dhfr s . oikawa et al ., biochem . biophys . res . commun ., 164 , 39 ( 1989 )!, a eukaryotic cell expression vector having the mouse dhfr gene as a selection marker . this plasmid was transfected to cho - dhfr ( lacking dihydrofolate reductase activity ) cells g . urlaub and l . a . chasin , proc . natl . acad . sci . usa , 77 , 4216 ( 1980 )! by the calcium phosphate method ( f . l . graham and a . j . van der eb , virology , 52 , 456 ( 1973 )!. the cells were subjected to selection culture in α - modified eagle &# 39 ; s medium s . oikawa et al ., biochem . biophys . res . commun ., 164 , 39 ( 1989 )! which contained no ribonucleoside and deoxyribonucleoside and which contained 100 unit / ml penicillin , 100 μg / ml streptomycin and 10 % dialyzed bovine fetal serum ( cell culture laboratories ). the cells which proliferated were cloned to have clone cells . ep 3 β receptor cdna transfection was confirmed by the rna blotting method . using thus - obtained cho cells which constantly express the ep 3 β receptor mp653 / kcr cells ; ifo 50397 , ferm bp - 4183 !, the effect of pge 2 on forskolin - stimulated camp synthesis or m & amp ; b28 , 767 , an ep 3 - specific agonist was assessed . it was thus found that camp synthesis in mp653 / kcr cells is inhibited by the co - presence of these substances . expression of ep 3 α and ep 3 β in various tissues measurement of the relative abundance of the two isoforms , ep 3 α and ep 3 β , expressed in each tissue was performed according to the method of wang et al . ( proc . natl . acad . sci . 86 , 9717 ( 1989 )). total rna was isolated according to example 1 ( 5 ) and the rnas were transcribed into cdna by random hexanucleotide priming method using moloney murine leukemia virus reverse transcriptase ( bethesda research laboratories ). each cdna derived from 2 . 5 μg rna was used as template in a pcr with primers corresponding to nucleotide positions 651 - 680 ( pcr i ) and 1264 - 1293 ( pcr ii ). the 5 &# 39 ;- end 32 p - labeled pcr ii ( 0 . 3 pmol ; 1 . 0 × 10 6 c . p . m ./ pmol ) was incubated in each pcr reaction ( final 25 μl ). twenty - three cycles of pcr were performed using the following temperature profile : 94 ° c ., 40 s ; 60 ° c ., 40 s ; 72 ° c ., 1 . 5 min . dna - resolved gel was dried and subject to autoradiography , and the radioactivity of the gel corresponding to the bands was counted . consequently , it was found that in any tissue expressing ep 3 , ep 3 α was dominantly expressed over ep 3 β . ( 1 ) cloning mouse prostaglandin e 2 receptor ( ep 2 ) cdna mouse mastocytoma p - 815 cell cdna library carring cdnas larger than 2 . 0 kb was prepared according to example 1 ( 2 ). the probe dna was prepared by pcr using mouse ep 3 cdna as a template ; this 482 bp fragment covers the transmembrane segments i - iv region of the ep 3 receptor . the 2 . 0 × 10 5 clones derived from the cdna library were screened under either high ( sambrook ) or low stringency condition . the resultant positive clones were subjected to pcr , restriction and sequence analyses and classified into two major groups ; one group ( six clones ) belonged to ep 3 receptor cdna , and the other ( five clones ) showed a sequence homologous but not identical to ep 3 cdna . one representative clone ( mp412 ) of the latter group , which contains a 1539 - base pair open reading frame . fig6 shows the base sequence ( seq id no : 5 ) of the cdna of mp412 and the amino acid sequence ( seq id no : 6 ) deduced therefrom . this cdna was transfected into cos - 1 cells according to the same manner as in example 1 ( 3 ). ( 2 ) pge 2 binding and camp assays in cos - 1 cells expressing mp412 cdna after the cos - 1 cells carring the plasmid dna obtained in above ( 1 ) were cultured for 72 h , cells were harvested and cell membranes were prepared . using these cell membranes , various 3 h !- labeled prostaglandins were assayed for binding activity ; 3 h !- pge 2 was found to show specific binding . specific 3 h !- pge 2 binding to the membrane of untransfected cells was almost negligible . fig7 shows the specificity of this binding . specific 3 h !- pge 2 binding was inhibited by unlabeled pg in the order of pge 2 (◯)= pge 1 ()& gt ;& gt ; iloprost (▪), a stable pgi 2 analogue ≧ pgf 2 α ( δ ) pgd 2 (□). fig8 shows ligand binding specificity using several ligands which show characteristic agonist or antagonist activity for pge receptor subtypes . as shown in fig8 the pge 2 binding was inhibited by misoprostol (), an ep 2 and ep 3 agonist , and more weakly by m & amp ; b 28 , 767 (▴), an ep 3 agonist . on the other hand , sulprostone (□), an ep 1 and ep 3 agonist , sc - 19220 (◯), an ep 1 antagonist , and butaprost ( δ ), an ep 2 agonist , did not inhibit it . the ability of misoprostol to inhibit pge 2 binding and no ability of sulprostone suggest that mp412 encodes the ep 2 subtype of pge receptor , and this was also supported by weak cross - reaction of m & amp ; b 28 , 767 to ep 2 ( lawrence , r . a . et al , br . j . pharmacol . 105 , 271 - 278 ( 1992 )). the lack of binding activity of butaprost in mouse ep 2 might indicate that the action of butaprost is species specific or there may be other forms of ep 2 receptor subtype . ep 2 receptor is coupled to stimulation of adenylate cyclase . for camp assay , the plasmid dna was transfected into cos - 1 cells by the lipofection method ( p . l . felgner et al ., proc . natl . acad . sci ., 84 , 7413 ( 1987 )) and cultured for 72 h in a 24 - well plate . cyclic amp levels in the cells were determined according to the method of nakajima et al . ( j . biol . chem . 267 , 2437 ( 1992 )). as shown in fig9 pge 2 dose - dependently increased camp level in these cells (: mp412 - transfected cos - 1 cells ; ◯: untransfected cos - 1 cells ). on the other hand , pge 2 neither inhibited forskolin - induced camp formation and nor accumulated inositol phosphates . these results demonstrate that this receptor is an ep 2 subtype coupled exclusively to stimulation of adenylate cyclase . to obtain cells that stably express the receptor gene , cdna transfection was conducted by the method according to example 1 ( 4 ) to establish a cell line . specifically , the ecori fragment of mp412 was inserted to pdkcr - dhfr , a eukaryotic cell expression vector having the mouse dhfr gene as a selection marker . this plasmid was transfected to cho - dhfr . ( lacking dihydrofolate reductase activity ) cells . the cells were subjected to selection culture , the cells which proliferated were cloned to have clone cells , and thus the cho cells which constantly express the ep 2 receptor cho / ep 2 cells ; ifo 50396 , ferm bp - 4182 ! were obtained . poly ( a ) + rnas ( 10 μg ) from each tissue , which were prepared by the same method as in example 1 ( 5 ), were separated by electrophoresis on a 1 . 2 % agarose gel , transferred onto nylon membranes ( hybond - n , amersham corp . ), and hybridized with a 32 p - labeled ecori / bamhi fragment of mp412 clone . hybridization was carried out at 68 ° c . in 6 × ssc , and filters were washed at 68 ° c . in 2 × ssc . a positive band is observed at 3 . 9 kilobase in most of tissues , suggesting widespread distribution of the ep 2 receptor . the tissues highly expressing ep 2 mrna were ileum and thymus in which pge 2 induces relaxation of ileum circular muscle and inhibits proliferation of t cells by increasing intracellular camp levels . a significant band was also observed in lung , spleen , heart or uterus . on the other hand , ep 2 mrna was not detectable in testis and liver . other embodiments of the invention will be apparent in the art from consideration of the specification and practice of the invention disclosed herein . it is intended that the specification and examples be considered as exemplary only , with a true scope and spirit of the invention being indicated by the following claims . __________________________________________________________________________sequence listing ( 1 ) general information :( iii ) number of sequences : 6 ( 2 ) information for seq id no : 1 :( i ) sequence characteristics :( a ) length : 2107 base pairs ( b ) type : nucleic acid ( c ) strandedness : single ( d ) topology : linear ( ii ) molecule type : dna ( genomic )( xi ) sequence description : seq id no : 1 : 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