Patent Application: US-75007797-A

Abstract:
reduction of the hsp150 protein in a yeast used to produce desired foreign proteins , especially human albumin , facilitates purification of the protein .

Description:
all standard recombinant dna procedures are as described in sambrook et al ( 1989 ) unless otherwise stated . the dna sequences encoding rha are derived from the cdna disclosed in ep 201 239 . the hsp150 gene was mutated by the process of gene disruption ( rothstein , 1983 ) which effectively deleted part of the hsp150 coding sequence , thereby preventing the production of hsp150 . four oligonucleotides suitable for the pcr amplification of the 5 &# 39 ; and 3 &# 39 ; ends of the hsp150 gene ( russo et al , 1992 ) were synthesized using an applied biosystems 380b oligonucleotide synthesizer . note , lre45 and lre48 contain changes in the hsp150 gene sequence so as to introduce ecori sites into the 5 &# 39 ; or the 3 &# 39 ; end of the hsp150 gene pcr products . lre46 and lre47 both contain pst i sites naturally present in the hsp150 gene sequence ( seq 1 ). pcr was carried out to amplify individually the 5 &# 39 ; and 3 &# 39 ; ends of the hsp150 gene , using lre45 and lre46 or lre47 and lre48 respectively , from the dna from s . cerevisiae genomic dna ( clontech laboratories , inc .). conditions were as follows : 1 μg / ml genomic dna , ≅ 1 . 2 × 10 - 10 moles of each primer , denature at 94 ° c . for 61 seconds , anneal at 37 ° c . for 121 seconds , dna synthesis at 72 ° c . for 181 seconds for 30 cycles , with a 10 second extension to the dna synthesis step after each cycle , followed by a 4 ° c . soak . pcr was carried out using a perkin - elmer - cetus thermal cycler and a perkin - elmer - cetus pcr kit was used according to the manufacturer &# 39 ; s recommendations . pcr products were analysed by gel electrophoresis and were found to be of the expected size . each pcr product was digested with ecori and psti and cloned into ecori / psti digested puc19 ( yanisch - perron et al , 1985 ) to form paye503 ( containing the 5 &# 39 ; end of the hsp150 gene ) and paye504 ( containing the 3 &# 39 ; end of the hsp150 gene ) ( see fig1 ). plasmid dna sequencing was carried out on paye503 and paye504 to confirm that the inserts were the desired sequences . paye503 and paye504 were digested with ecori and hindiii and the hsp150 gene fragments were isolated and cloned together into puc19xh ( a derivative of puc19 lacking a hindiii site in its polylinker ) to form paye505 . the ura3 gene was isolated from yep24 ( botstein et al , 1979 ) as a hindiii fragment and cloned into the hindiii site of paye505 to form paye506 ( fig1 ). paye506 contains a selectable marker ( ura3 ) flanked by 5 &# 39 ; and 3 &# 39 ; regions of the hsp150 gene . to construct a strain lacking the capacity to produce hsp150 , a ura3 derivative of db1 cir ° paye316 ( sleep et al , 1991 ) was obtained by random chemical mutagenesis and selection for resistance to 5 - fluoro - orotic acid ( boeke et al , 1987 ). plasmid paye316 is based on the 2 μm plasmid and contains a coding sequence for human albumin under the control of the yeast prb1 promoter , with an adh1 terminator and a leu2 selectable marker . the strain was grown overnight in 100 ml buffered minimal medium ( yeast nitrogen base without amino acids , without ammonium sulphate , difco !, ( nh 4 ) 2 so 4 5 g / l , citric acid monohydrate 6 . 09 g / l , nahpo 4 20 . 16 g / l , sucrose 20 g / l , ph6 . 5 ) and the cells were collected by centrifugation and then washed once with sterile water . the cells were then resuspended in 10 ml sterile water and 2 ml aliquots were placed in separate 15 ml falcon tubes . a 5 mg / ml solution of n - methyl - n &# 39 ;- nitro - n - nitrosoguanidine ( ntg ) was then added to the tubes as follows : 0μl , 20μl , 40μl , 80μl or 160μl . the cells were then incubated at 30 ° c . for 20 min and then centrifuged and washed three times with sterile water . finally , the cells were resuspended in 1 ml yep ( 1 % w / v yeast extract , 2 % w / v , bacto peptone ) and stored at 4 ° c . the percentage of cells that survived the mutagenic treatment was determined by spreading dilutions of the samples on yep plates containing 2 % w / v sucrose and incubating at 30 ° c . for 3 days . cells from the treatment which gave approximately 50 % survival were grown on yep plates containing 2 % w / v sucrose and then replica - plated onto ynb minimal medium containing 2 % w / v sucrose and supplemented with 5 - fluoro - orotic acid ( 1 mg / ml ) and uracil ( 50μg / ml ). colonies able to grow on this medium were purified , tested to verify that they were unable to grow in the absence of uracil supplementation and that this defect could be corrected by introduction of the ura3 gene by transformation . the ura3 strain , dbu3 cir ° ( paye316 ), was transformed with ecori digested paye506 and ura + transformants were selected . the disruption of the hsp150 gene in these transformants was confirmed by southern blot analysis using a fragment comprising the 5 &# 39 ; and 3 &# 39 ; ends of the hsp150 gene ( the ecori fragment from paye505 ) as a probe . the yeast was then grown to high cell density by fed batch culture in minimal medium in a fermenter ( collins , 1990 ). briefly , a fermenter of 10 l working volume was filled to 5 l with an initial batch medium containing 50 ml / l of a concentrated salts mixture ( table 1 ), 10 ml / l of a trace elements solution ( table 2 ), 50 ml / l of a vitamins mixture ( table 3 ) and 20 g / l sucrose . an equal volume of feed medium containing 100 ml / l of the salts mixture , 20 ml / l of the trace elements mixture , 100 ml / l of vitamins solution and 500 g / l sucrose was held in a separate reservoir connected to the fermenter by a metering pump . the ph was maintained at 5 . 7 ± 0 . 2 by the automatic addition of ammonium hydroxide or sulphuric acid , and the temperature was maintained at 30 ° c . the stirrer speed was adjusted to give a dissolved oxygen tension of & gt ; 20 % air saturation at 1 v / v / min air flow rate . table 1______________________________________salts mixturechemical concentration ( g / l ) ______________________________________kh . sub . 2 po . sub . 4 114 . 0mgso . sub . 4 12 . 0cacl . sub . 2 . 6h . sub . 2 o 3 . 0na . sub . 2 edta 2 . 0______________________________________ table 2______________________________________trace elements solutionchemical concentration ( g / l ) ______________________________________znso . sub . 4 . 7h . sub . 2 o 3 . 0feso . sub . 4 . 7h . sub . 2 o 10 . 0mnso . sub . 4 . 4h . sub . 2 o 3 . 2cuso . sub . 4 . 5h . sub . 2 o 0 . 079h . sub . 3 bo . sub . 3 1 . 5ki 0 . 2na . sub . 2 moo . sub . 4 . 2h . sub . 2 o 0 . 5cocl . sub . 2 . 6h . sub . 2 o 0 . 56h . sub . 3 po . sub . 4 75ml / l______________________________________ table 3______________________________________vitamins solutionchemical concentration ( g / l ) ______________________________________ca pantothenate 1 . 6nicotinic acid 1 . 2m - inositol 12 . 8thiamine hcl 0 . 32pyridoxine hcl 0 . 8biotin 0 . 008______________________________________ the fermenter was inoculated with 100 ml of an overnight culture of s . cerevisiae grown in buffered minimal medium ( yeast nitrogen base without amino acids , without ammonium sulphate , difco ! 1 . 7 g / l , ( nh 4 ) 2 so 4 5 g / l , citric acid monohydrate 6 . 09 g / l , na 2 hpo 4 20 . 16 g / l , sucrose 20 g / l , ph6 . 5 ). the initial batch fermentation proceeded until the carbon source had been consumed , at which point the metering pump was switched on and the addition of feed was computer controlled ( the micro mfcs system , b . braun , melsungen , germany ) using an algorithm based on that developed by wang et al ( 1979 ). a mass spectrometer was used in conjunction with the computer control system to monitor the off gases from the fermentation and to control the addition of feed to maintain a set growth rate ( eg 0 . 1 - 1 ). maximum conversion of carbon substrate into biomass is achieved by maintaining the respiratory coefficient below 1 . 2 ( collins , 1990 ) and , by this means , cell densities of approximately 100 g / l cell dry weight can be achieved . the fermentation broth was centrifuged to remove the cells and then subjected to affinity chromatographic purification as follows . the culture supernatant was passed through a cibacron blue f3ga sepharose column ( pharmacia ) which was then washed with 0 . 1 m phosphate glycine buffer , ph8 . 0 . the rha was then eluted from the column with 2 m nacl , 0 . 1 m phosphate glycine , ph8 . 0 . the albumin may alternatively be purified from the culture medium by any of the variety of known techniques for purifying albumin from serum or fermentation culture medium , for example those disclosed in wo 92 / 04367 , maurel et al ( 1989 ), curling ( 1980 ) and ep 524 681 . analysis of rha purified from hsp150 strains revealed that no hsp150 protein was present in these samples . hsp150 protein is determined using prior art techniques such as elisa or western blotting . anti - hsp150 antibodies are disclosed in russo et al ( 1992 ) proc . nat . acad . sci . ( usa ) 89 , 3671 - 3675 . the hsp150 protein coding sequence was deleted by using alternative fragments of the cloned hsp150 sequences as follows . the ura3 hindiii fragment from yep24 ( see example 1 ) was cloned into pic19r ( marsh j . l . et al ( 1984 ) gene 32 , 481 - 485 ) at hindiii to form paye601 and then excised as a sali / clai fragment and inserted into paye505 at the xhoi and clai sites to form paye602 ( fig2 ). this plasmid was digested with ecori and then used to transform dbu3 cir ° ( paye316 ), selecting for ura + transformants . the disruption of the hsp150 gene in these transformants was confirmed by southern blot analysis as described in example 1 . thus , in this example , the whole of the hsp150 coding sequence is removed , whereas in example 1 the sequence is disrupted to yield non - functional protein . southern blotting has revealed an hsp150 homologue in hansenula polymorpha ( now called pichia angusta ). the p . angusta gene may be functionally deleted by ways analogous to those in examples 1 and 2 . boeke , j . d . et al ( 1987 ) methods enzymol . 154 , 164 - 175 . collins , s . h . ( 1990 ) in protein production by biotechnology ( harris , t . j . r ., ed .) pp 61 - 77 , elsevier , barking , essex . curling ( 1980 ) &# 34 ; albumin purification by ion exchange chromatography &# 34 ;, in &# 34 ; methods of plasma protein purification &# 34 ;, ed . curling , j . m ., academic press , london . maurel et al ( 1989 ) &# 34 ; biotechnology of plasma proteins &# 34 ;, colloque inserm 175 , 19 - 24 . russo , p . et al ( 1992 ) proc . natl . acad . sci . usa 89 , 3671 - 3675 . sambrook , j . et al ( 1989 ) molecular cloning : a laboratory manual , 2nd edition . cold spring harbor laboratory press , cold spring harbor , n . y . wang , h . y . et al ( 1979 ) biotechnology & amp ; bioeng . 21 , 975 . __________________________________________________________________________sequence listing ( 1 ) general information :( iii ) number of sequences : 6 ( 2 ) information for seq id no : 1 :( i ) sequence characteristics :( a ) length : 40 base pairs ( b ) type : nucleic acid ( c ) 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