Patent Application: US-70562596-A

Abstract:
an nnos associated protein designated pin - 1 has been identified . it physically interacts with nnos and inhibits its activity . multiple lines of evidence indicate that pin - 1 is a regulator of nnos : it is physiologically associated with nnos , and it inhibits its catalytic activity . the extraordinary evolutionary conservation of pin - 1 and preliminary evidence that it interacts with multiple proteins , suggests that it may be a major biological regulatory protein influencing numerous physiological processes .

Description:
it is a discovery of the present invention that the mammalian protein pin - 1 ( protein inhibitor of nnos ) physically interacts with and inhibits the activity of neuronal nitric oxide synthase ( nnos ). although it was known that nnos regulates the release of its product , the messenger molecule nitric oxide , protein inhibitors of nnos were previously unknown . mammalian pin - 1 protein has the sequence disclosed in seq id no : 2 . any biologically active variants of this sequence that may occur in mammalian tissues are within the scope of this invention . biologically active variants bind to and inhibit nnos . the pin - 1 protein comprises amino acids 1 - 89 as shown in seq id no : 2 . fragments of a mammalian pin - 1 protein , comprising at least eight , ten , twelve , or fifteen consecutive amino acids selected from the sequence shown in seq id no : 2 , may also be used . such fragments may be useful , for example , in various assays , as immunogens , or in therapeutic compositions . a fusion protein may be used , consisting of a full length mammalian pin - 1 protein or a pin - 1 protein fragment fused to a second protein or protein fragment by means of a peptide bond . the second protein or protein fragment may be , for example , a ligand for yet a third molecule . the second protein or protein fragment may be labeled with a detectable marker or may be an enzyme that will generate a detectable product . a fusion protein may be useful , for example , to target full - length pin - 1 protein or a pin - 1 fragment comprising one or more specific domains , to a specific location in a cell or tissue . any of these pin - 1 - related proteins may be produced by expressing pin - 1 cdna sequences in prokaryotic or eukaryotic host cells , using known expression vectors . synthetic chemistry methods can also be used to synthesize pin - 1 protein , fusion protein , or fragments . alternatively , pin - 1 protein can be extracted , using standard biochemical methods , from pin - 1 - producing mammalian cells , such as brain cells . the source of the cells may be any mammalian tissue that produces pin - 1 protein including human , rat , or mouse . methods of protein purification , such as size exclusion chromatography , ammonium sulfate fractionation , ion exchange chromatography , affinity chromatography , or preparative gel electrophoresis , are well known in the art . given the sequence disclosed in seq id no : 2 , an ordinary artisan can readily select appropriate methods to obtain a preparation of mammalian pin - 1 protein that is substantially free from other mammalian proteins . an isolated pin - 1 protein is purified from other compounds that may normally associate with pin - 1 protein in a cell , such as certain proteins , carbohydrates , lipids , or subcellular organelles . the present invention also provides a preparation of antibodies that specifically bind to mammalian pin - 1 protein . the antibodies may be polyclonal or monoclonal and may be raised against biochemically isolated , chemically synthesized , or recombinantly produced full - length pin - 1 protein , pin - 1 protein fragments , or pin - 1 fusion proteins . techniques for raising antibodies directed against intracellular proteins such as mammalian pin - 1 are well known in the art . the antibodies bind specifically to pin - 1 epitopes , preferably epitopes not present on other mammalian proteins . antibodies that bind specifically to pin - 1 proteins include those that bind to full - length pin - 1 protein , pin - 1 fragments or degradation products , to alternatively spliced forms of pin - 1 proteins , or to pin - 1 fusion proteins . in preferred embodiments of the invention the antibodies prevent pin - 1 binding to nnos , immunoprecipitate pin - 1 protein from solution , and react with pin - 1 protein on western blots of polyacrylamide gels . preferably the antibodies do not exhibit nonspecific cross - reactivity with other mammalian proteins on western blots or in immunocytochemical assays . techniques for purifying pin - 1 antibodies are those which are available in the art . in a more preferred embodiment , antibodies are affinity purified by passing antiserum over a support column to which pin - 1 protein is bound and then eluting the bound antibody , for example with high salt concentrations . any such techniques may be chosen to achieve the preparation of the invention . the polynucleotides of the present invention encode pin - 1 protein . these polynucleotides may be isolated and purified free from other nucleotide sequences by standard purification techniques , using restriction enzymes to isolate fragments comprising the pin - 1 encoding sequences . the polynucleotide molecules are preferably intron - free and have the sequence shown in seq id no : 1 . such pin - 1 cdna molecules can be made inter alia by using reverse transcriptase with pin - 1 mrna as a template . the polynucleotide molecules of the invention can also be made using the techniques of synthetic chemistry given the sequence disclosed herein . the degeneracy of the genetic code permits alternate nucleotide sequences to be synthesized that will encode the pin - 1 amino acid sequence shown in seq id no : 2 . all such nucleotide sequences are within the scope of the present invention . the pin - 1 polynucleotide molecules can be propagated in vectors and cell lines as is known in the art . the constructs may be on linear or circular molecules . they may be on autonomously replicating molecules or on molecules without replication sequences . recombinant host cells can be formed by introducing the genetic constructs of the present invention into cells . any of those techniques which are available in the art can be used to introduce genetic constructs into the cells . these include , but are not limited to , transfection with naked or encapsulated nucleic acids , cellular fusion , protoplast fusion , viral infection , and electroporation . introduction of genetic constructs may be carried out in vitro or in vivo . the invention also provides a recombinant dna construct for expressing pin - 1 antisense nucleic acids . the construct contains a promoter and a coding sequence for pin - 1 consisting of at least 12 and preferably at least 15 or 20 contiguous base pairs selected from seq id no : 1 . the pin - 1 coding sequence is in an inverted orientation with respect to the promoter , so that when the sequence is transcribed from the promoter , an rna complementary to native pin - 1 - encoding mrna is produced . the construct may also include a terminator at the 3 &# 39 ; end of the inverted pin - 1 coding sequence . the antisense molecules produced using the dna construct of the invention may be used to decrease or prevent the transcription of pin - 1 mrna . the antisense molecules may be used in vitro or in vivo , as pharmacological agents for the purpose of influencing nnos activity . according to the present invention , nnos is inhibited by mammalian pin - 1 protein , which destabilizes the nnos dimer , thereby inhibiting nnos activity . suitable inhibitory concentrations range from 1 nm to 1 mm . in a preferred embodiment the concentration of pin - 1 protein is at least 250 nm . in a more preferred embodiment the concentration of pin - 1 protein is at least 1 μm . greater concentrations of pin - 1 protein may also be used . nnos activity may be measured , for example , by assaying nitric oxide - dependent cgmp formation in hek 293 cells cotransfected with dna encoding pin - 1 and nnos . other cell lines , such as mouse n1e - 115 neuroblastoma cells , may be used as well . formation of cgmp may be measured , for example , by radioimmunoassay or by spectrophotometry . nnos activity may be measured in intact cells or in cell lysates . other assays for measuring nnos activity may also be used . the present invention also provides methods of screening test compounds for the ability to decrease or augment nnos activity . the test compounds may be pharmacologic agents already known in the art or may be compounds previously unknown to have any pharmacological activity . the compounds may be naturally occurring or designed in the laboratory . they may be isolated from microorganisms , animals , or plants , and may be produced recombinantly , or synthesized by chemical methods known in the art . a test compound can be contacted with a mixture of mammalian pin - 1 protein and two molecules containing , for example , a rat nnos dimerization domain which is a contiguous sequence selected from the nnos amino acid sequence shown in seq id no : 3 . analogous domains in other mammalian nnos proteins can also be used . these are referred to as biologically active , naturally occurring variants of the rat protein . the human nnos protein is shown as another example of a mammalian nnos in seq id no : 4 . these molecules may be produced recombinantly or may be synthesized using standard chemical methods . one or both of the two dimerizing molecules may consist of less than the entire nnos momomer . the monomers may be prebound as dimers prior to the step of contacting the test compound . alternatively , the test compound may contact one of the monomers before the second monomer is added . the dimerization domain - containing molecules may be in solution or one monomer may be bound to a solid support . these molecules may be unlabeled or labeled , for example , with a radioactive , fluorescent , or other detectable marker . they may be fusion proteins comprising a nnos dimerization domain and another protein with or without a detectable enzymatic activity . the amount of at least one of the two dimerization domain - containing molecules that is bound or unbound in the presence of the test compound is then measured . a number of methods may be used to measure the amount of monomers or dimers . for example , the relative concentration of monomers and dimers may be detected by examining the apparent molecular masses of the molecules by size exclusion chromatography or by polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis under non - reducing conditions . other methods of measuring binding or dissociation of the dimerization domain - containing molecules will readily occur to those of ordinary skill in the art and can be used . a test compound that decreases the amount of the two molecules that are bound is a potential drug for decreasing nnos activity . a test compound that increases the amount of the two molecules that are bound is a potential drug for augmenting nnos activity . according to another aspect of the invention , a test compound is contacted with a mixture of mammalian pin - 1 protein and molecules containing a nnos dimerization domain . binding of the dimerization domain - containing molecules in the presence of the test compound may be measured by detecting dimers or monomers directly or by measuring the displacement of pin - 1 protein . full - length pin - 1 protein , protein fragments , or fusion proteins may be used . the proteins may be radiolabeled or labeled with fluorescent or enzymatic tags and may be detected , for example , by scintillation counting , fluorometric assay or monitoring the generation of a detectable product , or by measuring their apparent molecular mass by gel filtration or electrophoretic mobility . one of the monomers may be bound to a solid support . a test compound that increases the amount of pin - 1 protein that is bound is a potential drug for decreasing nnos activity . a test compound that decreases the amount of pin - 1 protein that is bound is a potential drug for augmenting nnos activity . a test compound which increases dimerization of nnos is a potential drug for augmenting nnos activity . a test compound which decreases dimerization of nnos is a potential drug for decreasing nnos activity . according to the present invention a method is also provided of using the yeast two - hybrid technique to screen for test compounds that decrease or augment nnos activity . the yeast two - hybrid technique is generically taught in fields , s . and song , o ., nature 340 , 245 - 46 , 1989 . in a preferred embodiment , a cell is contacted with a test compound . the cell comprises ( i ) a first fusion protein comprising a dna binding domain and all or a portion of a mammalian pin - 1 protein consisting of a contiguous sequence of amino acids selected from the amino acid sequence shown in seq id no : 2 and capable of binding to nnos ; ( ii ) a second fusion protein comprising a transcriptional activating domain and all or a portion of nnos , wherein the portion comprises a contiguous sequence of amino acids selected from amino acids 163 - 245 as shown in seq id no : 3 or naturally occurring biologically active variants thereof , and wherein the interaction of the portion of the pin - 1 protein with the portion of nnos reconstitutes a sequence specific transcriptional activating factor ; and ( iii ) a reporter gene comprising a dna sequence to which the dna binding domain of the first fusion protein specifically binds . when the pin - 1 and nnos regions are bound together , the dna binding domain and the transcriptional activating domain will be in close enough proximity to reconstitute a transcriptional activator capable of initiating transcription of a detectable reporter gene in the cell . the expression of the reporter gene in the presence of the test compound is then measured . a test compound that increases the expression of the reporter gene is a potential drug for decreasing nnos activity . a test compound that decreases the expression of the reporter gene is a potential drug for augmenting nnos activity . many dna binding domains and transcriptional activating domains can be used in this system , including the dna binding domains of gal4 , lexa , and the human estrogen receptor paired with the acidic transcriptional activating domains of gal4 or the herpes virus simplex protein vp16 ( see , e . g ., g . j . hannon et al ., genes dev . 7 , 2378 , 1993 ; a . s . zervos et al ., cell 72 , 223 , 1993 ; a . b . votjet et al ., cell 74 , 205 , 1993 ; j . w . harper et al ., cell 75 , 805 , 1993 ; b . le douarin et al ., nucl . acids res . 23 , 876 , 1995 ). a number of plasmids known in the art can be constructed to contain the coding sequences for the fusion proteins using standard laboratory techniques for manipulating dna ( see , e . g ., example 1 , below ). suitable detectable reporter genes include the e . coli lacz gene , whose expression may be measured colorimetrically ( see , e . g ., fields and song , supra ), and yeast selectable genes such as his3 ( harper et al ., supra ; votjet et al ., supra ; hannon et al ., supra ) or ura3 ( le douarin et al ., supra ). methods for transforming cells are also well known in the art . see , e . g ., a . hinnen et al ., proc . natl . acad . sci . u . s . a . 75 , 1929 - 1933 , 1978 . the test compound may comprise part of the cell culture medium or it may be added separately . in another embodiment , a cell is contacted with a test compound . in this embodiment , the cell comprises ( i ) a first expression vector comprising a subgenomic polynucleotide encoding at least a portion of nnos or a naturally occurring biologically active variant thereof , wherein the portion of nnos is capable of binding to at least a portion of pin - 1 , and ( ii ) a second expression vector comprising a subgenomic polynucleotide encoding the portion of pin - 1 or a naturally occurring biologically active variant thereof , wherein the portion of pin - 1 is capable of binding to the portion of nnos . the amount of cgmp in the cell is then measured , for example by radioimmunoassay or by spectrophotometry . a test compound that increases the amount of cgmp in the cell is a potential drug for augmenting nnos activity . a test compound that decreases the amount of cgmp in the cell is a potential drug for decreasing nnos activity . the following are provided for exemplification purposes only and are not intended to limit the scope of the invention which has been described in broad terms above . this example demonstrates a screen for neuronal nitric oxide synthase associated proteins . this screen was performed using the yeast two - hybrid system ( s . fields and o . - k . song , nature 340 , 245 , 1989 ; p . m . chevray and d . nathans , proc . natl . acad . sci . u . s . a . 89 , 5789 , 1992 .) yeast expressing a fusion protein consisting of amino acids 2 - 377 of nnos and the gal4 dna - binding domain ( db ) were transformed with a rat hippocampal cdna library fused to the gal4 activation domain ( ad ). in this system , protein interaction was detected by growth on histidine - deficient plates and by measuring β - galactosidase activity transcribed off a lacz reporter gene ( p . m . chevray and d . nathans , proc . natl . acad . sci . u . s . a . 89 , 5789 , 1992 ). screening ˜ 3 × 10 6 clones resulted in the isolation of a complementary dna ( cdna ) that encodes a protein , pin - 1 ( protein inhibitor of nnos ) that specifically interacts with nnos . this interaction was specific , as pin - 1 binds to nnos but not to distinct domains of another protein , the rapamycin and fkbp target ( raft ) ( fig1 a ). to determine the region of nnos involved in pin - 1 binding , we expressed several truncated fragments of nnos as gal4 db fusions in yeast and assayed for binding to pin - 1 with the two - hybrid assay . two - hybrid screens and parent vectors ppc97 and ppc86 were as described in chevray and natbans , supra . plasmid pbd - nos ( 2 - 377 ) was constructed by inserting a nnos pcr product comprising amino acids 2 - 377 into the sal i - bgl ii sites of ppc97 resulting in an in - frame gala db - nos fusion protein . the nnos fragment was constructed by pcr using the following primers : 5 &# 39 ;- gactagtcgactgaagagaacacgtttggg - 3 &# 39 ; ( seq id no : 5 ) ( coding strand ) and 5 &# 39 ;- tctgcagatctcagtgggccttggagccaaa - 3 &# 39 ; ( seq id no : 6 ) ( noncoding strand ). a rat hippocampal cdna library in ppc86 ( li , x . - j . et al ., nature 378 , 398 , 1995 ) was amplified once in dh10b ( gibco brl ) ( j . sambrook , e . f . fritsch , t . maniatis , molecular cloning : a laboratory manual , cold spring harbor laboratory press , cold spring harbor , n . y ., 1989 ) and transformed into yeast containing pbd - nos ( 2 - 377 ). pad - pin was identified as a 0 . 5 kb clone which activated lacz transcription and conferred histidine protrophy in the presence of pbd - nos ( 2 - 377 ). a double transformant containing pbd - nos and ppc86 demonstrated that the region of nos used in the two - hybrid assay was not capable of activating transcription on its own . ppc97 derivatives containing fragments of raft were constructed by pcr and cloned into the sal i and sac i sites of ppc97 . pcrs utilized the following primers : raft ( 1864 - 2549 ), 5 &# 39 ;- ggactggtcgactgacgagttctaccccgcc - 3 &# 39 ; ( seq id no : 7 ) ( coding strand ) and 5 &# 39 ;- ggactggagctcatcttgttggtc - 3 &# 39 ; ( seq id no : 8 ) ( noncoding strand ); raft ( 944 - 1224 ) 5 &# 39 ;- ggactggtcgactcctctgcagaagaaggtc - 3 &# 39 ; ( seq id no : 9 ) ( coding strand ) and ggactggagctcttaccagaaaggacacca - 3 &# 39 ; ( seq id no : 10 ) ( noncoding strand ). truncated nos fragments comprising amino acids 2 - 165 and 2 - 284 were generated by restriction of the initial nos ( 2 - 377 ) pcr fragment with nco i and ava i , respectively followed by klenow - filling in of that end and ligation into ppc97 . other truncated nos fragments were prepared by pcr using the following coding strand primers : 5 &# 39 ;- tagtcgactctcttcaaacgcaaagtg - 3 &# 39 ; ( seq id no : 11 ) and 5 &# 39 ;- tagtcgactcaaggccatgggcaggga - 3 &# 39 ; ( seq id no : 12 ) for creating n - terminal fragments beginning at amino acids 20 and 163 , respectively . truncations ending at amino acid 245 utilized the following noncoding strand primer : 5 &# 39 ;- gcagatcttttgtgcgatttgccatc - 3 &# 39 ; ( seq id no : 13 ). sequences of newly constructed plasmids were confirmed by automated fluorescent sequencing . a fusion protein containing amino acids 163 - 245 of nnos was sufficient for pin - 1 binding ( fig1 b ). this region lies outside of the nos pdz domain , a protein - binding module that may target nos to synaptic or cytoskeletal structures ( c . p . pontig and c . phillips , trends biochem . sci . 20 , 102 , 1995 ; j . e . brenman et al ., cell 82 , 743 , 1995 ; j . e . brenman et al ., cell 84 , 757 , 1996 ), and also does not overlap with regions of nos previously implicated in binding to calmodulin or cofactors . northern ( rna ) blot analysis using the pin - 1 cdna revealed a 0 . 9 kb transcript , with highest levels in the testes , various brain regions providing the next highest levels , and most peripheral tissues containing significantly less but detectable levels . in the brain , the transcript was abundant , appearing to be present at levels nearly as high as the glyceraldehyde - 3 - phosphate dehydrogenase transcript . this example demonstrates the determination of the full length pin - 1 coding sequence . to obtain the full length pin - 1 sequence , a rat brain cdna library was screened with the pin - 1 cdna from the yeast two - hybrid system . a pbluescript plasmid containing the cdna for pin was obtained by screening a rat brain 1zapii cdna library ( stratagene ) with a randomly primed 32 p - labelled probe derived from the sal i - not i insert in pad - pin . library screening was performed according to the directions of the manufacturer . sequencing of the pad - pin insert and the bluescript clone confirmed that they were identical . we obtained a 615 bp cdna which contained a 270 bp open reading frame preceded 87 bases upstream by an in - frame stop codon . the start codon was assigned as the first atg and was located in a context that conformed to the kozak consensus sequence ( m . kozak , j . biol . chem . 266 , 19867 , 1991 ). these data revealed that the clone initially obtained in the yeast two - hybrid screen coded the complete pin - 1 sequence and 25 amino acids from the 5 &# 39 ; untranslated region . this example demonstrates the predicted amino acid sequence and characteristics of mammalian pin - 1 protein . pin - 1 is predicted to be an 89 amino acid protein ( fig2 a ) and has no recognizable motifs . a database search ( s . f . altschul et al ., j . mol . biol . 215 , 403 , 1990 ) reveals that pin - 1 has 92 % amino acid sequence identity to a hypothetical protein identified in the c . elegans genome sequencing project ( r . wilson et al ., nature 368 , 32 , 1994 ) and has 92 % amino acid sequence identity to a chlamydomonas reinhardtii protein of unknown function recently identified as a component of a macromolecular complex which includes flagellar dynein ( s . m . king and r . s . patel - king , j . biol . chem . 270 , 11445 , 1995 ). the level of sequence identity implies that pin - 1 is the rat homolog of these proteins . the search also identified expressed sequence tags ( ests ) from several species encoding pin - 1 homologs . these ests , some of which span the entire or nearly the entire coding sequence of pin - 1 , reveal that pin - 1 is highly conserved across species ( fig2 b ). thus , rat pin - 1 displays 92 % amino acid sequence identity with the c . elegans and chlamydomonas homologs and 100 % identity with the human and mouse sequences ( fig2 b ). accession numbers for the referenced clones are : n28047 ( est , s . mansoni ), t01352 ( est , c . reinhardtii ), t34147 ( est , human ), t88069 ( a . thaliana ). sequences were aligned using blast ( s . f . altschul et al ., j . mol . biol . 215 , 403 , 1990 ), and amino acid identity was determined by dividing the number of identical amino acids by the total number of compared amino acids . ambiguous nucleotides from the ests which could not be translated were omitted from the analysis . even the arabidopsis homolog displays 62 % identity to rat pin - 1 ( fig2 b ). this remarkable conservation is reminiscent of highly conserved proteins such as fkbp - 12 ( j . j . siekierka et al ., j . biol . chem . 265 , 21011 , 1990 ), cyclophilin ( n . takahashi et al ., nature 337 , 473 , 1989 ; g . fischer et al ., nature ., 337 , 476 , 1989 ) and the 14 - 3 - 3 family ( a . aitken et al ., trends biol . sci . 17 , 498 , 1992 ). accordingly , it is likely that pin - 1 serves important , conserved biological functions . preliminary yeast two - hybrid and blot overlay experiments reveal specific associations of pin - 1 with several other proteins besides nnos . thus , pin - 1 &# 39 ; s biological function may involve association with numerous proteins . this example demonstrates the interaction of pin - 1 and neuronal nitric oxide synthase . we confirmed the interaction of pin - 1 and nnos by several techniques . we examined the ability of nnos , endothelial nos ( enos ), and inducible nos ( inos ) in lysates from transfected human embryonic kidney ( hek ) 293 cells to bind to a glutathione - s - transferase ( gst )- pin - 1 fusion protein and not to gst . the cdna for pin was excised from pad - pin with sal i and not i and cloned into those sites in pgex - 4t2 ( pharmacia ) resulting in an in frame gst fusion protein . fusion proteins were prepared in e . coli bl21 ( de3 ) ( novagen ) with glutathione - agarose ( sigma ) as described in d . b . smith and k . s . johnson , gene 67 , 31 , 1988 , except that bacterial pellets were lysed in lysis buffer ( 50 mm tris - hcl , ph 7 . 7 , 100 mm nacl , and 2 mm edta ), supernatants were adjusted to 1 % triton x - 100 , and protein was purified using elution buffer ( 50 mm tris - hcl , ph 7 . 7 , 100 mm nacl , 10 mm reduced glutathione , and 2 mm edta ). hek 293 cells were transfected with plasmids for nnos d . s . bredt et al ., nature 351 , 714 , 1991 ), enos ( s . lamas et al ., proc . natl . acad . sci . u . s . a . 89 , 6348 , 1992 ), and inos ( c . j . lowenstein et al ., proc . natl . acad . sci . u . s . a . 89 , 6711 , 1992 ). transfections were performed with 10 mg of each plasmid using the calcium phosphate method ( j . sambrook , e . f . fritsch , t . maniatis , molecular cloning : a laboratory manual , cold spring harbor laboratory press , cold spring harbor , n . y ., 1989 ). following transfection , cells were sonicated in buffer a ( 50 mm tris - hcl , ph 7 . 7 , 100 mm nacl , 2 mm edta , and 1 % triton x - 100 ) and cleared by centrifugation . this cellular lysate was incubated with gst or gst - pin immobilized on glutathione - agarose for one hour at 4 ° c . and washed extensively in hntg buffer ( 20 mm hepes , ph 7 . 4 , 500 mm nacl , 10 % glycerol , and 0 . 1 % triton x - 100 ). the material remaining on the resin was eluted with sds - page sample buffer and nnos was detected by immunoblot using antibodies specific to each nos isoform ( transduction labs ). for assays testing pin binding to immobilized nos , 20 mg of bacterial lysate was added to 200 mg of transfected hek 293 cell lysate and bound to 2 &# 39 ;, 5 &# 39 ;, adp - sepharose 4b ( pharmacia ) and subsequently washed and eluted with 10 mm nadph as described in d . s . bredt et al ., proc . natl . acad . sci . u . s . a . 87 , 682 , 1990 . the eluate was immunoblotted with a rabbit polyclonal anti - gst antibody ( novacastra ). for blot - overlay analysis , pgex - 4t2 was modified such that two sites for protein kinase a ( pka ) encoded on complementary synthetic oligonucleotides ( 5 &# 39 ;- aattcgtcgtgcatctgttgaactacgtcgagcttcagttgcg - 3 &# 39 ; ( seq id no : 14 ) and 5 &# 39 ;- tcgacgcaactgaagctcgacgtagttcaacagatgcacgacg - 3 &# 39 ; ( seq id no : 15 )) were ligated into the eco ri - sal i sites in the multiple cloning site to generate plasmid pgex4t - 2k . kinase reactions and blot overlays were performed as described in w . m . kavanaugh and l . t . williams , science 266 , 1862 , 1994 . immunoblots and imunoprecipitation utilized the anti - myc monoclonal antibody 9e10 ( oncogene science , cambridge , mass .). immunoprecipitations were performed as follows . transfections of hek 293 cells were performed in 10 cm petri dishes . cells were scraped and sonicated in 0 . 5 ml lysis buffer . supernatants were prepared by centrifugation at 14 , 000 xg for 10 min at 4 ° c . to 100 ml of supernatant was added 0 . 5 mg of anti - myc antibody and 10 ml of protein g - sepharose ( oncogene science ). following overnight incubation , the resin was washed extensively , the contents were eluted in sds - page sample buffer and immunoblotted with an anti - nnos antibody . nnos specifically associated with pin - 1 , but enos and inos did not ( fig3 a ). the domain of nnos that binds to pin - 1 resides between amino acids 163 and 245 ( fig1 b ), which are absent in enos and inos , accounting for their failure to bind to pin - 1 . we next employed a nos affinity resin consisting of 2 &# 39 ;, 5 &# 39 ; adp - sepharose . lysates from nnos transfected hek 293 cells were mixed with bacterial lysates containing either gst - pin - 1 or gst and applied to the 2 &# 39 ;, 5 &# 39 ; adp ribose resin , as described in bredt et al ., supra . gst - pin - 1 bound to the resin in the presence of nnos , while gst failed to adhere to the resin ( fig3 b ). in a blot overlay assay , radiolabeled gst - pin - 1 selectively recognized nnos in lysates from hek 293 cells transfected with a plasmid expressing nnos but not in mock transfected cells ( fig3 c ). to assess whether pin - 1 and nnos stably interact in intact cells , we transfected nnos into hek 293 cells and cotransfected either pin - 1 tagged with the myc epitope or the parent vector . to construct the myc epitope - tagged pin - 1 , a sal i - bgl ii fragment comprising the entire translated sequence of the insert in pad - pin - 1 was generated by pcr and subcloned into the sal i - bam hi site of the cytomegalovirus - driven eukaryotic expression vector pcmv - myc ( a generous gift of a . lanahan and p . worley ) to generate a fusion protein consisting of an n - terminal myc tag followed by a pentaglycine linker and the pin - 1 insert . the amino acid sequence preceding the pin - 1 insert in this fusion protein is as follows : mdqkliseedlngggggst . ( seq id no : 16 ) hek 293 cells were transfected with the indicated quantities of plasmids and cgmp levels were measured following treatment with 10 mm calcium ionophore a23187 for one hour . cells were scraped and resuspended in 500 ml lysis buffer ( 20 ) and cgmp levels were measured by radioimmunoassay ( amersham ). an anti - myc antibody immunoprecipitated nnos only from cells transfected with myc - pin - 1 but not in mock transfected cells ( fig3 d ). together these data show that nos and pin - 1 physically interact . to ascertain the physiological role of pin - 1 , we cotransfected pin - 1 and nnos in hek293 cells and in n1e - 115 mouse neuroblastoma cells . to determine whether pin - 1 might be an adapter protein targeting nnos to a particular subcellular compartment , we conducted subcellular fractionation . in both of these cell lines nnos distribution in soluble and various particulate fractions was identical in cells transfected with pin - 1 and in mock transfected cells . we next assessed the influence of pin - 1 upon no - dependent cgmp formation in hek 293 cells cotransfected with pin - 1 and nnos , as described in example 5 . cotransfection of different amounts of pin - 1 together with nnos produced a concentration - dependent reduction in calcium ionophore - stimulated cgmp formation ( fig4 a ). transfection of pin - 1 alone did not alter basal cgmp levels or levels produced following stimulation with calcium ionophore ( j . e . brenman et al ., cell 82 , 743 , 1995 ; j . e . brenman et al ., cell 84 , 757 , 1996 ). to determine whether pin - 1 directly inhibits nnos , we examined the effect of purified recombinant gst - pin - 1 on nnos activity in lysates of hek 293 cells stably transfected with nnos ( fig4 b ). as little as 250 nm pin - 1 substantially reduced nos activity relative to the gst control with 50 % inhibition evident at about 1 μm . similar quantities of gst had no significant effect on nos activity . we tested a second preparation of pin - 1 that utilized enzymatic cleavage of the gst moiety by thrombin . this preparation showed a similar dose - dependent inhibition of nos activity , with 50 % inhibition at about 5 mm ( fig4 b ). 22 fusion proteins were prepared as described in example 5 , supra , except proteins were eluted from glutathione agarose by cleavage with thrombin in thrombin cleavage buffer ( 50 mm tris - hcl , ph 7 . 7 , 100 mm nacl , 2 . 5 mm cacl2 , and 1 % triton x - 100 ) for 16 hours at 37 ° c . the eluate was adjusted to 5 mm egta , 4 mm leupeptin , and 400 nm aprotinin . dilutions were made with thrombin cleavage buffer adjusted in this manner . a gst - birk fusion consisting of amino acids 347 - 442 of birk2 ( d . s . bredt et al ., proc . natl . acad . sci . u . s . a . 92 , 6753 , 1995 ) was cleaved with thrombin as above and used as a control protein in nos assays ( a gift of n . a . cohen ). this reduction in affinity may be due to thermal denaturation during preparation . are the measured potencies compatible with a physiological role for pin - 1 ? a number of protein - protein interactions , such as those with with sh3 domains , have dissociation constants greater than 5 mm ( h . yu et al ., cell 76 , 933 , 1994 ; a . r . viguera et al ., biochemistry 33 , 10925 , 1994 ). the abundance of the pin - 1 transcript by northern blot suggests that pin - 1 is present at concentrations sufficient to inhibit nnos activity in vivo . this example demonstrates the mechanism of inhibition of neuronal nitric oxide synthase activity by pin - 1 . we attempted to determine the mechanism of inhibition of nnos activity by pin - 1 . we considered the possibility that pin - 1 affects nnos dimerization , which is thought to be essential for nos activity ( j . m . hevel et al ., j . biol . chem . 266 , 289 , 1991 ; h . h . h . w . schmidt et al ., proc . natl . acad . sci . u . s . a . 88 , 365 , 1991 ; d . j . stuehr et al ., proc . natl . acad . sci . u . s . a . 88 , 7773 , 1991 ; p . klatt et al ., embo 14 , 3687 , 1995 ). the subunits of nnos form a dimer in the presence of tetrahydrobiopterin ( bh 4 ) and arginine , which remains intact during low - temperature sds - page ( hevel et al ., ibid . ; schmidt et al ., ibid . ; stuehr et al ., ibid .). in this assay , nnos migrated as a monomer after being incubated with concentrations of gst - pin - 1 which inhibit & gt ; 90 % of nos activity ( fig5 a ). incubation with gst resulted in minimal loss of dimerized nos . we confirmed this effect by examining the apparent molecular mass of nnos by gel filtration . the 320 kd nos dimer has been shown previously by gel filtration to migrate with an apparent molecular mass of approximately 600 kd ( p . klatt et al ., embo 14 , 3687 , 1995 ). nos preparations that were incubated with gst migrated at approximately this apparent molecular mass ( fig5 b ). in the presence of gst - pin - 1 , however , nnos was detected at an elution volume consistent with nos migrating as a monomer ( fig5 b ). these data suggest that pin - 1 promotes the dissociation of the nnos dimer . dimerization of the three nos isoforms is thought to be regulated by bh4 and arginine binding . thus , inos dimerizes in the presence of bh 4 and arginine and monomerizes when these cofactors are removed by dialysis ( hevel et al ., ibid . ; schmidt et al ., ibid . ; stuehr et al ., ibid .). the nnos inhibitor 7 - nitroindazole noncompetitively reduces the affinity of bh 4 and arginine ( p . klatt et al ., j . biol . chem . 269 , 13861 , 1994 ) and causes nnos to migrate as a monomer in sds - page ( p . klatt et al ., embo 14 , 3687 , 1995 ). we have found that neither bh 4 nor arginine alter nos binding to pin - 1 in vitro , implying that pin - 1 may alter dimerization through a mechanism distinct from 7 - nitroindazole . only one of two identified contributions to the stability of the nnos dimer is sensitive to arginine and bh 4 sensisitive ( klatt et al ., ibid .). in the sds - page stability assay , nnos migrates as a monomer in preparations which include 7 - nitroindazole or which lack bh 4 and arginine , but migrates as a dimer when assayed by gel filtration ( p . klatt et al ., ibid ). a second dimerization domain within nnos may account for the 7 - nitroindazole resistant dimerization . using the yeast two - hybrid system we have recently found that the first 165 amino acids of nnos , the pdz domain , can dimerize . this region does not bind to bh 4 or arginine but is adjacent to the pin - 1 binding site in nos . __________________________________________________________________________ # sequence listing - ( 1 ) general information :- ( iii ) number of sequences : 16 - ( 2 ) information for seq id no : 1 :- ( i ) sequence characteristics :# pairs ( a ) length : 514 base ( b ) type : nucleic acid ( c ) strandedness : single ( d ) topology : linear - ( ii ) molecule type : cdna - ( iii ) hypothetical : no - ( iv ) anti - sense : no - ( vi ) original source : ( a ) organism : rattus no - # rvegicus - ( xi ) sequence description : seq id no : 1 :- ggagagcggc cgcgctgtcg cctctgctgt ttcagcggcg ccagcacctt cc - # ctaggagc 60 - tcgcagcagc cggctggccc ctgctccacg gtaaccatgt gcgaccggaa gg - # cggtgatc 120 - aaaaatgcag acatgtcgga agagatgcaa caggactcgg tggagtgcgc ta - # ctcaggcg 180 - ttggagaagt acaacataga gaaggatatc gcggcccata tcaagaagga gt - # ttgacaag 240 - aagtacaacc ccacctggca ctgcatcgtg ggccggaact tcggtagcta cg - # tgacacac 300 - gagaccaaac acttcatcta cttctacctg ggtcaggtgg ccattctcct gt - 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glu gln leu ala glu ser val tyr - # arg ala leu lys glu gln glygly # 13405 - his ile tyr val cys gly asp val - # thr met ala ala asp val leulys # 13605 - ala ile gln arg ile met thr gln - # gln gly lys leu ser glu gluasp # 13750 - ala gly val phe ile ser arg leu - # arg asp asp asn arg tyr hisglu # 13900 - # 1385 - asp ile phe gly val thr leu arg - # thr tyr glu val thr asn argleu # 14050 - arg ser glu ser ile ala phe ile - # glu glu ser lys lys asp alaasp # 14205 - glu val phe ser ser pro # 1430 - ( 2 ) information for seq id no : 5 :- ( i ) sequence characteristics :# pairs ( a ) length : 30 base ( b ) type : nucleic acid ( c ) strandedness : single ( d ) topology : linear - ( ii ) molecule type : cdna - ( iii ) hypothetical : no - ( iv ) anti - sense : no - ( xi ) sequence description : seq id no : 5 :# 30 agaa cacgtttggg - ( 2 ) information for seq id no : 6 :- ( i ) sequence characteristics :# pairs ( a ) length : 31 base ( b ) type : nucleic acid ( c ) strandedness : single ( d ) topology : linear - ( ii ) molecule type : cdna - ( iii ) hypothetical : no - ( iv ) anti - sense : no - ( xi ) sequence description : seq id no : 6 :# 31 ggcc ttggagccaa a - ( 2 ) information for seq id no : 7 :- ( i ) sequence characteristics :# pairs ( a ) length : 31 base ( b ) type : nucleic acid ( c ) strandedness : single ( d ) topology : linear - ( ii ) molecule type : cdna - ( iii ) hypothetical : no - ( iv ) anti - sense : no - ( xi ) sequence description : seq id no : 7 :# 31 gagt tctaccccgc c - ( 2 ) information for seq id no : 8 :- ( i ) sequence characteristics :# pairs ( a ) length : 24 base ( b ) type : nucleic acid ( c ) strandedness : single ( d ) topology : linear - ( ii ) molecule type : cdna - ( iii ) hypothetical : no - ( iv ) anti - sense : no - ( xi ) sequence description : seq id no : 8 :# 24tgtt ggtc - ( 2 ) information for seq id no : 9 :- ( i ) sequence characteristics :# pairs ( a ) length : 31 base ( b ) type : nucleic acid ( c ) strandedness : single ( d ) topology : linear - ( ii ) molecule type : cdna - ( iii ) hypothetical : no - ( iv ) anti - sense : no - ( xi ) sequence description : seq id no : 9 :# 31 ctgc agaagaaggt c - ( 2 ) information for seq id no : 10 :- ( i ) sequence characteristics :# pairs ( a ) length : 30 base ( b ) type : nucleic acid ( c ) strandedness : single ( d ) topology : linear - ( ii ) molecule type : cdna - ( iii ) hypothetical : no - ( iv ) anti - sense : no - ( xi ) sequence description : seq id no : 10 :# 30 caga aaggacacca - ( 2 ) information for seq id no : 11 :- ( i ) sequence characteristics :# pairs ( a ) length : 27 base ( b ) type : nucleic acid ( c ) strandedness : single ( d ) topology : linear - ( ii ) molecule type : cdna - ( iii ) hypothetical : no - ( iv ) anti - sense : no - ( xi ) sequence description : seq id no : 11 :# 27 aacg caaagtg - ( 2 ) information for seq id no : 12 :- ( i ) sequence characteristics :# pairs ( a ) length : 27 base ( b ) type : nucleic acid ( c ) strandedness : single ( d ) topology : linear - ( ii ) molecule type : cdna - ( iii ) hypothetical : no - ( iv ) anti - sense : no - ( xi ) sequence description : seq id no : 12 :# 27 atgg gcaggga - ( 2 ) information for seq id no : 13 :- ( i ) sequence characteristics :# pairs ( a ) length : 26 base ( b ) type : nucleic acid ( c ) strandedness : single ( d ) topology : linear - ( ii ) molecule type : cdna - ( iii ) hypothetical : no - ( iv ) anti - sense : no - ( xi ) sequence description : seq id no : 13 :# 26 attt gccatc - ( 2 ) information for seq id no : 14 :- ( i ) sequence characteristics :# pairs ( a ) length : 43 base ( b ) type : nucleic acid ( c ) strandedness : single ( d ) topology : linear - ( ii ) molecule type : cdna - ( iii ) hypothetical : no - ( iv ) anti - sense : no - ( xi ) sequence description : seq id no : 14 :# 43 gttg aactacgtcg agcttcagtt gcg - ( 2 ) information for seq id no : 15 :- ( i ) sequence characteristics :# pairs ( a ) length : 43 base ( b ) type : nucleic acid ( c ) strandedness : single ( d ) topology : linear - ( ii ) molecule type : cdna - ( iii ) hypothetical : no - ( iv ) anti - sense : no - ( xi ) sequence description : seq id no : 15 :# 43 tcga cgtagttcaa cagatgcacg acg - ( 2 ) information for seq id no : 16 :- ( i ) sequence characteristics :# acids ( a ) length : 19 amino ( b ) type : amino acid ( c ) strandedness : single ( d ) topology : linear - ( ii ) molecule type : peptide - ( xi ) sequence description : seq id no : 16 :- met asp gln lys leu ile ser glu - # glu asp leu asn gly gly glygly # 15 - gly ser thr__________________________________________________________________________