Patent Application: US-43188899-A

Abstract:
the invention is based on the discovery that a viral vegf - like protein from the orf virus strain nz2 and from the orf virus strain nz10 is capable of binding to the extracellular domain of the vegf receptor - 2 to form bioactive complexes which mediate useful cellular responses and / or antagonize undesired biological activities . disclosed are methods which stimulate or inhibit these biological activities , methods for therapeutic applications and antagonists of orfv2 - vegf and / or nz10 .

Description:
fig1 a and 1b show a comparative sequence alignment of the amino acid sequences of orfv2 - vegf with other members of the vegf family of growth factors . the deduced amino acid sequence of orfv2 - vegf was aligned with the sequences of vegf 121 ( seq id no : 3 ), vegf 165 ( seq id no : 4 ), plgf ( seq id no : 5 ), vegf - b 167 ( seq id no : 6 ), and truncated sequences of vegf - c ( seq id no : 7 ) and vegf - d ( seq id no : 8 ). alignment of the predicted amino acid sequence of orfv2 - vegf ( seq id no : 2 ) with members of the vegf family demonstrates that orfv2 - vegf has a high degree of sequence homology with the vegf homology domain ( vhd ) of this family of proteins . orfv2 - vegf contains all six cysteine residues of the cystine - knot motif which are absolutely conserved among family members . the conserved cysteine residues of the cystine knot motif are indicated with an asterisk (*). several other invariant or highly conserved amino acids are indicated . orfv2 - vegf does not contain the extended n - and c - terminal regions seen in vegf - c and vegf - d . overall , orfv2 - vegf is 43 . 3 %, 34 . 3 %, 25 . 4 %, 26 . 9 % and 33 . 6 % identical to human vegf 165 ( seq id no : 4 ), vegf - b ( seq id no : 6 ), vegf - c ( seq id no : 7 ), vegf - d ( seq id no : 8 ) and plgf ( seq id no : 5 ), respectively . the amino acid sequence of orfv2 - vegf is 87 % identical to nz10 . this sequence similarity of orfv2 - vegf and nz10 to the mammalian vegfs raises the question of whether the structural relatedness extends to receptor binding and biological function . the level of relatedness of orfv2 - vegf / nz10 to vegf 165 suggests the possibility that orfv2 - vegf / nz10 is derived from the vegf 165 gene but that sequence divergence may result in the changes which would affect receptor binding and hence biological function . however , it is also possible that orfv2 - vegf / nz10 is derived from another , yet unidentified , mammalian vegf family member since another orf virus gene ( a homolog of il - 10 ) shows 80 % amino acid sequence identity to its mammalian counterpart . these predictions are complicated by the presence of a variant form of the viral vegf in the nz7 strain of the orf virus . stain nz7 encodes a protein which has only 23 % amino acid identity with human vegf , 43 % identity with orfv2 - vegf , and 40 % identity with nz10 . a dna fragment containing nucleotides 4 to 401 of the sequence shown in fig8 ( seq id no : 1 ) of the vegf - like gene of the orf virus strain nz2 , was prepared by polymerase chain reaction ( pcr ) using pvu89 as a template ( lyttle et al , j . virol . 1994 68 84 - 92 ). this fragment was inserted into the pefbos - i - flag expression vector immediately upstream from the dna sequence encoding the flag octapeptide . in addition , the cdna encoding nz10 ( seq id no : 10 ) was linked at its c - terminal with the sequence encoding the flag octapeptide . protein synthesis gives rise to vegf - like polypeptides that are tagged with the flag octapeptide at its c - terminus . these proteins were designated flag - tagged orfv2 - vegf or flag - tagged nz10 . the flag - tagged nz10 construct was subcloned into the papex - 3 expression vector and then transiently expressed in 293ebna - 1 cells using fugene mediated transfection . after 24 - 72 hours the conditioned medium was collected and the flag - tagged proteins were purified using the m2 - gel as described below . with respect to the vector including flag - tagged orfv2 - vegf , it was transiently transfected into cos cells using the deae - dextran method as described aruffo and seed , proc . natl . acad . sci . usa , 1987 84 8573 - 8577 and biosynthetically labeled with 35 s - cysteine / methionine for 4 hours . after 3 days incubation , a portion of the transfected cos cells were metabolically labeled as described by joukov et al , embo journal 1996 15 290 - 298 . the remaining culture was incubated for a total of 7 days . conditioned cell culture was collected and clarified by centrifugation before the flag - tagged proteins were recovered by immunoprecipitation with either m2 - gel ( anti - flag ) or control beads . the conditioned media was tested in the bioassay as described below , and the results demonstrated that the cos cells did in fact express and secrete biologically - active orfv2 - vegf . purified proteins or washed immunoprecipitates were combined with sds - page sample buffer under reducing ( 2 % β - mercaptoethanol ) or non - reducing conditions , boiled and resolved by sds - page . when required , proteins were transferred to nitrocellulose and blotted with m2 antibody . under non - reducing conditions a band exhibiting a m r of approximately 44 - 48 kda was observed , while under reducing conditions a faster migrating band exhibiting a m r of approximately 23 - 26 kda was seen ( see fig2 a ). the bands detected are consistent with orfv2 - vegf being a disulfide - linked homodimer with a monomeric m r of approximately 25 kda . this is larger than the predicted size of 13 , 456 da for orfv2 - vegf and suggests modification by glycosylation . examination of the orfv2 - vegf sequence reveals one potential n - linked glycosylation site ( asn85 - thr87 ) and two potential o - linked glycosylation sites ( thr121 - thr125 ). n - glycanase treatment reduced the size of the orfv2 - vegf monomer by about 5 kda ( not shown ). the remaining size difference is believed due to o - linked glycosylation , the consensus sequences for which are present in the threonine / proline - rich c - terminus of orfv2 - vegf . in fig2 a , the single arrow indicates the non - reduced form of orfv2 - vegf and the double arrows the two species of reduced form . unlabeled flag - tagged orfv2 - vegf was enriched from the conditioned medium of transfected cos cells by affinity chromatography with m2 resin followed by elution with flag peptide . analysis of this material by sds - page and silver staining ( fig2 b ) or western blotting with anti - flag monoclonal antibodies ( not shown ) demonstrated species of the same m r as that seen following biosynthetic labeling . n - terminal sequencing of the secreted purified protein demonstrated a single sequence , and this was identical with the deduced amino acid sequence from residue 21 to 43 of fig9 ( seq id no : 2 ) and confirmed the prediction that orfv2 - vegf is a protein with a signal sequence of 20 amino acids . for nz10 , the purified vegf - like polypeptides also were found to be disulfide - linked homodimers ( not shown ). under reducing conditions the monomers of nz10 migrate at mr approximately 30k ( not shown ). orfv2 - vegf and nz10 were tested in a bioassay which detects ligands for vegfr - 2 . fig3 shows the results of analysis of orfv2 - vegf protein using the vegfr2 bioassay . results with nz10 are not shown . the bioassay was performed using ba / f3 cells which express a chimeric receptor consisting of the extracellular domain of mouse vegfr - 2 and the transmembrane and cytoplasmic domains of the mouse erythropoitin receptor ( epor ). the cells were maintained in dulbecco &# 39 ; s modified eagle medium ( dmem ) containing 10 % fetal bovine serum ( fbs ), 50 mm l - glutamine , 50μg / ml gentamicin and 10 % of the walter and eliza hall institute of medical research ( wehi ) - 3d - conditioned medium as a source of interleukin - 3 ( il - 3 ). cells expressing the vegfr - 2 - epor chimeric receptor were washed 3 times in phosphate buffered saline ( pbs ), and once in complete medium lacking il - 3 . cells ( 10 4 ) were aliquoted into 96 - well microtiter plates containing dilutions of the test reagent or medium alone . cells were incubated for 48 hours at 37 ° c . in a humidified atmosphere of 5 % co 2 . cell proliferation was quantified by the addition of 1 μci of 3 h - thymidine for 4 hours prior to harvesting . incorporation of 3 h - thymidine was determined using a cell harvester and β - counting . activation of the chimeric receptor rescues the cells from their dependence on il - 3 and causes the cells to proliferate in the absence of il - 3 . vegf , vegf - cδnδc ( the vegf homology domain of vegf - c ) and vegf - dδnδc ( the vegf homology domain of vegf - d ) which are all ligands for vegfr - 2 , stimulate growth of this cell line in a specific and dose - dependent fashion ( achen et al , proc . natl . acad . sci . usa 1998 95 548 - 553 ). purified orfv2 - vegf was able to induce detectable dna synthesis in the bioassay cell line at a concentration of 25 ng / ml . by comparison , vegf was able to induce dna synthesis in the bioassay cell line from a concentration of 5 ng / ml . overall orfv2 - vegf was about four - fold less potent in the bioassay compared to mouse vegf . these results clearly demonstrate that orfv2 - vegf can bind to and cross - link the extracellular domain of vegfr - 2 and induce a proliferation response . similar results were found with nz - 2 . to further assess the interactions between orfv2 - vegf and the vegfrs , orfv2 - vegf was tested for its capacity to bind to soluble ig - fusion proteins containing the extracellular domains of human vegfr - 1 , vegfr - 2 and vegfr - 3 . the fusion proteins , designated vegfr - 1 - ig , vegfr - 2 - ig and vegfr - 3 - ig , were transiently expressed in 293 ebna cells . all ig fusion proteins were human vegfrs . cells were incubated for 24 hours after transfection , washed with dmem containing 0 . 2 % bovine serum albumin and starved for 24 hours . the fusion proteins were then precipitated from the clarified conditioned medium using protein a - sepharose beads . the beads were combined with 100 μl of 10 × binding buffer ( 5 % bovine serum albumin , 0 . 2 % tween 20 and 10 μg / ml heparin ) and 900 μl of conditioned medium from 293 cells that had been transfected with expression plasmids encoding vegf , vegf - dδnδc , orfv2 - vegf or control vector , then metabolically labeled with 35 s - cysteine / methionine for 4 to 16 hours . after 2 . 5 hours , at room temperature , the sepharose beads were washed 3 times with binding buffer at 4 ° c ., once with phosphate buffered saline and boiled in sds - page buffer . labeled proteins that were bound to the ig - fusion proteins were analyzed by sds - page under reducing conditions . radiolabeled proteins were detected using a phosphorimager analyzer . as seen in fig4 a , polypeptides corresponding to the size of orfv2 - vegf were precipitated by vegfr - 2 - ig from the medium of cells expressing orfv2 - vegf . in contrast , vegfr - 1 - ig or vegfr - 3 - ig precipitated no proteins from this medium . as expected a polypeptide of approximately 24 kda was precipitated by vegfr - 1 - ig and vegfr - 2 - ig from the medium of cells expressing mouse vegf 164 but was not precipitated by vegfr - 3 - ig . also , as expected , a polypeptide of approximately 22 kda was precipitated by vegfr - 2 - ig and vegfr - 3 - ig from the medium of cells expressing vegf - danac but was not precipitated by vegfr - 1 - ig . no labeled polypeptides were precipitated by the three fusion proteins from the medium of cells transfected with the expression vector lacking sequences encoding vegf &# 39 ; s . orfv2 - vegf was also tested for its ability to bind the neuropilin - 1 receptor , a recently reported ligand for vegf ( fig4 b ). the neuropilin - 1 - ig fusion protein was able to precipitate vegf 164 but not orfv2 - vegf . in total these data indicate that the orfv2 - vegf can bind to vegfr - 2 but not to vegfr - 1 , vegfr - 3 or neuropilin - 1 . nz10 was also found not to bind vegfr - 1 . this receptor - binding specificity of orfv2 - vegf and nz10 is unique among the vegf family of growth factors . recent structural analyses of human vegf identified residues thought to be important in binding to vegfr - 1 and vegfr - 2 . in light of the receptor binding properties of orfv2 - vegf , it is intriguing that the vegf residues implicated as being critical in binding to vegfr - 1 are partially conserved in orfv2 - vegf , while those involved in vegfr - 2 binding are not . experiments which have determined the crystal structure of vegf and predicted the residues critical for binding vegfr - 2 are phe17 , ile46 , glu64 , gln79 and ile83 and for binding vegfr - 1 are asp63 and glu64 . the mechanism whereby orfv2 - vegf binds to vegfr - 2 is clearly of interest ; the lack of conservation of key residues suggests that the binding site for orfv2 - vegf is different from that of vegf . the ability of orfv2 - vegf to induce tyrosine phosphorylation of human vegfr - 2 and human vegfr - 3 was examined . orfv2 - vegf , vegf 165 and vegf - cδnδc were diluted in dmem containing 0 . 2 % bovine serum albumin and used to stimulate nih3t3 cells expressing vegfr - 2 or vegfr - 3 . after stimulation , cells were lysed and vegfr - 2 or vegfr - 3 were immunoprecipitated and analyzed by western blot analysis with phosphotyrosine - specific monoclonal antibodies . as shown in fig5 orfv2 - vegf stimulated tyrosine kinase phosphorylation of vegfr - 2 but not vegfr - 3 . as expected , the positive control proteins vegf 165 and vegf - cδnδc were able to induce phosphorylation of vegfr - 2 and vegfr - 3 , respectively . these data demonstrate that orfv2 - vegf can specifically induce phosphorylation of vegfr - 2 . members of the vegf family of proteins show variable degrees of mitogenicity for endothelial cells . the mitogenic capacity of orfv2 - vegf was tested using human umbilical vein endothelial cells ( huvecs ). cells grown in endothelial cell basal medium - 2 ( ebm - 2 , clonetics ) containing singlequots plus growth factor supplements and serum were removed with trypsin , washed and aliquoted at 10 3 cells per well in a 96 - well plate . cells were allowed to adhere for 6 to 16 hours at 37 ° c . in ebm - 2 medium plus serum without growth factors before samples of growth factor , diluted in the same medium was added . huvecs were exposed to purified orfv2 - vegf , mouse vegf 164 or human vegf - dδnδc for 3 days at 37 ° c . and then the cells were dissociated with trysin and counted . the amount of cellular proliferation was quantified by a 3 -( 4 , 5 - dimethylthiazol - 2 - yl )- 2 , 5 - diphenyltetrazolium bromide ( mtt ) assay measuring the conversion of a mtt substrate . as seen in fig6 orfv2 - vegf ( 0 . 5 - 100 ng / ml ) was able to stimulate an increase in the number of cells after 3 days compared to medium that did not contain added growth factor . control proteins vegf 164 and vegf - cδnδc also stimulated the endothelial cells . the proliferative capacity of huvecs exposed to orfv2 - vegf was comparable to those grown with mouse vegf164 . as orf virus lesions are characterized by swelling and fluid accumulation , the purified orfv2 - vegf was tested for its ability to induce vascular permeability in a miles assay . anesthetized guinea pigs were given intra - cardiac injections of 500 μl of 0 . 5 % evans blue dye in phosphate buffered saline to introduce the dye into the bloodstream . purified orfv2 - vegf , mouse vegf 164 and appropriate controls were diluted in medium and 150 μl were injected intra - dermally into the shaved areas on the back of the animal . after 30 minutes , the animals were sacrificed and the skin excised ( fig7 a ) and then eluted in formamide and ( fig7 b ) the absorbance reading at 620 nm recorded . the aliquots of orfv2 - vegf contained 8 to 66 ng of factor . in comparison to medium alone there was detectable and dose - dependent permeability induced by the orfv2 - vegf . orfv2 - vegf is approximately five - fold less potent as a vascular permeability factor than mouse vegf 164 . fig8 shows the nucleotide sequence encoding orfv2 - vegf ( seq id no : 1 ). fig9 shows the amino acid sequence encoded by the nucleotide sequence of fig8 ( seq id no : 2 ). the examples above strongly suggest that orfv2 - vegf is capable of inducing activation of the vegfr - 2 signaling pathway analogous to vegf stimulation . orfv2 - vegf is also capable of inducing the proliferation of endothelial cells . vegfr - 2 appears to be a major mediator of such activity . the ability of orfv2 - vegf to induce vascular permeability , combined with its restricted receptor binding specificity , indicates that vegfr - 2 can mediate vascular permeability in the vegfr family , as has been previously suggested by analysis of vegf - c mutants . however , the presence of a novel receptor mediating permeability cannot be formally excluded . other assays are conducted to evaluate whether orfv2 - vegf or nz10 has similar activities to vegf , vegf - c and / or vegf - d in relation to endothelial cell function , angiogenesis and wound healing . endothelial cell growth assays are performed by methods well known in the art , eg . those of ferrara & amp ; henzel , nature , 1989 380 439 - 443 , gospodarowicz et al proc . natl . acad . sci . usa , 1989 86 7311 - 7315 , and / or claffey et al , biochim . biophys . acta , 1995 1246 1 - 9 . the effect of orfv2 - vegf or nz10 on adhesion of polmorphonuclear granulocytes to endothelial cells is tested . the standard boyden chamber chemotaxis assay is used to test the effect of orfv2 - vegf or nz10 on chemotaxis . endothelial cells are tested for the effect of orfv2 - vegf or nz10 on plasminogen activator and plasminogen activator inhibitor production , using the method of pepper et al , biochem . biophys . res . commun ., 1991 181 902 - 906 . the ability of orfv2 - vegf or nz10 to stimulate endothelial cells to migrate and form tubes is assayed as described in montesano et al , proc . natl . acad . sci . usa , 1986 83 7297 - 7301 . alternatively , the three - dimensional collagen gel assay described by joukov et al ( 1996 ) or a gelatinized membrane in a modified boyden chamber ( glaser et al , nature , 1980 288 483 - 484 ) may be used . the ability of orfv2 - vegf or nz10 to induce an angiogenic response in chick chorioallantoic membrane is tested as described in leung et al , science , 1989 246 1306 - 1309 . alternatively the rat cornea assay of rastinejad et al , cell , 1989 56 345 - 355 may be used ; this is an accepted method for assay of in vivo angiogenesis , and the results are readily transferrable to other in vivo systems . the ability of orfv2 - vegf or nz10 to stimulate wound healing is tested in the most clinically relevant model available , as described in schilling et al , surgery , 1959 46 702 - 710 and utilized by hunt et al , surgery , 1967 114 302 - 307 . a variety of in vitro and in vivo assays using specific cell populations of the haemopoietic system are known in the art , and are outlined below . in particular a variety of in vitro murine stem cell assays using fluorescence - activated cell sorter purified cells are particularly convenient : these are cells capable of repopulating the bone marrow of lethally irradiated mice , and have the lin − , rh h1 , ly - 6a / e + , c - kit + phenotype . orfv2 - vegf or nz10 is tested on these cells either alone , or by co - incubation with other factors , followed by measurement of cellular proliferation by 3 h - thymidine incorporation . these are cells that have comparatively little bone marrow repopulating ability , but can generate d13 cfu - s . these cells have the lin − , rh h1 , ly - 6a / e + , c - kit + phenotype . vegf - d is incubated with these cells for a period of time , injected into lethally irradiated recipients , and the number of d13 spleen colonies enumerated . these are cells that respond in vitro to single growth factors and have the lin − , rh h1 , ly - 6a / e + , c - kit + phenotype . this assay will show if orfv2 - vegf or nz10 can act directly on haemopoietic progenitor cells . orfv2 - vegf or nz10 is incubated with these cells in agar cultures , and the number of colonies present after 7 - 14 days is counted . smooth muscle cells play a crucial role in the development or initiation of atherosclerosis , requiring a change of their phenotype from a contractile to a senescent state . macrophages , endothelial cells , t lymphocytes and platelets all play a role in the development of atherosclerotic plaques by influencing the growth and phenotypic modulations of smooth muscle cell . an in vitro assay using a modified rose chamber in which different cell types are seeded on to opposite coverslips measures the proliferative rate and phenotypic modulations of smooth muscle cells in a multicellular environment , and is used to assess the effect of orfv2 - vegf or nz10 on smooth muscle cells . the ability of orfv2 - vegf or nz10 to inhibit metastasis is assayed using the lewis lung carcinoma model , for example using the method of cao et al , j . exp . med ., 1995 182 2069 - 2077 . the effects of orfv2 - vegf or nz10 on proliferation , differentiation and function of other cell types , such as liver cells , cardiac muscle and other cells , endocrine cells and osteoblasts can readily be assayed by methods known in the art , such as 3 h - thymidine uptake by in vitro cultures . orfv2 - vegf and nz10 are members of the vegf family of growth factors which exhibits a high degree of homology to the other members of the vegf family . both orfv2 - vegf and nz10 contain eight conserved cysteine residues which are characteristic of this family of growth factors . these conserved cysteine residues form intra - chain disulfide bonds which produce the cysteine knot structure , and inter - chain disulfide bonds that form the protein dimers which are characteristic of members of the pdgf family of growth factors . orfv2 - vegf and nz10 will interact with protein tyrosine kinase growth factor receptors , and may also interact with other non - tyrosine kinase receptors . in contrast to proteins where little or nothing is known about the protein structure and active sites needed for receptor binding and consequent activity , the design of active mutants of orfv2 - vegf or nz10 is greatly facilitated by the fact that a great deal is known about the active sites and important amino acids of the members of the pdgf family of growth factors . published articles elucidating the structure / activity relationships of members of the pdgf family of growth factors include for pdgf : oestman et al , j . biol . chem ., 1991 266 10073 - 10077 ; andersson et al , j . biol . chem ., 1992 267 11260 - 1266 ; oefner et al , embo j ., 1992 11 3921 - 3926 ; flemming et al , molecular and cell biol ., 1993 13 4066 - 4076 and andersson et al , growth factors , 1995 12 159 - 164 ; and for vegf : kim et al , growth factors , 1992 7 53 - 64 ; pötgens et al , j . biol . chem ., 1994 269 32879 - 32885 and claffey et al , biochem . biophys . acta , 1995 1246 1 - 9 . from these publications it is apparent that because of the eight conserved cysteine residues , the members of the pdgf family of growth factors exhibit a characteristic knotted folding structure and dimerization , which result in formation of three exposed loop regions at each end of the dimerized molecule , at which the active receptor binding sites can be expected to be located . based on this information , a person skilled in the biotechnology arts can design orfv2 - vegf or nz10 mutants with a very high probability of retaining orfv2 - vegf or nz10 activity by conserving the eight cysteine residues responsible for the knotted folding arrangement and for dimerization , and also by conserving , or making only conservative amino acid substitutions in the likely receptor sequences in the loop 1 , loop 2 and loop 3 region of the protein structure . the formation of desired mutations at specifically targeted sites in a protein structure is considered to be a standard technique in the arsenal of the protein chemist ( kunkel et al , methods in enzymol ., 1987 154 367 - 382 ). examples of such site - directed mutagenesis with vegf can be found in potgens et al , j . biol . chem ., 1994 269 32879 - 32885 and claffey et al , biochim . biophys . acta , 1995 1246 1 - 9 . indeed , site - directed mutagenesis is so common that kits are commercially available to facilitate such procedures ( eg . promega 1994 - 1995 catalog ., pages 142 - 145 ). the endothelial cell proliferating activity of orfv2 - vegf or nz10 mutants can be readily confirmed by well established screening procedures . for example , a procedure analogous to the endothelial cell mitotic assay described by claffey et al , ( biochim . biophys . acta ., 1995 1246 1 - 9 ) can be used . similarly the effects of orfv2 - vegf or nz10 on proliferation of other cell types , on cellular differentiation and on human metastasis can be tested using methods which are well known in the art . it seems likely that the biological activities of orfv2 - vegf or nz10 contribute to the proliferative and highly vascular nature of orf viral lesions . this is supported by recent analysis of a recombinant orf virus in which the gene encoding orfv2 - 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