Patent Application: US-25885802-A

Abstract:
the invention relates to a method for detecting and characterising the activity of protein involved in the repair of dna , comprising the following steps : a ) fix a known damaged dna o comprising a lesion onto a solid support b ) subject this damaged dna to the action of a repair composition that may contain at least one protein contributing to the repair of this damaged dna , and c ) determine the activity of this protein for the repair , by measuring the variation of the signal emitted by a marker that is fixed onto or is eliminated from the support in step b ).

Description:
the first embodiment of the process according to the invention is used in this example to determine a glycosylase type repair activity on a damaged oligonucleotide comprising an 8 - oxo - 7 , 8 dihydro - 2 ′- deoxiguanosine as a lesion . a micam pb4 type biochip is used , obtained as described by livache et al ., biosens . bioelectron , 13 , 1998 , pages 629 and 634 [ 8 ], comprising four pins functionalised by four synthesis oligonucleotides with different sequences ( h , i , j , k ). the h sequence is as follows : h sequence : 5 ′ ttttt cca cac ggt agg tat cag tc . the functionalised part of the biochip is incubated in the presence of a hybrid formed from the damaged oligonucleotide ( o ) comprising an 8 - oxo - 7 , 8 - dihydro - 2 ′- deoxiguanosine and an oligonucleotide and a ( coch ) comprising a complementary part of the o oligonucleotide ( co ) and a complementary part of the h oligonucleotide fixed on the biochip ( ch ). the o oligonucleotide comprises a biotin at its end 3 ′. coch : 5 ′ gca gcc cgg ggg atc cac tag ttc gac tga cta ccg tgt gg ; the o - coch hybrid is obtained by incubation of 10 pmoles of coch and 12 pmoles of 0 in 200 μl of pbs buffer solution containing 0 . 2 m of nacl , for 60 minutes at 37 ° c . 20 μl of this solution is drawn off and is added to the functionalised part of the chip that forms a dish . after one hour of incubation at 37 ° c . in a moist environment , the chip is soaked in a washing buffer ( pbs / 0 . 2 m nacl / tween 20 0 . 05 %). [ 0089 ] fig1 shows the system obtained by fixation of the o oligonucleotide on pin 1 of the biochip comprising the h oligonucleotide . this h oligonucleotide is hybridised with the ch sequence of the oligonucleotide 3 that also comprises a sequence hybridised with the damaged o oligonucleotide carrying a biotin 5 at its end 3 ′ and a lesion 7 . the o oligonucleotide comprising the lesion and fixed to the biochip by hybridisation is developed after incubation for 10 minutes at ambient temperature with 20 μl of pbs / nacl buffer containing 0 . 5 % of bovine albumin serum and 1 μl of streptavidine - phycoerythrine r ( 0 . 5 mg / ml ; jackson immunoresearch ). after washing in pbs / nacl / tween , the biochip is observed under a fluorescence microscope and the signal is analysed using the image pro plus software . the signal is integrated in pixels . the functionalised pins emit a weak fluorescent signal even if there is no hybridisation . non - functionalised pins are black . an intense saturating fluorescent signal is observed on the functionalised pin by the h oligonucleotide at 250 pixels . for comparison , the pin functionalised by the i sequence has a maximum fluorescence of about 110 pixels . the signal to noise ( h / i ) ratio is 2 . 27 . therefore , hybridisation of the oligonucleotide comprising a dna lesion is specific . furthermore , it can be seen that a fragment of nucleic acid comprising defined damage on a predefined site on a biochip can be fixed . the biochip is washed with 0 . 1 n naoh for 10 minutes and is then rinsed with h 2 o for 10 minutes , which has the effect of eliminating the o and coch oligonucleotides from the biochip . the microscope is used to check that all signals have disappeared . the chip is hybridised again with the o - coch hybrid under the conditions defined previously . after washing with pbs / nacl / tween , the chip is balanced for 10 minutes with a 0 . 1 m kcl , tris buffer , and then 20 μl of this buffer containing 0 . 5 μg of fapy dna glycosylase ( s . boiteux , cea fontenay - aux - roses , france ) is added . the chip is incubated at 37 ° c . for 30 minutes in a moist atmosphere . after washing with pbs / nacl / tween , the development step is carried out in the same way as before using streptavidine - phycoerythrine r . the signal is recorded after washing with pbs / tween . the intense fluorescence on the h pin has disappeared . the signal to noise ratio ( h / i ) is 1 . 04 . [ 0098 ] fig2 shows the state of the system after reaction with the glycosylase type enzyme . this figure shows that the o oligonucleotide has been eliminated from the biochip . the fapy dna glycosylase enzyme cut the o oligonucleotide at 8 - oxo - 7 , 8 - dihydro - deoxiguanosine . the short fragments of dna thus generated form instable hybrids under the conditions used and are eliminated from the biochip . this causes disappearance of the fluorescence signal due to development of the biotin . this example thus shows that a dna repair activity can be detected on a microsupport carrying a fragment of dna with a lesion of a dna base . this example illustrates the detection of a glycosylase type activity in a cellular lysate using the first embodiment of the process according to the invention . in this example , the 0 oligonucleotide used in example 1 , comprising 8 - oxo - 7 , 8 - dihydro - deoxiguanosine is hybridised as in example 1 on the biochip pb4 , which corresponds to the system shown in fig1 . a total cellular lysate is prepared starting from the hela cells in culture . the cells are trypsinised and then washed in a pbs buffer . the base containing about 15 × 10 6 cells is dissolved in 1 ml of lyse buffer ( tris - hcl 10 mm ph 7 . 5 , mgcl 2 10 mm , kcl 10 mm , edta 1 mm , containing 1 pellet for 10 ml of antiproteases “ complete , mini ” ( boehringer mannheim ) and 5 μl of phenylmethylsulphonyl fluoride ( pmsf , sigma , 17 . 4 mg / ml in isopropanol ). the cells are ground and then the lysate is centrifuged in a beckman ultracentrifuge at 4 ° c . for 50 minutes at 65 000 rpm . the floating material is recovered and 200 μl of glycerol and 20 μl of dithiotreitol 0 . 1 m are then added . the lysates are aliquoted and stored at − 80 ° the biochip is then incubated with 20 μl of cellular extract for 45 minutes at 37 ° c . development is performed as in example 1 . the signal from the h pin is recorded and is 180 pixels . the experiment is repeated with denatured lysate ( heating to 100 ° c . for 10 minutes ). the signal from the h pin is saturating at 250 pixels . therefore , there is a signal loss following incubation of the biochip functionalised by the duplex containing the damage with the untreated cellular lysate . this signal loss is about 30 %, corresponding to a partial cut - off of the o oligonucleotide modified by enzymes contained in the lysate . these experiments are confirmed by analysis on polyacrylamide gel after radioactive marking of the o oligonucleotide . this example illustrates detection of the excision / resynthesis repair activity of a total cellular lysate , using a modified dna fragment fixed on a microsupport . the second embodiment of the process according to the invention is used in this case . a dna fragment consisting of 5000 pairs of bases is prepared by pcr amplification from the lambda phage using the “ expand ™ long template pcr system ” kit by roche . one of the amplification primers comprises a sequence of 15 bases ( j 15 ) at its end 5 ′ separated by an amino synthon from the sequence hybridising on the phage . this sequence remains a single strand after pcr amplification . this pcr fragment is purified by the micro - spin s300 column ( amersham - pharmacia ). the dna strand is irradiated by c type ultra - violet rays for 3 minutes ( γ max 254 nm , 0 . 8 j / cm 2 ). the irradiated dna is then hybridised by means of a oligonucleotide ci 15 cj 15 30 bases long , complementary firstly for the i 15 sequence and secondly for the j 15 sequence , on a pb2 biochip ( micam ) comprising four different oligonucleotide sequences on four different pins ( s1 , s2 , s3 , i 15 ), including the sequence called i 15 . hybridisation takes place during 1 hour at 37 ° c . in 20 μl of pbs / nacl buffer containing about 0 . 1 pmole of the pcr amplification product . the chip is then incubated in the presence of total cellular extracts in a buffer adapted as described above . the protocol is adapted from robins et al ., the embo journal , col . 10 , no . 12 , pages 3913 - 3921 , 1991 [ 10 ]. a solution is prepared containing 25 μl of cellular lysate of hela cells , 10 μl of 5 × reactional buffer ( hepes koh 225 mm ph 7 . 8 , kcl , 350 mm , mgcl 2 37 . 5 mm , dtt 4 . 5 mm , edta 2 mm , bsa 0 . 09 mg / ml , glycerol 17 %), atp 2 mm , dgtp 5 μm , datp s μm , dctp 5 μm , dttp 1 μm , biotine - 16 - 2 ′- deoxiuridine - 5 ′- triphospate 4 μm , phosphocreatine 200 mm , creatine phosphokinase type i 12 . 5 μg in a total volume of 50 μm . 25 μl of this solution is deposited on the biochip that is incubated for 2h30 at 30 ° c . in a moist environment . strong fluorescence is observed ( saturating signal ) at the pin functionalised by the i 15 oligonucleotide . the signal to noise ratio ( i 15 / s3 ) is 2 . 2 . a streptavidine - phycoerythrine development carried out before repair of the modified dna fragment by the enzymes contained in the lysate gives a signal to noise ratio ( i 15 / s3 ) equal to 1 . the experiment is repeated with the unmodified fragment obtained by pcr reaction . no signal can be seen on the chip after the excision / resynthesis reaction carried out under the same conditions as before ( signal / noise 1 ). this example shows that the enzymatic activities involved in the repair of modified bases of dna can be detected on a chip functionalised by a fragment of dna comprising modified bases . this example illustrates the use of specific antibodies for demonstrating lesions composed of cyclobutane type pyrimidine dimers . the same biochip will be used as in example 3 , in which dna irradiated using the same oligonucleotide ci 15 cj 15 under the same conditions as in example 3 is fixed . after washing with pbs / nacl / tween , the cyclobutane type pyrimidine dimers formed by the uvb irradiation are developed . the chip is incubated with 20 μl of pbs / nacl of buffer containing 1 μl of anti - dimer antibody ( 500 μg / ml ; kamiya biomedicam company , seattle , usa ), for 1 hour at 37 ° c . after washing with pbs / nacl / tween the chip is incubated in the presence of 20 μl of pbs / nacl containing 1 μl of anti - mouse goat antibody coupled with the cy ™ 3 marker ( 1 . 4 mg / ml ; jackson immunoresearch laboratories , inc .) for 1 hour at 37 ° c . after washing with pbs / nacl / tween , the signal is recorded on the chip . the signal to noise ratio ( i 15 / s3 ) is 1 . 33 . thus , the use of the dna anti - damage antibodies specifically detects damages and can therefore be used to monitor their elimination by repair enzymes . 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