Patent Application: US-44701095-A

Abstract:
a cdna for apt from a plant , particularly a . thaliana has been isolated , purified and characterized . the cdna is useful for the generation of aprt - deficient mutants and as a probe for aprt cdnas in other plants .

Description:
the apt cdna of a . thaliana provided in accordance with one aspect of the invention and described herein is a full - length clone , since it contains an initiating methionine and polya tail . the good agreement between the length of the cdna and apt mrna determined by northern blot analysis ( see below ) supports this conclusion . however , we cannot unequivocally rule out that there are 5 &# 39 ; sequences missing from this cdna , because there is no inframe stop codon ahead of the putative start of translation . however , there was no amino acid sequence data which could not be localized within this cdna , consistent with there being no additional 5 &# 39 ; translated region missing from this clone . the sequence surrounding the first aug triplet suggests that it is the initiating codon . the consensus sequence for this region in plants is 5 &# 39 ; n n n n a n a / u n u / a a n n n n a n n a u g c u heidecker et al , ann . rev . plant physiol . 37 : 439 - 466 ( 1986 )!. as in the consensus sequence , the apt cdna has an a residue at position - 8 , a u residue at position - 13 and the aug is followed by gc with the predicted initiating dipeptide being met - ala . the hexanucleotide aauaaa occurs in the 3 &# 39 ; untranslated regions of many , but not all , plant mrnas hunt et al , plant mol . biol . 8 : 23 - 25 ( 1987 )!. the 3 &# 39 ; end of the cdna has a run of 20 adenyl residues , but there is no obvious polyadenylation signal upstream of this region . there is an au - rich sequence approximately 15 nucleotides ahead of the polya tract which may fulfill this function . genes or cdnas coding for aprt previously have been isolated and sequenced from several sources , including mouse sikela et al , gene 22 : 219 - 228 ( 1983 ); dush et al , proc . natl . acad . sci . usa 82 : 2731 - 2735 ( 1985 )!, hamster nalbantoglu et al , nucl . acid res . 14 : 1914 ( 1986 )!, humans hidaka et al , nucl . acid res . 15 : 9086 ( 1987 ); broderick et al , proc . natl . acad . sci . usa 84 : 3349 - 3353 ( 1987 ); stambrook et al , somatic cell nol . genet . 10 : 359 - 367 ( 1984 )!, drosophila melanogaster johnson et al , gene 59 : 77 - 86 ( 1987 )! and escherichia coli hershey et al , gene 43 : 287 - 293 ( 1986 ); hershey et al , gene 19 : 89 - 92 ( 1982 )!. with the exception of the mouse and hamster genes , each of these apt sequences was isolated independently due to the lack of similarity among them , at the dna level . attempts to utilize these previously isolated apt sequences to detect the a . thaliana gene by cross - hybridization were also unsuccessful . thus , we have taken an alternate approach , in the present invention , involving purification of aprt and amino acid sequencing in order to develop oligonucleotide probes to isolate the apt cdna . since a . thaliana is a small plant , large numbers need to be grown to provide sufficient leaf tissue for enzyme purifications . to overcome this limitation , aprt was purified from another member of the brassicacea family , namely brassica juncea , for which both the specific activity of aprt was high and an abundant supply of leaf tissue was readily available . once isolated , the b . juncea apt sequences were likely to be suitable probes for the isolation of the corresponding cdna from a . thaliana . aprt was purified from b . juncea using a procedure involving deae , phenyl - sepharose , affi - gel blue and affinity chromatography moffatt et al , arch . biochem . biophys . 283 : 484 - 490 ( 1990 )!. the enzyme was judged to be homogeneous following electrophoresis of the final preparation of sds - polyarylamide gels and silver staining . the presence of two isoforms of aprt in the preparation was indicated by isoelectric focusing analysis . amino acid sequencing of the purified aprt by automatic edman degradation was not successful , suggesting that the n - terminus of the protein was blocked . thus , samples of the aprt preparation were treated with different endoproteases and several of the resulting peptides were purified and sequenced . the results of these sequence analyses are presented in table 1 below . several of the peptides have regions of overlap with others and , in four places , there are apparently two possible amino acid residues ( indicated in bold type in table 1 ). these are likely positions which differ between the isozymes of aprt that are present in the purified preparation . the genbank swiss - prot database was searched for protein sequences similar to each of the peptides in table 1 using the program fasta pearson et al , proc . natl . acad . sci . usa 85 : 2444 - 2448 ( 1988 )!. in each case , the only significant identity scores were found with aprt sequences from other sources . most often , the highest level of identity was with aprt from e . coli . three regions of amino acid sequence were chosen to produce degenerate oligonucleotide probes for the apt gene . the first two , designated opm - 1 and - 2 , were aligned to internal regions of other aprt sequences ( residues 110 - 116 and 51 - 56 respectively ), while the third , opm - 3 , was similar to the amino acid residues near the amino terminus ( residues 32 - 33 ). opm - 1 was used to probe a cdna library of brassica juncea which had been constructed in the vector λgt11 . phage that contained inserts that hybridized to opm - 1 were purified and rescreened with opm - 2 . two phage were chosen for further analysis . the cdna inserts within each of these phage were released by digestion with either ecorl or notl and hybridized to either opm - 1 or opm - 2 to determine the size of the inserts within each recombinant . the largest insert which hybridized to both oligonucleotides was approximately 560 bp and was subcloned into puc119 and designated pbw5 . sequencing of the ` ecorl insert ` of pbw5 revealed that it was a partial cdna for adenine phosphoribosyl - transferase . the deduced amino acid sequence of this fragment contained eleven of the peptide sequences of the purified protein ( see table 1 below ). the insert of pbw5 was used to rescreen the brassica library but a larger cdna was not detected . however , a recombinant phage carrying a different partial apt cdna was obtained and sequenced . this clone is designated pbw9 and encoded the carboxy - terminal 52 amino acids of the purified aprt and a 120 nucleotide 3 &# 39 ; tail ( data not shown ). we believe that this is a partial cdna for the second isozyme of brassica aprt , since the sequence of its 3 &# 39 ; untranslated region differs from the corresponding region of pbw5 . furthermore , three of the peptide sequences of the purified aprt were found within the open reading frame predicted by the pbw9 cdna ( see table 1 below , columns 3 and 4 ). in one case , the peptide within pbw9 differs in one residue from the corresponding peptide within pbw5 , in exact agreement with the peptide sequencing data ( compare sequences of first and second lyc - c peptides in table 1 below ). the larger cdna insert of pbw5 was used to screen a cdna library prepared from columbia wild - type a . thaliana . two different recombinant phage were recovered and subcloned into puc119 . the clone containing the largest insert was designated pbw13 . the sequence of the 729 base pair cdna insert of pbw13 is presented in fig1 . it has a predicted open reading frame of 183 amino acids , with a 5 &# 39 ; untranslated region of 17 nucleotides and 3 &# 39 ; untranslated region of 64 nucleotides . there is no obvious polyadenylation signal within the 3 &# 39 ; region , however , a run of 20 adenyl residues is present . peptides that correspond to those isolated from the b . juncea aprt are listed in table 1 , and occur within the open reading frame ( see underlined regions in fig1 ) indicating that this is the a . thaliana cdna for aprt . the amino acid sequence predicts a protein of molecular weight 27 , 140 . this is in excellent agreement with the monomer size of aprt of a . thaliana which has been estimated to be 27 , 000 , by sds polyacrylamide gel analysis . the presence of the initiating methionine and polya tail in the insert suggest that the 729 bp insert in pbw 13 may be a full - length cdna for a . thaliana aprt . northern analysis of total rna extracted from a . thaliana leaf tissue detected a single transcript of approximately 740 nucleotides is consistent with this conclusion ( see fig2 ). the alignment of six aprt sequences is shown in fig3 . with the mouse aprt sequence as a standard , amino acid position 61 - 135 ( i . e . the underlined segment in fig3 ) represents a common region among the aprt sequences with 27 of the 42 completely conserved sites falling within this span . the a . thaliana and e . coli aprt sequences are 47 % similar and among the vertebrate aprt sequences the per cent similarity is 81 - 85 % ( see table 2 below ). although the molecular trees that were constructed by different methods feng et al , meth . enzym . 183 : 375 - 387 ( 1990 ); doolittle et al , meth . enzym . 183 : 659 - 669 ( 1990 ); saitou et al , mol . biol . evol . 4 : 406 - 425 ( 1987 ); hein , moth . enzym . 183 : 626 - 644 ( 1990 )! were not congruent , in each instance the a . thaliana and e . coli aprt sequences formed a separate cluster . a dendrogram for the six aprt sequences created by the ` simultaneous alignment and phylogeny construction ` method of hein , supra is presented in fig4 . in developing the experimental results described above and as set forth in the tables below and the accompanying drawings , certain materials and methods were employed , as follows : brassica juncea seed ( brown mustard , cv . green wave ) purchased from seigers seed co ., mich ., was germinated and grown with natural light in a greenhouse at approximately 25 ° c . leaves for rna extractions were harvested after 4 to 6 weeks of growth . a . thaliana was grown in a 16 hour photoperiod at 22 ° c . and harvested as previously described by haughn et al , mol . gen . genet . 204 : 430 - 434 ( 1986 ). rna was isolated from leaf tissue of three week old plants as described by lehners et al , plant physiol . 88 : 741 - 746 ( 1988 ). genomic dna of a . thaliana was isolated following the method of leutwiler et al , mol . gen . genet . 194 : 15 - 23 ( 1984 ). brassica dna was isolated from young leaves by the method of federoff et al , j . mol . app . genet . 2 : 11 - 30 ( 1983 ). aprt was purified to homogeneity as described in moffatt et al , arch . biochem . biophys . 283 : 484 - 490 ( 1990 ). approximately 20 μg of material eluted from the amp - agarose column was chromatographed by reverse - phase ( rp ) hplc using a polypore phenyl column ( 2 . 1 × 30 mm , brownlee ). the protein was eluted with a linear gradient ( 10 to 90 % in 30 min ) of acetonitrile in 0 . 1 % trifluoroacetic acid . reduction and alkylation were performed by incubating the rp - purified material in 6m guanidine - hcl , 1m tris - hcl ( ph 8 . 6 ), 10 mm edta , and 20 mm dithiothreitol ( calbiochem ) for 1 hour at 37 ° c . under nitrogen . 4 - vinylpyridine ( sigma ) was added to 50 mm and the incubation continued for 30 min at room temperature . the modified protein was desalted by hplc as described above . digestions with sequence grade endoproteinases asp - n and lys - c , and with trypsin ( boehringer manneheim ) were carried out in 0 . 1m tris - hcl ( ph 8 . 5 ) for 16 hours at room temperature with an enzyme to substrate ratio of 1 : 100 . peptides from the asp - n , lys - c and tryptic digests were isolated by hplc with a vydac ods column ( 2 . 1 × 150 mm , separations group ) and eluted with a linear gradient ( 0 - 60 % in 90 min ) of acetonitrile in 0 . 1 % trifluoracetic acid . automated edman degradations were performed using the applied biosystems 477a liquid - pulse sequencer . phenylthiohydantoin amino acids were identified on an ab1 120a pth analyzer . based on the partial amino acid sequence of the purified b . juncea aprt , three different degenerate oligonucleotide mixtures were synthesized on a biosearch single column model 8600 dna synthesizer . the oligonucleotides had the following sequences : opm - 1 , ga c , t !- aa g , a !- at c , t , a !- ga g , a !- atg - ca c , t !- gt ; opm - 2 , tt c , t !- gt c , g , t , a !- ga g , a !- ga g , a !- ta c , t !- aa and opm - 3 , gg c , g , t , a !- at c , t , a !- atg - tt c , t !- ca g , a !- ga . five μg of polya + rna from b . juncea , purified on an oligo - dt column 21 ! was used to prepare cdna , using reagents provided in the librarian ii ( invitrogen ) system , and following the manufacturers &# 39 ; instructions . the resulting cdnas were ligated to noti - ecori linkers , cloned into the ecori site of λgt11 and packaged ( gigapack plus , stratagene ). approximately 3 × 10 5 primary recombinant phage were grown on 150 mm nz - amine agar plates and transferred to nitrocellulose membranes . filters were initially prehybridized for 3 hours at 60 ° c . followed by 2 hours at 37 ° c ., in 15 ml of the following solution : 6 × ssc ( 1 × ssc = 0 . 15m sodium chloride / 0 . 015m sodium citrate , ph 7 ), 5 × denhardt &# 39 ; s solution ( 50 × denhardt &# 39 ; s solution is 5 gm ficoll , 5 gm polyvinylpyrrolidone and 5 gm fraction v bsa in 500 ml h 2 o ), 100 μg salmon sperm dna ( boehringer manneheim )/ ml , 0 . 5 % ( w / v ) sodium dodecyl sulfate ( sds ) and 0 . 1 % ( w / v ) ppi . filters were rinsed with 6 × ssc and then hybridized with 20 pmol of end - labelled oligonucleotide probe , overnight at 37 ° c . in 6 × ssc , 5 × denhardts , 0 . 1 % ppi , 20 μg / ml trna . filters were washed in 6 × ssc , 0 . 1 % ppi with increasing temperature to 45 ° c . and exposed to x - ar5 film at - 80 ° c . for 16 hours , with intensifying screens ( cronex lightning plus , dupont ). approximately 2 . 5 × 10 5 phage from a λgt11 a . thaliana cdna library ( clontech ) were screened with the insert of pbw5 as described for b . juncea library above , except the probe was labelled by random - priming feinberg et al , anal . biochem . 137 : 266 - 267 ( 1984 )!, to a specific activity of 6 . 7 × 10 8 cpm / μg . hybridization was carried out at 50 ° c . in : 5 × sspe ( 20 × sspe is 3 . 6 m nacl , 200 mm nah 2 po 4 , ph 7 . 4 , 20 mm edta ), 5 × denhardt &# 39 ; s solution , 0 . 1 % sds , 100 μg denatured salmon sperm dna / ml and 1 × 10 6 cpm probe / ml . filters were washed with increasing stringency with the final wash being 0 . 2 × sspe , 0 . 1 % sds at 45 ° c . positive plaques were identified following autoradiography overnight at - 80 ° c . with cronex plus intensifying screens . phage which hybridized strongly to this probe were plaque purified and rescreened using the same conditions . dna was purified from phage lysates by differential centrifugation and the ecori inserts cloned into puc - 119 . the sequence of the inserts was determined from cscl - purified double - stranded plasmids using a sequenase kit ( usb ) and the m13 mp19 universal and reverse primers . to obtain sequence near the primer , the m13 sequencing primer (- 40 ) from usb was used . the nucleotide sequence data reported in this paper will appear in the embl , genbank and ddbj nucleotide sequence databases under the accession number x58640 a . thaliana apt cdna . abrabidopsis and brassica dnas were digested with various restriction enzymes and separated by electrophoresis in 1 % agarose gels ( 5 μg / lane ). following electrophoresis , the dna was transferred to charged nylon membranes ( nytran , schleicher & amp ; schuell ) in 10 × sspe . filters were prehybridized in 5 × sspe , 5 × denhardt &# 39 ; s solution , 0 . 1 % sds and 100 μg salmon sperm dna / ml at 55 ° c ., after which denatured probe ( 1 × 10 6 cpm / ml ) was added and filters were incubated at 55 ° c . for 16 - 24 hours . filters were washed with increased stringency to 1 × sspe , 0 . 1 % sds for 30 min at 42 ° c . rna ( 5 μg ) was electrophoresed on 1 . 5 % agarose gels containing formaldehyde and transferred in 20 × sspe to nitrocellulose membranes . filters were prehybridized in 5 × sspe , 2 . 5 × denhardt &# 39 ; s solution , 0 . 1 % sds , 50 % ( v / v ) formaimide , 100 μg salmon sperm dna / ml for 4 . 5 hours at 37 ° c . hybridization was carried out for 18 hours at 37 ° c . in 5 × sspe , 1 × denhardt &# 39 ; s solution , 0 . 5 % sds and 50 % formaiide containing denatured probe (& gt ; 1 × 10 6 cpm / ml ). nonspecifically bound probe was removed with washes of increasing stringency up to 2 × sspe , 0 . 5 % sds at 60 ° c . for 15 min , after which the filters were exposed to x - ray film . aprt sequences taken from johnson et al , gene 59 : 77 - 86 ( 1987 ) and this work were aligned according to feng and doolittle meth . enzymol . 183 : 375 - 387 ( 1990 ) using a silicon graphics irix system v release 3 . 3 . 1 operating system . in summary of this disclosure , an intact cdna from arabidopsis thaliana for adenine phosphoribosyltransferase has been isolated and sequenced . the cdna is 729 nucleotide in length and predicts a protein molecular weight of 27 , 140 . modifications are possible within the scope of this invention . table 1__________________________________________________________________________amino acid sequences of isolated peptides of b . juncea aprt . present inprotease amino acid sequence of isolated peptides pbw5 pbw9__________________________________________________________________________asp -- n e e y s l e y g t seq id no : 9 • a f p k p g i m f q seq id no : 10 d t e a f k seq id no : 11 d p r i p k i a s seq id no : 12trypsin v g v t i a e - a c v i e l p v . sup . a seq id no : 13 • v i p d f p k p g i m f o d i t . sup . b seq id no : 14 v i s e e y s l e y g t d k i e m h v g a - e - ge - a . sup . c seq id no : 15 • f v p m r seq id no : 16 • l l g seq id no : 17 • • i v e - a - v i e l p e l k seq id no : 18 • d t i d i f v e seq id no : 19lys -- c l g e a p l f i l v t s d a seq id no : 20 • l g e t p l f i l v t s d a seq id no : 21 • k l p g k seq id no : 22 • f v p m d l seq id no : 23 • v i s e e y s l e y g t d seq id no : 24 • i s v v a g v e a seq id no : 25 • e d g q d seq id no : 26 e d v q d p r i p k seq id no : 27 d t i d i f v e e y k . sup . d seq id no : 28 i v e - a - v i e l p e l k seq id no : 29 • __________________________________________________________________________ notes : . sup . a residues in bold type are those which differ in corresponding positions of the isolated peptides . . sup . b , c , d underlined residues indicate sequences chosen for oligonucleotide probes , . sup . b is opm3 ; . sup . c is opm1 ; . sup . d is opm2 . table 2______________________________________sequence similarity (%) among six adenine phosphoribosyltransferaseproteins . e . coli hamster human mouse arabidopsis______________________________________e . colihamster 43human 43 86mouse 44 85 81arabidopsis 47 41 43 44drosophila 45 49 46 49 39______________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________sequence listing ( 1 ) general information :( iii ) number of sequences : 29 ( 2 ) information for seq id no : 1 :( i ) sequence characteristics :( a ) length : 729 base pairs ( b ) type : nucleic acid ( c ) strandedness : double ( d ) topology : both ( ii ) molecule type : dna ( genomic )( ix ) feature :( a ) name / key : cds ( b ) location : join ( 18 .. 569 )( xi ) sequence description : seq id no : 1 : cgggtcgggacagtgaaatggcgactgaagatgtgcaagatcccagaatc50metalathrgluaspvalglnaspproargile1510gctaagattgcctcttccattagagtcatccccgacttccctaaacca98alalysilealaserserileargvalileproasppheprolyspro152025ggaatcatgtttcaggacataacgacgcttcttctcgacactgaggcc146glyilemetpheglnaspilethrthrleuleuleuaspthrgluala303540tttaaggatactattgctttgtttgttgatagatacaaagataaaggc194phelysaspthrilealaleuphevalaspargtyrlysasplysgly455055atatctgttgttgcaggtgttgaagctagaggtttcatttttggccct242ileservalvalalaglyvalglualaargglypheilepheglypro60657075cctattgcgttggctattggtgccaaatttgttcccatgaggaagccc290proilealaleualaileglyalalysphevalprometarglyspro808590aagaagctacctgggaaggttatttcggaggagtattcgttggagtat338lyslysleuproglylysvalilesergluglutyrserleuglutyr95100105ggaacagatacgattgagatgcacgtaggtgcagtagagcctggtgag386glythraspthrileglumethisvalglyalavalgluproglyglu110115120cgtgctattattattgatgacctcattgccacgggtgggactctcgct434argalaileileileaspaspleuilealathrglyglythrleuala125130135gctgcaatccgactacttgaacgagtaggagtgaagattgttgaatgt482alaalaileargleuleugluargvalglyvallysilevalglucys140145150155gcttgcgtaattgagttaccagagcttaagggaaaggagaaactagga530alacysvalilegluleuprogluleulysglylysglulysleugly160165170gagacgtcgctatttgttcttgtaaagtcggctgcttaacaagaaa576gluthrserleuphevalleuvallysseralaala175180ctggaagagaaggttattggatcgagtgttgatgctatttttcatgtatggtgagacatt636ttgcgtgggatttgatccttgttgtttcaacttatcataattggttcagactagaaaatg696gcatttgaatgtcaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa729 ( 2 ) information for seq id no : 2 :( i ) sequence characteristics :( a ) length : 183 amino acids ( b ) type : amino acid ( d ) topology : linear ( ii ) molecule type : protein ( xi ) sequence description : seq id no : 2 : metalathrgluaspvalglnaspproargilealalysilealaser151015serileargvalileproasppheprolysproglyilemetphegln202530aspilethrthrleuleuleuaspthrglualaphelysaspthrile354045alaleuphevalaspargtyrlysasplysglyileservalvalala505560glyvalglualaargglypheilepheglyproproilealaleuala65707580ileglyalalysphevalprometarglysprolyslysleuprogly859095lysvalilesergluglutyrserleuglutyrglythraspthrile100105110glumethisvalglyalavalgluproglygluargalaileileile115120125aspaspleuilealathrglyglythrleualaalaalaileargleu130135140leugluargvalglyvallysilevalglucysalacysvalileglu145150155160leuprogluleulysglylysglulysleuglygluthrserleuphe165170175valleuvallysseralaala180 ( 2 ) information for seq id no : 3 :( i ) sequence characteristics :( a ) length : 183 amino acids ( b ) type : amino acid ( c ) strandedness : single ( d ) topology : linear ( ii ) molecule type : peptide ( xi ) sequence description : seq id no : 3 : metthralathralaglnglnleuglutyrleulysasnserilelys151015serileglnasptyrprolysproglyileleupheargaspvalthr202530serleuleugluaspprolysalatyralaleuserileaspleuleu354045valgluargtyrlysasnalaglyilethrlysvalvalglythrglu505560alaargglypheleupheglyalaprovalalaleuglyleuglyval65707580glyphevalprovalarglysproglylysleuproarggluthrile859095sergluthrtyraspleuglutyrglythraspglnleugluilehis100105110valaspalailelysproglyasplysvalleuvalvalaspaspleu115120125leualathrglyglythrileglualathrvallysleuileargarg130135140leuglyglygluvalalaaspalaalapheileileasnleupheasp145150155160leuglyglygluglnargleuglulysglnglyilethrsertyrser165170175leuvalpropheproglyhis180 ( 2 ) information for seq id no : 4 :( i ) sequence characteristics :( a ) length : 183 amino acids ( b ) type : amino acid ( c ) strandedness : single ( d ) topology : linear ( ii ) molecule type : peptide ( xi ) sequence description : seq id no : 4 : metalathrgluaspvalglnaspproargilealalysilealaser151015serileargvalileproasppheprolysproglyilemetphegln202530aspilethrthrleuleuleuaspthrglualaphelysaspthrile354045alaleuphevalaspargtyrlysasplysglyileservalvalala505560glyvalglualaargglypheilepheglyproproilealaleuala65707580ileglyalalysphevalprometarglysprolyslysleuprogly859095lysvalilesergluglutyrserleuglutyrglythraspthrile100105110glumethisvalglyalavalgluproglygluargalaileileile115120125aspaspleuilealathrglyglythrleualaalaalaileargleu130135140leugluargvalglyvallysilevalglucysalacysvalileglu145150155160leuprogluleulysglylysglulysleuglygluthrserleuphe165170175valleuvallysseralaala180 ( 2 ) information for seq id no : 5 :( i ) sequence characteristics :( a ) length : 183 amino acids ( b ) type : amino acid ( c ) strandedness : single ( d ) topology : linear ( ii ) molecule type : peptide ( xi ) sequence description : seq id no : 5 : metserproserileseralagluasplysleuasptyrvallysser151015lysileglyglutyrproasnpheprolysgluglyileleuphearg202530aspilepheglyalaleuthraspprolysalacysvaltyrleuarg354045aspleuleuvalasphisilearggluseralaproglualagluile505560ilevalglyleuaspserargglypheleupheasnleuleuileala65707580thrgluleuglyleuglycysalaproilearglyslysglylysleu859095alaglygluvalvalservalglutyrlysleuglutyrglyserasp100105110thrphegluleuglnlysseralailelysproglyglnlysvalval115120125valvalaspaspleuleualathrglyglyserleuvalalaalathr130135140gluleuilearglysvalglyglyvalvalvalgluserleuvalval145150155160valmetgluleuvalglyleugluglyarglysargleuaspglylys165170175valhisserleuilelystyr180 ( 2 ) information for seq id no : 6 :( i ) sequence characteristics :( a ) length : 180 amino acids ( b ) type : amino acid ( c ) strandedness : single ( d ) topology : linear ( ii ) molecule type : peptide ( xi ) sequence description : seq id no : 6 : metalaglusergluleuglnleuvalalaglnargseralavalser151015prothrserproserproglyvalleupheargaspileserproleu202530leulysaspproalaserpheargalaserileargleuleualaser354045hisleulysserthrhisglyglylysileasptyrilealaglyleu505560aspserargglypheleupheglyproserleualaglngluleugly65707580leuglycysvalleuilearglysargglylysleuproglyprothr859095valseralasertyralaleuglutyrglylysalagluleugluile100105110glnlysaspalaleugluproglyglnlysvalvalvalvalaspasp115120125leuleualathrglyglythrmetcysalaalacysgluleuleugly130135140glnleuglnalagluvalvalglucysvalserleuvalgluleuthr145150155160serleulysglyargglulysleuglyservalprophepheserleu165170175leuglntyrglu180 ( 2 ) information for seq id no : 7 :( i ) sequence characteristics :( a ) length : 180 amino acids ( b ) type : amino acid ( c ) strandedness : single ( d ) topology : linear ( ii ) molecule type : peptide ( xi ) sequence description : seq id no : 7 : 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metsergluprogluleulysleuvalalaargargileargvalphe151015proasppheproileproglyvalleupheargaspileserproleu202530leulysaspproaspserpheargalaserileargleuleualaser354045hisleulysserthrhisserglylysileasptyrilealaglyleu505560aspserargglypheleupheglyproserleualaglngluleugly65707580valglycysvalleuilearglysglnglylysleuproglyprothr859095valseralasertyrserleuglutyrglylysalagluleugluile100105110glnlysaspalaleugluproglyglnargvalvalilevalaspasp115120125leuleualathrglyglythrmetphealaalacysaspleuleuhis130135140gluleuargalagluvalvalglucysvalserleuvalgluleuthr145150155160serleulysglyarggluargleuglyproileprophepheserleu165170175leuglutyrasp180 ( 2 ) information for seq id no : 9 :( i ) sequence characteristics :( a ) length : 9 amino acids ( b ) type : amino acid ( c ) strandedness : single ( d ) topology : linear ( ii ) molecule type : peptide ( xi ) sequence description : seq id no : 9 : gluglutyrserleuglutyrglythr15 ( 2 ) information for seq id no : 10 :( i ) sequence characteristics :( a ) length : 10 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