Patent Application: US-220293-A

Abstract:
this invention relates to methods and reagents for inhibiting furin endoprotease activity and specifically for inhibiting furin endoprotease - mediated maturation of bioactive proteins in vivo and in vitro . the invention specifically provides proteins capable of inhibiting furin endoprotease activity . particularly provided are α 1 - antitrypsin variants that specifically inhibit furin endoprotease activity . methods for using furin endoprotease inhibition to attenuate or prevent viral protein maturation , and thereby alleviate viral infections , are provided . also provided are methods for using furin endoprotease inhibition to attenuate or prevent proteolytic processing of bacterial toxins , thereby alleviating bacterial infections . methods are also provided to inhibit proteolytic processing of biologically active proteins and peptides . the invention also provides pharmaceutically acceptable compositions of therapeutically effective amounts of furin endoprotease inhibitors .

Description:
the production of proteins such as the α 1 - antitrypsin portland from cloned genes by genetic engineering is well known . see , e . g ., u . s . pat . no . 4 , 761 , 371 to bell et al . at col . 6 line 3 to col . 9 line 65 . ( the disclosure of all u . s . patent references cited herein is to be incorporated herein by reference .) the discussion which follows is accordingly intended as an overview of this field , and is not intended to reflect the full state of the art . for the purposes of this discussion , the α 1 - antitrypsin variant α 1 - antitrypsin portland will be used as an exemplar ; it will be understood that the discussion applies to and the invention encompasses all the α 1 - antitrypsin variants of the invention . dna which encodes α 1 - antitrypsin portland may be obtained , in view of the instant disclosure , by chemical synthesis , or by in vitro mutagenesis as described in example 2 herein of the native α 1 - antitrypsin dna sequence . such native α 1 - antitrypsin dna can be obtained by screening reverse transcripts of mrna from appropriate cells or cultured cell lines , by screening genomic libraries from appropriate cells , or by combinations of these procedures . screening of mrna or genomic dna may be carried out with probes generated from the known α 1 - antitrypsin gene sequence . probes may be labeled with a detectable group such as a fluorescent group , a radioactive atom or a chemiluminescent group in accordance with known procedures and used in conventional hybridization assays ( see sambrook et al ., 1990 , molecular cloning : a laboratory manual , cold spring harbor laboratory press , n . y .). in the alternative , α 1 - antitrypsin gene sequences may be obtained for in vitro mutagenesis by use of the polymerase chain reaction ( pcr ) procedure , with the pcr oligonucleotide primers being produced from the native α 1 - antitrypsin gene sequence . see u . s . pat . nos . 4 , 683 , 195 to mullis et al . and 4 , 683 , 202 to mullis . α 1 - antitrypsin variants such as α 1 - antitrypsin portland may be synthesized in host cells transformed with a recombinant expression construct comprising a dna sequence encoding an α 1 - antitrypsin variant . such a recombinant expression construct can also be comprised of a vector that is a replicable dna construct . vectors are used herein either to amplify dna encoding α 1 - antitrypsin portland and / or to express dna encoding α 1 - antitrypsin portland . for the purposes of this invention , a recombinant expression construct is a replicable dna construct in which a dna sequence encoding an α 1 - antitrypsin variant is operably linked to suitable control sequences capable of effecting the expression of the α 1 - antitrypsin variant in a suitable host . the need for such control sequences will vary depending upon the host selected and the transformation method chosen . generally , control sequences include a transcriptional promoter , an optional operator sequence to control transcription , a sequence encoding suitable mrna ribosomal binding sites , and sequences which control the termination of transcription and translation . amplification vectors do not require expression control domains . all that is needed is the ability to replicate in a host , usually conferred by an origin of replication , and a selection gene to facilitate recognition of transformants . dna regions are operably linked when they are functionally related to each other . for example : a promoter is operably linked to a coding sequence if it controls the transcription of the sequence ; a ribosome binding site is operably linked to a coding sequence if it is positioned so as to permit translation . generally , operably linked means contiguous and , in the case of leaders sequences , contiguous and in the same translational reading frame . vectors useful for practicing the present invention include plasmids , viruses ( including phage ), retroviruses , and integratable dna fragments ( i . e ., fragments integratable into the host genome by homologous recombination ). the vector may replicate and function independently of the host genome , or may , in some instances , integrate into the genome itself . suitable vectors will contain replicon and control sequences which are derived from species compatible with the intended expression host . a preferred vector is the plasmid pvzneo , useful for producing recombinant expression constructs based on homologous recombination with vaccinia virus sequences . a preferred embodiment of the recombinant expression constructs of this invention comprise vaccinia virus sequences capable of infecting mammalian cells and expressing α 1 - antitrypsin variant , as described below in example 2 . transformed host cells are cells which have been transformed or transfected with a recombinant expression construct made using recombinant dna techniques and comprising sequences encoding an α 1 - antitrypsin variant . transformed host cells may express α 1 - antitrypsin portland , but host cells transformed for purposes of cloning or amplifying dna need not express these sequences . cultures of cells , including cells derived from multicellular organisms , are a desirable hosts for recombinant α 1 - antitrypsin portland synthesis . in principal , any cell culture is useful that is capable of being transformed with an appropriate recombinant expression construct and expressing α 1 - antitrypsin protein . the invention is preferably practiced with bacterial , yeast , insect or mammalian cells , however , mammalian cells are more preferred , as illustrated in the examples . propagation of bacteria and yeast is well known in the art , and propagation of mammalian cells in cell culture has become a routine procedure . see tissue culture , academic press , kruse & amp ; patterson , editors ( 1973 ). most preferred mammalian cells are bsc - 40 african green monkey kidney cells , but other cells , such as human 293 cells , vero and hela cells , chinese hamster ovary ( cho ) cell lines , and wi138 , bhk , cos - 7 , cv , and mdck cells , are also useful . the invention provides homogeneous compositions of α 1 - antitrypsin portland produced by transformed cells as provided herein . such homogeneous compositions are intended to be comprised of mammalian α 1 - antitrypsin portland protein that comprises at least 90 % of the protein in such homogenous composition . the recombinant expression constructs of the present invention are useful in molecular biology to transform cells in vivo in an animal as a method for protecting the animal from viral or other infection in cells that express furin or a furin - like endoprotease activity that can be inhibited by α 1 - antitrypsin portland . the invention provides a gene therapy delivery system comprising the recombinant expression constructs of the invention in a configuration that enables safe and efficient introduction of these sequences into appropriate cells and expression of α 1 - antitrypsin portland . for such purposes , retroviral vectors as described in u . s . pat . no . 4 , 650 , 764 to temin & amp ; watanabe or u . s . pat . no . 4 , 861 , 719 to miller may be employed , for example . the recombinant expression constructs of the invention may also be used in gene therapy carried out homologous recombination . see generally thomas & amp ; capecchi , 1987 , cell 51 : 503 - 512 ; bertling , 1987 , bioscience reports 7 : 107 - 112 ; smithies et al ., 1985 , nature 317 : 230 - 234 . additionally , alteration of endogenous α 1 - antitrypsin sequences to produce α 1 - antitrypsin portland in cells carrying such altered α 1 - antitrypsin sequences can also be achieved using homologous recombination or other techniques . transgenic animals the tissues of which express the α 1 - antitrypsin portland variant are also envisioned as additional objects of this invention . the invention also provides antibacterial and antiviral methods . the invention provides methods for blocking endoproteolytic activation of bacterial toxins . bacterial targets of the antibacterial methods provided by this invention include but are not limited to any bacteria that produces an endoproteolytically - activated toxin , such as diptheria toxin produced by corynebacterium diptheriae , exotoxin a of pseudomonas aurigenosa , tetanus toxin , the enterotoxins of escherichia coli and vibrio cholerae , protective antigen of bacillus anthracis and the neurotoxin and c2 toxin of clostridium botulinum . preferred toxins are those that are proteolytically processed at a consensus furin recognition site (- arg - xaa - xaa - arg ↓-) ( seq id no . 8 ). preferred embodiments include corynebacteriurn diptheriae and bacillus anthracis . viral targets of antiviral methods provided include but are not limited to picornaviruses ( e . g ., poliovirus and rhinovirus ); orthomyxoviruses ( e . g ., influenza virus ); paramyxoviruses ( e . g ., measles virus and mumps virus ); coronaviruses ; rhabdoviruses ( e . g ., rabies virus and vesicular stomatitis virus ); togaviruses ( e . g ., semliki forest virus and yellow fever virus ); bunyaviruses ( e . g ., california encephalitis virus ); arenaviruses ( e . g ., lassa fever virus ); rubella virus ; reoviruses ( e . g ., colorado tick fever virus ); hepatitis viruses ; adenoviruses ; herpesviruses ( e . g ., herpes simplex virus ); and oncogenic viruses , including papilloma viruses , rna tumor viruses , or retroviruses , and lentiviruses ( e . g ., human immune deficiency virus ). the most preferred viruses are the human immunodeficiency viruses ( hiv - 1 and hiv - 2 ). cells intended to be protected by the methods provided by this invention include but are not limited to human , canine , bovine , murine , leporine , porcine , ovine , simian , feline , hircine , and equine . the preferred cells are human cells . more preferred cells are human t lymphocytes ( t cells ), and the most preferred human t cells are those human t cells expressing the cell surface antigen cd4 . the methods of the present invention may be used to treat donated human blood or plasma to protect transfusion recipients from viral infection from contaminating virus . the methods of the present invention may be used to treat human semen to protect embryos derived from such semen , and mothers bearing such embryos or impregnated with such semen , from contaminating virus . in a preferred embodiment , the contaminating virus is hiv - 1 . the present invention provides methods for inhibiting viral infection in a human . the invention also provides for treating a human infected with a virus . another embodiment of the present invention includes methods for treating immunosuppression in a human associated with viral infection . yet another embodiment of the present invention provides a method of prophylaxis for treating a human exposed to infection with a virus , in particular those directly at risk of infection as a result of intimate contact with humans infected with a virus of tissues or bodily fluids contaminated by a virus . the preferred virus of these embodiments of the invention is hiv - 1 . the invention provides pharmaceutically acceptable compositions effective for use with the methods provided by the invention comprising the peptides of the invention and a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier . the invention also provides methods for inhibiting proteolytic processing of a biologically active protein or peptide in a cell comprising contacting such cells with the gene therapy delivery system of the invention . the methods of the invention encompass inhibition of proteolytic processing of any biologically active molecule that is proteolytically processed by furin in vivo or in vitro , including but not limited to peptide hormones , neuropeptides , growth factors , coagulation factors , serum albumin , cell surface receptors , and adhesion molecules . preferred biologically active proteins are pro - β - nerve growth factor , blood coagulation factor protein factor ix , pro - von willibrand factor , complement factor c3 and renin . preparation of pharmaceutically acceptable compositions provided by the present invention can be prepared using methods well known to those with skill in the art . any of the common carriers such as sterile saline solution , plasma , etc ., can be utilized for preparing the pharmaceutical compositions provided by the invention . routes of administration include but are not limited to oral , intravenous , parenteral , rectal , optical , aural and transdermal . the pharmaceutical compositions of the invention may be administered intravenously in any conventional medium for intravenous injection such as an aqueous saline medium , or in blood plasma medium . such medium may also contain conventional pharmaceutical adjunct materials such as , for example , pharmaceutically acceptable salts to adjust the osmotic pressure , buffers , preservatives and the like . among the preferred media are normal saline and plasma . the following examples illustrate certain aspects of the above - described method and advantageous results . the following examples are shown by way of illustration and not by way of limitation . production of furin endoprotease in african green monkey cells in vitro human furin was synthesized for inhibition experiments as described in bresnahan et al . ( j . cell biol . 111 : 2851 - 2859 ) and molloy et al . ( j . biol . chem . 267 : 16396 - 14402 ; both hereby incorporated by reference ). briefly , a furin cdna ( van den ouweland et al ., 1992 , nucleic acids res . 18 : 664 ) encoding a truncated but functional furin protein was inserted into the multiple cloning site of a vaccinia virus vector ( see hruby et al ., 1986 , meth . enzymol . 124 : 295 - 309 ) and used to infect bsc - 40 african green monkey kidney cells . the cells were incubated in serum - free defined media for 24 hours and then harvested at 4 ° c . and disrupted by 20 - 30 strokes in a dounce homogenizer ( kontes glass co ., vineland , ohio ). the lysate was cleared by low - speed centrifugation ( 1000 g , 5 min ) and the supernatant then subjected to ultracentrifugation at 100 , 000 g for 1 hr . the pellet was resuspended in 200 μl of a buffer comprising 10 mm hepes ( n -( 2 - hydroxyethyl ) piperazine - n &# 39 ;-( 2 - ethanesulfonic acid ), sigma chemical co ., st . louis , mo .) and stored at 4 ° c . until use . alternatively , a soluble , truncated derivative of furin lacking the carboxyl - terminal 81 amino acids was used ( see molloy et al ., ibid ., incorporated by reference , for a more detailed description of this molecule ). briefly , bsc - 40 cells were infected with a vaccinia virus vector containing the truncated furin cdna , grown for 16 - 18 h in serum - free defined media and then harvested . the cells were disrupted and subjected sequentially to centrifugation at 1000 g and 10 , 000 g at 4 ° c . the supernatant was passed through a 0 . 2 μm filter and then diluted approximately 1 : 1 with a buffer consisting of 20 mm bistris ( ph 7 . 0 ) and 1 mm 2 - mercaptoethanol . this mixture was then applied to a mono q hr 5 / 5 fast protein liquid chromatography anion exchange column ( pharmacia lkb biotechnology inc .) and the truncated furin derivative eluted with a gradient of 0 - 750 mm sodium chloride and stored at 4 ° c . until use . in vitro mutagenesis and production of native and variant species of α 1 - antitrypsin a novel α 1 - antitrypsin variant , termed α 1 - antitrypsin portland ( seq id no . : 9 ), was produced by in vitro mutagenesis of a cloned cdna encoding the variant α 1 - antitrypsin pittsburgh ( seq id nos . : 12 & amp ; 13 ). a full length cdna encoding α 1 - antitrypsin pittsburgh was subcloned into m13mp19 phage using standard techniques ( see sambrook et al ., ibid ., chapter 15 ). the following mutagenesis primer was then annealed to the sequence of single - stranded phage dna corresponding to codons 372 - 378 of the α 1 - antitrypsin pittsburgh sequence : ## str1 ## the underlined sequence encodes the mutagenized codon . after annealing , the mutagenesis primer was extended using the klenow fragment of e . coli dna polymerase in the presence of the four deoxynucleotide triphosphates . clones having the mutagenized sequence were then grown and selected in e . coli , and dna sequencing of the appropriate portion of the sequence of selected mutagenized clones was performed to confirm successful mutagenesis . the mutagenized α 1 - antitrypsin cdna sequences were then subcloned into vaccinia virus vector pvzneo and used to produce vaccinia virus recombinants as described in example 1 ( and described in more detail in hayflick et al ., 1992 , j . neurosci . 12 : 705 - 717 , hereby incorporated by reference ). as a result of mutagenesis , the sequence of α 1 - antitrypsin pittsburgh ( ala 355 - ile - pro - arg 358 ) ( seq id no . : 15 ) was changed to the novel sequence of α 1 - antitrypsin portland ( arg 355 - ile - pro - arg 358 ) ( seq id no . : 10 ). vaccinia virus constructs containing native α 1 - antitrypsin ( seq id nos . : 16 & amp ; 17 ), ( ala 355 - ile - pro - met 358 ) ( seq id no . : 7 ), α 1 - antitrypsin pittsburgh ( seq id nos . : 12 & amp ; 13 ) and α 1 - antitrypsin portland ( seq id nos . : 18 & amp ; 19 ) were each used to infect bsc - 40 cells . such infected cells secrete the α 1 - antitrypsins into the culture media , and native α 1 - antitrypsin and variants were isolated from culture media from appropriately - infected bsc - 40 cells by passage of such media over a mono q hr 5 / 5 high pressure liquid chromatography anion exchange column ( pharmacia lkb biotechnology ltd ., stockholm , sweden ) and eluted using a linear gradient ( 0 . 05 → 0 . 5m ) of sodium chloride in 50 mm tris - hcl ( ph 8 . 0 ), as described further in molloy et al . production of native α 1 - antitrypsin ( lane 1 ) and variants pittsburgh ( lane 2 ) and portland ( lane 3 ) was confirmed by western blot hybridization ( see sambrook et al ., ibid ., chapter 18 ) as shown in fig1 . in vitro characterization of furin endoprotease inhibition by α 1 - antitrypsin portland α 1 - antitrypsin and variants pittsburgh and portland were assayed for the ability to inhibit furin endoprotease in vitro essentially as described in molloy et al . ( ibid .). briefly , 25 μl of the resuspended furin preparation described in example 1 was incubated with each of the α 1 - antitrypsins ( at a final concentration of 10 μg / ml ) for 20 min at 37 ° c . in a buffer comprising 100 mm hepes ( ph 7 . 5 ), 1 mm cacl 2 , 1 mm 2 - mercaptoethanol and 0 . 5 % triton - x 100 . substrate ( n - butoxycarbonyl )- arg - val - arg - arg -( 4 - methylcoumaryl - 7 - amide ); peninsula laboratories , belmont , calif .) was then added to a final concentration of 50 μm and incubated for 30 min at 37 ° c . the amount of liberated aminomethylcoumarin was then determined by fluorimetry ( excitation wavelength = 380 nm ; emission wavelength = 460 nm ) using a spectrofluorimeter ( perkin elmer , waterbury , conn ., model ls3 ). the results of this experiment is shown in fig2 . for comparison , each of the α 1 - antitrypsins were also incubated with thrombin and assayed for thrombin peptidase activity colorometrically using benzoyl - phe - val - arg -( para - nitroanilide ) as substrate . these results are also shown in fig2 . native α 1 - antitrypsin is unable to inhibit either furin or thrombin endoprotease activity ( striped bars ). α 1 - antitrypsin pittsburgh specifically inhibits thrombin but not furin ( dotted bars ). the novel variant α 1 - antitrypsin portland ( stipled bars ) has no effect on thrombin endoprotease activity , but specifically and essentially quantitatively inhibits furin endoprotease activity . in vivo characterization of furin endoprotease inhibition by α 1 - antitrypsin portland α 1 - antitrypsin portland was assayed for the ability to inhibit furin endoprotease in vivo . bsc - 40 cells were co - infected with a vaccinia virus vector encoding the α 1 - antitrypsin portland as described in example 2 and a vaccinia virus vector encoding pro - β - nerve growth factor ( β - ngf ), a neuropeptide growth factor known to be processed by furin at the consensus furin site - arg - ser - lys - arg ↓- ( seq id no . : 1 ) ( bresnahan et al ., ibid .) and secreted into the cell growth media . co - infected cells were incubated in the presence of ( 35 s )- methionine for 4 h after infection and the cell media harvested . media samples were then immunoprecipitated with ngf - specific antibodies and assayed by sodium dodecyl sulfate / polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis ( sds - page , as described in sambrook et al ., ibid .). the results of these experiments are shown in fig3 . cells infected with wild - type vaccinia virus secrete no detectable β - ngf into the culture media ( lane a ), whereas cells infected with the vaccinia virus vector encoding β - ngf secrete both processed ( 13 kilodaltons , kd ) and unprocessed (≈ 35 kd ) forms of β - ngf ( lane b ); co - infection of such cells with wild - type vaccinia virus has no effect on this pattern of β - ngf production ( lane c ). similarly , bsc - 40 cells co - infected with the β - ngf construct and with vaccinia virus constructs encoding native α 1 - antitrypsin ( lane d ) and α 1 - antitrypsin pittsburgh ( lane e ) also produce both the processed and unprocessed forms of β - ngf . in contrast , cells co - infected with the β - ngf construct and with vaccinia virus constructs encoding α 1 - antitrypsin portland ( lane f ) produce only the unprocessed form of β - ngf , demonstrating that α 1 - antitrypsin portland is capable of inhibiting furin - mediated endoprotease processing of bioactive pro - peptides in vivo . inhibition of furin - mediated processing of human immunodeficiency virus gp160 by α 1 - antitrypsin portland the experiments described in example 4 were repeated using a vaccinia virus construct encoding the human immunodeficiency virus ( hiv - 1 ) glycoprotein gp160 . this precursor protein is known to be proteolytically processed into two membrane - associated proteins : gp120 ( which binds the hiv receptor cd4 on the cell surface of target host cells ) and gp41 ( which provides a fusogenic activity that mediates vital entry into the cell ) in vivo . proteolytic processing at the furin consensus site - arg - glu - lys - arg ↓- ( seq id no . : 3 ) is a necessary step in maturation and release of hiv vital particles . cell membranes from cells infected with vaccinia virus constructs are isolated as described in example 1 . proteins from such membrane preparations were resolved by sds - page and specifically identified by western blot analysis ( see sambrook et al . , ibid ., chapter 18 ). the results of this experiment are shown in fig4 . cells infected with wild - type vaccinia virus produce no detectable hiv - related peptides ( lane a ). in cells infected with the vaccinia virus vector encoding gp160 , both the unprocessed protein and processing products , gp120 and gp41 are produced ( lane b ). bsc - 40 cells co - infected with the gp160 construct and with vaccinia virus constructs encoding native α 1 - antitrypsin ( lane c ) and α 1 - antitrypsin pittsburgh ( lane d ) also produce both unprocessed gp160 and processed gp120 and gp41 . cells co - infected with the gp160 construct and with vaccinia virus constructs encoding α 1 - antitrypsin portland ( lane e ), on the other hand , produce only unprocessed gp160 . these results demonstrate that α 1 - antitrypsin portland is capable of inhibiting furin - mediated endoprotease processing of bioactive viral proteins in vivo , and immediately suggest a method for treating viral infection by inhibiting viral protein processing . in another series of experiments , α 1 - antitrypsin portland - mediated inhibition of proteolytic processing of gp160 was assayed to determine the functional consequences of such inhibition . as described above , processing of gp160 results in the production of gp41 , a protein that provides a fusogenic activity important for viral entry into target cells . expression of gp 120 and gp41 on the surface of ip / ir erythroleukemia cells promotes cell fusion and syncytium formation with cells expressing the gp120 target , cd4 , at the cell surface . in these experiments , ip / ir cells were co - infected with gp160 and each of the α 1 - antitrypsins to determine the effect of inhibition of gp160 processing on the fusogenic capacity of the cells . this experimental protocol is shown in fig5 . briefly , ip / ir cells were co - infected with the vaccinia virus gp160 construct , either alone or co - infected with each of the α 1 - antitrypsin constructs described in example 2 . the cells were incubated for 8 - 16 hours , collected and then overlaid onto a monolayer of cd4 + human hela cells . these cells were incubated for an additional 8 - 12 hours , and syncytium formation detected by staining with crystal violet and observed by phase - contract microscopy . the results of these experiments are shown in fig6 . panel a shows the results of infection of hela cells with wild - type vaccina virus ; essentially no multinucleated cells are seen in such cells . panel b shows the results of infection of hela cells with vaccina virus recombinants encoding hiv gp 160 . syncytia formation ( and hence proper proteolytic processing of gp160 to gp120 and gp41 ) in these cells is evidenced by the large number of multinucleated cells in the culture . panels c and d show the results of co - infection of vaccinia virus recombinants encoding gp 160 and native ( panel c ) and the pittsburgh variant ( panel d ) of α 1 - antitrypsin . co - expression of native or variant pittsburgh α 1 - antitrypsin has no effect on syncytia formation caused by gp41 . panel e shows the effect on hiv gp41 - mediated syncytia formation of co - expression of gp160 and α 1 - antitrypsin portland in hela cells . syncytia formation is completely abolished in these cells , which look identical to cells infected with wild - type vaccinia virus seen in panel a . these results demonstrate that inhibition of gp160 processing by α 1 - antitrypsin portland eliminates the fusogenic activity of viral gp41 and suggests that such inhibition may provide a method for treating hiv infection in vivo and in vitro . it should be understood that the foregoing disclosure emphasizes certain specific embodiments of the invention and that all modifications or alternatives equivalent thereto are within the spirit and scope of the invention as set forth in the appended claims . __________________________________________________________________________sequence listing ( 1 ) general information :( iii ) number of sequences : 21 ( 2 ) information for seq id no : 1 :( i ) sequence characteristics :( a ) length : 4 amino acids ( b ) type : amino acid ( d ) topology : linear ( ii ) molecule type : peptide ( xi ) sequence description : seq id no : 1 : argserlysarg ( 2 ) information for seq id no : 2 :( i ) sequence characteristics :( a ) length : 4 amino acids ( b ) type : amino acid ( d ) topology : linear ( ii ) molecule type : peptide ( xi ) sequence description : seq id no : 2 : argprolysarg1 ( 2 ) 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( 2 ) information for seq id no : 19 :( i ) sequence characteristics :( a ) length : 414 amino acids ( b ) type : amino acid ( d ) topology : linear ( ii ) molecule type : protein ( xi ) sequence description : seq id no : 19 : 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( 2 ) information for seq id no : 20 :( i ) sequence characteristics :( a ) length : 4 amino acids ( b ) type : amino acid ( d ) topology : linear ( ii ) molecule type : peptide ( ix ) feature :( a ) name / key : modified - site ( b ) location : 1 .. 4 ( d ) other information : / label = modified - sites / note =&# 34 ; the amino terminus is derivatized by abutoxycarbonyl group , and the carboxyl terminus isderivatized by a 4 - methylcoumaryl - 7 - amide group ;&# 34 ;( xi ) sequence description : seq id no : 20 : argvalargarg1 ( 2 ) information for seq id no : 21 :( i ) sequence characteristics :( a ) length : 4 amino acids ( b ) type : amino acid ( d ) topology : linear ( ii ) molecule type : peptide ( ix ) feature :( a ) name / key : modified - site ( b ) location : 1 .. 4 ( d ) other information : / label = modified - sites / note =&# 34 ; the amino terminus is derivatized by abutoxycarbonyl group , and the carboxyl terminus isderivatized by a para - nitroanilide group ; &# 34 ;( xi ) sequence description : seq id no : 21 : alaalaproala1__________________________________________________________________________