Patent Application: US-74320096-A

Abstract:
disclosed are diagnostic methods for screening a patient for sclerotic disease . one diagnostic method includes obtaining a biological sample from the patient ; obtaining a substantially pure cp140 polypeptide fragment ; contacting the sample with the cp140 polypeptide ; and detecting patient autoantibody : cp140 complexes as an indication of the presence of sclerotic disease in the patient . other methods of screening patients for scleroderma are also described .

Description:
autoantibody - containing antisera from three different scleroderma patients were used to identify a cdna clone expressing part of a novel centrosomal protein called cp140 . a partial nucleotide sequence contains an opep reading frame of 1 . 7 kb ( fig1 a - 1e ). the antisera recognized a 140 kd protein and stained centrosomes . cp140 is a highly conserved , coiled - coil protein present in all centrosomes so far tested . it is exclusively localized to centrosomes , as shown by its association with centrosomes isolated from cultured cells . cp140 levels change with the nucleating capacity of centrosomes during the cell cycle . the function of cp140 was tested by injecting anti - cp140 antibodies into xenopus embryos , where they blocked mitotic cell division . an autoimmune serum from a patient with scleroderma , designated 5051 , has been used as an immunofluorescence marker for centrosomes and other microtubule organizing centers , tuffanelli , et al ., arch . dermatol ., 119 : 560 - 566 ( 1983 ); calarco et al ., j . cell biol ., 101 : 319 - 324 ( 1983 ); and clayton et al ., cell , 35 : 621 - 629 ( 1985 ). the antigen ( s ) recognized by the serum is conserved , from plants to humans . to identify genes encoding the 5051 antigen , a human placental λgtii cdna expression library was screened with 5051 and two autoimmune sera from individual scleroderma patients . procedures were essentially as described by sambrook et al ., molecular cloning : a laboratory manual ( cold spring harbor , n . y ., cold spring harbor laboratory press , 1989 ). the cloning of cp140 was difficult for several reasons . cloning was complicated because the human autoimmune sera used to identify cp140 had low affinity for cp140 and gave high background on western blots . the sera also gave high backgrounds in the screening of lambda gt11 expression libraries . to overcome this background , a variety of blocking agents ( milk , bsa , serum from horse , and goat , and lysate from bacteria ) were used in library screening as described below . even with combinations of these blocking agents , the cp140 signal was only 2 - to 3 - fold higher than background . a further difficulty was that a large amount of autoimmune serum was required for the extensive screening required to initially detect cp140 . that was because the cp140 mrnas was present in very low abundance . it was necessary to screen about 50 million plaques in four different libraries to obtain a cp140 cdna . autoimmune sera were diluted 1 : 500 in pbs and 5 % bsa . they were then incubated with filters , together with bacterial lysate to reduce background . out of 5 × 10 7 plaques screened , only one 1 . 7 kb cdna was identified ( designated λpc1 . 1 ). the cp140 partial cdna was subcloned into a bluescript vector ( stratagene , lajolla , calif .). the partial cdna was subjected to sequence analysis , using the dideoxy chain termination method . sequence analysis revealed that the cp140 partial cdna contained one continuous open reading frame . fig1 a - 1e shows partial nucleotide sequences ( seq id no : 1 , seq id no : 3 , seq id no : 5 , seq id no : 7 , seq id no : 9 , seq id no : 11 , and seq id no : 13 ) from the cp140 partial cdna clone , and the deduced amino acid sequences ( seq id no : 2 , seq id no : 4 , seq id no : 6 , seq id no : 8 , seq id no : 10 , seq id no : 12 , and seq id no : 14 ) encoded by the nucleotide sequences . the original cp140 cdna of 1 . 7kb was subcloned into e . coli expression vector pgex - 1 ( amrad corp ., australia ). the resulting fusion protein was overexpressed in e . coli . the fusion protein consisted of approximately 70 kd of cp140 and 26kd of glutathione - s - transferase ( gst ) ( smith et al ., gene 67 : 31 - 40 , 1988 ). the gst :: cp140 fusion protein was purified using commercially - available gst columns according to the vendor &# 39 ; s recommendations ( amrad corp ., abbots ford , victoria , australia ). unfused gst proteins were also produced , purified , and used for control purposes . a cp140 fragment can be expressed as part of a fusion protein wherein a specific proteolytic cleavage site is placed immediately adjacent to the cp140 amino acid sequence . when , the free cp140 polypeptide fragment can be obtained in purified form , by conventional techniques . for example , the cp140 cdna can be cloned into plasmid pgex - 2t ( smith et al ., supra ). insertion of a cp140 cdna between the smai and ecori sites of pgex - 2t will result in the expression of a gst :: cp140 fusion protein that can be purified on a glutathione - agarose affinity column . cleavage of the purified fusion protein with thrombin generates two fragments , a gst carrier fragment and a cp140 fragment . thrombin does not cleave the gst carrier fragment . after proteolysis , the gst carrier fragment and uncleaved fusion protein can be removed by adsorption on a glutathione - agarose column , leaving the purified cp140 fragment . the gst :: cp140 fusion protein ( 100 kd ) was gel purified , electroeluted , and used to raise antisera in rabbits using standard techniques ( babco inc ., emeryville , calif .). antibodies were affinity - purified using fusion proteins and unfused vector proteins ( gst ) essentially as described by harlow and lane , antibodies : a laboratory manual ( cold spring harbor , new york : cold spring harbor laboratory press , 1988 ). anti - cp140 antiserum was passed directly over a column of gst :: cp140 fusion protein . affinity - purified antibody fractions contained 95 % igg and reacted with centrosomes by immunofluorescence and with the fusion protein on western blots . several controls were used , including affinity - purified anti - gst antibodies , an igg fraction purified from the preimmune serum using protein a beads ( sigma chem . corp ., st . louis , mo .) and eluted under the same conditions used for anti - cp140 antibodies , and a rabbit igg fraction ( sigma , st . louis , mo .). in all experiments , anti - cp140 and control antibodies were concentrated to 2 mg / ml and dialyzed against the appropriate buffer . monoclonal antibodies can also be made with the purified human cpl40 polypeptide or fusion protein using standard hybridoma technology ( see , e . g ., kohler et al ., nature , 256 : 495 , 1975 ; kohler et al ., eur . j . immunol ., 6 : 511 , 1976 ; kohler et al ., eur . j . immunol ., 6 : 292 , 1976 ; hammerling et al ., monoclonal antibodies and t cell hybridomas , elsevier , n . y ., 1981 ; and ausubel et al ., current protocols in molecular biology , john wiley & amp ; sons , new york , 1994 ). once produced , polyclonal or monoclonal antibodies are tested for cpl40 binding specificity . this can be done , for example , by western blot or immunoprecipitation analysis ( ausubel et al ., supra ). antibodies that specifically recognize a cp140 protein or a portion thereof , are used , e . g ., for diagnostic screening . western blots demonstrated that the anti - cp140 antibodies and the original 5051 antisera both recognized the lookd gst :: cp140 fusion protein . affinity - purified anti - cp140 antibodies , but not pericentrin sera or anti - tubulin antibody ( dm1a , sigma ), recognized a protein of ≈ 140 kd in cellular fractions enriched in centrosomes . cp140 was not detectable in whole cell lysates . this suggested that the protein was rare . the partial polypeptide sequence of cp140 was compared to known translated sequences in several databases . the entire length of the cp140 clone was weakly homologous to coiled - coil domains of several other proteins such as myosin and keratin . further analysis according to the method of lupas et al . ( science , 252 : 1162 - 1164 ( 1991 )) indicated that cp140 was long α - helical , coiled - coil protein . several coiled - coil segments are found in the α - helical domain of cp140 , interrupted by short segments that lack heptad periodicity and are similar to those found in some other coiled - coil proteins such as laminin . these segments often contain proline residues , which usually disrupt α - helices . though coiled domains of other coiled - coil proteins are often involved in interactions with other proteins , no consensus sequences for microtubule binding , or nucleotide binding , e . g ., as seen in motor proteins , were found . antibodies raised against the original fusion protein were tested for their ability to stain centrosomes by immunofluorescence . cultured cells and isolated centrosomes were processed for immunofluorescence as described previously in mitchison et al ., nature , 312 : 232 - 237 ( 1984 ), using meoh (- 20 ° c .) as the fixative . affinity - purified antli - cp140 antibody was used at 5 μg / ml , and all other sera at 1 : 500 . in cos cells , the fusion protein antibodies gave the characteristic centrosome staining pattern of one or two foci in the perinuclear region of interphase cells . no staining was seen with pre - immune serum . the species specificity of anti - cp140 antibodies was tested . the original antibody recognized centrosomes in human , mouse , and frog cells . the strong centrosome staining in mammals and amphibians demonstrated cp140 to be a highly conserved protein . cp140 appears to be an integral component of the centrosome and not simply material that is transported there along microtubules . complete depolymerization of microtubules did not change the staining pattern of cp140 observed in untreated cells . similar results were obtained with cytochalasin , which depolymerizes actin filaments . when both drugs were used to isolate centrosomes from cultured chinese hamster ovary ( cho ) or hela cells , cp140 staining co - localized with the anti - α - tubulin and anti - cp140 antibodies . treatment of cells with nonionic detergents did not alter the staining pattern . thus , cp140 is a robust and integral part of the centrosome . anti - cp140 antibodies inhibited cell division in xenopus embryos . xenopus eggs and embryos were injected with 25 - 50 nl of antibody solution ( 0 . 2 - 2 . 0 mg / ml ) at the two cell stage as described in amaya et al ., cell , 66 : 257 - 270 ( 1991 ). for immunofluorescence studies , thinner needles were used to inject all cells of 4 - to 8 - cell embryos with appropriate ( 5 - 10 nl ) volumes . eggs and embryos were incubated for 2 . 5 - 3 hours at room temperature before processing . a total of 438 cells from anti - cp140 - injected embryos and 302 cells from control antibody - injected embryos were analyzed in four experiments using two anti - cp140 antibody preparations . the antibodies , which react with the native xenopus protein , were injected into one cell of a two - cell embryo . uninjected cells divided normally , while cells injected with anti - cp140 antibodies divided 1 - 5 times and then arrested . the incidence of centrosome reactivity in scleroderma is higher than all other autoantigens . it is believed that the reported incidence of centrosome autoreactivity in patients with scleroderma ( 7 %) has been underestimated , prior to the present invention . it is difficult to detect centrosome staining by immunofluorescence -- the only method for screening sera for centrosome reactivity until now -- because the centrosome is a single tiny fluorescent dot not easily detected by conventional methods . the centrosome is usually located near the nucleus and at the convergence of microtubules . many autoimmune sera have either prevalent nuclear staining or high background staining of the cytoplasm which obscures the centrosome staining . finally , fixation procedures are often incompatible with antibody reactivity . this is another factor contributing to underestimation of centrosome autoreactivity in scleroderma . to increase the sensitivity of centrosome detection , we developed a biochemical assay based on the ability of autoimmune sera to react with recombinant centrosome proteins . bacterially - expressed , pericentrin and cp140 were partially purified , separated from other proteins by sds - gel electrophoresis and tested for autoantibody reactivity by western blotting with auto - immune sera from scleroderma patients at dilutions optimized for reactivity with other scleroderma autoantigens ( 10 - 3 ). in this assay , positive sera gave strong signals comparable to positive controls . using this assay , we have analyzed 137 scleroderma sera . the results are summarized in fig2 . we found that 28 . 5 % react with cp140 , 29 . 1 % react with pericentrin , 24 . 5 % react with both centrosome autoantigens and that the total centrosome reactivity to both antigens is 32 . 9 %. we tested pooled sera from 30 normal control patients , and found no autoimmune reactivity against cp140 . these results indicate that the prevalence of centrosome reactivity in scleroderma sera is significantly higher ( about 33 %) than previously believed . in fact , it is more prevalent than any other scleroderma autoantigen described to date . it was observed that 40 % of all seropositive patients were negative for antitopoisomerase - 1 and anticentromere reactivity . this indicates that anticentrosome autoreactivity represents a novel and significant category of scleroderma reactivity . the autoreactivity to cp140 of 28 % of scleroderma patient sera tested ( 38 out of 137 ) indicates that anti - cp140 autoantibodies in the sera of these patients serve as a diagnostic marker for the disease . alterations in the cp140 gene or in gene or protein expression should also indicate afflicted individuals . thus , cp140 polypeptides and related reagents are useful in diagnosing sclerotic disease and in examining the role of cp140 in the development of scleroderma . cp140 antibodies can be used to screen patients for scleroderma by performing double - label immunofluorescence microscopy with patient sera samples . the basis of the test is detection of anti - cpl40 autoantibodies in patient serum . cultured normal human cells , e . g ., hela ( liver ) cells or hs27 human skin cells , are grown on glass coverslips , fixed , and permeabilized using standard techniques , e . g ., using a 0 . 5 % octoxynol detergent ( e . g ., triton x ™- 100 , rohm & amp ; haas ) buffer solution to wash the cells for 60 seconds . various dilutions of sera from a patient ( which may contain anti - cp140 autoantibodies ) are mixed with cp140 sera raised in rabbits ( anti - cp140 antibodies ) and with the octoxynol detergent as described by doxsey et al ., cell , 76 : 639 - 650 ( 1994 ). the resulting mixture is applied to the fixed cells . after a one - hour incubation period , secondary antibodies coupled to fluorescent molecules are added to the cell sample to detect the anti - cp140 antibodies and human autoantibodies . secondary antibodies coupled to different fluorophores , e . g ., fluorescein or rhodamine , will specifically detect either human or rabbit igg . colocalization of fluorescence signals confirms that the signals are associated with centrosomes , and is thus scored as a positive signal . sera from non - diseased individuals serve as controls . statistical analysis of the data is performed , e . g ., as described in embury et al ., new england journal of medicine , 316 : 656 - 659 ( 1987 ). if a positive result is obtained in this assay , other diagnostic tests can be performed ( see below ). positive results in both assay systems would provide strong evidence of scleroderma . a second diagnostic test for scleroderma involves biochemical detection of a cp140 fragment or cp140 fragment - containing fusion protein . as above , the basis of the test is detection of anti - cp140 autoantibodies in a patient &# 39 ; s serum . in the second test , serial dilutions of a cp140 fragment fusion protein can be dotted onto nylon membranes ( immobilon , schleicher and schuell ). duplicate membranes are incubated with anti - cp140 antibodies and a serum sample from a patient . cp140 antibodies are used at defined concentrations , e . g ., 2 μg / ml , as a positive control to ensure that the secondary antibodies work well , and different dilutions of the serum sample are used to ensure that a positive signal does not elude detection . membranes are washed and probed with a secondary antibody that specifically bind to the anti - cp140 antibodies and the potential human autoimmune antibodies . the secondary antibodies are conjugated to alkaline phosphatase and reacted to detect enzymatic activity ( amersham ). quantitative data can be obtained using a highly sensitive phosphorimager ™ ( analytics ). sera that give reactivity at least 3 - fold higher than non - diseased ( control ) sera in two sets of samples are considered positive . a cp140 polypeptide fragment , or a cp140 fragment - containing fusion protein , can also used to detect cp140 autoantibodies in a standard western blot procedure . in such a procedure , a cp140 polypeptide fragment or cp140 fragment - containing fusion protein is subjected to sds - polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis . it is then transferred (&# 34 ; blotted &# 34 ;) onto a solid support such as immobilon , and probed with human serum to be tested for cp140 autoantibodies . detection of bound autoantibodies is typically by means of a secondary antibody linked to an enzyme such as alkaline phosphatase . a cp140 polypeptide fragment , or a cp140 fragment - containing fusion protein , can also be used to detect cp140 autoantibodies in a conventional elisa . in such a procedure , a cp140 polypeptide fragment , or a cp140 fragment - containing fusion protein is dried onto wells of a microtiter plate . samples of appropriately diluted sera are added to the wells , and a secondary antibody linked to an enzyme such as alkaline phosphatase is used to detect binding of autoantibodies in serum samples to the immobilized cpl40 polypeptide fragment . the amount of autoantibody present in a positive serum sample is readily quantitated by conventional methods . it is believed that anomalies in the cp140 gene are associated with scleroderma . dnas obtained from sclerotic and normal ( control ) individuals are used in standard polymerase chain reaction - restriction fragment length polymorphism ( pcr - rflp ) assays as described in mcpherson et al ., pcr , a practical approach , rickwood and hames ( eds . )( oxford university press , 1993 ). pcr is used to amplify portions of the cp140 gene in the sample dna . fig3 lists various oligonucleotide primers useful in the practice of the invention . fig4 shows the location of the primers listed in fig3 within the cp140 partial cdna . fig4 also shows the orientation of each primer . using fig3 and 4 , it is within ordinary skill in the art to select a suitable pair of primers for pcr - rflp assays , e . g ., primer 1 for use as the 5 &# 39 ; pcr primer , and primer 11 for use as the 3 &# 39 ; pcr primer . using the cp140 partial cdna sequences , the skilled person can also design and use primers other than those listed in fig3 . the dna from potentially sclerotic individuals is compared by standard techniques to the human cp140 dna obtained according to this invention , to detect any differences or variations as an indication of scleroderma . diseased and normal genes can be detected by conventional standard methods . preferably , pcr is used to amplify a portion of the cp140 gene . pcr - amplified cp140 gene dna fragments are digested with restriction enzymes to generate fragments of known length . differences in the sizes of restriction fragments ( polymorphisms ) from diseased individuals reflect differences in the dna sequences and represent genetic defects . such an analysis has been used successfully to detect abnormalities in other diseased genes ( see , e . g ., embury et al ., new england j . medicine , 316 : 656 - 659 , 1987 ). this approach may not detect all genetic defects . therefore , other methods can be used to detect point mutations and minor deletions as outlined by mcpherson et al ., supra . if genetic defects are identified in the dna sample using these approaches , the pcr fragments containing the defective fragments are cloned ( ta cloning kit , in vitrogen ) and sequenced to identify the altered site ( s ), e . g ., as described in doxsey et al ., cell , 76 : 639 - 650 ( 1994 ). this information is used to narrow the diagnostic screen to the abnormal fragment of the cp140 gene . the defect is mapped to the human chromosome and the characteristics of the genetic lesion can be compared to abnormalities in other known genetic disorders to determine whether the defect falls into known categories or has a characteristic pattern of other syndromes . once the defective gene is characterized , it can be compared against the dna obtained from patients , and thus used as a diagnostic tool . the skin ( and other epithelial tissues ) of patients with scleroderma becomes thickened as the disease progresses . since cp140 is involved in cell division , and division of epithelial cells in scleroderma patients appears to be altered , it is believed that the level of cp140 mrna in individuals with scleroderma is different from the cp140 mrna level in normal individuals . thus , a different level of gene expression is an indication of the disease . skin fibroblasts ( or other epithelial cells ) are isolated from normal ( control ) and diseased individuals ( see below ) and assayed in reverse transcriptase - pcr ( rt - pcr ) as described in chelly et al ., nature ( lond . ), 333 : 858 - 860 ( 1988 ), to determine the amount of cp140 mrna present in the cells . briefly , rna is isolated from these cells by standard procedures and rt is used to make cdna from the rna . the cdna is then used for quantitative pcr analysis of the cp140 protein using actin as an internal control using standard techniques . the pcr probes described above also can be used for this assay . a change in normalized cp140 mrna levels in cells from diseased individuals compared to normal individuals indicates the presence of disease . appropriate normalization of data for meaningful comparisons is within ordinary skill in the art . skin fibroblasts ( and other epithelial cells ) can also be assayed for differences in the expression of cp140 protein in the diseased state . cells are solubilized under denaturing conditions to liberate the centrosome - associated cp140 . the protein is immunoprecipitated using antibodies and methods described above . immunoprecipitates are exposed to sds - page to separate the proteins and are blotted onto nylon membranes . membranes are probed with anti - cp140 antibodies and alkaline phosphatase secondary antibodies to detect the cp140 antibodies . quantitative analysis is performed to detect differences in cp140 protein levels in diseased and normal cells using standard techniques . a substantial change in the level of cp140 protein in a sample indicates the presence of scleroderma . the foregoing description is intended to illustrate and not to limit the scope of the invention , which is defined by the appended claims . other embodiments are within the following claims . __________________________________________________________________________sequence listing ( 1 ) general information :( iii ) number of sequences : 36 ( 2 ) information for seq id no : 1 :( i ) sequence characteristics :( a ) length : 315 base pairs ( b ) type : nucleic acid ( c ) strandedness : single ( d ) topology : linear ( ii ) molecule type : cdna ( ix ) feature :( a ) name / key : coding sequence ( b ) location : 1 ... 315 ( xi ) sequence description : seq id no : 1 : 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aaactgaaattaggaactggggaaatgaacatccatagtccttcagat48lysleulysleuglythrglyglumetasnilehisserproserasp151015gtcttagggaaaagtcttgctgatttacagaaacaattcagtgaaatt96valleuglylysserleualaaspleuglnlysglnphesergluile202530cttgcacgctccaagtgggaaagagatgaagcacaagttagagagaga144leualaargserlystrpgluargaspglualaglnvalarggluarg354045aaactccaagaagaaatggctctgcagcaagagaaactggcaactgga192lysleuglngluglumetalaleuglnglnglulysleualathrgly505560caagaagagttcaggcaggcctgtgagagagccctg228glngluglupheargglnalacysgluargalaleu657075 ( 2 ) information for seq id no : 14 :( i ) sequence characteristics :( a ) length : 76 amino acids ( b ) type : amino acid ( c ) strandedness : single ( d ) topology : linear ( ii ) molecule type : protein ( v ) fragment type : internal ( xi ) sequence description : seq id no : 14 : lysleulysleuglythrglyglumetasnilehisserproserasp151015valleuglylysserleualaaspleuglnlysglnphesergluile202530leualaargserlystrpgluargaspglualaglnvalarggluarg354045lysleuglngluglumetalaleuglnglnglulysleualathrgly505560glngluglupheargglnalacysgluargalaleu657075 ( 2 ) information for seq id no : 15 :( i ) sequence characteristics :( a ) length : 22 base pairs ( b ) type : nucleic acid ( c ) strandedness : single ( d ) topology : linear ( ii ) molecule type : oligonucleotide primer ( xi ) sequence description : seq id no : 15 : cgagcatgtcagaagcaatatg22 ( 2 ) information for seq id no : 16 :( i ) sequence characteristics :( a ) length : 19 base pairs ( b ) type : nucleic acid ( c ) strandedness : single ( d ) topology : linear ( ii ) molecule type : oligonucleotide primer ( xi ) sequence description : seq id no : 16 : cccagatgaaagcccttac19 ( 2 ) information for seq id no : 17 :( i ) sequence characteristics :( a ) length : 20 base pairs ( b ) type : nucleic acid ( c ) strandedness : single ( d ) topology : linear ( ii ) molecule type : oligonucleotide primer ( xi ) sequence description : seq id no : 17 : agcccttacattggcaaatc20 ( 2 ) information for seq id no : 18 :( i ) sequence characteristics :( a ) length : 21 base pairs ( b ) type : nucleic acid ( c ) strandedness : single ( d ) topology : linear ( ii ) molecule type : oligonucleotide primer ( xi ) sequence description : seq id no : 18 : caggcagtacagatcaagaag21 ( 2 ) information for seq id no : 19 :( i ) sequence characteristics :( a ) length : 20 base pairs ( b ) type : nucleic acid ( c ) strandedness : single ( d ) topology : linear ( ii ) molecule type : oligonucleotide primer ( xi ) sequence description : seq id no : 19 : gaacttgagaggccacacac20 ( 2 ) information for seq id no : 20 :( i ) sequence characteristics :( a ) length : 20 base pairs ( b ) type : nucleic acid ( c ) strandedness : single ( d ) topology : linear ( ii ) molecule type : oligonucleotide primer ( xi ) sequence description : seq id no : 20 : taaattacgccaggaacgtc20 ( 2 ) information for seq id no : 21 :( i ) sequence characteristics :( a ) length : 22 base pairs ( b ) type : nucleic acid ( c ) strandedness : single ( d ) topology : linear ( ii ) molecule type : oligonucleotide primer ( xi ) sequence description : seq id no : 21 : gccagatagcagcaaaatgaag22 ( 2 ) information for seq id no : 22 :( i ) sequence characteristics :( a ) length : 20 base pairs ( b ) type : nucleic acid ( c ) strandedness : single ( d ) topology : linear ( ii ) molecule type : oligonucleotide primer ( xi ) sequence description : seq id no : 22 : tactggctgaccttccaaac20 ( 2 ) information for seq id no : 23 :( i ) sequence characteristics :( a ) length : 22 base pairs ( b ) type : nucleic acid ( c ) strandedness : single ( d ) topology : linear ( ii ) molecule type : oligonucleotide primer ( xi ) sequence description : seq id no : 23 : agcctcctgtctatcctgagtg22 ( 2 ) information for seq id no : 24 :( i ) sequence characteristics :( a ) length : 24 base pairs ( b ) type : nucleic acid ( c ) strandedness : single ( d ) topology : linear ( ii ) molecule type : oligonucleotide primer ( xi ) sequence description : seq id no : 24 : gtctctttccagtctttctacctc24 ( 2 ) information for seq id no : 25 :( i ) sequence characteristics :( a ) length : 19 base pairs ( b ) type : nucleic acid ( c ) strandedness : single ( d ) topology : linear ( ii ) molecule type : oligonucleotide primer ( xi ) sequence description : seq id no : 25 : cttcttagctcatccacac19 ( 2 ) information for seq id no : 26 :( i ) sequence characteristics :( a ) length : 19 base pairs ( b ) type : nucleic acid ( c ) strandedness : single ( d ) topology : linear ( ii ) molecule type : oligonucleotide primer ( xi ) sequence description : seq id no : 26 : gaaccaaaccatcaaccac19 ( 2 ) information for seq id no : 27 :( i ) sequence characteristics :( a ) length : 22 base pairs ( b ) type : nucleic acid ( c ) strandedness : single ( d ) topology : linear ( ii ) molecule type : oligonucleotide primer ( xi ) sequence description : seq id no : 27 : gaagggctgattgttctaactg22 ( 2 ) information for seq id no : 28 :( i ) sequence characteristics :( a ) length : 21 base pairs ( b ) type : nucleic acid ( c ) strandedness : single ( d ) topology : linear ( ii ) molecule type : oligonucleotide primer ( xi ) sequence description : seq id no : 28 : ttctagctctgcaagctcctc21 ( 2 ) information for seq id no : 29 :( i ) sequence characteristics :( a ) length : 22 base pairs ( b ) type : nucleic acid ( c ) strandedness : single ( d ) topology : linear ( ii ) molecule type : oligonucleotide primer ( xi ) sequence description : seq id no : 29 : actttctagctctgcaagctcc22 ( 2 ) information for seq id no : 30 :( i ) sequence characteristics :( a ) length : 21 base pairs ( b ) type : nucleic acid ( c ) strandedness : single ( d ) topology : linear ( ii ) molecule type : oligonucleotide primer ( xi ) sequence description : seq id no : 30 : caacccactgataacaccttc21 ( 2 ) information for seq id no : 31 :( i ) sequence characteristics :( a ) length : 22 base pairs ( b ) type : nucleic acid ( c ) strandedness : single ( d ) topology : linear ( ii ) molecule type : oligonucleotide primer ( xi ) sequence description : seq id no : 31 : gtcaagctgttgttctttaccg22 ( 2 ) information for seq id no : 32 :( i ) sequence characteristics :( a ) length : 21 base pairs ( b ) type : nucleic acid ( c ) strandedness : single ( d ) topology : linear ( ii ) molecule type : oligonucleotide primer ( xi ) sequence description : seq id no : 32 : ggacaagaagagttcaggcag21 ( 2 ) information for seq id no : 33 :( i ) sequence characteristics :( a ) length : 21 base pairs ( b ) type : nucleic acid ( c ) strandedness : single ( d ) topology : linear ( ii ) molecule type : oligonucleotide primer ( xi ) sequence description : seq id no : 33 : actggacaagaagagttcagg21 ( 2 ) information for seq id no : 34 :( i ) sequence characteristics :( a ) length : 20 base pairs ( b ) type : nucleic acid ( c ) strandedness : single ( d ) topology : linear ( ii ) molecule type : oligonucleotide primer ( xi ) sequence description : seq id no : 34 : actccaagaagaaatggctc20 ( 2 ) information for seq id no : 35 :( i ) sequence characteristics :( a ) length : 24 base pairs ( b ) type : nucleic acid ( c ) strandedness : single ( d ) topology : linear ( ii ) molecule type : oligonucleotide primer ( xi ) sequence description : seq id no : 35 : gaggtagaaagactggaaagagac24 ( 2 ) information for seq id no : 36 :( i ) sequence characteristics :( a ) length : 20 base pairs ( b ) type : nucleic acid ( c ) strandedness : single ( d ) topology : linear ( ii ) molecule type : oligonucleotide primer ( xi ) sequence description : seq id no : 36 : tgcctgaactcttcttgtcc20__________________________________________________________________________