Patent Application: US-18627798-A

Abstract:
the nucleic acid sequence encoding mammalian serine / threonine protein kinase comprising a leucine zipper motif and the corresponding amino acid sequence are disclosed . the zip - kinase is a nuclear enzyme having activity of inducing apoptosis . a victor and a transformed cell with the nucleic acid sequence as well as recombinant method of making the zip - kinase utilizing the transformed cell are taught .

Description:
the recombinant protein according to the present invention , hereinafter also referred to as “ zip - kinase ”, is a protein molecule binding to the leucine zipper domain of a transcription factor called atf4 , and has a serine / threonine kinase activity . the zip - kinase is a novel nuclear serine / threonine kinase having the leucine zipper structure and has an activity to induce apoptosis . atf4 is a leucine zipper type transcription factor which binds to camp response element ( cre ) and belongs to the atf / creb family . on the other hand , the dna according to the present invention is obtained from cdna libraries prepared from human placenta and mouse brain by screening them using so - called yeast two - hybrid system , and codes for zip - kinase . hereinafter , the dna will also be referred to as “ zip - kinase dna ”. the dna according to the present invention may be cloned in the following manner : ( 1 ) preparation of cdna libraries from human placenta and mouse brain sources of mrna may include tissues such as human placenta and mouse brain . established cell lines from these tissues may also be used as the source . the mrna may be prepared by conventional procedures . for instance , total rna may be obtained by treating the tissue or cell with a guanidine reagent , and poly ( a +) rna ( mrna ) may be obtained by an affinity column method using oligo dt - cellulose or poly u - sepharose on sepharose 2b as a carrier , or by a batch method . also , the poly ( a +) rna may further be fractionated by sucrose density - gradient centrifugation . the resulting mrna is used as a template to synthesize a single - stranded cdna which is in turn used to synthesize a double - stranded cdna . a recombinant plasmid is prepared from a suitable vector dna and used to transform escherichia coli or the like to yield a cdna library . from the cdna library obtained in ( 1 ) above , a plasmid is prepared for screening for a desired clone . such a plasmid may be obtained by preparing a chimeric dna by ligating a dna coding for mouse atf4 leucine zipper domain ( amino acids 298 to 349 in the sequence of atf4 ) to a dna coding for gal4 dna binding domain , and ligating the chimeric dna to bait plasmid pas2 - 1 . then said plasmid is used to screen the cdna library . in the screening , yeast two - hybrid system may be used . the yeast two - hybrid system is an experimental system capable of detecting interaction between proteins in yeast and is capable of screening the library for cdna of a protein interacting with the desired protein ( bait ). positive clones may be selected using the growth in a selective medium free of hystidine , tryptophan or leucine and the activity of β - galactosidase . the base sequence is determined for the resulting clone . the sequencing may be carried out by any known method such as maxam - gilbert method or the dideoxy method and is usually done using an automated base sequencer . seq id nos : 1 and 2 exemplify the amino acid sequence of zip - kinase and the base sequence of zip - kinase dna , respectively , according to the present invention . as far as a protein comprising said amino acid sequence has an activity as a serine / threonine kinase , there may be a mutation or variation of deletion , substitution and / or addition of one or several amino acids in said amino acid sequence as shown in seq id no : 1 . for example , a protein having the amino acid sequence as shown in seq id no : 1 from which the first amino acid methionine has been deleted may also be included in the present invention . herein the serine / threonine kinase activity means an activity of transferring the terminal phosphate group of atp to a certain amino acid ( serine or threonine ) of a protein . the introduction of mutation or variation may be carried out by any known method ( deng , w . p . et al ., anal . biochem ., 200 : 81 , 1992 ) or using a commercially available kit ( site - directed mutagenesis kit of clonetech ). once the base sequence of zip - kinase dna according to the present invention is determined , zip - kinase dna according to the present invention may then be obtained by chemical synthesis , or by pcr with various tissues - derived cdna as a template , or hybridization of a dna fragment having said base sequence as a probe . the recombinant vector of the present invention may be obtained by ligating or inserting zip - kinase dna of the present invention into an appropriate vector . the vector for inserting zip - kinase dna of the present invention is not particularly limited as long as it can be replicated in a host , and may include plasmid dna , phage dna , etc . the plasmid dna may be prepared from e . coli or agrobacterium by the alkali extraction ( birnboim , h . c . & amp ; doly , j ., ( 1979 ) nucleic acid res ., 7 : 1513 ) or modified method . further , commercially available plasmids may also be used , for example , puc18 ( takara shuzo ), puc19 ( takara shuzo ), pbluescript sk + ( stratagene ), pgem - t ( promega ), pt7blue ( novagen ) and pbr322 ( takara shuzo ). the phage dna may include , for example , m13mp18 , m13mp19 , λgt10 , λgt11 , etc . when the dna of the present invention is inserted into a vector , the purified dna may first be cut with a suitalbe restriction enzyme and inserted into a restriction enzyme site or multi cloning site of a suitalbe vector dna to ligate with the vector . the dna of the present invention should be incorporated into a vector such that the function of the dna can be realized . in addition to a promoter and the dna of the present invention , the vector of the present invention may comprise a terminator , a ribosome - binding sequence and the like . the terminator may be a stop codon such as tga , tag or taa and the ribosome - binding sequence may be a leader sequence . the transformant of the present invention may be obtained by introducing the recombinant expression vector of the present invention into a host such that the desired gene can be expressed therein . the host is not particularly limited so long as the dna of the present invention can be expressed and may include , for example , bacteria belonging to the genus escherichia or bacillus , such as escherichia coli and bacillus subtillus ; yeast , such as saccharomyces cerevisiae and saccharomyces pombe ; animal cells , such as cos and cho cells ; and insect cells , such as sf9 . when a bacterium , such as e . coli , is used as a host , it is preferred that the vector of the present invention is capable of autonomously replicating in said bacterium and comprises a promoter , a ribosome - binding sequence , the dna of the present invention , and a transcription terminating sequence . the vector may also comprise a gene controlling the promoter . for example , pet and pgex ( pharmacia ) may be used as the expression vector . any promoter may be used so long as the expression can be effected in the host such as e . coli . a promoter derived from e . coli or phage , such as trp , lac , pl or pr promoter , may be used . an artificially designed and modified promoter , such as t7 or t3 , may also be used . the method for introducing the recombinant vector into a bacterium is not particularly limited so long as a dna can be introduced into a bacterium . for example , the method using calcium ion ( proc . natl . acad . sci ., usa , 69 , 2110 - 2114 ( 1972 )) and the electroporation method may be used . when a yeast is used as a host , yep13 , yep24 and ycp50 may be used as the expression vector . the promoter used is not particularly limited so long as the expression in the yeast can be effected , and may include , for example , gal1 , gal10 , heat shock protein , mfα1 and sv40 promoters . the method for introducing the recombinant vector into a yeast is not particularly limited so long as a dna can be introduced into a yeast , and include , for example , the electroporation method ( methods enzymol ., 194 , 182 - 187 ( 1990 )), the spheroplast method ( proc . natl . acad . sci ., usa , 84 , 1929 - 1933 ( 1978 )), and the lithium acetate method ( j . bacteriol ., 153 , 163 - 168 ( 1983 )). when an animal cell is used as a host , an expression vector , such as pcdnai / amp or pcdnai ( invitrogen ) is used . the promoter used may also be the early gene promoter of human cytomegalovirus . the method for introducing the recombinant vector into an animal cell may include , for example , the electroporation method , the calcium phosphate method and the lipofection method . the recombinant vectors of the present invention ( one vector containing zip - kinase dna from human placenta and another vector containing zip - kinase dna from mouse brain ) have been introduced into e . coli dh5 , e . coli ( hzip - kinase ) dh5 and e . coli ( mzip - kinase ) dh5 , respectively , and deposited at national institute of bioscience and human - technology ( nibh ), agency of industrial science and technology , 1 - 3 , higashi 1 - chome , tsukuba - shi , ibaraki - ken 305 , japan on sep . 25 , 1997 under accession nos . ferm bp - 6487 and ferm bp - 6488 , respectively . zip - kinase of the present invention may be obtained by cultivating the transformant in a culture medium and collecting from the resulting culture . the transformant of the present invention may be cultivated in a culture medium by any method conventionally used to cultivate a host . the culture medium for cultivating a transformant obtained from a microorganism such as e . coli or yeast as a host may be either a natural or synthetic medium so long as it contains a carbon source , a nitrogen source and inorganic salts which can be utilized by the microorganism and the transformant can efficiently be cultivated . the carbon source used may include carbohydrates , such as glucose , fructose , sucrose , starch , and dextrose ; organic acids , such as acetic acid and propionic acid ; and alcohols , such as ethanol and propanol . the nitrogen source which may be used includes ammonia ; ammonium salts of inorganic or organic acids , such as ammonium chloride , ammonium sulfate , ammonium acetate and ammonium phosphate ; other nitrogen containing compounds ; peptone , meat extract , corn steep liquor , and yeast extract . the minerals which may be used include monobasic potassium phosphate , dibasic potassium phosphate , magnesium phosphate , magnesium sulfate , sodium chloride , ferrous sulfate , manganese sulfate , copper sulfate , calcium carbonate , calcium chloride , and disodium phosphate . the cultivation is generally carried out at 37 ° c . for 12 to 18 hours under aerobic conditions , such as shaking culture and aerated spinner culture . during the cultivation , ph is kept at 7 . 0 to 7 . 5 . the ph is adjusted with an inorganic or organic acid or alkaline solution , or carbonic acid gas . during the cultivation , an antibiotic such as ampicillin or tetracycline may optionally be added to the medium . when a microorganism transformed with an expression vector comprising an inducible promoter is cultivated , an inducer may be added to the medium , if necessary . for example , when a microorganism transformed with an expression vector comprising lac promoter is cultivated , isopropyl - β - d - thiogalactopyranoside ( iptg ) or the like may be added to the medium . when a microorganism transformed with an expression vector comprising trp promoter is cultivated , indole - acrylic acid ( iaa ) may be added to the medium . when a transformant obtained from an animal cell as a host is cultivated , a conventional culture medium such as rpmi 1640 or dmem medium or these media to which fetal bovine serum is added may be used . the cultivation is generally carried out at 37 ° c . for 1 to 3 days in the presence of 5 % co 2 . during the cultivation , an antibiotic such as kanamycin or penicillin may be added to the medium . after the cultivation , when zip - kinase of the present invention is produced in the host cell , the zip - kinase is extracted by disruption of the cell . when zip - kinase of the present invention is produced in the exterior of the cell , the culture may be directly used as it is , or the zip - kinase of the present invention may be isolated and purified from the culture , after removing the cell by centrifugation , using any conventional biochemical methods generally used in the isolation and purification of proteins , such as ammonium sulfate precipitation , gel chromatography , ion exchange chromatography and affinity chromatography , singly or in any combination thereof . the present invention will be further illustrated by the following examples . however , the scope of the present invention is not limited to these examples . a commercially available cdna ( clonetech ) was used in the present invention . dna coding for leucine zipper domain of mouse atf4 was obtained by pcr method . the composition of the pcr reaction was 1 . 0 μg dna , 10 mm tris - hcl ( ph 8 . 3 ), 50 mm kcl , 1 . 5 mm mgcl 2 , 0 . 2 mm dntp , 0 . 5 μm primer , and 1 u taq . pcr reaction was first carried out at 94 ° c . for 1 minute . then , 25 cycles of reactions at 94 ° c . for 20 seconds , at 56 ° c . for 20 seconds and at 72 ° c . for 30 seconds were carried out . finally , the reaction at 72 ° c . for 10 minutes was effected . the pcr products were cut with ecori / bamhi and inserted into ecori / bamhi site of pas2 - 1 vector . the plasmids were used to transform e . coli dh5α and purified by means of a commercially available kit ( wizard miniprep : promega ) based on alkali - sds method . this plasmid capable of expressing a fused protein of gal4 dna binding domain in yeast was used as a bait . yeast strain y190 was transformed with the plasmid as a bait using matchmaker two - hybrid system kit of clonetech . transformants were selected by growth in tryptophan (−) medium as an index . further , cdna libraries capable of expressing a fusion protein with gal4 transcription activating domain ( clonetech , mouse brain and human placenta matchmaker cdna libraries ) were transformed . transformants can grow in tryptophan (−), leucine (−) medium . further , since reporter genes , his3 and lacz genes , were transcribed if the bait bound to the dna coding for the protein from the library , positive clones can grow in tryptophan (−), leucine (−), histidine (−) medium and provides blue color in the presence of x - gal because of their β - galactosidase activity . plasmids were purified from the positive clones using matchmaker two - hybrid system kit of clonetech , and used to transform e . coli . plasmids were purified from the resulting transformants and the base sequences thereof were determined ( abi model 377 ). the resulting base sequences were searched for homology using genbank , embl , ddbj data base . as a result , those having high homology ( 20 % or higher ) with the previously reported c / ebp family , ap - 1 family and genes having leucine zipper structure were identified as novel genes . seven ( 7 ) and 2 clones of such genes were obtained from mouse brain and human placenta cdna libraries , respectively . all these genes were derived from an identical gene . the thus obtained gene was considered to code for a kinase and the dna coding for this novel kinase was designated as zip - kinase dna ( zipper interacting protein kinase dna ). the base sequence of the full length zip - kinase dna was determined . the base sequences of zip - kinase dna obtained from human placenta and mouse brain are shown in seq id nos : 3 and 4 , respectively . the amino acid sequences encoded by the base sequences of seq id nos : 3 and 4 are shown in seq id nos : 1 and 2 , respectively . the amino acid sequence encoded by zip - kinase dna obtained from human placenta ( human zip - kinase ) and the amino acid sequence encoded by zip - kinase dna obtained from mouse brain ( mouse zip - kinase ) were searched for homology therebetween and the leucine zipper domain and serine / threonine kinase domain were found in the c - and n - terminal of the respective amino acid sequences , respectively ( fig1 ). further , mouse and human zip - kinases consisted of 448 and 454 amino acids , respectively , and the homology between mouse and human was 84 . 9 % at amino acid level . moreover , the kinase domains of the zip - kinases showed high homology with dap - kinases positively controlling apoptosis caused by ifn - γ , suggesting that these kinases form a new family ( fig2 ). to construct a recombinant vector of zip - kinase dna , cdna coding for zip - kinase was synthesized by pcr method . the composition of the pcr reaction was 1 . 0 μg dna , 10 mm tris - hcl ( ph 8 . 3 ), 50 mm kcl , 1 . 5 mm mgcl 2 , 0 . 2 mm dntp , 0 . 5 μm primer , and 1 u taq . pcr reaction was first carried out at 96 ° c . for 1 minute . then , 30 cycles of reactions at 96 ° c . for 30 seconds , at 56 ° c . for 30 seconds and at 72 ° c . for 1 minute were carried out . finally , the reaction at 72 ° c . for 10 minutes was effected . the resulting pcr products were cut with sali , inserted into expression vector pef - bos ( takara , ligation kit ), and used to transform e . coli dh5 ( toyobo ). plasmids were purified from the e . coli ( promega , wizard miniprep ) and confirmed by dna sequence ( abi , model 377 ). a dna coding for a variant of zip - kinase in which the 42nd amino acid lysine in the amino acid sequence as shown in seq id no : 2 was changed to alanine , hereinafter referred to as “ zip - kinase k42a ”, was constructed by using site - directed mutagenesis kit of clonetech . also , a dna coding for another variant in which the 422nd and 429th amino acids valine and the 436th amino acid leucine in the amino acid sequence as shown in seq id no : 2 were changed to alanines , hereinafter referred to as “ zip - kinase la ”, was similarly constructed . whether zip - kinase binds to atf4 in cells as well or not was investigated . first , dna coding for mouse zip - kinase ( 309 - 448 amino acids in the amino acid sequence as shown in seq id no : 2 ) was inserted into expression vector pef - bos . thus , a tag of the transcription factor myc was provided at the n - terminal end of zip - kinase , whereby a dna coding for myc - zip - kinase complex was designated to have the tag as an epitope to construct the vector ( pef - bos - myc - zip - kinase ). also , an expression vector ( pef - bos - flag - atf4 ) was constructed comprising a dna coding for human atf4 ( full length )- flag complex in which flag epitope had been added to the n - terminal end of human atf4 . these vectors were transiently introduced into cos - 7 cell line by the lipofection method and expressed ( fig3 in which lanes 1 , 4 , 7 and 10 represent flag - atf4 ; lanes 2 , 5 , 8 and 11 myc - zip - kinase ; lanes 3 , 6 , 9 and 12 flag - atf4 and myc - zip - kinase ). 36 hours after the introduction , the cells were collected and solubilized with 0 . 5 % nonidet p - 40 lysis buffer . the resulting solubilized cell ( wce : whole cell extract ) was developed in sds - page , and transferred to nitrocellulose membrane . western blot analysis was done using anti - flag monoclonal antibody ( fig3 lanes 1 , 2 and 3 ) and anti - myc monoclonal antibody ( lanes 7 , 8 and 9 ) to confirm the expression of myc - zip - kinase and flag - atf4 . subsequently , the wce was immunoprecipitated with anti - myc monoclonal antibody and the precipitate was subjected to the western blot analysis using anti - flag monoclonal antibody , attempting to detect co - immunoprecipitation of myc - zip - kinase and flag - atf4 ( fig3 lanes 4 to 6 ). as a result , a band of flag - atf4 was detected in lane 6 ( fig3 ). for further confirmation , the wce was then immunoprecipitated with anti - flag monoclonal antibody and the precipitate was subjected to the western blot analysis using anti - myc monoclonal antibody ( lanes 10 , 11 and 12 ). a band of myc - zip - kinase immunoprecipitated with flag - atf4 was found only in lane 12 . thus , it was shown that zip - kinase and atf4 bind to each other in cells as well . from this result that zip - kinase and atf4 binds to each other , it may be considered that atf4 may possibly control the activity of zip - kinase . the site to which zip - kinase and atf4 bind was determined using yeast two - hybrid system . first , variants of mouse zip - kinase were prepared : 1 ) amino acids 278 to 448 of zip - kinase ( zip - kinase 278 - 448 ); 2 ) leucine zipper domain of zip - kinase ( amino acids 398 to 448 ) ( zip - kinase lz ); and 3 ) a variant of zip - kinase in which valine and leucine in the leucine zipper domain were substituted with alanine ( zip - kinase la ). each of these variants was designed to produce a chimeric protein with gal4 trans activating domain , and dna coding for said chimeric protein was inserted into pact2 and introduced into yeast strain y190 together with pas2 - 1 - atf4 lz . the strain was cultivated on histidine +, tryptophan −, leucine −, and histidine −, tryptophan −, leucine − selective media . yeast containing dna coding for zip - kinase 278 - 448 and yeast containing dna coding for zip - kinase lz could form a colony on the histidine −, tryptophan −, leucine − medium , indicating that zip - kinase bound to atf4 through leucine zipper domain present at the c - terminal ( fig4 ). further , when valine and leucine in the leucine zipper domain structure were substituted with alanine , the binding to atf4 was no longer found . accordingly , it has been elucidated that zip - kinase and atf4 bind to each other through their respective leucine zipper domain . northern blot analysis was carried out to investigate the expression of zip - kinase in each tissue . as shown in fig5 mrna of zip - kinase ( about 1 . 4 kb ) was distributed almost all tissues investigated . however , only low expression was observed in the spleen . the leucine zipper domain present at the c - terminal of zip - kinase is considered to be a domain through which proteins bind to each other . whether zip - kinase forms a homodimer or not was investigated . plasmid pas2 - 1 into which dna coding for leucine zipper domain of zip - kinase was inserted , and plasmid pact2 into which dna coding for the leucine zipper domain of zip - kinase and a variant in which valine and leucine in said domain were substituted with alanine , were co - introduced into yeast and colony formation was observed in a selective medium . as shown in fig6 only yeast co - expressing the zip - kinase leucine zipper domain could grow in histidine −, tryptophan −, leucine − medium . thus , it has been elucidated that zip - kinase forms a homodimer through its leucine zipper structure . it has been shown that dap - kinase , which has high homology with kinase domain of zip - kinase , induces apoptosis in hela cell . whether zip - kinase has an apoptosis activity was investigated . rna wild type zip - kinase tagged with ha ( pef - bos - ha - zip - kinase ), a variant thereof in which lysine ( 42nd amino acid ), which is present in zip - kinase subdomain ii and conserved in other kinases , was substituted with alanine ( pef - bos - ha - zip - kinase k42a ), and a variant in which valine and leucine in the leucine zipper domain were substituted with alanine ( pef - bos - ha - zip - kinase la ) were prepared , and dna coding for each of these proteins was transiently introduced into nih 3t3 cell together with lacz expression vector ( pef - bos - lacz ). after 36 hours from the introduction , x - gal staining was effected . as a result , a form of cells stained blue was observed under a micorscope ( fig7 ). as compared with a control pef - bos - mock ( fig7 left , upper ), the cell into which the wild type zip - kinase was introduced ( fig7 right , upper ) exhibited a typical form of apoptosis associated with agglomeration of nucleus . the fraction of lacz expression cells showing the apoptosis form was measured to be 44 . 9 % ( fig8 ). on the other hand , such change of form was not observed in the zip - kinase - k42a variant ( fig7 left , lower ) and there was no significant difference in the fraction of apoptosis between the vaiant and control . further , in the zip - kinase - la ( fig7 right , lower ), some cells caused apoptosis but the fraction thereof was significantly reduced as compared with the wild type . from the above results , the kinase activity of zip - kinase is considered to be essential for the induction of apoptosis by the expression of zip - kinase . further , since apoptosis was suppressed in vatiants in which a homodimer between zip - kinases was inhibited , it is suggested that zip - kinases form a homodimer to become an activated form . whether zip - kinase indeed has an activity as a kinase was investigated . each of pef - bos - ha - zip - kinase , pef - bos - ha - zip - kinase k42a , and pef - bos - ha - zip - kinase la was transiently introduced into cos - 7 cell , and 36 hours later , the cell was collected and solubilized with 0 . 5 % nonidet p - 40 lysis buffer . the solubilized cell was immunoprecipitated with anti - ha monoclonal antibody and the kinase activity in the precipitate was detected by in vitro kinase assay ( fig9 a ). as a result , a band of phosphorylation by zip - kinase was observed at about 50 kda in the wild type zip - kinase ( fig9 a , lane of ha - zip - kinase ), while no band corresponding thereto was observed in zip - kinase k42a . on the other hand , a phosphorylation band was observed in zip - kinase la . however , when the expression of ha - zip - kinase and its variant in the solubilized cell was checked by the western blotting using anti - ha monoclonal antibody , the amount of ha - zip - kinase expressed was markedly reduced as compared with the other two variants ( fig9 b ). from this result , it may be considered that the kinase activity observed in zip - kinase la would be very weak as compared with the wild type . further , the amount of wild type zip - kinase expressed was low in cos - 7 cells ; this is considered to be resulted from some lethal effect , such as apoptosis , of zip - kinase on cos - 7 cells . knowledge of intracellular localization of zip - kinase would be considered to be very effective in analyzing the functions of zip - kinase . the present inventors have investigated the localization of zip - kinase using a confocal laser microscope . an expression vector ( pef - bos - flag - atf4 ) comprising dna coding for atf4 tagged with flag or another vector ( pef - bos - flag - zip - kinase k42a ) coding for zip - kinase k42a tagged with flag was transiently introduced into cos - 7 cells . after 36 hours , the cells were fixed , reacted with anti - flag monoclonal antibody , and stained using fitc - labelled anti - mouse immunoglobulin antibody as a secondary antibody . when observed under the confocal laser microscope , the cytoplasm was not stained and the nucleus was stained in the flag - atf4 introduced cells ( fig1 a ). when the localization of flag - zip - kinase was similarly investigated , the same staining pattern as in atf4 was observed , confirming that it was localized in the nucleus ( fig1 b ). accordingly , it could be concluded that the zip - kinase is a novel nuclear serine / threonine kinase . according to the present invention , there are provided a serine / threonine kinase , a dna coding for said kinase , a recombinant vector comprising said dna , and a transformant transformed with said vector , and a process for the preparation of the serine / threonine kinase . since the zip - kinase has a function of inducing apoptosis , the zip - kinase and dna coding for said kinase are useful in being utilizable as a gene therapeutical agent against a cancer and as an anti - cancer agent . met ser thr phe arg gln glu asp val glu asp his tyr glu met gly glu glu leu gly ser gly gln phe ala ile val arg lys cys arg 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