Patent Application: US-48227195-A

Abstract:
the present invention provides a novel method for refolding insulin - like growth factor i and insulin - like growth factor binding protein 3 . the method involves mixing of igf - i and igfbp - 3 together in a cofolding reaction . the inventive cofolding method results in substantially higher yields of correctly folded protein for both molecules and alters the kinetics of refolding . the method includes the production of correctly folded igf - i , igfbp - 3 , and / or igf - i / igfbp - 3 complex .

Description:
the instant invention resides in the cofolding of igf - i and igfbp - 3 , resulting in rapid , highly efficient refolding of the two proteins , yielding native igf - i and igfbp - 3 , and further includes simplified methods for purification of native igf - i , igfbp - 3 , and igf - i / igfbp - 3 complex . the invention may be carried out as follows : a ) igf - i and igfbp - 3 are combined in a molar ratio of about 1 : 3 to 3 : 1 , then denatured and reduced with denaturing and reducing agents , or alternatively , igf - i and igfbp - 3 are denatured and reduced individually , then combined in a molar ratio of about 1 : 3 to 3 : 1 to form igf - i / igfbp - 3 complex ; b ) an oxidizing agent is then added to the igf - i / igfbp - 3 mixture of step ( a ); c ) optionally , igf - i / igfbp - 3 complex may be purified from the igf - i / igfbp - 3 cofolding mixture ; and d ) optionally , igf - i and igfbp - 3 may be individually purified from the complex . igf - i and igfbp - 3 for cofolding in accordance with the present invention may be produced in a variety of high expression systems , utilizing a variety of host cells , including , but not limited to , bacteria , yeast , insect and mammalian cell lines . preferably , igf - i and igfbp - 3 are produced in bacterial host cells . more preferably , igf - i and igfbp - 3 are produced in e . coli host cells , including , but not limited to e . coli strain w311ode3 . host cells are transformed with expression vectors containing dna coding for igf - i or igfbp - 3 . host cells may be transformed by a variety of techniques well known to the art , such as , but not limited to , cacl 2 for bacterial or yeast host cells , capo 4 for insect or mammalian host cells , or electroporation may be used for any host cell type . methods for transformation of host cells may be found in sambrook et al . ( 1989 ) molecular cloning : a laboratory manual ( cold spring harbor laboratory press , cold spring harbor ) and ausubel ( 1987 ) current protocols in molecular biology , ( john wiley & amp ; sons , new york ) expression vectors containing dna coding for igf - i or igfbp - 3 may be constructed by standard methods well known to the art . dna coding for igf - i or igfbp - 3 may be obtained from natural sources , such as genomic or cdna libraries , or may be chemically synthesized . further , variants of igf - i or igfbp - 3 may be produced by a variety of methods well known to the art , including site - directed mutagenesis . methods for the production of variants may be found in sambrook , supra and ausubel , supra . transformed microbial host strains are cultured in liquid medium containing assimilatable sources of carbon , nitrogen , and inorganic salts , using methods that are well known to the art . transformed insect or mammalian cells are cultured in liquid medium containing assimilatable sources of carbon , nitrogen , and inorganic salts and , optionally , containing vitamins , amino acids , growth factors , and other proteinaceous culture supplements known to the art . liquid media for culture of host cells may optionally contain antibiotics or antifungals to prevent the growth of undesirable microorganisms and / or compounds including , but not limited to , antibiotics to select for host cells containing the expression vector . igf - i and igfbp - 3 may be purified from host cells by a variety of methods known to the art . normally , igf - i or igfbp - 3 produced in bacterial host cells is poorly soluble or insoluble ( in the form of inclusion bodies ). in the case of insoluble protein , the protein may be collected from host cell lysates by centrifugation . in the case of poorly soluble protein , compounds including , but not limited to , polyethylene imine ( pei ) may be added to induce the precipitation of partially soluble protein . the precipitated protein may then be conveniently collected by centrifugation . insoluble or precipitated igf - i or igfbp - 3 may then be solubilized using any of a number of agents known to the art . preferably , igf - i or igfbp - 3 is solubilized with urea or guanidine hydrochloride . when igf - i or igfbp - 3 is produced as a fusion protein , the fusion sequence may optionally be removed . removal of a fusion sequence may be accomplished by enzymatic or chemical cleavage , preferably by enzymatic cleavage . enzymatic removal of fusion sequences may be accomplished using methods well known to those in the art . the choice of enzyme for removal of the fusion sequence will be determined by the identity of the fusion , and the reaction conditions will be specified by the choice of enzyme as will be apparent to one skilled in the art . the cleaved igf - i or igfbp - 3 may further be purified from the cleaved fusion sequence by well known methods . such methods will be determined by the identity and properties of the fusion sequence as will be apparent to one skilled in the art . methods for purification may include , but are not limited to , size - exclusion chromatography , hydrophobic interaction chromatography , ion - exchange chromatography , or dialysis . igf - i or igfbp - 3 is preferably further purified to remove dna from the protein solution . dna may be removed by any of several methods known to the art , such as precipitation or ion exchange chromatography , but is preferably removed by precipitation with protamine sulfate . igf - i or igfbp - 3 may be separated from the precipitated dna using methods including centrifugation or filtration . igf - i or igfbp - 3 for cofolding in accordance with the present invention may be used directly following the removal of dna , or may be further purified and / or concentrated using methods well known to the art . cofolding of relatively impure ( crude ) igf - i and igfbp - 3 has the advantage of increasing yields and simplifying purification of native igf - i / igfbp - 3 complex . purification of cofolded complex requires only one purification protocol ( as opposed to two , when the two polypeptides are purified separately before cofolding ), and allows the purification protocol to exploit the properties of native igf - i / igfbp - 3 complex . if desired , igf - i and igfbp - 3 may be further purified . purification of igf - i and igfbp - 3 may be accomplished using a variety of techniques well known to the art , including hydrophobic interaction chromatography , size exclusion chromatography , ion exchange chromatography , reverse - phase high performance liquid chromatography , affinity chromatography , and the like . additional purification may also include a step of drying or precipitation of the purified protein . when igf - i and igfbp - 3 are dried or precipitated , the proteins may be combined before redissolving in denaturant , or may be redissolved individually and combined for cofolding . denaturation of igf - i and igfbp - 3 may be accomplished using a variety of denaturing agents , including , but not limited to , urea or guanidine . preferably , the denaturant is urea . denaturation may be accomplished in a one step process , wherein igf - i and igfbp - 3 are denatured with a solution of denaturant which is the concentration used for cofolding , or in a two step process in which igf - i and igfbp - 3 are denatured with a high concentration of denaturant , followed by dilution , resulting in a solution containing a concentration of denaturant useful in the cofolding process . in the one step denaturation process , the concentration of denaturant , where the denaturant is urea , is preferably about 1 to 2 molar . in the two step denaturation process , the concentration of denaturant , where the denaturant is urea , is preferably about 5 to 7 molar , which is preferably diluted to about 1 to 2 molar for the cofolding process . reduction of igf - i and igfbp - 3 may be accomplished at the same time as denaturation or , optionally , may be accomplished following denaturation . reduction of igf - i and igfbp - 3 may be accomplished with a variety of agents , including , but not limited to , dithiothreitol ( dtt ), 2 - mercaptoethanol , cysteine , cysteamine ( 2 - aminoethanethiol ), or reduced glutathione . preferably the reducing agent is dtt . as discussed for denaturation , reduction of igf - i and igfbp - 3 can be a one or two step process wherein the polypeptides are reduced using a concentration of reductant useful in the cofolding process or wherein the polypeptides are reduced with a high concentration of reductant , followed by dilution to a concentration useful in the cofolding process . where the reductant is dtt , the high concentration of reductant is preferably about 30 to 50 millimolar ( mm ), and the concentration useful for cofolding is preferably about 5 to 15 mm . the solution of denatured and reduced igf - i and igfbp - 3 is then oxidized to form disulfide bonds . acceptable oxidizing agents include , but are not limited to , glutathione , cystine , and cystamine . preferably the oxidizing agent is cystamine . the cofolding reaction may be allowed to continue indefinitely . however , the inventors have found that cofolding of igf - i and igfbp - 3 substantially speeds the kinetics of refolding . accordingly , the reaction may be allowed to continue for considerably shorter periods , as short as 1 to 2 hours . preferably the cofolding reaction is continued for up to 4 hours , more preferably the cofolding reaction is continued for about 1 to 3 hours . following the completion of the cofolding reaction , native igf - i / igfbp - 3 complex may be purified . native igf - i / igfbp - 3 complex may be purified by a variety of methods , including , but not limited to , size exclusion , ion exchange chromatography , and hydrophobic interaction chromatography . preferably , native igf - i / igfbp - 3 complex is purified by cation exchange chromatography using a sulfopropyl - derivatized column chromatography matrix , ( e . g ., sp - sephadex , pharmacia , uppsala , sweden ). optionally , native igf - i and igfbp - 3 may be further purified from the complex using a variety of methods known to the art . preferably igf - i and igfbp - 3 are purified from the complex by dissociation of the complex , preferably under acidic conditions , followed by size exclusion chromatography . purified complex or igf - i or igfbp - 3 may be exchanged into different buffers and / or concentrated by any of a variety of methods known to the art . the following examples are intended to illustrate the present invention . the examples are not intended to limit the scope of the present invention in any way . expression vectors containing igf - i and igfbp - 3 sequences for use in the production of igf - i and igfbp - 3 . the expression constructs used to produce igf - i and igfbp - 3 are similar to pju1002 and pju1003 ( squires et al . ( 1988 ) j . biol . chem . 263 : 16297 - 16302 ) except that the genes inserted downstream of the translational coupler are ubiquitin - igf ( per10088 ) and igfbp - 3 ( pdj12833 ). in addition , per10088 and pdj12833 differ from pju1003 in that they do not contain the synthetic 16 bp adaptor sequence at the 5 &# 39 ; end of the tet gene in that plasmid ; but they do contain dna insertions at the unique pvuii site in the pbr322 - derived backbone : per10088 contains a linker 5 &# 39 ;. . . cctcgagg . . . 3 &# 39 ; at that location ; pdj12833 contains a 385 bp fragment carrying the par locus of psc101 ( meacock and cohen ( 1980 ) cell 20 : 529 - 542 ). per10088 contains an open reading frame ( orf ) comprising ( in order , 5 &# 39 ; to 3 &# 39 ;) an atg triplet ( initiation ), the 76 codons of yeast ubiquitin , 70 synthetic codons of mature human insulin growth factor i , and a termination codon . pdj12833 contains an orf comprising an atg triplet followed by the 264 codons of mature human igfbp - 3 . the amino - terminal 95 codons are synthetic ; the remainder were derived from the natural cdna for this gene . in each case , the orf is positioned relative to the translational coupler exactly as described by squires et al . ( 1988 ) for fibroblast growth factor . igf - i may be produced using expression vector constructs such as those described in example 1 . an expression construct for production of an igf - i fusion protein ( per10088 ) was introduced into e . coli strain w3110de3 using calcium chloride transfection ( sambrook , supra ). w3110de3 / per10088 was cultured in a 100 liter liquid culture at 37 ° c . until the culture reached an optical density at 600 nm ( od 600 ) of at least about 25 . expression of igf - i was induced by the addition of isopropylthiogalactoside ( iptg ) to a concentration of 0 . 4 mm . the induced bacteria were further cultured , then collected by centrifugation . the pelleted cells were resuspended in sodium acetate buffer ( 50 mm , ph 5 . 5 ) with ethylene diamine tetraacetate ( edta ). bacteria were lysed with a microfluidizer ® ( model m - 210 - eh , microfluidics corp .). because not all of the igf - i fusion protein produced in these host cells is insoluble , polyethyleneimine ( pei ) was added to a concentration of 0 . 1 % to precipitate soluble and partially soluble igf - i fusion protein . insoluble and precipitated igf - i fusion protein was collected by centrifugation , then washed once with 2m urea , 50 mm potassium phosphate , 2 mm dtt , ph 5 . 8 - 5 . 9 , and recollected by centrifugation . the igf - i pellet was then solubilized with 6m urea , 20 mm tris , 30 mm dtt , 1 mm edta , ph 8 . 0 . dna was precipitated from the solution by the addition of protamine sulfate to a final concentration of 0 . 14 %. precipitated dna was removed by centrifugation and the igf - i fusion protein - containing supernatant was further purified by ion exchange chromatography on q - sepharose . igf - i fusion protein was digested with ubiquitin hydrolase ( which was obtained from e . coli by expression of per1011 , an expression vector encoding yeast ubiquitin hydrolase ( the sequence encoding yeast ubiquitin hydrolase is shown in fig8 ), followed by purification according to liu et al . (( 1989 ) j . biol . chem . 264 : 20331 - 20338 ) ( per1011 is analogous to pju1002 except for the presence of the 5 &# 39 ;. . . cctcgagg . . . 3 &# 39 ; linker at the pvuii site ), yielding mature igf - i . igf - i was then denatured and refolded in 2m urea , 10 millimolar dtt and 20 % ethanol in the presence of 10 millimolar cystamine . igf - 1 was further purified by cation exchange chromatography on sp - sepharose and reverse - phase high performance liquid chromatography ( rp - hplc ) on a c 18 column ( vydac ). igfbp - 3 may be produced using expression vector constructs such as those shown in example 1 . an expression construct for production of an igfbp - 3 pdj12833 was introduced into e . coli strain w3110de3 and clones were isolated , using methods well known to those in the art ( such as those described in sambrook , supra and ausubel , supra ). clone w3110de3 / pdj12833 was cultured in a 100 l liquid culture at 37 ° c . until the culture reached an optical density at 600 nm ( od 600 ) of 25 . expression of igfbp - 3 was induced by the addition of isopropylthiogalactoside ( iptg ) to a concentration of 0 . 4 mm . the induced bacteria were further cultured , then collected by centrifugation . the pelleted cells were resuspended in sodium acetate buffer ( 50 mm , ph 5 . 5 ) with ethylene diamine tetraacetate ( edta ). bacteria were lysed with a microfluidizer ® ( model m - 210 - eh , microfluidics corp .). insoluble igfbp - 3 was collected by centrifugation , then washed once with 2m urea , 50 mm potassium phosphate , 2 mm dtt , ph 5 . 8 - 5 . 9 , and recollected by centrifugation . the igfbp - 3 pellet was then solubilized with 6m guanidinium hcl , 100 mm tris , 25 mm dtt , 5 mm edta , ph 8 . 0 , then the igfbp - 3 - containing solution was diluted with 1 volume of 100 mm tris , 5 mm edta , ph 8 . dna was precipitated from the solution by the addition of protamine sulfate to a final concentration of 0 . 14 %. precipitated dna was removed by centrifugation and the igfbp - 3 - containing supernatant was further diluted with 50 mm tris , ph 10 . 6 . igfbp - 3 was refolded overnight following the addition of cystamine to a final concentration of 6 mm . the igfbp - 3 solution was concentrated by ultrafiltration , then solvent exchanged by diafiltration against 2m urea , 20 mm tris , ph 7 . igfbp - 3 was purified by ion exchange chromatography on q - sepharose followed by sp - sepharose . the igfbp - 3 was further purified by rp - hplc using a c 18 column ( vydac ). recombinantly produced igf - i and igfbp - 3 were mixed in an equimolar ratio , then dried by lyophilization . the dried protein mixture was dissolved in denaturing / reducing buffer ( 80 mm tris , ph 8 . 3 , 1 . 5m urea , 1 mm edta , 10 mm dtt ) to a final protein concentration of 1 mg / ml . cystamine hydrochloride was added to a final concentration of 10 mm cystamine . controls were igf - i refolded alone and igfbp - 3 refolded alone . cofolding and refolding reactions were incubated at 5 ° c . samples were taken immediately before ( 0 hour ), and at 1 , 2 , 3 , and 4 hours after the addition of cystamine and analyzed rp - hplc . rp - hplc analysis of 0 hour time points indicated that both the igf - i and the igfbp - 3 were fully reduced . rp - hplc was performed with a waters 626 - 1 hplc instrument on a poros r2 / h column ( 4 . 6 mm diameter , 100 mm length ) using a linear gradient of acetonitrile ( with 0 . 1 .% trifluoracetic acid ) running from 13 . 5 % to 54 % acetonitrile . igf - i and igfbp - 3 refolded alone gave poor yields of native protein . igf - i refolded alone gave a yield of only 13 % and igfbp - 3 refolded alone yielded 45 . 1 % native protein . in contrast , when cofolded , virtually all ( 99 . 6 %) of the igf - i and most of the igfbp - 3 ( 83 %) were correctly folded . these results indicate that cofolding of igf - i and igfbp - 3 results in a synergistic increase in yields of native igf - i and igfbp - 3 . further analysis of the cofolding reaction indicated that , in addition to increasing yields of native proteins , cofolding also alters the kinetics of refolding . fig9 and 10 show the time courses of refolding of igf - i and igfbp - 3 either alone or in a cofolding reaction . the cofolding process increases the initial rate of refolding and the maximum rate of refolding as well as the total yield of refolding . this example shows that igf - i , igfbp - 3 , and igf - i / igfbp - 3 complex refolded according to the present invention have biological activity . human osteosarcoma mg63 cells ( 5 × 10 5 cells ) are plated in a t - 175 flask and cultured in cell culture medium ( rpmi media supplemented with 10 % fetal bovine serum , 50 units / ml penicillin , 50 μg / ml streptomycin , non - essential amino acids and 2 mm l - glutamine ). the flask is incubated at 37 ° c . in a humidified 5 % co 2 / 95 % air atmosphere for a 2 - 3 days . before the culture of cells become confluent , the cells are detached from the flask by incubating the cells in trypsin / edta solution . cell culture medium ( 6 ml ) is added to stop the trypsin and the cells are transferred into a centrifuge tube . the cells are centrifuged at 800 xg for 5 - 10 minutes and resuspended in 10 ml of an assay medium ( rpmi medium supplemented with 50 units / ml penicillin , 50 μg / ml streptomycin , non - essential amino acids , 2 mm l - glutamine , 2 . 5 μg / ml bovine fibronectin , 5 μg / ml human transferring , 75 μg / ml ovalbumin , and 3 μm dexamethasone ). igf - i reference standard and cofolded igf - i and igfbp - 3 samples are diluted serially with the assay medium in 96 - well plates . igf - i / igfbp - 3 complex , igf - i , and igfbp - 3 refolded by the cofolding method are each tested . each well contains 50 μl of the standard or test sample . the concentration range of the igf - i reference standard is 0 . 244 - 500 ng / ml . the mg63 human osteosarcoma cells that have been prepared in the assay medium are plated at 5000 cells / well , in volumes of 50 μl / well . the total volume in each well is 100 μl . the plates are incubated in a humidified 5 % co 2 / 95 % air atmosphere for 4 days at 37 ° c . at the end of the incubation period , cell growth is assayed by measuring acid phosphatase activity , which is proportional to the number of osteosarcoma cells . the plates are removed from the incubator and the culture medium is aspirated out of the wells . each well is rinsed with 200 μl of phosphate - buffered saline . one hundred μl of 10 mm p - nitrophenyl phosphate , 100 mm sodium acetate , 1 % triton x - 100 , ph 5 . 5 is added to each well and the plate is incubated at 37 ° c . for 2 hours . the hydrolysis of p - nitrophenyl phosphate by acid phosphatases is stopped by adding to each well 10 μl of 1 . 0n sodium hydroxide . the plates are incubated at room temperature for a minimum of 10 minutes . absorbance at 405 nm is measured , while referencing the absorbance at 490 nm . background absorbance is subtracted from the absorbance of each well . the averaged absorbance is plotted as a function of the concentration of igf - i . ed 50 , the concentration of igf - i where the absorbance value is half of the maximum absorbance , is calculated for each sample and the reference standard from the dose - response plots . activity of each sample is expressed as a ratio of the ed 50 &# 39 ; s of igf - i reference standard and the sample . the present invention has been detailed both by direct description and by example . equivalents and modifications of the present invention will be apparent to those skilled in the art , and are encompassed within the scope of the invention . __________________________________________________________________________sequence listing ( 1 ) general information :( iii ) number of sequences : 8 ( 2 ) information for seq id no : 1 :( i ) sequence characteristics :( a ) length : 70 amino acids ( b ) type : amino acid ( c ) strandedness : 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single ( d ) topology : linear ( xi ) sequence description : seq id no : 7 : atgcagcgggcgcgacccacgctctgggccgctgcgctgactctgctggtgctgctccgc60gggccgccggtggcgcgggctggcgcgagctcggcgggcttgggtcccgtggtgcgctgc120gagccgtgcgacgcgcgtgcactggcccagtgcgcgcctccgcccgccgtgtgcgcggag180ctggtgcgcgagccgggctgcggctgctgcctgacgtgcgcactgagcgagggccagccg240tgcggcatctacaccgagcgctgtggctccggccttcgctgccagccgtcgcccgacgag300gcgcgaccgctgcaggcgctgctggacggccgcgggctctgcgtcaacgctagtgccgtc360agccgcctgcgcgcctacctgctgccagcgccgccagctccaggaaatgctagtgagtcg420gaggaagaccgcagcgccggcagtgtggagagcccgtccgtctccagcacgcaccgggtg480tctgatcccaagttccaccccctccattcaaagataatcatcatcaagaaagggcatgct540aaagacagccagcgctacaaagttgactacgagtctcagagcacagatacccagaacttc600tcctccgagtccaagcgggagacagaatatggtccctgccgtagagaaatggaagacaca660ctgaatcacctgaagttcctcaatgtgctgagtcccaggggtgtacacattcccaactgt720gacaagaagggattttataagaaaaagcagtgtcgcccttccaaaggcaggaagcggggc780ttctgctggtgtgtggataagtatgggcagcctctcccaggctacaccaccaaggggaag840gaggacgtgcactgctacagcatgcagagcaagtag876 ( 2 ) information for seq id no : 8 :( i ) sequence characteristics :( a ) length : 711 base pairs ( b ) type : nucleic acid ( c ) strandedness : single ( d ) topology : linear ( xi ) sequence description : seq id no : 8 : atgagcggagaaaatcgtgctgtggtgccgattgaatcaaaccctgaagtttttacaaat60tttgcacataaattaggtttaaaaaatgaatgggcgtatttcgatatctatagcttaaca120gagccagagttactagcattcttaccaaggccagtgaaggccattgtgctgctatttccg180ataaacgaggatagaaaatcgagtaccagtcaacaaattacaagttcttatgatgttata240tggtttaagcaatcagtcaaaaatgcgtgcggattgtatgcaattcttcattctttgagc300aataaccagtcattgttggagcccggctccgacttggacaattttttaaaatctcaaagt360gatacttcaagctcgaagaataggtttgatgatgttactaccgaccaattcgtcttgaat420gtaataaaagagaatgtacaaacattttctactggccagtcagaagcaccagaagcaact480gcagatactaatctacactatatcacatatgtggaagagaacggagggatatttgaactg540gatggaaggaatttgagcggacccctctatttgggaaagagtgacccaactgccaccgat600ttgattgaacaggaattagttagagtgagagtcgcctcatatatggaaaatgcaaatgaa660gaagatgtattaaactttgctatgctaggattgggccctaattgggaataa711__________________________________________________________________________