Patent Application: US-78927597-A

Abstract:
an isolated human down syndrome critical region dna sequence having the nucleotide sequence depicted in seq id no : 1 ; vector including the human down syndrome critical region sequence ; and isolated host cells containing the vector are provided .

Description:
in preparation for isolating human chromosome 21 expressed sequences we constructed contiguous cosmid sub - libraries from yacs from various regions of chromosome 21 , including yacs from the dscr . pools of these cosmids were used for the isolation of partial cdnas by direct selection ( 3 ) and for exon trapping experiments ( 4 , 5 ). a total of 576 clones were isolated and arrayed . of these 576 selected clones , 107 mapped back to human chromosome 21 . in total we have 41 non - redundant putative cdnas , of which 24 are novel , i . e . do not match known genes or ests in the databases ( manuscript in preparation ). we have isolated two known chromosome 21 genes , dsc1 and girk2 and another 13 partial cdnas have significant matches with entries in the databases . using the blastx program , two non - overlapping partial cdnas ( d7 - x4 and d1 - 34 ) showed significant similarity to a drosophila melanogaster serine / threonine kinase ( accession no . x70794 ) ( d7 - x4 p ( n )= 3 . 0e − 18 ; d1 - 34 p ( n )= 2 . 5e − 36 ). this serine / threonine kinase is the product of the drosophila minibrain ( mnb ) gene . using the blasting program , d1 - 34 , d7 - x4 and a third partial cdna ( d2 - 34 ) had almost complete sequence identity ( p ( n )= 5 . 3e − 60 for d1 - 34 ) with the dyrk ( dual specificity yak1 - related kinase ) mrna from rat norvegicus ( accession no . x79769 ). in addition , d2 - 34 also matched a previously mapped chromosome 21 est ( l25452 ) and a mouse est ( z31282 ). using the partial cdnas as probes , we subsequently isolated five overlapping clones from a human fetal brain library ( clontech ). the combined - sequence of these cdnas spanned 2373 bp and included a complete coding region of 763 amino acids . we have designated the new gene mnb , seq id no : 1 human homologue of mnb . fig1 shows an alignment of the amino acid sequences of mnb , mnb and dyrk . southern blot analysis of total human genomic dna digested with ecori and taqi showed a single band when hybridized with probe d2 - 34 . therefore , mnb is a single copy gene . hybrid cell line dna , containing human chromosome 21 as its only human component , showed the same bands when probed with d2 - 34 but with an additional mouse band . the partial cdnas ( d7 - x4 from exon trapping , d1 - 34 and d2 - 34 from cdna selection ) were mapped by hybridization to the chromosome 21 yac 336g11 and to cosmids shown in fig2 . yac 336g11 was shown by fish to be non chimaeric . this places the mnb gene within the proximal half of the dscr ( 21q22 . 2 ), between d21s17 and d21s55 . mnb spans the cosmid containing marker d21s270 , is approximately 200 kb from marker d21s55 and is proximal to marker d21s337 . northern blot analysis using d1 - 34 as a probe identified one transcript of 6 . 1 kb in human fetal brain , liver , lung and kidney ( fig3 a ). there was no evidence of smaller transcripts in the human tissues with a prolonged exposure of the autoradiograph . in mouse there were two major transcripts of 6 . 1 kb and 3 . 1 kb ( fig3 b ), similar to the results of kentrup et al . in rat ( 6 ). rna in situ hybridization studies of mouse brains were carried out using a 40 - mer antisense oligonucleotide derived from cdna d1 - 34 . expression of mnb was evident in the olfactory bulb , the cerebellum , the cerebral cortex , the pyramidal cell layer of the hippocampus and several hypothalamic nuclei ( fig4 ). during the course of this work kentrup and co - workers published the identification and functional studies of dyrk . they speculated that dyrk is involved in cell cycle control and is the rat homologue of mnb ( 6 ). futhermore , based on the high similarity of dyrk with the human est ( l25452 ), kentrup et al suggested that the human homologue of dyrk maps to 21q22 . 2 . this human homologue of dyrk is mnb . human mnb is expressed as a 6 . 1 kb transcript and there is no evidence of a smaller transcript analogous to the 3 . 1 kb transcript found in rat and mouse . the drosophila mnb gene encodes three alternatively spliced transcripts ( 5 . 5 , 4 . 4 and 4 . 2 kb ) ( 2 ). it is unknown whether the two transcripts observed in rodents are alternative splicing products . the deduced amino acid sequence of our partial mnb cdna exhibits structural features which are shared with dyrk . the core domains which contain amino acids found in the catalytic sites of protein kinases are identical with the exception of two residues and both proteins have a . potential nuclear translocation signal ( fig1 ). selected human chromosome 21 yacs were tested for chimaerism by fish . yacs were grown on ahc selective medium and were encapsulated in agarose beads . total yeast dna containing yacs was partially digested with mboi and ligated into the bamhi site of supercos ( stratagene ). cosmids were packaged using stratagene gigapack ii plus packaging extracts . clones containing human inserts were identified by screening with a radiolabelled total human dna probe . cosmid contigs were generated using riboprobe and linear pcr strategies . probes were labeled with [ a 32 p ] dctp by random priming . colony and plaque hybridizations were in 7 % sds / 0 . 5 m sodium phosphate buffer ( ph 7 . 0 ). cdna probes were hybridized to filters containing the hybrid cell line wav17 , containing human chromosome 21 as its only human component . a pool of 502 cosmid dnas from the libraries made from seven human chromosome 21 yacs was used for cdna selection , essentially as described ( 3 ). the cdna source was human fetal brain mrna which had been reverse transcribed using random hexamers and oligo dt . linkers were ligated and these cdnas were then hybridized with the pool of biotinylated cosmids . the selected cdnas were amplified using the linker primer ( 5 ′- ctcgagaattctggatcctc - 3 ′) seq id no : 2 with a ( cua ) 4 tail and subcloned in pamp10 ( gibco - brl ). exon trapping was as described ( 4 , 5 ) using a pool of 12 overlapping , - non - redundant cosmids from yac 336g11 subcloned in pspl3 . amplified exons were directionally subcloned in pamp1 ( gibco - brl ). using a biomek 1000 station ( beckman ), colonies were gridded at a high density onto nylon filters . clones were sequenced with the m13r and m13d primers using fluorescent dyedeoxy terminators on an abi373a automatic dna sequencer ( applied biosystems ). northern blots ( clontech ) containing poly ( a + ) mrna frcm human fetal tissues or adult mouse tissues were hybridized with d1 - 34 according to the manufacturer &# 39 ; s protocol . rna in situ hybridization studies on sections of mouse brain were carried out with a 40 - mer antisense oligonucleotide ( 5 ′- ggaatacccagaacttccactattttattcatctgatcta - 3 ′) seq id no : 3 , essentially as described previously ( 25 ), except that following hybridization , sections were washed twice in 1 × ssc ( 150 mm sodium chloride and 15 mm sodium citrate , ph 7 . 0 ) at 52 ° c . for 1 h each . a 40 - mer sense oligonucleotide was used as a control under the same conditions , and gave no signals in the hybridization experiments performed . 1 . delabar , j . m ., théophile , d ., rahmani , z ., chettouh , z ., blouin , j . l ., prieur , m ., nöel , b . and sinet , p . m . ( 1993 ) molecular - mapping of twenty - four features of down syndrome on chromosome 21 . eur . j . hum . genet ., 1 , 114 - 124 . 2 . tejedor , f ., zhu , x . r ., kaltenbach , e ., ackermann , a ., baumann , a ., canal , i ., heisenberg , m ., fischbach , k . f . and pongs , o . ( 1995 ) minibrain : a new protein kinase family involved in post - embryonic neurogenesis in drosophila . neuron , 14 , 287 - 301 . 3 . lovett , m ., kere , j . and hinton , l . m . ( 1991 ) direct selection : a method for the selection of cdnas encoded by large genomic regions . proc . natl . acad . sci . u . s . a ., 88 , 9628 - 9632 . 4 . buckler , a . j ., chang , d . d ., graw , s . l ., brook , j . d , haber , d . a ., sharp , p . a . and housman d . e . ( 1991 ) exon amplification : a strategy to isolate mammalian genes based on rna splicing . proc . natl . acad . sci . u . s . a ., 88 , 4005 - 4009 . 5 . church , d . m ., stotler , c . j ., rutter , j . l ., murrell , j . r ., trofatter , j . a . and buckler , a . j . ( 1994 ) isolation of genes from complex sources of mammalian genomic dna using exon amplification . nature genet ., 6 , 98 - 105 . 6 . kentrup , h ., becker , w ., heukelbach , j ., wilmes , a ., schuermann , a ., huppertz , c ., kainulainen , h . and joost , h . g . ( 1996 ) dyrk : a dual - specificity protein kinase with unique structural features whose activity is dependent on tyrosine residues between subdomains vii and viii . j . biol . chem ., 271 , 3488 - 3495 . 7 . fuentes j - j ., pritchard m . a ., planas a . m ., bosch a ., ferrer i . and estivil , x . ( 1995 ) a new human gene from the down syndrome critical region encodes a proline - rich protein highly expressed in fetal brain and heart . hum . mol . genet ., 4 , 1935 - 1944 . fig1 alignment of minibrain kinase sequences generated with the wisconsin package programs gap , pileup and prettybox . only amino acid identities are shaded . mnb is the drosophila minibrain ( accession no . x70794 ) seq id no : 6 ; dyrk is a rat minibrain homologue ( accession no . x79769 ) seq id no : 5 . mnb is a human minibrain homologue from chromosome 21 ( accession no . u52373 ) seq id no : 4 . the complete coding sequences of mnb , mnb and dyrk are shown . a dash indicates spacing between amino acids to achieve best alignment . the blastx amino acid identity between the mnb sequence and dyrk was 99 % ( p ( n )= 0 . 0 ) and between mnb and mnbwas 69 % ( p ( n )= 3 . 3e − 262 ). the core domain which contains amino acids found in the catalytic sites of protein kinases ( 16 ) lies between the plus signs . in this region there are two amino acid differences between mnb and dyrk . a . potential nuclear translocation signal is indicated by black shading . an asterisk represents a stop codon . fig2 localisation of human mnb to the dscr on human chromosome 21 . schematic representation of the 21q22 . 2 region , sts map and maps of yacs 336g11 and 238b1 . cosmids containing the genomic region of mnb are shown . the partial cdnas , indicated by an arrow , are below the cosmids they map to . the direction of transcription of mnb is shown . the sts verified in the cosmids by pcr are indicated by a filled circle . fig3 a - b northern blot analysis of mnb . nylon membranes containing 2 mg of poly ( a ) + rnas were hybridized with the human clone d1 - 34 which corresponds to mnb . a / northern analysis of human fetal mrna . b / northern analysis of adult mouse mrna . in mouse lung a third band of 2 . 5 kb was detected . the lower panel in a and b shows hybridization with a b - actin probe . fig4 a - f expression of mnb mrna in the brain of the adult mouse using a 40 - mer antisense probe derived from the human mnb sequence . sagital sections of the brain are shown . c and f are the same as b and e but stained with crystal violet . signals were evident in olfactory bulb ( olf ), cerebellum ( ce ), cortex ( ctx ) and piriform cortex ( pir ), hippocampus ( hip ) and hypothalamus ( hyp ). a 40 - mer sense oligonucleotide was used as a control under the same conditions , giving no signal in the hybridization experiments performed . atgatatgag acttgaaaga agacg atg cat aca gga gga gag act tca gca 102 tgc aaa cct tca tct gtt cgg ctt gca ccg tca ttt tca ttc cat gct 150 gct ggc ctt cag atg gct gga cag atg ccc cat tca cat cag tac agt 198 gac cgt cgc cag cca aac ata agt gac caa cag gtt tct gcc tta tca 246 tat tct gac cag att cag caa cct cta act aac cag gtg atg cct gat 294 tyr ser asp gln ile gln gln pro leu thr asn gln val met pro asp att gtc atg tta cag agg cgg atg ccc caa acc ttc 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aac tta aag aag acc aaa 1302 gat gga aaa cgg gag tac aaa cca cca gga acc cgt aaa ctt cat aac 1350 asp gly lys arg glu tyr lys pro pro gly thr arg lys leu his asn att ctt gga gtg gaa aca gga gga cct ggt ggg cga cgt gct ggg gag 1398 tca ggt cat acg gtc gct gac tac ttg aag ttc aaa gac ctc att tta 1446 ser gly his thr val ala asp tyr leu lys phe lys asp leu ile leu agg atg ctt gat tat gac ccc aaa act cga att caa cct tat tat gct 1494 arg met leu asp tyr asp pro lys thr arg ile gln pro tyr tyr ala ctg cag cac agt ttc ttc aag aaa aca gct gat gaa ggt aca aat aca 1542 leu gln his ser phe phe lys lys thr ala asp glu gly thr asn thr agt aat agt gta tct aca agc ccc gcc atg gag cag tct cag tct tcg 1590 ggc acc acc tcc agt aca tcg tca agc tca ggt ggc tca tcg ggg aca 1638 agc aac agt ggg aga gcc cgg tcg gat ccg acg cac cag cat cgg cac 1686 agt ggt ggg cac ttc aca gct gcc gtg cag gcc atg gac tgc gag aca 1734 ser gly gly his phe thr ala ala val gln ala met asp cys glu thr cac agt ccc cag gtg cgt cag 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