Patent Application: US-427004-A

Abstract:
matrix metalloproteinases play an important role in morphogenesis , angiogenesis , wound healing , and in certain disorders such as rheumatoid arthritis , tumor invasion and metastasis . mmps are thought to be regulated by a variety of cytokines , growth factors , hormones and phorbol esters . this regulation occurs on three levels ; alteration of gene expression , activation of the latent zymogen and inhibition by the tissue inhibitors of metalloproteinases . we report here a new agent that regulates the level of mmps .

Description:
polypeptides which are members of the psp94 family include ; wild type psp94 as defined in seq id no . : 1 , a recombinant psp94 as defined in seq id no . : 2 and psp94 derivatives , fragments and analogues as defined , for example in the amino acid seq id no . : 3 , seq id no . : 4 , seq id no . : 5 , seq id no . : 6 and seq id no . : 7 . pck3145 ( seq id no . : 5 ) was chosen as a representative of the psp94 family based on previous encouraging results of tumor growth inhibition observed in animals . test compound . the wild type amino acid sequence of pck3145 has been disclosed , for example , in international application no . : pct / ca01 / 01463 and is defined herein in seq id no . : 5 . a pck3145 derivative has been generated by attaching an acetylaminomethyl group to the sulfur atom of each of the three cysteines of pck3145 . these groups stabilize the compound by preventing formation of peptide dimers or polymer by blocking the sulfhydryl group of cysteines . this pck3145 derivative is defined in seq id no . : 7 . the drug was manufactured by multiple peptide systems ( 3550 ) ( general atomics court , san diego , calif .) using standard solid - phase peptide chemistry and lyophilized into a powder . other type of synthesis or manufacture method may however be performed to make a peptide or polypeptide of the invention . other pck3145 derivatives , analogs and fragments ( e . g ., seq ids no : 88 , 98 , etc .) may be generated similarly . the reconstituted drug used in the present example is made from a solution containing a 20 mg / ml of pck3145 derivative ( seq id no . : 5 derivative ); seq id no . : 7 , in a phosphate buffer at ph 7 . 4 for dilution in sterile saline ( 0 . 9 % nacl , bp ) prior to intravenous administration . the solutions is filled into type 1 glass vials , stoppered with teflon ®- faced butyl stoppers , and sealed with flip - off seals . the drug was administered to patients characterized as having metastatic adenocarcinoma of the prostate , stage 1v prostatic cancer and as having a metastatic hormone resistant prostatic cancer . biological samples were drawn during different time points . plasma samples were placed on dry ice and stored frozen ( approximately − 70 ° c .) and subsequently analyzed for total mmp - 9 levels . mmp - 9 assay methodology . an elisa assay measuring total mmp - 9 , i . e ., human active and pro - mmp - 9 , ( quantikine ®), cat . no . : dmp900 , r & amp ; d systems inc .) was performed on plasma - heparin samples . plasma samples have been collected from individuals at day 1 ( before treatment ) and at day 27 of each treatment cycle . the quantikine ® mmp - 9 immunoassay is a solid phase elisa designed to measure total mmp - 9 ( 92 kda pro - and 82 kda active forms ) in serum , plasma , saliva , urine and cell culture supernatants . it is calibrated with cho - cells expressed recombinant human pro - mmp - 9 and the antibodies were raised against the recombinant factor . both antibodies also recognize recombinant human active mmp - 9 . natural human mmp - 9 showed dose - response curves that were parallel to the standard curves obtained using the recombinant quantikine ® kit standards , indicating that the quantikine ® kit may be used to determine relative mass values of natural human mmp - 9 . the assay employs the quantitative sandwich enzyme immunoassay technique . a monoclonal antibody specific for mmp - 9 has been pre - coated onto a microplate . standards and samples are added into the wells , and mmp - 9 is thus bound by the immobilized antibody . after washing away unbound substances , an enzyme - linked polyclonal antibody specific for mmp - 9 is added to the wells . following a wash to remove unbound antibody - enzyme reagent , a substrate solution is added to the wells and color develops in proportion to the amount of total mmp - 9 ( pro and / or active ) bound in the initial step . the color development is stopped and the intensity of the color is measured . zymography . zymography is a technique generally used to analyze the activity of matrix metalloproteinases ( mmps ) in biological samples . it involves the electrophoretic separation of proteins under denaturing ( sodium dodecyl sulfate ( sds )) but non - reducing conditions through a polyacrylamide gel containing gelatin ( for example , 10 % gel containing 1 mg / ml gelatin for mmp - 9 and mmp - 2 assays ). the resolved proteins are re - natured by exchanging sds with a non - ionic detergent such astriton x - 100 and the gel is incubated in an incubation buffer for activation of mmp - 2 and mmp - 9 ( for example at 37 ° c . for 18 hrs ). the gel is stained with coomassie blue and the mmp - 2 and mmp - 9 bands may be visualized as clear bands against a blue background ( i . e ., the mmps degrade the gelatin and are visualized as clear bands ; pro mmp - 2 is 68 kda and pro - mmp - 9 is 92 kda ). these bands can be quantified using densitometry . materials . cell culture media were obtained from life technologies ( burlington , ontario , canada ) and serum was purchased from hyclone laboratories ( logan , utah ). electrophoresis reagents were purchased from bio - rad ( mississauga , ontario , canada ). the polyclonal ( c - 1158 ) and monoclonal ( a3 ) antibodies , used for precipitation and detection , respectively , of vegfr - 2 , and the anti - pdgfr pab ( 958 ) were obtained from santa cruz biotechnologies ( santa cruz , calif .). antiphosphotyrosine mab py99 was also purchased from santa cruz biotechnologies . anti - phospho - erk polyclonal antibodies were from cell signaling technology ( beverly , mass .). anti - mouse and anti - rabbit horseradish peroxidase - linked secondary antibodies were purchased from jackson immunoresearch laboratories ( west grove , pa .) and enhanced chemiluminescence ( ecl ) reagents were from amersham pharmacia biotech ( baie d &# 39 ; urfée , québec , canada ). human recombinant pdgf was obtained from r & amp ; d systems ( minneapolis , minn .). micro bicinchoninic acid protein assay reagents were from pierce ( rockford , ill .). all other reagents were from sigma - aldrich canada . cell culture . human umbilical vein endothelial cells ( huvec ) and pulmonary aortic smooth muscle cells ( pasmc ) were obtained from clonetics and maintained in endothelial cell basal medium - 2 ( ebm - 2 ; clonetics ) and smooth muscle medium - 2 ( smgm - 2 ; clonetics ), respectively . cells were cultured at 37 ° c . under a humidified atmosphere containing 5 % co 2 . for experimental purposes , cells were plated in 8 100 - mm plastic dishes at 5 , 000 cells / cm 2 and were grown to confluence before overnight serum starvation . cells were treated with vehicle or with pck3145 diluted in 0 . 1 n naoh , and stimulated with 50 ng / ml vegf , pdgf or with 1 μm s1 p . immunoprecipitation and immunoblotting procedures . after treatment , cells were washed once with phosphate - buffered saline ( pbs ) containing 1 mm sodium orthovanadate and were incubated in the same medium for 1 h at 4 ° c . the cells were solubilized on ice in lysis buffer ( 150 mm nacl , 10 mm tris - hcl , ph 7 . 4 , 1 mm edta , 1 mm egta , 0 . 5 % nonidet p - 40 , 1 % triton x - 100 ) containing 1 mm sodium orthovanadate . the cells were then scraped from the culture dishes and the resulting lysates were clarified by centrifugation at 10 , 000 g for 10 min . protein concentrations were determined using the micro bicinchoninic acid method . for immunoprecipitation studies , lysates were clarified by a 1 h incubation at 4 ° c . with a mixture of protein a / protein g sepharose beads . after removal of the sepharose beads by low - speed centrifugation , identical amounts of protein ( 200 μg ) from each sample were transferred to fresh tubes and incubated in lysis buffer overnight at 4 ° c . in the presence of 2 μg / ml of specific antibodies . immunocomplexes were collected by incubating the mixture with 25 μl ( 50 % suspension ) of protein a -( rabbit primary antibody ) or protein g -( mouse primary antibody ) sepharose beads , for 2 h . nonspecifically - bound material was removed by washing the beads three times in 1 ml of lysis buffer containing 1 mm sodium orthovanadate , and bound material was solubilized in 25 μl of two - fold concentrated laemmli sample buffer , boiled 5 min , and resolved by sds - page . the proteins were transferred onto polyvinylidene difluoride ( pvdf ) membranes , blocked 1 h at room temperature with tris - buffered saline / tween 20 ( 147 mm nacl , 20 mm tris / hcl , ph 7 . 5 , and 0 . 1 % tween 20 ) containing 2 % bovine serum albumin and incubated overnight at 4 ° c . with primary antibody . immunoreactive bands were revealed after a 1 h incubation with horseradish peroxidase - conjugated anti - mouse or anti - rabbit antibodies , and the signals were visualized by enhanced chemiluminescence ( amersham biosciences , baie d &# 39 ; urfée , qc ). migration assays . transwells filters ( 8 - μm pore size ; costar , cambridge , mass .) were pre - coated with 0 . 5 % gelatin / pbs for 24 h at 4 ° c . the transwells were then washed with pbs and assembled in 24 - well plates . the upper chamber of each transwell was filled with 100 μl of huvec ( 1 × 10 6 cells / ml ) and cells were allowed to adhere for 1 h . cells were then treated for 2 h by adding 100 μl of 2 - fold concentrated drug solution prepared in serum - free medium into the upper chamber and 600 μl of the drug solution into the lower chamber . migration was initiated by adding vegf ( 10 ng / ml ), or s1p ( 1 μm ) to the lower chamber . the plate was placed at 37 ° c . in 5 % co 2 / 95 % air for 4 h . cells that had migrated to the lower surface of the filters were fixed with 10 % formalin phosphate and stained with 0 . 1 % crystal violet / 20 % ( v / v ) methanol . the migration was quantified using computer - assisted imaging and data are expressed as the average density of migrated cells per four fields ( magnification × 50 ). biologically active psp94 family member . fragments , derivatives and analogues may be prepared by techniques known in the art ( recombinant technology , solid phase synthesis , etc .). the biological activity of derivatives , fragments and analogues may be determined by any of the techniques described herein or known in the field to be relevant for any of the biological activity described above . the biological activity of a desired polypeptide may be determined , for example , by contacting a cell expressing a metalloproteinase ( e . g ., mmp - 9 , mmp - 2 ) and / or pro - metalloproteinase ( e . g ., pro - mmp - 9 , pro - mmp - 2 ) with a polypeptide of the present invention ( a pss94 family member ( e . g . : original polypeptide , fragment , derivative , analogue , and / or any modified form of an original polypeptide , fragment , derivative or analogue ) and , following incubation of the polypeptide and cell , evaluating the levels ( inside the cell or in the extracellular environment ( supernatant or blood ( plasma or serum ))) of expression of the metalloproteinase by western blot or the enzymatic activity of the metalloproteinase by zymography as described herein or by any other techniques known in the art to be representative of metalloproteinase activity or expression ( e . g ., northern blot , pcr , immunochemistry methods , etc .). a modification ( e . g ., reduction or in some cases an increase ) of the level of expression or enzymatic activity of a metalloproteinase ( and / or pro - metalloproteinase ) will identify a biologically active polypeptide . the biological activity of a desired polypeptide may also be determined using migration assays . u - 87 cells are treated with a polypeptide of the present invention ( e . g ., any pck3145 derivative , fragment , analog , such as for example , any one of or combinations of seq id nos . : 9 to 98 ). the treated cells are trypsinised , counted , and seeded on ha - coated filters inserted in modified boyden chambers as described herein or in the art . cell migration is allowed to proceed for 2 hours at 37 ° c . filters are then stained for cells that have migrated through the filter . a decreased basal u - 87 cell migration observed in cells treated with a polypeptide of the present invention is indicative of a biologically active polypeptide ( i . e ., a biologically active pck3145 derivative , fragment , analog ). each putative derivative , fragment or analogue may be tested using this technique or any other similar techniques described herein or known in the art . results of mmp - 9 levels in patient &# 39 ; s plasma , before and after one or more treatment cycle with pck3145 derivative ; seq id no . : 7 are illustrated in table 2 . normal values of healthy volunteers were not determined in this study but lizasa et al ., has determined that the normal range of plasma mmp - 9 concentrations is about 11 . 4 to 59 . 4 ng / ml . based on theses values , patients were sub - divided into two categories ; those having normal value of mmp - 9 ( below 10 μg / l ) and those having an elevated level of mmp - 9 ( higher than 100 μg / l ) at baseline ( see column identified as d1c1 in table2 ). in the normal value mmp - 9 category ( patients identified as e , f , g , h and 1 ), there was no significant decrease in mmp - 9 levels after one cycle of treatment ( column identified d27c1 ) compared to baseline levels . for patients e and g , no decrease in mmp - 9 levels was observed compared to baseline values even after 2 cycles of treatment ( column identified d27c2 ). there was still no mmp - 9 decrease even after 3 cycles of treatment for patient e ( d27c3 ). in the elevated mmp - 9 category ( patients identified as a , b , c and d ), a significant decrease was observed for each patient after only one cycle of treatment ( see column identified as d27c1 ). for example a decrease of up to 89 % in mmp - 9 levels was observed for patient a compared to baseline levels . for patient b , the decrease in mmp - 9 was 41 % after cycle 1 . for patients c and d the decrease at cycle 1 was 90 % and 34 % respectively . this decrease was maintained for patients b and c who have received more treatment cycles ( see columns identified as d27c2 , d27c3 and d27c4 ). for example , at treatment cycle 2 , patient b showed a reduction of 64 % of its baseline level of mmp - 9 . a similar reduction was also measured for patient b at treatment cycle 3 ; i . e ., a 65 % reduction , and at treatment cycle 4 ; a 75 % reduction . in the case of patient c , a reduction of 76 % in mmp - 9 levels was measured at cycle 2 . in order to support in vivo results described in example 1 , zymography assays and western blots were performed on cell lines incubated with the pck3145 derivative ( seq id no . : 7 ). therefore , in the present experiment , 2 . 5 × 10 5 matlylu tumor cells ( american type culture collection no . : jhu - 5 )) were seeded in t - 25 flasks containing rpmi with 10 % fetal bovine serum ( fbs ). after overnight incubation , the cells were washed once with serum free medium and treated with various concentrations of the pck3145 derivative ( 500 ug / ml and 1 mg / ml ) in the presence of 50 ug / ml collagen type - i in serum free rpmi for 72 hrs . control cells received 50 ug / ml collagen or only serum free medium . the media were collected after 72 hours of exposure to the pck3145 derivative and subjected to gelatin zymography . zymography for mmp - 2 and mmp - 9 was performed in sds - polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis ( sds - page ) ( 10 %) containing 0 . 1 % gelatin ( invitrogen ). twenty - four microliters of culture media was mixed with non - reducing sample buffer and subjected to electrophoresis without boiling . after electrophoresis , gels were soaked for 30 minutes in 2 . 5 % triton x - 100 solution with 2 - 3 washing steps . the gels were then incubated for 18 hours at 37 ° c . in buffer containing 50 mm tris / hcl , ph 7 . 6 , 50 mm nacl , 10 mm cacl 2 and 0 . 05 % brij - 35 . after incubation , the gels were stained with 0 . 2 % coomassie blue and de - stained until clear proteolytic bands appeared . gels were scanned with microtek flatbed scanner ( scanmaker 5 software ; microtek lab , redondo beach , calif .). the band intensities were determined using the image quant software ( version 5 . 0 ) from molecular dynamics . the mmp - 9 and mmp - 2 gelatinase zymography standard were purchased from chemicon ( catalogue no . cc073 ). one nanogram of purified human pro - mmp - 2 and pro - mmp - 9 standards were used in every gel run . results of this experiment are illustrated in fig1 and indicate that pck3145 treatment of matlylu cells resulted in a dose - dependent reduction of mmp - 9 secreted in the cell culture media , as detected by zymography . a western blot experiment was performed in a separate experiment in which matlylu cells were treated with 100 ug / ml , 500 ug / ml and 1 mg / ml of the pck3145 derivative for 72 hrs . at the end of the experiment , the media were collected and concentrated 5 times using amicon centrifugal filter devices ( 3500 molecular weight cut - off ). twenty five microliters samples were separated on sds - page gel under reducing conditions using pre - cast gels of 4 - 12 % bis - tris ( invitrogen ). following electrophoresis , the proteins were transferred on nitrocellulose membrane . non - specific binding sites were blocked using 5 % skimmed milk in 10 mm phosphate buffer saline ( pbs ) containing 0 . 05 % tween - 20 for 1 hour at room temperature . the membrane was later incubated with a primary antibody ( monoclonal , rdi - mmp - 9abm - 2a5 ) at a concentration of 1 ug / ml ( in 10 mm pbs , containing 0 . 5 % bovine serum albumin ( bsa ) and 0 . 05 % tween - 20 ) for 3 hours at room temperature . the membranes were washed three times in pbs ( 5 minutes each wash ) to remove non - specific binding and they were incubated with the secondary antibody ( rabbit anti - mouse igg horseradish peroxidase - conjugated ( dako no . 0260 )) at a dilution of 1 : 5000 for one hour . detection of specific mmp - 9 protein was made by incubating the membrane in ecl ™ reagent ( electro - chemoluminescence , roche ) and exposing to the x - ray film . results of this experiment are illustrated in fig2 and again indicate that treatment of matlylu cells pck3145 derivative resulted in a dose - dependent reduction of mmp - 9 levels . the effect of the pck3145 derivative ( seq id no . : 7 ) on mmp extracellular levels was assessed by gelatin - zymography in the conditioned media of serum - starved huvec . after 16 hours of starvation , huvec were stimulated with vegf in the presence or not of the pck3145 derivative . a further 24 hours treatment shows that pck3145 derivative effectively downregulated by approximately 35 % the basal prommp - 2 levels in the extracellular media ( fig3 ). the effect of the pck3145 derivative ( 300 μg / ml ) was also observed on vegf - induced prommp - 2 secretion as the inhibition was of approximately 50 %. when these experiments were performed in serum - free media , but in the presence of the mapk inhibitor pd98059 , vegf - induced prommp - 2 extracellular levels were also significantly decreased . these results suggest that the effect of the pck3145 derivative towards mmp secretion is indeed regulated through a mapk pathway in endothelial cells . migration / invasion of cancer cells is a key event in tumor metastasis . in vitro , this process can be reconstituted by plating cells onto ecm - coated filters inserted in modified boyden chemotactic chambers . the effect of the pck3145 derivative can be monitored by the number of cells that had migrated comparatively to untreated control cells . in light of previous observations , the diminished migration onto hyaluronic acid ( ha ) matrice was confirmed . u - 87 cells were treated with the pck3145 derivative ( 300 ug / ml , 48 hrs ), trypsinised , counted , and seeded on ha - coated filters inserted in modified boyden chambers . cell migration was allowed to proceed for 2 hours at 37 ° c . filters were then stained for cells that have migrated through the filter . the results show that pretreatment with the pck3145 derivative decreased basal u - 87 cell migration by approximately 3 - fold ( fig4 a ). this result was performed for 3 more times with new cell preparations . ecm recognition is a crucial event in the cell adhesion processes involved in tumor progression . this process is mediated and regulated through specialized cell surface receptors or integrins . while recent evidence suggests that a potential crosstalk between soluble mmp and cell surface integrins may regulate the cell &# 39 ; s ability to recognize and adhere to its ecm environment , the pck3145 derivative was tested in its ability to downregulate u - 87 cell adhesion onto ha . u - 87 cells were treated with the pck3145 derivative ( 300 ug / ml , 48 hrs ), trypsinised , counted , and seeded on wells coated with 10 ug / ml bsa ( bovine serum albumin ) or ha . cells were allowed to adhere for 3 hours . three independent experiments were performed . results of these experiments show that adhesion of cells treated with the pck3145 derivative was significantly diminished on ha by 45 - 76 % ( fig4 b ). collectively , the inhibitory action of the pck3145 derivative on ecm recognition and cell adhesion processes suggests that the expression of specific integrins or ha cell surface receptors such as those from the cd44 family could be targeted . alternatively , such result also suggests that intracellular signalling regulating the activation states of cell surface integrins may be triggered by the pck3145 derivative . one such potential intracellular protein is the gtpase rhoa , which is likely to mediate mechanisms regulating cytoskeletal morphogenesis . decreased cell migration and adhesion on ha was observed when u - 87 cells were pretreated with the pck3145 derivative . this can be interpreted as either a potential downregulation of cd44 expression at the cell surface or by a potential cell surface shedding . the latter hypothesis was tested by incubating serum - starve u - 87 cells for 24 hours with the pck3145 derivative ( 300 ug / ml ), a concentration known to antagonize mmp secretion . the conditioned media was then tca - precipitated and westernblotting an immunodetection for a 75 kda immunoreactive protein using the anti - cd44 antibody was performed . an increased cd44 cell surface shedding was demonstrated by the strong immunoreactive band observed in the cells which had been pre - treated with pck3145 derivative ( fig5 ). this effect is also shown in parallel with mt1 - mmp - transfected cells . such effect has been already reported by many groups and is established as one of the mt1 - mmp - mediated functions in the regulation of the ecm adhesion . interestingly , a slight increase in mt1 - mmp expression in the cells treated with the pck3145 derivative was observed that may partially explain how pck may lead to cd44 shedding . this induction has subsequently been reproduced below . altogether , these observations provide a rational for the diminished cell migration / adhesion to ha . moreover , it is tempting to further suggest that this may also be a secondary regulation by the pck3145 derivative of diminished cell surface docking of mmp - 9 to cd44 . specific manipulation of the gtpase rho activity can be used to suppress or enhance the organizational behaviour of endothelial cells as well as it can restrict cancer cells proliferation . in particular , rhoa mediates cell contractility by organizing actin filaments which consequently regulates cell migration . moreover , recent evidence suggested that rhoa / cd44 / mmp - 9 colocalized at common cell surface microdomains . tests were carried out in order to determine whether the pck3145 derivative affected rhoa gene and protein expression . u - 87 cells were either treated with the pck3145 derivative ( 300 ug / ml , 48 hrs ). results of this experiment confirm that the pck3145 derivative induced endogenous rhoa protein expression in u - 87 cells as assessed by western blotting ( fig6 a ). finally , results show that rhoa protein expression induced by the pck3145 derivative paralleled that of its gene expression as assessed by reverse transcription - polymerase chain reaction ( rt - pcr ) ( fig6 b ). altogether , these results highlight the potential role of rhoa as being an intracellular mediator in the subsequent inhibitory activities of the pck3145 derivative . in order to investigate the potential intracellular pathways triggered by the pck3145 derivative , a gene - reporter assay using the seap ( secreted alkaline phosphatase ) mercury profiling kit ( clontech ) was performed . this assay enables monitoring of the transcription factors that are triggered by a particular experimental condition by assaying the alkaline phosphatase activity in the extracellular media . in this assay , secretion of the constitutively expressed seap was found to be inhibited suggesting a potential effect of the pck3145 derivative on a more general constitutive secretion pathway ( fig7 ). the effect of psp94 family members on mmp - 9 and mmp - 2 makes them useful for reduction of cancer spreading and invasion of any type of cancer and not only for reduction of skeletal metastasis as disclosed and claimed in international application no . : pct / ca02 / 01737 . the content of each publication , patent and patent application mentioned in the present application is incorporated herein by reference . although the present invention has been described in details herein and illustrated in the accompanying drawings , it is to be understood that the invention is not limited to the embodiments described herein and that various changes and modifications may be effected without departing from the scope or spirit of the present invention . sequence description : seq id no : 1 : ser cys tyr phe ile pro asn glu gly val pro gly asp ser thr arg 1 5 10 15 lys cys met asp leu lys gly asn lys his pro ile asn ser glu trp 20 25 30 gln thr asp asn cys glu thr cys thr cys tyr glu thr glu ile ser 35 40 45 cys cys thr leu val ser thr pro val gly tyr asp lys asp asn cys 50 55 60 gln arg ile phe lys lys glu asp cys lys tyr ile val val glu lys 65 70 75 80 lys asp pro lys lys thr cys ser val ser glu trp ile ile 85 90 sequence description : seq id no : 2 : glu ala glu ala tyr val glu phe ser cys tyr phe ile pro asn glu 1 5 10 15 gly val pro gly asp ser thr arg lys cys met asp leu lys gly asn 20 25 30 lys his pro ile asn ser glu trp gln thr asp asn cys glu thr cys 35 40 45 thr cys tyr glu thr glu ile ser cys cys thr leu val ser thr pro 50 55 60 val gly tyr asp lys asp asn cys gln arg ile phe lys lys glu asp 65 70 75 80 cys lys tyr ile val val glu lys lys asp pro lys lys thr cys ser 85 90 95 val ser glu trp 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description : seq id no : 28 : glu trp gln thr asp asn cys glu thr cys thr cys tyr glu thr glu 1 5 10 15 ile ser cys cys thr leu val ser thr pro val gly tyr asp lys asp 20 25 30 asn cys gln 35 sequence description : seq id no : 29 : glu trp gln thr asp asn cys glu thr cys thr cys tyr glu thr glu 1 5 10 15 ile ser cys cys thr leu val ser thr pro val gly tyr asp lys asp 20 25 30 asn cys gln arg 35 sequence description : seq id no : 30 : glu trp gln thr asp asn cys glu thr cys thr cys tyr glu thr glu 1 5 10 15 ile ser cys cys thr leu val ser thr pro val gly tyr asp lys asp 20 25 30 asn cys gln arg ile 35 sequence description : seq id no : 31 : glu trp gln thr asp asn cys glu thr cys thr cys tyr glu thr glu 1 5 10 15 ile ser cys cys thr leu val ser thr pro val gly tyr asp lys asp 20 25 30 asn cys gln arg ile phe 35 sequence description : seq id no : 32 : glu trp gln thr asp asn cys glu thr cys thr cys tyr glu thr glu 1 5 10 15 ile ser cys cys thr leu val ser thr pro val gly tyr asp lys asp 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37 : glu trp gln thr asp asn cys glu thr cys thr cys tyr glu thr glu 1 5 10 15 ile ser cys cys thr leu val ser thr pro val gly tyr asp lys asp 20 25 30 asn cys gln arg ile phe lys lys glu asp cys lys 35 40 sequence description : seq id no : 38 : glu trp gln thr asp asn cys glu thr cys thr cys tyr glu thr glu 1 5 10 15 ile ser cys cys thr leu val ser thr pro val gly tyr asp lys asp 20 25 30 asn cys gln arg ile phe lys lys glu asp cys lys tyr 35 40 45 sequence description : seq id no : 39 : glu trp gln thr asp asn cys glu thr cys thr cys tyr glu thr glu 1 5 10 15 ile ser cys cys thr leu val ser thr pro val gly tyr asp lys asp 20 25 30 asn cys gln arg ile phe lys lys glu asp cys lys tyr ile 35 40 45 sequence description : seq id no : 40 : glu trp gln thr asp asn cys glu thr cys thr cys tyr glu thr glu 1 5 10 15 ile ser cys cys thr leu val ser thr pro val gly tyr asp lys asp 20 25 30 asn cys gln arg ile phe lys lys glu asp cys lys tyr ile val 35 40 45 sequence description : seq id no : 41 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pro gly asp ser thr arg lys cys met asp leu lys gly asn lys his 1 5 10 15 pro ile asn ser glu trp gln thr asp asn cys glu thr cys thr cys 20 25 30 tyr glu thr 35 sequence description : seq id no : 78 : val pro gly asp ser thr arg lys cys met asp leu lys gly asn lys 1 5 10 15 his pro ile asn ser glu trp gln thr asp asn cys glu thr cys thr 20 25 30 cys tyr glu thr 35 sequence description : seq id no : 79 : gly val pro gly asp ser thr arg lys cys met asp leu lys gly asn 1 5 10 15 lys his pro ile asn ser glu trp gln thr asp asn cys glu thr cys 20 25 30 thr cys tyr glu thr 35 sequence description : seq id no : 80 : glu gly val pro gly asp ser thr arg lys cys met asp leu lys gly 1 5 10 15 asn lys his pro ile asn ser glu trp gln thr asp asn cys glu thr 20 25 30 cys thr cys tyr glu thr 35 sequence description : seq id no : 81 : asn glu gly val pro gly asp ser thr arg lys cys met asp leu lys 1 5 10 15 gly asn lys his pro ile asn ser glu trp gln thr asp asn cys glu 20 25 30 thr cys thr cys tyr glu thr 35 sequence description : seq id no : 82 : pro asn glu gly val pro gly asp ser thr arg lys cys met asp leu 1 5 10 15 lys gly asn lys his pro ile asn ser glu trp gln thr asp asn cys 20 25 30 glu thr cys thr cys tyr glu thr 35 40 sequence description : seq id no : 83 : ile pro asn glu gly val pro gly asp ser thr arg lys cys met asp 1 5 10 15 leu lys gly asn lys his pro ile asn ser glu trp gln thr asp asn 20 25 30 cys glu thr cys thr cys tyr glu thr 35 40 sequence description : seq id no : 84 : phe ile pro asn glu gly val pro gly asp ser thr arg lys cys met 1 5 10 15 asp leu lys gly asn lys his pro ile asn ser glu trp gln thr asp 20 25 30 asn cys glu thr cys thr cys tyr glu thr 35 40 sequence description : seq id no : 85 : tyr phe ile pro asn glu gly val pro gly asp ser thr arg lys cys 1 5 10 15 met asp leu lys gly asn lys his pro ile asn ser glu trp gln thr 20 25 30 asp asn cys glu thr cys thr cys tyr glu thr 35 40 sequence description : seq id no : 86 : cys tyr phe ile pro asn glu gly val pro gly asp ser thr arg lys 1 5 10 15 cys met asp leu lys gly asn lys his pro ile asn ser glu trp gln 20 25 30 thr asp asn cys glu thr cys thr cys tyr glu thr 35 40 sequence description : seq id no : 87 : ser cys tyr phe ile pro asn glu gly val pro gly asp ser thr arg 1 5 10 15 lys cys met asp leu lys gly asn lys his pro ile asn ser glu trp 20 25 30 gln thr asp asn cys glu thr cys thr cys tyr glu thr 35 40 45 2 ) information for seq id no : 88 : ( i ) sequence characteristics : ( a ) length : 15 ( b ) type : amino acid ( c ) strandedness : single ( d ) topology : linear ( ii ) molecule type : ( ix ) feature : name / key : modified site location : 1 other information : the residue in this position is either glutamic acid , asparagine , or aspartic acid . ( ix ) feature : name / key : modified site location : 4 ( d ) other information : the residue in this position is either threonine , or serine . ( ix ) feature : name / key : modified site location : 6 ( d ) other information : the residue in this position is either glutamic acid , asparagine , or aspartic acid . ( ix ) feature : name / key : modified site location : 8 ( d ) other information : the residue in this position is either glutamic acid , asparagine , or aspartic acid . ( ix ) feature : name / key : modified site location : 9 ( d ) other information : the residue in this position is either threonine , or serine . ( ix ) feature : name / key : modified site ( b ) location : 11 ( d ) other information : the residue in this position is either threonine , or serine . ( ix ) feature : ( a ) name / key : modified site ( b ) location : 13 ( d ) other information : the residue in this position is either tyrosine , or phenylalanine . ( ix ) feature : name / key modified site ( b ) location : 14 ( d ) other information : the residue in this position is either glutamic acid , asparagine , or aspartic acid . ( ix ) feature : ( a ) name / key : modified site ( b ) location : 15 ( d ) other information : the residue in this position is either threonine , or serine . ( vi ) original source : ( a ) organism : ( xi ) sequence description : seq id no : 88 : xaa trp gln xaa asp xaa cys xaa xaa cys xaa cys xaa xaa xaa 1 5 10 15 sequence description : seq id no : 89 : glu trp gln thr asp asn cys glu thr cys thr cys tyr glu thr glu 1 5 10 15 trp gln thr asp asn cys glu thr cys thr cys tyr glu thr 20 25 30 sequence description : seq id no : 90 : glu trp gln thr asp asn cys glu thr cys thr cys tyr glu thr glu 1 5 10 15 trp gln thr asp asn cys glu thr cys thr cys tyr glu thr glu trp 20 25 30 gln thr asp asn cys glu thr cys thr cys tyr glu thr 35 40 45 sequence description : seq id no : 91 : glu trp gln thr asp asn cys glu thr cys thr cys tyr glu thr glu 1 5 10 15 trp gln thr asp asn cys glu thr cys thr cys tyr glu thr glu trp 20 25 30 gln thr asp asn cys glu thr cys thr cys tyr glu thr glu trp gln 35 40 45 thr asp asn cys glu thr cys thr cys tyr glu thr 50 55 60 sequence description : seq id no : 92 : glu tyr gln thr asp asn cys glu thr cys thr cys tyr glu thr 1 5 10 15 sequence description : seq id no : 93 : glu trp asn thr asp asn cys glu thr cys thr cys tyr glu thr 1 5 10 15 sequence description : seq id no : 94 : glu trp gln thr asp gln ser glu thr cys thr cys tyr asp thr 1 5 10 15 sequence description : seq id no : 95 : trp gln thr asp asn cys glu thr cys thr cys tyr glu thr 1 5 10 sequence description : seq id no : 96 : gln thr asp asn cys glu thr cys thr cys tyr glu thr 1 5 10 sequence description : seq id no : 97 : glu trp gln thr asp asn cys glu thr cys thr cys 1 5 10 sequence description : seq id no : 98 : glu trp gln thr asp asn cys glu thr cys thr cys d - tyr glu thr 1 5 10 15 sequence description : seq id no : 99 ( scrambled peptide ): thr - cys ( acm )- glu - asn - cys ( acm )- thr - glu - thr - gln - trp - cys ( acm )- glu - thr - asp - tyr