Patent Application: US-1298893-A

Abstract:
this invention provides for the cloning and expression of the human macrophage inflammatory protein - 1α / rantes receptor . this receptor binds two cytokines mip - 1α and rantes which are pro - inflammatory cytokines . the receptor is useful for assaying the levels of these cytokines in biological specimens . these cytokines play key roles in the inflammatory processes afflicting man .

Description:
an isolated nucleic acid sequence , termed mip - 1α / rantes receptor and the novel polypeptide which it encodes are described herein . under stringent hybridization conditions , the intact isolated nucleic acids of this invention , particularly seq . i . d . no . 1 , can be used as a probe to identify other mammalian mip - 1α / rantes receptors . under these conditions , the sequence does not cross - hybridize to non mip - 1α / rantes receptor genes . the nucleic acid compositions of this invention , whether rna , cdna , genomic dna , or a hybrid of the various combinations , may be isolated from natural sources or may be synthesized in vitro . the preferred source for the mip - 1α / rantes receptor gene is a human genomic library such as from livers , as available from stratagene ( la jolla , calif .). the nucleic acids claimed may be present in transformed or transfected whole cells , in a transformed or transfected cell lysate , or in a partially purified or substantially pure form . nucleic acid probes are also included in the claimed invention . such probes are useful for detecting the presence of mip - 1α / rantes receptor in physiological samples , and as primers for gene amplification . the nucleic acid probes will usually be at least about 20 nucleotides in length , more typically they will be more than 500 nucleotides in length . a method of isolating the mip - 1α / rantes receptor is also described herein . briefly , the nucleic acid sequences can be isolated by probing a dna library which is comprised of either genomic dna or cdna . libraries may be either from commercial sources or prepared from mammalian tissue by techniques known to those skilled in the art . the preferred cdna libraries are human cdna libraries derived from b cells or neutrophils which are available from commercial sources . these receptors are also found in non - human species , e . g . mammals . for non - human orthologous receptors , one probes the appropriate library . the dna libraries can be probed by plaque hybridization using nucleic acid probes of at least 20 base pairs which are complementary to unique sequences of the mip - 1α / rantes receptor gene . a preferred probe is about 626 bases binding to base 259 to base 884 of seq . i . d . no . 1 . the probes are labeled to facilitate isolation of the hybridized clones . labeling can be by any of the techniques known to those skilled in the art . typically the longer probes are labeled with 32 p using klenow . alternatively , using the sequences provided herein , those of skill may use polymerase chain reaction technology ( pcr ) to amplify nucleic acid sequences of the mip - 1α / rantes receptor gene directly from mrna , from cdna , from genomic libraries or cdna libraries . polymerase chain reaction ( pcr ) or other in vitro amplification methods may also be useful , for example , to clone nucleic acid sequences that code for proteins to be expressed , to make nucleic acids to use as probes for detecting the presence of mip - 1α / rantes receptor in physiological samples , for nucleic acid sequencing , or for other purposes . appropriate primers and probes for identifying mip - 1α / rantes receptor from alternative mammalian tissues are generated from comparisons of the sequences provided herein . for a general overview of pcr see pcr protocols : a guide to methods and applications . ( innis , m , gelfand , d ., sninsky , j . and white , t ., eds . ), academic press , san diego ( 1990 ), incorporated herein by reference . in summary , the mip - 1α / rantes receptor gene can prepared by probing or amplifying selected regions of a mixed cdna or genomic pool using the probes and primers generated from the sequences provided herein . through the use of recombinant dna techniques one may express the mip - 1α / rantes receptor gene in yeast , filamentous fungal cells , insect ( especially employing baculoviral vectors ), mammalian cells , and in bacterial systems . for this purpose , the natural or synthetic nucleic acids included in the invention will typically be operably linked to a promoter ( which is either constitutive or inducible ), and may be incorporated into an expression vector . the isolated nucleic acid sequences can then be inserted into a cloning vector suitable for replication and integration in either prokaryotes or eukaryotes . the cloning vectors contain transcription and translation terminators , initiation sequences , and promoters useful for regulation of the expression of the mip - 1α / rantes receptor gene . the vectors are comprised of expression cassettes containing at least one independent terminator sequence , sequences permitting replication of the plasmid in both eukaryotes and prokaryotes , i . e ., shuttle vectors , and selection markers for both prokaryotic and eukaryotic systems . methods for the expression of cloned genes in bacteria are well known . to obtain high level expression of a cloned gene in a prokaryotic system , it is essential to construct expression vectors which contain , at a minimum , a strong promoter to direct mrna transcription . the inclusion of selection markers in dna vectors transformed in e . coli is also useful . examples of such markers include genes specifying resistance to ampicillin , tetracycline , or chloramphenicol . see sambrook for details concerning selection markers and promoters for use in e . coli . it is expected that those of skill in the art are knowledgeable in the expression systems chosen for expression of the mip - 1α / rantes receptor gene and no attempt to describe in detail the various methods known for the expression of proteins in eukaryotes will be made . suitable eukaryote hosts may include plant cells , insect cells , mammalian cells , yeast , filamentous fungi , or preferably , bacteria ( e . g ., e . coli or b . subtilis ). the protein encoded by the mip - 1α / rantes receptor gene which is produced by recombinant dna technology may be purified by standard techniques well known to those of skill in the art . standard techniques include selective precipitation with such substances as ammonium sulfate , column chromatography , immunopurification methods , and others . see , for instance , r . scopes , protein purification : principles and practice , springer - verlag : new york ( 1982 ), incorporated herein by reference . alternatively and preferably , fusion proteins produced by the above method may be purified by a combination of sonication and affinity chromatography . subsequent digestion of the fusion protein with an appropriate proteolytic enzyme releases the desired polypeptide . the mip - 1α / rantes receptor gene appears in the human population in various forms . by following the methods disclosed herein , one can evaluate the polymorphisms . the invention describes a single sequence encoding mip - 1α / rantes receptor . polymorphic forms are also intended to be included . these forms are obtained by using the given sequence as probe under stringent conditions to assay a genomic library . polymorphic variants of the mip - 1α / rantes receptor genes are obtained by comparing the sequences of other genes hybridizing to the original sequence . the present invention also provides methods for detecting the presence or absence of mip - 1α / rantes receptor in a physiological specimen . one method involves a southern transfer and is well known to those of skill in the art . briefly , the digested genomic dna is run on agarose slab gels in buffer and transferred to membranes . hybridization is carried out using the probes discussed above . visualization of the hybridized portions allows the qualitative determination of the presence or absence of mip - 1α / rantes receptor . similarly , a northern transfer may be used for the detection of mip - 1α / rantes receptor in samples of rna . this procedure is also well known in the art . see , maniatis , et al ., molecular cloning : a laboratory manual , cold spring harbor laboratory , cold spring harbor , n . y . ( 1982 ). in brief , the mrna is isolated from a given cell sample using an acid guanidinium - phenol - chloroform extraction method . the mrna is then electrophoresed to separate the mrna species and the mrna is transferred from the gel to a nitrocellulose membrane . as with the southern blots , labeled probes are used to identify the presence or absence of the mip - 1α / rantes receptor transcript . an alternative means for determining the level of expression of the mip - 1α / rantes receptor gene is in situ hybridization . in an in situ hybridization cells are fixed to a solid support , typically a glass slide . if dna is to be probed the cells are denatured with heat or alkali . the cells are then contacted with a hybridization solution at a moderate temperature to permit annealing of mip - 1α / rantes receptor specific probes that are labelled . the probes are preferably labelled with radioisotopes or fluorescent reporters . in situ hybridization assays are well known and are generally described in angerer , et al ., methods enzymol ., 152 : 649 - 660 ( 1987 ). in addition to the detection of mip - 1α / rantes receptor using nucleic acid hybridization technology , one can use immunoassays to detect the mip - 1α / rantes receptor gene product . immunoassays can be used to qualitatively and quantitatively analyze the mip - 1α / rantes receptor gene product . a general overview of the applicable technology can be found in harlow and lane , antibodies : a laboratory manual , cold spring harbor pubs ., n . y . ( 1988 ). in brief , the gene product or a fragment thereof is expressed in transfected cells , preferably bacterial cells , and purified as generally described above and in the examples . the product is then injected into a mammal capable of producing antibodies . either monoclonal or polyclonal antibodies specific for the gene product can be used in various immunoassays . such assays include elisa , competitive immunoassays , radioimmunoassays , western blots , indirect immunofluorescent assays and the like . finally , the mip - 1α / rantes receptor can be functionally expressed on the surface of mammalian cells and these cells used to directly assay for mip - 1α or rantes in biological samples . the quantitation of mip - 1α or rantes is useful for monitoring the levels of these cytokines in a patient . such measurements are useful in following the anti - inflammatory effects of drugs and prospective usefulness of new anti - inflammatory agents . functional expression of eukaryote proteins is well known . the methods are as followed in typical transection protocols such as described in sambrook . in brief , such assays are produced by transforming cells such as cos cells , 293 cells , 3t3 fibroblast cells , and yeast cells . alternatively oocytes , typically from frogs can be microinjected with synthetic rna ( copy rna ). the cells are transformed with a suitable expression vector or a suitable amount of synthetic or copy rna to effect expression of the mip - 1α / rantes receptor on the cell &# 39 ; s plasma membrane . the cells are then exposed to labelled mip - 1α or rantes and the amount of binding assayed either by fluorescent microscopy or autoradiography . alternatively , binding of mip - 1α or rantes to the cells will result in a calcium efflux and this can be measured as described below . fluid samples from patients suffering from inflammatory diseases are taken using standard methods . these fluids include plasma , synovial fluid , abscess fluid , bronchopulmonary lavage fluid and the like . for example , synovial fluid from an arthritic joint could be assayed for the presence of elevated amounts of mip - 1α or rantes . as the disease progresses or is abated by drug therapies , the relative amount of mip - 1α or rantes will change and the concentration changes would be reflected in the binding assays described above . the following examples are provided by way of illustration only and not by way of limitation . those of skill will readily recognize a variety of noncritical parameters which could be changed or modified to yield essentially similar results . the dna sequence encoding the mip - 1α / rantes receptor may be isolated from a human genomic or cdna library using a dna probe specific to a portion of that sequence . a preferred probe encoding a 626 base pair portion of the coding block of the mip - 1α / rantes receptor gene may be amplified by polymerase chain reaction ( pcr ) from human genomic dna using a pair of primers corresponding to sequences from base 259 to 275 and from base 868 to 884 of sequence i . d . no . 1 . the pcr reaction solution consists of 67 to 71 μl of water , 10 μl of 10 × buffer , 8 μl dntps ( 10 mm stock concentration each for datp , dctp , dgtp , dttp in a master mix , final concentration = 2 mm each , perkin - elmer cetus , emeryville , calif . ), 5 μl each of 20 μm sense and antisense primer ( final concentration each = 1 μm ), 1 - 5 μl dna , and 1 μl taq dna polymerase ( boehringer - mannheim , indianappolis ) to provide a total volume of 100 μl . the pcr conditions are 95 ° c . for 5 min ; 30 cycles of 94 ° c . for 20 sec then 55 ° for 20 sec , and 72 ° c . for 1 min . cycling occurs in a geneamp thermocycler from perkin elmer / cetus . using the above described probe , a human fetal liver genomic library ( stratagene , la jolla , calif .) is screened by plaque hybridization with a 32 p - labeled probe specific to a segment of the dna encoding the mip - 1α / rantes receptor . hybridization occurs in a buffer containing 50 % formamide , 5 × sspe , 0 . 5 % sds , 50 μg / ml denatured salmon sperm dna and 10 6 cpm / ml of labeled probe at 37 ° c . for 20 hours . the filters are washed in 5 × sspe at 45 ° c . for 1 hour . positive clones are then purified and their sequences verified in comparison with seq . i . d . no . 1 . in our laboratory , the given sequence was identified and cloned without pre - knowledge of the actual sequence . from this sequence a copy rna was produced and its ability to generate a suitably sized protein checked by in vitro synthesis . the crna was synthesized by in vitro transcription with t3 rna polymerase of a bluescript construct that had been cleaved with xho i . the materials and methods used for the calcium efflux assay were as described in murphy , et al ., j . immunol . 145 : 2227 - 2234 ( 1990 ). adult female laboratory bred xenopus laevis ( nasco , fort atkinson , wis .) were maintained at 19 ° c . to 22 ° c . in a light - dark cycle of 12 h per phase . the frogs were anesthetized and ovarian lobes were resected and defolliculated in or2 solution ( 82 . 5 mm nacl , 1 mm mgcl 2 , 2 . 4 mm kcl , 5 mm hepes , ph 7 . 5 ) containing 2 mg / ml collagenase for 2 h on a rotary shaker . stage v - vi oocytes were transferred to nd96 solution ( 96 mm nacl , 2 mm kcl , 1 . 8 mm cacl 2 , 1 mm mgcl2 , 2 . 4 mm sodium pyruvate , penicillin 100 u / ml , streptomycin 100 μg / ml , 5 mm hepes , ph 7 . 4 to 7 . 5 ). after 1 - 2 days , oocytes were microinjected with rna samples in a total volume of 50 nl per oocyte and were then incubated in nd96 solution at 20 ° c . to 23 ° c . for 3 to 5 days . oocytes were then incubated in 500 μl of or2 medium containing 45 ca 2 + [ 50 μci / ml ( icn biomedicals , costa mesa , calif .)] for 3 hours at 20 ° c . after ten washes with nd96 medium , individual oocytes were stimulated with ligand in wells of a 96 - well tissue culture plate containing 100 μl of nd96 medium . three 100 μl samples of the incubation medium were collected and analyzed by liquid scintillation counting : a ) the final 100 μl wash ( 20 min ) before application of ligand ; b ) fluid containing the stimulus , removed after a 20 min incubation with the oocyte ; and c ) the oocyte solubilized in sds ( 1 %) in medium 20 min after stimulation . data are presented as the mean ± standard error of the mean ( sem ) of the percent of loaded 45 ca 2 + that was released by individual oocytes in response to the stimulus , or [( b - a )÷( b + c )]× 100 . ligands were all human recombinant material obtained from the following sources : mip - 1α ( r and d systems , minneapolis , minn . ); il - 8 , rantes , and mcaf ( genzyme , cambridge , mass . ); nap - 2 ( bachem bioscience , philadelphia , pa . ); gro - α ( a gift from m . p . beckmann , s . lyman and d . cerretti ). mip - 1α and mip - 1β used in a ligand screen was a gift of u . siebenlist ( niaid , bethesda , md .) and were used as a diluted supernatant of sf9 insect cells expressing immunoreactive recombinant human mip - 1α ( from clone pat464 ) or mip - 1β ( from clone pat744 ) that was prepared as described in zipfel et al . j . immunol . 142 : 1582 - 1590 ( 1989 ) and zipfel et al . lymph . cyto . res . 11 : 141 - 148 ( 1992 ). all proteins were diluted from aqueous stock solutions or culture supernatants into nd96 oocyte media ( 96 mm nacl , 1 mm kcl , 1 mm mgcl 2 . 1 / 8 mm cacl 2 , ph 7 . 45 ) containing 0 . 1 % bovine serum albumin . oocytes injected with crna acquired responsiveness to mip - 1α and rantes , but not to mip - 1β , mcp - 1 , il - 8 , groα , or nap - 2 ( fig1 ). more specifically the data presented in fig1 demonstrates that a signal transduction is associated with the mip - 1α / rantes receptor . ( a ) the mip - 1α / rantes receptor cdna encodes a receptor selective for an intercrine β ligand . five days after injection with 10 ng of either mip - 1α / rantes receptor crna ( closed bars ) or il - 8 receptor b crna ( open bars ), oocytes were stimulated with recombinant human il - 8 , gro - α or nap - 2 at 500 nm , or a 1 : 5 dilution of an sf9 supernatant containing recombinant human mip - 1α or mip - 1β . prostaglandin e2 , histamine , c5a , f - met - leu - phe , atp , utp and platelet activating factor were also tested and were inactive . neither mipα nor mip - 1β activated the il - 8 receptor b . ( b ) concentration dependence for mip - 1α calcium mobilizing activity . oocytes injected with 50 ng hl - 60 rna ( closed circle ) or 10 ng of mip - 1α / rantes receptor crna ( open circle ) were stimulated with the indicated concentration of recombinant human mip - 1α . ( c ) the mip - 1α receptor is also a receptor for rantes . oocytes were injected with either hl - 60 rna ( open bars ) or mip - 1α / rantes receptor crna ( closed bars ) and stimulated with the indicated ligand at 250 nm . in panels a - c , the data derive from 5 - 8 replicate determinations per point . basal amounts of calcium efflux and calcium uptake were similar for all experimental conditions . from our studies , the ec 50 for rantes was approximately 50 nm . the oocyte response to mip - 1α had two phases , one that appeared to saturate at 100 nm mip - 1α , and a second that did not reach a plateau at 5000 nm mip - 1α . carrier free recombinant human mip - 1α 10 μg ( genzyme , cambridge , mass .) was labeled using 5 mci na 125 i ( amersham , arlington heights , ill .) in 100 μl 0 . 2m sodium phosphate , ph 7 . 2 and 50 μl reconstituted enzymobeads ( biorad , richmond , ac ). the reaction was started using 25 μl 1 % β - d - glucose and allowed to continue for 20 minutes . labeled sample was separated from the free iodine using a nap - 5 column ( pharmacia lkb , piscataway , n . j .) which had been previously rinsed with 1 % bovine serum albumin in 0 . 2m sodium phosphate , ph 7 . 2 . labeled material was collected from the column and analyzed on a 14 % acrylamide gel . single oocytes were incubated with 125 i - mip - 1α for 30 min on ice in 10 μl of binding buffer ( hanks &# 39 ; balanced salt solution with 25 mm hepes , 1 % bovine serum albumin , ph 7 . 4 ). unbound ligand was removed by centrifugation of the oocyte through 300 μl of f50 silicone fluid ( general electric , waterford , n . y .). the tubes were quickly frozen and gamma emissions from the amputated tips were counted . the results of the binding assays are presented in fig2 . binding of 125 i - labeled mip - 1α to oocytes injected with mip - 1α / rantes receptor crna . ( a ) total ( closed circles ) and non - specific binding ( open circles ) was determined by incubating oocytes injected with mip - 1α / rantes receptor crna with the indicated concentration of 125 i - labeled mip - 1α in the absence or presence of a 100 fold molar excess of unlabeled mip - 1α , respectively . non - specific binding was subtracted from total binding to determine specific binding ( open squares ). specific binding of 125 i - labeled mip - 1α to oocytes expressing il - 8 receptor b was undetectable . ( b ) oocytes injected with mip - 1α / rantes receptor crna were incubated with 100 nm 125 i - labeled mip - 1α in the presence or absence of the indicated concentration of unlabeled mip - 1α . one hundred percent represents a mean of 6401 cpm . data are derived from triplicate determinations per point . the threshold for detection of specific binding of 125 i - mip - 1α to oocytes injected with the mip - 1α / rantes receptor crna was the same as that required for stimulation of calcium efflux . 125 i - mip - 1α did not bind specifically to oocytes expressing human il - 8r b . __________________________________________________________________________sequence listing ( 1 ) general information :( iii ) number of sequences : 2 ( 2 ) information for seq id no : 1 :( i ) sequence characteristics :( a ) length : 2156 base pairs ( b ) type : nucleic acid ( c ) strandedness : single ( d ) topology : linear ( ii ) molecule type : dna ( genomic )( ix ) feature :( a ) name / key : primer . sub 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