Patent Application: US-51421395-A

Abstract:
the method and compositions of this invention provide an effective and reliable substitute for the currently employed ica assay for diabetes . by providing a method for detecting autoantibodies to both gad 65 and ia - 2 auto - antigens , the method provides a chemical assay which has improved reliability . in addition , these antigens may be employed in therapeutic regimens aimed at achieving immune tolerance and therefore amelioration of the clinical condition .

Description:
the invention described here relates to the detection of antibodies to insulin antigen - 2 ( ia - 2 ), alone or in combination with other antigens , as an accurate and specific early indicator of the onset of insulin dependent diabetes ( idd ). ia - 2 has been recently identified as a member of the transmembrane protein tyrosine phosphatase family . the complete amino acid sequence of ia - 2 has been determined and the protein can be expressed as described herein in bacteria or eukaryotic cells . of sera from 55 diabetic patients , 45 . 4 % reacted by elisa with ia - 2 expressed as intracellular and extracellular components in e . coli as compared to only 7 . 5 % of normal controls . analysis of newly - diagnosed ( less than one year ) idd patients revealed that 50 % reacted with ia - 2 as did 38 % of patients with longer term diabetes . reactivity of idd sera with glutamic acid decarboxylase ( gad 65 ) as compared to reactivity with ia - 2 showed that 60 % of gad 65 - negative idd sera were positive for ia - 2 . further experiments revealed that both rabbit antibody raised to ia - 2 , and human idd sera positive for ia - 2 antibody and affinity purified by passage through an ia - 2 column , specifically stained cells in the pancreatic islets of langerhans , but not surrounding acinar tissue . one aspect of the subject invention is the discovery that ia - 2 is an autoantigen in idd and is responsible for some of the staining of islets by islet - cell autoantibody positive sera , especially those negative for reactivity to the gad 65 antigen . these findings suggest that testing for autoantibodies to both gad 65 and ia - 2 can be used to provide a reliable method for identifying iddm patients using chemical assays which are more reproducible than possible using the indirect immunofluorescence for ica . ia - 2 is a 105 , 847 kda transmembrane protein that belongs to the protein tyrosine phosphatase family . immunoperoyidase staining with antibody raised against ia - 2 confirms that this protein is expressed in human pancreatic islet cells . in one embodiment of the subject invention , the full - length cdna clone of ia - 2 can be expressed in a rabbit reticulocyte transcription / translation system and the recombinant radiolabelled ia - 2 used as an antigen to detect autoantibodies by immunoprecipitation . ia - 2 can be expressed and isolated and used as an antigen to produce immune tolerance and immunosuppression to ameliorate or prevent idd . the ia - 2 may also be introduced into a patient with an adjuvant , such as alum or any other adjuvant accepted for introduction into people . furthermore , the antigen can be expressed in a recombinant viral vaccine or the dna coding for ia - 2 could be introduced into an individual for expression in muscle or other cells to achieve immune tolerance and thus prevent or ameliorate idd . one hundred coded sera were tested by this method , 50 from patients with newly diagnosed idd and 50 from age - matched normal controls . sixty - six percent of the sera from patients , but none of the sera from controls , reacted with ia - 2 . the same diabetic sera tested for autoantibodies to glutamic acid decarboxylase ( gad 65 ab ) by depletion - elisa and to islet cells by indirect immunofluorescence showed 52 % and 68 % positivity , respectively . up to 86 % of the idd patients had autoantibodies to ia - 2 and / or gad 65 . patients diagnosed with idd before age 20 were more likely to have autoantibodies to ia - 2 than patients diagnosed after age 20 . over 90 % ( 14 of 15 ) of sera that were ica - positive , but gad 65 ab - negative , had autoantibodies to ia - 2 . absorption experiments showed that the immunofluorescence reactivity of sera containing ica was greatly reduced by prior incubation with recombinant ia - 2 or gad 65 when the respective antibody was present . it is concluded that ia - 2 is a major islet cell autoantigen in idd pathogenesis , and is responsible , in part , for the reactivity of ica with pancreatic islets . tests for the detection of autoantibodies to recombinant ia - 2 and gad 65 have advantages over ica as a predictor and identifier of patients with idd . full - length ia - 2 cdna expressed in a eukaryotic expression system , can be used to create a radioimmunoassay for detecting autoantibodies to ia - 2 . two thirds of our idd patients had autoantibodies to ia - 2 , as compared to none of the controls . the radioimmunoassay is considerably more sensitive and specific than an elisa test which employs the full - length of the intracellular domain of ia - 2 . moreover , the radioimmunoassay used here is a liquid - phase assay and is therefore more likely to detect conformational epitopes than solid - phase elisa . fragments of the full - length protein can also be used . following are examples which illustrate procedures , for practicing the invention . these examples should not be construed as limiting . all percentages are by weight and all solvent mixture proportions are by volume unless otherwise noted . the intracellular ( aa 603 - 979 ) and extracellular ( aa 129 - 472 ) domains of ia - 2 were expressed as fusion proteins with glutathioine transferase ( gst ) from separate subclones in a pgex bacterial expression vector . the cdnas were verified by direct dna sequencing , and the fusion proteins were induced by iptg and purified by glutathione - agarose ( sigma ). the fusion proteins were further processed by cleavage with human thrombin ( sigma ) and the gst fusion partner removed by passage through a glutathioine - agarose alhnity column . new zealand rabbits were immunized against the extra and intra - mllular fragments of ia - 2 to provide hyperimmune sera . an euisa for ia - 2 autoantibodies was developed as follows . polyvinyl microtiter plates ( becton - dickerson , oxnard , calif .) were coated with 0 . 4 μg / 100 μl / well of the purified ia - 2 fragments or gst expression proteins . the sera from 55 patients with idd and 53 normal control persons were tested . some 34 % of the patients had idd diagnosed within a year . one hundred μg of the human sera was diluted 1 : 50 ( ic domain ) or 1 : 100 ( ec domain ) in blotto - tween ( 10 mm tris - hcl , ph & amp ; 0 ; 150 mm nacl ; 5 % carnation nonfat dry milk ; 0 . 05 % tween 20 ; 0 . 05 % nan 3 ) and reacted with the antigens . the autoantibodies were in turn detected using a 1 : 2000 dilution of alkale phosphatase labelled goat anti - human igg ( southern biotechnology assoc . birmingham ala . ) in bloito - tween . polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis of the recombinant ia - 2 fragments revealed bands of the predicted molecular weights , as confirmed by reactivity with the specific polyvalent rabbit antibodies , which also stained pancreatic islets . of the patients , 21 reacted to the intracellular domain and 10 to the extracellular domain of ia - 2 , compared to 3 and 2 control sera respectively while 6 patients but only 1 control serum reacted to both fragments . thus 25 patients ( 45 . 5 %) had autoantibodies to the ia antigen overall , compared to only 4 controls ( 7 . 5 %). of the newly diagnosed patient group , 17 of 34 ( 50 %) had ia - 2 autoantibodies , while fewer ( 3 & amp ; 1 %) had antibodies persisting beyond 1 year after diagnosis . autoantibodies were also determined to gad 65 produced by a baculo - viral insect cell expression system , using a depletion elisa assay ( d - elisa ). some 20 of the patients ( 37 . 7 %) were found to be negative while all of the controls were negative . strikingly , 21 of 29 ia - 2 autoantibody negative patients ( 72 %) were found to be gad 65 autoantibody positive . therefore , determination of both antibodies would correctly identify considerably more of the patients than would be possible by either antibody alone . reactivity of sera from diabetic patients to ia - 2 in relationship to the (*) samples with reactivity to the intracellular and / or extracellular domains of ia - 2 . since ia - 2 is an integral membrane protein expressed in its native state in restricted cell types in humans , the full length cdna was next expressed in an eukaryotic rabbit reticulocyte transcription / translation system , and the recombinant protein radiolabelled with s 35 methionine was used to detect ia - 2 autoantibodies by immunoprecipitation . the full length cdna without its leader sequence was cloned into a pcrii cloning vector ( invitrogen , san diego calif .) with a perfect kozak translational start sequence seq is no : 5 ( gccgccacc atg g ). one microgram of plasmid dna was added to tnt coupled rabbit reticulocyte lysate system ( promega , madison wis .) in the presence of [ 35 s ] methionine ( amersham , arlington heights , ill .) at 30 ° for 2 hours . the translated reticulocyte lysate ( at approximately 50 , 000 - 75 , 000 cpm ) and 5 μl of each test serum was mixed in 10l0l of immunoprecipitation buffer ( 20 mm tris , ph 7 . 4 , 150 mm nacl and 1 % triton x - 100 ). the reaction mixture was incubated overnight and 50 μl of 50 % ( v / v ) protein a - agarose ( life technologies , gaithersburg , md .) was added to the solution at 4 ° c . for one hour . after washing four times with immunoprecitate buffer , the immunoprecipitation nuxture was boiled in sample buffer and applied to an 8 % sds - page gel . the gels were fixed with acetic acid / methanol ( 12 . 5 %/ 12 . 5 %) and then exposed to x - ray sensitive film overnight . the intensity of the ia - 2 bands ( approximately 106 kda ) was scored independently from 1 - 4 + by two independent investigators . one hundred coded sera comprising 50 from newly diagnosed patients and an equal number of matched controls were studied . using this method , 66 % of the patient sera but none of the controls were positive for autoantibodies to ia - 2 . autoantibodies to gad 65 were also performed by a d - elisa method , and 52 % were positive . in all , 86 % of the patient sera but none of the controls were positive for autoantibodies to gad 65 and / or ia - 2 , with 34 % being positive to both antigens . there was an age - associated bias to the results . of the patients diagnosed before age 20 years , 68 % had ia - 2 autoantibodies and 60 % gad 65 autoantibodies . however of the patients diagnosed after age 20 years , only 46 % were positive for ia - 2 autoantibodies while 86 % were positive for gad 65 autoantibodies . these results were greatly improved from the earlier study using elisa assays and ia - 2 fragments . there are several possible explanations . it is probable that the disease associated autoantibodies react to the antigen through conformational epitopes . thus reactivity may be greatly enhanced using the whole protein rather than its fragments . the method also involves antibody reactivities with the ia - 2 protein in its native undenatured state , conditions which enhance reactions to conformational epitopes . such is also the case for autoantibody reactivities to gad 65 . evidence that ia - 2 and gad 6 5 are antigens that are components of the ica reaction there was an excellent correlation between occurrence of autoantibodies either to ia - 2 or gad 65 and ica , in that only one of 15 ica positive sera that did not react to gad 65 was not positive for ia - 2 autoantibodies . this suggested that gad 65 and ia - 2 are component antigens of the ica response . this conclusion is proven by an experiment in which 6 sera were selected because they were positive for ica , and only gad 65 ( n = 2 ) or only ia - 2 ( n = 4 ) and subjected to absorption studies . recombinant baculomviral expressed human gad 65 was used to absorb out the corresponding autoantibody before the sera were applied to the ica reaction . we found that this procedure reduced the ica reactivity only of the sera which were found to be positive for gad 65 autoantibodies , as expected from atkinson , et al . ( j clin invest . 91 : 350 - 356 , 1993 ). conversely , we also absorbed out the 6 sera after passage through an affinity column with glutathione sepharose beads to remove recombinant intracellular domain ia - 2 expressed as a fusion protein with gst , before applying them to pancreatic sections for the ica reaction , and found only those with autoantibodies to ia - 2 to be reduced . reactivity of ica - containing sera with islet cells as measured by intensity of immunofluorescence : greatly reduced (↓↓); reduced (↓); slightly reduced ( ↓ ); no change ( _ ). these experiments document that gad 65 and ia - 2 are both antigens involved in the ica response , however double absorptions with both antigens did not ablate any of the ica responses , suggesting that autoantibodies to additional autoantigen ( s ) must be often present in ica positive sera . a candidate antigen is ia - 2 γ . preliminary data suggests that more than 45 % of sera from patients with idd are autoantibody positive , compared to none of normal controls . the human leukocyte antigens hla - dr / dq have been analyzed by a novel pcr based molecular typing system in more than 50 subjects with idd . the high risk drb1 * 03 / dqb1 * 0201 and drb1 * 04 / dqb1 * 0302 haplotypes were over - represented in those positive for either autoantibodies to gad 65 and / or ia - 2 . thus , risk for idd among patients and their relatives indicated a strong association between the idd associated high risk hla and appearance of these autoantibodies suggesting that the autoantibodies themselves would be expected to be associated with a high risk for idd also . in studies with 2500 normal school children and a similar number of first degree relatives of patients with idd , we found that testing autoantibodies to ia - 2 , gad 65 , iaa and ica , the combined predictive power of the ia - 2 and gad 65 test was greater than 90 % in both groups for subsequent development of idd . from the foregoing disclosure and experimental results it is evident that ia - 2 , an islet cell transmembrane tyrosine phosphatase of 105 , 847 kda , is a major antigen in the pathogenesis of idd , and is thus valuable in the diagnosis and therapy of the disease . autoantibodies to the protein are useful in disease prediction both in non - diabetic relatives of patients affected by idd , as well as in the general population . such autoantibodies react mainly to determinants on the intracellular domain of ia - 2 . such antibodies will be detectable by radioimmunoassay using recombinant ia - 2 , depletion or d - elisa and / or by elisa or immunoprecipitation as outlined here . based upon experience of the inventors with gad 65 and insulin autoantibody analyses , baculo - viral based eukaryotic expression systems are likely to be preferred to fold the protein appropriately , and glycosylate the protein if this enhances the antibody binding ability . however , such expression systems as cos cells , yeast cells , and bacterial cells such as e . coli could be used for this purpose as those skilled in the art are readily able to appreciate . fluid - based immunoassays using the antigens and antibodies of this invention provide the greatest sensitivity to the method since autoantibodies of relevance mostly react to their respective autoantigen through conformational rather than through linear epitopes . the ria and d - elisa methods are most useful in filling these properties . accordingly , autoantibodies to human gad 65 and ia - 2 antigens can replace the ica method for prediction of idd , with chemically based assays giving greater precision , reproducibility , and specificity without compromising sensitivity or positive predictive power . cellular responses , such as by proliferation or by cytoldne elaboration after in vitro exposure to ia - 2 , are also useful in disease prediction . the ia - 2 molecule or peptide derivatives of ia - 2 are used in antigen based therapies , including giving the antigens intravenously to induce anergy , deliberately immunizing against the antigen such as to induce an antibody response mediated by t helper - 2 type lymphocytes to induce immunosuppressive effects on the pathogenic t helper - 1 lymphocyte subset ; or orally fed antigen such as to induce anergy and suppressive effects . intravenous gad 65 antigens have been given in early life in nod mice and shown to induce reductions in the degree of the inflammatory infiltrates or insulitis lesions and prevent the onset of hyperglycemia ( kauffman et al . nature 1994 : 366 : 69 - 72 ). subcutaneous immunizations by insulin and insulin b chains in incomplete freunds adjuvant will prevent diabetes in nod mice for prolonged periods without reductions in the insulitis lesions . the infiltrating cells however change their phenotype from ones that make large amounts of interferon gamma to ones that do not . transfer of splenic lymphocytes from mice protected from diabetes in this way also convey protection for periods of up to a month . the intervention thus induces an active immunosuppressive effect and an insulitis lesion that is protective rather than destructive associated with a switch from th1 to th2 responses . further , the effect must be beyond that merely involving autoimmunity to insulin , since beta cell destruction is arrested . the release of protective cytolines into the milieux of the islet must then also inhibit adjacent autoimmunity responses to other self - antigens through a bystander effect ( muir , maclaren et al . j clin invest 1995 : 95 : 628 - 634 ; ramiya , muir and maclaren , chin immunotherapy 1995 : 3 : 177 - 183 .) repeated feedings of defined autoantigens may also be used to inhibit ongoing autoimmune diseases . in the case of the nod mice , this has occurred through orally administered insulin ( weiner et al . natl acad sci usa 1991 : 88 : 10252 - 10256 ) as well as through the use of oral feedings of insulin and gad ( muir , maclaren et al . diabetes / metabolism reviews 1994 : 9 : 279 - 287 ). accordingly , therapeutic methods employing ia - 2 alone or in combination with other antigens improves the therapeutic efficacy of such treatments by providing an additional component of the ica reaction . a volume of greater than 500 microliters of whole blood is collected from the individual to be tested for ia - 2 autoantibodies . the blood is drawn into a glass vacutainer tube directly , or into a syringe followed by transfer into a glass vacutainer tube . in order to obtain sera ( blood devoid of clotting factors ), the common vacutainer tubes used are termed a red top tube ( devoid of sodium heparin ), or a serum separator ( sts ) tube . if a common red top tube is used , the tube is allowed to clot ( a period of greater than 10 minutes ), and the clot removed . at this period of time , either sample tube may be centrifuged for 5 minutes at 1000 rpm at room temperature . the serum within the sample is removed and placed into a plastic storage vial and sealed tightly . the sample can be frozen at − 20 ° until ia - 2 autoantibody analysis . in addition to the use of immunoprecipitation techniques , the subject invention can be practiced utiliing any other procedures which facilitate detecting the presence of antibodies to ia - 2 . for example , other immunological methods which can be used include enzyme linked immunosorbent assay ( elisa ) and radioimmunoassay ( ria ). the principles and experimental methods of these procedures are well known to those skilled in the art . the assays can be carried out rapidly and efficiently by the use of natural or recombinant proteins which bind with the antibodies to ia - 2 . both whole cell and cell lysate procedures are familiar to those working in this field and can be readily employed to detect the ia - 2 antibodies . the amino acid sequence of ia - 2 can be analyzed to ascertain immunologically reactive epitopes . these epitopes are amino acid sequences which will react immunologically with the antibodies to ia - 2 . these sequences can then be produced recombinantly . for recombinant production , the dna coding for the epitopes is inserted into a vector which is then used to transform an appropriate host cell to express the desired amino acid sequence . although bacteria , insects , yeasts , and mammalian cells could all serve as appropriate hosts , if protein folding is an important factor in the reactivity of the epitope , then an eukaxyotic cell would be a preferred host . purified protein or lysate of the cells producing the protein could be used for the assays . also , an alternative to using ia - 2 antigen would be to use antibodies generated to ia - 2 , otherwise known as an anti - antibody . this antibody would immunoprecipitate with ia - 2 , and the detection could be carried out as described above . the specific event or agent which triggers the onset of diabetes has not been identified . a virus carrying an antigen similar to the ia - 2 protein may provoke both a normal immune response to the virus and also an abnormal , autoimmune response to ia - 2 through it &# 39 ; s molecular mimicry with the virus . the genetic susceptibility is thus expressed by an exaggerated or prolonged immune response to the environmental agent which initiates the disease process . it is also possible that the ia - 2 protein may have a delayed expression in the development of islet cells in ontogeny , rendering it antigenic because tolerance to it would not have been developed in the early stages of life . a novel therapy of the subject invention involves the injection into the bloodstream of a toxin bound to a purified form of the ia - 2 antigen . the antigen - toxin complex would quickly reach the lymph nodes where it is taken up by immune cells that normally produce the antibodies to ia - 2 . also , the antigen - toxin complex would be bound by the t - lymphocytes that recognize the ia - 2 antigens on β - cells . thus , the specific immune cells involved in β - cell destruction are poisoned and inactivated , leaving non - destructive immune cells unharmed . the hybrid protein could comprise , for example , a diphtheria toxin joined together with the ia - 2 antigen . the construction of such a hybrid toxin could proceed , for example , according to the disclosure of u . s . pat . no . 4 , 675 , 382 ( murphy ) relating to hybrid proteins . in a preferred method of the subject invention , prevention or treatment involves the administration of autoantigens to the susceptible individual . idd has an autoimmune etiopathogenesis , as discussed above . various mechanisms have been proposed that would account for the beneficial value of administering autoantigens as a preventive treatment . in addition , it is also well known in the art that the administration of autoantigens can be used to induce immunological non - responsiveness , that is , specific tolerance of the antigen . see u . s . pat . no . 5 , 114 , 844 ; nagler - anderson et al . ( 1986 ) proc . natl . acad . sci usa 83 : 7443 - 7446 ; miller et al . ( 1984 ) clin . immunol . immunopathol . 31 : 231 - 240 ; silverman et al . ( 1983 ) j . immunol . 131 : 2651 - 2661 ; michael ( 1989 ) immune invest 18 : 1049 - 1054 . the administration of the ia - 2 antigens according to the subject invention can be done using procedures , formulations , and administration routes well known in the art . as one skilled in the art having the benefit of this disclosure would appreciate , the administration of the ia - 2 protein or peptide can be by , for example , parenteral , oral , intranasal , or by modification of the patient &# 39 ; s genome to express an antigenic epitope . one approach for treatment of a patient with idd is to transplant normal islets as replacements for the damaged or destroyed β - cells . segmental and whole pancreas transplantations have been performed successfully in a number of patients with diabetes . however , permanent immunosuppressive therapy is required to maintain the grafts and prevent rejection segmental or whole pancreas transplants under continuous immunosuppressive therapy have produced normal levels of blood glucose in some patients with diabetes . pancreatic transplants are done late in the course of diabetes and will probably not reverse complications such as nephropathy and indeed may worsen retinopathy . importantly , successful pancreatic grafts between identical twins have been maintained without immunosuppressors ; however , autoimmune islet cell destruction has occurred with recurrence of diabetes . thus , even when the graft is not rejected , there is obligatory need for immunotherapies to prevent disease recurrence . the destruction ( rejection ) of transplanted islets may be due , at least in part , to the representation of autoantigens responsible for the autoimmune destruction . there is no specific immunotherapy to prevent the autoimmune destruction ( rejection of transplanted islets / pancreas ) at present . in order to prevent the autoimmune destruction of either transplanted islet cells or pancreas , a specific immunotherapy using a hybrid toxin , as detailed above , can be used to prevent islet cell destruction . the combined use of the immunotherapies could make islet cellpancreas transplantation a therapeutic tool for the treatment of idd . a reagent kit can be provided which facilitates convenient analysis of serum samples using the novel procedures described here . kits can be prepared which utilize recombinant or synthetically produced intact ia - 2 protein ( s ) or immunoreactive peptides to serve as an antigen for the detection of antibodies to ia - 2 . alternatively , antibodies specifically developed to detect antibodies to ia - 2 may also be useful . the principles and methods for elisa and ria technologies to detect antibodies are well - established . as an example , for the elisa assay , one such kit could comprise the following components : the above kit could be modified to include 96 well plastic plates , colorimetric reagents , elisa readers , blocking reagents , and wash buffers inclusion of gad 65 antigen would 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