Patent Application: US-201013319484-A

Abstract:
the invention relates to markers for acute myocardial infarction , particularly markers that may be used in the rapid and accurate diagnosis of ami or reinfarction . a method of diagnosing cardiac injury comprising identifying an elevated concentration of cardiac myosin binding protein c or a fragment thereof or myosin regulatory light chain 2 or a fragment thereof in a sample obtained from a subject .

Description:
all experiments were performed in accordance with united kingdom home office guidance on the operation of animals ( scientific procedures ) act 1986 , published by her majesty &# 39 ; s stationary office , london and with the guide for the care and use of laboratory animals published by the us national institutes of health ( nih publication no . 85 - 23 , revised 1996 ). male c57bl / 6 mice were anesthetized with pentobarbital ( 300 mg / kg ) and heparin ( 150 units ) intraperitoneally . hearts were rapidly isolated , mounted onto a langendorff apparatus and retrogradely perfused at a constant pressure of 80 mmhg with krebs - henseleit buffer ( in mmol / l : 118 . 5 nacl , 25 . 0 nahco3 , 4 . 75 kcl , 0 . 18 kh2po4 , 1 . 19 mgso4 , 11 . 0 d - glucose , and 1 . 41 cacl2 ) equilibrated with 95 % o2 and 5 % co2 at 37 ° c . atrial pacing was performed at 580 bpm . a detailed method has been published previously . ( 9 ) briefly , hearts were stabilized for 30 min after initiation of retrograde perfusion . all hearts underwent a period of global ischemia ( as indicated in fig1 a ) followed by 2 hours of reperfusion . at the end of reperfusion hearts were perfused with triphenyl tetrazolium chloride ( ttc ). risk and infarct areas were calculated from surface area analysis of short axis slices of left ventricular myocardium . infarct analysis , ttc - negative myocardium , was performed in all cases by an investigator blinded to the group assignments . hearts were perfused on a langendorff apparatus as previously described ( 9 ) with the following modifications : to limit non - ischemic damage to the heart , and thereby non - specific protein release , an intraventricular balloon was omitted . hearts were stabilized for 30 minutes after initiation of retrograde perfusion to allow a complete wash - out of blood and limit the contamination of coronary effluent by plasma proteins . hearts underwent 5 minutes of global ischemia ( no flow ) unless otherwise specified , and the coronary effluent was collected at the onset of reperfusion in a 5 ml aliquot with triton x100 at a final concentration of 0 . 05 % to reduce the absorption of protein . ( 10 ) aliquots were immediately frozen in liquid nitrogen . coronary effluents were thawed and kept at 4 ° c . at all times . coronary effluent was concentrated using a vivaspin column , with a cut - off of 3000 da , from sartorius . coronary artery occlusion was achieved using the hanging weight system as previously described ( 11 , 12 ). mice were subjected to 30 minutes ischemia and 2 hours reperfusion and blood was taken by cardiac puncture at the end of reperfusion . blood was centrifuged at 10000 g for 15 minutes at 4 ° c . and plasma aliquots were stored at − 80 ° c . concentrated coronary effluents were separated by sds - page and immunoblotted using previously described protocols ( 9 ). the following primary antibodies were used against : creatine kinase m / b (# sc - 28898 from santa - cruz ), troponin t (# ab10214 from abeam ), troponin i (# 4002 from cell signaling ), peroxiredoxin 6 (# lf - pa0011 ), peroxiredoxin 6 - so3 (# lf - pa0005 ), peroxiredoxin - so3 (# lf - pa0004 ) all from labfrontier . (#= catalogue number ). antibody directed against the c0 - c1 region of cardiac myosin binding protein c was a gift from prof gautel m . ( randall institute , kcl , london ). ( 13 ) for immunoblotting of 2d gels , concentrated coronary effluents from control or ischemic mouse hearts were pooled and concentrated further before using the “ ready prep 2d clean - up ” kit from biorad following the manufacturer &# 39 ; s instruction . 30 μg of protein extracts were loaded on an ipg strip ( 18 cm , ph4 - 7 non linear ge healthcare ) and then on a sds - page large gradient gel ( 12 - 20 %) using a stacking gel . for proteomics , concentrated coronary effluents were reconstituted in laemmli buffer and separated by sds - page gels . large - format gradient gels ( 5 - 20 %) were cast using the 2de optimizer ( nextgen sciences , huntingdon , uk ). after the gels were overlaid with water - saturated butanol ( 2 : 1 ) and left to polymerise overnight , the stacking gel containing 4 - 5 % acrylamide weakly buffered at ph 9 . 0 was cast over the already set resolving gel . once samples were loaded , a constant 50 ma current was applied as proteins migrated down the stacking gel , at the stacking gel / running gel boundary the current was increased and maintained at 75 ma until the dye front reached the end of the gel . after silver - staining ( plus one silver staining kit , ge healthcare ), all gel bands were excised and subject to lc - ms / ms analysis . protein extracts prepared using the “ ready prep 2d clean - up ” were resuspended in lysis buffer ( 8m urea , 4 % w / v chaps , 30 mm tris - cl , ph8 . 5 ) compatible with dige labeling ( ge healthcare ). after centrifugation at 13 , 000 g for 10 min , the supernatant containing soluble proteins was harvested and the protein concentration determined using a modification of the method described by bradford . the fluorescence dye labeling reaction was carried out at a dye / protein ratio of 400 pmol / 100 μg . after incubation on ice for 30 min , the labeling reaction was stopped by scavenging non - bound dye with 10 mm lysine ( l8662 , sigma ) for 15 minutes . for two dimensional gel electrophoresis , samples were mixed with 2 × buffer ( 8m urea , 4 % w / v chaps , 2 % w / v dtt , 2 % v / v pharmalytes 3 - 10 for ief ), 20 μg per sample were diluted in rehydration solution ( 8m urea , 0 . 5 % w / v chaps , 0 . 2 % w / v dtt , and 0 . 2 % v / v pharmalyte ph 3 - 10 ) and loaded on ipg strips ( 18 cm , ph 3 - 10 , nonlinear , ge healthcare ). after rehydration overnight , strips were focused at 0 . 05 ma / ipg strips for 60 kvh at 20 ° c . ( multiphor ii , ge healthcare ). once ief was complete the strips were equilibrated in 6m urea containing 30 % v / v glycerol , 2 % w / v sds and 0 . 01 % w / v bromphenol blue , with addition of 1 % w / v dtt for 15 min , followed by the same buffer without dtt , but with the addition of 4 . 8 % w / v iodoacetamide for 15 min . sds - page was performed using 12 % t ( total acrylamide concentration ), 2 . 6 % c ( degree of crosslinking ) polyacrylamide gels without a stacking gel , using the ettan dalt system ( ge healthcare ). the second dimension was terminated when the bromophenol blue dye front had migrated off the lower end of the gels . fluorescence images were acquired using the typhoon variable mode imager 9400 ( ge healthcare ). finally , gels were fixed overnight in methanol : acetic acid : water solution ( 4 : 1 : 5 v / v / v ). protein profiles were visualized by silver staining using the plus one silver staining kit ( ge healthcare ) with slight modifications to ensure compatibility with subsequent mass spectrometry analysis . for documentation , silver - stained gels were scanned in transmission scan mode using a calibrated scanner ( gs - 800 , bio - rad ). match matrices were created by using proteomeweaver 2 . 0 ( definiens ). dige gels were analysed using the decyder software ( version 6 . 5 , ge healthcare ). a detailed methodology is available on our website http :// www . vascular - proteomics . com . for tandem mass spectrometry ( ms / ms ), in - gel digestion with trypsin was performed according to published methods ( 14 ) modified for use with an investigator progest ( genomic solutions ) robotic digestion system . 10 μl of sample was injected using an autosampler ( thermo electron corporation , ca ) and loaded onto a 100 × 0 . 18 mm reverse - phase liquid chromatography ( lc ) column ( biobasic - 18 , particle size 5 μm , thermo electron corporation ) at 2 μl / min using a surveyer ms pump ( thermo electron corporation , ca ) and eluted with a 90 min gradient ( 0 . 1 - 30 % b in 35 min , 30 - 50 % b in 10 min and 50 - 80 % b in 5 min where a = 99 . 9 % h2o , 0 . 1 % formic acid and b = 99 . 9 % acetonitrile , 0 . 1 % formic acid ). the column was coupled to an electrospray source and spectra were collected from an ion - trap mass analyzer ( lcq deca xp plus , thermo electron corporation ) using full ion scan mode over the mass - to - charge ( m / z ) range 300 - 1800 . ms / ms was performed on the top three ions in each ms scan using the data - dependent acquisition mode with dynamic exclusion enabled . ms / ms spectra were matched to database entries ( uniprot knowledgebase release 7 . 5 , consisting of : uniprotkb / swiss - prot release 49 . 5 and uniprotkb / trembl release 32 . 5 of 18 apr . 2006 ) using turbosequest software ( bioworks 3 . 3 , thermo finnigan ). all peptide sequence assignments were required to result from fully tryptic cleavages of the corresponding proteins . scaffold ( version 1 . 0 , proteome software inc ., portland , oreg .) was used to validate ms / ms based peptide and protein identifications . peptide identifications were accepted if they could be established at greater than 95 . 0 % probability as specified by the peptide prophet algorithm . protein identifications were accepted if they could be established at greater than 99 . 0 % probability and contained at least 2 identified peptides . protein probabilities were assigned by the protein prophet algorithm . to mimic myocardial ischemia , we used langendorff - perfused mouse hearts . in this model , the heart is retrogradely perfused with a standard protein - free buffer ( krebs henseleit buffer ) at a constant pressure . before the index ischemia , all hearts were perfused for 30 minutes to allow recovery of normal function ( 15 ) and to avoid a carry - over of plasma proteins . compared to shorter stabilization / wash - out periods , there was significantly less igg in the coronary effluent ( fig1 c ). the time - dependent effect of ischemia on infarct size is shown in fig1 a : the infarct size increased from 4 . 5 % to 50 % with 5 min to 30 minutes of global ischemia . the coronary effluent was collected after 1 , 5 and 30 minutes of ischemia and examined for the release of known biomarkers of tissue damage by immunoblotting . fig1 b shows the release of creatine kinase ( a cytoplasmic protein ) and of troponin i and troponin t ( myofilament proteins ) after 1 , 5 or 30 minutes duration of ischemia . it is important to note that these markers of myocardial injury are not present in the control hearts ( 0 minutes ) confirming that cardiac excision and perfusion , in the absence of ischemia , does not cause discernable damage . we were unable to detect the release of markers of myocardial injury with the shortest duration of ischemia ( 1 minute ) suggesting detectable injury occurs between 1 and 5 minutes in this model . the protein release profile in isolated perfused heart is greatly accelerated compared to that occurring in - vivo and a similar rapid release of ck has previously been described . ( 16 , 17 ) this is likely the result of relative hyperperfusion caused by the low viscosity of the perfusate . the protein release in the coronary effluent was monitored by reversed phase hplc ( supplementary fig1 ). consistent with a previous report by van eyk ( 17 ), we observed a predominant peak eluting around 23 min using a c8 zobrax column . as expected , the protein release increased with the duration of ischemia . to reduce the complexity of the sample , the coronary effluents were first separated on large format gradient gels ( 5 - 20 %) and stained with silver ( fig1 d ). notably , the shortest ischemia duration at which there was a detectable difference in the coronary effluent compared to baseline protein release was at 5 min . although this time point caused only minor infarction ( see fig1 a ) it was used for further proteomic analysis . all bands were excised from the gel , subject to tryptic digestion , and identified by nanoflow reverse phase chromatography tandem mass spectrometry . in total , 487 proteins were identified in the ischemic coronary effluent compared to only 209 in the control samples ( see supplementary table 1 for complete list of proteins ). thus , 278 proteins were unique to ischemia reperfusion samples . moreover , all known biomarkers of myocardial injury , such as troponins i , c , t , creatine kinase , lactate dehydrogenase , myoglobin , heart - specific fatty acid binding protein , aspartate aminotransferase etc . were among the proteins identified ( table 1 ). relative quantification of the protein release after ischemia was obtained by using the normalized spectral count . whereas troponin i , troponin t , troponin c were only detected in the coronary effluent after ischemia , but not at baseline , other markers such as ck , fabp , ldh , etc were present under both conditions ( table 1 ). however , the number of peptides identified for ck increased by 8 - fold , fabp by 11 fold , and lactate dehydrogenase by 6 fold in ischemic compared to normoxic hearts and their appearance / enrichment underscores their potential as clinical biomarkers for myocardial injury . post - translational modifications of albumin caused by oxidative stress during ischemia reperfusion , known as ischemia modified albumin ( ima ), are already used clinically as a biomarker of ischemia . to determine whether similarly useful post - translational modifications occurred in proteins in the coronary effluent , control and ischemic samples were analyzed by difference in - gel electrophoresis ( dige ) 2d ( fig2 ). results were reproduced by using a dye swap ( supplementary fig2 ). the fluorescence intensity was quantified for more than 200 spots . after silver staining , all spots were excised and identified by tandem mass spectrometry . the list of proteins identified is presented in supplementary table 2 . quantitative values were obtained by using the decyder software ( ge healthcare ). the dige - approach confirmed the quantitation based on spectral counting in that known markers of cardiac infarction such as , troponin t , troponin c , ck mb isoforms , fabp , ldh and myoglobin were present in higher abundance in ischemic than control samples ( table 2 and fig3 ). oxygen and other free radicals are generated in the ischemic and reperfused heart and are important mediators of post - ischemic injury ( for review see ( 18 )). our proteomic analysis revealed the release of numerous proteins involved in neutralizing free radicals following ischemia / reperfusion , including thioredoxin reductase , peroxiredoxins , etc . ( see table 3 ). in addition , the separation by 2d gel electrophoresis also revealed that ischemic injury induced an acidic shift in the isoelectric point of proteins containing redox - active cysteines as illustrated for peroxiredoxin 6 ( supplementary fig3 b ). this finding is consistent with previous reports confirming sulfoxidation as a common posttranslational modification in redox - sensitive proteins ( 19 ). to confirm the presence of these potentially cardioprotective proteins in ischemic coronary effluents , we validated our findings by immunoblotting . the release of peroxiredoxin 1 - 3 and 6 was not only significantly higher in ischemic compared to control samples ( fig4 a ), but antibodies against oxidized peroxiredoxin 6 also confirmed the presence of the oxidized isoform after myocardial ischemia by immunobloting on 1d gel ( fig4 a ) and on 2d gel ( fig4 b ). thus , the proteomic analysis revealed evidence for posttranslational modifications of antioxidant - defense proteins in ischemic coronary effluents . myosin binding protein c as new candidate biomarker of myocardial injury . in fig5 , proteins in the post - ischemic coronary effluent are plotted according to their estimated abundance based on the normalized spectral count . the fold change compared to control hearts is plotted on the y - axis . most known biomarkers cluster at the top left depicting highly abundant proteins with a pronounced propensity to leak into the coronary effluent after ischemia . interestingly , cardiac myosin binding protein c ( cmybp - c ) appeared in a similar region ( fig5 ) and its fold change ( 19 fold ) exceeded that of many established biomarkers . we subsequently verified the release of cmybp - c in coronary effluent by immunoblotting ( fig6 a ) using an antibody directed against the c0 - c1 region of cmybp - c , which is only present in the cardiac isoform ( fig6 b ) ( for review see ( 20 )). we further confirmed ischemia - selective cmybp - c release into plasma after regional myocardial ischemia and reperfusion in - vivo . interestingly , we were not only able to detect a band at 140 kda , corresponding to the full - length cmybp - c , but also a degradation product at 40 kda ( fig6 c , d , e ), which has previously been noted in post - ischemic myocardium ( 21 , 22 ). thus , our proteomic approach has validated a number of existing biomarkers and revealed a cardiac - specific potential new marker detectable with only minor myocardial injury . the aim of this study was to identify potential new biomarkers by comprehensively analyzing the proteins released into the coronary effluent after a duration of myocardial ischemia chosen to cause mild injury . our extensive proteomic analysis confirmed the presence of all existing biomarkers of acute myocardial infarction ( ami ) but also revealed posttranslational modifications of antioxidant proteins and identified the cardiac isoform of myosin binding protein c ( cmybp - c ) as a potential novel biomarker . furthermore , using an in - vivo murine model of ami we could detect cmybp - c in the plasma . langendorff - perfused mouse hearts formed the basis of our discovery platform . this model recapitulates true ischemic injury and allows a careful titration of the duration of ischaemia to cause minimal , but definite , ami . furthermore the model has the advantage of limiting contamination of the coronary effluent by plasma proteins . the choice of this model was vindicated by its ability to identify all the commonly used existing biomarkers of ami ( troponin i , troponin t , creatine kinase , fabp , ldh , myoglobin ). an extensive proteomics analysis of the coronary effluent identified nearly 500 proteins using a 1d gel lc - ms / ms approach and around 200 proteins using the dige platform . the proteomics analysis revealed that the troponins , the current gold standard to assess ami , are among the most abundant proteins in ischemic coronary effluents and show minimal leakage from normoxic myocardium ( table 1 ). over the last few years , proteomics has been used extensively for the discovery of potential biomarkers for cancer ( 23 ), atherosclerosis ( 24 ), and cardiovascular disease ( for review see ( 25 )). plasma and serum were routinely used for biomarker discovery although the dynamic range of plasma proteins spans 9 orders of magnitude and just 5 proteins typically constitute more than 90 % of the total protein mass . this complexity exceeds the analytical capabilities of most proteomic approaches . despite these evident difficulties , several proteomic studies have been undertaken to discover predictive cardiovascular biomarkers , but most studies failed to detect the existing biomarkers and revealed only changes in high abundant plasma proteins ( 26 ). in an alternative approach , we analyzed the coronary effluent in an ex vivo model where the heart was perfused with a crystalloid buffer without proteins . this approach has previously been used by koomen et al ( 27 ) in a model of ischemia / reperfusion injury in rat hearts , but they encountered a high contamination with plasma proteins ( 30 % of the 342 proteins identified were of plasma origin ), which minimizes the chance of detecting potential cardiac - specific biomarkers . by extending the washout period and perhaps by using smaller hearts , we managed to substantially reduce the contamination by plasma proteins . moreover , we employed the latest ion trap technology ( ltq orbitrap ) and used a 1d gel - lc / ms / ms approach besides 2d gel electrophoresis . this allowed us to detect substantially more proteins , including all the standard biomarkers of myocardial injury , which contrasts with previous publications ( 27 ). a methodological question arose during this study as to whether proteomic analysis should be done on the same volume of coronary effluent or on the same quantity of protein released . it is well established that during ischemia reperfusion there is an increased protein release by the myocardial tissue . to reflect this pathophysiological phenomenon , we compared the same volume of coronary effluents from control and ischemic hearts in the 1d gel - lc / ms - ms experiment . to identify ischemia - specific post - translational modifications , however , we compared the same quantity of proteins in the dige experiment . although fewer proteins were detected in the 2d gel - based approach compared to the 1d gel - lc / ms / ms approach , it is noteworthy that the known biomarkers of cardiac injury were identified in both experimental approaches . the identification of the cardiac isoform of myosin binding protein c in ischemic coronary effluents fulfilled some of the criteria of good biomarker candidate : namely a cardiac specific protein with a pronounced change in response to ischemic injury . notably , the presence of cmybp - c and a 40 kd degradation product was only found in the plasma of mice with ami . the later fragment corresponds to the n - terminal part of cmybp - c and was previously described in mouse hearts subjected to ischemia reperfusion ( 21 ) and in dog hearts subjected to low flow ischemia ( 22 ). however , its release into the circulation after myocardial injury has not been previously reported and it may provide physiological circumstance - specific information . the troponins have revolutionized the management of ami . however , it is possible cmybp - c is released more quickly and has a shorter circulating half - life . if this is the case it would have the advantage of allowing more rapid rule in , and rule out , of ami in patients with chest pain . a further advantage is that it could allow the diagnosis and the quantification of re - infarction in patients in whom ami is confirmed . this would be of particular advantage in trials of interventional devices that are thought to diminish periprocedural ami . ( 28 ) in summary , the present study aimed to identify potential new biomarkers of ami . we performed a comprehensive identification of proteins released in coronary effluent during myocardial ischemia , which revealed the cardiac isoform of myosin binding protein c as a potential new biomarker . further studies in humans will be necessary to corroborate these findings and assess the clinical advantage , if any , of cmybp - c over existing biomarkers of ami . the inventors looked into the quantification of cmybp - c further and also compared recombinant cmybp - c with the endogenous protein . the results are shown in fig1 and 11 . the inventors then went on the detect myocardial derived cmybp - c in human serum . the results are shown in fig1 . full length cmybp - c was detected in the serum of mice subjected to coronary artery ligation . a 40 kda fragment could also be seen . results are shown in fig1 . further , the inventors were able to detect the release of full length cmybp - c in patients with ami . 1 . rajappa , m ., and sharma , a . 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( 2009 ) adjunctive thrombectomy and distal protection in primary percutaneous coronary intervention : impact on microvascular perfusion and outcomes . circulation 119 . the normalized spectral count was computed using scaffold software ( proteomesoftware , v2 . 0 ) and protein release was expressed as a ratio using the control count as the denominator and ischemic count as the numerator . “+++” indicates proteins identified in coronary effluent from ischemic but not control hearts ( denominator is zero ). the fluorescence intensity ( cy3 and cy5 ) for each spot was measured and the ratio calculated using cy5 as numerator and cy3 as denominator to express release after ischemia as a ratio of that with matched control perfusion .