Patent Application: US-9345393-A

Abstract:
the entire rubella virus genomic rna has been sequenced . an infectious cdna clone has been constructed . mutants of this clone that are rendered non - pathogenic are used as vaccines to vaccinate humans , including pregnant or older women , with decreased risk of causing fetal infection , autoimmune disease or neurological symptoms .

Description:
the entire rubella virus rna genome has been sequenced , including the 5248 nucleotides at the 5 &# 39 ; terminus encoding non - structural proteins which are critical to infection by the virus , and an infectious cdna clone has been constructed . mutations made in one or more regions of the cdna clone render the resultant rna virus non - pathogenic . the non - pathogenic rna virus is combined with a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier to form a vaccine . as shown below in seq id no : 1 , the wild - type rubella virus genomic rna is 9757 nucleotides in length , excluding the poly ( a ) tail , and has a high guanosine plus cytosine ratio ( g + c ) content ( 69 . 5 %). the rubella virus genomic rna contains two long open reading frames , a 5 &# 39 ; proximal open reading frame of 6656 nucleotides which most likely encodes the nonstructural proteins and a 3 &# 39 ; proximal open reading frame of 3189 nucleotides which encodes the structural proteins . within the 5 &# 39 ; proximal open reading frame are two amino acid motifs commonly associated with replicase and helicase function , indicating the importance of this open reading frame in viral rna replication . a stretch of 46 nucleotides is located 224 nucleotides from the 5 &# 39 ; end of the genome . this sequence is similar to a sequence conserved among alphaviruses which is believed to play a role in rna replication . the rubella genome also contains a 20 nucleotide stretch 20 nucleotides upstream from the subgenomic rna start site which shares homology with a conserved alphavirus sequence . this sequence is believed to be the subgenomic rna promoter . the predicted amino acid sequence of the rubella virus genome is shown below in seq id no : 2 and seq id no : 3 . the 5 &# 39 ;- proximal open reading frame begins at nucleotide 41 and terminates at position 6656 with an opal codon ( uga ) followed 12 nucleotides downstream by a second inframe opal codon . the 5 &# 39 ;- proximal open reading frame is 6615 nucleotides in length and encodes a 2205 - amino acid polypeptide . the 3 &# 39 ;- proximal open reading frame begins at nucleotide 6507 and ends at nucleotide 9696 . it is 3189 nucleotide in length and encodes a polypeptide of 1063 amino acids which is cleaved into at least three structural proteins , c , e1 and e2 , as discussed above . as shown in fig1 the two open reading frames overlap by 149 nucleotides and are in different translational frames . the schematic depression of the structural protein open reading frame relative to the nonstructural protein open reading frame of the rubella genome reflects this overlap . the open circle indicates the rna start site for the entire rubella genome whereas the closed circle indicates the subgenomic rna start site . the hatched box indicates the region of the helicase amino acid motif , and the shaded box indicates the replicase motif . the letters c , e2 and e1 represent the genes for the structural capsid , envelope 2 and envelope 1 glycoproteins respectively . the small black region at the 5 &# 39 ; end of the genome represents a 5 &# 39 ; cap while the small black region at the 3 &# 39 ; end represents the poly ( a ) tail . the present invention will be further described with reference to the following description of the isolation and characterization of the rna sequence and the infectious cdna clone for the rubella virus rna genome . the teachings of the references describing in detail the methods used in the isolation , characterization , and modification of the rna sequences are specifically incorporated herein by reference . virion rna from the therien strain of rubella virus was isolated by phenol - chloroform extraction of virions purified as described by waxham , m . n . and wolinsky , j . s ., virology 126 : 194 - 203 ( 1983 ). intracellular rna was extracted from infected vero cells ( m . o . i .= 0 . 1 ) at 72 hr postinfection as described by frey , t . k ., virology , 154 : 228 - 232 ( 1986 ). the extracted rna was chromatographed over oligo ( dt ) cellulose . after ethanol precipitation , the poly ( a )+ fraction was dissolved in 90 % dmso and heated at 55 ° c . for 5 min to denature double - stranded rna replicative forms and intermediates which bind to oligo ( dt ) cellulose . the dmso - denatured rna was ethanol precipitated twice and dissolved in 0 . 01m tris ( ph 8 . 0 ), 0 . 001m edta . virion rna was used as the template for first - strand cdna synthesis primed with random deoxyhexamers ( pharmacia fine chemicals , piscataway , n . j .) as described by rice , c . m ., et al ., science 229 : 726 - 733 ( 1985 ). second - strand dna synthesis , deoxycytidine ( dc ) tailing of the double - stranded cdna with terminal transferase , annealing of dc - tailed cdna with dg - tailed puc 9 , and transformations were done as described by frey , et al ., virology 154 : 228 - 232 ( 1986 ) with the following modifications : double - stranded cdna was chromatographed on a sepharose ™ cl - 4b column ( pharmacia ) to eliminate cdnas less than 700 nucleotides in length , as described by eschenfeldt , w . h . and berger , s . l ., purification of large double - stranded cdna fragments in &# 34 ; methods in enzymology &# 34 ; s . l . berger and a . r . kimmel , eds ., vol 152 : 335 - 337 academic press , new york ( 1987 ), the teachings of which are incorporated herein , and transformed using competent dh5 - α cells ( bethesda research labs , bethesda , md .). colonies with cdnaclones containing sequences overlapping the 3 &# 39 ;- terminal 4508 nucleotides of the genome , described by frey , t . k . and marr , l . d ., gene 62 : 85 - 99 ( 1988 ), were identified by colony blot hybridization using as probes 32 p - labeled restriction fragments and oligonucleotides from the 5 &# 39 ; end of this sequence . this set of cdna clones was restriction mapped and a restriction fragment from the 5 &# 39 ; end of this set of clones was used as a probe to isolate new overlapping clones . eighteen clones were identified and mapped which covered the region between 4500 nucleotides from the 3 &# 39 ; end of the genome and the 5 &# 39 ; end of the genome . the cdna inserts from eight clones representative of the region to be sequenced were subcloned into m13 for sequencing . subcloning by use of convenient restriction sites , shotgun cloning of sonicated dna , described by bankier , a . t . and barrell , b . g ., nucleic acid biochem . b508 : 1 - 34 ( 1983 ), and exonuclease iii digestion to produce directional deletions , as described by henikoff , s ., gene 28 : 351 - 359 ( 1984 ), the teachings of which are incorporated herein , were all employed . several gaps which remained were sequenced using synthetic oligonucleotide primers on the appropriate templates . oligonucleotides were synthesized using an applied biosystems model 381a dna synthesizer . all sequencing was done by dideoxy sequencing , as described by sanger , f ., et al ., proc . natl . acad . sci . usa 74 : 5463 - 5467 ( 1977 ), using the procedure recommended by sequenase version 2 . 0 kit ( united states biochemical corp ., cleveland , ohio ) with [ 32 s ] datp label and 7 - deaza - dgtp in place of dgtp . primer extension and dideoxy sequencing from an rna template were both performed on poly ( a )+ rna from rubella - infected cells using as a primer a 5 &# 39 ;- 32 p - labeled oligonucleotide with the sequence dtggtctcttacccaact ( seq id no : 4 ), which is complementary to nucleotides 101 to 117 of the genomic rna . the primer extension reaction was done as described by frey , t . k ., et al ., virology 168 : 191 - 194 ( 1989 ), while rna sequencing was done by dideoxy sequencing modified for an rna template using the method of rico - hesse , r ., et al ., virology 160 : 311 - 322 ( 1987 ), and zimmern , d . and kaesberg , p ., proc . natl . acad . sci . usa 75 : 4257 - 4261 ( 1978 ). the analysis of the sequence was performed on the centers for disease control vax using the university of wisconsin gcp package , designed by devereux , j ., et al ., nucl . acids . res . 12 : 387 - 395 ( 1984 ). a cdna copy of the complete rubella genome rna was assembled in a plasmid with an sp6 rna polymerase promoter immediately adjacent to the 5 &# 39 ; end of the cdna . rna transcripts from the contruct were produced . as a stringent assay to ascertain that the transcripts which appeared to be full length by agarose gel electrophoresis were indeed full length , northern blot analysis was done on the transcripts using as a probe a radiolabeled oligonucleotide complementary to the 3 &# 39 ; terminal 30 nucleotides of the rubella genome . transcripts from the construct hybridized with the 3 &# 39 ; terminal probe . the following strategy was used to isolate an infectious clone , based on the nucleotide sequence . however , it would have been very difficult to make the clone from the sequence , without the cdnas to combine to make the clone , and the addition of two nucleotides at the 5 &# 39 ; end . the strategy and resulting construct are shown in fig2 a and 2b . four overlapping cdnas derived as described above for sequencing of the 5248 5 &# 39 ; terminal nucleotides , a construct plee 1 which contained the structural protein coding regions derived as described by frey , et al ., ( 1986 ) and frey and marr ( 1988 ), the teachings of which are specifically incorporated herein , 40 nucleotides at the 5 &# 39 ; end synthesized with a dna synthesizer ( applied biosystems ) and approximately 50 nucleotides at the 3 &# 39 ; end synthesized with a dna synthesizer , were combined to form a construct robol . transcripts of this construct were not infectious . as shown in fig3 two subsequent modifications , adding two nucleotides , c and a , at the 5 &# 39 ; end and removing one sp6 promoter at the 3 &# 39 ; end of the construct ( leaving the sp6 promoter immediately adjacent the 5 &# 39 ; end ) by cleaving with restriction enzymes to remove the construct in pgem2 , which contains an sp6 promoter , and inserting the construct into pucls , yielded robo12 , transcripts of which were infectious . it appears that the addition of the ca at the 5 &# 39 ; end was crucial to making an infectious clone . this portion of the sequence had not previously been reported . bhk - 21 cells obtained from dr . charles m . rice , department of microbiology and immunology , washington university school of medicine , st . louis , mo ., were transfected with the transcripts using lipofectin - mediated transfection techniques described by rice , c . m ., graloue , a ., galler , r ., chambers , t . j ., transcription of infectious yellow fever rna from full - length cdna templates produced by in vitro ligation . the new biologist 1 , 285 - 296 ( 1989 ). ( bhk - 21 cells are available from the american type culture collection . lipofectin can be purchased from bethesda research laboratories inc ., gaithersburg , md .) to detect the production of rubella virus in transfected bhk - 21 cells , culture fluid was harvested and used to infect vero cells obtained from the american type culture collection . vero cells were cultured at 35 ° c . under 4 % co 2 in eagle minimal essential medium containing earle &# 39 ; s salts and supplemented with 10 % tryptose phosphate and 5 % fetal bovine serum . streptomycin was also added to minimize bacterial contamination . rubella virus was recovered from vero cells infected with culture fluid from bhk - 21 cells transfected with rna extracted from virions and with rna transcribed from the sp6 genomic construct , demonstrating that the cdna clones were infectious . the infectious cdna clone can be modified in one or more of several ways to render it less virulent , while retaining infectivity and immunogenicity . most preferably , a mutation or mutations are made to render the virus non - persistent . a non - persistent virus is defined herein as one that becomes non - virulent after the initial infection and development of an immune response but before the onset of arthritis or neurological impairment . as an example , non - persistance can be measured by the absence of viral penetration of synovial fluid . in the preferred embodiment , a mutation is made in the e2 gene as shown in fig1 . rubella virus is unique among enveloped viruses in that it buds both at intracellular membranes and at the cytoplasmic membrane , as reported by bardeletti , g ., et al ., intervirology 11 : 97 - 103 ( 1979 ). rubella virus nucleocapsids form in association with membranes at the site of budding . evidence suggests that the intracellular budding occurs at the endoplasmic reticulum and the golgi apparatus . during intracellular budding , the rubella virus glycoproteins are retained at both sites for aprolonged period of time , six hours or greater , leading to delayed appearance of viral glycoproteins at the cell surface . it is believed that the e2 protein mediates the interaction of the c protein with these intracellular membranes to form intracytoplasmic vacuoles . these vacuoles may allow the rubella virus to persist in the presence of a humoral immune response . therefore , mutations in the e2 gene or deletion of the entire gene for e2 should adversely affect persistence . a mutation or mutations may also be made to render the virus incapable of binding to or crossing the placenta to infect a fetus . placental binding or crossing can be measured by labelling the mutated virus with detectable substances such as radioactive or fluorescent labels and measuring the incorporation of those substances onto or across placental tissue . the mutations are created using standard recombinant molecular biology techniques known to those skilled in the art such as linker - insertion mutagenesis , site - directed mutagenesis or homologous recombination . these techniques are described by , for example , maniatis , t ., fritsch , e . f . and sambrook , j ., &# 34 ; molecular cloning : a laboratory manual &# 34 ;, ( cold spring harbor laboratory , cold spring harbor , n . y . 1989 ). the modified cdna clone is placed within a vector , preferably a bacterial plasmid such as puc 19 , pgem , or pbr - 322 ( all available from promega biotec , madison , wis .) adjacent to a bacteriophage rna polymerase promoter sequence such as the sp6 rna polymerase ( promega biotec ) such that rna copies of the rubella virus dna can be synthesized in vitro . the vector is chemically introduced into susceptible culture cells , for example , e . coli , for amplification and production of large amounts of the cdna clone . for use , the purified infectious clone is restricted with a restriction endonuclease such as nsi 1 ( new england biolabs , beverly , mass .) for linearization at the termination of the rubella virus cdna sequences . the linearized plasmid is then transcribed with an rna polymerase such as sp6 rna polymerase , which results in production of rna transcripts templated from the rubella virus cdna sequence in the non - pathogenic infectious clone . when an appropriate amount of the infectious clone rna transcript is transfected into susceptible cells by transfection procedures known to those skilled in the art , less virulent rubella virus is recovered from the culture fluid within several days incubation . preferably , an amount ranging from 0 . 5 to 1 . 5 micrograms of the infectious clone transcript is transfected into bhk - 21 cells by lipofectin - mediated transfection . the identity of the virus recovered from the transfected cells can be confirmed by sequencing a specific region of the infectious clone in which a mutation exists which distinguishes it from the wild - type virus . the less virulent rubella virus is then combined with a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier to provide a safe , effective rubella virus vaccine . the carrier can be oil , water , saline , phosphate buffer , polyethylene glycol , glycerine , propylene glycol , and combinations thereof , or other vehicles routinely used by the pharmaceutical industry for these purposes . the vaccine is usually provided in lyophilized form and therefore is free of preservatives . it will be understood by those skilled in the art that modified cdna for other dna or rna viruses could be inserted into the vector in combination with the rubella virus cdna to make a vaccine effective in immunizing a patient against more than one virus . for example , the modified cdna of rna viruses such as hepatitis c or dengue fever virus could be inserted into the vector to produce a combined recombinant vaccine . the vaccine can be administered by any appropriate route , for example , orally , parenterally , intravenously , intradermally , intramuscularly , subcutaneously , or topically , in liquid or solid form , which results in infection and elicitation of an immune response against the wild - type rubella virus . the vaccine is preferably administered subcutaneously at a concentration range from 10 2 to 10 4 tcid 50 / person . ( tcid is an abbreviation for tissue culture infectious doses .) preferably the vaccine is provided to the physician in a lyophilized form , is reconstituted in an appropriate solvent such as deionized water or saline and administered as a single injection . modifications and variations of the infectious modified rubella virus , method of making a less virulent rubella vaccine and methods for use thereof will be obvious to those skilled in the art from the foregoing detailed description of the invention . such modifications and variations are intended to come within the scope of the appended claims . __________________________________________________________________________sequence listing ( 1 ) general information :( iii ) number of sequences : 13 ( 2 ) information for seq id no : 1 :( i ) sequence characteristics :( a ) length : 9757 base pairs ( b ) type : nucleic acid ( c ) strandedness : single ( d ) topology : linear ( ii ) molecule type : rna ( genomic )( iii ) hypothetical : no 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b ) strain : therien ( xi ) sequence description : seq id no : 6 : catgggaatgggagtcctaagcgaggtccgaaagcttagactagt45 ( 2 ) information for seq id no : 7 :( i ) sequence characteristics :( a ) length : 48 base pairs ( b ) type : nucleic acid ( c ) strandedness : single ( d ) topology : linear ( ii ) molecule type : cdna to genomic rna ( iii ) hypothetical : no ( iv ) anti - sense : no ( vi ) original source :( a ) organism : rubella virus ( b ) strain : therien ( xi ) sequence description : seq id no : 7 : ttcgaagcttatttaggtcacactatagcatggaagctatcggacctc48 ( 2 ) information for seq id no : 8 :( i ) sequence characteristics :( a ) length : 17 base pairs ( b ) type : nucleic acid ( c ) strandedness : single ( d ) topology : linear ( ii ) molecule type : cdna to genomic rna ( iii ) hypothetical : no ( iv ) anti - sense : no ( vi ) original source :( a ) organism : rubella virus ( b ) strain : therien ( xi ) sequence description : seq id no : 8 : tggtctcttacccaact17 ( 2 ) information for seq id no : 9 :( i ) sequence characteristics :( a ) length : 28 base pairs ( b ) type : nucleic acid ( c ) strandedness : single ( d ) topology : linear ( ii ) molecule type : cdna to genomic rna ( iii ) hypothetical : no ( iv ) anti - sense : no ( vi ) original source :( a ) organism : rubella virus ( b ) strain : therien ( xi ) sequence description : seq id no : 9 : gatgcatccctatagtgagtcgtattag28 ( 2 ) information for seq id no : 10 :( i ) sequence characteristics : ( a ) length : 36 base pairs ( b ) type : nucleic acid ( c ) strandedness : single ( d ) topology : linear ( ii ) molecule type : cdna to genomic rna ( iii ) hypothetical : no ( iv ) anti - sense : no ( vi ) original source :( a ) organism : rubella virus ( b ) strain : therien ( xi ) sequence description : seq id no : 10 : aattctaatacgactc actatagggatgcatctgca36 ( 2 ) information for seq id no : 11 :( i ) sequence characteristics :( a ) length : 18 base pairs ( b ) type : nucleic acid ( c ) strandedness : single ( d ) topology : linear ( ii ) molecule type : cdna to genomic rna ( iii ) hypothetical : no ( iv ) anti - sense : no ( vi ) original source :( a ) organism : rubella virus ( b ) strain : therien ( xi ) sequence description : seq id no : 11 : aatgcccgagtggatcca18 ( 2 ) information for seq id no : 12 :( i ) sequence characteristics :( a ) length : 36 base pairs ( b ) type : nucleic acid ( c ) strandedness : single ( d ) topology : linear ( ii ) molecule type : cdna to genomic rna ( iii ) hypothetical : no ( iv ) anti - sense : no ( vi ) original source :( a ) organism : rubella virus ( b ) strain : therien ( xi ) sequence description : seq id no : 12 : acgtgcatgcctgcagtttttttttttttttttttt36 ( 2 ) information for seq id no : 13 :( i ) sequence characteristics :( a ) length : 49 base pairs ( b ) type : nucleic acid ( c ) strandedness : single ( d ) topology : linear ( ii ) molecule type : cdna to genomic rna ( iii ) hypothetical : no ( iv ) anti - sense : no ( vi ) original source :( a ) organism : rubella virus ( b ) strain : therien ( xi ) sequence description : seq id no : 13 : aagcttatttaggtgacactatagnnatggaagctatcggacctcgctt 49