Amino acid modified polypeptides

a technology of amino acid and polypeptide, which is applied in the field of amino acid modified polypeptides, can solve the problems of inability to produce collagen by commercial mass producers such as i>e. coli /i>, poor mechanical properties of collagen with low levels of 4-hydroxyproline, and inability to bind to a single amino acid, etc., to achieve the effect of increasing the stability of a recombinant polypeptid

Inactive Publication Date: 2006-08-10
GRUSKIN ELLIOTT +3
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Benefits of technology

This method enables the production of stable, functional human collagen with enhanced mechanical properties, capable of self-aggregation, by ensuring proper hydroxylation and optimal codon usage, facilitating the expression of collagen in E. coli.

Problems solved by technology

Collagen with low levels of 4-hydroxyproline has poor mechanical properties, as highlighted by the sequelae associated with scurvy.
However, when implanted into humans bovine collagen can cause acute and delayed immune responses.
Unfortunately, production of collagen by commercial mass producers of protein such as E. coli has not been successful.
A major problem is the extensive post-translational modification of collagen by enzymes not present in E. coli.
Failure of E. coli cells to provide proline hydroxylation of unhydroxylated collagen proline prevents manufacture of structurally sound collagen in commercial quantities.
Another problem in attempting to use E. coli to produce human collagen is that E. coli prefer particular codons in the production of polypeptides.
Efficient expression of heterologous (e.g. mammalian) genes in prokaryotes such as E. coli can be adversely affected by the presence in the gene of codons infrequently used in E. coli and expression levels of the heterologous protein often rise when rare codons are replaced by more common ones.
Thus, the cellular tRNA level may limit the rate of translation of the codon and therefore influence the overall translation rate of the full-length protein.
Although it would appear that substituting preferred codons for rare codons could be expected to increase expression of heterologous proteins in host organisms, such is not the case.
Indeed, “it has not been possible to formulate general and unambiguous rules to predict whether the content of low-usage codons in a specific gene might adversely affect the efficiency of its expression in E. coli.” See page 524 of S. C. Makrides (1996), Strategies for Achieving High-Level Expression of Genes in Escherichia coli.
In one case, introduction of non-optimal, rare arginine codons at the 3′ end of a gene actually increased the yield of expressed protein.
Failure to provide post-translational modifications such as hydroxylation of proline and the presence in human collagen of rare codons for E. coli may be contributing to the difficulties encountered in the expression of human collagen genes in E. coli.

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Trans-Membrane Transport

[0187] A 5 mL culture of E. coli strain DH5α (supE44 ΔlacU169 (φ801acZ ΔM15) hsdR17 recA1 endA1 gyrA96 thi-1 relA1) containing a plasmid conferring resistance to ampicillin (pMAL-c2, FIG. 1) was grown in Luria Broth to confluency (˜16 hours from inoculation). These cells were used to inoculate a 1 L shaker flask containing 500 mL of M9 minimal medium (M9 salts, 2% glucose, 0.01 mg / mL thiamine, 100 ∥g / mL ampicillin supplemented with all amino acids at 20 ∥g / mL) which was grown to an AU600 of 1.0 (18-20 hours). The culture was divided in half and the cells harvested by centrifugation. The cells from one culture, were-resuspended in 250 mL M9 media and those from the other in 250 mL of M9 media containing 0.5M NaCl. The cultures were equilibrated in an air shaker for 20 minutes at 37° C. (225 rpm) and divided into ten 25 mL aliquots. The cultures were returned to the shaker and 125 μl of 1M hydroxyproline in distilled H2O was added to each tube. At 2, 4, 8, 12,...

example 2

Effects of Salt Concentration on Transmembrane Transport

[0188] To determine the effects of salt concentration on transmembrane transport, an approach similar to Example 1 was taken. A S mL culture of E. coli strain DH5α (supE44 ΔlacU169 (φ80lacZ ΔM15) hsdR17 recA1 entA1 gyrA96 thi-1 relA1) containing a plasmid conferring resistance to ampicillin (pMAL-c2, FIG. 1) was grown in Luria Broth to confluency (˜16 hours from inoculation). These cells were used to inoculate a 1 L shaker flask containing 500 mL of M9 minimal medium (M9 salts, 2% glucose, 0.01 mg / nl thiamine, 100 μg / mL ampicillin supplemented with all amino acids at 20 μg / mL) that was then grown to an AU600 of 0.6. The culture was divided into three equal parts, the cells in each collected by centrifugation and resuspended in 150 mL M9 media, 150 mL M9 media containing 0.5M NaCl, and 150 mL M9 media containing 1.0M NaCl, respectively. The cultures were equilibrated for 20 minutes on a shaker at 37° C. (225 rpm) and then divid...

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Effects of Salt Concentration on Transmembrane Transport

[0189] To determine the effects of salt concentration on transmembrane transport, an approach similar to Example 1 was taken. A saturated culture of JM109 (F—) harboring plasmid pD4 (FIG. 48) growing in Luria Broth (LB) containing 100 μg / ml ampicillin (Amp) was used to inoculate 20 ml cultures of LB / Amp to an OD at 600 nm of 0.1 AU. The cultures were grown with shaking at 37° C. to an OD 600 run between 0.7 and 1.0 AU. Cells were collected by centrifugation and washed with 10 ml of M9 media. Each cell pellet was resuspended in 20 ml of M9 / Amp media supplemented with 0.5% glucose and 100 μg / ml of all of the amino acids except proline. Cultures were grown at 37° C. for 30 min. to deplete endogenous proline. After out-growth, NaCl was added to the indicated concentration, Hyp was added to 40 mM, and IPTG to 1.5 mM. After 3 hours at 37° C., cells from three 5 ml aliquots of each culture were collected separately on polycarbonate f...

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Abstract

Incorporation of certain amino acid analogs into polypeptides produced by cells which do not-ordinarily provide polypeptides containing such amino acid analogs is accomplished by subjecting the cells to growth media containing such amino acid analogs. The degree of incorporation can be regulated by adjusting the concentration of amino acid analogs in the media and / or by adjusting osmolality of the media. Such incorporation allows the chemical and physical characteristics of polypeptides to be altered and studied. In addition, nucleic acid and corresponding proteins including a domain from a physiologically active peptide and a domain from an extracellular matrix protein which is capable of providing a self-aggregate are provided. Human extracellular matrix proteins capable of providing a self-aggregate collagen are provided which are produced by prokaryotic cells. Preferred codon usage is employed to produce extracellular matrix proteins in prokaryotics.

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BACKGROUND [0001] 1. Technical Field [0002] Engineered polypeptides and chimeric polypeptides having incorporated amino acids which enhance or otherwise modify properties of such polypeptides. [0003] 2. Description of Related Art [0004] Genetic engineering allows polypeptide production to be transferred from one organism to another. In doing so, a portion of the production apparatus indigenous to an original host is transplanted into a recipient. Frequently, the original host has evolved certain unique processing pathways in association with polypeptide production which are not contained in or transferred to the recipient. For example, it is well known that mammalian cells incorporate a complex set of post-translational enzyme systems which impart unique characteristics to protein products of the systems. When a gene encoding a protein normally produced by mammalian cells is transferred into a bacterial or yeast cell, the protein may not be subjected to such post translational modif...

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Patent Type & AuthorityApplications(United States)
IPC IPC(8): C07H21/04C07K14/51C07K14/78C12N1/21C12P21/02
CPCC07K14/51C07K14/78C07K2319/00C12P21/02
InventorGRUSKIN, ELLIOTTBUECHTER, DOUGLASZHANG, GUANGHUICONNOLLY, KEVIN
OwnerGRUSKIN ELLIOTT