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Method for stabilization of proteins using non-natural amino acids

a technology of amino acids and proteins, applied in the field of improved stabilization of polypeptides, can solve the problems of loss of coiled coil stability, modest and unpredictable gains in stability, limited protein engineering scope, etc., and achieve rapid and predictable approach, increased stability, and high stability

Inactive Publication Date: 2009-09-03
CALIFORNIA INST OF TECH
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The present invention provides methods to improve the stability of proteins by adding non-natural amino acids to their structure. These modified proteins have significantly better thermal and chemical stability than their natural counterparts. The invention also provides purified polypeptides with non-natural amino acids that show increased stability compared to their natural counterparts.

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46, 249 1995), the scope of engineering of proteins is limited by the functionality offered by the twenty naturally occurring proteinogenic amino acids (V. W. Cornish, D. Mendel, P. G. Schultz, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. Engl. 34, 621, 1995), permitting only modest and unpredictable gains in stability by modifying the protein sequence.
Previous examples of employing other natural amino acids as an attempt to replace leucine have all resulted in loss in coiled coil stability (Moitra, J.; Szilak, L.; Krylov, D.; Vinson, C.
This is largely due to the fact that these substitutions are usually the “large” to “small” type and can result in loss of protein hydrophobic core packing efficiency (Sandberg, W.; Terwilliger, T.
Thus any perturbation with amino acids of slight difference in geometry can result in substantial energetic cost.

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[0055]The following Example provides a description of how the non-natural amino acid analogs trifluoroleucine (Tfl) and hexafluoroleucine (Hfl) were prepared.

[0056]Trifluoroleucine (Tfl, FIG. 1B) was synthesized in an overall yield of 22% in seven steps starting from β-trifluoromethylcrotonic acid (Oakwood Chemical, Columbia, S.C.), according to the procedure of Rennert et al. with slight modifications (Rennert, O. M.; Anker, H. S. Biochemistry 1963, 2, 471). DL-trifluoroleucine prepared by this method as the N-acetylated racemic mixture was resolved to L-trifluoroleucine by treatment with porcine kidney acylase (Sigma) to >99% enantiomeric excess (e.e). (Chenault et al. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 111, 6354-6364, 1989). The yield for the resolution was 67%. The determination of e.e. was accomplished by 1H NMR spectroscopy following derivatization with Mosher's acid, R-(+)-methoxytrifluoromethylphenylacetic acid.

[0057]Hexafluoroleucine (Hfl, FIG. 1B) was prepared by modification of the proced...

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[0058]The following Example provides a description of the chemical synthesis of “wild type” (Leu-GCN4-p1) and trifluoleucine incorporated (Tfl-GCN4-p1) forms of the leucine zipper peptide Leu-GCN4-p1.

[0059]The amino acid sequence of GCN4-p1 is shown in FIG. 1A. Both the “wild type” (Leu-GCN4-p1) and fluorinated (Tfl-GCN4-p1) forms of the leucine zipper peptide GCN4-p1 were synthesized at the Biopolymer Synthesis Center at the California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, Calif. 91125). Automated, stepwise solid-phase synthesis was performed on an ABI 433A synthesizer employing Fmoc chemistry. To prepare the fluorinated peptide (Tfl-GCN4-p1), N-Fmoc-5,5,5-trifluoro-L-leucine prepared as described in Example 1 was used as an equimolar mixture of the 2S,4S- and the 2S,4R-isomers, and incorporated into the peptide with extended coupling cycles. After chain assembly was complete, the peptide was deprotected and removed from the resin support with trifluoroacetic acid in the presence of 1...

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[0060]The following Example provides a description of the procedure used to express in E. coli cells, the “wild type” proteins and the corresponding “artificial” proteins of the invention, in which the leucine residues are replaced with a non-natural fluorinated amino acid.

[0061]Analog Incorporation Assay. The expression vector pQE-A1, which contains the coding sequences for the protein A1 (FIG. 4A) was obtained from US Army Natick RD&E Center (Natick, Mass.). The E. coli leucine auxotroph SG13009 was obtained from Qiagen (Chatsworth, Calif.) and transformed with plasmids pREP4 and pQE-A1, to yield the expression host LAE-A 1.

[0062]M9AA medium (30 ml) supplemented with 1 mM MgSO4, 1 mM CaCl2, 20 wt % glucose, 1 mg / L thiamin and the antibiotics ampicillin (200 mg / L) and kanamycin (25 mg / L) were inoculated with 1 ml of an overnight 2xYT culture of the expression strain. After the culture had grown to an OD600 of 1.0 at 37° C., the cells were collected by centrifugation at 5,000 g for ...

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Abstract

The present invention provides a method for producing modified stable polypeptides introducing at least one non-natural amino acid into the hydrophobic region of the polypeptide. The thermal and chemical stability of such polypeptides is improved compared to those properties of its corresponding wild type proteins.The invention further provides purified leucine zipper and coiled-coil proteins in which the leucine residues have been replaced with 5,5,5-trifluoroleucines, and the modified proteins so produced demonstrate increased thermal and chemical stability compared to their corresponding wild-type natural proteins.

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[0001]This work was supported by U.S. Army Research Grant DAAG559810518. The government may have rights in this invention.[0002]Throughout this application various publications are referenced. The disclosures of these publications in their entireties are hereby incorporated by reference into this application in order to more fully describe the state of the art to which this invention pertains.FIELD OF THE INVENTION[0003]The present invention relates to improved stabilization of polypeptides by incorporation of non-natural amino acids, such as hyper-hydrophobic amino acids, into the hydrophobic core regions of the polypeptides.BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION[0004]Engineering of stable enzymes and robust therapeutic proteins is of central importance to the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries. The primary internal driving forces for stabilizing proteins involve various interactions such as desolvation, electrostatic interaction, hydrogen bonding, and van der Waal forces, and a prop...

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Patent Type & Authority Applications(United States)
IPC IPC(8): C07K14/00C07K1/00C07K1/107C07K14/47C12P21/02
CPCC07K1/107C07K14/47C12N9/96C12P21/02C07K2/00C07K14/4705
Inventor TIRRELL, DAVID A.TANG, YI
Owner CALIFORNIA INST OF TECH
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