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New Proteases Able to Hydrolyze Gluten Peptides and Proteins at Acidic PH, from the Actinomycete Actinoallomurus

a technology of endopeptides and proteases, which is applied in the direction of peptide/protein ingredients, immunological disorders, drug compositions, etc., can solve the problems of very difficult diet and strong patient demands, and achieve the effects of reducing the levels of toxic gluten oligopeptides, preventing symptoms, and effectively producing protein hydrolyzates

Inactive Publication Date: 2014-12-04
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Benefits of technology

This patent describes a way to prevent wheat allergies and skin rashes by using enzymes to break down harmful parts of wheat called gluten oligopeptides. These enzymes, along with other proteases and aminopeptidases, can be used to create protein hydrolyzates for use in food and medicine. Overall, this technology helps to make safer wheat-based products for people with Celiac sprue or dermatitis herpetiformis.

Problems solved by technology

Such a diet is, however, strongly demanding for patients, which are restricted in their common activities and suffer from social isolation.
The use of gluten as additive in food processes is widespread and is the main cause of unaware ingestion of gluten, making this diet really difficult to maintain.

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Actinoallomurus sp. DSM 24988 Endopeptidases Identification and Characterization

1.1 Strain Cultivation and Protein Production

[0106]The Actinoallomurus strain used according to this invention derives from the Applicants strain collection.

[0107]Actinoallomurus sp. DSM 24988 was maintained on ISP2 agar medium (Shirling and Gottlieb, 1966) acidified at pH 5.5 with HCl. The microbial content of one plate was scraped and inoculated into one 50 ml Erlenmeyer flask containing 15 ml of medium AF5 which is composed of: (g / l) dextrose 20, yeast extract 2, soybean meal 8, NaC11 and MES 10. Medium was prepared in distilled water and pH adjusted to 5.5 prior to sterilization at 121° C. for 20 min. The inoculated flask was grown at 28° C., on a rotary shaker operating at 200 rpm. After 5-6 days incubation, 5% of culture was inoculated into a second series of 500 ml Erlenmeyer flasks containing 100 ml of the same fermentation medium. Protein production was performed in flasks incubated for 15 days ...

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Endopeptidase Production in Recombinant Host Cells

2.1 Strains and Plasmids.

[0133]Actinoallomurus sp. DSM 24988 was used in this study. All plasmid subcloning experiments were performed in E. coli DH10B (Invitrogen, Carlsbad, Calif.) using the plasmid pTZ57R / T (Fermentas, UAB, Lithuania).

[0134]Escherichia coli B121(DE3) Star(Novagen Italia, Podenzano, PC) was used to produce heterologous (recombinant) peptidases.

2.2 Recombinant Protease Production

[0135]Recombinant Actinoallomurus proteases were produced and purified from Escherichia coli B121(DE3) Star used as the expression system.

[0136]To construct E. coli strains producing Endopep-140 and Endopep-40 nucleotide sequences of genes were amplified using the following set of primers:

Fendopep-140SEQ ID NO: 125′-AAAAAGCTTCAGCTACAGGTGTGGTCGG-3′Rendopep-140SEQ ID NO: 135′-AAAAAAACATATGCCCGATCTTCCCACCC-3′Fendopep-40SEQ ID NO: 145′-AAAAAGCTTCAGAAGGCTCCGGTGCC-3′Rendopep-40SEQ ID NO: 155′-AAAAAAACATATGTCACGACGCGTGACCG-3′

[0137]The PCR products ...

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Endopeptidase Biological Activity

3.1 Degradation of 33-Mer Toxic Peptide of Gliadin at Acidic pH

[0141]A solution of 33-mer immunotoxic peptide of gliadin (50 μM) was incubated at 37° C. for up to 2 hours in the presence of 4 μU of endopep-140 or 2 μU endopep-40 in presence or absence of pepsin 1 mg / ml. The reaction was carried out in acetic acid 20 mM pH 3, total volume of 300 μl. The reaction was monitored at different times from 0 to 120 min (t0, t3, t15, t30, t60 and t120 min) at 37° C. Disappearance of the 33-mer peptide and appearance of degradation products was monitored by HPLC-MS analysis. 50 μl aliquots were taken and the enzyme activity was stopped with 50 μl H2O: CH3CN 50:50 (+0.1% formic acid). The samples were submitted to HPLC-MS, analyzed on LTQ-XL mass spectrometer (Thermo Fisher Scientific, San Jose, Calif., USA). The HPLC-MS profiles obtained with endopep-140, endopep-140 and pepsin, pepsin alone are reported in FIGS. 5, 6, 7 respectively. The disappearance of the ...

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Abstract

The invention relates to a new family of proteolytic enzymes having the ability to hydrolize at a p H between 3 and 8 gluten olygopeptides which are resistant to cleavage by gastric and pancreatic enzymes and whose presence in the intestinal lumen results in toxic effects. The enzymes have been identified as endopeptidases of the S8 / S53 family and are produced by an Actinoallomurus strain. The object of the invention includes also methods for producing enzymes composition comprising the endopeptidases by cultivation of native Actinoallomurus strains, mutants thereof, or recombinant host cells comprising nucleic acids codifying for the endopeptidases. Said nucleic acids constitute a further object of the invention. The enzyme compositions comprising at least one endopeptidase of the invention are useful for the treatment and / or prevention of celiac sprue, dermatitis herpetiformis and any other disorder associated with gluten intolerance as ingredients of pharmaceutical formulations or as additives of foods and drinks.

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FIELD OF THE INVENTION[0001]The present invention relates to a novel endopeptidase family having unique catalytic properties that render it able to degrade large polypeptides, including those rich in proline. The present invention further relates to methods for producing the enzyme composition as well as pharmaceutical composition and a food supplement containing the enzyme composition and its use in the degradation of polypeptides.BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION[0002]Celiac Disease (CD) is a chronic gastrointestinal tract disorder in which ingestion of gluten, present in food products made from wheat, rye, barley and their cross-related varieties, leads to damage of the small intestinal mucosa by an autoimmune mechanism in genetically susceptible individuals (Green P. H. R., Cellier C. “Celiac Disease” N. Engl. J. Med., 2007, 357, 1731-1743; Kagnoff M. F. “Celiac disease: pathogenesis of a model immunogenetic disease” J. Clin. Invest., 2007, 117, 41-9). Mechanisms through which gluten ...

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IPC IPC(8): A61K38/48A23L2/52A23L1/30C12N9/52A23J3/34
CPCA61K38/48C12N9/52A23V2002/00A23L1/30A23L2/52A23J3/346A23L33/10A61K38/482C12Y304/21026A61P1/00A61P17/00A61P37/00A61P37/02
Inventor CAVALETTI, LINDACARRANO, LUCIAABBONDI, MONICABRUNATI, MARATARAVELLA, ANNA
Owner FOND IST INSUBRICO DI RICERCA PER LA VITA
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