AU762659B2 - Process for the specific detection of glycosylated proteins - Google Patents

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AU762659B2
AU762659B2 AU64366/99A AU6436699A AU762659B2 AU 762659 B2 AU762659 B2 AU 762659B2 AU 64366/99 A AU64366/99 A AU 64366/99A AU 6436699 A AU6436699 A AU 6436699A AU 762659 B2 AU762659 B2 AU 762659B2
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Abstract

A method (I) for the specific detection of glycosylated proteins, is new and comprises incubation of the samples to be investigated with a solid phase coated with a substrate, onto which the protein-bound glycosylated groups bind, washing and detection using monoclonal antibodies. A method (I) for the specific detection of glycosylated proteins, is new and comprises: (a) incubating the sample to be investigated with a solid phase coated with a substrate, to which the protein-bound glycosylated groups bind; (b) removing any unbound sample by washing; (c) exposing the immobilized, glycosylated protein to a marked F(ab) fragment or a F(ab)'2 fragment of a protein-specific monoclonal antibody; and (d) removing any unbound fragments and analyzing the remaining bound parts. An Independent claim is also included for an assay (II) carrying out using (I).

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AUSTRALIA
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COMPLETE SPECIFICATION STANDARD PATENT Application Number: Lodged: Invention Title: PROCESS FOR THE SPECIFIC DETECTION OF GLYCOSYLATED
PROTEINS
The following statement is a full description of this invention, including the best method of performing it known to us CENTEON PHARMA GMBH 19981Z020 Ma 1195 Process for the specific detection of glycosylated proteins The invention relates to a process for the determination of glycosylated proteins which are bound to a solid phase and, after reaction, are detected photometrically using a labeled substrate.
The glycosylation of proteins is a complex process which takes place subsequent to protein synthesis in the cell interior. As a result of glycosylation, proteins are stabilized and in some cases also even equipped with their specific properties. The sugars linked to amino acids by means of O- or N-glycosylation have considerable physiological functions, for example as part of the protein structures recognized by the cell receptors, which in turn can play a role in cell activation processes or the half-life of proteins. Although monosaccharides are ubiquitous and not characteristic of a certain species, it is not unusual for complex sugar structures, which are constructed from the known sugars in different ways, to be found for certain living beings.
Glycosylation plays a particular role in recombinantly prepared proteins. A protein prepared, for example, in yeast cells, which completely resembles the amino acid sequence of the human protein, as a rule has a markedly different glycosylation pattern if appropriate glycosylation sites are present.
This can lead to a modified half-life of the recombinant protein, for example in the plasma, or to an induction of antibodies which can provoke allergic reactions on repeated administration of the protein. This is particularly significant if appropriately high doses of the protein are administered.
2 In the expression of recombinant proteins, it is not unusually observed that only a part of the protein is glycosylated which is to be detected and, if appropriate, to be removed from the product. It is therefore important to be able to detect even traces of glycosylated proteins. Although the person skilled in the art is familiar with some chemical methods for the determination of glycosylated proteins, these methods are often complicated and do not make the simultaneous quantification of the specific protein in a more complex solution possible. The ELISA technique also offers a possibility for the detection of glycosylated proteins, specific antibodies being directed against the glycoside structures and, by means of a second antibody, make the detection of another part of the primary structure possible. However, polyclonal and monoclonal antibodies are often produced in rodents such as rabbits or mice, which often do not have the ability to produce antibodies which are directed against glycoside structures. In these cases, the ELISA technique does not lead to utilizable results.
S: One possibility of replacing the antibodies recognizing a glycoside structure in a detection process consists in the use of lectins. These are specific proteins which very specifically recognize and bind saccharides even in lipid- or protein-bound form. They are widespread in all living organisms. The longest-known lectins are concanavalin A, abrin, ricin and phasin. Depending on their nature, they can bind different glycoside radicals. It was therefore to be suspected that the binding of glycosylated proteins to immobilized lectin and their subsequent detection by means of a specific, labeled antibody against the nonglycosylated region should be possible. It was likewise to be expected that it should be possible to immobilize an antibody against the specific protein on the solid phase and to carry out the detection of the glycosidic structures using a labeled lectin.
However, it has been shown that the production of a standard curve using appropriate test proteins does not lead to any clear dependence on concentration and measured signal. Surprisingly, however, this is possible 3 if instead of the complete, monoclonal antibody (mAb) a corresponding labeled F(ab) fragment is used.
The invention therefore relates to a process for the specific detection of glycosylated proteins, in which a) incubating the sample to be investigated with a solid phase which is coated with a substrate which immobilizes the glycosidic groups bonded to the protein, b) removing the remains of the sample not bound to the solid phase by washing, c) allowing an enzyme-labeled F(ab) fragment or F(ab')2 fragment of a monoclonal antibody directed against the specific protein to act on the immobilized, glycosylated protein, and d) after washing out the unbound, labeled F(ab) fragment or F(ab')2 fragment by addition of a substance which is chromogenic or induces chemiluminescence, detecting the bound, glycosylated protein photometrically.
The substrate employed for coating the solid phase can be a lectin.
Moreover, it is also possible for coating the solid phase to use a monoclonal antibody directed against the specific protein or a fragment of an antibody of this type. The detection of the bound, glycosylated protein can then be carried out using a labeled lectin.
The surprising observation that the complete, monoclonal antibody (mAb) cannot be employed for the detection process according to the invention but the corresponding labeled F(ab) fragment, in particular the F(ab')2 fragment, can be used, was explainable by the observation that the complete monoclonal antibody is bound to over 90% to a ConA matrix 4 (concanavalin A matrix), while over 99% of the F(ab')2 fragment was to be found in the column eluate. The reason for this observation could be seen in the fact that the complete monoclonal antibody has glycosylated Fc portions which are bound to the ConA matrix so that the monoclonal antibody is no longer adequately available for the detection of the immobilized, glycosylated protein.
For the binding of the glycosylated proteins to the solid phase, the abovementioned lectins or their derivatives, which are known to the person skilled in the art, can thus be used. In this case, particular attention is to be paid to the fact that divalent cations are present, especially magnesium, calcium and/ or manganese ions in the form of their water-soluble salts, for example as chlorides. The presence of one or more of these ions is necessary in order to maintain the complex lectin structure which is necessary for the binding of the glycoside groups. The use of lectins as agents for the immobilization of glycosylated proteins can be carried out, :for example, using microtiter plates which are coated with concanavalin A.
Attention is to be paid here to the presence of divalent cations for the binding of the glycosylated protein by the lectin. This also applies to the subsequent washing processes, the incubation with the sample to be investigated and the subsequent detection reaction. The presence of the divalent cations mentioned is also important if the labeled lectin is used as a detector in a corresponding test.
A preferred detection process for glycosylated proteins is thus carried out by first incubating a sample containing glycosylated protein with a lectin which is adsorbed on or bound to a solid phase; the solid phase is then washed and incubated with an antigen-binding fragment of an antibody specific for the protein, preferentially an F(ab')2 fragment which, for example, is labeled with an enzyme. Detection with the aid of peroxidase has proven particularly suitable. Moreover, however, detection is also possible by means of a labeled antigen-binding fragment of a second antibody. Conversely, the F(ab')2 fragment can also be immobilized on the 5 solid phase, it then being possible to detect the glycosidic groups of the glycosylated protein using a labeled lectin as a detector reagent after incubation with the sample to be investigated.
The invention is illustrated by the following example: *o oooo*« 6 Example 1: Albumin was used in this example. To a certain amount, this contained glycosylated molecules which were to be detected and quantified.
In order to obtain a reference substance, glycosylated albumin was obtained preparatively by means of a ConA-Sepharose® (Pharmacia AB, Sweden) and quantified by conventional protein determination methods.
Owing to the removal of the saccharified molecules from the albumin starting solution and the abovementioned quantification, the content of saccharified albumin in the starting solution could also be calculated. Both solutions, i.e. albumin having a known content of glycosylated albumin and the "pure" saccharified albumin were used for plotting standard curves in the test system described.
Microtiter plates were incubated at room temperature for 16 hours with 150 pti per well of a concanavalin A (type IV-S, Sigma, Germany) containing ptg/ml. The coating buffer contained 20 mM Na acetate, 4 mM MgCl2, 4 mM CaCI2, 4mM MnCI2, pH 5.5. After washing the plates, the various dilutions of the standard or the samples were applied. These had been diluted beforehand with sample buffer, consisting of 50 mM tris, 150 mM NaCI, 10 mM MgCl2, 0.5% Tween 20, pH 7.2. After incubation at 37°C for one hour, the wells were washed three times with sample buffer and then incubated at 370C for a further hour with 100 pLi each of a peroxidaselabeled monoclonal antibody against human albumin or its F(ab')2 fragments. After washing three times, a POD substrate was pipetted into the wells and incubated at room temperature (in the dark) for 5 minutes, the reaction was stopped and the OD450 was determined photometrically.
Samples which contained a known amount of glycosylated albumin were included and quantified in each case.
7 Result: The standard curves were determined on four successive days. The results obtained by means of the complete mAb's were poorly reproducible and in some cases revealed rio dependence or an unsatisfactory dependence of the measured signal on the concentration employed (not shown). The mean values and standard deviations of the measured values, however, which were obtained with the aid of the labeled F(ab')2 fragments, are shown in Fig. 1. In this figure: triangles signify pure glycosylated albumin squares signify albumin with a corresponding content of glycosylated albumin.
The parallel and almost identical course in the case of the standard curve shows that the reaction or the measured signals are specific and only the saccharified albumin was shown.
l* The measured values obtained with known total contents of glycosylated albumin are shown in the following table: Sample No. Content of glycosylated Measured content of albumin glycosylated albumin 1 0.66 0.61 2 0.55 0.59 3 0.72 0.73 4 0.59 0.54 0.60 0.68 "Comprises/comprising" when used in this specification is taken to specify the presence of stated features, integers, steps or components but does not preclude the presence or addition of one or more other features, integers, steps, components or groups thereof.

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1. A process for the specific detection of glycosylated proteins, which comprises a) incubating the sample to be investigated with a solid phase which is coated with a substrate which immobilizes the glycosidic groups bonded to the protein, b) removing the remains of the sample not bound to the solid phase by washing, c) allowing a labeled F(ab) fragment or F(ab')2 fragment of a monoclonal antibody directed against the specific protein to act on the immobilized, glycosylated protein, and d) after washing out the unbound F(ab) fragment or F(ab')2 fragment, detecting the bound fraction.
2. The process as claimed in claim 1, wherein the substrate employed for coating the solid phase is a lectin.
3. A process for the specific detection of glycosylated proteins, which comprises employing an F(ab) or F(ab')2 fragment of a monoclonal antibody directed against the specific protein or against the specific glycoside structures, washing out the fractions not bound to the solid phase and detecting the bound fractions.
4. The process as claimed in claim 3, wherein a labelled lectin is employed for the detection of the bound, glycosylated protein.
The process as claimed in any one of claims 1 to 4, wherein the binding of the glycosylated protein to the labelled or unlabeled lectin is carried out in the presence of divalent cations.
6. An assay for carrying our the detection process of any one of claims 1 to DATED this 24 th day of February 2003 AVENTIS BEHRING GMBH WATERMARK PATENT TRADE MARK ATTORNEYS 290 BURWOOD ROAD HAWTHORN VICTORIA 3122 AUSTRALIA P16606AU00 KJS/SLB *o ••g
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