CA1065305A - PROCESS FOR THE ENRICHMENT OF THE PREGNANCY-SPECIFIC .beta.1-GLYCOPROTEIN - Google Patents
PROCESS FOR THE ENRICHMENT OF THE PREGNANCY-SPECIFIC .beta.1-GLYCOPROTEINInfo
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Abstract
Abstract of the disclosure:
Process for the enrichment of the pregnancy-specific .beta.1-gylco-protein (SP1) from blood serum, urine or placenta extracts, which comprises contracting the starting material at a pH-value of between 4 and 9 with an antibody against the pregnancy-spe-cific .beta.1-glycoprotein, said antibody being bound onto an in-soluble carrier, separating the carrier containing the SP1 in bound form from the liquid phase and in order to isolate the SP1 treating the carrier with an aqueous medium at a pH-value of from 2 to 4 or with the solution of a substance which disso-ciatos a protein molecule at a pH-value of from 4 to 9.
Process for the enrichment of the pregnancy-specific .beta.1-gylco-protein (SP1) from blood serum, urine or placenta extracts, which comprises contracting the starting material at a pH-value of between 4 and 9 with an antibody against the pregnancy-spe-cific .beta.1-glycoprotein, said antibody being bound onto an in-soluble carrier, separating the carrier containing the SP1 in bound form from the liquid phase and in order to isolate the SP1 treating the carrier with an aqueous medium at a pH-value of from 2 to 4 or with the solution of a substance which disso-ciatos a protein molecule at a pH-value of from 4 to 9.
Description
GermanPatent Application laid open to public inspection DOS 21 57 610 describes a glycoprotein which occurs in the pla-centa and is called "Pregnancy-specific ~l-glycoprotein" (herein-after referred to as SPl). Said Patent Application furthermore describes a process for the isolation of this glycoprotein.
Now, we have found a process which permits the isolation of the pregnancy-specific Bl-glycoprotein with better yield and higher purity.
The process of the invention comprises contacting blood serum, urine or the extract of placentas at a pH-value of bet-ween 4 and 9 with an antibody against the pregnancy-specific ~l-glycoprotein, which antibody is bound onto an insoluble carrier, separating this carrier onto which the said glycoprotein has then fixed from the liquid phase and, in order to isolate the glyco-protein, treating the carrier with an aqueous medium having a pH-value of 2 to 4 or with a solution of a substance that disso-ciates protein molecules at a pH-value of 4 to 9, preferably at about a pH-value of 7.
In this process, the pregnancy-specific ~l-glycoprotein is isolated from its solutions by specific immuno-adsorption with the aid of a carrier which contains the corresponding anti-body in insoluble form.
An antibody which can be fixed in known manner onto a solid carrier can be prepared by immunizing animals with the pregnancy-specific ~l-glycoprotein. The blood of the animals so treated is worked up in known manner to obtain the immuno-globulin fraction. The anti-SPl-serum so isolated is then bound to suitable carriers. Such processes are described, for example in Ann. Rev. Biochem. 40 (1971) 259; Naturwissenschaften 58 . - 2 -(1971) 389 or Nature 214 (1967) 1302. Particularly suitable are highly polymeric carbohydrates such as cellulose or agar, syn-thetic resins such as polyacryloamide or copolymers of ethylene/-~eic acid anhydride. Even glass particles may be used ascarriers.
A particularly preferred carrier material is purified agarose in the form of small spheres of a diameter of about 20 to 200 um, onto which the antibodies against SPl are fixed covalently accord-ing to the last of the above-mentioned methods.
For the isolation of SPl from solutions, which additionally contain other proteins and carbohydrates, for example placental extracts or serum or urine of pregnant women, the mentioned starting material is contacted with the adsorbent carrying the antibody, while adjusting the pH-value to >4. In order to pre-vent denaturation of the proteins, it is advisable to chose a pH-value which is not higher than 9. The salt concentration of the solution is not critical. However, conditions should be avoided under which the linkage between antigens and antibodies would be loosened. It is preferred to use an aqueous solution which contains neutral salts and/or the buffer substances usually employed in biochemical reactions, in particular sodium chloride, phosphate buffers, tris-hydroxymethylaminomethane or other known buffer substances, for example those described in Biochemistry 5 (1966) 472. The concentration of these substances is suitable in the range of from 0.01 to 2 moles/l. The ratio of protein solution to adsorbent is suitable in the range of from 1:1 to 10:1, preferably 2:1. The adsorbent should be in 10~5305 contact with the protein solution for 0.1 to 5 hours to permit linkage of the antibodies with the antigens.
The adsorbent is then separated from the solution by centri-fugation or filtration and washed several times with a neutral salt solution in order to eliminate excess salts and unspeci-fically adsorbed impurities.
The elution of SPl from the antibody-containing carrier can be effected in known manner by measures which cause dissociation of antigen-antibody linkages. For example, the elution may be carried out by introducing the carrier into an aqueous medium having a pH-value of <4, preferably between 2 and 4. The corres-ponding solution should contain salts and suitable buffer sub-stances in a suitable concentration, preferably from 0.2 to 8 moles/l.
It is advisable to stir the dispersion of the adsorbent in this solution for 0.1 to 2 hours, during which time the SPl is desorbed from the immuno-adsorbent. After separation of the adsorbent, the pH-value of the solution containing the SPl is adjusted to about neutral (6 to 8). If desired, the solution may be subjected to a further purification operation, for example to adsorption on hydroxy-apatite.
The elution of SPl from the antibody-containing carrier may also be carried out with the aid of substances that dissociate proteins, for example solutions of urea or solutions of so-called chaotroPic salts such as NaN03, NaBr, NaC104, CF3COONa, NaSCN
or CC13COONa. The concentration of these salts in the elution medium is suitably 0.2 to 8 moles/l. In order to remove from the solution, after desorption of the SPl, the substances which dissociate protein molecules and to separate the adsorbent, the solution can be dialyzed against a neutral salt solution or a buffer solution having a concentration of from 0.1 to 1 mole/l.
The SPl obtained by the above-described process has purity of 60 to 95%. It can be enriched to more than 99% by further purification operations.
The following Example illustrates the process of the invention.
EXAMPLE:
Isolation of the pregnancy-specific ~l-glycoprotein from its solutions by immuno-adsorption An amino-adsorbent suitable for the specific linkage of the pregnancy-specific ~l-glycoprotein was obtained by covalently binding anti-pregnancy-specific Bl-glycoprotein-immunoglo-bulins on a suitable carrier. The immuno-adsorbent used in the present example was prepared by fixing 1.75 g of a protein isolated from the immuno-globulin fraction of an anti-pregnancy-specific ~l-glycoprotein rabbit serum onto 175 g of Sepharose (R) 4 B (Pharmacia Uppsala), which had been activated with 21.8 g of BrCn (Axen, R., Porath, J., Ernbach, S. : Nature 214, 1302 (1967)). With the aid of this immuno-adsorbent, the pregnancy-specific ~l-glycoprotein was isolated from the extracts of pla-centas according to the following process:
The placental extract containing the pregnancy-specific ~1-glycoprotein was first dialyzed against 0.1 m of a buffer of trishydroxymethylaminomethane and hydrochloric acid (pH 8.0), which contained 1.0 mole/liter of NaCl and 1 g/liter of sodium azide. This solution was combined with the carrier-bound anti-pregnancy-specific ~l-glycoprotein-immunoglobulin, the whole was stirred for 2hours at 4C and the adsorbent with the bound pregnancy-specific ~l-glycoprotein was filtered off with suction. The adsorbent was then washed with 2 x 250 ml of the 0.1 m trishydroxymethylaminomethane-hydrochloric acid buffer solution and subsequently with 2 x 250 ml of a physiological NaCl solution (~.9% strength); the pregnancy-specific ~l-glyco-protein was finally eluted from the adsorbent by a six-fold treatment of the adsorbent each time for 20 minutes with 400 ml of a 0.5 m glycine-HCl buffer that had a pH-value of 2.5. The combined eluates were adjusted to pH 7.0 by means of lN-NaOH
and concentrated to 10 ml on an ultra-filter. The solution con-taining the pregnancy-specific ~l-glycoprotein was rendered free from salt by a dialysis against water and eventually lyophilized.
If desired, the SPl-solution could be further purified, for example, by the following processes: the concentrate was dia-lyzed against a 0.005 m sodium phosphate buffer having a pH-value of 6.8 and/or purified by chromatography on hydroxyl-apatite. Thereby, the plasma-proteins bound unspecifically to the immuno-adsorbent and eluted later on were adsorbed onto the hydroxyl-apatite, while the eluate contained the pregnancy-spe-cific Bl-glycoprotein in a highly purified form (purity >99%).
The same method was applied using the pregnancy-specific ~l-glycoprotein isolated from the serum or urine of pregnant women.
Now, we have found a process which permits the isolation of the pregnancy-specific Bl-glycoprotein with better yield and higher purity.
The process of the invention comprises contacting blood serum, urine or the extract of placentas at a pH-value of bet-ween 4 and 9 with an antibody against the pregnancy-specific ~l-glycoprotein, which antibody is bound onto an insoluble carrier, separating this carrier onto which the said glycoprotein has then fixed from the liquid phase and, in order to isolate the glyco-protein, treating the carrier with an aqueous medium having a pH-value of 2 to 4 or with a solution of a substance that disso-ciates protein molecules at a pH-value of 4 to 9, preferably at about a pH-value of 7.
In this process, the pregnancy-specific ~l-glycoprotein is isolated from its solutions by specific immuno-adsorption with the aid of a carrier which contains the corresponding anti-body in insoluble form.
An antibody which can be fixed in known manner onto a solid carrier can be prepared by immunizing animals with the pregnancy-specific ~l-glycoprotein. The blood of the animals so treated is worked up in known manner to obtain the immuno-globulin fraction. The anti-SPl-serum so isolated is then bound to suitable carriers. Such processes are described, for example in Ann. Rev. Biochem. 40 (1971) 259; Naturwissenschaften 58 . - 2 -(1971) 389 or Nature 214 (1967) 1302. Particularly suitable are highly polymeric carbohydrates such as cellulose or agar, syn-thetic resins such as polyacryloamide or copolymers of ethylene/-~eic acid anhydride. Even glass particles may be used ascarriers.
A particularly preferred carrier material is purified agarose in the form of small spheres of a diameter of about 20 to 200 um, onto which the antibodies against SPl are fixed covalently accord-ing to the last of the above-mentioned methods.
For the isolation of SPl from solutions, which additionally contain other proteins and carbohydrates, for example placental extracts or serum or urine of pregnant women, the mentioned starting material is contacted with the adsorbent carrying the antibody, while adjusting the pH-value to >4. In order to pre-vent denaturation of the proteins, it is advisable to chose a pH-value which is not higher than 9. The salt concentration of the solution is not critical. However, conditions should be avoided under which the linkage between antigens and antibodies would be loosened. It is preferred to use an aqueous solution which contains neutral salts and/or the buffer substances usually employed in biochemical reactions, in particular sodium chloride, phosphate buffers, tris-hydroxymethylaminomethane or other known buffer substances, for example those described in Biochemistry 5 (1966) 472. The concentration of these substances is suitable in the range of from 0.01 to 2 moles/l. The ratio of protein solution to adsorbent is suitable in the range of from 1:1 to 10:1, preferably 2:1. The adsorbent should be in 10~5305 contact with the protein solution for 0.1 to 5 hours to permit linkage of the antibodies with the antigens.
The adsorbent is then separated from the solution by centri-fugation or filtration and washed several times with a neutral salt solution in order to eliminate excess salts and unspeci-fically adsorbed impurities.
The elution of SPl from the antibody-containing carrier can be effected in known manner by measures which cause dissociation of antigen-antibody linkages. For example, the elution may be carried out by introducing the carrier into an aqueous medium having a pH-value of <4, preferably between 2 and 4. The corres-ponding solution should contain salts and suitable buffer sub-stances in a suitable concentration, preferably from 0.2 to 8 moles/l.
It is advisable to stir the dispersion of the adsorbent in this solution for 0.1 to 2 hours, during which time the SPl is desorbed from the immuno-adsorbent. After separation of the adsorbent, the pH-value of the solution containing the SPl is adjusted to about neutral (6 to 8). If desired, the solution may be subjected to a further purification operation, for example to adsorption on hydroxy-apatite.
The elution of SPl from the antibody-containing carrier may also be carried out with the aid of substances that dissociate proteins, for example solutions of urea or solutions of so-called chaotroPic salts such as NaN03, NaBr, NaC104, CF3COONa, NaSCN
or CC13COONa. The concentration of these salts in the elution medium is suitably 0.2 to 8 moles/l. In order to remove from the solution, after desorption of the SPl, the substances which dissociate protein molecules and to separate the adsorbent, the solution can be dialyzed against a neutral salt solution or a buffer solution having a concentration of from 0.1 to 1 mole/l.
The SPl obtained by the above-described process has purity of 60 to 95%. It can be enriched to more than 99% by further purification operations.
The following Example illustrates the process of the invention.
EXAMPLE:
Isolation of the pregnancy-specific ~l-glycoprotein from its solutions by immuno-adsorption An amino-adsorbent suitable for the specific linkage of the pregnancy-specific ~l-glycoprotein was obtained by covalently binding anti-pregnancy-specific Bl-glycoprotein-immunoglo-bulins on a suitable carrier. The immuno-adsorbent used in the present example was prepared by fixing 1.75 g of a protein isolated from the immuno-globulin fraction of an anti-pregnancy-specific ~l-glycoprotein rabbit serum onto 175 g of Sepharose (R) 4 B (Pharmacia Uppsala), which had been activated with 21.8 g of BrCn (Axen, R., Porath, J., Ernbach, S. : Nature 214, 1302 (1967)). With the aid of this immuno-adsorbent, the pregnancy-specific ~l-glycoprotein was isolated from the extracts of pla-centas according to the following process:
The placental extract containing the pregnancy-specific ~1-glycoprotein was first dialyzed against 0.1 m of a buffer of trishydroxymethylaminomethane and hydrochloric acid (pH 8.0), which contained 1.0 mole/liter of NaCl and 1 g/liter of sodium azide. This solution was combined with the carrier-bound anti-pregnancy-specific ~l-glycoprotein-immunoglobulin, the whole was stirred for 2hours at 4C and the adsorbent with the bound pregnancy-specific ~l-glycoprotein was filtered off with suction. The adsorbent was then washed with 2 x 250 ml of the 0.1 m trishydroxymethylaminomethane-hydrochloric acid buffer solution and subsequently with 2 x 250 ml of a physiological NaCl solution (~.9% strength); the pregnancy-specific ~l-glyco-protein was finally eluted from the adsorbent by a six-fold treatment of the adsorbent each time for 20 minutes with 400 ml of a 0.5 m glycine-HCl buffer that had a pH-value of 2.5. The combined eluates were adjusted to pH 7.0 by means of lN-NaOH
and concentrated to 10 ml on an ultra-filter. The solution con-taining the pregnancy-specific ~l-glycoprotein was rendered free from salt by a dialysis against water and eventually lyophilized.
If desired, the SPl-solution could be further purified, for example, by the following processes: the concentrate was dia-lyzed against a 0.005 m sodium phosphate buffer having a pH-value of 6.8 and/or purified by chromatography on hydroxyl-apatite. Thereby, the plasma-proteins bound unspecifically to the immuno-adsorbent and eluted later on were adsorbed onto the hydroxyl-apatite, while the eluate contained the pregnancy-spe-cific Bl-glycoprotein in a highly purified form (purity >99%).
The same method was applied using the pregnancy-specific ~l-glycoprotein isolated from the serum or urine of pregnant women.
Claims (4)
PROPERTY OR PRIVILEGE IS CLAIMED ARE DEFINED AS FOLLOWS:
1. A process for the enrichment of the pregnancy-specific .beta.1-glycoprotein from blood serum, urine or the extracts of placenta in which the blood serum, urine or the extracts are contacted at a pH of from 4 to 9 with an antibody against the pregnancy-specific .beta.1-glycoprotein, said antibody being bound onto an insoluble carrier, whereby the .beta.1-glycoprotein becomes bound to the carrier, the carrier is separated from the serum, urine or extracts, and the sep-arated carrier is treated to isolate the pregnancy-specific .beta.1-glycoprotein from the carrier.
2. A process as claimed in claim 1 in which the sep-arated carrier is treated with an aqueous solution at a pH of from 2 to 4 to isolate the pregnancy-specific .beta.1-glycoprotein.
3. A process as claimed in claim 1 in which the sep-arated carrier is treated with a solution of a substance which dissociates a protein molecule at a pH of from 4 to 9.
4. A process as claimed in claim 1, claim 2 or claim 3 in which the carrier comprises purified agarose in the form of small spheres having a diameter in the range of from 20 to 200 um.
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