EP0216841A1 - Antigenically active protein and its use in the diagnosis of gonorrhoea - Google Patents
Antigenically active protein and its use in the diagnosis of gonorrhoeaInfo
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- This invention relates to an antigenically active protein which can be extracted from Neisseria gonorrhoeae, and to its use in a method of diagnosis of clinical gonorrhoea in human patients.
- the causative agent of gonorrhoea is the bacterium Neisseria gonorrhoeae.
- the genus Neisseria are diplococci which attach themselves to mucosal cells.
- Two species, N_. gonorrhoeae and II. meningitidis, the agent of meningococcal meningitis, also known as epidemic cerebrospinal fever, are important pathogens. There are other, non-pathogenic, species of the genus.
- N.J. Parsons et al. , Journal of General Microbio ⁇ logy 118, 523-527 (1980) have attempted to assess the diversity of immunotypes of strains of N_. gonorrhoeae. In 21 strains assessed there appeared to be at least 8 different immunotypes. A problem in improving the diagnosis of N_. gonorrhoeae is therefore to find an antigen or antibody which is common to most clinically occur ⁇ ring strains.
- N_. gonorrhoeae bacteria invading the mucosal tissue are rapidly attached by leucocytes which attempt to kill them by phagocytosis.
- some gonococci survive and grow intra- cellularly within the cells of the phagocytes.
- Studies have been in progress at the University of Birmingham, England, for some years to identify the determinants responsible for this ability of gonococci to resist killing by phagocytes. At first there was thought to be an association of the degree of pilation (amount of hairlike pile on the bacterial cell surface) with this resistance to killing by phagocytes.
- Strain BS4 is resistant to killing by human phagocytes. It was obtained from a laboratory strain BS (Kellogg type 2, small colony-forming, pilated) by selecting gonococci thereof which survived and grew within phagocytes, growing colonies of these gonococci, passaging them four times in plastic chambers implanted subcutaneously in guinea pigs and then growing them by minimal culture on agar.
- BS4 has long been made available by Professor H. Smith, Department of Microbiology,
- Strain BSSH is susceptible to killing by human phagocytes. It was obtained from the same laboratory strain BS by selecting gonococci thereof which were killed by phagocytes (these being the majority and recognisable from the survivors by an optical characteristic known as single highlight - the survivors gave a double highlight) and growing colonies on agar. Recently, J.G. Cannon et al. , Infection and Immunity 43,
- the present inventors have isolated a proteinaceous material from the outer membrane vesicles of the phagocyte-resistant strain BS4 and have shown it to react strongly with an antiserum to the phagocyte-resistant organism.
- the proteinaceous material can be defined as that obtainable from the strain of Neisseria gonorrhoeae BS4 (NCTC 11922), which strain is resistant to being killed by human phagocytes, said proteinaceous material being obtainable by (but not necessarily obtained by) extraction of the outer membrane vesicles (OMV) in 10 g/litre sodium cholate in an aqueous buffer at pH 9.5 and removing undissolved OMV, fractionating the extract and selecting a fraction comprising (consisting of or including) a proteinaceous material having a relative molecular mass of about 20 kDal and which neutralises antiserum to the phagocyte killing-resistant strain BS4 of Neisseria gonorrhoeae.
- OMV outer membrane vesicles
- the invention further provides a method of of assay of " human clinical gonorrhoea which comprises (1) incubating a sample, suspected of containing N. gonorrhoea or antibodies to N. gonorrhoea, from a body fluid of a human patient, (a) with the above-defined proteinaceous material or (b) with antibodies to said proteinaceous material, respectively, and (2) detecting whether neutralisation between the proteinaceous material and the antibodies has taken place.
- an ELISA is used.
- the invention includes, of course, a kit for use in such a method of diagnosis comprising (a) the proteinaceous material or (b) antibodies thereto as one component, usually insolubilised, and labelled antibodies as a second component.
- the kit may also include materials for use as a solid phase or in conjunction with the labelling and so forth, i.e. any materials normally present in EIA, fluorescent, or RIA diagnostic kits.
- a surprising element in the present invention is that the proteinaceous material interacted with sera from many different patients, giving no false readings. This indicates that the 20 kDal protein is an antigen common to many different strains of N_. gonorrhoeae, as distinct from being merely an antigen specific to BS4. This common antigenicity could not have been predicted.
- Figure 1 is a graph relating material obtained from fractiona- tion of the cholate extract to a measure of the amount of protein thereby obtained.
- Figure 2 is a photograph of SDS-PAGE in five lanes, on OMV, sodium cholate extract and various fractions of sodium cholate extract. Description of the preferred embodiments
- the fraction selected comprising proteinaceous material is that hereinafter designated 1b, defined as the fraction which gives a shoulder to the low molecular mass side of the UV absorption peak at 279 nm during continuous fractionation of the cholate extract by gel filtration.
- Fraction 1b contains proteins of approximately 35 and 60 kDal and lipopolysaccharide as well as the desired 20 kDal product.
- the 20 kDal product can be further purified by gel filtration and, if necessary, ion-exchange and the invention therefore includes fraction 1b when thus further purified and components of fraction 1b which also show the antiserum neutra ⁇ lising activity.
- the 20 kDal protein comprises the phagocyte killing-resistant antigen
- the proteinaceous material or antibodies thereto can be used in any convenient method of assay (detection or measurement) of gonorrhoea diagnosis.
- Conveniently sandwich assay is used with the proteinaceous material as solid phase antigen, but competitive and inhibition assays are, of course, alternatives. Labelling is . . .
- Monoclonal antibodies can be raised against the proteinaceous material of the invention by the now well known methods using for example, mice spleen cells to fuse with a myeloma, for example mouse myeloma cells.
- Hybridomas from II. gonorrhoeae are not novel, but it is believed that hybridomas secreting antibodies to the proteinaceous material of the invention are novel and they form part of the present invention.
- hybridomas can of course readily be obtained by the usual screening methodology, using the proteinaceous material of the present invention to detect the desired antibodies by for example, Western blotting.
- a preferred form of assay of the invention is the sandwich assay wherein either the proteinaceous material or antibodies thereto are insolubilised and after incubation with the liquid sample, the product of the interaction is incubated with labelled anti-human immunoglobulin, unbound label is separated from the insoluble material and any labelled insoluble material is detected or measured.
- the sandwich assay is illustrated schematically below
- MCA monoclonal antibodies thereto raised in mice
- Another form of assay is a competitive or displacement assay wherein either (1) the proteinaceous material or (2) antibodies thereto are insolubilised and incubated (a) with the liquid sample and (b) (1) with an insufficiency of labelled antibody or (2) with an insufficiency of labelled proteinaceous material, respectively, the unbound label is separated from the insoluble material and the label is detected or measured.
- competitive denotes simultaneous incubation of the competing partners, "displacement” that one is reacted before the other, but that the equilibrium between them is displaced by subsequent addition of the other. This type of assay is illustrated schematically below using the same symbols as above:
- Kits of the invention will usually include all the above- mentioned components except the sample together with appropriate standards.
- Polyclonal antibodies can of course be substituted for monoclonal antibodies with the usual disadvantages.
- the 20 kDal proteinaceous material is also useful as a component of a vaccine. It can therefore be formulated, for this purpose, with an adjuvant or carrier for example of aluminium hydroxide, especially "Alhydrogel” (Registered Trade Mark), or aluminium phosphate. A dosage in the range of 5 to 500 micrograms of 20 kDal protein is likely to be employed.
- Example 1 shows the preparation and properties of the proteinaceous material "Fraction 1b”.
- Example 2 illustrates its use in diagnosis.
- Example 3 shows that the monoclonal antibody (H8) of Cannon ejt ⁇ al. , supra is not anti to a determinant of resistance to killing by phagocytes.
- Example 4 describes further purification of fraction 1b.
- Example 5 provides further evidence that the 20 kDal protein of the invention comprises the determinant of phagocyte killing- resistance.
- Example 6 describes the preparation of hybridoma cell lines.
- EXAMPLE 1 METHODS Extraction of crude outer membrane vesicles (OMV) with sodium cholate
- OMV were extracted from strain BS4 (agar) (100 ml; 10 bacteria ml ) in 1 M lithium chloride as described previously (Parsons et al. , loc. cit. 1982). Sedimented OMV were resuspended in glycine/NaOH buffer, 0.1 M, pH 9.5 (approximately 20 ml) contain ⁇ ing sodium cholate (1% w/v) and agitated in 50 ml Erlenmeyer flasks with glass beads (3 mm diameter; 2 beads ml ) on an orbital shaker (60 cycles rnin " ) for 1 hour at 37°C. Undissolved OMV were removed by centrifugation (100,000 g, 1 hour, 4 C) and the extract was fractionated immediately. Fractionation of cholate extract
- strain BS4 agar
- 20 ml 4.8 M phenol agar
- the mixture was cooled to 4 C and the bacteria removed by centrifugation (10,000 g, 10 minutes, 4 C) .
- the top aqueous layer was retained and the middle and lower layers were re-extracted with distilled water, volume equal to the aqueous layer removed.
- the combined aqueous phases were pooled, centri- fuged (20,000 g, 10 minutes, 4 C) and dialysed against running tap water at room temperature for 2-3 days.
- the retentate was treated with 3 volumes of ice-cold dry acetone.
- the LPS precipitate (approxi ⁇ mately 50 mg) was collected by centrifugation (4000 g, 10 minues, room temperature) , redissolved in distilled water at a concentra- tion equivalent to 2 x 10 11 gonococci ml-1 and dialysed against distilled water for 14-15 hours at room temperature.
- the product was not purified further; it contained some protein and probably small amounts of nucleic acid and peptidoglycan.
- KDO 2-keto-3-deoxyoctonate
- protein and carbohydrate Assays for KDO and protein were as described by Parsons et al. , loc. cit. (1982).
- Carbohydrate was estimated by the anthrone method using glucose as standard. Indirect tests for the determinant of resistance to intracellular killing; pretreatment of strain BS4 (agar) with unabsorbed and absorbed antisera before phagocytosis tests
- phago- cytosis tests used strain BS4 (agar) pretreated with antiserum absorbed with a single concentration of the fraction containing the putative determinant. This concentration was equivalent to a
- the number of gonococci per phagocyte (phagocytic index) seen microscopically on stained films on coverslips placed on the flat surface of the Leighton tubes was determined.
- the number of phagocytes in the deposits from Leighton tubes was determined from their content of DNA (Parsons et_ al_. , loc. cit. 1981).
- the washed deposits were scraped off with a rubber-tipped glass rod and suspended in 75 ⁇ l 0.1% (w/v) BSA in PBS. Suspensions from three replicate tubes were pooled and 20 ⁇ l removed for an immediate viable count of gonococci (see below).
- the remaining pooled phagocyte suspen ⁇ sion was treated with 5 M NaOH (50 ⁇ l) for 1 hour at 37°C and then with indole reagent (indole, 0.02% w/v, in 5 M HC1, 250 ⁇ l) for 10 minutes at 100 C. Cooled samples were extracted with chloroform (1 ml) by vortex mixing (30 s) and the absorbance at 490 nm, ,_ n (in a Pye-Unicam SP 1800 spectrophotometer) of the aqueous phase obtained by centrifugation (3000 g, 10 minutes, room temperature) was read against a blank of 0.1% (w/v) BSA in PBS after reaction with the indole reagent.
- the number of phagocytes on the surface of the Leighton tube (4-20 x 10 in most tests) was obtained from a standard curve relating A, _ to numbers of phagocytes obtained from 12 different donors (Parsons et al. , loc. cit. 1981).
- the number of viable gonococci in the phagocyte deposits was obtained by plating the 20 ⁇ l sample of the suspension used for DNA assay (see above). The viable counts were corrected for settled non-cell-associated gonococci by deducting the low viable counts ( ⁇ 10% of those in tubes containing phagocytes) found in control tubes without phagocytes. The results (Tables 1 and 2) were expressed as the percentage of the total cell-associated gonococci (the product of the phagocytic index and the total number of phagocytes) that were viable.
- phagocyte ⁇ g BSA ( ⁇ g glucose (% of total micro-)
- phagocyte ⁇ g BSA ( ⁇ g glucose (% of total micro ⁇
- phagocytosis test was described in the text. Suspensions of human phagocytes (10 ; about 80% PMN phagocytes) were mixed with 10 BS4 (agar) organisms (>60% viable) in Leighton tubes and, after incubating (1 hour, 37 C), viable and visual counts of gonococci and counts of total numbers of phagocytes were made as described by Parsons ejt ⁇ al. , loc cit. (1981).
- fraction 1b was as active as fraction 1a and
- the LPS preparations contained a protein but far less than was in the cholate extracts.
- Figure 2 shows the protein patterns on SDS-PAGE for OMV
- Lane 1 whole cholate (Lane 2) extract and fractions 1a (Lane 3) and 1b (Lane 4) from the "Sephadex G75" column.
- the materials of Lanes 1-4 were examined in amounts equivalent to the same numbers of gonococci (50 ⁇ l
- the principal membrane proteins of Neisseria gonorrhoeae were very much reduced in fraction 1b compared with the OMV, cholate extract and fraction 1a, thus indicating they were not associated with phagocyte resistance.
- proteins A, B and C were much reduced or not detected in the biologically active fraction 1b.
- the proteins in fraction 1b that appeared to be present in similar amounts in the equally biologically active fraction 1a, and in OMV and the cholate extract, were a group of proteins in the 60 kDal region (marked X in Figure 2) and one or more proteins in a diffuse band around 20 kDal (marked Y in Figure 2) .
- EXAMPLE 2 This Example illustrates the use of the proteinaceous material of the invention in diagnosis.
- fraction 1b 0.5 ⁇ g ml protein
- the optimum amount of fraction 1b (0.5 ⁇ g ml protein) to use as antigen in a survey of patients serum was obtained by reacting logarithmic dilutions of the fraction (10 ⁇ g - 0.001 ⁇ g protein ml- ) against logarithmic dilutions (1/10 - 1/10 ) of hyper-immune rabbit serum against strain BS4 (agar) .
- the fraction 1b was coated onto the plastic wells of a "Titertek" multiwell plate by a conventional method. 100 micro- litre volumes were used. Human patient serum and sheep anti-human IgG labelled with alkaline phosphatase were added to the wells. After incubation and washing the enzyme activity of the solid phase was measured to determine the extent of neutralisation. In two similar comparisons of sera from 19 gonococcal patients and from 11 persons with no history of gonorrhoea using 0.5 ⁇ g ml (protein) of fraction 1b as antigen, the two types of sera were easily distinguished at 1/10, 1/100 and 1/1000 dilutions.
- Tests were carried out to establish whether monoclonal antibody to the H8 antigen of Cannon et al. , loc. cit. neutralised resistance of gonococci (strain BS4) to killing by phagocytes.
- the BS4 gonococci were incubated in tissue culture medium containing the antibody (1 hour, 37 C) before mixing with human phagocytes in the test described in Example 1.
- the resistance of strain BS4 (agar) to killing by phagocytes was not neutralised at all by the monoclonal antibody even when concen ⁇ trated 8-fold; in contrast antiserum against whole BS4 (agar) organisms greatly reduced the resistance.
- Fraction 1b prepared as described in Example 1 (8-10 ml: derived from 5 x 10 gonococci ml and containing about 1 mg ml protein) was re-fractionated on a column (1 m x 2.5 mm) of "Sephadex G25" with glycine/NaOH (0.1 M, " pH 9.59) containing sodium cholate 1% (w/v) as eluant. Appropriate fractions were taken from the region where components of 20 kDal would elute.
- This region was indicated by preliminary calibration of the column with the following marker materials: ribonuclease A, chymotrypsinogen A, ovalbumin, bovine serum albumin and blue dextran 13.7, 15.0, 43.0, 67.1 and 2000 kDal respectively) , under the same conditions as for the gonococcal fraction.
- the final material was freeze-dried and desalted on a column of "Sephadex G25" (1 m, 15 mm) using water as eluant.
- the eluate was freeze-dried, dissolved in phosphate-buffered saline pH 7.2 (volume 1/25 of that of the original solution of fraction 1b) and kept at -20 C. It contained between 1 and 1.5 g ml- of protein.
- This example describes preparation of a hybridoma cell line.
- Female Balb C mice were injected with the purified 20 kDal protein in physiological saline (approximately 1 mg protein/ml) . Emulsions were made with an equal volume of complete/incomplete
- CFA/FA Freund's adjuvant
- mice were test bled for antibody 1 day before fusion.
- a sandwich ELISA was carried out using immobilised 20 kDal protein, the mouse serum and enzyme labelled rabbit anti-mouse IgG. The test showed that antibodies to the protein had been made by the mouse.
- Hybridomas were then prepared by fusing spleen cells from the mice with mouse myeloma cells using the procedure described by BRL (UK) Ltd. in the instruction manual supplied with the "Hy BRL Prep.
- Kit ("Reagents and Instructions for Hybridoma Production", 1982 BRL (UK) Ltd., Cambridge CB4 4BE, England), except that the myeloma cells used were NS-1 instead of NP-3 mentioned in the manual. From 5 microtitre plates of 96 wells per plate 85 wells contained hybridomas which showed by ELISA a reaction to fraction 1b. Of these 9 showed by ELISA a reaction to the 20 kDal protein.
- Hybridomas obtained by this procedure can be screened against fraction 1b by Western blotting to detect cells which produce antibodies thereto, and the positive cells further tested against the 20 kDal protein itself.
Abstract
Un matériau protéinique ayant une masse moléculaire d'environ 20kDal isolé d'un extrait de cholate de sodium des vésicules de la membrane extérieure d'une souche de Neisseria gonorrhoeae comprend un déterminant de la résistance des N. gonorrhoeae aux attaques mortelles par des phagocytes. Il neutralise l'antisérum de la souche résistante aux phagocytes dont il est isolé, et s'est révélé utile dans des tests de dépistage de blennorragie clinique humaine. Il est également utile comme vaccin.A proteinaceous material having a molecular mass of approximately 20kDal isolated from a sodium cholate extract of the outer membrane vesicles of a strain of Neisseria gonorrhoeae comprises a determinant of the resistance of N. gonorrhoeae to lethal attack by phagocytes. It neutralizes the antiserum of the phagocyte-resistant strain from which it is isolated, and has been found useful in screening tests for human clinical gonorrhea. It is also useful as a vaccine.
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