EP1194539A2 - Hetero-assoziierende coiled-coil peptide und screenings-verfahren dafür - Google Patents

Hetero-assoziierende coiled-coil peptide und screenings-verfahren dafür

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EP1194539A2
EP1194539A2 EP00943898A EP00943898A EP1194539A2 EP 1194539 A2 EP1194539 A2 EP 1194539A2 EP 00943898 A EP00943898 A EP 00943898A EP 00943898 A EP00943898 A EP 00943898A EP 1194539 A2 EP1194539 A2 EP 1194539A2
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Katja Arndt
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  • the present invention relates to methods for the identification of novel hetero- associating coiled-coil peptides and uses of these peptides for hetero-dimerization of fusion proteins. It furthermore relates to vectors, host cells useful for the production of these novel hetero-association peptides and (poly)peptides/proteins comprising these peptides.
  • proteins which combine two or more functions are prepared either as fusion proteins or through chemical conjugation of the component functional domains. Both of these approaches suffer from disadvantages. Genetic "single chain" fusions suffer the disadvantages that (i) only a few (two to three) proteins can be fused (1 ), (ii) mutual interference between the component domains may hinder folding, and (iii) the size of the fusion protein may make it difficult to prepare.
  • the alternative, chemical cross-linking in vitro following purification of independently expressed proteins is difficult to control and invariably leads to undefined products and to a severe loss in yield of functional material.
  • a third approach takes advantage of using genetic fusions of functional to association domains which lead to a self-association on co-expression in appropriate host cells.
  • the domains must have a tendency to form hetero-multimers.
  • a natural protein or protein domain was dissected and fused to protein partners to achieve hetero- association of the fusion proteins via the reconstitution of the native-like structure of the dissected protein or protein domain (WO 96/13583).
  • hetero-association can be achieved with complementary helices such as the hetero-dimerizing Jun and Fos zippers of the AP-1 transcription factor (2) or other helical coiled-coil structures which are involved in the oligomerization of a wide variety of proteins. Because of their small size and structural regularity, they have also been used as artificial domains to mediate oligomerization of various proteins (3, 4).
  • complementary helices such as the hetero-dimerizing Jun and Fos zippers of the AP-1 transcription factor (2) or other helical coiled-coil structures which are involved in the oligomerization of a wide variety of proteins. Because of their small size and structural regularity, they have also been used as artificial domains to mediate oligomerization of various proteins (3, 4).
  • the association of two separately expressed scFv antibody fragments by C-terminally fused amphipathic helices in vivo provides homo-dimers of antibody fragments in E. coli (WO93/15210; 5, 6).
  • Fig. 1A, (7, 8) They contain a characteristic heptad repeat (abcdefg) n with a distinct pattern of hydrophobic and hydrophilic residues (Fig. 1A, (7, 8)).
  • the positions a and d, which form the hydrophobic interface between the helices, are usually aliphatic and a have profound effect on the oligomerization state (9, 10).
  • the positions b, c, e, g, and f are solvent-exposed and usually polar.
  • the positions e and g, which flank the hydrophobic core, can make interhelical interactions between g, and e' l+5 residues, and thereby mediate heterospecific pairing (11-14).
  • association domains based on hetero-associating helices is their pseudo-symmetry and their similar periodicity of hydrophobic and hydrophilic residues.
  • This structural similarity resulted in a strong tendency to form homo-dimers and thus to lower significantly the yield of hetero-dimers (2, 16).
  • the formation of Jun/Fos hetero-dimers is kinetically disfavoured and requires a temperature-dependent unfolding of the kinetically favoured homo-dimers, especially Jun/Jun homo-dimers (WO 93/15210; 2, 16).
  • hetero-association domains based on amphipathic helices have so far not resulted in practical advantages compared to conventional chemical coupling. Further, it is not currently possible to predict sequences of coiled coil-forming peptides that will simultaneously have high stability and heterospecificity as well as advantageous in-vivo properties, such as resistance to proteases. This is crucial to practical applications of optimal interacting heterodimers for in vivo studies of protein oligomerization, e.g. the design of bispecific miniantibodies (17).
  • the technical problem underlying the present invention is to provide association domains based on helical coiled-coil structures which lead to hetero-association.
  • the solution to the above technical problem is achieved by the embodiments characterized in the claims.
  • the present invention provides a method which allows to identify hetero-associating (poly)peptides.
  • the technical approach i.e. the design of an appropriate coiled-coil library and screening by using a library-vs-library approach is neither provided nor suggested by the prior art.
  • the present invention relates to a method for the identification of hetero- associating (poly)peptides comprising the steps of:
  • (poly)peptide relates to molecules consisting of one or more chains of multiple, i. e. two or more, amino acids linked via peptide bonds.
  • protein refers to (poly)peptides where at least part of the (poly)peptide has or is able to acquire a defined three-dimensional arrangement by forming secondary, tertiary, or quaternary structures within and/or between its (poly)peptide chain(s).
  • This definition comprises proteins such as naturally occurring or at least partially artificial proteins, as well as fragments or domains of whole proteins, as long as these fragments or domains have a defined three-dimensional arrangement as described above.
  • the commonly known one-letter code for amino acid residues is used.
  • screenable or selectable property refers to a property which is generated in the event of a successful interaction taking place during screening or selection.
  • Examples for screenable selectable properties include, but are not limited to, binding to a target or presentation of a target for ligand-binding, enzymatic activity, transactivation of transcription of a reporter gene such as beta-galactosidase, alkaline phosphatase or nutritional markers such as his3 and leu, or resistance genes giving resistance to an antibiotic such as ampicillin, chloramphenicol, kanamycin, zeocin, neomycin, tetracycline or streptomycin.
  • the selectable or screenable property can be restoration of phage infectivity to a filamentous phage rendered non-infectious by deletion of the N-terminal domain(s) of the genelll protein (U.S. Patent No. 5,514,548).
  • the invention relates to a method wherein said libraries A and B are provided by providing libraries of nucleic acid sequences encoding said (poly)peptides/proteins, followed by causing or allowing the expression of said libraries of (poly)peptides/proteins.
  • said common medium are host cells, each cell harbouring nucleic acid sequences encoding a (poly)peptide/protein of each of said libraries A and B.
  • said (poly)peptides/proteins of said libraries A and B further comprise either a N- or a C-terminal fragment of the murine DHFR enzyme, and wherein said screenable or selectable property is insensitivity of the host cell to t methoprim by reconstitution of the DHFR enzyme on hetero-association of (poly)peptides A m and B ⁇ .
  • the DHFR assay has been published (WO 98/34120; 19) and is further exemplified in the examples.
  • the present invention relates to a hetero-associating
  • WINZIPA11 VAQLRERVKTLRARNYELQSKVQRLKERVAQL Furthermore, the present invention relates to a hetero-associating (poly)peptide B n taken from the list of:
  • WINZIPB1 VDELQAEVDQLQDENYALKTKVAQLRKKVEKL
  • WINZIPB2 VDELKAEVDQLQDQNYALRTKVAQLRKEVEKL
  • WINZIPB3 VDELEAEVDQLKDQNYALKTKVAQLQKQVEKL
  • WINZIPB4 VDELRAKVDQLQDENYALETEVAQLQKRVEKL
  • WINZIPB6 VDELKAKVDQLKDKNYALRTKVAQLRKKVEKL
  • WINZIPB7 VDELRAQVDQLQDKNYALRTRVAQLKKRVEKL
  • WINZIPB8 VDELQAEVDQLQDQNYALRTQVAQLKKKVEKL
  • WINZIPB10 VDELQAKVDQLKDENYALQTKVAQLQKRVEKL
  • hetero-associating (poly)peptide for the identification of optimized hetero-associating (poly)peptides in a method according to the present invention, wherein one of the hetero-associating peptide WinZipA m as listed hereinabove is used instead of library A of (poly)peptides/proteins comprising (poly)peptides A m in step (a) above, or wherein a hetero-associating peptide WinZip B n as listed hereinabove is used instead of library B of (poly)peptides/proteins comprising (poly)peptides B n in step (b) avove.
  • the present invention relates to an optimized hetero-associating (poly)peptide obtainable by the method of the present invention.
  • the present invention relates to a pair of hetero- associating (poly)peptides taken from the list of: WinZipAI and WinZipBI WinZipA2 and WinZipBI WinZipAI and WinZip B2 WinZipA3 and WinZip B3 WinZipA4 and WinZip B4 WinZipA ⁇ and WinZip B5 WinZipA6 and WinZip B6 WinZipA7 and WinZip B7 WinZipA ⁇ and WinZip B8 WinZipA9 and WinZip B9 WinZipAI 0 and WinZip B10 WinZipA11 and WinZip B11
  • the invention relates to a (poly)peptide/protein comprising one of the hetero-associating (poly)peptides, or an optimized hetero- associating (poly)peptide of the present invention, and a further (poly)peptide/protein.
  • (poly)peptide/protein comprising one of the hetero-associating (poly)peptides, or an optimized hetero-associating (poly)peptide of the present invention, and a further (poly)peptide/protein” refers to all constructs which comprise one of the hetero-association peptides according to the present invention and additional moieties.
  • This comprises (poly)peptides/proteins which are expressed from a contiguous nucleic acid coding sequence. Additionally, this comprises constructs where the individual components are expressed from different nucleic acid coding sequences, or where the components are produced by peptide synthesis, and where the separate components are linked by the formation of disulfide bonds or by chemical conjugation.
  • Still further preferred is a (poly)peptide/protein wherein said further (poly)peptide/protein is an enzyme, a toxin, a cytokine, a metal binding domain, a transcription factor, a member of the immunoglobulin superfamily, a bioactive peptide of 5 to 15 amino acid residues, a peptide hormone, a growth factor, a lectin, a lipoprotein, a peptide which is able to bind to an independent binding entity, or a functional fragment of any said further (poly)peptide/protein.
  • said further (poly)peptide/protein is an enzyme, a toxin, a cytokine, a metal binding domain, a transcription factor, a member of the immunoglobulin superfamily, a bioactive peptide of 5 to 15 amino acid residues, a peptide hormone, a growth factor, a lectin, a lipoprotein, a peptide which is able to bind to an independent binding entity, or
  • the present invention relates to a hetero-associated (poly)peptide/protein comprising at least two (poly)peptide/proteins of the present invention, associated by hetero-association of a hetero-associating (poly)peptide A m and a hetero-associating (poly)peptide B n .
  • hetero-associated (poly)peptide/protein refers to all bispecific and/or bivalent complexes formed by taking advantage of the hetero-associating peptides according to the present invention.
  • These include, for example, constructs where said "further (poly)peptides/proteins" are two antibody fragments directed against different specificities.
  • Such bispecific constructs can be used to increase selectivity of antibody- based approaches in therapy of diseases where the target cells exhibit a pattern of two cell-surface markers distinct from that of non-target cells which may present one of the two markers.
  • one of the antibody specificities may be directed to a target cells, whereas the second may be used to target a drug carrier moiety selectively to the target.
  • antibody fragments as targeting vehicles may be combined with (poly)peptides/proteins which serve as effector domains, such as enzymes or signalling molecules.
  • a DNA sequence encoding a hetero-associating (poly)peptide taken from the list of WINZIPAI to WINZIPA11 and WinZipBI to WinZipB11 , or encoding an optimized hetero-associating (poly)peptide or a (poly)peptide/protein of the present invention.
  • a DNA sequence encoding a hetero-associating (poly)peptide wherein said DNA sequence hybridizes under stringent conditions to a DNA sequence encoding a hetero-associating (poly)peptide taken from the list of WinZipAI to WinZipA11 and WinZipBI to WinZipB11.
  • hybridizes under stringent conditions is intended to describe conditions for hybridization and washing under which nucleotide sequences at least 60% homologous to each other typically remain hybridized to each other.
  • the conditions are such that at least sequences at least 65%, more preferably at least 70%, and even more preferably at least 75% homologous to each other typically remain hybridized to each other.
  • stringent hybridization conditions are known to those skilled in the art and can be found in Current Protocols in Molecular Biology, John Wiley & Sons, New York. (1989), 6.3.1 -6.3.6.
  • a preferred, non-limiting example of stringent hybridization conditions is hybridization in 6 x sodium chloride/sodium citrate (SSC) at about 45°C, followed by one or more washes in 0.2 x SSC, 0.1% SDS at 50°-65°C.
  • the invention relates to a vector comprising a DNA sequence according to the invention.
  • the invention relates to a vector comprising DNA sequences encoding at least two (poly)peptide/, comprising at least a hetero-associating (poly)peptide A m and a hetero-associating (poly)peptide B n .
  • the invention relates to a host cell containing at least one vector of the present invention.
  • the host cell is a mammalian, preferably human cell, a yeast cell, an insect cell, a plant cell, or a bacterial, preferably E.coli cell.
  • the invention relates to a method for the production of a hetero-associating (poly)peptide, an optimized hetero-associating (poly), a (poly)peptide/protein, or a hetero-associated (poly)peptide/protein of the present invention, which comprises culturing the host cell of the present invention in a suitable medium, and recovering said (poly)peptide or said (poly)peptide/protein produced by said host cell.
  • the invention relates to a pharmaceutical composition
  • a pharmaceutical composition comprising the hetero-associated (poly)peptide/protein or the present invention.
  • Still further preferred is a diagnostic composition comprising the hetero-associated (poly)peptide/protein of the present invention.
  • kits containing at least one of a hetero-associating (poly)peptide, an optimized hetero-associating (poly)peptide, or a
  • polypeptide/protein of claims or a hetero-associated (poly)peptide/protein of the present invention; or a vector of claims according to the invention.
  • Figure 1 (A) Schematic representation of a parallel dimeric coiled coil. Hatched bars indicate the possible interhelical interactions between e and g positions. (B) Schematic representation of the protein complementation assay as described in the Examples. Introduction of a mutation at the DHFR interface (1114A) was used to increase selection stringency (19). (C) Overview of the library design depicted as a helical wheel plot from the N- to the C-terminus (inside to outside. The randomized positions are indexed ( * : equimolar mixture of Q, E, K, R, x: equimolar mixture of N, V). The selected residues from the predominant pair, WinZip-A1 B1 (clone #1 , Fig.
  • FIG. 2 (A) DNA constructs code for fusions between library proteins (shown as a- helical leucine zippers) and either fragment of murine DHFR (mDHFR). Fusions were created using either the wild-type or the mutant mDHFR fragment 2 (Ile114Ala), yielding LibA-DHFR[1] and LibB-DHFR[ 2] or LibB-DHFR[2:l114A], respectively.
  • mDHFR can fold from the individual fragments resulting in active enzyme and bacterial growth. Both mDHFR fragments must be present, and dimerization of the fused proteins is essential, in order for cell propagation to be possible. No growth is observed if any of these conditions is not fulfilled (19) .
  • the surviving colonies are the result of "single-step selection” and can be directly analyzed by DNA sequencing.
  • C "Competition selection” is undertaken by pooling colonies from (B) in selective, liquid culture (passage 0 or P0), propagating the cells and diluting into fresh selective medium for further passages. An aliquot can be plated and the resulting colonies analyzed by DNA sequencing.
  • FIG. 3 Competition selection and chain shuffling.
  • B Quantitation of the colony sizes from (A). For comparative purposes, quantitation of colony sizes of cells transformed with DNA of WinZip-A1 B1 (but not passaged in liquid culture) is shown.
  • C Quantitation of the colony sizes from passages of the chain shuffling experiment: WinZip-B1-DHFR[2:l114A] + LibA-DHFR[1]. In (B) and (C) the numbers of colonies were normalized such that passages could be directly compared.
  • Figure 4 (A) Schematic representation of a leucine zipper pair visualized from the N- terminus illustrating e/g-interactions and the hydrophobic core formed by the a- and d- positions. (B) Distribution of residues at the semi-randomized positions throughout selection. The number of zipper pairs sequenced is given in parentheses, save “Before selection” where the theoretical distribution is reported. Each pair carries one core a-pair and 6 e/g-pairs. Neutral e/g-pairs have one or both residues as Gin. In "Competition (I114A)" only clones from P6 to P12 (not from earlier passages) were considered for analysis.
  • FIG. 5 Efficiency of competition in a model selection. The selection was set up by mixing known numbers of cells expressing either GCN4-DHFR[1]/GCN4-DHFR[2:I114A] fusions or one of 7 LibA-DHFR[1]/LibB-DHFR[2:M 14A] pairs previously selected by single-step selection. The starting ratio was 2.9 x 10 4 : 1 (GCN4 to Lib). Competition selection was undertaken as described in Figure 2C, and in the Examples. The appearance of the library pairs in the pool was monitored by restriction analysis.
  • a Piull fragment (1138 bp) is unique to the LibB sequence of the LibB-DHFR[2] plasmid, while another (762 bp) is from pRep4 (repressor plasmid) and remains approximately constant.
  • the bands were quantitated using the NIH Image gel analysis function to calculate the ratio of LibB/pRep4 (indicated below each lane).
  • Figure 7 Positional distribution of amino acids at each e- and g-position in sequences obtained from the highest stringency selection. The statistically expected random occurrence of each amino acid at each position was subtracted from the relative occurrence observed in the selection (Q left (black), E middle (grey), K/R right (black)).
  • Figure 8 (A) Determination of the molecular weight of WinZip-A1 B1 by sedimentation equilibrium. The upper panel shows the residuals between measured data obtained at 10 ⁇ M peptide concentration at 25°C and data fitted as monomer (top), dimer (middle), or trimer (bottom). The lower panel shows the residuals for a dimeric fit to the data set obtained at 150 ⁇ M peptide concentration, 10°C.
  • Figure 9 CD-measurements of the synthesized peptides of WinZip-A1 B1.
  • A Temperature dependence of [ ⁇ ] 222 for WinZip-A1 B1 ( ⁇ ), WinZip-A1 (A), WinZip-B1 (T), and the calculated average of both homodimers ( ).
  • B Dependence of T m and ⁇ T m
  • Figure 11 (A) Sequences of (poly)peptides WinZipAI to WinZipA11
  • CD circular dichroism
  • mDHFR murine dihydrofolate reductase
  • WinZip dominant zipper pairs obtained from competition selection; WinZip-A1 B1 original pair selected, comprising peptide A1 from libraryA and peptide B1 from libraryB WinZip-A1 B2 and WinZip-A2B1 : optimized pairs comprising the original partner A1 or B1 and the new partner B2 or A2, respectively.
  • Example 1 Selection of hetero-association peptides (see WO 98/34120, Example 7)
  • DHFR murine enzyme dihydrofolate reductase
  • the DNA constructs encoding the ⁇ /-terminal (1 -107) and C-terminal (108-186) mDHFR fragments have been previously described (19).
  • the vectors are variants of plasmids Z- F[1 ,2], encoding the N-terminal DHFR fragment, and Z-F[3] or Z-F[3:I114A], respectively, encoding the C terminal DHFR fragment with or without the 1114A mutation (19), Briefly, each fragment was amplified by PCR with appropriate unique flanking restriction sites and subcloned into a bacterial expression vector (pQE-32 from Qiagen).
  • Each plasmid encodes an N-terminal hexahistidine tag, followed by a designed flexible linker and the appropriate DHFR fragment. Unique restriction sites between the hexahistidine tag and the flexible linker allow subcloning of the desired library.
  • helix length of 4.5 heptads as good compromise between stability and size.
  • positions a, d we chose the residues of the parallel, homodimeric leucine zipper GCN4 (Val at a, Leu at d).
  • GCN4 Val at a, Leu at d.
  • a single a-position in the middle of each helix is often occupied by a polar residue, most often an Asn, which forms a hydrogen bond inside the hydrophobic core (22, 23).
  • Replacement of this Asn pair by a non-polar one increases the stability significantly, but leads to helices packing in different registers and orientations, as well as forming higher order oligomers (24-26).
  • the solvent-accessible residues at the e- and g-positions can form interhelical salt bridges or hydrogen bonds which can contribute to stability and heteromeric specificity (13, 14, 28, 29).
  • Thnucleotide codons (27) were used to code for randomized positions, all other positions were made with mononucleotides.
  • GTGGCGCAACTG and prA-rev GGACTAGTACCTTCGCTAGCAAGCTGGGCAAC or prB-fwd: GGAGTACTGGCATGCAGTCGACCTCCGTTGACGAACTG and prB-rev:
  • LibraryA and B were both digested with Sail and Nhel, gel purified and ligated to the appropriate vector (Fig 2) yielding the plasmids LibA-DHFR[1], LibB-DHFR[2], LibB- DHFR[2:I114A] (Fig. 2A). After subcloning, the resulting linker between either library and DHFR fragment was: A(SGTS) 2 STSSGI for LibA and SEA(SGTS) 2 STS for LibB. To achieve maximal library representation, the ligation mixes were individually electroporated into XL1 -Blue cells and selected with ampicillin on rich medium (LB). A 2- to 7-fold over-representation of each library was obtained.
  • the resulting colonies were pooled and the plasmid DNA purified such that supercoiled plasmid DNA was obtained for cotransformation.
  • the supercoiled DNA was cotransformed in BL21 cells yielding about 4x10 6 double-transformants.
  • the occurrence of double transformation was calculated as the number of colonies growing under selective pressure with trimethoprim (described below) divided by the number growing in the absence, when cotransformed with equal amounts of each DNA of a given, pre-selected pair.
  • Selective pressure for DHFR was maintained throughout all steps by inhibiting the bacterial DHFR with trimethoprim (1 mg/ml) in minimal medium. Ampicillin and kanamycin (100 mg/ml and 50 mg/ml, respectively) were also included in all steps to retain the library plasmids and the lacP repressor-encoding plasmid (pRep4), respectively. Expression of the proteins was induced with 1 mM IPTG. When selecting on solid medium, growth was allowed for 45 hrs at 37°C.
  • the number of viable cells in the starter cultures was quantitated as follows.
  • the appropriate clones were propagated in liquid media under selective conditions and dilute aliquots were frozen at -80°C with 15% glycerol.
  • One aliquot for each clone was thawed and plated under selective conditions, and the colonies counted after 45 hrs.
  • the volume of cells to use for P0 was then calculated, such that each clone should be over- represented by a factor of at least 2000.
  • Colony sizes (in Fig. 3) were evaluated using the NIH Image Particle Analysis Facility. When selecting in liquid medium, the starting O.D. (600 nm) was either 0.0005 or 0.0001.
  • a single-step selection was undertaken, using the wild-type mDHFR fragments, by cotransforming the libraries LibA-DHFR[ 1] and LibB-DHFR[2] and plating on selective media (Fig. 2B).
  • This strategy applies only a low stringency of selection to the potential pairs, thus many library combinations were expected to be selected.
  • Approximately 1.7% of the resulting ampicillin-resistant cells were doubly transformed, harboring (at least) one plasmid from each library when using 5 ng of each DNA, or 8% were doubly transformed when using 20 ng of each DNA, as seen from control transformations (calculated as described above).
  • the peptide linkers that connect the library sequences to the DHFR fragments must be sufficiently flexible to allow DHFR to fold from its fragments, but not so long that any C-terminal to ⁇ /-terminal orientation of the final folded leucine zipper would be allowed.
  • parallel in-register heterodimerization of the library peptides is the only configuration possible.
  • Other biases in these sequences were also more pronounced than with the wt DHFR fragments (Fig. 4B).
  • an additional increase in opposite-charged e/g-pairs from 31 % to 37% was seen.
  • a point-mutation resulted in a single clone (1/25) with a V-T pair at the core a-position.
  • the initial cell mixture contained known amounts of viable cells expressing either GCN4- DHFR[1]/GCN4-DHFR[2:I114A] or one of seven LibA-DHFR[1]/LibB- DHFR[2:I114A] pairs previously obtained in a single-step selection of those libraries, mixed at a ratio of 2.9 x 10 4 : 1 (GCN4 : library clones).
  • GCN4 library clones
  • the library pairs were already visibly enriched (Fig. 5), and after 5 passages the measured ratio between a restriction fragment indicative of the library and a constant fragment from the repressor plasmid had reached its maximium, showing that enrichment was maximal.
  • Clones resulting from the three selection strategies with increasing stringencies were analyzed and compared: (i) lowest stringency: 14 clones analyzed, (ii) medium stringency: 25 clones analyzed (see Table 2), (iii) highest stringency: 41 clones analyzed from various passages.
  • the last passage (P12) yielded a population dominated by a single pair of coiled-coil sequences, WinZip-A1 B1 , as described above (Fig. 1 C, clone #1 in Fig. 1 D), which was biophysically analyzed (see below).
  • the sequences of clones surviving at least up to passage 10 are reported in Figure 1 D.
  • Intrahelical electrostatic interactions can influence stability and may even promote selection of apparently repulsive e/g-pairs. Interactions with the helix macrodipole, for example, can modulate stability in coiled coils (37). Indeed, we observed a bias for negatively charged and neutral amino acids in the N-terminal part and positively charged amino acids in the C-terminal part (Fig. 7). This positional preference may at least partially compensate the loss of stability resulting from a repulsive e/g-interaction. In addition, interactions with adjacent residues on the outside of the helix (b- and c positions) may influence the contributions of charges at the e- and g positions (38).
  • WinZip-A1 B1 contains the most important features for stability and heterospecificity. Furthermore, the random probability of finding pairs with no repulsive interactions was 1 :40, and with solely attractive interactions was 1 :1.6x10 4 . Thus, our selection covered a representative sequence space and the same-charged interactions in WinZip-A1 B1 are not a result of incomplete library sampling but must have more subtle reasons, including in-vivo factors, which we cannot fully address. Furthermore, in the medium as well as in the highest stringency selection 13 out of 38 pairs sequenced had no repulsive e/g pairs, but none competed successfully against WinZip-A1 B1 in the selection.
  • the peptides WinZip-A1 Ac-STTVAQLEEKVKTLRAQNYELKSRVQRLREQVAQLAS- NH2 and WinZip-B1 : Ac-STSVDELQAEVDQLQDENYALKTKVAQLRKKVEKLSE-NH2 were synthesized (Applied Biosystem 431 A) and purified by reversed-phase HPLC. Electrospray mass spectrometry confirmed purity and identity of the peptides with a mass deviation of less than 1 Da. Peptide concentrations were determined by tyrosine absorbance in 6 M GdnHCI (39).
  • T m were determined by least-squares curve fitting of the denaturation curves (40), assuming a two-state model.
  • ⁇ T m was calculated as T m (WinZip-A1 B1 )- 1 /2[T m (WinZip-A1 )+T m (WinZip-B1 )].
  • the helical content was in the range of 90% (WinZip B1) to 100% (WinZip-A1 and WinZip-A1 B1).
  • Peptide WinZip-A1 as well as the mixture WinZip-A1 B1 (Fig. 4A) were dimeric at 10°C and 25°C over a concentration range from 10 ⁇ M to 150 ⁇ M as determined by equilibrium sedimentation.
  • WinZip-B1 was partially unfolded as seen both by CD (Fig. 8C at 0 M urea) and equilibrium sedimentation.
  • Equilibrium sedimentation experiments were performed using a Beckman XL-A Ultracentrifuge. Absorbance was monitored at 220 and 275 nm at peptide concentrations of 10, 50 and 150 ⁇ M in 10 mM K 2 HP0 4 /KH 2 P0 4 , pH 7.0, 100 mM KCI. Partial specific volumes and solvent densities were determined as described (41 ). The data sets were fitted to single molecular masses of monomer, dimer and trimer. Equilibrium sedimentation indicated a mixture of monomers and dimers, with decreasing amount of dimer at increasing temperature.
  • the homodimer WinZip-B1 has two same-charged ion pairs, but is significantly less stable than the homodimer WinZip-A1 with four same-charged pairs (Fig. 9). Since the overall helical propensity is comparable for both peptides according to (43), the difference is probably due to intrahelical interactions. LibraryB might be destabilized by its high local concentration of acidic residues at the N-terminus.
  • Dissociation constants of the peptides were derived from equilibrium urea denaturations (Fig. 8C).
  • the heterodimer WinZip A1 B1 was the most stable species with a K D of approximately 24 nM, while the homodimer WinZip-A1 had a K D of approximately 63 nM.
  • the accuracy of the K D determination of WinZip-B1 is lower since it is already partially unfolded without denaturant (see above).
  • the K D was estimated to be in the 10 "5 M range. Calculations were confirmed by determining the K values from thermal denaturation curves by a van't Hoff analysis, assuming as a first approximation a constant ⁇ H (40). We found reasonable agreement to the data obtained by urea denaturation with a maximal deviation of K D by a factor of 2.6.
  • WinZip-A1 B1 is best compared with other naturally-occurring coiled coils.
  • the homodimeric coiled coil of the yeast transcription factor GCN4 has an equal or slightly higher Tm, depending on the length and concentration of the peptides chosen (44, 45).
  • the N terminal homodimeric coiled coil of the APC protein has a Tm lower by at least 9°C than WinZip-A1 B1 (46).
  • the heterodimeric coiled coil from c-Jun/c-Fos shows comparable Tm and ⁇ T m values (2). However, those data were derived from disulfide-bridged peptides.
  • the coiled coil from c-Myc/Max also heterodimerizes to a fairly high extent, but peptides of comparable length have a T m of only 31 °C and a K D of 60 ⁇ M (25°C) (45), whereas our WinZip-A1 B1 has a Tm of 55°C and a K D of approximately 24 nM (20°C). Thus, WinZip-A1 B1 compares successfully with naturally-occurring coiled coils and will therefore be very useful for a variety of in-vivo applications.
  • WinZip-A1 B1 was selected from a sample representing 2.0 x 10 6 library-vs-library cotransformants.
  • approximately 0.01% of the library-vs-library space was sampled.
  • WinZip-A1 B1 as a partially optimized starting point, we combined each of the two WinZip-A1 B1 polypeptides with the opposite library (WinZip-A1 -DHFR[1] + LibB-DHFR[2:H 14A] and WinZip-B1 -DHFR[2:1114A] + LibA-DHFR[1 ]).
  • heterospecificity was achieved not only by decreasing the numbers of repulsive e/g-interactions but also by increasing the number of attractive interactions in the heterodimer relative to the homodimers.
  • heterospecificity may be a unique feature of this selection system. Not only is active enzyme exclusively formed by parallel heterodimers, but homodimers and higher oligomers are likely to have a negative effect by unproductively wasting fragments and perhaps even harmfully accumulating nonfunctional enzyme. Dimer stability, in turn, is dependent not only on e/g-pair interactions, but also on helical propensity, intrahelical interactions and helix dipole stabilization. Indeed, our analysis revealed that the most successful variants do not simply consist of complementary charges in the e/g-positions, but show a more complicated pattern, presumably fulfilling a variety of naturally conflicting demands on the sequence, whose optimum would have been extremely challenging to predict.
  • the selection factor in single-step selection is defined as the number of cotransformed cells plated (considering only the 50% which give combinations with no mutations or frame-shifts), divided by the number of colonies surviving under selective conditions (see Results); average of 2 independent experiments, given with the standard deviation. This value must be calculated at low DNA concentrations ( ⁇ 20 ng of each DNA) since the multiple cotransformations occuring at high DNA concentrations mask the actual selection factor.
  • b PI 2 is the 12 th round of serial cell passaging and competitive growth.
  • the selection factor in competition selection is defined as the proportion of the dominant pair multiplied by the sequence diversity it was selected from, and is the result of a single experiment.

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