WO1992001939A1 - Testing for metal ions - Google Patents
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- WO1992001939A1 WO1992001939A1 PCT/GB1991/001167 GB9101167W WO9201939A1 WO 1992001939 A1 WO1992001939 A1 WO 1992001939A1 GB 9101167 W GB9101167 W GB 9101167W WO 9201939 A1 WO9201939 A1 WO 9201939A1
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- G01—MEASURING; TESTING
- G01N—INVESTIGATING OR ANALYSING MATERIALS BY DETERMINING THEIR CHEMICAL OR PHYSICAL PROPERTIES
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- G01N33/48—Biological material, e.g. blood, urine; Haemocytometers
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- G01N33/54366—Apparatus specially adapted for solid-phase testing
- G01N33/54373—Apparatus specially adapted for solid-phase testing involving physiochemical end-point determination, e.g. wave-guides, FETS, gratings
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- This invention provides a method of testing for metal ions in a fluid sample, by the use of an antibody which binds both an antigen and the metal ions, the binding affinity of the antibody for the antigen being reduced in the presence of the metal ions, which method comprises contacting the antibody with, together or sequentially in either order, the antigen and the fluid sample, and monitoring binding or release of the antigen by the antibody as an indication of the presence of the metal ions in the sample.
- the key to this method is the provision of an antibody which binds both an antigen and the metal ions. Techniques for designing/producing/synthesising such antibodies are discussed below.
- the antigen and the metal ions compete for binding to the antibody, i.e. that the antigen binding site and the metal ion binding site of the antibody be overlapping or adjacent. It is probably necessary that the antibody have a binding affinity for the metal ions greater than for the antigen. At all events, it is necessary that the binding affinity of the antibody for the antigen be reduced in the presence of the metal ions.
- the antibody is designed or chosen to bind the specific metal ions to be tested.
- the nature of the metal ions is not critical to the invention.
- the metal ions are present in a fluid sample which may be gaseous but is generally liquid.
- the method is suitable for testing any aqueous or non-aqueous liquid in which the immune properties of the antibody are capable of functioning.
- the antigen is any substance which is specifically bound by the antibody. This may be the same or different from the substance to which the antibody was originally raised.
- the antigen may be chosen to have other properties arranged for easy detection; for example it may comprise an enzyme or may be a substance of high refractive index or high volume as described in more detail below.
- a method of the invention involves contacting the antibody with the antigen and the fluid sample.
- reaction schemes are envisaged:- i) The antibody is contacted first with the antigen and binds the antigen. Subsequently, when the antibody-antigen complex is contacted with the fluid sample, metal ions in the sample displace antigen from the antibody, and this displacement is monitored. This is the preferred arrangement.
- the antibody-antigen complex is formed beforehand. The test merely involves bringing the fluid sample into contact with this pre ⁇ formed complex. No other reagents are necessary, except possibly for the purpose of detecting displaced antigen.
- ii) The antibody is contacted simultaneously with the antigen and the fluid sample..
- Binding of antigen to the antibody is monitored and is inversely proportional to the metal ion concentration of the fluid sample. iii)
- the antibody is contacted first with the fluid sample, and subsequently with the antigen. Binding of the antigen by the antibody is monitored and varies inversely as the metal ion content of the fluid sample.
- the antibody is preferably immobilised, either on small particles suspended in a fluid medium, or more preferably on a solid surface. Techniques for immobilising antibodies without compromising their immune properties are well known in the field and form no part of this invention.
- the antigen can be monitored in various ways which are well known in the field.
- the antigen is covalently linked to an enzyme
- the enzyme can be caused to catalyse a reaction which generates easily detected light or colour.
- Such reaction of course requires the addition of an enzyme substrate and perhaps other reactants.
- spectroscopic means which do not require the further addition of chemical reagents.
- the spectroscopic methods are:- i) Evanescent wave spectroscopy ii) Fluorescence detection (non-evanescent wave) . iii) Absorption spectroscopy (non-evanescent wave) .
- Evanescent wave spectroscopy is defined in the present context as embracing three related methods: (i) attenuated total reflection (ATR) spectroscopy (ii) total internal reflectance fluorescence (TIRF) spectroscopy, and (iii) surface plasmon resonance (SPR) spectroscopy.
- ATR attenuated total reflection
- TIRF total internal reflectance fluorescence
- SPR surface plasmon resonance
- Each of these three spectroscopic techniques examines an optical property of a solution bordering a surface where total internal reflection of a light beam has occurred.
- the incident and reflected beams are on the side of the surface distal to (i.e. remote from) the solution under study, whereas the evanescent wave is established on the solution side of the surface but extends into that solution for a very short distance, typically less than the wavelength of the incident/reflected beam.
- Spectroscopy by ATR or TIRF requires only a transparent material such as glass or quartz to create the interfacial surface with the solution, whereas SPR spectroscopy requires that the glass or quartz surface be coated with a thin (e.g. 50nm) metal layer of, for example, silver.
- ATR spectroscopy detects the absorption of evanescent wave light by molecules, with appropriate absorption spectra, that lie within the evanescent wave region. If the absorbed light is re- emitted as fluorescence then the emission can be measured with a suitable detector, such as a photo- multiplier tube, leading to TIRF spectroscopy.
- a suitable detector such as a photo- multiplier tube
- SPR spectroscopy measures changes of refractive index that may occur in the SPR evanescent wave region, but, just as with ATP and TIRF, those changes arise due to redistribution of molecules between the bulk phase of the solution and the evanescent wave region.
- the antigen is a macromolecule, its binding to antibodies immobilised on an SPRS surface is readily detected.
- the antigen may be chosen to be or comprise a substance having a high refractive index. This may be a molecule or particle with a high refractive index or a large size, to confer a higher refractive index on the antigen reagent as a whole thus giving rise to a larger SPRS signal than would be the case with an unmodified antigen.
- Possible substances include heavy species (e.g. halogens or metal ions other than those being tested for), highly electronically delocalised species (e.g.
- the substance may be one having a low refractive index i.e. a refractive index lower than that of the environment close to the solid surface. This aspect is described in international application WO 90/11525 published 4 October 1990.
- the antibody may be immobilised on the solid surface used for SPRS.
- the antigen may comprise an enzyme which is caused to catalyse a reaction resulting in the production of a reaction product which is deposited on the solid surface. This aspect is described in international application WO 90/11510 published 4 October 1990.
- the method of the invention may be qualitative, i.e. simply to detect the presence or absence of the metal ions in the fluid sample, or quantitative.
- measurements may be made of the rate of change of refractivity, and/or of the absolute refractivity at a given time.
- Contact between the antigen and the fluid sample on the one hand and the solid surface carrying the antibodies on the other hand may be static, but is more preferably dynamic e.g. by the fluid medium being caused to flow across the solid surface.
- the following description concerns the design/preparation/synthesis of antibodies which bind to antigens and also to metal ions.
- CDRs complementarity-determining regions
- oligonucleotide directed mutagenesis were designed using sequence data from both antibodies.
- mutations were not confined to the variable region but extended into the framework region. For example residues 93 and 94 at the beginning of H3 CDR encode the unusual araino acids Leu and His respectively.
- HyHEL-5/Gloop 2 antibody was expressed in Xenophus oocytes (Roberts S. si ai (1987) Nature 223., 731) and found to bind HEL specifically with high affinity in the order 10 ⁇ 8 to 1 ⁇ "9 M. As with HyHEL-5 but unlike Gloop 2, the hybrid antibody did not bind the loop region of HEL in a radioimmunoassay.
- the Brookhaven Protein Structure Database was searched for loop conformations similar to that of L1 initially by using C ⁇ distances from the N and C termini.
- the loop structures selected were screened by "fitting" them onto the L1 framework take off positions (see Martin ⁇ ⁇ al, 1989). Any poor fits were eliminated.
- MT 2 rat liver metallothionein
- residues 36 to 45 derived by X-ray crystallography (Furey WF. eJt al (1986) Science 231. 704) .
- cysteine residues 36, 37, and 41 all bound to the same cadmium ion and so the loop structure provided the majority of ligands.
- a hybrid loop was constructed consisting of MT-2 residues Cys-36, Cys-37, Pro-38, Cly-40 and Cys- 41, and L1 residues Ser-27, Asn-30, Tyr-31, Met-32, and Tyr-33.
- the hybrid loop was subjected to conformational search using methods described in Martin et al. (1989) with and without a zinc ion present.
- cysteine 24 could not be rotated into an appropriate liganding position without a high free energy penalty due to the tight packing at the base of the CDR and the restriction of rotational freedom by the presence of a disulphide bond between residue 23 and 87.
- Modelling of this loop structure indicated that the region 26 to 29 is very flexible allowing the liganding groups, 29, 27 and 25, to adopt appropriate conformations to create a metal binding site with ligand to metal distances of just over 2A. Examination of the nearest neighbours to this site revealed that isoleucine residue 2 of the light chain N terminus approached the metal binding site within a distance of 2A. Replacement of this residue with histidine allowed the creation of a distorted tetrahedral arrangement of liganding groups within the L1 loop. Creation gf the modelled proteins
- the inventors have designed and constructed 2 putative raetalloantibodies based on the structure of the anti-hen egg lysozyme (HEL) antibody HYHel-5. Mutations were introduced into the L1 complementarity determining region (CDR) and the amino terminus of the light chain. Two mutant proteins were created, LM contained only the mutations within the L1 while LM-2N contained both L1 and light chain amino terminus mutations.
- Figure 1 of the accompanying drawings shows the structure of the original complementarity determining region (CDR) L 1 for HyHEL-5 (a) and models of two metal binding sites LM (b) and LM - 2N(c) derived from it with a zinc ion present.
- LM-2N contains all the mutations of LM but in addition contains a mutation of the light chain amino terminal isoleucine to a histidine, supplying a fourth ligand for the metal binding site.
- the metal binding potential of the engineered proteins has been investigated using a metal ion blot derived from a protocol from Schiff et al.
- the protein is immobilised on nitrocellulose filters and its ability to bind metal radioisotopes compared against known metalloproteins (alcohol dehydrogenase, carbonic anhydrase, bovine serum albumin (low affinity) and negative controls (HEL, HyHEL-5 Fv) .
- metal binding buffer 100 mM Tris pH 6.8 50 mM NaCl in Analar water.
- the filters were then incubated for 30 minutes with 50 ⁇ Ci of the appropriate metal radioisotope (specific activity 10 to 100 raCi/mg) in metal binding buffer and 1mM DTT. After washing to remove unbound radioisotope the filters were autoradiographed for 30 mins to 12 hrs depending on the specific activity of the radioisotope. The intensity of signal from the putative metalloantibodies was then compared to the other proteins present on the filter.
- the metal blot assay allows rapid screening of engineered proteins for metal binding and indicates characteristics of the binding site as its preference
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US5972656A (en) * | 1989-03-14 | 1999-10-26 | Bionebraska, Inc. | Mercury binding polypeptides and nucleotides coding therefore |
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EP0286039A2 (en) * | 1987-04-10 | 1988-10-12 | The Flinders University Of South Australia | Determination of potassium ions in fluids |
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Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., volume 87, September 1990, (US), V.A. Roberts et al.: "Antibody remodeling: A general solution to the design of a metal-coordination site in an antibody binding pocket", pages 6654-6658, see the whole article * |
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