WO1999046388A1 - Enzyme d'acide nucleique ayant une activite de clivage d'arn allosterique sur un arn cible - Google Patents
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- the present invention relates to a nucleic acid enzyme and its use, and more particularly, to a nucleic acid enzyme exhibiting an allosteric RNA cleavage activity for target RNA and its use.
- ribozyme ribozyme acid: ribonucleotide acid + enzyme
- RNA having a catalytic function was found. Since then, various ribozymes have been discovered (RHSymons, Trend. Biochem. Sci., 14, 445-450 (1989); RH Symbols, A. Rev. Biochem., 61, 641-671 (1992); J Bratty, P. Chartrand, G. Fer beyre, R. Cedergren, Biochim. Biophys. Acta, 1216, 345-359 (1993); Haseho ff.
- the hammerhead ribozyme is one of the best studied ribozymes to date. This is a ribozyme that functions as a self-cleaving reaction (cis type) in nature (TRCech, Annu. Rev. Biochem., 59, 543 (1990); ACFoster, RHSymons, Cell, 49). , 211 (1987); ACJeffries, RH Sy Awakes, Nucleic Acids Res., 17, 1371 (1989)), Uhlenbeck et al., Haseloff, and Gerlach et al. Region (trans.) (0. Uhlenbeck, Nature, 328, 596 (1987); J.
- Ribozymes bind to substrate RNA by forming complementary base pairs with the substrate. Thereafter, cleavage of the substrate RNA molecule occurs in the presence of magnesium, which is essential for the reaction. Substrate recognition is determined by the substrate binding regions of both Steml and Stemlll.
- the ribozyme has very high substrate specificity because it is formed by forming the appropriate base pairs with the corresponding substrate sequence. If the substrate specificity is very high, there are few side effects in cells, which is a great advantage when ribozyme is used as a gene expression inhibitor.
- the ribozyme When attempting to suppress the expression of such a gene using a conventional hammerhead ribozyme, the ribozyme can be cleaved at the junction site of exon exon 3 which is a sequence portion specific to abnormal mRNA. If you have a GUC triplet with an unusual sequence (generally NUX (N; A, G, C, UX; A, C, U)), no problem occurs. Fortunately, however, ribozyme cleavage sequences are rarely found at or near junctions. If there is no cleavable sequence at the junction site, the only choice is to target the cleavage sequence at a site distant from the junction site.
- the sequence of the cleavage site itself far from the junction, is present in both normal and abnormal mRNAs. In the end, it is inevitable that nonspecific cleavage of normal mRNA will occur. Even if there is a ribozyme cleavage sequence NUX sequence at or near the junction site, it is a triplet (GUC triplet) of a sequence that can be efficiently cleaved by a hammerhead ribozyme. The probability is even lower. Therefore, even in such a case, it was difficult to construct a ribozyme with extremely high specificity while maintaining high cleavage activity.
- a well-known example of this particular chimeric mRNA causing disease is the formation of the Philadelphia chromosome, which causes CML (chronic myeloid leukemia) and ALL (acute lymphocytic leukemia).
- CML chronic myeloid leukemia
- ALL acute lymphocytic leukemia
- a chromosome reciprocal translocation t (9; 22) q34; qll
- K28 junction and L6 transcript two types of chromosomal translocation
- K28 transcript and L6 transcript generate two types of BCR-ABL fusion genes, which ultimately result in two chimeric mRNAs.
- K28 junction (b3a2) mRNA and L6 junction (b2a2) mRNA are generated as a result of splicing (K28 junction (b3a2) mRNA and L6 junction (b2a2) mRNA).
- GUI triplet a sequence (GUU triplet) that can cleave a hammerhead ribozyme near the BCR-ABL junction site (K28 jankushiyon (b3a2) mRNA), but another type of mRNA has a junction site. There is no prominent cleavage sequence in the vicinity of (L6 junction (b2a2) mRNA). Therefore, conventional hammerhead ribozymes cannot specifically inhibit expression of the latter mRNA.
- Abnormal protein from L6mRNA that have been reported to date - attempt to inhibit at Ribozaimu expression (p210 BCR AB L) is added a long antisense portion to the hammer first head type Ribozaimu, complementary it to the junction site Most of them try to obtain the specificity of the cut by binding to.
- the substrate-binding portion of the ribozyme becomes longer due to the addition of the longer antisense moiety, the step of dissociating from the substrate once the ribozyme has bound to the substrate becomes very slow. As a result, the enzyme cannot be turned over and the cutting efficiency is reduced. Furthermore, the substrate specificity we tried to obtain was not as high as we expected.
- nucleic acid enzyme that exhibits an allosteric cleavage activity on a substrate.
- Another object of the present invention is to provide an expression vector containing a DNA encoding the nucleic acid enzyme.
- Another object of the present invention is to provide a pharmaceutical composition
- a pharmaceutical composition comprising, as an active ingredient, an expression vector containing the nucleic acid enzyme or a DNA encoding the nucleic acid enzyme. I do.
- Still another object of the present invention is to provide a method for producing and using the nucleic acid enzyme. Disclosure of the invention
- the present invention has been completed by constructing a nucleic acid enzyme (ribozyme) capable of binding to an efficient cleavage sequence far away from, and cleaving a substrate after the cleavage sequence. That is, the present invention provides a nucleic acid enzyme having an allosteric RNA cleavage activity for a target RNA.
- the nucleic acid enzyme of the present invention preferably has a dimer structure formed by an RNA molecule containing the following nucleotide sequence (10) and an RNA molecule containing the following nucleotide sequence (20).
- x ⁇ x ⁇ X 2 , ⁇ X 2 k , ⁇ ⁇ ⁇ 'Y 2 !- ⁇ ZZ ⁇ and ⁇ ⁇ are each independently A, U, T, C or G Yes,
- h and k are integers of 1 or more (for example, integers from 1 to 100);
- i and m are integers of 1 or more (for example, integers from 1 to 100),
- j is an integer of 1 or more (for example, an integer from 1 to 100),
- n is an integer of 1 or more (for example, an integer of 1 to 100).
- X 1 ,... X and X 2 ,... X 2 k are nucleotide sequences complementary to a specific sequence in the target RNA;
- Z 2 i ⁇ ⁇ 2 ⁇ are regions that are complementary to the sequence around the cleavage site of the target RNA and regions that can form cavities that capture Mg 2+ ions only in the presence of the target RNA. Is a nucleotide sequence containing )
- Target RNAs include chimeric mRNAs that cause disease.
- the chimeric mRNA may be of a L6 (b2a2) chimeric mRNA that causes chronic myeloid leukemia t
- the nucleic acid enzyme of the present invention may have, for example, a dimer structure formed by an RNA molecule containing the following nucleotide sequence (1) and an RNA molecule containing the following nucleotide sequence (2).
- the 21st to 29th nucleotides of the nucleotide sequence (1) and the 17th to 31st nucleotides of the nucleotide sequence (2) are complementary to the sequence around the cleavage site of the target RNA It may be modified as follows.
- a linker sequence and a tRNAVa1 promoter sequence may be added upstream of each of the nucleotide sequences (1) and (2).
- the linker sequence added upstream of the nucleotide sequence (1) contains the following nucleotide sequence (3), and the linker sequence added upstream of the nucleotide sequence (2) is the following nucleotide sequence (4) Should be included.
- tRNA Val promoter sequence added upstream of each of the nucleotide sequences (1) and (2) may include the following nucleotide sequence (5).
- an additional sequence and a terminal sequence may be added downstream of each of the nucleotide sequences (1) and (2).
- the additional sequence added downstream of the nucleotide sequence (1) includes the following nucleotide sequence (6)
- the additional sequence added downstream of the nucleotide sequence (2) includes the following nucleotide sequence (7)
- the terminator sequence added downstream of each of the nucleotide sequences (1) and (2) may include the following nucleotide sequence (8).
- the target RNA may be an abnormal mRNA that causes a disease.
- This abnormal form of mRNA examples include abnormal mRNAs that cause HIV (AIDS), acute lymphocytic leukemia, acute promyelocytic leukemia, and the like.
- the present invention also provides an expression vector containing a DNA encoding the nucleic acid enzyme.
- the present invention provides the above-mentioned method for producing a nucleic acid enzyme, wherein the method is characterized in that expression vector DNA containing a DNA encoding the nucleic acid enzyme is transcribed into RNA and the RNA is transcribed into RNA. .
- the present invention also provides a pharmaceutical composition
- a pharmaceutical composition comprising, as an active ingredient, an expression vector containing the nucleic acid enzyme or a DNA encoding the nucleic acid enzyme.
- the pharmaceutical composition may be for preventing and treating or treating a disease caused by the target RNA.
- Diseases caused by target RNA include diseases caused by Philadelphia chromosomal abnormalities, such as chronic myeloid leukemia.
- the pharmaceutical composition of the present invention can be used, for example, to suppress or inhibit the expression of chimeric mRNA or abnormal mRNA that causes disease by expressing the nucleic acid enzyme in vivo. it can.
- the present invention provides a method for specifically cleaving target RNA using the above-described nucleic acid enzyme.
- the target RNA may be a disease-causing chimeric mRNA. Diseases include those caused by Philadelphia chromosomal abnormalities, such as chronic myeloid leukemia. Alternatively, the target RNA may be an abnormal mRNA that causes a disease. Such diseases include HIV (AIDS), acute lymphocytic leukemia, acute promyelocytic leukemia, and the like.
- hammerhead ribozymes Before we talk about minizymes, we will first briefly describe hammerhead ribozymes.
- the hammerhead ribozyme was named after its RNA secondary structure resembling the shape of a Kanazuchi head (hammerhead) (Hasehoff. J and WL Gerlach, Nature, 334, 585-591). (1988); CJ Hutchins, PD Rathjen, A. Forster, RHSymons, Nucleic Acids. Res., 14, 3627-3640 (1986)).
- Extensive research has been carried out in both basic and applied fields, and it is a representative ribozyme with RNA strand cleavage activity.
- RNA was found to be self-cleaving from the replication process in single-stranded circular RNA that is not infectious, and in satellite RNA that infects plants with the help of viroids.
- a highly homologous secondary structure that is, a hammerhead structure was found (Haseho ff. J and WL Gerlach, Nature, 334, 585-591).
- a hammer-head ribozyme is formed from an antisense region that recognizes and binds to substrate RNA, an active center region consisting of a loop (hole) in the immediate vicinity, and a stem-1 oopll region attached to the loop.
- an active center region consisting of a loop (hole) in the immediate vicinity
- a stem-1 oopll region attached to the loop.
- the triplet with the highest cleavage efficiency is a sequence called GUC, and this GUC is often described as a ribozyme cleavage sequence.
- the sequence of the antisense region that complementarily binds to the substrate can be freely set according to the base sequence of the substrate.
- the riboribozyme can cut any RNA sequence in a site-specific manner. As a result, it has become possible to apply it to gene therapy as a specific gene expression inhibitor.
- ribozyme can be said to be "molecule scissors” that can freely cut the "target RNA chain”.
- divalent cations such as magnesium ions are essential for the RNA-cleaving activity of the hammerhead ribozyme described above. This magnesium ion is also required for the ribozyme to form an active structure, but its involvement in the detailed reaction mechanism is not fully understood. However, the results of experiments so far have revealed that magnesium ions are actually cutting the RNA chain, and ribozymes merely provide a scaffold for metal ions (SC Dahm, WB Derrick, 0. C. Uhlenbeck, Biochemistry 32, 13040 (1993); JAPiccirilli, JSVyle, Nature 361, 85 (1993); Michael.
- ribozyme is a metalloenzyme.
- the region that is considered to actually provide the scaffold is the loop portion near the cleavage site among the several regions that form the hammerhead ribozyme mentioned earlier, and captures this metal ion.
- the region other than the loop is possible.
- FIG. 2 shows the construction process of the dimer minizyme. With reference to this figure, the construction process of the mini-zyme and the dimer mini-zyme will be described.
- the minizyme is a miniaturized hammer-head ribozyme.
- This miniaturization has usually been achieved by replacing the stem-loopl I region of the hammer-head ribozyme consisting of the antisense region (steml and stemIII), the active center region and the stem-loopll region with a short linker.
- the stem-loopll region was deleted. This was done to determine how each region of the hammerhead ribozyme plays a role in cleavage activity. As a result, it was revealed that the cleavage activity was significantly reduced when the stem-loopl I region was completely deleted.
- MzL minizym Left
- MzR minizyme Right
- heterozygous molecules MzL and MzR each having a different sequence, combine to form a dimer as shown in FIG. Please look at the upper side and the lower side from the dotted line in this figure.
- a metalloenzyme the active center region, which serves as a scaffold for capturing magnesium ions required for cleavage activity, and the substrate binding region, which determines where in the substrate RNA sequence is to be cut, are independent of each other. Notice that there is one by one. It was speculated that the dimer-type minizyme could simultaneously bind to one substrate in two places and cleave the substrate after the two NUX triplets.
- the advantage of this construction is, of course, one that the substrate cleavage efficiency is higher than that of a conventional ribozyme that has only one cleavage site.
- one of the substrate binding region of dimer first mold Minizaimu is very easy to bond the substrate (i.e., is sufficiently low k m values of binding of the substrate and Ribozaimu) If set to an array, and the other cleavage site Ribozaimu there outside GUC, be indicated even higher k n value (i.e., less likely to stick the substrate, even unstable sequences), can capable of cutting efficiently two places as long as selecting a high triplet of k cat values Have sex.
- the binding between the other substrate-binding domain and the substrate is a reaction in the same molecule. Therefore, the collision probability is much higher than that between molecules.
- the dimer-type minizyme has an active center region and a substrate binding region because of its dimer structure. It has two zones. Therefore, one substrate binding region binds to the abnormal BCR-ABL chimeric mRNA junction site, and the other substrate binding region becomes the most efficient cleavage sequence far away from the junction. It is possible to construct a system that binds and cleaves the substrate after its (GUC) triplet
- one of the substrate-binding domains acts as an "eye” that recognizes an abnormal type of substrate
- the other substrate-binding domain acts as an "actual” arm of the ribozyme that cleaves the substrate.
- the side that recognizes and specifically binds to abnormal mRNA does not necessarily cleave the substrate.
- the sequence of the active center region, which provides a scaffold for capturing metal ions, required for RNA strand cleavage can be deleted.
- maxizyme maxi zyme
- maximumzyme means minimized, active, x-shaped, x-shaped, heterodimeric, and ⁇ ntel 1 igent (intelligent, allosterically controlled) (Possible) means ribozyme.
- FIG. 5 shows a maxim designed to actually cleave the BCR-ABL chimera mRNA specifically.
- the active dimer structure is formed only when the target BCR-ABL chimera mRNA and the substrate binding region at the two key sites of the dimer type 1 minizyme are correctly bound (see figure). 5 displayed in the middle). In the presence of non-targeted normal ABL mRNA, it is designed so that only inactive structures can be formed.
- the normal ABL mRNA sequence arrives at the substrate binding region on the side that recognizes the junction, it adopts an inactive structure (the structure shown at the top in the lower part of Fig. 5). You can see that the structure of the active center that captures the magnesium ion, which is essential for the cleavage activity of the hammerhead ribozyme, is collapsed, unlike the one shown in the activated dimer structure. As a result, non-specific cleavage of normal ABL mRNA by the dimer type 1 minizyme does not occur.
- the binding substrate may be both normal ABL mRNA and BCR-ABL chimeric mRNA.
- the sequence of the target BCR-ABL chimeric mRNA is present in the other substrate binding region, a structure in which the active site is closed as shown in the figure is formed (the structure shown in the lower part of the lower part of FIG. 5).
- the magnesium ion which is essential for the cleavage, cannot be captured, so that the cleavage does not occur.
- CML chronic myeloid leukemia
- B3a2 (comprising BCR exon 3 and ABL exon 2)
- b2a2 (comprising BCR exon 2 and ABL exon 2)
- Both of these mRNAs are translated into a 210 kDa protein (p210 BCR - ABL ).
- a hammerhead ribozyme designed by conventional methods could be expected to specifically cleave abnormal mRNAs resulting from the K28 translocation.
- truncations have been reported (Shore et al., 1993; Snyder et al., 1993; Lange et al., 1993, 1994; Wright et al., 1993; Kearney et al., 1995; Leopold et al., 1995; Kronenwett et al., 1996).
- L6 BCR-ABL (b2a2) mRNA Previous attempts to cleave L6 BCR-ABL (b2a2) mRNA required a combination of long antisense arms and ribozyme sequences (Pachuk et al., 1994; James et al., 1996).
- An antisense sequence of about 10 to 30 nucleotides which has the potential to bind to the junction region and cover it a small distance beyond the cleavage site, is ligated to one of the substrate binding sites of the hammerhead ribozyme.
- the length of the annealing arm is important for the activity of the ribozyme. Because its length affects both the efficiency and specificity of the cleavage reaction.
- the maxizim of the present invention is a method for deprotection, desalting, and PAGE purification of RNA chemically synthesized using a DNA / RNA synthesizer (model 394; Applied Biosystems, Division of Perkin Elmer Co. (ABI), Foster City, CA). By doing so, it can be manufactured.
- the cleavage activity and substrate specificity of this maximyme can be evaluated as follows.
- Aberrant BCR- ABL mRNA (120mer) is prepared those labeled with two substrate RNA with a radioisotope (32 P) of the normal type ABL mRNA (92mer). Mix this with maxima and magnesium ions in Tris-HCl (pH 8.0) buffer and react at 37 ° C. After the reaction, the reaction mixture is separated by PAGE, and the presence or absence of cleavage is detected with a BAS2000 image analyzer, and the evaluation that BCR-ABL mRNA is specifically cut without cutting ABL mRNA is evaluated.
- the expression vector containing the DNA encoding the ribozyme of the present invention is obtained by linking the promoter, terminator sequence, and maximimim sequence of RNA polymerase III (tRNA val -MzL, tRNA val -MzR) to pUC19 (Takara ), PGREEN LANTERN (manufactured by Lifetec Quality), pHaMDR (HUMAN GENE THERAPY 6: 905-915 (July 1995)) and the like.
- the expression vector prepared as described above can be introduced into cells as follows.
- the cell surface is negatively charged. Therefore, a complex is formed between the desired vector (DNA double-stranded circular plasmid) and a cationic lipid (lipofection reagent (lipofectin, etc.)) and is introduced into cells.
- desired vector DNA double-stranded circular plasmid
- a cationic lipid lipofection reagent (lipofectin, etc.)
- RNA sequences that have therapeutic effects are transcribed from vector DNA introduced into cells by the action of RNA polymerase III, which originally functions in cells. As a result, ribozymes are expressed with high expression power.
- a promoter sequence is required upstream of the ribozyme sequence.
- the tRNA val sequence is an extra sequence in this expression system. (Promoter sequence other than the ribozyme part).
- an expression vector for maxizyme was actually constructed, and the ribozyme component expressed from this vector is a short-chain linker downstream of the tRNA val sequence.
- FIG. 6 shows that the sequences of the maxims are connected via a link. Looking at this figure, tRNA It was anticipated that the val sequence could be a very steric hindrance to maximizer. The maxim is based on MzL and MzR sequences (MzL: Minizim Left, MzR
- Mini-Zim 'Light One of each of the two dimer components that form the maximizer (see activated dimer structure in Figure 5). The region underlined in Fig. 6) forms a base pair at the stem portion, and the first dimer-type structure is formed, and the cleavage activity is expressed. Before each of the MzL and MzR sequences, an extra tRNA val sequence with a chain length more than 5 times that of the MzL and MzR sequences was added, so there was a possibility that dimers would not form due to steric hindrance.
- cleavage component BCR-ABL mRNA did not occur because only one of the maximization components, tRNA val -MzL and tRNA val -MzR, could not form a dimer-like structure capable of having activity.
- a maximizer which may have a linker sequence and a promoter sequence upstream of the ribozyme sequence and a terminator sequence downstream thereof, uses a T7-based enzyme to convert the DNA encoding the above sequence into It can also be manufactured by transferring it to
- L6 (b2a2) chimera-type mRNA that causes chronic myeloid leukemia can be specifically cleaved.
- An example of the method is described below.
- Maximaim has two substrate binding regions.
- Specific to L6 (b2a2) chimeric mRNA on one side Cleavable GUC triplets that bind to specific junction sites, while being distant (45 residues) apart, can be specifically cleaved in the presence of magnesium ions.
- the expression of p210 BCR — ABL from BCR-ABL mRNA can be inhibited without affecting the normal mRNA at all.
- the maxizyme of the present invention can be used as a medicament, in particular, a medicament for preventing and / or treating a disease in which a Philadelphia chromosomal abnormality occurs.
- RNA polymerase III RNA polymerase III
- maizezyme RNA is chemically modified, and RNA that has resistance to in vivo ribonuclease is transferred into cells using a carrier (cationic lipid, ribosome, etc.). May be introduced.
- a carrier cationic lipid, ribosome, etc.
- Figure 1 shows the secondary structure of a hammerhead ribozyme.
- Figure 2 shows the process of constructing the dimer type mini-zyme.
- Figure 3 shows the secondary structure of the heterodimer minizyme.
- FIG. 4 shows the structure and action of the dimer minizyme and maximize targeting the BCR-ABL chimeric mRNA.
- Y and Y form a stem, and X recognizes a specific sequence in the target RNA.
- FIG. 5 shows the sequence near the junction of BCR-ABL quinula mRNA and normal ABL mRNA, the secondary structure of an active maximizer, and the secondary structure of an inactive maximizer.
- FIG. 6 shows the secondary structure of Maximaim to which the tRNA val sequence was added. It was added tR NA va l sequence as not to destroy only possible secondary structure of the case MZL, only MzR sequence shown in dotted in the frame (partial array of Makishizaimu shown underlined).
- FIG. 7 shows the cleavage activity of a maximizer targeting a BCR-ABL chimeric mRNA with or without a tRNA val sequence.
- FIG. 8 shows the velocity parameters of a maximizer targeting a BCR-ABL chimeric mRNA with or without a tRNA val sequence.
- FIG. 9 shows BCR-ABL translocation and fusion mRNA.
- the two types of chromosomal translocations associated with chronic myeloid leukemia [K28 (upper panel) and L6 (lower panel)] and their corresponding fusion mRNAs are shown.
- White squares represent BCR exons and black squares represent ABL exons 2.
- the dotted line connecting the BCR exon and the ABL exon indicates an alternative splicing pathway.
- the hammerhead ribozyme-cleavable triplet sequence is absent close to the BCR-ABdin 'yanksion.
- the GUC triplet which is generally the most susceptible to cleavage by a hammerhead ribozyme, is located 45 nucleotides from the junction. If such a triplet is selected as a cleavage site by the ribozyme, normal ABL mRNA that shares part of the abnormal BCR-ABL RNA sequence will also be cleaved by the ribozyme and harm the host cell. Yes (lower panel). nts represents a nucleotide.
- FIG. 10 shows the nucleotide sequences of conventional hammerhead ribozymes and antisense-added ribozymes.
- the sequence of L6 BCR-ABL mRNA near the junction is expanded.
- the cleavage sites of the antisense addition ribozyme (asRz81 and asRz52) and the control ribozyme (wtRz) are shown.
- the cleavage site by Maxima is the same as that by wtRz.
- the recognition site of Maxima is indicated by an arrow.
- FIG. 11 shows the secondary structures of active and inactive maxizim.
- maxizim In order to achieve high substrate specificity, maxizim must adopt an active conformation only in the presence of the abnormal BCR-ABL junction (upper panel). On the other hand, in the presence of normal ABL mRNA or in the absence of the BCR-AB junction (lower panel), the conformation must remain inactive.
- MzL and MzR as described above, depend on the presence or absence of aberrant b2a2 mRNA. It must allow conformational changes to occur.
- FIG. 12 shows allosteric control of maximizim activity in vitro.
- S16 short 16-mer substrate
- ABL20 normal type ABL sequences
- the specificity of maxizim-mediated cleavage was examined by incubating in the presence of a BCR-ABL sequence (BCR-ABL 28-mer)) or a short 28-mer BCR-ABL sequence.
- the M z L and Roh or M z R at a concentration of 0. 1 mu Micromax, and incubated with substrate labeled at the 5 'end of the 2 Itamyu at 3 2 ⁇ (S16).
- an effector (20-mer ABL or 28-mer BCR-ABL) was used, its concentration was 1.
- FIG. 13 shows an Assay system for measuring the activity of tRNA Val -enzyme in HeLa cells.
- 1 4 is a chimeric BCR-ABL-Lucifera t RNA Va and against Ichize gene and ABL-luciferase gene shows the effect of enzyme.
- the luciferase activity was standardized with reference to the transfection efficiency measured by monitoring the activity of the co-transformed 3-galactosidase gene (see “Experimental Methods” in Example 7).
- FIG. 15 schematically shows the dependence of BaF3 cells and transduced BaF3 cells expressing human L6 BCR-ABL mRNA on IL-3.
- FIG. 16 shows the course of MzL transcript transport to the cytoplasm.
- N represents the nuclear fraction and C represents the cytoplasmic fraction.
- FIG. 17 shows the steady-state levels of expressed tRNA Val -enzymes and their localization.
- N represents the nuclear fraction and C represents the cytoplasmic fraction.
- FIG. 18 shows the results of measuring the survival rates of BaF3 / p210 BCR - ABL cells and H9 cells transduced with tRNA Va and enzymatically. Viability of BV173 cells expressing tRNA Val -enzyme is also shown.
- FIG. 19 shows the morphology of BaF3 / p210 B (: R — cells and H9 cells transduced with tRNA Val -enzyme.
- FIG. 20 shows the results of direct detection of L6 BCR-ABL mRNA cleavage products in BaF3 / p210 BCR — ABL cells by Northern blot analysis.
- FIG. 21 shows the results of immunoblot analysis using the 32-kDa precursor of caspase-3 (procaspase-3) and the antibody aCPP32 that recognizes caspase-3 itself. After specific killing of the p210 BCR - ABL protein by Maximaim, cleavage of the inactive procaspase-3 resulted in active caspase-3.
- Figure 22 shows pre-dissection of mice injected with tumor cells without maxizyme (control; Mz (-)) and mice injected with tumor cells with maxizyme (Maxizim; Mz (+)). It is a photograph.
- Figure 23 shows photographs of the spleen of mice injected with tumor cells without maxizim (control; Mz (-)) and mice injected with tumor cells injected with maxizyme (maxizim; Mz (+)). It is.
- Fig. 24 shows lymph around the thymus of mice injected with tumor cells without maxizim (control; Mz (-)) and mice injected with tumor cells with maxizyme (maxizim; Mz (+)). It is a photograph of a section.
- Fig. 25 shows photographs of the bone marrow of mice injected with tumor cells without maxizim (control; Mz (-)) and mice injected with tumor cells injected with maxizyme (maxizim; Mz (+)). It is. BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION
- RNA of the desired length was isolated by 20% denaturing PAGE.
- DNA sequence of tRNA val -MzL, tRNA val -MzR (sequence of tRNA val -MzL, tRM va '-MzR in Fig. 6)
- sequence of the T7 RNA polymerase promoter sequence 5′TAATACGACTCACTATA3 ′ (SEQ ID NO: 4) and GGG were added.
- T7 RNA polymerase buffer T7 RNA polymerase
- type I DNA NTP
- T7 RNA polymerase buffer T7 RNA polymerase
- type I DNA NTP
- RNA of the desired length was isolated and purified by 5-8% denaturing PAGE.
- a BCR-ABL substrate containing a BCR-ABL junction serving as a substrate, and an ABL substrate having a normal ABL exon ABL exon 2 junction sequence as a comparison were prepared. These substrates were labeled at the 5 'end with 32 P radioisotope. The labeled substrate and ribozyme were mixed as follows (in a test tube).
- the reaction product (which was cleaved to a shorter chain length) was detected by 8-20% denaturing PAGE. Since maxizim only cleaves the BCR-ABL substrate, no cleavage product was detected from the ABL substrate, and only when the BCR-ABL substrate was added, the cleavage product was detected (Fig. 7).
- RNA 16mer containing GUC triplet RNA 16mer containing GUC triplet
- 20-mer pseudosubstrate containing a sequence near the BCR-ABL junction site were prepared.
- S16 was labeled with 32 P, mixed with an excess of enzyme (maximizim) (single turnover), 25 mM MgCi 2 , and 50 mM Tris-HCl (pH 8.0), and the cleavage reaction was performed at 37 ° C.
- the initial velocity was observed and plotted on the Eadie-Hofstee plot to detect the rate constants k cat , k d pp ).
- Fig. 8 shows the results.
- tRNA val -MzL In Hela cells (obtained from National Institute of Infectious Institute), tRNA val -MzL, tRNA val by Ripofuekushiyon method - Create MzL / pUCdt, tRNA val -M zR / pUCdt, - vector one tRNA that incorporate DNA sequences of MzR val it was introduced into cells by Northern hybrida I peptidase one Chillon experiment, stable both tRNA va '-MzL, tRNA val - was confirmed that MzR RNA is highly expressed.
- the plasmid pUCdt containing tRNA val in commercially available pUC119 is cleaved with the restriction enzymes Csp45I and Sail, and the DNA sequence of MzL and tRNA val -MzR in tRNA va is cleaved with Cs p45I and Sal I. the fragments were ligated with DNA Ligase, to create both vector one MZL / pUCdt and tRNA v al -MzR / pUCdt the tRNA va.
- the vector was transfected (lipofection method) into cells using lipofectin (sold by Gibco-BRL), and the total RNA expressed in the cells was extracted from the cells cultured for 36 hours. Northern hybridization was performed using the RNA extracted from the cells, and the expression of minizyme in cells was detected using DNA having a sequence complementary to the MzL and MzR sequences as a probe.
- Tris-HCl pH 8.0
- the substrate was labeled with [ ⁇ - 32 P] -ATP using T4 polynucleotide kinase (Takara Shuzo, Kyoto, Japan).
- Plasmid pABL-luc contained a 300 nucleotide sequence encompassing the junction between exon 1 and exon 2 of normal ABL mRNA. After transiently expressing both genes in each cell lysate, we estimated the intracellular activity of each enzyme by measuring luciferase activity.
- the tRNA Val -enzyme expression vector shown in Fig. 13 was used as a DNA gun type for PCR to construct a DNA type I for transcription. Primers were synthesized for each type III and the sense strand contained the T7 promoter. T7 transcription and sperm in vitro was performed as described in the literature (Kuwabara et al., 1996).
- Luciferase activity was measured using the PicaGene Kit (Toyo Ink, Tokyo, Japan) as described in the literature (Koseki et al., 1998).
- To standardize the effect of transfection with reference to the activity of 3-galactosidase cells were transfected simultaneously using pSV- / 3-galactosidase control vector (Promega, Madison, WI). did.
- the luminescence; the chemiluminescence signal by 3-galactosidase was quantified using the 9-galactosidase gene reporter system (C1 ontech, Palo Alto, CA) according to the method of Koseki et al. (Koseki et al. , 1998).
- the luciferase activity recorded when the target gene expression plasmid (pB2A2-luc or pABL-luc) was used was set to 100% (Fig. 14).
- the novel maxizyme (PV-MzL / R) was extremely effective at suppressing BCR-ABL-luciferase gene in cell culture (> 95% suppression) ( Figure 14, right) Panel). This maximim had no inhibitory effect on the expression of the ABL-luciferase gene (Fig. 14, left panel). This indicates the extremely high specificity of the maximizer.
- Example 8 BaF3 cell line expressing human L6 BCR-ABL m RNA (BaF3 / p210 BCR - AB), and t RNA Va to the Makishizaimu to Ribozaimu or t RNA Va transduced BaF3 / p210 BGR - dishes and Generation of stable transformants of H9 cell line
- This cell line differs from the cell line previously used by Daley and Baltimore (1988) and Choo et al. (1994) (BaF3 + p210 cells expressing K28 b3a2 mRNA). Should be emphasized.
- the parental BaF3 cell line is an interleukin-3 (IL-3) -dependent hematopoietic cell line (Daley and Baltimore, 1988; left panel in Figure 15), but the transformed BaF3 / p210 BCR - ABL has p210 B (: R - ABL was IL-3 independent due to the tyrosine kinase activity of the ABL .
- IL-3 interleukin-3
- BaF3 / p210 BCR -cells were transfected separately using ( Figure 13). All of these plasmids encoded the puromycin resistance gene.
- BaF3 / p210 Bt R stably transduced with tRNA Val , wt Rz or maximyz constructs—To generate cells, 24 hours after transfection, 10% FCS and 3 g / ml The RPMI medium supplemented with euromycin was replaced. The transduced cells were cultured for an additional 60 hours, and then IL-3 was removed from the medium to access apoptosis (see below; results are shown in FIGS. 18-21).
- H9 cells carrying the maximimim or ribozyme constructs were generated using each of the above plasmids. Due to the very low efficiency of transfection, we generated transduced cells using a retroviral producer cell line (B0SC23 cells). The supernatant of B0SC23 cells transfected with the plasmids pV, pVwtRz or pV-MzL / R was filtered and added to H9 cells. The H9 cells were cultured for 72 hours, and then puromycin was added for selection of resistant cells. Various systems of transduced cells have allowed us to examine the activity and specificity of maxizim and ribozyme against endogenous target genes (as opposed to reporter constructs).
- BaF3 cells grown in the presence of WEHI conditioned medium as a source of IL-3 were retrovirus-infected to obtain cells stably expressing human L6 BCR-ABL mRNA.
- a retroviral stock lacking a helper in B0SC23 cells harboring the pMX-p210 BCR — ABL vector (encoding human L6 BCR-ABL mRNA). was produced.
- Retroviral infection of BaF3 cells was performed according to the method of Pendergast et al. (Pendergast et al., 1993). At 72 hours post-infection, IL-3 was removed, allowing selection of a population expressing the fusion gene.
- BaF3 / p 210 BGR ABL cells were RPMI-1640 supplemented with 10% fetal calf serum (FCS; Gibco-BRL, Rockville, MD) and 3 g / m1 puromycin (Gibco-BRL). Maintained in the medium.
- FCS fetal calf serum
- Gibco-BRL Gibco-BRL, Rockville, MD
- 3 g / m1 puromycin Gabco-BRL
- the total RNA of BaF3 / p210B (: R - ABL cells transfected with various plasmids was extracted at 2, 4, 6, 12, 18, 24, 30, and 36 hours after transfection. The total RNA sample was separated into a nuclear fraction and a cytoplasmic fraction.
- T4 polynucleotide kinase (Takara Shuzo, Kyoto, Japan) by are labeled with 32 ⁇ ⁇ z L, Mz R , wt R z and L6 BCR-AB have sequence of the junction ( Figure 1 0) to the phase complementary synthetic
- the nylon membrane was caught using an oligonucleotide as a probe. Prehybridization and hybridization were performed according to Koseki et al. (Koseki et al., 1998).
- BaF3 cells stably expressing L6 BCR-ABL (b2a2) mRNA were transfected with the plasmid encoding (pV), and exposed to puromycin 24 hours later to select cells. After incubating for 60 hours in the presence of puromycin, dead cells were removed by Ficol and puromycin-resistant cells were cultured for various times in IL-3 free medium. Cell viability was assessed by its ability to exclude trypanble monochrom. In addition to BaF3 / p210 BCR - ABL cells, H9 cells expressing high levels of normal ABL mRNA were used as controls.
- the time course of mRNA reduction is shown in the lower panel of FIG.
- the basal level of L6 BCR-ABL mRNA in BaF3 / p210 BCR — ABL cells was set to 100%.
- the graph entitled “Control” at the top of Figure 20 shows the level of L6 BCR-ABL mRNA expression at each measurement. Indicate the basic level).
- tRNA Val RNA pV
- the rate of L6 BCR-ABL mRNA elimination was clearly faster in cells producing maxizim than in cells producing wt R z.
- L6 BCR-ABL mRNA The half-life of L6 BCR-ABL mRNA was about 3 days and about 10 days in cells producing maxizim and cells producing wtRz, respectively. Cleavage products of endogenous BCR-ABL mRNA resulting from maxizim expression were also identified in BV173 cells (data not shown). Detection of these fragments demonstrated that maxizyme and conventional ribozymes were catalytically active in cultured cells and specifically cleaved the target mRNA. Therefore, we show that apoptosis of the cells shown in FIGS.
- pl45 c-ABL protein is a nuclear protein with low intrinsic tyrosine kinase activity.
- the p210 BCR - ABL protein is a cytoplasmic membrane-bound protein with constitutively high levels of tyrosine kinase activity that prolongs hematopoietic stem cell survival by suppressing apoptosis.
- ABL chimeric protein and P 14 5 c-ABL proteins are both negative regulator of Apoptosis one cis (CHAPM an, et al., 1994; Laneuville et al., 1994; Spooncer et al., 1994; Bedi et al., 1994, 1995 McGahon et al., 1994, 1995; Dubrez et al., 1998).
- Low-specificity antisense molecules inhibit leukemia cells by blocking normal ABL mRNA expression in addition to blocking the BCR-ABL pathway. May induce apoptosis.
- the cleavage activity of maxizim especially in cells, must require a three-molecule interaction (between the two monomer units driven by maxim tRNA Val and the target substrate).
- the activity of conventional ribozymes requires two-molecule interactions (between one ribozyme driven by tRNA Val and its target). In principle, two-molecule interactions are faster than three-molecule interactions. This difference The differences seem to indicate that conventional ribozymes would be more effective than maxizim in cells.
- tRNA Val driven dimers were always more active than the corresponding tRNA Va 1 driven ribozymes. We found something (the same target site was used for each set of ribozyme and maximizem).
- the Klug group found that a carefully designed DNA-binding peptide consisting of three zinc finger motifs was unique in the BCR-ABL fusion oncogene rather than the parent genomic sequence in an elegant experiment. It was shown to specifically bind to a 9 base pair region (Choo et al., 1994). Furthermore, the mouse cells rendered growth factor (IL-3) -independent by the action of the above-mentioned oncogene are transformed into IL-3 dependent mice as a result of transient transfection using a vector expressing the above-mentioned DNA-binding peptide. I went back to sex.
- IL-3 growth factor
- the p210 BCR - ABL protein does not trigger the endogenous expression of IL-3 or other growth factors that can stimulate the growth of BaF3 cells in a photocrine fashion. Rather, the p210 BGR protein provides a stimulus for the growth of BaF3 cells, usually provided via the IL-3 signaling pathway (Daley and Baltimore, 1988).
- the Klug group also found that BCR-ABL mRNA levels in transiently transfected cells were reduced by 15-18% within 24 hours compared to those in non-transfected cells. showed that.
- a similar decrease in the level of BCR-ABL mRNA (35% decrease in the case of maxizim within 24 hours; FIG. 20) regained dependence on IL-3 (FIG. 18). ).
- caspases which must cause apoptosis when overexpressed in cells, initially require cleavage at a distance from the aspartate residue to produce an active protease 1 It is synthesized as an inactive proenzyme of the main chain.
- caspase activation in apoptosis occurs via proteolytic cascades.
- caspase-4 activates procaspase-1 which in turn cleaves procaspase-3 to yield active caspase-3, which is Asp-G1U-Va1-Asp ( DEVD) recognizes the motif and cleaves the poly (ADP-ribose) polymerase (Enari et al., 1996).
- mice lacking caspase-1 did not show any phenotype in programmed cell death (Li et al., 1995), whereas mice lacking caspase-3 showed hyperplasia and disordered development of cells in the brain.
- caspase-1 is abundant in all types of cells, while caspase-3 plays an important role in apoptosis in certain parts of the brain (Nagata, 1997).
- BCR-ABL-mediated repression of apoptosis the most recent finding was that the apoptotic pathway was interrupted upstream of ostial caspase-3 activation in the BCR-ABL + cell line (Dubrez et al., 1998).
- mice in order to transform mice into cancerous cells, cells derived from b2a2 type CML human patients (CML translocation type L6 translocation type patients that have not yet undergone celllinization, Obtained from the Department of Clinical Pharmacology.
- the virus vector pMX puro / Dimer maximal-incorporated pV-MzL / R in Examples 8, 10, and 11
- the control virus vector pMX puro without any integration were incorporated into these tumor cells.
- stroma cell l bone marrow stromal cells; fibroblast-like adherent cells that increase when cells taken from bone marrow are cultured. Secrete site force-in and promote proliferation of blood cells.
- the virus was obtained from the Department of Pathology and Pharmacology of the Institute of Medical Science, The University of Tokyo. ml was infected (mo i .0.1) under 10 mi crogram / ml of polybrene. ⁇ Since Inorespecta has a puromycine resistance gene integrated, by adding 0.5 mg / ml of puromycine to the culture solution 72 hours after the start of infection, only cells incorporating maximizim can be selected ( The selection time is 72 hours). Mice were injected with these tumor cells from patients into which maxizim was introduced and those without maxizim, respectively.
- mice used were N0D-SCID mice (non-obesity di abetes-systemic comb ined immunodeficiency mice; non-obese diabetic, combined immunodeficient mice, and had lower immunity than conventional SCID mice.
- Mice capable of transplanting various types of human cells In this example, the pathological pharmacology study of the Institute of Medical Science, The University of Tokyo Obtained from O 9 P 11 parts. ). 1 ⁇ 10 6 tumor cells after puromycine selection were injected into the tail vein of this mouse. Mice may be irradiated prior to administration to further reduce immunity, but this time they were not.
- Mz (-) is a mouse injected with tumor cells not transfected with maxizim
- Mz (+) is a mouse injected with tumor cells transfected with maxizim
- Figure 22 shows a photograph of the mouse before dissection (measured at this point, see Table 1)
- Figure 23 shows a photograph of the spleen (site indicated by an arrow)
- Figure 24 shows a photograph of lymph nodes around the thymus.
- Mz (+) is swollen as a whole and is growing more vigorously than Mz (-).
- Mz (+) is 34g and 1 Og
- Mz (-) indicates that the cancer progresses and the body is getting thinner and weaker.
- mice were dissected and their spleens were compared (Fig. 23). Mz (-) has clearly progressed canceration and the spleen is enlarged (0.21 g), whereas the mouse into which maxizim has been introduced is not different from the healthy body (0.08 g) and the spleen is not enlarged .
- a comparison of the lymph nodes around the thymus is shown in Fig. 24.
- the (-) lymph node (0.27 g) indicates a form in which canceration has progressed.
- Figure 25 shows a photograph of the bone marrow of the mouse. Most of the bone marrow of Mz (-) is occupied by tumor cells, whereas the bone marrow of mouse Mz (+) into which maxizim has been introduced has a shape similar to that of healthy bone marrow fluid (not tumor cells). And cells such as lymphocytes) were observed.
- the expression of abnormal L6 (b2a2) chimeric mRNA produced in chronic myeloid leukemia which is triggered by reciprocal translocation on the chromosome, has no effect on normal mRNA. , And can be specifically suppressed. Therefore, the maxizyme of the present invention can be used as a gene therapy for chronic myelogenous leukemia or an inhibitor of the expression of L6 (b2a2) chimeric mRNA that causes chronic myelogenous leukemia.
- RNA catalysts containing non-nucleoside 1 inkers are active RNA catalysts.
- BCR first exon sequences specifically activate the BCR / ABL tyrosine kinase oncogene of Philadelphia chromosome-positive human leukemias. Mol. Cell. Biol. 11, 1785-1792.
- Antiisense BCR-ABL oligomers cause non-specific inhibition of chronic myeloid leukemia cell lines.Leukemia 8, 2156-2162.
- SHI domain autophosphory 1 at i on of p210 BCR / ABL is required for transformation but not growth factor independence.Mol.Cell.
- BCR-ABL antisense oligo-deoxyr i bonuc 1 eot i des suppress the growth of leukemic and normal hematopoietic eel Is by a sequence-specific but nonanti sense mechanism. 3891-3896.
- Antisense oligodeoxy-ribonucleotides suppress hematologic cell growth through stepwise release of deoxyr i bonuc 1 eot i des Blood 90, 331-339.
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