WO2004033500A1 - Peptides modulating caspase activation - Google Patents
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- the present invention is related to medicine and mechanisms of death of human and animal cells.
- it is related to peptides capable of inhibiting apoptotic cell death induced by different factors.
- the invention describes peptides with such activities and methods of producing and using said peptides.
- Apoptosis is an active form of cell death that is involved in multiple processes of normal cell development as well as in malignant cell transformations. Mechanism of apoptosis is engaged in biological events induced by various types of drugs, cytokines, and growth factors, oxidative stress, radiation, aging, autoimmune diseases, and immune rejection within organ transplantation. Recent studies on apoptosis demonstrate that common molecular mechanisms are employed in various types of apoptosis, induced by hormones, cytokines, growth factor deprivation, chemotherapeutic agents, ionizing radiation, immunological disorders, AIDS, cancer and aging (Nagata, (1997) Cell 88, 355-365).
- Cascade-like activation of caspase proteases represents the fundamental point in the induction of apoptosis (Cohen, et al. (1997) Biochem. J., 326:1-16). Two distinct types of apoptosis signaling are described.
- the initial phase of receptor-depending triggering of apoptosis includes activation of appropriate death receptors by specific ligands, such as TNF or FasL, which are presently the most studied inductors of apoptosis (Wallach et al. (1997). FEBS Letters, 410: 96-106).
- Fas CD95
- TNFR1 cytosolic adapter proteins
- caspase-8 caspase-8 to activate the interleukin-1- ⁇ - converting enzyme ICE/CED-3 family protease (caspase) cascade, followed by activation of CPP32/caspase-3-subfamily of cysteine proteases, whose members occur in cell cytoplasm in the form of latent precursors, procaspases (Enari, et al. (1996) Nature 380:723-726).
- Receptor- independent types of apoptosis usually include critically important cytochrome c-inducible mechanism that requires the formation of tertiary complex of cytochrome c, dATP, Apaf-1 and procaspase-9, that lead to the activation of the latter via autoproteolysis and homodimerization, and subsequent caspase cascade activation (Liu et al. (1996) Cell, 86: 147-157; Pan et. al, (1998) FEBS Letters, 426:151-154; Slee et al, (1999) J Cell Biol, 144: 281-292).
- Agents that affect the biological control of apoptosis thus have a potential therapeutic utility in numerous clinical applications.
- a variety of plant-derived inhibitors of apoptosis are employed to screen pathological disorders that often accompany chemotherapy, radiation, immune disorders, or AIDS. These supplements generally contain carbohydrates, fat and plant protein hydrolysates, lectins, and phospholipids (US6004579, Barr et al.,). Potent regulators of apoptosis could be employed in the treatment of cancer patients to control cytokine therapy, chemotherapy, or radiation therapy.
- Apoptotic mechanisms operate at the various types of immunological disorders, such as autoimmune malignancies, immune rejection in organ transplantation or anaphylaxis, or viral infections with human immunodeficiency virus.
- Alpha-fetoprotein is a tumor-associated fetal glycoprotein displaying a wide range of biological activities, including cell growth regulation, differentiation of immature cells, immuno suppression of activated immune cells, tumor-specific induction of apoptosis and regulation of apoptotic signals mediated by other factors, as well as regulation of various gene expressions (Deutsch, (1991) Adv. Cancer Res., 56:253-312; Mizejewsky, (1997) Proc. Soc. Exp. Biol. Med, 215: 333-362).
- AFP realizes its tumor-suppressive activity by triggering apoptosis through activation of caspase-3 and independently on Fas/FasL and TNF/TNFR signaling (Dudich et al, (1999) Eur. J. Biochem. 266: 1-13; Semenkova et al., (1997) Tumor Biology, 18: 261-274; Dudich et al. (1998) Tumor Biology, 19:30-40).
- Multiple evidences of the AFP-mediated tumor cell growth suppression have been reported at the last decade, but the active site of the AFP molecule that is responsible for apoptosis signaling has not been identified.
- the present invention remains to be first one able to identify one of the putative biologically active sites of AFP.
- the peptides of the present invention include an additional cysteine residue which enables the formation of inter-chain disulphide bonds and to produce a significantly higher biological activity than the sequence CRGDNLDCL.
- Integrin binding site is a tripeptide Arg-Gly-Asp, which is present in a variety of intergrin ligands. Integrins are heterodimeric glycoproteins mediating cell-matrix and cell-cell interactions and have an active role in the processes of cell differentiation, immune recognition, tumor development and metastatic growth. Contact regions for the Arg-Gly-Asp sequence have been identified in the integrin subunits (see Pasqualini, et al. "A peptide isolated from phage display libraries is a structural and functional mimic of an Arg-Gly- Asp-binding site on integrins.” J Cell Biol. (1995)130: 1189-1196).
- Synthetic peptides containing the Arg-Gly-Asp motif are used as inhibitors of integrin-ligand interactions (D'Souza et al. (1988) Science, 242:91-93). It has been reported that synthetic peptides containing Arg-Gly-Asp motif are able of direct caspase-3 activation (Bukley, et al. (1999) Nature, 397: 534-539).
- AFP contains Arg-Gly-Asp (RGD) sequence in its sequence that it localized in the domain II in the position 253-255. According to the present invention, the RGD sequence is a part of the functionally active site of AFP involved in the apoptosis signaling.
- the present invention describes the minimal part of the AFP molecule that is responsible for the apoptosis signaling.
- Small peptides or other small haptens are important regulators to be used as the drugs because they can be synthesized in vitro and they do not produce neutralizing antibodies.
- Peptides containing from 6 to 10 residues were produced with the aid of the F-MOC solid phase chemistry.
- the similar peptides corresponding to homologous sequences of human serum albumin (HSA) were also synthesized. All peptides were assessed for their growth regulative activity in whole cells in culture and also tested for their ability to directly induce caspase activation in cell- free cytosolic extracts.
- the peptides were assessed for their ability to modulate apoptosis induced by AFP and anti-Fas cytotoxic Mabs CH-11 in whole cells and to affect cytochrome c -induced caspase activation in cell-free systems.
- Fig. shows schematic presentation of a biologically active dimeric peptide (the monomer termed here as apocyclin-A; *Cys-Cys-Arg-Gly-Asp-Val-Leu-Asp-Cys*)
- Fig. 2 shows inhibition of AFP-induced apoptosis by the multimeric cyclic 9-mer peptide apocyclin-A (*Cys-Cys-Arg-Gly-Asp-Val-Leu-Asp-Cys*).
- U-937 cells in microtiter wells were treated for 15 min with various doses of apocyclin-A and thereafter 3 ⁇ M of pure human AFP was added to each well.
- Cell proliferation was assessed by [ 3 H]-thymidine incorporation assay after 24 h of incubation.
- Fig. 3 shows the effect of the cyclic multimeric 9-mer peptide apocyclin-A (*Cys-Cys-Arg-Gly- Asp-Val-Leu-Asp-Cys*) on the apoptosis induced in U-937 cells by cytotoxic anti-Fas monoclonal antibodies CH-11.
- Cells were treated for 15 min with 500 ⁇ M apocyclin-A and thereafter various doses of cytotoxic anti-Fas Mabs CH-11 (Immunotech Ltd) were added to each well.
- Cell proliferation was assessed by the [ 3 H]-thymidine incorporation assay after 16 h of incubation.
- Fig. 4 shows effects of linear 6-mer peptides Arg-Gly-Asp-Val-Leu-Asp (RGDVLD) and His-Gly- Asp-Leu-Leu-Glu (HGDLLE) on the AFP-mediated growth suppression of U-937 cells.
- the cells were treated for 15 with various doses of the peptides and thereafter 3 ⁇ M pure human AFP was added to each well.
- Cell proliferation was assessed by the [ 3 H]-thymidine incorporation assay after 24 h of incubation.
- Fig. 5 shows the effect of the cyclic monomeric 9-mer peptide *Cys-Gly-Arg-Gly-Asp-Nal-Leu- Asp-Cys* (*CGRGDNLDC*) on AFP-mediated growth suppression of the human myeloblastoma cell line U-937.
- the cells were treated for 15 min with various doses of the peptide and thereafter 3 ⁇ M pure human AFP was added to each well. Cell proliferation was assessed by the [ 3 H]- thymidine incorporation assay after 24 h of incubation.
- Fig. 6 shows that cyclic 9-mer peptide apocyclin-A (*CCRGDNLDC*) enhances ATP-dependent pro-caspase-3 activation in a cell-free cytosolic extracts induced by low doses of endogenous Cyt c.
- Cell extracts from U937 cells were incubated for 40 min with various doses of apocyclin-A and 1 mM of dATP. Extracts incubated without additions were taken as a control. Caspase-3 activation was assessed by cleavage of fluorogenic substrate DEND-AFC.
- Fig. 7 shows the synergistic enhancement of the cytochrome c-mediated caspase activation in a cell-free system with human AFP.
- AFP induces caspase-3 activation in cell-free cytosolic extracts in the presence of dATP.
- Aliquots of HepG2-derived cytosolic extract (25 ⁇ g of protein) were treated for various time intervals with AFP (7 ⁇ M) or as a control with the same dose of HS A in the presence of dATP (1 mM) and then assayed for DENDase activity.
- (B) Synergistic enhancement of the caspase-3 activation mediated by AFP in the presence of the suboptimal dose of exogenous cytochrome c in cytosolic extracts of HepG2 cells. Aliquots of the HepG2-derived cytosolic extract (25 ⁇ g of protein) were treated for various time intervals with AFP (10 ⁇ M), cytochrome c (0.2 ⁇ M) or with combination of the same doses of both compounds in the presence of dATP (1 mM) and then assayed for DEVDase activity.
- AFP differently affects caspase-3 activation in cell-free cytosolic extracts induced by various doses of cytochrome c.
- Fig. 8 shows the effects of peptides apocyclin-A *CCRGDNLDC*, CGRGDNLDC, *CCHGDLLEC*, RGDNLD and HGDLLE on the dATP-dependent Cyt c-induced caspase activation in cell-free cytosolic extracts of HepG2 cells at high dose (165 nM) of endogenous cytochrome c (A) and low dose (110 nM) of endogenous cytochrome c (B). Peptides in the concentration of 750 ⁇ M were added to the cell extracts 15 min before the cytochrome c addition. Caspase activation was monitored by the cleavage of caspase-3 -specific fluoro genie substrate DEVD-AMC.
- Fig. 9 shows that cyclic multimeric 9-mer peptide apocyclin-A (*CCRGDVLDC*) abrogates cytochrome c/AFP -mediated caspase-3 activation in a cell-free system.
- Aliquots of HepG2- derived cytosolic extract were pre-treated for 15 min with 750 ⁇ M of apocyclin-A and then treated for 40 min with lO ⁇ M of AFP and/or 110 nM (A) or 80 nM (B) of cytochrome c in the presence of 1 mM of dATP. Caspase activation was monitored by the cleavage of specific caspase-3 fluorogenic substrate DEVD-AMC.
- the subject of invention provides peptides, and in particular, artificial synthetic multimeric cyclic peptides, capable of regulation of the apoptotic cell death. More specifically, it relates to the original amino acid sequence on the molecule of human alpha-fetoprotein (AFP) or albumin responsible for regulation of apoptosis in tumor cells.
- AFP alpha-fetoprotein
- albumin responsible for regulation of apoptosis in tumor cells.
- AFP is a tumor-associated fetal glycoprotein displaying a wide range of biological activities, including cell growth regulation, differentiation of immature cells, immuno suppression of activated immune cells, tumor-specific induction of apoptosis and regulation of apoptotic signals mediated by other factors, regulation of gene expression. Recently it was shown that AFP can induce tumor-selective apoptosis via direct or indirect activation of caspase-3 in whole cells and in a cell-free system (Dudich et al.,1999, J.Eur.Biochem. 266, 750-761). According to the present invention, the active site of such effects was found in AFP as well as in albumin. The peptides forming the active sites were modeled and a large number of synthetic natural and non-natural peptides were screened for their biological activities.
- the peptides according to the present invention can be used for inhibition of various types of cell deaths that are dependent on the cytochrome c-mediated caspase cascade activation, for example, apoptosis induced by oxidative stress, drugs, cytokines, Fas-ligand, alpha-fetoprotein.
- the peptides can be utilized to prevent apoptosis in culturing cells, to increase organ preservation for organ transplantation, to prevent immunological autoimmune disorders and immunodeficiency syndrome induced by viral infection, side cytotoxic effects after chemotherapy and radiation therapy.
- amino acid sequences of the peptides and methods of producing and using the peptides are non-natural synthetic peptides having a rigid molecular form like:
- the present inventions was undertaken to determine active site of the AFP molecule responsible for triggering of apoptosis in tumor cells by using theoretical and experimental approaches. It was made a hypothesis that the active peptide, modeling the active site, might directly induce apoptosis in whole cells and triggers caspase-3 activation in a cell free system or could modulate apoptotic signals, induced by AFP and/or other apoptotic factors, such as anti-Fas or cytochrome-c.
- apocyclin-A cyclic peptide *Cys-Cys-Arg-Gly-Asp-Val-Leu-Asp-Cys*
- apocyclin-A a synthetic cyclic peptide *Cys-Cys-Arg-Gly-Asp-Val-Leu-Asp-Cys*
- a series of parsings and substitutions of amino acids in the apocyclin-A sequence was intended to identify the functionally important amino acids.
- a large number of peptides related to apocyclin-A were also synthesized. All peptides were tested for their ability to affect survival of tumor cells in culture and to affect caspase activation in cell-free cytosolic lysates.
- the next step of the peptide testing was to study ability of peptides to affect apoptosis induced by AFP, anti-Fas in whole cells and to modulate caspase activation mediated by Cyt c in a cell-free system. It was demonstrated that the 9-mer peptide apocyclin-A corresponding to AFP sequence 251-259 completely abrogated AFP-mediated apoptosis in tumor cells in vitro and significantly modulates Cyt-c and AFP-mediated caspase activation in cell-free cytosolic extracts. More specifically, in a cell-free system, apocyclin-A significantly enhanced low-dose cytochrome c-mediated caspase activation and decreased the high-dose cytochrome c-induced effects.
- a shorter 6-mer peptide p25 partially retained this activity in a cell-free system, but not in the whole cells. It was also demonstrated that AFP-derived peptides displayed mutual antagonism in regulating Cyt c-mediated caspase activation in cell extracts. It was observed that 9-mer peptide apocyclin-A moderately supported low-dose Cyt c-mediated effects and significantly inhibited caspase activation triggered by high doses of exogenous or endogenous cytochrome c. These data show that AFP-derived 9-mer peptide apocyclin-A is the minimal part of AFP that is responsible for the specific binding with unknown cytosolic molecules involved in the apoptosis signaling.
- this peptide and its artificial nature imply that it can be the active component of a new drug which opposes the action of various apoptotic factors in vitro and in vivo.
- the applications of this peptide include preventing apoptosis in cultured cells, methods to prevent immunological rejection of allogenic transplants and autoimmune reactions, methods to avoid hepatological septic shock and apoptosis induced by cytokine therapy, etc.
- AFP apoptosis signaling peptides containing from 6 to 10 residues were produced via F-MOC solid phase chemistry. Similar peptides corresponding to the homologous sequence of human serum albumin (HS A) were also synthesized. All peptides were assessed for their growth regulative activity in whole cells in culture and also tested for their ability to directly affect caspase activation in cell-free cytosolic extracts. Additionally the peptides were assessed for their ability to modulate apoptosis induced by AFP and anti-Fas cytotoxic Mabs CH-11 in whole cells and also to affect cyt c-induced caspase activation in cell-free system.
- HS A human serum albumin
- Multimeric cyclic RGD-containing peptide from AFP *CCRGDVLDC* (herein apocyclin-A) is able to abrogate apoptosis in tumor cells in vitro. It was demonstrated, that apocyclin-A completely cancelled AFP-induced apoptosis in human myeloblastoma U937 cells and significantly inhibits anti-Fas-mediated cell death. Further the ability of AFP-derived peptides apocyclin-A and linear 6- mer peptide RGDNLD to affect caspase activation induced by Cyt c and AFP in a cell-free system has been assessed.
- apocyclin-A notably enhanced dATP-dependent caspase activation induced by low doses of endogenous or exogenous Cyt c and practically completely abrogated caspase activation induced by high apoptotically active doses of Cyt c. It was also demonstrated that apocyclin-A cancelled AFP-induced Cyt c/dATP-dependent caspase-3 activation in a cell-free cytosolic extracts of HepG2 cells. Linear AFP-derived 6-mer peptide RGDNLD did not revealed any apoptosis-regulating activity in the whole cells, but was able to abrogate Cyt c/ AFP-mediated caspase activation in a cell free system.
- AFP and albumin contain a special active site, that fits to the receptors triggering the cell death cycle, and blocks them. Therefore, a certain part of AFP/albumin, found in the present invention, has the structure blocking the triggering site.
- the anti-idiotypic antibody against the active site of AFP and/or albumin therefore contains the essential structural information of the molecule capable of blocking the cell death receptor.
- Such 3-D structure can be revealed by a routine X-ray crystallography and/or by molecular computer modeling from a sequence data.
- the basic embodiment of the present invention is that apoptotically active site in two important and abundant proteins in mammals, viz. AFP and albumin, were found. Based on this finding, a series of molecular structures were developed for blocking the cell death triggering receptor in mammalian cells.
- the tested molecules were peptides because of their easy synthesis but it is understood that other molecules based on synthetic or natural compounds can be designed. Equally well, the molecular structures can be constructed on other, especially on non-immunogenic, carrier molecules.
- the main practical result of the present invention is the cyclic peptide from AFP, *CCRGDNLDC* (apocyclin-A), which contains two functional active sites: RGD and DNLD. Both sequences are directly involved in the regulation of caspase activity and apoptosis. RGD-containing proteins or peptides are known to be involved in interaction with integrin molecules and could be employed for inhibition of intracellular contacts affecting thus cell proliferation and apoptosis. Apocyclin-A differs from other RGD-containing peptides by multimeric representation of this site in the cyclised form. This allows enhancing of the total effect by multimeric presentation of the RGD sequence.
- the sequence DNLD is located in apocyclin-A just after RGD and represents the well-known cleavage site for caspase-3, -7, and -2. Therefore, it has a structure typical for caspase substrates, DXXD (Thornberry, ⁇ .A., et al. (2000) Methods in Enzymology, v.322, pp.100).
- this site could bind to the active site of caspase-3 as a peptide substrate.
- the similar activity could be attributed also to the entire AFP molecule, but this will require conformatibnal change allowing exposure of corresponding site to reveal apoptosis-modulating activity (Semenkova et al., (2003) Eur. J. Biochem. 270, in press).
- DNLD-site of apocyclin-A could selectively facilitate the release of caspase-3 from the apoptosome complex by disturbing an interaction between XIAP and processed caspase-3 similarly to the typical tetrapeptide caspase-3 inhibitor DEND-cho (Bratton, S. B., et al, (2001) EMBOJ. 5, 998).
- apocyclin-A is its cyclic structure, which allows multimeric presentation of the substrate sequence and enhancing of the total effect by the simultaneous interaction with different molecules involved in apoptosis signaling.
- the invention is illustrated further below by the non-limiting examples.
- the peptides were synthesized with a synthesizer Model 430A; Applied Biosystems, Foster City, CA, USA, according to usual methods of peptide syntheses.
- the cyclic peptides primarily form spontaneously from linear peptides in water solutions subjected to atmospheric oxygen and were purified from the solution by HPLC with common procedures used for peptides.
- Cyclic multimeric 9-mer peptide corresponding to the 251-259 amino acid sequence of the human AFP *Cys-*Cys-Arg-Gly-Asp-Val-Leu-Asp-Cys*, *CCRGDVLDC* (the asterisks denote a potential disulfide bond), that will be termed herein as apocyclin-A.
- the second cysteine, Cys252 is capable of forming the S-S bond between two adjacent cyclic monomeric peptides. Molecular weight of the monomeric cyclic peptide was 983 Da.
- the apocyclin-A peptide is composed of two or more (less than 5) ring-like 9-mer peptide structures corresponding to the sequence *Cys-*Cys-Arg-Gly-Asp-Val-Leu-Asp-Cys*.
- Cyclic monomeric peptide *Cys-Gly-Arg-Gly-Asp-Val-Leu-Asp-Cys* (the asterisks denote a potential disulfide bond), corresponding to the 251-259 amino acid sequence of the human AFP with a single amino acid substitution of the Cys252 for Gly to avoid peptide multimerisation by formation of the S-S bonds between the monomers.
- Molecular weight of the monomeric cyclic 9- mer peptide was 937 Da.
- Fluorogenic peptide substrates DEVD-AMC and LEHD-AFC were from Alexis Biochemicals (San Diego, USA).
- Bovine heart cytochrome c (Cyt c), adenylic nucleotide triphosphate (dATP) and other reagents were obtained from Sigma Chemical Co.
- Human AFP was isolated from the cord serum using ion-exchange, affinity, and gel-filtration chromatography as described in (Dudich et al., (1999) Biochemistry, 38: 10406-10414). AFP purity was established by PAGE and Rocket electrophoresis with monospecific antibodies against human AFP and adult serum proteins and was shown to be not less than 99.8%. Preparation of cell-free extracts
- HepG2 human hepatocarcinoma cells and human monoblastoma cell line U937 originated from American Type Culture Collection.
- Cell extracts were prepared by lysing cells in a hypotonic extraction buffer. To obtain the cytosolic S-100 fraction, the cell lysate was centrifuged for 1 h at 100,000xg. Extracts were either used immediately or frozen at -70°C for later use.
- Cell-free reactions were typically set up in 13- ⁇ l reaction volumes. Apoptosis was induced by addition of various doses of bovine heart cytochrome c and/or purified human AFP in the presence of 1 mM dATP. For 13- ⁇ l scale reactions, 10 ⁇ l of cell extract (-2-4 mg/ml, as determined by the Bradford assay) were supplemented with 1 ⁇ l of dATP, 1 ⁇ l of Cyt c and/or AFP solutions in reaction buffer to receive necessary final concentration of reagents. To assess activity of peptides, various doses of peptides being dissolved in the reaction buffer together with 1 mM dATP were added to the cell extracts.
- peptides were added to extracts 10 min before cytochrome c or AFP. Control samples were incubated with the equal volume of the buffer (3 ⁇ l) without reagent addition. To initiate apoptosis, extracts were incubated at 37°C for 40 min.
- U937 cells were plated out at a density of 4 x 10 3 cells/well in flat-bottom 96-well plates (Costar) in the complete medium and incubated for 2 h before reagent additions. Then cells were treated for 24 h with various doses of AFP dissolved in PBS and then assessed for proliferation. Cell treatment with cytotoxic IgM anti-Fas antibody CH-11 was performed as described. U937 cells were treated with 50 ng/ml of CH-11 antibodies for 18 h. Cells were left untreated or were treated with reagents for adequate time intervals and for the last 4 h of culture were subjected to their [ 3 H]-thymidine (1 Ci/mmol/well) incorporation. Experimental data were expressed as a percentage of [ 3 H]-thymidine incorporation in triplicate cultures relative to the medium control. Cells, cultivated without additions, were taken as a control.
- cells for induction of apoptosis with TNF- ⁇ , cells (Jurkat, MCF7 or U937) were treated for 24 h with 25 ng/ml of the cytokine and then were assessed for proliferation or viability as described above. HepG2 cells were pre-washed before TNF addition with fresh medium to remove endogenous growth factors.
- AFP has certain homology with enzymatic active sites of caspases 1 and 3.
- Enzymatically active sites of caspases 1 and 2 contain RGD motif that is localized in before catalytically active Cys residue.
- Effector caspases 3 and 7 have in this place RGT motif, but the positions of Cys residues exactly coincide in AFP molecule and in casp-3 and casp-7.
- AFP has inter-chain disulfide bond between Cys 252 and Cys 259 (Morinaga, et. al., (1983) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci.
- AFP-derived peptide apocyclin-A completely abrogates AFP-induced apoptosis in U-937 cells.
- 15-min pre-treatment of U-937 cells with apocyclin-A (1 mM) induced 15% stimulation of proliferation relatively to the medium control. That means that apocyclin-A abrogates also spontaneous apoptosis of the cells during 24-h cultivation.
- EXAMPLE 4 Apocyclin-A significantly inhibits anti-Fas-induced apoptosis in U-937 cells
- apocyclin-A could affect apoptosis induced by other factors.
- the apoptosis was induced in U-937 cells by various doses of cytotoxic IgM anti-Fas monoclonal antibodies CH-11.
- Fig. 3 demonstrates that 0.5 mM apocyclin-A significantly inhibited anti-Fas-mediated apoptosis by abrogation of about 50% of the total effect. Enhance of the apocyclin-A concentration up to 1 mM induced more significant inhibition of the anti-Fas-induced apoptosis.
- Cyclic peptide *CGRGDVLDC* with substitution of Cys 252 to Gly and 6-mer peptide RGDVLD were designed to determine functionally important amino acids in the sequence of the functional active site that is responsible for apoptosis signaling.
- Fig 4 demonstrates the effect of *CGRGDVLDC* on the AFP-mediated apoptosis in U-937 cells. This peptide failed to abrogate AFP-mediated cytotoxicity. The same results were obtained for RGDVLD (Fig. 4).
- Fig. 4 demonstrates that Cys 252 is functionally important amino acid and its substitution to Gly completely abrogates ability of the peptide to interact with apoptotic activity of the entire AFP molecule.
- the shorter peptide, RGDVLD was also incapable of regulation of the AFP-mediated apoptosis, showing necessity of cyclic structure for formation of apoptotic active site.
- apocyclin-A could operate similarly to the entire AFP molecule to support caspase activation in a cell-free system, as described above, but instead of AFP the cyclic peptide apocyclin-A have been used.
- Fig. 8 demonstrates that apocyclin-A synergistically enhanced the total caspase-3 activity in a cell-free system in the presence of the low suboptimal doses of endogenous cytochrome c and dATP. Without dATP addition ' apocyclin-A was unable to induce DEVD-ase activity in the same experimental conditions. The same effect was observed for the entire AFP in the "silent" cell-free extracts. These data shows that we were able to identify the active site of AFP and albumin responsible for their apoptosis-promoting activity.
- EXAMPLE 7 AFP synergizes with suboptimal doses of cytochrome c and dATP to induce caspase-3 activation in cytosolic cell extracts
- AFP AFP-induced caspase activity in a cell-free system.
- Addition of AFP to the SI 00 cytosolic extract triggered dATP-dependent induction of caspase-3-specific DEVDase activity, which progressively increased for at least 2 h (Fig. 7A).
- HSA human serum albumin
- a low degree of DEVDase activity was also caused by dATP alone and was evidently due to the presence of a small amount of endogenous cyt- c in the preparations. In the absence of dATP, AFP did not induce any caspase activation at all.
- AFP can directly induce caspase activation in cytosolic cell extracts, or it requires presence of a basal level of cyt-c
- DEVDase cleavage activity after addition of exogenous cyt-c to the "silent" cytosolic extracts with undetectable level of endogenous cytochrome c.
- Fig. 7B shows that no DEVDase activity was detected in this type of cytosolic lysates even after two hours of treatment in the presence of dATP and low suboptimal dose of cyt- c.
- addition of AFP (7 ⁇ M) in the same reaction system triggered the process of caspase activation, which progressively increased in a time-dependent manner (Fig. 7B).
- Fig. 8 shows that the effects of apocyclin-A on the caspase-3 activation were mediated by various doses of cytochrome c and AFP.
- High dose of the peptide 750 ⁇ M significantly (50-70%) inhibited caspase activation induced by high doses of endogenous cytochrome c (Fig. 8A).
- the combined treatment of cytosolic fraction with cytochrome c/AFP resulted in a significant enhance of the total DEVDase activity (Fig 8, A and B). Addition of apocyclin-A inhibited Cyt c/AFP- mediated caspase activation by 60-80%.
- apocyclin-A operates in a cell-free system in the manner opposite to the entire AFP molecule, by abrogation of the total caspase- activation effect induced by cyt c alone or in composition with AFP. Therefore, apocyclin-A represents the sequence on the AFP molecule that is responsible for its apoptotic activity and for the interaction with the members of the apoptosome assembly.
- Fig. 9B shows that apocyclin-A produced the same stimulation as full-length AFP molecule at low dose cytochrome c-induced caspase activation.
- Peptides *CGRGDVLDC* and *CCHGDLLEC* had no effect on the low-dose cytochrome c activity, but peptides RGDVLD and HGDLLE demonstrated significant abrogation of the cytochrome c-induced caspase activation.
- Table 2 summarizes experimental data characterizing activity of peptides in cell-free cytosolic extracts.
- EXAMPLE 10 Preparation of anti-idiotypic antibodies against the biologically active site of AFP BALB/cA mice were used for immunization, cell fusion and production of ascites fluid. Twenty mice were immunized each with a highly purified human AFP (40 Dg) emulsified with complete Freund's adjuvant. The mice were boosted at 2-week intervals with the same amount of AFP emulsified in incomplete Freund's adjuvant. The mice with the highest response against human AFP were selected and 80 Dg of AFP in 100 Dl of AFP solution involving 50 Dl of Freund ' s incomplete adjuvant was intravenously injected into their tails.
- human AFP 40 Dg
- the mice with the highest response against human AFP were selected and 80 Dg of AFP in 100 Dl of AFP solution involving 50 Dl of Freund ' s incomplete adjuvant was intravenously injected into their tails.
- spleen cells were prepared and mixed with mouse myeloma NS-1 cells followed by the treastment with PEG in the KC medium containing FCS.
- the fusion cells were grown in HAT medium containing FCS followed by cultivation in HT medium.
- the hybridomas were tested for their production of antibodies with a TR-FIA assay involving rabbit polyclonal antibody as an immobilized capturing antibody and an Eu-labeled anti-human antibody as the monitoring antibody (for technical details and reagents, see the publication Peuravuori, H and Korpela, T. et al. Clin.Chem.1993, 39, pp. 847- 848).
- anti-idiotypic antibodies against AFP active site were screened out from the clones by their sensitivity to the active site peptides of AFP.
- the anti- idiotypic antibody against the active site of human albumin at the sequence position 246-254 could be made essentially by the same techniques as against AFP described above.
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