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- the invention relates to chimeric G-proteins, and in particular those that mediate in taste receptor transduction pathways.
- the invention also relates to assays based on heterologous expression systems containing said proteins, and their use in screening for modulators of bitter, sweet and umami taste response in humans.
- Taste sensation can be classified into five separate modalities: bitter, salty, sour, sweet and umami.
- Tastants affect the palatability of food and beverages, thereby influencing human nutritional habits. They also affect the palatability of other ingestibles such as orally administered pharmaceuticals and nutraceuticals. Understanding and manipulating the mechanism of taste transduction has implications for the food and pharmaceutical industries. If the taste transduction pathways can be manipulated, it may be possible to create assays based on heterologous expression systems, which in turn may be used to identify compounds that can modulate taste response, and thereby render certain foods more palatable or increase patient compliance in oral pharmaceutics and nutraceutics.
- GPCRs are cell surface proteins that are able to bind to tastant molecules whereupon they couple to G-proteins initiating cellular processes producing secondary messengers, such as calcium ions, that enable the cells to send a signal to the brain indicating a taste response.
- GPCRs are classified as G q -, Gr, G 0 -, and G s -coupled receptors, which notation is reflective of the primary G-protein effector in their requisite signal transduction pathways.
- Taste receptors are classified as Gj-coupled GPCRs because of their interaction with Gustducin, which is a G ⁇ i -type G-protein.
- a second problem is the provision of G-proteins that not only are able to couple with many different types of GPCRs (often, such G-proteins are referred to as "promiscuous"), but also couple with high efficiency, such that even with relatively low surface concentrations of GPCRs, the cell signal is as strong as possible .
- G ⁇ q proteins G ⁇ ⁇ s and G ⁇ i 6
- GPCRs couple GPCRs to the activation of phopholipase C which leads to an increase in intracellular calcium levels.
- This signalling cascade can be easily and quickly measured by measuring the calcium levels in the cells as is well known in the art (see for example WO 0118050).
- 5 and G ⁇ ⁇ are not considered to be truly universally promiscuous G-proteins since there are several receptors that are . incapable of activating them, see for example, Offermanns, S. and Simon, M., 1995, J. Biol.
- G ⁇ i6 can complex with beta/gamma sub-units endogenous to mammalian cells, such as cells of the HEK 293 cell line. It is faster, easier and more sensititive to employ G ⁇ 16 rather than G ⁇ j-type of G-protein such as Gustducin.
- G-proteins that display high affinity for a wide range of taste receptors and in particular, sweet, umami and bitter receptors, that can be incorporated into heterologous expression system assays to screen for modulators of the human taste response, thereby to quantify the activity of known tastant molecules and to discover new ones.
- the use of chimeric G-proteins has been suggested in the prior art.
- WO 02/36622 a G ⁇ q chimeric protein is describe that is substituted with at least 5 amino acid units from the C-terminus of Transducin.
- Such Chimeric proteins are described as being more promiscuous than the native G ⁇ q in relation to two chemosensory GPCRs.
- the only taste receptor tested in this reference was a mouse bitter receptor. Therefore, it is not clear whether any of the chimeric G-proteins described would couple more efficiently to human bitter, sweet or umami taste receptors.
- chimeric G-proteins based on G ⁇ q -Gustducin are able to bind to a wide range of known and putative bitter taste receptors, and sweet and umami receptors with high affinity.
- the invention provides in a first aspect a G ⁇ q -Gu s tduci ⁇ chimeric G- protein.
- the chimeric G ⁇ q -Gustducin is a G ⁇ 15 or i6-Gustducin protein, more specifically a G ⁇ ⁇ 6 -Gustducin protein.
- the G-protein is one wherein at least the last 5 amino acids of the G ⁇ q are replaced by a corresponding number of amino acids of Gustducin, more particularly the last 44 amino acid sequences of the G ⁇ q is replaced with a 44 amino acid unit of Gustducin.
- Another aspect the invention provides a nucleic acid encoding for a protein as herein above defined.
- nucleic acid comprises the nucleotide sequence set forth in SEQ ID 1.
- the chimeric proteins of the present invention may be formed by making substitutions at the C-terminus of Gustducin
- substitutions or mutations may be incorporated into the G-proteins that may affect their promiscuity and/or their degree of coupling to a given receptor, and these variants of the G-proteins form another aspect of the present invention.
- substitutions or mutations may be formed without the skilled person having recourse to any inventive activity, simply by using routine techniques in gene technology such as PCR, gene cloning, site-directed mutagenesis or cDNAs, transfection of host cells, and in-vitro transcription. Thereafter, these variants may be screened for functional coupling to receptors.
- a variant that is a polypeptide having 80%, preferably 90%, more preferably 95% or greater homology to the sequence as set forth in SEQ ID No. 2.
- aspects of the invention are an expression vector comprising nucleic acid encoding for chimeric G-proteins defined herein, and host cells transformed or transfected with said vector.
- a method of producing a chimeric G-protein as defined comprising the step of culturing host cells as defined having contained therein an expression vector encoding for the chimeric G-protein, under conditions sufficient for expression of said G-protein, thereby causing production of the protein, and recovering the protein produced by the cell.
- a mammalian cell-based assay employing a transiently transfected gene or cDNA encoding a chimeric protein of the invention and a taste receptor, in particular a bitter, sweet or umami receptor, the method comprising the steps of contacting a compound with the cells, and determining the functional effects of the compound on the receptor: chimeric G-protein complex, such as an increase in cytosolic secondary messengers.
- the invention is directed to a mammalian cell-based assay using a stably-expressed gene or cDNA.
- the invention is directed to a mammalian cell-based assay wherein the cells stably express both the receptor and the chimeric G-Protein, preferably in inducible form.
- a compound, or collection of compounds containing the compound that acts to modulate taste response of taste receptors, in particular bitter, sweet or umami receptors, for use in an assay method defined herein.
- GPCR taste receptors and in particular bitter taste receptors, sweet and umami receptors.
- Cells expressing both a G-protein of the invention and a GPCR may be contacted with known tastant compounds.
- bitter tastant compounds that may be used in the present invention are selected from the group consisting of Acteoside, Adhumulone.Adlupulone, Aesculetin, Aesculin, L-Alanine, L-alanyl-L-alanyl-L-Alanine, L-alanyl-L-isoleucyl- Alanine L-, L-valyl-L-valyl-Amarogentin, Amaropanin Amaroswerin, Amygdalin, Angustifoline, Antiacetylhumulone, Antiisohumulone, Arginine, L-Arginyl Leucine, Arginyl Leucy Leucine, Arginyl Proline, Asaronaldehyde, Aspartyl Aspartic acid, Asparasaponin I, Atropine, Benzyl beta-D-arabinoside, Benzyl beta-L- arabinoside, Benzyl beta-fructoside
- sweet tastants or compounds that modifiy sweet taste there may be mentioned Theasaponin E1 , Acesulfame K, Alitame, Aspartame, CH 401, Dulcin, Erythritol, Guanidine Sweetener, Isomalt, Isomaltosylfructoside, Isoraffinose, NC 174, Neotame, Perillartine, Phenylacetylglycyl-L-Lysine, Saccharin, SC 45647, sodium Cyclamate, Sorbitol, Sucralose, Sucrononic Acid, Suosan, Superaspartame, Methyl alpha-L-arabinoside, Methyl beta-L- arabinoside, Methyl beta-D-Glucoside, Methyl a-D-mannoside, Methyl beta-L- xylopyranoside, Methyl alpha-D-xy
- Methyl beta-D-fructoside Methyl alpha-D-galactoside, Methyl beta-D-galactoside,
- Gymnemasaponin V Gymnemic Acid I, Gymnemic Acid II, Gymnemic Acid III,
- Gymnemic Acid IV Hodulcin, Jujubasaponin II, Jujubasaponin III, Propionic Acid,
- Hoduloside I 4-Nitrophenyl a-D-galactoside, 4-Nitrophenyl alpha-D-glucoside,
- Methyl alpha-D-Glucoside Methyl alpha-D-Glucoside 2,3-Di-alanine,
- Methyl alpha-D-Glucoside 2,3-Di-glycine Methyl alpha-D-Glucoside 2,3-Di- proline, Methyl alpha-D-Glucoside 2,3-Di-valine, Aniline, 2-Butoxy-5-Nitro-
- Glutathione Glutamyl Glutamic Acid
- (Z)-6-Dodecen-4-oIide Inosinic acid
- Dodec-Z6-en-4-olide Glutamic Acid
- L- Aconitic Acid N-(1-deoxy-fructos-1-yl) glutamate
- hydrolyzed vegetable protein Methyl alpha-D-Glucoside, 2,3-Di-lysine, Methyl alpha-D-Glucoside 2,3-Di- omithine
- L-Asparagine L-a-glutamyl-L-a-glutamyl-L-Glutamic acid, L-a-aspartyl- L-a-glutamyl-Glutamyl valine
- Wheat gluten hydrolyzate Aspartic acid L-, L-a- aspartyl-L-a-aspartyl-L-a-aspartyl-Docosahex
- the functional effects of the tastant molecules on the G-protein may be determined by measuring changes in parameters of the transduction pathways such as intracellular IP3 and Ca 2+ , or by other G-protein specific assays such as labeling with GTP ⁇ S, according to techniques known in the art and that are described more fully herein below.
- bitter receptors Many functional and orphan bitter taste receptors, and sweet and umami receptors are able to couple with the chimeric G-proteins of the present invention.
- bitter receptors one can mention those so-called T2Rs or TAS2Rs described in Bufe et al in Nature Genetics 32: 397-401 , or Chandrashekar et al. in Cell,
- G-proteins of the present invention are able to elicit a stronger cell reponse when a ligand binds to a given GPCR, compared with the native G ⁇ q proteins and those reported chimeric G ⁇ q proteins referred to herein above.
- Mammalian cells e.g. HEK293T cells transfected with a known functional bitter taste receptor known as TAS2R16 as described and characterised by Bufe (see above reference) and the chimeric G-protein G ⁇ ⁇ 6 .
- gustducin 4 4 of the present invention may be contacted with 5mM salicin or 5mM phenyl-beta-D-glucopyranoside (both known bitter tastants) according to the following protocol to elicit a robust fluorescent signal (using Flexstation) that is about 3-times stronger than a reference chimeric G-protein (G ⁇ 16 . z4 ), and about 7-times stronger than the wild-type G ⁇ 16 .
- Day 0 96-well plates are seeded with 20K cells per well and maintained at 37 degrees C overnight in nutritive growth media.
- Day 1 Cells are transfected using 300 ng of GPCR DNA and 0.6 ⁇ l of Lipofectamine 2000 (Invitrogen) per well. Transfected cells are and maintained at 37 degrees C overnight in nutritive growth media.
- Day 2 Growth media is discarded and cells are incubated for 1 hour (at room temperature in the dark) with 75 ⁇ l of calcium assay solution consisting of 1.5 ⁇ M Fluo-4 AM (Molecular Probes) and 2.5 mM probenicid dissolved in a Hanks balanced salts solution (HBSS) that has been supplemented with 10 mM Hepes, 200 ⁇ M calcium chloride and 0.1% bovine serum albumin, pH 7.4 at 37 degrees C.
- HBSS Hanks balanced salts solution
- wash buffer consisting of 2.5 mM probenicid dissolved in a Hanks balanced salts solution (HBSS) that has been supplemented with 10 mM Hepes, 200 ⁇ M calcium chloride and 0.1% bovine serum albumin, pH 7.4 at 37 degrees C, is added to each well and the plate is further incubated for 30 minutes at room temperature in the dark.
- HBSS Hanks balanced salts solution
- Buffer solutions are discarded and plate is washed 3 times with 100 ⁇ l wash buffer and cells are reconstituted in 200 ⁇ l of wash buffer and incubated for 15 minutes at 37 degrees C.
- HEK293T cells transfected with a known functional bitter taste receptor known as mouse T2R5 (see Chandreshekar et al, in Cell, Vol. 100, 70-711, March 17 2000) and the chimeric G-protein G ⁇ i6-gustducin 44 of the present invention were contacted with 10 uM cycloheximide which was able to elicit a robust flurorescence signal that was 5-times stronger than the wild-type G ⁇ ⁇ 6 .
- HEK293 T-RexTM cells stably transfected with TAS2R38 (a proposed bitter receptor for phenylthiocarbamide, see Kim et al. in Science 299, 1221-5 and Bufe et al in Nature Genetics 32: 397-401 ) and the chimeric G- protein G16-gustducin 44 of the present invention were contacted with 250 uM phenylthiocarbamide, which was able to elicit a robust fluorescence signal. Similarly 250 ⁇ M propythiouracil elicited a robust response.
- HEK293 T-RexTM cells stably transfected with TAS2R43 and the chimeric G-protein G16-gustducin 44 of the present invention were contacted with 10 ⁇ M aristolochic acid, which was able to elicit a robust fluorescence signal.
- HEK293 T-RexTM cells stably transfected with TAS2R44 and the chimeric G-protein G16-gustducin 44 of the present invention were contacted with 10 ⁇ M aristolochic acid, which was able to elicit a robust fluorescence signal.
- HEK293T cells transfected with the known functional sweet taste receptor complex that is formed by a heterodimer of human TAS1R2 and TAS1R3 (Li, X. et ai, 2002, PNAS USA, 99: 4692-4696; Nelson, G. et al., 2001 , Cell, 101:381-390.;) and the chimeric G-protein G ⁇ ⁇ 6 .
- gustducin 44 were contacted with either 2.5 mM aspartame, acesulfame K or sucralose, all of which were able to elicit a robust flurorescence signal that was 2- times stronger than the wild-type G ⁇ - ⁇ 6 .
- chimeric constructs may be produced in a manner known per se using Polymerase Chain Reactions.
- chimeric constructs may be produced using a bridge overlap PCR mutagenesis strategy as described in Mody S. M. et al, 2000, Mol. Pharmacol., 57:13-23, whereby a primer is designed to anneal with a terminus, e.g. the C-terminus of a G ⁇ q and also code for the at least 5 gustducin-derived amino acids.
- the chimeric products of the PCR may be cloned into a suitable vector, for example pCR2.1-Topo (commercially available from Invitrogen) and submitted for DNA sequencing in order to verify correct replacement of the terminus of the G ⁇ q .
- chimeric G ⁇ q - Gus tducin cDNA fragments may be sub-cloned into a suitable vector, e.g. pcDNA 3.1 mammalian expression vector and transiently transfected in a mammalian host cell, for example HEK293T or HEK T-RexTM to verify correct expression of the transgene.
- a suitable vector e.g. pcDNA 3.1 mammalian expression vector and transiently transfected in a mammalian host cell, for example HEK293T or HEK T-RexTM to verify correct expression of the transgene.
- cell lysates may be prepared, analysed by a Western-Blot analysis in order to confirm correct expression of the chimeric proteins.
- suitable mammalian cells e.g. HEK293T cells or HEK T-RexTM may be transfected to generate cells stably expressing chimeric G ⁇ q -Gustducin according to techniques well known in the art.
- a strong promoter to direct transcription e.g., E. coli, Bacillus sp., and Salmonella
- a strong promoter to direct transcription e.g., E. coli, Bacillus sp., and Salmonella
- kits for such expression systems are commercially available.
- eukaryotic expression systems for mammalian cells, yeast, and insect cells are well known in the art and are also commercially available.
- the eukaryotic expression vector may be, for example an adenoviral vector, an adeno-associated vector, or a retroviral vector.
- the expression vector typically contains a transcription unit or expression cassette that contains all the additional elements required for the expression of the G-protein or receptor-encoding nucleic acid in host cells.
- a typical expression cassette thus contains a promoter operably linked to the nucleic acid sequence encoding the G-protein or receptor and signals required for efficient polyadenylation of the transcript, ribosome binding sites, and translation termination.
- the nucleic acid sequence encoding the G-protein or receptor as the case may be, may typically be linked to a membrane-targeting signal such as the N-terminal 45 amino acids of the rat Somatostatin-3 receptor sequence to promote efficient cell-surface expression of the recombinant G- protein or receptor. Additional elements may include, for example enhancers.
- An expression cassette should also contain a transcription termination region downstream of the structural gene to provide for efficient termination.
- the termination region may be obtained from the same gene as the promoter sequence or may be obtained from different genes.
- vectors for expression in eucaryotic or procaryotic cells include, but are not limited to standard bacterial expression vectors including plasmids such as pBR322-based plasmids, pSKF, pET23D, and fusion expression systems such as GST and LacZ.
- Expression vectors containing regulatory elements from eukaryotic viruses are typically used in eukaryotic expression vectors, e.g., SV40 vectors, cytomegalovirus vectors, papilloma virus vectors, and vectors derived from Epstein-Barr virus.
- exemplary eukaryotic vectors include pMSG, pAV009/A.sup.+, pMTO10/A.sup.+, pMAMneo-5, baculovirus pDSVE, pcDNA3.1 , plRES and any other vector allowing expression of proteins under the direction of the SV40 early promoter, SV40 later promoter, metallothionein promoter, murine mammary tumor virus promoter, Rous sarcoma virus promoter, polyhedrin promoter, or other promoters shown effective for expression in eukaryotic cells.
- Some expression systems have markers that provide gene amplification such as thymidine kinase, hygromycin B phosphotransferase, and dihydrofolate reductase.
- markers that provide gene amplification such as thymidine kinase, hygromycin B phosphotransferase, and dihydrofolate reductase.
- high yield expression systems not involving gene amplification are also suitable.
- the elements that are typically included in expression vectors also include a replicon that functions in E. coli, a gene encoding drug resistance to permit selection of bacteria that harbor recombinant plasmids, and unique restriction sites in non-essential regions of the plasmid to allow insertion of eukaryotic sequences.
- the particular drug resistance gene chosen is not critical, any of the many drug resistance genes known in the art are suitable.
- the prokaryotic sequences are optionally chosen such that they do not interfere with the replication of the DNA in eukaryotic cells, if necessary.
- Standard transfection methods can be used to produce bacterial, mammalian, yeast or insect cell lines that express large quantities of the G-protein or receptor, which are then purified using standard techniques.
- Any of the well known procedures for introducing nucleotide sequences into host cells may be used. These include the use of calcium phosphate transfection, polybrene, protoplast fusion, electroporation, liposomes, microinjection, plasma vectors, viral vectors and any of the other well known methods for introducing cloned genomic DNA, cDNA, synthetic DNA or other foreign genetic material into a host cell. It is only necessary that the particular genetic engineering procedure used be capable of successfully introducing at least one gene into the host cell capable of expressing the receptor.
- the T-RexTM expression system (Invitrogen Corp., Carlsbad, CA) may be used.
- the T-RexTM System is a tetracycline-regulated mammalian expression system that uses regulatory elements from the E. coli Tn10-encoded tetracycline (Tet) resistance operon (Hillen and Berens 1994, Annu. Rev. Microbiol. 48, 345-369 ; Hillen et al., 1983, Control, J. Mol.Biol. 169, 707-721).
- Tetracycline regulation in the T-RexTM System is based on the binding of tetracycline to the Tet repressor and derepression of the promoter controlling expression of the gene of interest (Yao et al. 1998, Hum. Gene Ther. 9, 1939- 1950).
- the transfected cells may be cultured under standard culturing conditions.
- the G-protein or receptor protein may be recovered from the culture using standard techniques. For example the cells may be burst open either mechanically or by osmotic shock before being subject to precipitation and chromatography steps, the nature and sequence of which will depend on the particular recombinant material to be recovered.
- the recombinant G-protein or receptor may be recovered from the culture medium in which the recombinant cells had been cultured.
- the activity of a receptor in binding to ligands, and the coupling of the G-protein to the receptor may be assessed using a variety of in vitro and in vivo assays to determine functional, chemical, and physical effects, e.g., measuring ligand binding, secondary messengers (e.g., cAMP, cGMP, IP 3 , DAG, or Ca 2+ ), ion flux, phosphorylation levels, transcription levels, neurotransmitter levels, and the like.
- secondary messengers e.g., cAMP, cGMP, IP 3 , DAG, or Ca 2+
- ion flux e.g., phosphorylation levels
- transcription levels e.g., phosphorylation levels
- neurotransmitter levels e.g., neurotransmitter levels
- assays can be used to test for inhibitors of the receptors as is well known in the art. Samples or assays that are treated with a potential receptor inhibitor may be compared to control samples without the test compound
- test compounds upon the function of the receptors can be measured by examining any of the parameters described above. Any suitable physiological change that affects receptor activity can be used to assess the influence of a test compound on the coupling of receptors to G-proteins of this invention. When the functional consequences are determined using intact cells or animals, one can measure a variety of effects such as changes in intracellular secondary messengers such as Ca 2+ , IP 3 or cAMP. Suitable assays for making such measurements are described in WO 01 18050 which is hereby incorporated by reference.
- G-protein coupled receptors include cells that are loaded with ion sensitive dyes to report receptor activity, as are more fully set out in "G- protein coupled receptors (Signal Transduction Series), CRC Press 1999; 1 st Edition; Eds Haga and Berstein, which is incorporated herein by reference.
- assays for identifying modulatory compounds changes in the level of ions in the cytoplasm or membrane voltage will be monitored using an ion sensitive or membrane voltage fluorescent indicator, respectively.
- Receptor activation typically initiates subsequent intracellular events, e.g., increases in second messengers such as IP 3 , which releases intracellular stores of calcium ions.
- second messengers such as IP 3
- IP 3 inositol triphosphate
- IP 3 phospholipase C-mediated hydrolysis of phosphatidylinositol (Berridge & Irvine, Nature 312:315-21 (1984)).
- IP 3 in turn stimulates the release of intracellular calcium ion stores.
- a change in cytoplasmic calcium ion levels, or a change in second messenger levels such as IP 3 can be used to assess G-protein coupled receptor function.
- Cells expressing such G-protein coupled receptors may exhibit increased cytoplasmic calcium levels as a result of contribution from both intracellular stores and via activation of ion channels, in which case it may be desirable, although not necessary, to conduct such assays in calcium-free buffer, optionally supplemented with a chelating agent such as EDTA, to distinguish fluorescence response resulting from calcium release from internal stores.
- a chelating agent such as EDTA
- receptor activity is measured by expressing the receptor in a cell with a G-protein as defined herein above, that links the receptor to a phospholipase C signal transduction pathway.
- the cell line is HEK- 293, although other mammalian cells are also preferred such as CHO and COS cells.
- Modulation of taste transduction is assayed by measuring changes in intracellular Ca + levels, which change in response to modulation of the receptor signal transduction pathway via administration of a molecule that associates with tthhee rreecceeppttoorr..
- the ligand-binding domains of the receptors can be employed in vitro in soluble or solid-state reactions to assay for ligand binding.
- Ligand binding in a receptor, or a domain of a receptor can be tested in solution, in a bilayer membrane attached to a solid phase in a lipid monolayer or vesicles.
- the binding of a modulator to the receptor, or domain can be observed using changes in spectroscopic characteristics, e.g. fluorescence, absorbance or refractive index; or hydrodynamic (e.g. shape), chromatographic, or solubility properties, as is generally known in the art.
- the compounds tested as modulators of receptors can be any small chemical compound, or a biological entity, such as a protein, sugar, nucleic acid or lipid.
- test compounds will be small chemical molecules.
- any chemical compound can be used as a potential modulator or ligand in the assays of the invention, although knowledge of the ligand specificity of an individual receptor would enable the skilled person to make pre-selection of interesting compounds.
- Some preferred compounds have been set forth herein above.
- the assays may be designed to screen large chemical libraries by automating the assay steps and providing compounds from any convenient source to assays, which are typically run in parallel (e.g., in microtiter formats on microtiter plates in robotic assays). The skilled person will understand that there are many suppliers of libraries of chemical compounds.
- Assays may be run in high throughput screening methods that involve providing a combinatorial chemical or peptide library containing a large number of potential therapeutic, or tastant compounds (that are potential ligand compounds). Such libraries are then screened in one or more assays, as described herein, to identify those library members (particular chemical species or subclasses) that display a desired characteristic activity. The compounds thus identified can serve as lead compounds to further develop modulators for final products, or can themselves be used as actual modulators.
- a combinatorial chemical library is a collection of diverse chemical compounds generated by either chemical synthesis or biological synthesis, by combining a number of chemical "building blocks” such as reagents.
- a linear combinatorial chemical library such as a polypeptide library is formed by combining a set of chemical building blocks (amino acids) in every possible way for a given compound length (i.e., the number of amino acids in a polypeptide compound). Millions of chemical compounds can be synthesized through such combinatorial mixing of chemical building blocks.
- Lead compounds found by assay technology herein above described, or development compounds formed from such leads can be administered directly to a human subject to modulate taste.
- such compounds can be formulated with other ingredients of preparations to be taken orally, for example, foods and beverages, pharmaceutical or neutraceutical or homeopathic preparations.
- the amount of compound to be taken orally must be sufficient to effect a beneficial response in the human subject, and will be determined by the efficacy of the particular taste modulators and the existence, nature, and extent of any adverse side-effects that accompany the administration of a particular compound.
- HEK293 cells were used; for transient transfection of the receptors, HEK293T cells were used, and for stable transfection of the receptors, T-RexTM HEK293 cells (Invitrogen Corp., Carlsbad, CA) were used.
- the G ⁇ i6gu std u c in44 was constructed by bridge overlap PCR mutagenesis using the human G ⁇ 16 and rat gustducin cDNAs in pcDNA3.1 as templates with T7 and
- SP6 promoter sequences as outer flanking primer regions.
- Gene specific primers used were :
- 16gust44-S (5' GGCCCCGAGGGCAGCAACTTAAAAAAAGAAGATAAGGAA 3')
- 16gust44-AS (5' TTCCTTATCTTCTTTTTTTAAGTTGCTGCCCTCGGGGCC 3')
- wash buffer consisting of 2.5 mM probenicid dissolved in HBSS that has been supplemented with 10 mM Hepes, 200 ⁇ M calcium chloride and 0.1% bovine serum albumin, pH 7.4 at 37 degrees C, is added to each well and the plate is further incubated for 30 minutes at room temperature in the dark to allow for complete deesterification of the Fluo-4-AM.
- the buffer solutions are discarded, the plate is washed 3 times with 100 ⁇ l wash buffer and finally the cells are reconstituted in 200 ⁇ l of wash buffer and incubated for 15 minutes at 37 degrees C.
- a fluorescent microplate reader for example the Flexstation (Molecular Devices)
- cells stably expressing the G-protein are plated in a 6-well plate at a density of 800,000-950,000 cells per well and grown overnight in selective growth media.
- the media is changed to an antibiotic-free growth media and the cells are transfected using 2 ⁇ g of T1 R2 and 2 ⁇ g of T1 R3 cDNA and 10 ⁇ l of Lipofectamine 2000 (Invitrogen).
- the cells are maintained overnight in antibiotic- free growth media.
- the cells are replated into a black, clear-bottom 96 well plate at 20,000 cells per well and grown overnight.
- the media is replaced with low glucose media supplemented with Glutamax and dialyzed FBS to minimize receptor desensitization by sugars and glutamate.
- the cells are further incubated in this media for 6 hours at 37 degrees C. At the end of this period, the cells are processed for the calcium assay according to conditions described above.
- the example was performed essentially as described in example 5, except that tetra-cycline-inducible cell lines stably expressing human TAS2R10 and G16gust44 were used instead of transient transfection. Cells were kept at a cell density of 75-80%. The following results were obtained:
- G-protein only control w/o tetracycline
- G-protein + human TAS2R10 24280 All data are expressed in relative fluorescence units (RFUs) and represents the increase in mean fluorescence over baseline following ligand addition.
- the ligand and final concentration used was 250 ⁇ M strychnine.
- the example was performed essentially as described in example 5, except that tetracycline-inducible cell lines stably expressing human TAS2R38 and G16gust44 were used instead of transient transfection. Cells were kept at a cell density of 75-80%. The following results were obtained:
- TAS2R43 Functional activity of human bitter receptor (TAS2R43) with G-proteins.
- TAS2R43 tetra-cycline-inducible cell lines stably expressing human TAS2R43 and G16gust44 were used instead of transient Transfection. Cells were kept at a cell density of 75-80%. The following results were obtained:
- TAS2R44 Functional activity of human bitter receptor (TAS2R44) with G-proteins.
- TAS2R44 tetra-cycline-inducible cell lines stably expressing human TAS2R44 and G16gust44 were used instead of transient Transfection. Cells were kept at a cell density of 75-80%. The following results were obtained:
- G-protein + human TAS2R44 17254 All data are expressed in relative fluorescence units (RFUs) and represents the increase in mean fluorescence over baseline following ligand addition.
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