Methods for synthesizing heat shock protein complexes

Abstract

The present invention provides a method for synthesizing heat shock protein-peptide complexes comprising the steps of: adding a shock protein to a denatured protein matrix to bind the heat shock protein to the denatured protein matrix; and adding a complexing solution comprising a peptide to elute a heat shock protein-peptide complex. The present invention also provides a heat shock protein-peptide complex synthesized by the method of the invention. In addition the present invention provides an apparatus for synthesizing heat shock protein-peptide complexes comprising a heat shock protein complex bound to a denatured protein matrix.

Description

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

1. Field of the Invention

The present invention relates generally to methods for synthesizing heat shock protein-peptide complexes.

2. Description of the Prior Art

Heat shock proteins (HSPs) are associated in cells with a broad spectrum of peptides, polypeptides, denatured proteins and antigens with which they form complexes. These complexes form as part of the cell's normal protein manufacturing process as described in Beckmann et al., "Interaction of Hsp70 with newly synthesized proteins: implications for protein folding and assembly" in Science (1990), 248: 850-4. HSP-peptide complexes may also be formed as part of the transport of peptides to the MHC class I molecules on the cell's surface as described in Srivastava et al., "Heat shock proteins transfer peptides during antigen processing" in Immunogenetics (1994), 39: 93-98. When purified from autologous tumors, such HSP-peptide complexes have been useful in vaccines against cancers and infectious diseases as described in Srivastava et al., "Heat shock protein-peptide complexes in cancer immunotherapy" in Current Opinion in Immunology (1994), 6: 728-732; and Srivastava, "Peptide-Binding Heat Shock Proteins in the Endoplasmic Reticulum" in Advances in Cancer Research (1993), 62: 153-177. Vaccination with antigenic peptides alone can elicit an immune response but peptides bound to HSPs appear to elicit a much more efficient response. In this regard, Srivastava has estimated in Srivastava, "Heat shock proteins in immune responses to cancer: the fourth paradigm" in Experientia (1994), 50: 1054-1060, and that 10 .mu.g of gp96 isolated from tumor cells may be complexed with approximately 10 pg of peptide representing a tumor-associated mutation. While 10 pg of peptide cannot be used to successfully vaccinate an animal against a subsequent tumor challenge, 10 pg of peptide complexed with gp96 is enough to elicit protection.

Several types of cancer vaccines that are currently being investigated, including heat shock protein vaccines, have been described in Old, "Immunotherapy for cancer" in Scientific American (1996), 275: 142. These potential vaccines have included: inactivated cancer cells and their extracts which can jump-start the immune system (particularly cancer cells engineered to secrete cytokines, such as IL-2 or GM-CSF, similarly heighten anti-tumor immunity and cells designed to express co-stimulatory molecules, such as B-1, enhanced the ability of T-cells to recognize tumor cells); tumor peptides, fragments of tumor proteins recognized by T-cells, which can be injected alone or with immune-boosting adjuvants; injected tumor proteins which are taken up by antigen-presenting cells and break them down into a range of peptide fragments recognized by T-cells; dendritic cells, antigen-presenting cells which are isolated from the blood, exposed to tumor peptides or engineered to produce tumor proteins and then reinjected; gangliosides, which humans can produce antibodies against and which are found on the surface of tumor cells; viral and bacterial vectors, genes coding for tumor antigens which are incorporated into viral or bacterial genomes, that, when injected, draw immunity against themselves and encoded antigens; and DNA and RNA coding for tumor antigens which prompt normal cells to begin producing these antigens.

The heat shock protein vaccines consist of HSP-peptide complexes purified from tumor cells containing a mixture of peptides as described by Udono and Srivastava in "Heat shock protein 70-associated peptides elicit specific cancer immunity" in Journal of Experimental Medicine (1993), 178: 1391-6. Most of the peptides complexed with HSPs and isolated from tumor cells are presumably portions of normal cellular proteins. Therefore, the HSP-peptide complexes need to be purified at fairly high levels in order to obtain HSPs complexed with peptide portions of mutated oncogenes. Because many of the purified peptides are portions of normal cellular proteins, vaccination with these purified complexes may incur the risk of auto-immune disorders.

Peptide vaccination experiments use peptide sequences of known tumor mutations such as described in Gjertsen et al., "Vaccination with mutant ras peptides and induction of T-cell responsiveness in pancreatic carcinoma patients carrying the corresponding RAS mutation" in Lancet (1995), 346: 1399-1400. Peptide vaccination experiments are also being tried with viral diseases such as described in Kelleher et al., "Safety and immunogenicity of UB1 HIV-IMN octameric V3 peptide vaccine administered by subcutaneous injection" in AIDS Research & Human Retroviruses (1997), 13: 29-32 are currently receiving much attention.

HSP-peptide complexes have been purified from autologous tumors and used for vaccination against the same tumor. It has been anticipated that material purified in this way can also be used for vaccination against human tumors in Srivastava and Udono, "Heat shock protein-peptide complexes in cancer immunotherapy" in Current Opinion in Immunology (1994), 6: 728-32. The use of these purified complexes in treating patient tumors would require the isolation of tumor material from each individual patient. This is not practical or even possible for many types of tumors. Many types of cancer, however, have well-defined mutations in specific genes. The use of de novo HSP-peptide complexes allows the use of HPS-peptide vaccines without the need for removing a portion of the tumor. The de novo complexes also allow prophylactic vaccination against a variety of diseases using peptides representing known oncogenic mutations or peptides representing portions of known viral proteins.

Bacterial hsp70-peptide complexes, created by incubating purified HSPs together with a synthetic peptide solution have also been used to stimulate peptide specific T-cell responses (See Roman et al., "Synthetic peptides non-covalently bound to bacterial hsp70 elicit peptide specific T-cell responses in vivo," Immunology, (1996), 88: 487-492, and Roman et al., "Delayed-type hypersensitivity elicited by synthetic peptides complexed with mycobacterial tuberculosis hsp70 ," Immunology, (1997), 90: 52-56).

In general, previous heat shock protein purifications have had two goals. The first goal has been to obtain pure HSPs without any contaminating peptides or proteins as described in Welch et al., "Rapid purification of mammalian 70,000-dalton stress proteins: affinity of the proteins for nucleotides" in Molecular and Cellular Biology (1985), 5: 1229-1237 and in Nandan et al., "A rapid single-step purification method for immunogenic members of the hsp family: validation and application" in Journal of Immunological Methods (1994), 176: 255-263. The second goal has been to purify the intracellular HSP-peptide complexes as described in Udono et al., "Heat shock protein 70-associated peptides elicit specific cancer immunity" in Journal of Experimental Medicine (1993), 178: 1391-1396.

However, the fact that previously described methods only produce HSPs already complexed with intracellular peptides or stripped of their associated peptides is a serious deficiency. Also, there is no known simple way of synthesizing purified HSP-peptide complexes.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

The present invention provides a method of creating HSP-peptide combinations that will increase the effectiveness of peptide-based vaccines and allow more flexibility of use than the current HSP-based vaccines which require isolation of material from a portion of the tumor itself. Although several authors have described systems in which HSP vaccines might be used, including: Blachere et al., "Heat shock protein vaccines against cancer" in Journal of Immunology (1993), 14: 352-56; Heike et al., "Heat shock protein-peptide complexes for use in vaccines" in Journal of Leukocyte Biology (1996), 60: 153-8; and Srivastava, "Heat shock proteins in immune response to cancer: the fourth paradigm" in Experientia (1994), 50: 1054-60; Roman et al., "Synthetic peptides non-covalently bound to bacterial hsp70 elicit peptide specific T-cell responses in vivo," Immunology, (1996), 88: 487-492; Roman et al., "Delayed-type hypersensitivity elicited by synthetic peptides complexed with mycobacterial tuberculosis hsp70, Immunology, (1997), 90: 52-56; none of these authors have speculated on the usefulness of purifying the proteins and synthesizing the complexes in a single step.

In one embodiment, the present invention provides a method for synthesizing heat shock protein complexes comprising the steps of: adding a heat shock protein to a denatured protein matrix to bind the heat shock protein to the denatured protein matrix; and adding a complexing solution comprising a peptide to elute a heat shock protein-peptide complex.

The present invention further provides a heat shock protein-peptide complex made according to the method of the invention. Preferably, the heat shock protein-peptide complex is an ADP-heat shock protein-peptide complex.

The present invention further provides an apparatus for synthesizing ADP-heat shock protein-peptide complexes comprising an ADP-heat shock protein complex bound to a denatured protein matrix.

Other objects and features of the present invention will be apparent from the following detailed description of the preferred embodiments.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

The invention will be described in conjunction with the accompanying drawings, in which:

FIGS. 1A to 1E are a table showing peptides suitable for use in a preferred embodiment of the invention.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS

Definitions

For the purposes of the present invention the term "peptide" refers to all types of peptides and conjugated peptides including: peptides, proteins, polypeptides, protein sequences, amino acid sequences, denatured proteins, antigens, oncogenes and portions of oncogenes.

For the purposes of the present invention the term "individual" refers to an individual person or animal from whom a cell lysate, heat shock protein, or peptide is obtained.

Description

In a preferred embodiment the invention provides a method for synthesizing HSP-peptide complexes. In this method, HSP complexes are bound to a denatured protein matrix or column. Then a complexing agent, such as peptides, polypeptides, denatured proteins and/or antigens are added to the denatured protein column to bind with the HSP complexes, thereby removing these complexes from the column and forming an HSP-peptide complex which is eluted.

A preferred denatured protein matrix for the present invention can be formed by adding gelatin-agarose beads to a standard chromatography column.

One method for obtaining purified heat shock proteins for the present invention is to use a gelatin-agarose method such as that described in Nandan et al., "A rapid single-step purification method for immunogenic members of the hsp family; validation and application," in Journal of Immunological Methods (1994), 176: 255-263. In this method of purification, cell lysates containing heat shock proteins are mixed with gelatin-agarose beads to bind the heat shock proteins to the beads. ATP is then added to the beads to release purified heat shock proteins.

Instead of synthesizing pure HSP-peptide complexes, it is often desirable to elute the HSP-peptide complex as an ADP-HSP-peptide complex. As described in co-pending patent application Ser. No. 08/717,239, such ADP-HSP-peptide complexes are stable and may be used to develop vaccines or immunotherapeutic tools for tumors and for infectious diseases. These ADP-HSP-peptide complexes can be formed in a number of ways. Preferably such complexes are formed by adding the heat shock protein to the denatured protein matrix in the form of an ADP-heat shock protein complex so that the HSP-peptide complexes synthesized in the column will include complexed ADP. To form the ADP-heat shock protein complex, the purified heat shock protein is mixed with ADP. A solution containing the ADP-heat shock protein complex is then added to an agarose-gelatin matrix to bind the heat shock protein to the denatured protein or gelatin. Because the denatured protein in the column binds to a different site on the heat shock protein than the ADP does, the ADP remains complexed to the heat shock protein, even when it is bound to the denatured protein in the column. A peptide complexing solution containing a peptide complexing agent is then added to the column to release the ADP-HSP complex as an ADP-HSP-peptide complex by binding to the peptide binding site on the HSP.

In addition to the process described above, there are a number of other ways of insuring that ADP is complexed to at least some of the eluted HSP-peptide complexes that are eluted. For example, ADP can be added to an HSP-containing solution, such as a cell lysate, before, after or at the same time as the HSP-containing solution is added to the denatured protein matrix. Also, where the HSP is added to the matrix as part of a solution or cell lysate containing ATP, ADP-HSP-peptide complexes can be synthesized by converting ATP to ADP in the cell lysate either before or after it is added to the matrix. One method for converting ATP to ADP in a cell lysate is to add glucose and hexokinase to the lysate containing ATP and let the lysate sit a room temperature for a period of time. Other suitable methods for converting ATP to ADP are described in Lehninger, Biochemistry, (New York: Worth Publishers, 1970), p. 299.

Some of the peptides suitable for use as peptide complexing agents in the present invention include those described in U.S. Pat. Nos. 5,348,864 (vav mouse oncogene); 5,320,941 (protein sequence of the mas oncogene and polypeptides derived therefrom); 5,614,192 (peptides capable of binding to T-cell receptors); and 5,550,214 (peptide capable of binding in the HLA-A2 binding cleft and capable of stimulating proliferation of cytotoxic T-lymphocytes); the entire disclosure and contents of which are hereby incorporated by reference. Other suitable peptides are listed in Table 1 of Figures 1A to 1E.

The peptide complexing agents are typically obtained from purified cell lysates. The cells from which the peptide complexing agents may be obtained from the same or different individual as the heat shock proteins to which they are complexed. The heat shock protein and peptide complexing agents may even be obtained from different species and either the heat shock protein or peptide complexing agent can be formed synthetically.

Although there are many heat shock proteins that may be used in the method of the present invention, heat shock proteins that have proven particularly useful include members of the hsp60 family, hsp70 family, hsp90 family and the hsp104-105 family.

Members of the hsp60 family include hsp60, hsp65, rubisco binding protein, and TCP-1 in eukaryotes; GroEl/GroES in prokaryotes; and Mif4 and TCP1 alpha and beta in yeast.

Members of the hsp70 family include DnaK proteins from prokaryotes, Ssa, Ssb, and Ssc from yeast, hsp70, Grp75 and Grp78(Bip) from eukaryotes. FIG. 1 is a drawing of a western blot of fractions taken from a purification using the method of the invention. The elution was started at fraction #10 and hsp70 protein appears in fraction #14.

Members of the hsp90 family include hsp90, gp96 and grp94.

Members of the hsp104-105 family include hsp105 and hspl110.

In another preferred embodiment, the present invention provides an apparatus for synthesizing heat shock protein-peptide complexes. Such an apparatus may be created by adding a desired heat shock protein or ADP-heat shock protein complex to a denatured protein matrix, as described above for the method of the present invention, to form a column having heat shock proteins bound therein. Such a column can be used to form a desired HSP-peptide complex or ADP-HSP-peptide complex by adding a peptide complexing agent to the column to elute the HSP-peptide complex or ADP-HSP-peptide complex, respectively, as described above for the method of the present invention.

The invention will now be described by way of example. The following example is illustrative and are not meant to limit the scope of the invention which is set forth by the appended claims.

EXAMPLE

Heat shock proteins from cells or sub-cellular fractions are solubilized in lysis buffer (20 mM Tris-HCl pH 7.5, 0.15 M NaCl, 1% Triton X-100) containing a cocktail of protease inhibitors. This cocktail consists of 25 .mu.g/ml of leupeptin, 25 .mu.g/ml of E64 antipain and 0.5 mM (polymethylsulfonyl fluoride). The lysate is centrifuged at 10,0000.times.g for 20 min. at 4.degree. C. to remove insoluble materials. The supernatant is incubated with appropriate amounts of gelatin-agarose beads by mixing for 2 hours at 25.degree. C. This incubation will result in a gelatin-HSP(ADP)-peptide complex. The beads are collected by centrifugation and washed three times with a buffer adjusted to 0.5 M NaCI, and once with 5mM Hepes, pH 7.5. Bound heat shock proteins are released by incubating the gelatin agarose beads with a solution containing a peptide or peptides representing the tumor or viral antigen. The heat shock protein-peptide complexes can then be used as a vaccine. Examples of suitable peptides that can be bound to heat shock proteins includes those found in Table 1 of Figures 1A to 1E.

Although the present invention has been fully described in conjunction with the preferred embodiment thereof with reference to the accompanying drawings, it is to be understood that various changes and modifications may be apparent to those skilled in the art. Such changes and modifications are to be understood as included within the scope of the present invention as defined by the appended claims, unless they depart therefrom.

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Claims

1. A method for synthesizing heat shock protein complexes comprising the steps of:

adding a heat shock protein to a denatured protein matrix to bind the heat shock protein to the matrix; and

adding a complexing solution comprising a peptide to elute a heat shock protein-peptide complex.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein said heat shock protein added to the matrix is complexed with ADP.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein said eluted heat shock protein-peptide complex comprises an ADP-heat shock protein peptide complex.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein said heat shock protein is added to the matrix as part of a solution containing said heat shock protein and said method further comprises the step of adding ADP to said heat shock protein-containing solution.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein ADP is added to said heat shock protein-containing solution prior to said heat shock protein-containing solution being added to the matrix.

6. The method of claim 4, wherein ADP is added to said heat shock protein-containing solution after said heat shock protein containing solution is added to the matrix.

7. The method of claim 4, wherein ADP is added to said heat shock protein-containing solution at the same time as said heat shock protein-containing solution is added to the matrix.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein said heat shock protein is added to the matrix as part of a heat shock protein-containing solution which includes ATP and the method further comprises the step of converting ATP in the heat shock protein-containing solution to ADP.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein said heat shock protein is added to the matrix as part of a cell lysate.

10. The method of claim 1 wherein the heat shock protein is selected from the group consisting of: hsp60, hsp65, rubisco binding protein and TCP-1 from eukaryotes; and GroEL/GroES, Mif4, TCPalpha and TCPbeta from yeast.

11. The method of claim 1 wherein the heat shock protein is selected from the group consisting of: hsp104, hsp105 and hsp110.

12. The method of claim 1 wherein the heat shock protein is selected from the group consisting of: DnaK proteins from prokaryotes; Ssa, Ssb, and Ssc from yeast; and hsp70, Grp75 and Grp78(Bip) from eukaryotes.

13. The method of claim 1 wherein the heat shock protein comprises one of the group consisting of: hsp90, gp96 and grp94.

14. The method of claim 1 wherein the peptide is from the same individual as the heat shock protein.

15. The method of claim 1 wherein the peptide and the heat shock protein are from different individuals.

16. The method of claim 1 wherein the peptide and the heat shock protein are from different species.

17. The method of claim 1 wherein the complexing solution comprises a cell lysate.

18. An apparatus for synthesizing heat shock protein-peptide complexes comprising a heat shock protein bound to a denatured protein matrix, said heat shock protein being complexed with ADP.

19. The apparatus of claim 18 wherein said denatured protein matrix comprises a denatured protein column.

20. The apparatus of claim 18 wherein the heat shock protein is selected from the group consisting of: hsp60, hsp65, rubisco binding protein and TCP-1 from eukaryotes; and GroEL/GroES, Mif4, TCPalpha and TCPbeta from yeast.

21. The apparatus of claim 18 wherein the heat shock protein is selected from the group consisting of: hsp104, hsp105 and hsp110.

22. The apparatus of claim 18 wherein the heat shock protein is selected from the group consisting of: DnaK proteins from prokaryotes; Ssa, Ssb, and Ssc from yeast; and hsp70, Grp75 and Grp78(Bip) from eukaryotes.

23. The apparatus of claim 18 wherein the heat shock protein is selected from the group consisting of: hsp90, gp96 and grp94.