The entire teachings of the above applications are incorporated herein by reference.
Proteases are involved in a broad range of biological pathways. In particular, serine proteases such as kallikrein, plasmin, elastase, urokinase plasminogen activator, thrombin, human lipoprotein-associated coagulation inhibitor, and coagulation factors such as factors VIIa, IXa, Xa, XIa, and XIIa have been implicated in pathways affecting blood flow, e.g., general and focal ischemia, tumor invasion, fibrinolysis, perioperative blood loss, and inflammation. Inhibitors of specific serine proteases, therefore, have received attention as potential drug targets for various ischemic maladies.
One such inhibitor, aprotinin (also called bovine pancreatic trypsin inhibitor or BPTI), obtained from bovine lung, has been approved in the United States for prophylactic use in reducing perioperative blood loss and the need for transfusion in patients undergoing cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB), e.g., in the course of a coronary artery bypass grafting procedure. Aprotinin is commercially available under the trade name TRASYLOL® (Bayer Corporation Pharmaceutical Division, West Haven, Conn.) and was previously approved for use to treat pancreatitis. The effectiveness of aprotinin is associated with its relatively non-specific abilities to inhibit a variety of serine proteases, including plasma kallikrein and plasmin. These proteases are important in a number of pathways of the contact activation system (CAS).
CAS is initially activated when whole blood contacts the surface of foreign substrates (e.g., kaolin, glass, dextran sulfate, or damaged bone surfaces). Kallikrein, a serine protease, is a plasma enzyme that initiates the CAS cascade leading to activation of neutrophils, plasmin, coagulation, and various kinins. Kallikrein is secreted as a zymogen (pre-kallikrein) that circulates as an inactive molecule until activated by a proteolytic event early in the contact activation cascade. Clearly, specific inhibition of kallikrein would be a very attractive approach to control blood loss associated with CPB and the onset of systemic inflammatory response (SIR) as would be encountered during, for example, various invasive surgical procedures.
Despite being the only licensed compound for preventing perioperative blood loss in CPB for coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) procedures, aprotinin is not as widely used as would be expected. There are serious concerns regarding the use of this bovine polypeptide in patients who require CPB, and in particular the use of this compound in CABG procedures. Aprotinin is not specific for kallikrein, but interacts with additional enzymes (e.g., plasmin) in multiple pathways. Thus, the mechanism of action of aprotinin is largely speculative, and the lack of precise understanding of what is affected during aprotinin treatment produces the risk of complications during treatment. One frequently cited complication is uncontrolled thrombosis, due to aprotinin's actions upon the fibrinolytic pathway. There is concern not only over such hyperacute events as major vessel thrombosis in the perioperative period, but also over graft patency after the CABG procedure. Furthermore, as a naturally occurring protein obtained from bovine lung, administration of aprotinin in humans can elicit severe hypersensitivity or anaphylactic or anaphylactoid reactions after the first and, more often, after repeat administration to patients. This is particularly of concern in the large number of patients who have repeat CABG procedures. In addition, there is an increasing public concern regarding use of material derived from bovine sources as a potential vector for the transmission of bovine spongiform encephalopathy to humans.
These concerns make clear that a need remains for more effective and more specific means and methods for preventing or reducing perioperative blood loss and the onset of SIR in a patient subjected to surgery resulting in activation of the CAS, such as CABG procedures in patients of CPB, or hip replacement.
This invention is based on the discovery of peptides that inhibit serine proteases. Serine proteases such as, for example, kallikrein, are involved in, for example, pathways leading to excessive perioperative blood loss and the onset of systemic inflammatory response. Preferred kallikrein peptide inhibitors include those described in U.S. Pat. Nos. 6,333,402 and 6,057,287 to Markland et al., the contents of which are incorporated herein by reference in their entirety. The invention is directed in part to the use of the peptides in therapeutic methods and compositions suitable for use in eliminating or reducing various ischemias, including but not limited to perioperative blood loss, and the onset of systemic inflammatory response. Perioperative blood loss results from invasive surgical procedures that lead to contact activation of complement components and the coagulation/fibrinolysis systems. More specifically, the invention provides methods of using kallikrein inhibitors to reduce or prevent perioperative blood loss and a systemic inflammatory response in patients subjected to invasive surgical procedures, especially cardiothoracic surgeries.
In one embodiment, the invention is directed to a method for preventing or reducing ischemia in a patient comprising administering to the patient a composition comprising a polypeptide comprising the amino acid sequence: Xaa1 Xaa2 Xaa3 Xaa4 Cys Xaa6 Xaa7 Xaa8 Xaa9 Xaa10 Xaa11 Gly Xaa13 Cys Xaa15 Xaa16 Xaa17 Xaa18 Xaa19 Xaa20 Xaa21 Xaa22 Xaa23 Xaa24 Xaa25 Xaa26 Xaa27 Xaa28 Xaa29 Cys Xaa31 Xaa32 Phe Xaa34 Xaa35 Gly Gly Cys Xaa39 Xaa40 Xaa41 Xaa42 Xaa43 Xaa44 Xaa45 Xaa46 Xaa47 Xaa48 Xaa49 Xaa50 Cys Xaa52 Xaa53 Xaa54 Cys Xaa56 Xaa57 Xaa58 (SEQ ID NO:1), wherein Xaa1, Xaa2, Xaa3, Xaa4, Xaa56, Xaa57 or Xaa58 are each individually an amino acid or absent; Xaa10 is an amino acid selected from the group consisting of: Asp and Glu; Xaa11 is an amino acid selected from the group consisting of: Asp, Gly, Ser, Val, Asn, Ile, Ala and Thr; Xaa13 is an amino acid selected from the group consisting of: Arg, His, Pro, Asn, Ser, Thr, Ala, Gly, Lys and Gln; Xaa15 is an amino acid selected from the group consisting of: Arg, Lys, Ala, Ser, Gly, Met, Asn and Gln; Xaa16 is an amino acid selected from the group consisting of: Ala, Gly, Ser, Asp and Asn; Xaa17 is an amino acid selected from the group consisting of: Ala, Asn, Ser, Ile, Gly, Val, Gln and Thr; Xaa18 is an amino acid selected from the group consisting of: His, Leu, Gln and Ala; Xaa19 is an amino acid selected from the group consisting of: Pro, Gln, Leu, Asn and Ile; Xaa21 is an amino acid selected from the group consisting of: Trp, Phe, Tyr, His and Ile; Xaa22 is an amino acid selected from the group consisting of: Tyr and Phe; Xaa23 is an amino acid selected from the group consisting of: Tyr and Phe; Xaa31 is an amino acid selected from the group consisting of: Glu, Asp, Gln, Asn, Ser, Ala, Val, Leu, Ile and Thr; Xaa32 is an amino acid selected from the group consisting of: Glu, Gln, Asp Asn, Pro, Thr, Leu, Ser, Ala, Gly and Val; Xaa34 is an amino acid selected from the group consisting of: Thr, Ile, Ser, Val, Ala, Asn, Gly and Leu; Xaa35 is an amino acid selected from the group consisting of: Tyr, Trp and Phe; Xaa39 is an amino acid selected from the group consisting of: Glu, Gly, Ala, Ser and Asp; Xaa40 is an amino acid selected from the group consisting of: Gly and Ala; Xaa43 is an amino acid selected from the group consisting of: Asn and Gly; Xaa45 is an amino acid selected from the group consisting of: Phe and Tyr; and wherein the polypeptide inhibits kallikrein.
In a particular embodiment, the ischemia is perioperative blood loss due to a surgical procedure performed on the patient. The surgical procedure can be a cardiothoracic surgery, such as, for example, cardiopulmonary bypass or coronary artery bypass grafting.
In a particular embodiment, individual amino acid positions of SEQ ID NO:1 can be one or more of the following: Xaa10 is Asp, Xaa11 is Asp, Xaa13 is Pro, Xaa15 is Arg, Xaa16 is Ala, Xaa17 is Ala, Xaa18 is His, Xaa19 is Pro, Xaa21 is Trp, Xaa31 is Glu, Xaa32 is Glu, Xaa34 is Ile, Xaa35 is Tyr, Xaa39 is Glu.
In another embodiment, the invention is directed to a method for preventing or reducing the onset of systemic inflammatory response associated with a surgical procedure in a patient comprising administering to the patient a composition comprising a polypeptide comprising the amino acid sequence: Xaa1 Xaa2 Xaa3 Xaa4 Cys Xaa6 Xaa7 Xaa8 Xaa9 Xaa10 Xaa11 Gly Xaa13 Cys Xaa15 Xaa16 Xaa17 Xaa18 Xaa19 Xaa20 Xaa21 Xaa22 Xaa23 Xaa24 Xaa25 Xaa26 Xaa27 Xaa28 Xaa29 Cys Xaa31 Xaa32 Phe Xaa34 Xaa35 Gly Gly Cys Xaa39 Xaa40 Xaa41 Xaa42 Xaa43 Xaa44 Xaa45 Xaa46 Xaa47 Xaa48 Xaa49 Xaa50 Cys Xaa52 Xaa53 Xaa54 Cys Xaa56 Xaa57 Xaa58 (SEQ ID NO:1), wherein Xaa1, Xaa2, Xaa3, Xaa4, Xaa56, Xaa57 or Xaa58 are each individually an amino acid or absent; Xaa10 is an amino acid selected from the group consisting of: Asp and Glu; Xaa11 is an amino acid selected from the group consisting of: Asp, Gly, Ser, Val, Asn, Ile, Ala and Thr; Xaa13 is an amino acid selected from the group consisting of: Arg, His, Pro, Asn, Ser, Thr, Ala, Gly, Lys and Gln; Xaa15 is an amino acid selected from the group consisting of: Arg, Lys, Ala, Ser, Gly, Met, Asn and Gln; Xaa16 is an amino acid selected from the group consisting of: Ala, Gly, Ser, Asp and Asn; Xaa17 is an amino acid selected from the group consisting of Ala, Asn, Ser, Ile, Gly, Val, Gln and Thr; Xaa18 is an amino acid selected from the group consisting of: His, Leu, Gln and Ala; Xaa19 is an amino acid selected from the group consisting of: Pro, Gln, Leu, Asn and Ile; Xaa21 is an amino acid selected from the group consisting of: Trp, Phe, Tyr, His and Ile; Xaa22 is an amino acid selected from the group consisting of: Tyr and Phe; Xaa23 is an amino acid selected from the group consisting of: Tyr and Phe; Xaa31 is an amino acid selected from the group consisting of Glu, Asp, Gln, Asn, Ser, Ala, Val, Leu, Ile and Thr; Xaa32 is an amino acid selected from the group consisting of: Glu, Gln, Asp Asn, Pro, Thr, Leu, Ser, Ala, Gly and Val; Xaa34 is an amino acid selected from the group consisting of: Thr, Ile, Ser, Val, Ala, Asn, Gly and Leu; Xaa35 is an amino acid selected from the group consisting of: Tyr, Trp and Phe; Xaa39 is an amino acid selected from the group consisting of: Glu, Gly, Ala, Ser and Asp; Xaa40 is an amino acid selected from the group consisting of: Gly and Ala; Xaa43 is an amino acid selected from the group consisting of: Asn and Gly; Xaa45 is an amino acid selected from the group consisting of: Phe and Tyr; and wherein the polypeptide inhibits kallikrein. In a particular embodiment, the surgical procedure can be a cardiothoracic surgery, such as, for example, cardiopulmonary bypass or coronary artery bypass grafting. In a particular embodiment, individual amino acid positions of SEQ ID NO:1 can be one or more of the following: Xaa10 is Asp, Xaa11 is Asp, Xaa13 is Pro, Xaa15 is Arg, Xaa16 is Ala, Xaa17 is Ala, Xaa18 is His, Xaa19 is Pro, Xaa21 is Trp, Xaa31 is Glu, Xaa32 is Glu, Xaa34 is Ile, Xaa35 is Tyr, Xaa39 is Glu.
In yet another embodiment, the invention is directed to a method for preventing or reducing the onset of systemic inflammatory response associated with a surgical procedure in a patient comprising administering to the patient a composition comprising a polypeptide consisting of the amino acid sequence: Glu Ala Met His Ser Phe Cys Ala Phe Lys Ala Asp Asp Gly Pro Cys Arg Ala Ala His Pro Arg Trp Phe Phe Asn Ile Phe Thr Arg Gln Cys Glu Glu Phe Ile Tyr Gly Gly Cys Glu Gly Asn Gln Asn Arg Phe Glu Ser Leu Glu Glu Cys Lys Lys Met Cys Thr Arg Asp (SEQ ID NO:2), wherein the polypeptide inhibits kallikrein. In one embodiment, the surgical procedure is a cardiothoracic surgery, such as, for example, cardiopulmonary bypass or coronary artery bypass grafting.
In another embodiment, the invention is directed to a method for preventing or reducing ischemia in a patient comprising administering to the patient a composition comprising a polypeptide consisting of the amino acid sequence: Glu Ala Met His Ser Phe Cys Ala Phe Lys Ala Asp Asp Gly Pro Cys Arg Ala Ala His Pro Arg Trp Phe Phe Asn Ile Phe Thr Arg Gin Cys Glu Glu Phe Ile Tyr Gly Gly Cys Glu Gly Asn Gln Asn Arg Phe Glu Ser Leu Glu Glu Cys Lys Lys Met Cys Thr Arg Asp (SEQ ID NO:2), wherein the polypeptide inhibits kallikrein. In a particular embodiment, the ischemia can be perioperative blood loss due to a surgical procedure performed on the patient. In one embodiment, the surgical procedure is a cardiothoracic surgery, such as, for example, cardiopulmonary bypass or coronary artery bypass grafting.
In yet another embodiment, the invention is directed to a method for preventing or reducing the onset of systemic inflammatory response associated with a surgical procedure in a patient comprising administering to the patient a composition comprising a polypeptide consisting of the amino acid sequence: Met His Ser Phe Cys Ala Phe Lys Ala Asp Asp Gly Pro Cys Arg Ala Ala His Pro Arg Trp Phe Phe Asn Ile Phe Thr Arg Gln Cys Glu Glu Phe Ile Tyr Gly Gly Cys Glu Gly Asn Gln Asn Arg Phe Glu Ser Leu Glu Glu Cys Lys Lys Met Cys Thr Arg Asp (amino acids 3-60 of SEQ ID NO:2), wherein the polypeptide inhibits kallikrein. In one embodiment, the surgical procedure is a cardiothoracic surgery, such as, for example, cardiopulmonary bypass or coronary artery bypass grafting.
In another embodiment, the invention is directed to a method for preventing or reducing ischemia in a patient comprising administering to the patient a composition comprising a polypeptide consisting of the amino acid sequence: Met His Ser Phe Cys Ala Phe Lys Ala Asp Asp Gly Pro Cys Arg Ala Ala His Pro Arg Trp Phe Phe Asn Ile Phe Thr Arg Gln Cys Glu Glu Phe Ile Tyr Gly Gly Cys Glu Gly Asn Gln Asn Arg Phe Glu Ser Leu Glu Glu Cys Lys Lys Met Cys Thr Arg Asp (amino acids 3-60 of SEQ ID NO:2), wherein the polypeptide inhibits kallikrein. In a particular embodiment, the ischemia can be perioperative blood loss due to a surgical procedure performed on the patient. In one embodiment, the surgical procedure is a cardiothoracic surgery, such as, for example, cardiopulmonary bypass or coronary artery bypass grafting.
A description of preferred embodiments of the invention follows.
The invention is based on the discovery of a group of kallikrein inhibitor (KI) polypeptides that inhibit plasma kallikrein with a specificity that permits their use in improved methods of preventing or reducing ischemia such as, for example, perioperative blood loss and/or a systemic inflammatory response (SIR) induced by kallikrein, especially, for example, in patients undergoing surgical procedures and particularly surgical procedures involving cardiothoracic surgery, e.g., cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB), such as a coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) procedures. K's can be used specifically for, e.g., pediatric cardiac surgery, lung transplantation, total hip replacement and orthotopic liver transplantation, and to reduce or prevent perioperative stroke during CABG, extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) and cerebrovascular accidents (CVA) during these procedures.
Cardiothoracic surgery is surgery of the chest area, most commonly the heart and lungs. Typical diseases treated by cardiothoracic surgery include coronary artery disease, tumors and cancers of the lung, esophagus and chest wall, heart vessel and valve abnormalities, and birth defects involving the chest or heart. Where cardiothoracic surgery is utilized for treatment, the risk of blood loss (e.g., surgery-induced ischemia) and the onset of a systemic inflammatory response (SIR) is incurred. Surgery-induced SIR can result in severe organ dysfunction (systemic inflammatory response syndrome; SIRS).
Polypeptides Useful in the Invention
KI polypeptides useful in the invention comprise Kunitz domain polypeptides. In one embodiment these Kunitz domains are variant forms of the looped structure comprising Kunitz domain 1 of human lipoprotein-associated coagulation inhibitor (LACI) protein. LACI contains three internal, well-defined, peptide loop structures that are paradigm Kunitz domains (Girard, T. et al., 1989. Nature, 338:518-520). The three Kunitz domains of LACI confer the ability to bind and inhibit kallikrein, although not with exceptional affinity. Variants of Kunitz domain 1 of LACI described herein have been screened, isolated and bind kallikrein with enhanced affinity and specificity (see, for example, U.S. Pat. Nos. 5,795,865 and 6,057,287, incorporated herein by reference). An example of a preferred polypeptide useful in the invention has the amino acid sequence defined by amino acids 3-60 of SEQ ID NO:2.
Every polypeptide useful in the invention binds kallikrein, and preferred polypeptides are also kallikrein inhibitors (KI) as determined using kallikrein binding and inhibition assays known in the art. The enhanced affinity and specificity for kallikrein of the variant Kunitz domain polypeptides described herein provides the basis for their use in cardiothoracic surgery, e.g., CPB and especially CABG surgical procedures, to prevent or reduce perioperative blood loss and/or the onset of SIR in patients undergoing such procedures. The KI polypeptides used in the invention have or comprise the amino acid sequence of a variant Kunitz domain polypeptide originally isolated by screening phage display libraries for the ability to bind kallikrein.
KI polypeptides useful in the methods and compositions of the invention comprise a Kunitz domain polypeptide comprising the amino acid sequence:
“Xaa” refers to a position in a peptide chain that can be any of a number of different amino acids. For example, for the KI peptides described herein, Xaa10 can be Asp or Glu; Xaa11 can be Asp, Gly, Ser, Val, Asn, Ile, Ala or Thr; Xaa13 can be Pro, Arg, His, Asn, Ser, Thr, Ala, Gly, Lys or Gln; Xaa15 can be Arg, Lys, Ala, Ser, Gly, Met, Asn or Gln; Xaa16 can be Ala, Gly, Ser, Asp or Asn; Xaa17 can be Ala, Asn, Ser, Ile, Gly, Val, Gln or Thr; Xaa13 can be His, Leu, Gln or Ala; Xaa19 can be Pro, Gln, Leu, Asn or Ile; Xaa21 can be Tip, Phe, Tyr, His or Ile; Xaa31 can be Glu, Asp, Gln, Asn, Ser, Ala, Val, Leu, Ile or Thr; Xaa32 can be Glu, Gln, Asp Asn, Pro, Thr, Leu, Ser, Ala, Gly or Val; Xaa34 can be Ile, Thr, Ser, Val, Ala, Asn, Gly or Leu; Xaa35 can be Tyr, Trp or Phe; Xaa39 can be Glu, Gly, Ala, Ser or Asp. Amino acids Xaa6, Xaa7, Xaa8, Xaa9, Xaa20, Xaa24, Xaa25, Xaa26, Xaa27, Xaa28, Xaa29, Xaa41, Xaa42, Xaa44, Xaa46, Xaa47, Xaa48, Xaa49, Xaa50, Xaa52, Xaa53 and Xaa54 can be any amino acid. Additionally, each of the first four and at last three amino acids of SEQ ID NO:1 can optionally be present or absent and can be any amino acid, if present.
Peptides defined according to SEQ ID NO:1 form a set of polypeptides that bind to kallikrein. For example, in a preferred embodiment of the invention, a KI polypeptide useful in the methods and compositions of the invention has the following variable positions: Xaa11 can be Asp, Gly, Ser or Val; Xaa13 can be Pro, Arg, H is or Asn; Xaa15 can be Arg or Lys; Xaa16 can be Ala or Gly; Xaa17 can be Ala, Asn, Ser or Ile; Xaa18 can be His, Leu or Gln; Xaa19 can be Pro, Gln or Leu; Xaa21 can be Trp or Phe; Xaa31 is Glu; Xaa32 can be Glu or Gln; Xaa34 can be Ile, Thr or Ser; Xaa35 is Tyr; and Xaa39 can be Glu, Gly or Ala.
A more specific embodiment of the claimed invention is defined by the following amino acids at variable positions: Xaa10 is Asp; Xaa11 is Asp; Xaa13 can be Pro or Arg; Xaa15 is Arg; Xaa16 can be Ala or Gly; Xaa17 is Ala; Xaa18 is His; Xaa19 is Pro; Xaa21 is Trp; Xaa31 is Glu; Xaa32 is Glu; Xaa34 can be Ile or Ser; Xaa35 is Tyr; and Xaa39 is Gly.
Also encompassed within the scope of the invention are peptides that comprise portions of the polypeptides described herein. For example, polypeptides could comprise binding domains for specific kallikrein epitopes. Such fragments of the polypeptides described herein would also be encompassed.
KI polypeptides useful in the methods and compositions described herein comprise a Kunitz domain. A subset of the sequences encompassed by SEQ ID NO:1 are described by the following (where not indicated, “Xaa” refers to the same set of amino acids that are allowed for SEQ ID NO:1):
The KI polypeptides useful in the methods and compositions described herein can be made synthetically using any standard polypeptide synthesis protocol and equipment. For example, the stepwise synthesis of a KI polypeptide described herein can be carried out by the removal of an amino (N) terminal-protecting group from an initial (i.e., carboxy-terminal) amino acid, and coupling thereto of the carboxyl end of the next amino acid in the sequence of the polypeptide. This amino acid is also suitably protected. The carboxyl group of the incoming amino acid can be activated to react with the N-terminus of the bound amino acid by formation into a reactive group such as formation into a carbodiimide, a symmetric acid anhydride, or an “active ester” group such as hydroxybenzotriazole or pentafluorophenyl esters. Preferred solid-phase peptide synthesis methods include the BOC method, which utilizes tert-butyloxycarbonyl as the .alpha.-amino protecting group, and the FMOC method, which utilizes 9-fluorenylmethloxycarbonyl to protect the .alpha.-amino of the amino acid residues. Both methods are well known to those of skill in the art (Stewart, J. and Young, J., Solid-Phase Peptide Synthesis (W. H. Freeman Co., San Francisco 1989); Merrifield, J., 1963. Am. Chem. Soc., 85:2149-2154; Bodanszky, M. and Bodanszky, A., The Practice of Peptide Synthesis (Springer-Verlag, New York 1984), the entire teachings of these references is incorporated herein by reference). If desired, additional amino- and/or carboxy-terminal amino acids can be designed into the amino acid sequence and added during polypeptide synthesis.
Alternatively, Kunitz domain polypeptides and KI polypeptides useful in the compositions and methods of the invention can be produced by recombinant methods using any of a number of cells and corresponding expression vectors, including but not limited to bacterial expression vectors, yeast expression vectors, baculovirus expression vectors, mammalian viral expression vectors, and the like. Kunitz domain polypeptides and KI polypeptides useful in the compositions and methods of the invention can also be produced transgenically using nucleic acid molecules comprising a coding sequence for a Kunitz domain or KI polypeptide described herein, wherein the nucleic acid molecule can be integrated into and expressed from the genome of a host animal using transgenic methods available in the art. In some cases, it could be necessary or advantageous to fuse the coding sequence for a Kunitz domain polypeptide or a KI polypeptide comprising the Kunitz domain to another coding sequence in an expression vector to form a fusion polypeptide that is readily expressed in a host cell. Preferably, the host cell that expresses such a fusion polypeptide also processes the fusion polypeptide to yield a Kunitz domain or KI polypeptide useful in the invention that contains only the desired amino acid sequence. Obviously, if any other amino acid(s) remain attached to the expressed Kunitz domain or KI polypeptide, such additional amino acid(s) should not diminish the kallikrein binding and/or kallikrein inhibitory activity of the Kunitz domain or KI polypeptide so as to preclude use of the polypeptide in the methods or compositions of the invention.
A preferred recombinant expression system for producing KI polypeptides useful in the methods and compositions described herein is a yeast expression vector, which permits a nucleic acid sequence encoding the amino acid sequence for a KI polypeptide or Kunitz domain polypeptide to be linked in the same reading frame with a nucleotide sequence encoding the mat.alpha. prepro leader peptide sequence of Saccharomyces cerevisiae, which in turn is under the control of an operable yeast promoter. The resulting recombinant yeast expression plasmid can then be transformed by standard methods into the cells of an appropriate, compatible yeast host, which cells are able to express the recombinant protein from the recombinant yeast expression vector. Preferably, a host yeast cell transformed with such a recombinant expression vector is also able to process the fusion protein to provide an active KI polypeptide useful in the methods and compositions of the invention. A preferred yeast host for producing recombinant Kunitz domain polypeptides and KI polypeptides comprising such Kunitz domains is Pichia pastoris.
As noted above, KI polypeptides that are useful in the methods and compositions described herein can comprise a Kunitz domain polypeptide described herein. Some KI polypeptides can comprise an additional flanking sequence, preferably of one to six amino acids in length, at the amino and/or carboxy-terminal end, provided such additional amino acids do not significantly diminish kallikrein binding affinity or kallikrein inhibition activity so as to preclude use in the methods and compositions described herein. Such additional amino acids can be deliberately added to express a KI polypeptide in a particular recombinant host cell or can be added to provide an additional function, e.g., to provide a peptide to link the KI polypeptide to another molecule or to provide an affinity moiety that facilitates purification of the polypeptide. Preferably, the additional amino acid(s) do not include cysteine, which could interfere with the disulfide bonds of the Kunitz domain.
An example of a preferred Kunitz domain polypeptide useful in the methods and compositions of the invention has the amino acid sequence of residues 3-60 of SEQ ID NO:2. When expressed and processed in a yeast fusion protein expression system (e.g., based on the integrating expression plasmid pHIL-D2), such a Kunitz domain polypeptide retains an additional amino terminal Glu-Ala dipeptide from the fusion with the mat.alpha. prepro leader peptide sequence of S. cerevisiae. When secreted from the yeast host cell, most of the leader peptide is processed from the fusion protein to yield a functional KI polypeptide (referred to herein as “PEP-1”) having the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO:2 (see boxed region in
Particularly preferred KI polypeptides useful in the methods and compositions described herein have a binding affinity for kallikrein that is on the order of 1000 times higher than that of aprotinin, which is currently approved for use in CABG procedures to reduce blood loss. The surprisingly high binding affinities of such KI polypeptides described herein indicate that such KI polypeptides exhibit a high degree of specificity for kallikrein to the exclusion of other molecular targets (see Table 1, below). Thus, use of such polypeptides according to the invention reduces much of the speculation as to the possible therapeutic targets in a patient. The lower degree of specificity exhibited by, for example, aprotinin, leads to possible pleiotropic side effects and ambiguity as to its therapeutic mechanism.
The polypeptides defined by, for example, SEQ ID NO:1 contain invariant positions, e.g., positions 5, 14, 30, 51 and 55 can be Cys only. Other positions such as, for example, positions 6, 7, 8, 9, 20, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 41, 42, 44, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 52, 53 and 54 can be any amino acid (including non-naturally occurring amino acids). In a particularly preferred embodiment, one or more amino acids correspond to that of a native sequence (e.g., SEQ ID NO:32, see
Other positions, for example, positions 10, 11, 13, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 21, 22, 23, 31, 32, 34, 35, 39, 40, 43 and 45, can be any of a selected set of amino acids. Thus SEQ ID NO:1 defines a set of possible sequences. Each member of this set contains, for example, a cysteine at positions 5, 14, 30, 51 and 55, and any one of a specific set of amino acids at positions 10, 11, 13, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 221, 22, 23, 31, 32, 34, 35, 39, 40, 43 and 45. In a preferred embodiment, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18 and/or 19 of these amino acids can be independently or collectively, in any combination, selected to correspond to the corresponding position of SEQ ID NO:2. The peptide preferably has at least 80%, at least 85%, at least 90% or at least 95% identity to SEQ ID NO:2.
Methods and Compositions
The present invention is also directed to methods for preventing or reducing ischemia. Preferred in the invention are methods for preventing or reducing perioperative blood loss and/or a systemic inflammatory response (SIR) in a patient, especially associated with cardiothoracic surgery. A method for treatment involves the administration of a KI polypeptide comprising a Kunitz domain. One embodiment of the method involves using a peptide containing an amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO:1 that has an affinity for kallikrein that is approximately 1000-fold or more higher than that of a broad range serine protease, e.g., aprotinin, which is isolated from bovine lung and currently approved for use in CABG procedures (TRASYLOL®, Bayer Corporation Pharmaceutical Division, West Haven, Conn.).
Patients subjected to any of a number of surgical procedures, especially those involving extra-corporeal circulation, e.g., cardiothoracic surgery, such as, for example, CPB, and/or bone trauma, such as sternal split or hip replacement, are at risk for perioperative blood loss and inflammation. Contact of a patient's blood with the cut surfaces of bone or of CPB equipment is sufficient to activate one or several undesirable cascade responses, including a contact activation system (CAS), which can lead to extensive perioperative blood loss requiring immediate blood transfusion, as well as a systemic inflammatory response (SIR), which, in turn, can result in permanent damage to tissues and organs. While not desiring to be limited to any particular mechanism or theory, it appears that the blood loss that occurs associated with cardiothoracic surgery, e.g., CPB, as in a CABG procedure, probably results from extensive capillary leakage, which can result in significant loss of blood that must be replaced by immediate blood transfusion.
The methods described herein are useful for preventing or reducing various ischemias including, for example, perioperative blood loss and SIR in a patient subjected to a surgical procedure, and especially wherein the surgical procedure requires extra-corporeal circulation, e.g., cardiothoracic surgery, such as, for example, CPB. The methods of the invention are particularly useful for preventing or reducing perioperative blood loss and/or SIR in a patient subjected to a CABG procedure requiring CPB or other cardiac surgery.
Preferred compositions for medical use comprise a KI polypeptide described herein. Such compositions useful can further comprise one or more pharmaceutically acceptable buffers, carriers, and excipients, which can provide a desirable feature to the composition including, but not limited to, enhanced administration of the composition to a patient, enhanced circulating half-life of the KI polypeptide of the composition, enhanced compatibility of the composition with patient blood chemistry, enhanced storage of the composition, and/or enhanced efficacy of the composition upon administration to a patient. In addition to a KI polypeptide described herein, compositions can further comprise one or more other pharmaceutically active compounds that provide an additional prophylactic or therapeutic benefit to a patient of an invasive surgical procedure.
Compositions useful in the methods of the invention comprise any of the Kunitz domain polypeptides or KI polypeptides comprising such Kunitz domain polypeptides described herein. Particularly preferred are KI polypeptides comprising a Kunitz domain polypeptide having a 58-amino acid sequence of amino acids 3-60 of SEQ ID NO:2. An example of such a particularly preferred KI polypeptide useful in the methods and compositions of the invention is the PEP-1 KI polypeptide having the 60-amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO:2. A nucleotide sequence encoding the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO:2 is provided in SEQ ID NO:3 (see, e.g., nucleotides 309-488 in
Any of a variety of nucleic acid molecules can comprise the nucleotide sequence of nucleotides 7-180 of SEQ ID NO:3, degenerate forms, and portions thereof, including but not limited to, recombinant phage genomes, recombinant mammalian viral vectors, recombinant insect viral vectors, yeast mini chromosomes, and various plasmids. Such plasmids include those used to clone and/or express such nucleotide coding sequences. Expression vectors provide a promoter, which can be operably linked to a particular nucleotide sequence and an appropriate host cell, which is able to transcribe the particular nucleotide coding sequence into a functional messenger RNA (mRNA) and also translate the mRNA into the corresponding polypeptide. A polypeptide so produced can then be isolated from the host cell. Nucleic acid molecules comprising a nucleic acid sequence encoding a Kunitz domain or KI polypeptide described herein can be made by standard nucleic acid synthesis methods, recombinant DNA methodologies, polymerase chain reaction (PCR) methods, and any combination thereof.
Perioperative Blood Loss and Reduced Heart Bloodflow
Due to the many advances in medicine, a number of highly invasive surgical procedures are carried out each day that result in blood loss, or place patients at a high risk for blood loss. Such patients must be carefully monitored to restore and maintain normal blood supply and hemostasis, and they may need blood transfusions. Surgical procedures that involve blood loss include those involving extra-corporeal circulation methods such as cardiothoracic surgery, e.g., CPB. In such methods, a patient's heart is stopped and the circulation, oxygenation, and maintenance of blood volume are carried out artificially using an extra-corporeal circuit and a synthetic membrane oxygenator. These techniques are commonly used during cardiac surgery. Additionally, it is apparent that surgery involving extensive trauma to bone, such as the sternal split necessary in CABG or hip replacement procedures, is also associated with activation of the CAS, which can result in a variety of disruptions in the blood and vasculature.
Atherosclerotic coronary artery disease (CAD) causes a narrowing of the lumen of one or several of the coronary arteries; this limits the flow of blood to the myocardium (i.e., the heart muscle) and can cause angina, heart failure, and myocardial infarcts. In the end stage of coronary artery atherosclerosis, the coronary circulation can be almost completely occluded, causing life threatening angina or heart failure, with a very high mortality. CABG procedures may be required to bridge the occluded blood vessel and restore blood to the heart; these are potentially life saving. CABG procedures are among the most invasive of surgeries in which one or more healthy veins or arteries are implanted to provide a “bypass” around the occluded area of the diseased vessel. CABG procedures carry with them a small but important perioperative risk, but they are very successful in providing patients with immediate relief from the mortality and morbidity of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease. Despite these very encouraging results, repeat CABG procedures are frequently necessary, as indicated by a clear increase in the number of patients who eventually undergo second and even third procedures; the perioperative mortality and morbidity seen in primary CABG procedures is increased in these re-do procedures.
There have been improvements in minimally invasive surgical techniques for uncomplicated CAD. However, nearly all CABG procedures performed for valvular and/or congenital heart disease, heart transplantation, and major aortic procedures, are still carried out on patients supported by CPB. In CPB, large cannulae are inserted into the great vessels of a patient to permit mechanical pumping and oxygenation of the blood using a membrane oxygenator. The blood is returned to the patient without flowing through the lungs, which are hypoperfused during this procedure. The heart is stopped using a cardioplegic solution, the patient cooled to help prevent brain damage, and the peripheral circulating volume increased by an extracorporeal circuit, i.e., the CPB circuit, which requires “priming” with donor blood and saline mixtures are used to fill the extracorporeal circuit. CPB has been extensively used in a variety of procedures performed for nearly half a century with successful outcomes. The interaction between artificial surfaces, blood cells, blood proteins, damaged vascular endothelium, and extravascular tissues, such as bone, disturbs hemostasis and frequently activates the CAS, which, as noted above, can result in a variety of disruptions in the blood and vasculature. Such disruption leads to excess perioperative bleeding, which then requires immediate blood transfusion. A consequence of circulating whole blood through an extracorporeal circuit in CPB can also include the systemic inflammatory response (SIR), which is initiated by contact activation of the coagulation and complement systems. Indeed, much of the morbidity and mortality associated with seemingly mechanically successful CPB surgical procedures is the result of the effects of activating coagulation, fibrinolysis, or complement systems. Such activation can damage the pulmonary system, leading to adult respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), impairment of kidney and splanchnic circulation, and induction of a general coagulopathy leading to blood loss and the need for transfusions. In addition to the dangers of perioperative blood loss, additional pathologies associated with SIR include neurocognitive deficits, stroke, renal failure, acute myocardial infarct, and cardiac tissue damage.
Blood transfusions also present a significant risk of infection and elevate the cost of CABG or other similar procedures that require CPB. In the absence of any pharmacological intervention, three to seven units of blood must typically be expended on a patient, even with excellent surgical techniques. Accordingly, there is considerable incentive for the development of new and improved pharmacologically effective compounds to reduce or prevent perioperative bleeding and SIR in patients subjected to CPB and CABG procedures.
Administration and Dosing Considerations for KI Polypeptides
KI polypeptides described herein can be administered to a patient before, during, and/or after a surgical procedure in a pharmaceutically acceptable composition. The term “pharmaceutically acceptable” composition refers to a non-toxic carrier or excipient that may be administered to a patient, together with a compound of this invention, and wherein the carrier or excipient not destroy the biological or pharmacological activity of the composition. KI polypeptides described herein can be administered locally or systemically by any suitable means for delivery of a kallikrein inhibitory amount of the KI polypeptides to a patient including but not limited to systemic administrations such as, for example, intravenous and inhalation. Parenteral administration is particularly preferred.
For parenteral administration, the polypeptides can be injected intravenously, intramuscularly, intraperitoneally, or subcutaneously. Intravenous administration is preferred. Typically, compositions for intravenous administration are solutions in sterile isotonic aqueous buffer. Other pharmaceutically acceptable carriers include, but are not limited to, sterile water, saline solution, and buffered saline (including buffers like phosphate or acetate), alcohol, vegetable oils, polyethylene glycols, gelatin, lactose, amylose, magnesium stearate, talc, silicic acid, paraffin, etc. Where necessary, the composition can also include a solubilizing agent and a local anaesthetic such as lidocaine to ease pain at the site of the injection, preservatives, stabilizers, wetting agents, emulsifiers, salts, lubricants, etc. as long as they do not react deleteriously with the active compounds. Similarly, the composition can comprise conventional excipients, e.g., pharmaceutically acceptable organic or inorganic carrier substances suitable for parenteral, enteral or intranasal application which do not deleteriously react with the active compounds. Generally, the ingredients will be supplied either separately or mixed together in unit dosage form, for example, as a dry lyophilized powder or water free concentrate in a hermetically sealed container such as an ampoule or sachette indicating the quantity of active agent in activity units. Where the composition is to be administered by infusion, it can be dispensed with an infusion bottle containing sterile pharmaceutical grade “water for injection” or saline. Where the composition is to be administered by injection, an ampoule of sterile water for injection or saline can be provided so that the ingredients can be mixed prior to administration.
Preferably, the methods of the invention comprise administering a KI polypeptide to a patient as an intravenous infusion according to any approved procedure. Thus, a KI polypeptide described herein can be administered to a patient subjected to a CABG procedure at the times similar to those currently used in approved protocols for administering aprotinin and in an amount necessary to provide a patient with a required number or concentration of kallikrein inhibitory units (KIU). According to the invention, a KI polypeptide described herein can also be administered to a patient in the immediate postoperative period, when bleeding abnormalities can occur as a consequence of downstream effects of SIR. For example, in a procedure involving CPB, a KI polypeptide described herein can be administered to a patient as an initial loading dose, e.g., an effective amount over the course of a convenient time, such as 10 minutes, prior to induction of anesthesia. Then, at induction of anesthesia, a second dose of KI polypeptide can be injected into the CPB priming fluid (“pump prime volume”). The patient can then be placed on a continuous and controlled intravenous infusion dose for the duration of the surgical procedure, and after the procedure if indicated.
Currently there are two regimens approved in the United States for administering aprotinin to a patient undergoing a CABG procedure (see, product label and insert for TRASYLOL®, Bayer Corporation Pharmaceutical Division, West Haven, Conn.). One such approved regimen uses a 2 million KIU intravenous loading dose, 2 million KIU into the pump prime volume, and 500,000 KIU per hour of surgery. Another approved regimen uses 1 million KIU intravenous loading dose, 1 million KIU into the pump prime volume, and 250,000 KIU per hour of surgery. As these regimens are based on KIU, the regimens are readily adapted to any KI polypeptide described herein once the specific activity and KIU of a particular KI polypeptide has been determined by standard assays. Owing to the enhanced binding affinity and inhibitory activity in representative KI polypeptides described herein relative to aprotinin, it is expected that such compositions and methods of the invention are likely to require fewer milligrams (mg) per patient to provide a patient with the required number or concentration of KIU.
Several considerations regarding dosing with a KI polypeptide in methods of the invention can be illustrated by way of example with the representative PEP-1 KI polypeptide of the invention having the amino sequence of SEQ ID NO:2 (molecular weight of 7,054 Daltons).
Table 1, below, provides a comparison of the affinity (K.sub.i,app) of the PEP-1 KI polypeptide for kallikrein and eleven other known plasma proteases.
Table 1, below, provides a comparison of the affinity (Ki,app) of the PEP-1 KI polypeptide for kallikrein and eleven other known plasma proteases.
Clearly, the PEP-1 KI polypeptide is highly specific for human plasma kallikrein. Furthermore, the affinity (K.sub.i,app) of PEP-1 for kallikrein is 1000 times higher than the affinity of aprotinin for kallikrein: the K.sub.i,app of PEP-1 for kallikrein is about 44 pM (Table 1), whereas the K.sub.i,app of aprotinin for kallikrein is 30,000 pM. Thus, a dose of PEP-1 could be approximately 1000 times lower than that used for aprotinin on a per mole basis. However, consideration of several other factors may provide a more accurate estimation of the dose of PEP-1 required in practice. Such factors include the amount of kallikrein activated during CPB in a particular patient, the concentration of kallikrein required to elicit an SIR, and the bioavailability and pharmacological distribution of PEP-1 in a patient. Nevertheless, use of a KI polypeptide in methods according to the invention and provided in doses currently approved for the use of aprotinin is still expected to provide significant improvements over the current use of the less specific, lower affinity, bovine aprotinin.
For example, the total amount of circulating prekallikrein in plasma is estimated at approximately 500 nM (Silverberg, M. et al., “The Contact System and Its Disorders,” in Blood: Principles and Practice of Hematology, Handin, R. et al., eds., J B Lippincott Co., Philadelphia, 1995). If all of the prekallikrein were activated, then at least 500 nM of PEP-1 would be required for a stoichiometric inhibition of kallikrein. An individual having 5 liters of plasma would therefore require about 18 mg of PEP-1 to achieve a plasma concentration of 500 nM.
Another factor to consider is the threshold concentration of kallikrein required to induce a SIR in a patient. If the concentration of active kallikrein must be maintained below, e.g., 1 nM, then owing to its high affinity for kallikrein, PEP-1 offers a significant advantage over aprotinin in the amount of protein that would be required to inhibit SIR. In particular, a concentration of PEP-1 of 1 nM would inhibit 99.6% of kallikrein present at 1 nM (i.e., only 0.4 pM free kallikrein remaining in the blood), whereas, an aprotinin concentration of 1 nM would only inhibit 24.5% of the kallikrein present at 1 nM. For aprotinin to inhibit 99% of the kallikrein at 1 nM, an aprotinin concentration in the plasma of at least 3 .mu.M is required (i.e., 3000 times higher concentration than for PEP-1).
For a patient undergoing CPB, an initial clinical dose of PEP-1 can be estimated from a recommended dose regimen of aprotinin (1.times.10.sup.6 KIU) mentioned above. Aprotinin is reported in a package insert to have as specific inhibitory activity of 7143 KIU/mg determined using a dog blood pressure assay. Therefore, 1.times.10.sup.6 KIU of aprotinin is equivalent to 140 mg of aprotinin (i.e., 1.times.10.sup.6 KIU/7143 KIU/mg=140 mg of aprotinin). In a patient having a blood plasma volume of 5 liters, 140 mg corresponds to approximately 4.3 .mu.M aprotinin (molecular weight of aprotinin is 6512 Daltons). The specific activity of aprotinin in the standard inhibitory assay used for PEP-1 is 0.4 KIU/mg of polypeptide. A dose of 140 mg would correspond to a loading dose for aprotinin of 56 KIU (140 mg.times.0.4 KIU/mg-56 KIU). In contrast, since the specific activity of the PEP-1 KI polypeptide is 10 KIU/mg in the standard inhibition assay, a dose of only 5.6 mg of PEP-1 would be required to provide the number of KIUs equivalent to 140 mg of aprotinin. In a patient with a plasma volume of 5 liters, this corresponds to about 160 nM PEP-1 (molecular weight of PEP-1 is 7054 Daltons), although a higher dose of the PEP-1 KI polypeptide can be required if all of the plasma kallikrein (500 nM) is activated and/or if this KI polypeptide is poorly distributed in a patient.
Furthermore, the KI polypeptides can be non-naturally occurring, and they can be produced synthetically or recombinantly, as noted above, thereby avoiding potential contamination of transmissible diseases that can arise during isolation of a protein from a natural animal source, such as in the case of aprotinin, which is isolated from bovine lung. Increasingly important to administrative and public acceptance of a treatment or pharmaceutical composition comprising a polypeptide is the avoidance of possible contamination with and transmission to human patients of various pathological agents. Of particular interest for the safety of proteins isolated from a bovine tissue is the elimination of the possible risk of exposure to viral mediated diseases, bacterial mediated diseases, and, especially, transmissible bovine spongiform encephalopathies.
As variants of the Kunitz domain 1 of the human LACI protein, fewer side effects are expected from administering the KI polypeptides to patients than for aprotinin, which is a bovine protein that is documented to cause anaphylactic and anaphylactoid responses in patients, especially in repeat administrations, such as second time CABG procedures. Additionally, the highly specific binding of the KI polypeptides described herein to kallikrein will effectively limit or eliminate the thrombotic tendencies observed with aprotinin, and reduce the problems observed with graft patency following CABG procedures.
The invention will be further described with reference to the following non-limiting examples. The teachings of all the patents, patent applications and all other publications and websites cited herein are incorporated by reference in their entirety.
A non-naturally occurring, KI polypeptide useful in the compositions and methods of the invention was identified as a kallikrein binding polypeptide displayed on a recombinant phage from a phage display library. PEP-1 has the following amino acid sequence: Glu Ala Met His Ser Phe Cys Ala Phe Lys Ala Asp Asp Gly Pro Cys Arg Ala Ala His Pro Arg Trp Phe Phe Asn Ile Phe Thr Arg Gln Cys Glu Glu Phe Ile Tyr Gly Gly Cys Glu Gly Asn Gln Asn Arg Phe Glu Ser Leu Glu Glu Cys Lys Lys Met Cys Thr Arg Asp (SEQ ID NO:2). The molecular weight of PEP-1 is 7,054 Daltons.
The nucleotide sequence (SEQ ID NO:3) encoding the PEP-1 amino acid sequence (SEQ ID NO:2), was derived from a peptide that was isolated and sequenced by standard methods determined from the recombinant phage DNA. PEP-1 was produced in amounts useful for further characterization as a recombinant protein in His4.sup.− phenotype host cells of yeast strain Pichia pastoris.
The initial plasmid, pHTL-D2, is ampicillin resistant and contains a wild-type allele of His4 from P. pastoris. The final DNA sequence comprising the coding sequence for the mat.alpha. Prepro-PEP-1 fusion protein in the recombinant expression plasmid pPIC-K503 is shown in
1. The BstBI site in the 3′ AOX1 region of pHIL-D2, located downstream of the His4 gene, was removed by partial restriction digestion, fill-in, and ligation, altering the sequence from TTCGAA (SEQ ID NO:23) to TTCGCGAA (SEQ ID NO:24). This modification was made to facilitate and direct the cloning of the expression cassette into the plasmid.
2. The AatII site bearing the bla gene located downstream of His4 was removed by restriction digestion, fill-in, and ligation modifying the sequence from GACGTC (SEQ ID NO:25) to GACGTACGTC (SEQ ID NO:26). This modification was made to facilitate the cloning of expression cassettes having AatII sites into the plasmid. The DNA encoding PEP-1 was synthesized based on the nucleotide sequence from the original kallikrein-binding display phage and consisted of 450 base pairs (bp). The final DNA sequence of the insert in the pHIL-D2 plasmid is flanked by a 5′ AOX1 sequence and a 3′ AOX1 sequence (portions of which are shown in
The ligation products were used to transform Escherichia coli strain XL1 Blue. A PCR assay was used to screen E. coli transformants for the desired plasmid construct. DNA from cell extracts was amplified by PCR using primers containing the 5′ AOX1 and 3′ AOX1 sequences (see above and
Spheroplasts of P. pastoris GS115 having the His4.sup.− phenotype were transformed with the expression plasmid pPIC-K503 (above) following linearization of the plasmid at the SacI site and homologous recombination of the plasmid DNA into the host 5′ AOX1 locus. The phenotype of the production strain is His4.sup.+. The entire plasmid was inserted into the 5′ AOX1 genomic sequence of the yeast.
Isolates from the transformation were screened for growth in the absence of exogenous histidine with methanol as the sole carbon source. Greater than 95% of the transformants retained the wild-type ability to grow with methanol as the sole carbon source, thereby demonstrating that the plasmid had been inserted into the host genome by homologous recombination rather than transplacement. These transformants did not require exogenous histidine for growth, thereby demonstrating that the plasmid had integrated into the host genome. Selected colonies were cloned. Small culture expression studies were performed to identify clones secreting the highest levels of active PEP-1 into the culture medium. PEP-1 secretion levels in clarified culture supernatant solutions were quantified for PEP-1 levels by sodium dodecyl sulfate polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (SDS-PAGE) and evaluated for kallikrein inhibition. A yeast clone was selected for PEP-1 production based on its high level of PEP-1 expression among cultures sampled.
Master and working cell banks of P. pastoris producing PEP-1 were prepared commercially (MDS Pharma Services, Bothell, Wash.). A standard production of PEP-1 in yeast comprised three steps as follows: (1) preparation of the seed culture, (2) fermentation, and (3) recovery of the culture.
The seed culture step consisted of the inoculation of six flasks (300 mL each) containing sterile inoculum broth (yeast nitrogen base, potassium phosphate, and glycerol, pH=5) with the contents of a single vial of a working cell bank of P. pastoris producing PEP-1. Flasks were inoculated in an orbital shaker (300 rpm) for approximately 13 hours at 30.degree. C.+−0.2.degree. C.
Fermentations were performed in a closed 100 liter Braun fermenter filled with sterile broth. Each fermentation was initiated with the transfer of the contents of the six seed culture flasks to the fermenter. After approximately 24 hours, the glycerol in the fermenter became exhausted and additional glycerol was added for approximately 8 additional hours.
A mixed feed phase, which lasted approximately 83 hours, was then initiated by the addition of a glycerol and methanol feed. At the end of this time, the fermentation was terminated, and the fermenter contents were diluted with purified water. The purification and processing of PEP-1 consisted of five steps as follows: (1) expanded bed chromatography, (2) cation exchange chromatography, (3) hydrophobic interaction chromatography (HIC), (4) ultrafiltration and diafiltration, and (5) final filtration and packaging.
The initial purification step consisted of expanded bed chromatography. The diluted fermenter culture was applied to the equilibrated column packed with Streamline SP resin (Amersham Pharmacia Streamline 200 chromatography column, Amersham Pharmacia, Piscataway, N.J.). The column was then washed (50 mM acetic acid, pH=3.0-3.5) in an up-flow mode to flush the yeast cells from the expanded bed. The top adaptor was raised above the expanded bed enhance washing. The flow was stopped and the bed was allowed to settle. The adaptor was moved down so that it was slightly above the settled bed. The direction of the flow was reversed. The effluent was collected. Washing was continued in a downward mode using 50 mM sodium acetate, pH 4.0. The effluent was collected. PEP-1 was eluted from the column using 50 mM sodium acetate, pH 6.0. The eluate was collected in a 50 liter container. The eluate was then filtered through a 0.22 .mu. filter into a clean container located in the purification site. Additional samples were collected for the determination of PEP-1 concentration. A cation exchange chromatography step was then performed using the filtered eluate from the expanded bed column. PEP-1 was eluted from the column using 15 mM trisodium citrate, pH 6.2.
Additional proteins were removed from the PEP-1 preparation by hydrophobic interaction chromatography (HIC). Prior to HIC, the eluate from the cation exchange column was diluted with ammonium sulfate. The eluate was applied to the column, and the PEP-1 was eluted using ammonium sulfate (0.572 M) in potassium phosphate (100 mM), pH 7.0. The eluate was collected in fractions based on A280 values. All fractions were collected into sterile, pre-weighed PETG bottles.
Selected fractions were pooled into a clean container. The pool was concentrated by ultrafiltration. The concentrated PEP-1 preparation was immediately diafiltered against ten volumes of PBS, pH 7.0.
A final filtration step was performed prior to packaging in order to minimize the bioburden in the bulk PEP-1. The bulk solution was filtered through a 0.22 .mu. filter and collected into a sterile, pre-weighed PETG bottle. A sample was removed for lot release testing. The remainder of the bulk was dispensed aseptically into sterile PETG bottles and stored at −20.degree. C.
A kinetic test was used to measure inhibitory activity of KI polypeptides, such as PEP-1. The kinetic assay measures fluorescence following kallikrein-mediated cleavage of a substrate, prolylphenylalanylarginyl amino methyl coumarin. A known amount of kallikrein was incubated with a serially diluted KI polypeptide reference standard or serially diluted KI polypeptide test samples, in a suitable reaction buffer on a microtiter plate. Each sample was run in triplicate. The substrate solution was added, and the plate read immediately using an excitation wavelength of 360 nm and an emission wavelength of 460 nm. At least two each of the reference standard and sample curves were required to have an R-squared value of 0.95 to be considered valid.
While this invention has been particularly shown and described with references to preferred embodiments thereof, it will be understood by those skilled in the art that various changes in form and details may be made therein without departing from the scope of the invention encompassed by the appended claims.
This application is a continuation of U.S. application Ser. No. 11/929,729, filed Oct. 30, 2007, now U.S. Pat. No. 8,124,586, which is a continuation of U.S. application Ser. No. 11/796,272, filed Apr. 27, 2007, now abandoned, which is a continuation of U.S. application Ser. No. 11/322,960, filed Dec. 30, 2005, now abandoned, which is a continuation of U.S. application Ser. No. 10/456,986, filed Jun. 6, 2003, now U.S. Pat. No. 7,064,107, which claims the benefit from U.S. Provisional Application No. 60/387,239, filed Jun. 7, 2002, and U.S. Provisional Application No. 60/407,003, filed Aug. 28, 2002.
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