SEQ ID NO: 1 amino acid sequence of FcγRIIa (as in
SEQ ID NO: 2 amino acid sequence of FcγIIb (as in
SEQ ID NO: 3 sequence of the glycopeptide CDE [126-137]
SEQ ID NO: 4 nucleic acid sequence of the variable light region of mAb GB3
SEQ ID NO: 5 corresponding amino acid sequence of the variable light region of mAb GB3
SEQ ID NO: 6 nucleic acid sequence of the variable heavy region of mAb GB3
SEQ ID NO: 7 corresponding amino acid sequence of the variable heavy region of mAb GB3
SEQ ID NO: 8 nucleic acid sequence of the variable light region of mAb CE5
SEQ ID NO: 9 corresponding amino acid sequence of the variable light region of mAb CE5
SEQ ID NO: 10 nucleic acid sequence of the variable heavy region of mAb CE5
SEQ ID NO: 11 corresponding amino acid sequence of the variable heavy region of mAb CE5
Standard amino acid derivatives were from Alexis (Läufelfingen, Switzerland), Fluorenylmethoxycarbonyl-derivative (Fmoc) of Asn(N-β-3,4,6-tri-O-acetyl-2-acetylamino-deoxy-2-β-glucopyranosyl)-OH from Merck-Novabiochem (Darmstadt, Germany), and the preloaded chlorotrityl resin from Pepchem (Tübingen, Germany). Reagents and solvents were of the highest quality commercially available and were used without further purification. Analytical reversed-phase HPLC was performed on Waters equipment (Eschborn, Germany) with a Symmetry C18 column (5 μm, 3.9×150 mm, Waters) by linear gradient elution: (1) 0-100% A in 15 min, or (2) 0-30% A in 20 min, up to 50% A in 5 min and to 100% A in further 5 min, (flow rate of 1.5 ml/min and UV detection at 210 nm). The binary elution system was (A) acetonitrile/2% H3PO4 (90:10) and (B) acetonitrile/2% H3PO4 (5:95). Preparative reversed-phase HPLC was carried out on Abimed equipment (Langenfeld, Germany) using Nucleosil C18 PPN (5 μm, 100 Å, 10×250 mm, Macherey-Nagel, Düren, Germany) and a gradient of 0.08% trifluoroacetic acid (TFA) in acetonitrile (A) and 0.1% TFA in water (B) at a flow rate of 10 ml/min: 2% A for 7 min, up to 40% A in 50 min and to 70% A in further 5 min. ESI-MS spectra were recorded on a Perkin-Elmer SCIEX API 165 triple quadrupole spectrometer. LC-MS was carried out with a Nucleosil C18 column (5 μm, 100 Å, 1×250 mm, Macherey-Nagel) using linear gradients of 0.1% TFA in water and 0.08% TFA in acetonitrile (flow rate: 30 μl/min; detection at 210 nm).
a) Solid-Phase Peptide Synthesis.
The linear peptide precursor was synthesized manually on Fmoc-Gly-chlorotrityl resin (232 mg, 0.13 mmol) following standard procedures of Fmoc/tert-butyl (tBu) chemistry. The Fmoc group was cleaved in each step with two successive treatments (3 and 20 min) with 20% piperidine in N-methyl pyrrolidone (NMP). For Fmoc-Ser(tBu)-OH and Fmoc-Phe-OH double couplings (2×1 h) with Fmoc-amino acid/2-(1H-benzotriazol-1-yl)-1,1,3,3-tetramethyluronium hexafluoro-phosphate (HBTU)/N-hydroxybenzotriazole (HOBt)/N,N-diisopropylethylamine (DIEA) (4:4:4:8 eq) in NMP were applied, whereas the glycosylated Asn derivative was introduced by single coupling using Fmoc-aminoacid/(1H-benzotriazol-1-yloxy)-tripyrrolidinophosphonium hexafluorophosphate (PyBOP)/HOBt/DIEA (2:2:2:5 eq) in NMP. The reaction was complete after 5 h, as confirmed by the Kaiser test. A capping step with acetic anhydride/DIEA (1:1, 3 eq) for 10 min was performed prior to chain elongation. For acylation with the remaining amino acid derivatives (Arg was introduced as Arg-2,2,4,6,7-pentamethyl-dihydrobenzofurane-5-sulfonyl [Pbf] derivative) again double couplings (2×1.5 h) were used with Fmoc-amino acid/HBTU/HOBt/DIEA (6:6:6:12 eq) in NMP.
b) Cleavage of the Side-Chain-Protected Peptide.
The side-chain-protected linear peptide was cleaved from the resin by treating the peptide-resin with 5 ml of 1% TFA in dichloromethane (DCM) for 3 min. The filtrate was analyzed by thin layer chromatography (TLC) (CH3Cl/MeOH/H2O, 8:3:1) prior to addition of 1 ml of 10% pyridine in methanol. The TFA treatment was repeated until the TLC control on the filtrate was negative (overall four treatments). Finally, the resin was washed with DCM and trifluoroethanol to improve the peptide recovery. The peptide-containing filtrates and the final washes were combined and concentrated to a small volume. The residue was diluted with MeOH, and the product was precipitated with ice-cold water. The crude product was collected by filtration (270 mg, 80% yield) and characterized by analytical HPLC (gradient 1) and ESI-MS. A major peak (tR 9.5 min; ESI-MS: m/z=2520 [M+H]+; Mr=2519.0 calcd for C120H188N20O36S) and a minor peak (tR 9.3 min; ESI-MS: m/z=2478 [M−42+H]+) at the ratio of 75:20 were found to correspond to the expected product and to a side product, respectively. The mass difference was attributed to the loss of one acetyl protecting group from Asn(Ac3AcNH-β-Glc).
c) Cyclization.
Backbone cyclization was accomplished at a peptide concentration of 0.9 mM in N,N-dimethylformamide (DMF), in the presence of PyBOP/HOBt/DIEA (1.5:1.5:3.5 eq). The base was added in portions over 1 h. The conversion of the linear peptide to the cyclic form was monitored by analytical HPLC, and was completed after 2.5 h. The reaction mixture was taken to dryness, and the residue was triturated and washed with ice-cold diethyl ether to remove traces of DMF prior to the TFA cleavage.
d) Cleavage of the Side-Chain Protecting Groups.
The acid-labile side-chain protecting groups were removed by dissolving the cyclic peptide in 10 ml the ice-cold TFA/triisopropylsilane (TISH)/H2O (90:5:5). After 2 h shaking, the TFA was removed under reduced pressure, the oily residue was diluted with a small amount of MeOH and the crude product precipitated with ice-cold diethyl ether. The precipitate was collected by centrifugation, washed several times with ice-cold ether and, finally, lyophilized from water. The crude glycopeptide which in addition to the triacetylated form, according to LC-MS was contaminated by the di- and mono-acetyl derivatives, was suspended in MeOH and treated in portions with NaOMe over 30 min until an apparent pH of >10 was reached. The reaction was monitored by HPLC, and after 3.5 h it was quenched by addition of glacial acetic acid until pH <5. The mixture was taken to dryness, and the solid was suspended in MeOH and reprecipitated with ice-cold diethyl ether. The precipitate was collected by filtration and lyophilized from water. The crude product was purified by preparative HPLC and the cyclic glycopeptide was isolated as lyophilized material; yield: 20% yield (based on the starting resin loading of 0.13 mmol); HPLC: >95% (tR 7.37 min with gradient 2); ESI-MS: m/z=1642.8 [M+H]+; M=1641.8 Da calculated for C71H108N20O25.
100 μl human soluble FcγIIb (10.6 mg/ml) were added to 1490 μl 50 mM borate pH10 and 410 μl of the glycopeptide CDE[126-137] (2 mg/ml) and stirred gently at room temperature. 100 μl of a 0.3% glutaraldehyde solution were slowly added and the whole mixture stirred for another two hours at RT before 100 μl 1M glycine was added. The resulting FcγRIIb-CDE[126-137] was stirred for another 30 min and then dialyzed against PBS and concentrated.
A female six weeks old C57B1/6 mouse was immunized intraperitoneally every two weeks with an emulsion of 50 μg FcγRIIb-CDE[126-137] in 100 μl Complete Freunds Adjuvant (CFA, Sigma/Deisenhofen, Germany) for three times. Three weeks after the last immunization the mouse was boosted with 50 μg of the FcγRIIb-CDE[126-137]: Three days later the spleen was removed from the animal and the fusion of the extracted cells with myeloma cells was performed according to Bazin, and Lemieux, 1989.
Clones that were able to grow in the presence of hypoxanthine, aminopterin, and thymidine were isolated and their supernatant tested in ELISA assays where FcγRIIb-CDE[126-137] was precoated on microtitre plate with 120 ng sFcγRIIa/b per well (in 100 μl PBS, 20° C., 12 h). The plate was washed and incubated with PBS/T (PBS/0.2% Tween 20, 30 min). 100 μl of the respective hybridoma were added to the well (100 μl, 90 min). The plate was washed three times with blocking buffer before 100 μl of a peroxidase labeled goat-anti mouse IgG+IgM antibody (Dianova, Hamburg/Germany) diluted in PBS/T was added. After incubating for 90 min and subsequent washing with PBS/T, 100 μl of substrate buffer (0.2 M citrate/phosphate buffer pH 5.2, 4 mg/ml o-phenylenediamine, 0.024% (v/v) hydrogenperoxide) were applied to the wells. The reaction was stopped by adding 50 μl 8 N sulfuric acid and the absorbance at 490 nm was measured in an ELISA reader.
Clones that were positive in this assay were tested by flow cytometry (FACS) using 105 Raji cells per sample (ATCC CCL-86) which strongly express human FcγIIb. After incubation with 100 μl hybridoma supernatant for 30 min on ice the cells were washed with 1 ml RPMI/10% FCS and precipitated by centrifugation (400×g, 4° C., 5 min). 100 μl FITC labeled goat anti human antibody (Dianova, Hamburg/Germany) were added. After incubation for 30 min on ice the cells were washed (RPMI/10% FCS) and subjected to flow cytometry (FACSort, Becton Dickinson, Heidelberg/Germany). The median value of the fluorescence for 5,000 counted cells was determined for each sample. Hybridoma supernatants that were positive in this assay were subjected in a similar assay using U-937 cells (ATCC CRL-1593.2) which strongly express FcγRIIa to determine FcγRIIb-specificity of the hybridoma. As positive control for both cell lines the pan-FcγRII-mAb AT10 (Greenman et al., 1991) was used.
SJL-Mice were immunized with 200 μg MOG to induce Experimental Autoimmune Encephalomyelitis (EAE) an established animal model of Multiple Sclerosis. Prophylactic as well as therapeutic (data not shown) treatment of 8 mice per group with a specific anti-mouse FcγRII antibody (50 μg/week) significantly reduces the symptoms (clinical score )of the disease (0=healthy, 1=light paralysis, 2=medium paralysis, 3=strong paralysis, 4=complete paralysis, 5=death). The results are shown in
Number | Date | Country | Kind |
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03 027 000.3 | Nov 2003 | EP | regional |
Filing Document | Filing Date | Country | Kind | 371c Date |
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PCT/EP04/13450 | 11/26/2004 | WO | 00 | 2/2/2007 |