Chemistry: natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; – Proteins – i.e. – more than 100 amino acid residues
Reexamination Certificate
2000-06-21
2002-10-15
Carlson, Karen Cochrane (Department: 1653)
Chemistry: natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins;
Proteins, i.e., more than 100 amino acid residues
C530S300000, C435S006120, C435S007100, C435S069100
Reexamination Certificate
active
06465620
ABSTRACT:
TECHNICAL FIELD
The present invention provides novel polynucleotides and proteins encoded by such polynucleotides, along with uses for these polynucleotides and proteins, for example in therapeutic, diagnostic and research methods. In particular, the invention relates to a novel human von Willebrand/Thrombospondin-like polypeptides.
BACKGROUND ART
Technology aimed at the discovery of protein factors (including e.g., cytokines, such as lymphokines, interferons, CSFs, chemokines, and interleukins) has matured rapidly over the past decade. The now routine hybridization cloning and expression cloning techniques clone novel polynucleotides “directly” in the sense that they rely on information directly related to the discovered protein (i.e., partial DNA/amino acid sequence of the protein in the case of hybridization cloning; activity of the protein in the case of expression cloning). More recent “indirect” cloning techniques such as signal sequence cloning, which isolates DNA sequences based on the presence of a now well-recognized secretory leader sequence motif, as well as various PCR-based or low stringency hybridization-based cloning techniques, have advanced the state of the art by making available large numbers of DNA/amino acid sequences for proteins that are known to have biological activity, for example, by virtue of their secreted nature in the case of leader sequence cloning, by virtue of their cell or tissue source in the case of PCR-based techniques, or by virtue of structural similarity to other genes of known biological activity.
Identified polynucleotide and polypeptide sequences have numerous applications in, for example, diagnostics, forensics, gene mapping; identification of mutations responsible for genetic disorders or other traits, to assess biodiversity, and to produce many other types of data and products dependent on DNA and amino acid sequences. It is to these polypeptides and the polynucleotides encoding them that the present invention is directed. In particular, this invention is directed to a novel von Willebrand/Thrombospondin-like polypeptides and polynucleotides.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The compositions of the present invention include novel isolated polypeptides, novel isolated polynucleotides encoding such polypeptides, including recombinant DNA molecules, cloned genes or degenerate variants thereof, especially naturally occurring variants such as allelic variants, antisense polynucleotide molecules, and antibodies that specifically recognize one or more epitopes present on such polypeptides, as well as hybridomas producing such antibodies. Specifically, the polynucleotides of the present invention are based on polynucleotide isolated from cDNA library prepared from human fetal brain (Hyseq clone identification number 15258924).
The compositions of the present invention additionally include vectors, including expression vectors, containing the polynucleotides of the invention, cells genetically engineered to contain such polynucleotides and cells genetically engineered to express such polynucleotides.
The isolated polynucleotides of the invention include, but are not limited to, a polynucleotide comprising any one of the nucleotide sequences set forth in the SEQ ID NO: 1-3; a polynucleotide comprising any of the full length protein coding sequences of the SEQ ID NO: 1-3; and a polynucleotide comprising any of the nucleotide sequences of the mature protein coding sequences of the SEQ ID NO: 1-3. The polynucleotides of the present invention also include, but are not limited to, a polynucleotide that hybridizes under stringent hybridization conditions to (a) the complement of any one of the nucleotide sequences set forth in the SEQ ID NO: 1-3; (b) a nucleotide sequence encoding SEQ ID NO: 4-7; a polynucleotide which is an allelic variant of any polynucleotides recited above; a polynucleotide which encodes a species homolog (e.g. orthologs) of any of the proteins recited above; or a polynucleotide that encodes a polypeptide comprising a specific domain or truncation of any of the polypeptides comprising SEQ ID NO: 4-7.
The nucleic acid sequences of the present invention also include the sequence information from the nucleic acid sequences of SEQ ID NO: 1-3. The sequence information can be a segment of any one of SEQ ID NO: 1-3 that uniquely identifies or represents the sequence information of SEQ ID NO: 1-3. One such segment can be a twenty-mer nucleic acid sequence because the probability that a twenty-mer is fully matched in the human genome is 1 in 300. In the human genome, there are three billion base pairs in one set of chromosomes. Because 4
20
possible twenty-mers exist, there are 300 times more twenty-mers than there are base pairs in a set of human chromosome. Using the same analysis, the probability for a seventeen-mer to be fully matched in the human genome is approximately 1 in 5. When these segments are used in arrays for expression studies, fifteen-mer segment can be used. The probability that the fifteen-mer is fully matched in the expressed sequences is also approximately one in five because expressed sequences comprise less than approximately 5% of the entire genome sequence. Preferably, the nucleic acid fragment or subsequence comprise SEQ ID NO: 1
Similarly, when using a sequence information for detecting a single mismatch, a segment can be a twenty-five mer. The probability that the twenty-five mer would appear in a human genome with a single mismatch is calculated by multiplying the probability for a full match (1÷4
25
) times the increased probability for mismatch at each nucleotide position (3×25). The probability that an eighteen mer with a single mismatch can be detected in an array for expression studies is approximately one in five. The probability that a twenty-mer with a single mismatch can be detected in a human genome is approximately one in five.
A collection as used in this application can be a collection of only one polynucleotide. The collection of sequence information or unique identifying information of each sequence can be provided on a nucleic acid array. In one embodiment, segments of sequence information is provided on a nucleic acid array to detect the polynucleotide that contains the segment. The array can be designed to detect full-match or mismatch to the polynucleotide that contains the segment. The collection can also be provided in a computer-readable format.
This invention also includes the reverse or direct complement of any of the nucleic acid sequences recited above; cloning or expression vectors containing the nucleic acid sequences; and host cells or organisms transformed with these expression vectors.
Human von Willebrand/Thrombospondin-like (“Thrombospondin-Like”) polypeptide (SEQ ID NO: 4) is an approximately 235-amino acid protein with a predicted molecular mass of approximately 26 kDa unglycosylated. Protein database searches with the PSI-BLAST algorithm (Altschul S. F. et al., Nucleic Acids Res. vol. 25, pp. 3389-3402, herein incorporated by reference) and eMatrix software indicate that SEQ ID NO: 4 is homologous to african clawed frog thrombospondin 1 precursor and von Willebrand factor.
FIG. 1
shows the PSI-BLAST amino acid sequence alignment between SEQ ID NO: 4 (also identified as “Thrombospondin-Like”) and african clawed frog thrombospondin 1 precursor protein (“Frog Thrombospondin 1 Precursor”), indicating that the two sequences share 48% similarity over 58 amino acid residues of SEQ ID NO: 4 and 36% identity over 58 amino acid residues of SEQ ID NO: 4. The sequences of the present invention are expected to have von Willebrand factor or Thrombospondin activity, as defined below.
A predicted approximately eighteen residue signal peptide is encoded from approximately residue 1 to residue 18 of SEQ ID NO: 4. The extracellular portion is useful on its own. This can be confirmed by expression in mammalian cells and sequencing of the cleaved product. The signal peptide region was predicted using the Kyte-Doolittle hydrophobocity prediction algorithm (J. Mol Biol, 157, pp. 105
Arterburn Matthew C.
Boyle Bryan J.
Drmanac Radoje T.
Liu Chenghua
Mize Nancy K.
Carlson Karen Cochrane
Hyseq Inc.
Robinson Hope A.
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