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US 2011/0086389 A1Published application
Compositions and Methods for Expressing In-Frame Multimeric Proteins
OwnerJames Oliver Dolly, Oleg Shamotienkoinventors
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Abstract
The present invention concerns methods and compositions for making and using multimeric, single chain proteins of a defined structure. In various embodiments the invention involves a bank or collection of one or more monomer nucleic acid species with each such nucleic acid species encoding a protein monomer subunit species and divided into separate subspecies, each bearing a distinct pair of position-specific subcloning restriction endonuclease recognition sites for cassette style cloning into an expression vector and making multimeric, single chain proteins of a defined structure.
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1) A method of making a polymeric protein having a N-terminus and a C-terminus and a defined order of specific monomer subunits covalently linked, comprising:
- a) amplifying one or more monomer nucleic acid species encoding a monomer subunit species to be contained in the polymeric protein;
- b) creating a linker set comprising first, second, third and fourth designated nucleic acid linker pairs;
- wherein
- 1) each designated linker pair comprises a 5′ designated linker having a 5′ subcloning restriction endonuclease recognition site different from that of the 5′ designated linker of any other designated linker pair of said linker set;
- 2) a 3′ designated linker having a 3′ subcloning restriction endonuclease recognition site different from that of any other 3′ designated linker of any other designated linker pair of said linker set;
- 3) wherein each of the first, second, third, and fourth designated linker pairs is structured to correlate with a first, second, third, and fourth monomer subunit position, respectively, in the tetrameric protein;
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- 4) wherein
- A) the 3′ subcloning restriction endonuclease recognition site of the first designated linker pair is the same as the 5′ subcloning restriction endonuclease recognition site of the second designated linker pair;
- B) the 3′ subcloning restriction endonuclease recognition site of the second designated linker pair is the same as the 5′ subcloning restriction endonuclease recognition site of the third designated linker pair;
- C) the 3′ subcloning restriction endonuclease recognition site of the third designated linker pair is the same as the 5′ subcloning restriction endonuclease recognition site of the fourth designated linker pair;
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- c) individually joining amplified monomer nucleic acid species to 3′ and 5′ designated linkers of each of the first, second, third and fourth designated linker pairs to form a bank of first, second, third, and fourth in-frame nucleic acid monomer species constructs encoding a specific monomer subunit, each said construct having designated restriction site pairs at its 3′ and 5′ end correlating to one of four positions within the polymeric protein,
- d) selecting a first, second, third, and fourth nucleic acid monomer species construct encoding the desired monomer subunit for each such position of the polymeric protein,
- e) subcloning said first, second, third and fourth nucleic acid monomer species constructs into an expression vector having, in the 5′ to 3′ direction, restriction sites for joining with the 5′ restriction site of each of the first, second, third and fourth nucleic acid monomer species constructs, and a 3′ restriction site for joining with the 3′ end of the fourth nucleic acid monomer species construct, wherein the expression vector is structured to insert each nucleic acid monomer species construct in a common open reading frame, and
- f) inserting said expression vector within a suitable host cell,
- g) expressing within said host a polypeptide comprising a polymeric protein comprising a defined order of specific monomer subunits.
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10) A collection of nucleic acids comprising one or more nucleic acid monomer subunit species separately joined to each of first, second, third and fourth designated nucleic acid linker pairs of to make first, second, third, and fourth nucleic acid monomer subunit subspecies, wherein each designated nucleic acid linker pair comprises a 3′ subcloning restriction endonuclease recognition site and a 5′ subcloning restriction endonuclease recognition site, wherein;
- a) the 3′ subcloning restriction endonuclease recognition site of the first designated linker pair is the same as the 5′ subcloning restriction endonuclease recognition site of the second designated linker pair;
- b) the 3′ subcloning restriction endonuclease recognition site of the second designated linker pair is the same as the 5′ subcloning restriction endonuclease recognition site of the third designated linker pair;
- c) the 3′ subcloning restriction endonuclease recognition site of the third designated linker pair is the same as the 5′ subcloning restriction endonuclease recognition site of the fourth designated linker pair;
- and wherein the first, second, third, and fourth nucleic acid monomer subunit subspecies are structured to maintain a common open reading frame when ligated together in the sequence, in the direction from 5′ to 3′, first, second, third, and fourth nucleic acid monomer subunit subspecies.
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15) A kit comprising a cassette cloning system for the expression of a concatenated multisubunit protein comprising;
- a) a nucleic acid expression vector comprising a multiple cloning site having at least a first restriction nuclease recognition site and a second different nucleic acid recognition site located to the 3′ of the first site;
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- b) a nucleic acid collection comprising one or more nucleic acid monomer subunit species separately joined to each of first, second, third and fourth designated nucleic acid linker pairs of to make first, second, third, and fourth nucleic acid monomer subunit subspecies, wherein each designated nucleic acid linker pair comprises a 3′ subcloning restriction endonuclease recognition site and a 5′ subcloning restriction endonuclease recognition site, wherein;
- a) the 3′ subcloning restriction endonuclease recognition site of the first designated linker pair is the same as the 5′ subcloning restriction endonuclease recognition site of the second designated linker pair;
- b) the 3′ subcloning restriction endonuclease recognition site of the second designated linker pair is the same as the 5′ subcloning restriction endonuclease recognition site of the third designated linker pair;
- c) the 3′ subcloning restriction endonuclease recognition site of the third designated linker pair is the same as the 5′ subcloning restriction endonuclease recognition site of the fourth designated linker pair;
- and wherein the first, second, third, and fourth nucleic acid monomer subunit subspecies are structured to maintain a common open reading frame when ligated together in the sequence, in the direction from 5′ to 3′, first, second, third, and fourth nucleic acid monomer subunit subspecies,
- wherein the 5′ subcloning restriction endonuclease recognition site of one nucleic acid monomer subunit subspecies is the same as the first vector restriction endonuclease recognition site, and the 3′ subcloning restriction endonuclease recognition site of another nucleic acid monomer subunit subspecies is the same as the second vector restriction endonuclease recognition site.
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