Morphogenic protein screening method
AssigneeCreative BioMolecules, Inc.
InventorsJohn E. Smart, Hermann Oppermann, Engin Ozkaynak, Thangavel Kuberasampath, David C. Rueger, Roy H. L. Pang, Charles M. Cohen
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Abstract
Disclosed is a method of screening candidate compounds for the ability to modulate the level of morphogenic protein in mammalian system. The method includes determining a parameter indicative of the level of production of a morphogenic in a cell culture known to produce the morphogen, incubating a candidate compound with the culture for a time sufficient to allow the compound to affect the production of the morphogenic protein, and then assaying the culture again to detect a change in the level of morphogenic protein production.
Claims8
A method for identifying a tissue source of epithelial cells in which expression of a cellular gene can be modulated by a compound, said cellular gene encoding a protein comprising a naturally-occurring polypeptide, the amino acid sequence of said polypeptide comprising
- (I) a sequence having at least 70% amino acid sequence homology with the C-terminal seven-cysteine domain of human OP-1, residues 38-139 of SEQ ID No:5, or
- (II) a sequence defined by generic sequence 6, SEQ ID No:31
- said protein having the property when dimerized of inducing a developmental cascade of tissue-specific morphogenesis culminating in the formation of a mammalian body tissue, said method comprising the steps of:
- (a) incubating at least two preparations comprising epithelial cells derived from at least two different tissues of an organism with said compound for a time sufficient to allow said compound to modulate expression of said cellular gene, wherein one of said at least two preparations is derived from brain or renal tissue, and wherein said compound has been shown to modulate expression of said cellular gene in epithelial cells which express said cellular gene;
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- (b) assaying said at least two preparations of epithelial cells for the presence of or the amount of said protein expressed by said cellular gene, wherein a change in the level of said protein relative to the level thereof in said at least two preparations of epithelial cells in the absence of said compound identifies a tissue source of epithelial cells in which expression of said cellular gene can be modulated by said compound.
A method for identifying a tissue source of epithelial cells in which expression of a cellular gene can be modulated by a compound said cellular gene encoding a naturally-occurring polypeptide, said polypeptide being selected from the group consisting of polypeptides depicted in Table II and naturally-occurring variants thereof, provided that any said variant when dimerized, forms a homodimer protein having the property of inducing a developmental cascade of tissue-specific morphogenesis culminating in the formation of a mammalian body tissue, said method comprising the steps of:
- (a) incubating at least two preparations comprising epithelial cells derived from at least two different tissues of an organism with said compound for a time sufficient to allow said compound to modulate expression of said cellular gene, wherein one of said at least two preparations is derived from brain or renal tissue, and wherein said compound has been shown to modulate expression of said cellular gene in epithelial cells which express said cellular gene;
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- (b) assaying said at least two preparations of epithelial cells for the presence of or the amount of said naturally-occurring polypeptide expressed by said cellular gene, wherein a change in the level of said polypeptide relative to the level thereof in said at least two preparations of epithelial cells in the absence of said compound identifies a tissue source of epithelial cells in which expression of said cellular gene can be modulated by said compound.
A method for identifying a tissue source of epithelial cells in which expression of a cellular gene can be modulated by a compound, said cellular gene encoding a protein comprising a naturally-occurring polypeptide, the amino acid sequence of said polypeptide comprising
- (I) a sequence having at least 70% amino acid sequence homology with the C-terminal seven-cysteine domain of human OP-1, residues 38-139 of SEQ ID No:5;
- or,
- (II) a sequence defined by generic sequence 6, SEQ ID No:31, or,
- (III) an amino acid sequence selected from the group consisting of amino acid sequences depicted in Table II and naturally-occurring variants thereof,
- said protein having the property, when dimerized, of inducing a developmental cascade of tissue-specific morphogenesis culminating in the formation of mammalian body tissue, said method comprising the steps of:
- (a) incubating a preparation comprising epithelial cells derived from a tissue of an organism with said compound for a time sufficient to allow said compound to modulate expression of said cellular gene, wherein said compound has been shown to modulate expression of said cellular gene in epithelial cells which express said cellular gene;
- and,
- (b) assaying said preparation of epithelial cells for the presence of or the amount of said protein expressed by said cellular gene, wherein a change in the level of said protein relative to the level thereof in said preparations of epithelial cells in the absence of said compound identifies a tissue source of epithelial cells in which expression of said cellular gene can be modulated by said compound.
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