WO2005047335A1 - Method for themass production of immunoglobulin constant region - Google Patents

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WO2005047335A1
WO2005047335A1 PCT/KR2004/002943 KR2004002943W WO2005047335A1 WO 2005047335 A1 WO2005047335 A1 WO 2005047335A1 KR 2004002943 W KR2004002943 W KR 2004002943W WO 2005047335 A1 WO2005047335 A1 WO 2005047335A1
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Sung Youb Jung
Jin Sun Kim
Young Jin Park
Ki-Doo Choi
Se Chang Kwon
Gwan Sun Lee
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  • the present invention relates to a recombinant expression vector comprising a nucleotide sequence encoding an E. coli-derived signal sequence and a nucleotide sequence encoding an immunoglobulin constant region, a transformant transformed with the expression vector, and a method of mass-producing an immunoglobulin constant region by culturing the transformant and expressing the immunoglobulin constant region in a water-soluble form.
  • protein drugs are susceptible to denaturator or proteolytic degradation in the body, and it is difficult to sustain in vivo concentrations and titers for a long period of time.
  • Developing a technique to maintain the in vivo concentrations of protein drugs at suitable levels by enhancing protein stability is important to promote the efficacy of therapy, to help the patients who need to take their protein drug in frequent injections and to reduce the cost of treatment.
  • Many attempts have been made to enhance the in vivo stability of protein drugs for a long time, and such attempts include the changing a protein formulation, fusing a protein to another protein, or chemically or biologically attaching a suitable polymer to the surface of a protein.
  • the Fc fragment mediates effector functions such as complement-dependent cytotoxicity (CDC) or antibody-dependent cell-mediated cytotoxicity (ADCC) , as well as antigen binding capacity that is the unique function of immunoglobulins .
  • CDC complement-dependent cytotoxicity
  • ADCC antibody-dependent cell-mediated cytotoxicity
  • the Fc fragment contains a sequence participating in the binding to the neonatal Fc receptor (FcRn) , which plays a role in regulating serum IgG levels by increasing the transport of maternal IgG to neonates and the half-life of the IgG (Ghetie and Ward, Immunology Today 18: 592-598, 1997), and the sequence regulates the interaction between protein A and protein G.
  • FcRn neonatal Fc receptor
  • Korean Pat. No. 249572 discloses a fusion protein which is prepared by linking an IgGl heavy chain constant region (Fc) at an amino terminal end thereof to a carboxyl terminal end of a protein, such as IL4 receptor, IL7 receptor, G-CSF receptor or EPO receptor, and producing the resulting fusion protein in mammalian cells.
  • a protein such as IL4 receptor, IL7 receptor, G-CSF receptor or EPO receptor
  • U.S. Pat. No. 5,605,690 describes a fusion protein comprising tumor necrosis factor receptor fused at its carboxyl terminal end to a human IgGl Fc derivative, the fusion protein being produced in animal cells.
  • Tanox Inc. reported in U.S.
  • 20030082679 discloses a fusion protein with an extended serum half-life, which comprises human G-CSF linked at its carboxyl terminal end to the amino terminal end of IgGl Fc and is produced in animal cells.
  • Fc fusion protein with a longer serum half-life than a native protein, which comprises an IgGl Fc or Fc derivative linked at its amino terminal end through a peptide linker or without a peptide linker to the carboxyl terminal end of human EPO, TPO, human growth hormone or human interferon beta, the Fc fusion protein being produced in animal cells.
  • Fc fusion proteins as described above, increase the serum half-life of a target protein, but are problematic in terms of mediating effector functions by the Fc fragment
  • Fc may have increased immunogenicity or antigenicity compared to the native human Fc fragment due to the presence of unsuitable amino acids and may lose preferable Fc functions.
  • an aglycosylated antibody derivative as an anti-CD3 antibody can be prepared by replacing a glycosylated residue of antibodies, the asparagine residue at position 297 of the CH2 domain, with another amino acid.
  • This aglycosylated antibody derivative exhibits reduced effector functions, but still retains its binding affinity to FcRn receptor with no change of serum half-life.
  • U.S. Pat. Publication No. 20030073164 discloses a method of producing an Fc derivative using E. coli devoid of glycosylation ability so as to prepare a therapeutic antibody deficient in effector functions.
  • the American company Amgen Inc. described, in U.S. Pat. No. 6,660,843 and U.S. Pat. Publication Nos.
  • a methionine residue is added to the N-terminus of the expression product due to the feature of the protein expression system of E. coli .
  • the aforementioned expression products of Amgen Inc. have an N- terminal methionine residue, which may induce immune responses upon repeated or excessive administration to the body.
  • these fusion molecules are expressed in a fusion protein form in E. coli through linking a gene encoding a therapeutic protein to an Fc gene, they are difficult to express in E. coli, or a therapeutic protein is difficult to produce in E. coli if its expression in E. coli in a fused form results in a significant decrease or loss or activity.
  • the present inventors previously prepared an Fc fragment and a protein drug as separate polypeptides not using a fusion method based on genetic recombination but using the best expression systems and covalently linking the two polypeptides together to use the Fc fragment as a drug carrier.
  • it is possible to prepare a conjugate of a glycosylated polypeptide drug and an aglycosylated Fc which does not induce undesirable immune responses but has satisfactory properties of physiological drug activity, in vivo duration and stability.
  • a prokaryotic expression system such as E. coli is used.
  • Protein production methods using an E. coli expression system have several advantages compared to methods using animal cells, as follows.
  • An E. coli expression vector can be easily constructed, thus allowing rapid evaluation for protein expression. Due to its rapid growth rate, E. coli allows mass production of a protein of interest at low cost. Also, a relatively simple expression process can be used. Thus, E. coli is more useful for commercial production than other host cells.
  • the intensive and through research into a method capable of mass- producing immunoglobulin constant regions such as an immunoglobulin Fc fragment resulted in the finding that, when a nucleotide sequence encoding an immunoglobulin constant region such as an immunoglobulin Fc fragment is expressed in E. coli in a form fused to an E. coli signal sequence, the immunoglobulin constant region is expressed not as inclusion bodies but in a water-soluble form in E. coli .
  • an object of the present invention to provide a method of mass-producing an immunoglobulin constant region, comprising transforming a prokaryotic cell with a recombinant expression vector including a nucleotide sequence encoding an E. coli-derived signal sequence and a nucleotide sequence encoding an immunoglobulin constant region; culturing a resulting transformant; and isolating and purifying the immunoglobulin constant region expressed in a water-soluble form by the transformant. It is another object of the present invention to provide an immunoglobulin constant region prepared by the above method.
  • FIG. 1 shows the results of Western blotting of immunoglobulin Fc fragments expressed in E. coli transformants
  • FIG. 2 shows the results of non-reduced and reduced SDS-PAGE of dimeric immunoglobulin Fc fragments expressed in E. coli transformants
  • FIG. 3 shows the results of non-reduced and reduced SDS-PAGE of mono eric immunoglobulin Fc fragments expressed in E. coli transformants
  • FIG. 4 shows the results of ELISA for the Clq binding capacity of immunoglobulin Fc fragments expressed in E. coli transformants and a native immunoglobulin
  • FIG. 5 is a graph showing the results of pharmacokinetic analysis of a native EPO, Aranesp and an EPO-PEG-.E. coli-derived Fc conjugate.
  • the present invention relates to a method of mass-producing an immunoglobulin constant region, comprising transforming a prokaryotic cell with a recombinant expression vector including a nucleotide sequence encoding an E. coli-derived signal sequence and a nucleotide sequence encoding an immunoglobulin constant region; culturing a resulting transformant; and isolating and purifying the immunoglobulin constant region expressed in a water-soluble form by the transformant.
  • Immunoglobulins are divided into variable regions that perform antibody functions of specifically binding to antigens and exhibit many variations on sequences, and constant regions that have fixed sequences and effector functions, including activating the complement system, conferring an ability to pass across the placenta and acting as ligands for receptors on various immune cells .
  • the present invention relates to a method of mass- producing an immunoglobulin constant region useful as a carrier for protein drugs .
  • the immunoglobulin constant region capable of being produced by the present invention may be a native form isolated from humans and other animals including goats, swine, mice, rabbits, hamsters, rats and guinea pigs, or may be a recombinant or a derivative thereof, obtained from transformed animal cells or microorganisms.
  • Preferred may be a constant region of IgG, IgA, IgM, IgE and IgD from humans, or a combination or hybrid thereof.
  • the term "combination”, as used herein, means that polypeptides encoding single-chain immunoglobulin Fc fragments of the same origin is linked to a single-chain polypeptide of a different origin to form a dimer or multimer.
  • the term "hybrid”, as used . herein, means that sequences encoding two or more immunoglobulin Fc fragments of different origins are present in a single- chain immunoglobulin Fc fragment.
  • the immunoglobulin may preferably be a constant region of IgGl, IgG2, IgG3 and lgG4, or a combination or hybrid thereof.
  • heavy chains there are five distinct types of heavy chains based on differences in the amino acid sequences of their constant regions: gamma ( ⁇ ) , mu ( ⁇ ) , alpha ( ⁇ ) , delta ( ⁇ ) and epsilon ( ⁇ ) , and the heavy chains include the following subclasses : gamma 1 ( ⁇ l) , gamma 2 ( ⁇ 2 ) , gamma 3 ( ⁇ 3) , gamma 4 ( ⁇ 4 ) , alpha 1 ( ⁇ l) and alpha 2 ( ⁇ 2) .
  • Nucleotide sequences encoding human immunoglobulin constant regions and amino acid sequencing limiting the same, useful in the present invention may be those encoded by nucleotide sequences from GenBank and/or
  • the heavy chain constant region of IgG, IgA, IgM, IgE consists of three domains: C H 1, C H 2 and C H 3, and the heavy chain of IgM further includes C H 4.
  • the light chain has one constant domain, C L .
  • the immunoglobulin constant region of the present invention is one or more selected from the group consisting of C H 1, C H 2, C H 3, C H 4 and C L domains.
  • the selected domain may be the whole or a fragment thereof (form having 30 or more amino acid deletions) .
  • the immunoglobulin constant region of the present invention includes an amino acid sequence derivative.
  • the amino acid sequence derivative means to have a sequence in which one or more amino acid residues differ from a wild- type amino acid sequence, and may naturally occur or be artificially generated.
  • the immunoglobulin constant region includes derivatives resulting from a deletion, an insertion, a non-conservative or conservative substitution or combinations thereof.
  • An insertion is typically made by the addition of a consecutive amino acid sequence of about 1 to 20 amino acids, or may be made with a longer sequence.
  • a deletion is typically in the range of about 1 to 30 amino acid residues .
  • Amino acid exchanges in proteins and peptides, which do not generally alter the activity of the proteins, or peptides are known in the art (H. Neurath, R. L. Hill, The Proteins, Academic Press, New York, 1979) .
  • the immunoglobulin constant region may be modified by phosphorylation, sulfation, acrylation, glycosylation, methylation, farnesylation, acetylation, amidation, and the like.
  • the present invention may include a hinge region that allow a dimer formation.
  • the hinge region may include, in addition to a native form, derivatives by a deletion, an insertion, a non-conservative or conservative substitution or combinations thereof.
  • the immunoglobulin derivative of the present invention is preferably a functional equivalent to its natural form having a similar biological activity, or, if desired, could be made by altering the property of the natural form.
  • the derivatives of the immunoglobulin constant region are proteins that have increased structural stability against heat, pH, etc., or solubility, or that have improved characteristics in terms of disulfide bond formation, compatibility with an expression host, complement binding, Fc receptor binding and antibody-dependent cell-mediated cytotoxicity (ADCC) , so long as the derivatives produced do not induce unwanted immune responses in humans and animals .
  • Preferred derivatives are as follows .
  • a cysteine residue at a hinge region, responsible for disulfide bond formation, may be removed.
  • twelve residues among fifteen amino acids of the hinge region of IgGl, from the 1st amino acid, Glu, to the 12th amino acid, Pro may be deleted to remove two cysteine residues.
  • an IgGl constant region may be altered in a specific residue to have reduced affinity to Fc receptors mediating antibody-dependent cell-mediated cytotoxicity (ADCC) .
  • a derivative produced may contain a deletion or a replacement with another amino acid in the leucine residue at position 234 of an IgGl CH2 sequence (see, the sequence from Kobat database for the numbering of the amino acid residues) .
  • Leu234 is replaced by phenylalanine, an amino acid residue at a corresponding position in IgG4.
  • a derivative of an IgGl hinge region may contain a substitution at the first amino acid, proline.
  • a proline residue unlike other amino acid residues forms a closed ring structure. If proline is present at an amino terminal end, it may negatively affect the protein expression and elimination of a signal sequence.
  • the proline residue may be replaced by another amino acid, preferably serine, an amino acid residue at a corresponding position in IgG4.
  • the immunoglobulin constant region of the present invention includes a heavy chain constant region.
  • a heavy chain constant region containing a hinge region to allow the formation of an IgGl dimer has the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO. 25, 21, 22 or 23.
  • a heavy chain constant region not containing a hinge region to allow the formation of an IgGl monomer has the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO. 27.
  • a heavy chain constant region containing a hinge region to allow the formation of an IgG2 dimer has the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO. 35.
  • a heavy chain constant region containing a hinge region to allow the formation of an IgG4 dimer has the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO. 29 or 24.
  • a heavy chain constant region not containing a hinge region to allow the formation of an IgG4 monomer has the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO. 30.
  • the immunoglobulin constant region of the present invention includes a light chain constant region.
  • the immunoglobulin light chain constant region has the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO. 34.
  • the immunoglobulin constant region of the present invention includes both heavy chain and light chain constant regions. Preferred is a dimer or tetramer that contains a heavy chain constant region having the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO.
  • an immunoglobulin heavy chain region is overexpressed in a prokaryotic cell such as E. coli so as to be produced in an aglycosylated form, it is not completely folded and forms insoluble, inactive inclusion bodies by various mechanisms . Since inclusion bodies do not have activity as proteins, they need an additional denaturation and refolding process, which is conjugate and time-consuming, in order to be converted to a soluble form having biological activity. Thus, there is a need for the establishment of a mass production system useful in prokaryotic cells for the expression of an immunoglobulin heavy chain region as inclusion bodies . E.
  • signal sequence refers to a specific amino acid sequence that allows transport and secretion of a protein to the outside of the cytosol.
  • the signal sequence of the present invention is an E. coli- derived signal sequence, which an E. coli secretory protein possesses.
  • the E. coli-derived signal sequence is composed of 18 to 30 amino acids, and has several common features, as follows.
  • the typical signal sequence possesses a very short amino-terminal N-domain of one to several positively charged amino acids, followed by a relatively long hydrophobic region, H-domain. At the amino terminal end, many polar positively charged amino acids, such as Lys and Arg, are present.
  • the H-domain mainly contains hydrophobic residues such as Ala and Leu.
  • a C-domain is located between the H-domain and a protein to be practically secreted, and has a sequence recognized by a signal peptidase.
  • a protein having such a signal sequence arrives at the membrane by interaction with several proteins and is then cleaved at a specific site by a signal peptidase, releasing the mature protein.
  • Non-limiting examples of the E Non-limiting examples of the E.
  • coli-derived signal sequence include alkaline phosphatase, penicillinase, Ipp, heat-stable enterotoxin II, LamB, PhoE, PelB, OmpA and maltose binding protein.
  • the signal sequence of the present invention includes derivatives resulting from a deletion, an insertion, a non-conservative or conservative substitution or combinations thereof, so long as a protein expressed along with the signal sequence is allowed to be secreted to the outside of the cytosol. In particular, derivatives improving secretion efficacy of a fusion protein may be desirable.
  • the . signal sequence is preferably heat-stable enterotoxin II.
  • the heat-stable enterotoxin II includes its native form having the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO.
  • An enterotoxin II derivative preferably has a replacement of an amino acid sequence of one or more amino acid residues at positions 2, 4, 5, 12, 20 and 22 by another amino acid sequence, and more preferably by the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO. 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45 or 46.
  • an enterotoxin II having the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO. 38 was used, which is encoded by the nucleotide sequence of SEQ ID NO.
  • a nucleic acid encoding the native enterotoxin II may be naturally isolated or synthesized by a gene synthesis method.
  • An enterotoxin II derivative may be prepared by performing site-directed mutagenesis for a naturally isolated native form, or may be synthesized by a gene synthesis method.
  • the term "fusion protein", as used herein, means two or more different polypeptides that are linked through a peptide bond to become a single-chain polypeptide, and may be easily prepared by a genetic recombination method allowing translation into a single polypeptide. With the objects of the present invention, the fusion protein refers to comprise an immunoglobulin constant region fused to an E. coli-derived signal sequence.
  • the signal sequence and the immunoglobulin constant region are in frame and translated into a single chain under the control of a single promoter, but the signal sequence is finally removed by cleavage from the translated polypeptide.
  • a method of preparing the fusion protein is not specifically limited.
  • the fusion protein is prepared by digesting a nucleic acid sequence encoding a signal sequence and another nucleic acid sequence encoding an immunoglobulin constant region with general restriction enzymes and ligating them with each other using an enzyme such as ligase.
  • a nucleic acid sequence encoding the fusion protein is expressed .in the form of being inserted into a recombinant expression vector.
  • recombinant expression vector which describes a vector capable of expressing a target protein in a suitable host cell, refers to a genetic construct that comprises essential regulatory elements to which a gene insert is operably linked in such a manner as to be expressed in a host cell.
  • operably linked refers to a functional linkage between a nucleic acid expression control sequence and a second nucleic acid sequence coding for a target protein in such a manner as to allow general functions.
  • the operable linkage to a recombinant vector may be prepared using a genetic recombinant technique well known in the art, and site-specific DNA cleavage and ligation may be carried out using enzymes generally known in the art.
  • a suitable expression vector includes expression regulatory elements, such as a promoter, an initiation codon, a stop codon, a polyadenylation signal and an enhancer.
  • a promoter such as E. coli is used as a host, the following promoters may be used: trp promoter, lac promoter, recA promoter, ⁇ P L promoter, lpp promoter and T7 promoter.
  • the following promoters may be used: SPOl promoter, SP02 promoter and penP promoter.
  • the initiation and stop codons are necessary to be functional in an individual to whom a genetic construct has been administered, and must be in frame with the coding sequence.
  • the promoter of the vector may be constitutive or inducible.
  • expression vectors include a selectable marker that allows selection of host cells containing the vector, and replicable expression vectors include a replication origin.
  • the expression vector of the present invention is a vector essentially containing an E. coli signal sequence, and preferably containing an E. coli heat-stable enterotoxin II signal sequence.
  • a vector, which includes an enterotoxin II Shine-Dalgarno (SD) sequence along with an enterotoxin II signal sequence, is more preferable because it further enhances expression levels of a target protein.
  • SD enterotoxin II Shine-Dalgarno
  • a nucleotide sequence encoding an enterotoxin II Shine-Dalgarno (SD) sequence and an enterotoxin II signal sequence is linked to another nucleotide sequence encoding an immunoglobulin heavy chain region by a genetic recombination method in such a way as to be expressed in frame under the control of a promoter.
  • SD enterotoxin II Shine-Dalgarno
  • the following recombinant expression vectors are prepared: pSTIIGlCHl_3 expressing an immunoglobulin heavy chain region including an enterotoxin II signal sequence and the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO.
  • pSTIIdCGlFc expressing an immunoglobulin heavy chain region including an enterotoxin II signal sequence and the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO. 21
  • pSTIIdCGlSFc expressing an immunoglobulin heavy chain region including an enterotoxin II signal sequence and the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO. 22
  • pSTIIdCGlSFFc expressing an immunoglobulin heavy chain region including an enterotoxin II signal sequence and the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO. 23
  • pSTIIGlMo expressing an immunoglobulin heavy chain region including an enterotoxin II signal sequence and the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO.
  • pSTIIdCG2Fc expressing an immunoglobulin heavy chain region including an enterotoxin II signal sequence and the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO.. 35
  • pSTIldCG4Fc expressing an immunoglobulin heavy chain region including an enterotoxin II signal sequence and the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO. 29
  • pSTIIG4CHl_3 expressing an immunoglobulin heavy chain region including an enterotoxin II signal sequence and the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO. 24
  • pSTIIG4Mo expressing an immunoglobulin heavy chain region including an enterotoxin II signal sequence and the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO. 30.
  • a recombinant expression vector expresses an immunoglobulin'' heavy chain constant region including an enterotoxin II signal sequence and the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO. 24, and an immunoglobulin light chain region including an enterotoxin II signal sequence and the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO. 34, under the control of independent promoters.
  • the recombinant expression vectors expressing the fusion proteins are transformed into host cells.
  • the host cells are prokaryotic cells where glycosylation does not occur.
  • Examples of these prokaryotic cells include Escherichia coli, Bacillus subtilis, Streptomyces, Pseudomonas, Proteus mirabilis or Staphylococcus .
  • Preferred is E. coli .
  • Non-limiting examples of E. coli strains include BL21 (DE3) , JM109, DH series, TOP10 and HB101, and the BL21 (DE3) strain is more preferable.
  • E. coli is used as a host cell, since E. coli does not have a system for protein glycosylation, an immunoglobulin constant region is produced in the form of being devoid of sugar moieties that are present in a CH2 domain of a native immunoglobulin.
  • sugar moieties of the immunoglobulin CH2 domain do not affect the structural stability of immunoglobulins, but cause immunoglobulins to mediate antibody-dependent cell-mediated cytotoxicity (ADCC) upon association with cells expressing Fc receptors and immune cells to secrete cytokines to induce inflammation. Also, the sugar moieties bind to the Clq part of the first complement component Cl, leading to complement fixation. Thus, when an immunoglobulin constant region is produced in an aglycosylated form and linked to a therapeutic protein, the therapeutic protein is present in the serum for a prolonged period of time without the undesirable effector functions of immunoglobulins .
  • ADCC antibody-dependent cell-mediated cytotoxicity
  • the transformation of the recombinant expression vectors into prokaryotic cells includes any methods by which nucleic acids can be introduced into cells, and, as known in the art, may be performed by selecting suitable standard techniques according to host cells. These methods include, but are not limited to, electroporation, protoplast fusion, calcium phosphate (CaP0 4 ) precipitation, calcium chloride (CaCl 2 ) precipitation, agitation with silicon carbide fiber, and PEG-, dextran sulfate- and lipofectamine-mediated transformation.
  • the recombinant expression vectors are individually introduced into E.
  • coli thus generating the following transformants: BL21/pSTIIGlCHl_3 (HM10935) transformed with pSTIIGlCHl_3; BL21/pSTIIdCGlFc (HM10927) transformed with pSTIIdCGlFc; BL21/pSTIIdCGlSFc (HM10928) transformed with pSTIIdCGlSFc; BL21/pSTIIdCGlSFFc (HM10929) transformed with pSTIIdCGlSFFc; BL21/pSTIIGlMo (HM10930) transformed with pSTIIGlMo; BL21/pSTIIdCG2Fc (HM10936) transformed with pSTIIdCG2Fc; BL21/pSTIIdCG4Fc (HM10932) transformed with pSTIIdCG4Fc; BL21/pSTIIG4CHl_3 (HM10931) transformed with pSTIIG4CHl_3; B 21/pSTIIG4Mo (HM10933)
  • the transformants transformed with the recombinant expression vectors are cultured by a general method. Culture conditions may be easily adjusted by those skilled in the art to be suitable for selected bacterial strains .
  • a medium used in the culturing should contain all nutrients essential for the growth and survival of cells .
  • the medium should contain a variety of carbon sources, nitrogen sources and trace elements. Examples of available carbon sources include glucose, sucrose, lactose, fructose, maltose, starch, carbohydrates such as cellulose, fats such as soybean oil, sunflower oil, castor oil and coconut oil, fatty acids such as palmitic acid, stearic acid and linoleic acid, alcohols such as glycerol and ethanol, and organic acids such as acetic acid.
  • nitrogen sources may be used singly or in combination of two or more.
  • available nitrogen sources include organic nitrogen sources, such as peptone, yeast extract, meat extract, malt extract, corn steep liquor (CSL) and soybean whey, and inorganic nitrogen sources, such as urea, ammonium sulfate, ammonium chloride, ammonium phosphate, ammonium carbonate and ammonium nitrate. These nitrogen sources may be used singly or in combinations of two or more .
  • a phosphorus source may be contained in the medium, which includes potassium dihydrogen phosphate, dipotassium hydrogen phosphate and corresponding sodium-containing salts.
  • the medium may contain a metal salt, such as magnesium sulfate or iron sulfate.
  • the medium may further include amino acids, vitamins, suitable precursors, and the like.
  • the pH of the culture may be adjusted by adding a compound, such as ammonium hydroxide, potassium hydroxide, ammonia, phosphoric acid and sulfuric acid, to the culture by a suitable method.
  • antifoaming agents such as polyglycol fatty acid esters, may be used to prevent bubble formation.
  • oxygen or an oxygen-containing gas e.g., air
  • the temperature of the culture is generally 20°C to 45°C, and preferably 25°C to 45°C. After protein expression is confirmed in a small volume of the medium, large-scale expression may be carried out using a fermentor.
  • Protein production using a fermentor should be carried out taking into consideration several factors, including the growth rate of host cells and protein expression levels . Protein expression may be induced through adding, for example, IPTG to the medium under suitable culture conditions .
  • the immunoglobulin constant region fused to a signal sequence according to the present invention, expressed in a prokaryotic cell according to the above method, was surprisingly not expressed in the periplasmic space but was overexpressed in a water-soluble form in the cytoplasm, and the signal sequence Was accurately processed. In the detailed practice of the present invention, the amount of the fusion protein secreted into the medium or periplasmic space was negligible.
  • the lipase protein aggregated by overexpression should undergo an additional complex process including dissolution and denaturation in a -suitable solution and refolding using a refolding agent such as urea, guanidine or arginine (Kohno, Meth. Enzym. 185:187-195, 1990).
  • a refolding agent such as urea, guanidine or arginine
  • the protein refolding efficiency is very low, and refolded proteins have lower activities than soluble proteins.
  • this refolding method has no industrial benefits.
  • Second there are large differences between proteins to be expressed as recombinant forms in the degree of secretion into the periplasmic space or medium, aggregation degree after secretion, expression efficiency, and the like.
  • an immunoglobulin constant region overexpressed according to the present method may be purified by a general technique.
  • the immunoglobulin constant regions of the present invention may be isolated and purified by disrupting cells using a French press, an ultrasonicator, etc., and subjecting a water- soluble fraction containing the immunoglobulin constant region to, for example, salting out (e.g., ammonium sulfate precipitation, sodium phosphate precipitation, etc.), solvent precipitation (e.g., protein fraction precipitation using acetone, ethanol, etc.), dialysis, various chromatographies, such as gel filtration, ion exchange and reverse phase column chromatography, and ultrafiltration.
  • salting out e.g., ammonium sulfate precipitation, sodium phosphate precipitation, etc.
  • solvent precipitation e.g., protein fraction precipitation using acetone, ethanol, etc.
  • dialysis various chromatographies, such as gel filtration, ion exchange and reverse phase column chromatography, and ultrafiltration.
  • the present invention relates to an immunoglobulin constant region prepared according to the above method.
  • the immunoglobulin constant region produced in prokaryotic cells such as E.
  • coli according to the present method does not specifically have limited industrial applications .
  • One exemplary application is use as a carrier for the formation of a conjugate with a certain drug.
  • Construction of the conjugate comprising the immunoglobulin constant region linked to a drug is not specifically limited.
  • the immunoglobulin constant region and the drug may be linked together at various ratios, and the linkage may be mediated, for example, through a linker.
  • the drug includes polypeptides, compounds, extracts and nucleic acids.
  • Preferred is a polypeptide drug (used with meaning identical to the word "protein") .
  • the linker includes peptide and non-peptide linkers. Preferred is a non-peptide linker, and more preferred is a non-peptide polymer.
  • any physiologically active polypeptide may be used without specific limitation as a protein partner of the immunoglobulin constant region prepared according to the present method to form a conjugate.
  • physiologically active polypeptides include those used for treating or preventing human diseases, which include cytokines, interleukins, interleukin binding protein, enzymes, antibodies, growth factors, transcription regulatory factors, coagulation factors, vaccines, structural proteins, ligand proteins or receptors, cell surface antigens, receptor antagonists, and derivatives and analogues thereof.
  • physiologically active polypeptide examples include human growth hormone, growth hormone releasing hormone, growth hormone releasing peptide, interferons and interferon receptors (e.g., interferon- ⁇ , - ⁇ and - ⁇ , water-soluble type I interferon receptor, etc.), colony stimulating factors, interleukins (e.g., interleukin-1, -2, -3, -4, -5, -6, -7, -8, -9, -10, -11, -12, -13, -14, -15, -16, -17, - 18, -19, -20, -21, -22, -23, -24, -25, -26, -27, -28, -29, -30, etc.) and interleukin receptors (e.g., IL-1 receptor, IL-4 receptor, etc.), enzymes (e.g., glucocerebrosidase, iduronate-2-sulfatase, alpha-
  • interleukin and cytokine binding proteins e.g., IL-18bp, TNF-binding protein, etc.
  • acrophage activating factor macrophage peptide, B cell factor, T cell factor, protein A, allergy inhibitor, cell necrosis glycoproteins, immunotoxin, lymphotoxin, tumor necrosis factor, tumor suppressors, metastasis growth factor, alpha-1 antitrypsin, albumin, alpha-lactalbumin, apolipoprotein-E, erythropoietin, highly glycosylated erythropoietin, angiopoietins, hemoglobin, thrombin, thrombin receptor activating peptide, thrombomodulin, factor VII, factor Vila, factor VIII, factor IX, factor XIII, plasminogen activating factor, fibrin-binding peptide, urokinase, streptokinase, hirudin, protein C,
  • the physiologically active polypeptide useful in the present invention may be a native form, may be produced by genetic recombination using prokaryotic cells such as E. coli or eukaryotic cells such as yeast cells, insect cells and animal cells, or may be a derivative having one or more amino acid mutations but having the biological activity identical to the native form.
  • an immunoglobulin constant region fragment produced by the BL21/pSTIIdCGlSFFc (HM10929) transformant was linked to human erythropoietin (EPO) using a water-soluble polymer, polyethylene glycol, thus providing an EPO-PEG- immunoglobulin constant region protein conjugate.
  • the immunoglobulin constant region produced in a water- soluble form using an E. coli signal sequence according to the present invention in the form of being linked to a physiologically active polypeptide, may be useful for enhancing the serum half-life and physiological activity of the physiologically active polypeptide with no risk of inducing immune responses .
  • a better understanding of the present invention may be obtained through the following examples which are set forth to illustrate, but are not to be construed as the limit of the present invention.
  • EXAMPLE 1 Construction of human immunoglobulin IgGl Fc constant region expression vector
  • RNA isolated from human blood cells was isolated from about 6 ml of blood using a Qiamp RNA blood kit (Qiagen) , and gene amplification was performed using the total RNA as a template and a One-Step RT-PCR kit (Qiagen) .
  • Qiagen Qiamp RNA blood kit
  • a pair of primers represented by SEQ ID Nos SEQ ID Nos .
  • DNA sequencing analysis revealed that two genes cloned into the cloning vector, IgGl heavy chain CH1- hinge-CH2-CH3 gene and light chain constant region gene, have nucleotide sequences of SEQ ID Nos. 5 and 6, respectively.
  • PCR was carried out using the plasmid as prepared above as a template to amplify genes encoding the following constant region fragments .
  • a pair of primers represented by SEQ ID Nos. 7 and 2 was designed to amplify the CHI, hinge region, CH2 and CH3 of IgGl.
  • An Fc fragment lacking cysteine residues not participating in disulfide bond formation in the hinge region was amplified using three primer pairs of SEQ ID Nos.
  • a gene amplified using a primer pair of SEQ ID Nos. 7 and 2 and the pBGlCHl-3 plasmid as a template contained the CH1- hinge-CH2-CH3 of IgGl and encoded a protein having the amino acid sequence represented by SEQ ID No. 25.
  • SEQ ID No. 8 is a nucleotide sequence starting from the 13th residue, proline, of 15 amino acid residues of the hinge region (Glu Pro Lys Ser Cys Asp Lys Thr His Thr Cys Pro Pro Cys Pro; SEQ ID No. 26) .
  • a gene amplified using a primer pair of SEQ ID Nos is a nucleotide sequence starting from the 13th residue, proline, of 15 amino acid residues of the hinge region (Glu Pro Lys Ser Cys Asp Lys Thr His Thr Cys Pro Pro Cys Pro; SEQ ID No. 26) .
  • SEQ ID No. 21 an amino acid sequence that encodes an amino terminal end starting from the Pro-Cys-Pro sequence of the hinge region and CH2 and CH3 domains, among the whole IgGl constant region.
  • SEQ ID No. 9 was prepared by replacing the 13th proline residue of the hinge region with serine
  • SEQ ID No. 10 was prepared by replacing the 13th proline residue of the hinge region with serine and the 4th leucine residue of the CH2 with phenylalanine .
  • an expression vector pT14SlSH-4T20V22Q (Korean Pat. No. 38061), previously developed by the present inventors, was used as a starting vector.
  • This expression vector contains an E. coli heat-stable enterotoxin signal sequence derivative having the nucleotide sequence represented by SEQ ID No. 12.
  • a Stul recognition site was inserted into an end of the E. coli heat-stable enterotoxin signal sequence derivative of the pTl4SlSH-4T20V22Q plasmid through site-directed mutagenesis using a pair of primers represented by SEQ ID Nos. 13 and 14 to induce mutagenesis to introduce the Stul site at a nucleotide sequence coding for the last amino acid residue of the signal sequence.
  • This insertion of the Stul site was identified to be successful by DNA sequencing.
  • the resulting pT14SlSH-4T20V22Q plasmid containing a Stul site was designated as "pmSTII".
  • the pmSTII plasmid was treated with Stul and BamHI and subjected to agarose gel electrophoresis, and a large fragment (4.7 kb) was purified, which contained the E. coli heat-stable enterotoxin signal sequence derivative. Then, the amplified genes were digested with BamHI and ligated with the linearized expression vector, thus providing pSTIIGlCHl_3 (PCR product obtained using the primers of SEQ ID Nos. 7 and 2), and pSTIIdCGlFc (PCR product obtained using the ⁇ primers of SEQ ID Nos. 8 and 2), pSTIIdCGlSFc (PCR product obtained using the primers of SEQ ID Nos .
  • ⁇ l-2> Construction of monomeric IgGl constant region expression vector
  • PCR was carried out using a pair of primers represented by SEQ ID Nos. 11 and 2 and the same template as in the above ⁇ 1-1>.
  • the PCR product was cloned into an expression vector, pmSTII, according to the same procedure as in the above ⁇ 1- 1>, thus providing pSTIIGlMo (PCR product obtained using the primers of SEQ ID NOS. 11 and 2) .
  • This expression vector was transformed into E.
  • BL21/pSTIIGlMo HM10930
  • KCCM Korean Culture Center of Microorganisms
  • EXAMPLE 2 Construction of human immunoglobulin IgG2 Fc expression vector To clone an IgG2 Fc gene, RT-PCR was carried out according to the same method as in the ⁇ 1-1> of Example 1 using RNA isolated from human blood cells as a template and a One-Step RT-PCR kit (Qiagen) . To obtain a desired gene sequence, a pair of primers represented by SEQ ID Nos. 31 and 32 was used. SEQ ID No. 31 is a nucleotide sequence starting from the 10th residue, proline, of 12 amino acid residues of the hinge region (Glu Arg Lys Cys Cys Val Glu Cys Pro Pro Cys Pro; SEQ ID NO. 33) .
  • the gene amplified using the pair of primers represented by SEQ ID Nos. 31 and 32 was identified to contain an amino terminal end starting with the Pro-Cys-Pro sequence of the hinge region and CH2 and CH3 domains, among a full-length IgG2 Fc gene sequence, and has the nucleotide sequence of SEQ ID No. 35.
  • the amplified IgG2 Fc gene into an expression vector containing an E. coli signal sequence the aforementioned pmSTII vector was used.
  • the pmSTII plasmid was treated with Stul and BamHI and subjected to agarose gel electrophoresis, and a large fragment (4.7 kb) was purified, which contained the E. coli heat-stable enterotoxin signal sequence derivative. Then, the amplified IgG2 Fc gene was digested with BamHI and ligated with the linearized expression vector, thus providing pSTIIdCG2Fc.
  • This vector expresses in a host cell a protein that has the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID No. 35 and is present in a dimeric form by disulfide bonds between cysteine residues in the hinge region.
  • the final expression vector was transformed into E. coli BL21 (DE3) , and the resulting transformant was designated as "BL21/pSTIIdCG2Fc (HM10936)".
  • SEQ ID No. 16 is a nucleotide sequence starting from the 10th residue, _ serine, of 12 amino acid residues of the IgG4 hinge region (Glu Ser Lys Tyr Gly Pro Pro Cys Pro Ser Cys Pro: SEQ ID No. 28) .
  • SEQ ID No. 16 is a nucleotide sequence starting from the 10th residue, _ serine, of 12 amino acid residues of the IgG4 hinge region (Glu Ser Lys Tyr Gly Pro Pro Cys Pro Ser Cys Pro: SEQ ID No. 28) .
  • a gene amplified using the above primer pair encoded an amino terminal end starting from the Ser-Cys-Pro sequence of the hinge region and CH2 and CH3 domains, among the whole IgG4 constant region.
  • the amplified gene was treated with BamHI and inserted into a StuI/BamHI-digested pmSTII plasmid, thus providing pSTIIG4Fc.
  • a protein expressed by this expression vector has the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID No. 29 and is present in a dimeric form through disulfide bonds between cysteine residues of the hinge region.
  • an expression vector for a constant region (CH1-Hinge-CH2-CH3) containing a CHI domain PCR was carried out using the pBG4CHl-3 as a template and a pair of primers represented by SEQ ID Nos. 19 and 17, and the PCR product was cloned according to the same method as described above, thus providing pSTIIG4CHl_3.
  • a protein expressed by this expression vector has the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID No. 24.
  • a vector expressing both heavy chain and light chain constant regions of an immunoglobulin was constructed as follows.
  • a desired gene was amplified using the pBK plasmid prepared in the ⁇ 1-1> of Example 1 as a template and a set of primers represented by SEQ ID Nos . 20 and 4, and cloned into a pmSTII vector containing an E. coli heat-stable enterotoxin II signal sequence derivative, thus generating a pSTIIK plasmid.
  • the pSTIIK plasmid included a gene fragment comprising a kappa light chain constant region linked to an E. coli heat-stable enterotoxin II signal sequence derivative.
  • the pSTIIK plasmid was digested with Hindi11 and Sail to obtain an about 1.2-kb gene fragment containing sequences required for protein expression, including a promoter and a signal sequence.
  • the 1.2-kb gene fragment was inserted into an Nrul site of the pSTIIG4CHl_3 vector, thus providing a pSTIIG4H_K vector.
  • This expression vector expresses a heavy chain constant region and a light chain constant region under the control of different promoters, and the expressed products form a dimer or tetramer linked through free cysteine residues in each chain.
  • the above expression vectors were individually transformed into E.
  • coli BL21 (DE3) , and the resulting transformants were designated as "BL21/pSTIIG4CHl_3(HM10931)", “BL21/pSTIIdCG4Fc (HM10932)” and “BL21/pSTIIG4H_K (HM10934)", and deposited at KCCM (accession numbers: KCCM-10596, KCCM-10597 and KCCM-10599) .
  • a protein expressed by the expression vector has the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID No. 30, is expressed from the CH2 domain, and is present in a monomeric form because it lacks the hinge region.
  • the recombinant expression vectors, capable of expressing an immunoglobulin constant region in a water- soluble form in E. coli using an E. coli heat-stable enterotoxin II signal sequence derivative, and microorganisms transformed with the expression vectors are summarized in Table 1, below.
  • Bacterial transformants prepared in Examples 1, 2 were individually inoculated in a fermentor (Marubishi Company) and allowed to ferment, and were evaluated to determine whether they express immunoglobulin constant region fragments .
  • each transformant was grown in 100 ml of LB medium with agitation overnight and inoculated in the fermentor for large-scale culture. The fermentor was maintained at 30°C or 35°C. To prevent conversion from an aerobic to an anaerobic environment, the cultures were aerated with 20-wm air and stirred at 500 rpm. To compensate for the insufficient nutrients for bacterial growth during fermentation, the cultures were supplemented with glucose and yeast extracts according to the fermented states of bacteria.
  • an inducer IPTG
  • the cultures were further cultured for 40 to 45 hrs until the OD value at 600 nm increased to 100 to 120.
  • the expression of immunoglobulin Fc in the E. coli transformants and the expressed sites, water solubility and dimer formation of the expressed lg Fc were examined as follows. To determine whether an expressed product is secreted to the fermentation fluid or the periplasmic space of E. coli by the signal sequence fused to the expression vector, the fermentation fluid was centrifuged to obtain a cell-free fermentation fluid and collect cells.
  • the cell- free fermentation fluid and a periplasmic space solution obtained by osmotic shock of the collected cells were subjected to Western blot analysis. As a result, a very small amount of immunoglobulin Fc was detected.
  • cells were disrupted using an ultrasonicator (Misonix Company) . The resulting cell lysate was centrifuged to separate water- soluble substances from water-insoluble substances, and the water-soluble substances were subjected to Western blot analysis, as follows.
  • the water-soluble substances were mixed with a protein sample buffer not containing a reducing agent such as DTT or ⁇ -mercaptoethanol, and separated on a 15% SDS-PAGE gel (Criterion Gel, Bio-Rad) . Then, proteins were transferred onto a nitrocellulose membrane and detected with an HRP-conjugated anti-human Fc antibody (Sigma) . As shown in FIG. 1, immunoglobulin Fc was overexpressed in a water-soluble form and located in the cytosol of E. coli . Also, products, expressed by transformants transformed with expression vectors expressing lg Fc having a portion of a hinge region, were expressed as dimers . In FIG.
  • lanes 1, 2 and 3 show products expressed in HM10927, HM10932 and HM10936, respectively, and lane 4 shows Fc generated by papain treatment of immunoglobulins produced in animal cells, which showed a slightly larger size due to its sugar moieties on the SDS-PAGE gel than that produced in E. coli .
  • ⁇ 4-2> N-terminal sequence analysis The water-soluble dimeric lg Fc fragments, which were located in the cytosol of E. coli as demonstrated in the above ⁇ 4-l>, were designed to be translated in a fused form to a signal sequence. Thus, to determine whether the lg Fc fragments are located in E.
  • N-terminal amino acid sequences of the lg Fc fragments were determined by the Basic Science Research Institute, Seoul, Korea. Samples used in the N- terminal amino acid sequence analysis were prepared as follows . First, a PVDF membrane (Bio-Rad) was immersed in methanol for about 2-3 sec to be activated, and was sufficiently wet with a blocking buffer (170 mM glycine, 25 mM Tris-HCl (pH 8.0), 20% methanol).
  • the protein samples separated on a non-reduced SDS-PAGE gel, prepared in the above ⁇ 4-l>, were blotted onto a PVDF membrane for about one hour using a blotting kit (Hoefer Semi-Dry Transfer unit, Amersham) . Proteins transferred onto the PVDF membrane were stained with a protein dye, Coomassie Blue R- 250 (Amnesco) , for 3-4 sec, and washed with a destaining solution (water: acetic acid: methanol 5: 1: 4). Then, fragments containing proteins from the membrane were cut out with scissors and subjected to N-terminal sequence analysis .
  • a protein dye Coomassie Blue R- 250 (Amnesco)
  • the IgGl Fc protein was found to have an N-terminal sequence of Pro-Cys-Pro-Ala-Pro-Glu-Leu-Leu-Gly- Gly, the lgG4 Fc protein had an N-terminal sequence of Ser- Cys-Pro-Ala-Pro-Glu-Phe-Leu-Gly-Gly, and the IgG2 Fc protein had an N-terminal sequence of Pro-Cys-Pro-Ala-Pro- Pro-Val-Ala-Gly-Pro .
  • the Fc fragments expressed by the E. coli transformants of the present invention were found to have an accurate N-terminal sequence.
  • the cell lysates were subjected to two- step column chromatography to purify recombinant immunoglobulin constant regions present in the cytosol.
  • 5 ml of a protein-A affinity column (Pharmacia) was equilibrated with PBS, and the cell lysates were loaded onto the column at a flow rate of 5 ml/min. Unbound proteins were washed out with PBS, and bound proteins were eluted with 100 mM citrate (pH 3.0).
  • the collected fractions were desalted using a HiPrep 26/10 desalting column (Pharmacia) with 10 mM Tris buffer (pH 8.0).
  • FIGS. 2 and 3 show the results of SDS-PAGE analysis of the purified immunoglobulin constant regions in a dimeric or monomeric form under non-reduced and reduced conditions using a criterion gel (Bio-Rad) , wherein the constant regions were evaluated for differential migration on reduced versus non-reduced gels.
  • a criterion gel Bio-Rad
  • the A region shows proteins separated on a non-reduced SDS-PAGE gel
  • the B region shows proteins on a reduced SDS-PAGE gel.
  • Lane M indicates a prestained low-range standard protein marker (Bio-Rad)
  • lanes 1 to 4 indicate protein samples for immunoglobulin constant regions produced by E. coli transformants, HM10927, HM10928, HM10929 and HM10932 respectively.
  • the lg Fc fragments were present in a monomeric form because disulfide bonds formed between cysteine residues of the hinge region were reduced, and were thus migrated the monomer distance.
  • the lg Fc fragments were present in a dimeric form by disulfide bonds and thus had a migration distance of about 42 kDa.
  • the A region shows proteins separated on a non-reduced SDS-PAGE gel
  • the B region shows proteins on a reduced SDS-PAGE gel.
  • Lane M indicates the standard protein marker
  • lanes 1 and 2 indicate protein samples for immunoglobulin constant regions produced by E. coli transformants, HM10930 and HM10934, respectively.
  • the proteins did not show a large difference in migration on reduced versus non-reduced .gels, and only displayed a slightly different migration due to the reduction of intramolecular disulfide bonds.
  • an enzyme linked immunosorbent assay was carried out as follows.
  • test groups immunoglobulin constant regions produced by the ' HM10929, HM10930, HM10932 and HM10933 transformants prepared in the above Examples were used.
  • standards a glycosylated immunoglobulin (IVIGG-globulin S, Green Cross PBM) was used.
  • the test and standard samples were prepared in 10 mM carbonate buffer (pH 9.6) at a concentration of 1 ⁇ g/ml .
  • the samples were aliquotted into a 96-well plate (Nunc) in an amount of 200 ng per well, and the plate was coated overnight at 4°C. Then, each well was washed with PBS-T (137 mM NaCI, 2 mM KCl, 10 mM Na 2 HP0 4 , 2 mM KH 2 P0 4 , 0.05% Tween 20) three times, • blocked with 250 ⁇ l of a blocking buffer (1% bovine serum albumin in PBS-T) at room temperature for 1 hr, and washed again with the same PBS-T three times .
  • PBS-T 137 mM NaCI, 2 mM KCl, 10 mM Na 2 HP0 4 , 2 mM KH 2 P0 4 , 0.05% Tween 20
  • the standard and test samples were diluted in PBS-T to a predetermined concentration and added to antibody-coated wells, and the plate was incubated at room temperature for 1 hr and washed with PBS-T three times. Thereafter, 2 ⁇ g/ml Clq (R&D Systems) was added to the plate and reacted at room temperature for 2 hrs, and the plate was washed with PBS-T six times. 200 ⁇ l of a 1:1000 dilution of a human anti-human Clq antibody- peroxidase conjugate (Biogenesis, USA) in the blocking buffer was added to each well and reacted at room temperature for 1 hr.
  • the immunoglobulin constant region proteins of the present invention rarely have the risk of inducing immune responses such as cytotoxicity and inflammation in the body when used as a carrier for physiologically active polypeptides in a conjugate form.
  • ⁇ 6-l> Preparation of human EPO
  • an EPO gene was amplified by RT-PCR using total RNA isolated from blood cells and cloned into a pBluscript II (Stratagen) vector, thus generating a pBlueEP vector.
  • the pBlueEP was digested with HindiII and BamHI, and an EPO gene-containing fragment was inserted into the animal cell expression vector treated with the same restriction enzymes, thus providing pcmvEP.
  • This expression vector carrying an EPO gene was transfected into CHO cells allowing protein expression using a Lipofectamine reagent (Gibco) .
  • the cells were treated with MTX, and MTX concentrations gradually increased to 120 nM to elevate expression levels. EPO was expressed at high levels, higher than 100 mg per liter.
  • the reaction mixture was subjected to size exclusion chromatography using a Superdex R column (Pharmacia) .
  • the EPO-PEG complex was eluted from the column using 10 mM potassium phosphate buffer (pH 6.0) as an elution buffer, and EPO not linked to PEG, unreacted PEG and dimer byproducts where PEG was linked to two EPO molecules were removed.
  • the purified EPO- PEG complex was concentrated to 5 mg/ml.
  • the immunoglobulin constant region fragment (about 53 kDa) prepared in the ⁇ 4-3> was dissolved in 10 mM phosphate buffer and mixed with the EPO-PEG complex at an EPO-PEG complex: constant region molar ratio of 1:1, 1:2, 1:4 and 1:8.
  • a reducing agent, NaCNBH 3 was added to the reaction solution at a final concentration of 20 mM and was allowed to react at 4°C for 20 hrs with gentle agitation.
  • the optimal reaction molar ratio for EPO-PEG complex to constant region fragment providing the highest reactivity and generating the fewest byproducts such as dimers, was found to be 1:2.
  • the reaction mixture was subjected to high-pressure liquid chromatography so as to eliminate unreacted substances and byproducts.
  • the coupling reaction solution was desalted using a HiPrep 26/10 desalting column (Pharmacia) with 10 mM Tris buffer (pH 8.0). Then, the reaction solution was then loaded onto 50 ml of a Q HP 26/10 column (Pharmacia) at a flow rate of 8 ml/min, and this column was eluted with a linear NaCI gradient of 0-0.2 M to obtain desired fractions.
  • Aranesp (Amgen) having greater sialic acid content to increase the half-life
  • test group the EPO-PEG-Fc conjugate (test group) prepared in the ⁇ 5-3> of Example 5 were subcutaneously injected at a dose of 100 ⁇ g/kg to five SD rats per group. After the subcutaneous injection, blood samples were collected at 0.5, 1, 2, 4, 6, 12, 24 and 48 hrs in the control groups, and, in the test groups, at 1, 12, 24, 30,
  • the blood samples were collected in 1.5 ml tubes, coagulated, and centrifuged for 10 min using an Eppendorf high-speed micro centrifugator to remove blood cells. Serum protein levels were measured by ELISA using an antibody specific to EPO. Table 3, below, and FIG. 5 show serum- half-lives of the native protein and the protein conjugate, respectively.
  • EPO-PEG-Fc (E. coli) protein conjugate prepared using the immunoglobulin constant region produced according to the present invention as a carrier, exhibited a longer serum half-life than the native EPO. This extended half- life was found to be higher than that of Aranesp, a hyperglycosylated EPO having a ' long serum half-life.
  • the present method allows mass production of an immunoglobulin constant region in a water-soluble form using an E. coli signal sequence.
  • the produced immunoglobulin constant region is useful when linked to a physiologically active protein for enhancing the serum half-life and physiological activity of the physiologically active protein with no risk of inducing immune responses .
  • INTERNATIONAL DEPOSITARY AUTHORITY Name Korean Culture Center of Microorganisms Signatured) of person(s) having the power to represent the International Depositary Address ' ⁇ 361-221, Yurim B D Authority or of autl Ho ⁇ gje-1-dong, Seodaemun-gu SEOUL 120-091 Date: Sep. 21.
  • INTERNATIONAL DEPOSITARY AUTHORITY Name Korean Culture Center of Microorganisms Signature(s) of person(s) having the power to represent the International Depositary Address : 361-221. Yurim B D Authority or of mt o ⁇ acti atfi ⁇ LsX, Hongje-1-dong, Seodaemun-gu SEOUL 120-091 Date: Sep. 21.

Abstract

Disclosed are a recombinant expression vector comprising a nucleotide sequence encoding an E. coli-derived signal sequence and a nucleotide sequence encoding an immunoglobulin constant region, and a transformant transformed with the expression vector. Also, disclosed is a method of mass-producing an immunoglobulin constant region by culturing the transformant and expressing the immunoglobulin constant region in a water-soluble form.

Description

METHOD FOR THE MASS PRODUCTION OF IMMUNOGLOBULIN CONSTANT REGION
Technical Field
■ The present invention relates to a recombinant expression vector comprising a nucleotide sequence encoding an E. coli-derived signal sequence and a nucleotide sequence encoding an immunoglobulin constant region, a transformant transformed with the expression vector, and a method of mass-producing an immunoglobulin constant region by culturing the transformant and expressing the immunoglobulin constant region in a water-soluble form.
Background Art
With advances in genetic engineering, a large number of protein drugs have been prepared and utilized. However, protein drugs are susceptible to denaturator or proteolytic degradation in the body, and it is difficult to sustain in vivo concentrations and titers for a long period of time. Developing a technique to maintain the in vivo concentrations of protein drugs at suitable levels by enhancing protein stability is important to promote the efficacy of therapy, to help the patients who need to take their protein drug in frequent injections and to reduce the cost of treatment. Many attempts have been made to enhance the in vivo stability of protein drugs for a long time, and such attempts include the changing a protein formulation, fusing a protein to another protein, or chemically or biologically attaching a suitable polymer to the surface of a protein. One of such technique is making a fusion protein with the immunoglobulin Fc fragment . The Fc fragment mediates effector functions such as complement-dependent cytotoxicity (CDC) or antibody-dependent cell-mediated cytotoxicity (ADCC) , as well as antigen binding capacity that is the unique function of immunoglobulins . Also, the Fc fragment contains a sequence participating in the binding to the neonatal Fc receptor (FcRn) , which plays a role in regulating serum IgG levels by increasing the transport of maternal IgG to neonates and the half-life of the IgG (Ghetie and Ward, Immunology Today 18: 592-598, 1997), and the sequence regulates the interaction between protein A and protein G. Through the fusion of this Fc fragment with a therapeutic protein, many studies have been performed to enhance the stability of the therapeutic protein. For example, Korean Pat. No. 249572 discloses a fusion protein which is prepared by linking an IgGl heavy chain constant region (Fc) at an amino terminal end thereof to a carboxyl terminal end of a protein, such as IL4 receptor, IL7 receptor, G-CSF receptor or EPO receptor, and producing the resulting fusion protein in mammalian cells. U.S. Pat. No. 5,605,690 describes a fusion protein comprising tumor necrosis factor receptor fused at its carboxyl terminal end to a human IgGl Fc derivative, the fusion protein being produced in animal cells. Also, Tanox Inc. reported in U.S. Pat. Nos. 5,723,125 and 5,908,626 that a hybrid molecule comprises human interferon alpha or beta linked at its carboxyl terminal end to native human IgG4 Fc through a peptide linker and is produced in animal cells. Lexigen Inc., as described in International PCT Application Publication No. WO 00/69913, prepared a native IgGl Fc linked at its carboxyl terminal end to the amino terminal end of human interferon by genetic recombination without the use of a linker and produced the fusion protein in animal cells. U.S. Pat. Publication No. 20030082679 discloses a fusion protein with an extended serum half-life, which comprises human G-CSF linked at its carboxyl terminal end to the amino terminal end of IgGl Fc and is produced in animal cells. U.S. Pat. Publication No. 20010053539, U.S. Pat. No. 6,030,613, International PCT Application Publication Nos. WO 99/02709 and WO 01/03737 and European Pat. No. 0464533B1 disclose an Fc fusion protein with a longer serum half-life than a native protein, which comprises an IgGl Fc or Fc derivative linked at its amino terminal end through a peptide linker or without a peptide linker to the carboxyl terminal end of human EPO, TPO, human growth hormone or human interferon beta, the Fc fusion protein being produced in animal cells. These Fc fusion proteins, as described above, increase the serum half-life of a target protein, but are problematic in terms of mediating effector functions by the Fc fragment
(U.S. Pat. No. 5,349,053). Through the effector functions of the Fc fragment, they fix complements or bind to cells expressing FcγRs, leading to lysis of specific cells, and induce the production and secretion of several cytokines inducing inflammation, leading to unwanted inflammation. Also, the fusion creates a new amino acid sequence at a connection region between the Fc fragment and the protein partner, which could potentially induce immune responses upon administration for a long time. In this regard, many efforts have been made to prepare an immunoglobulin or immunoglobulin fragment having a long serum half-life but being deficient in effector functions . Cole et al. reported that, when amino acid residues of the CH2 region at positions 234, 235 and 237, known to play an important role in the binding to Fc receptors, are replaced with alanine to produce an Fc derivative having a reduced binding affinity to Fc receptors, the ADCC activity is inhibited (Cole et al., J. Immunol . 159: 3613-3621, 1997) . However, in all of these variants, Fc may have increased immunogenicity or antigenicity compared to the native human Fc fragment due to the presence of unsuitable amino acids and may lose preferable Fc functions. Among methods of deleting or reducing undesirable effector functions while maintaining high serum concentrations of an immunoglobulin, one is based on removing sugar moieties from the immunoglobulin. As described in U.S. Pat. No. 5,585,097, an aglycosylated antibody derivative as an anti-CD3 antibody can be prepared by replacing a glycosylated residue of antibodies, the asparagine residue at position 297 of the CH2 domain, with another amino acid. This aglycosylated antibody derivative exhibits reduced effector functions, but still retains its binding affinity to FcRn receptor with no change of serum half-life. However, this derivative is also problematic in terms of being potentially recognized as a foreign material and rejected by the immune system due to the production of a novel recombinant construct having an abnormal sequence. U.S. Pat. Publication No. 20030073164 discloses a method of producing an Fc derivative using E. coli devoid of glycosylation ability so as to prepare a therapeutic antibody deficient in effector functions. The American company Amgen Inc. described, in U.S. Pat. No. 6,660,843 and U.S. Pat. Publication Nos. 20040044188 and 20040053845, a human IgGl Fc derivative having amino acid deletions at the first five amino acid residues of the hinge region, which is fused to the amino or carboxyl terminal end of a therapeutic protein or a therapeutic protein mimicked by \ a peptide, and the production thereof using an E. coli host. However, this fusion protein not having a signal sequence is expressed as inclusion bodies and thus must be subjected to an additional refolding process. This protein refolding process reduces yields, and especially in a protein present as a homodimer or a heterodimer, remarkably reduces dimer production. Also, when a protein not having a signal sequence is expressed in E. coli, a methionine residue is added to the N-terminus of the expression product due to the feature of the protein expression system of E. coli . The aforementioned expression products of Amgen Inc. have an N- terminal methionine residue, which may induce immune responses upon repeated or excessive administration to the body. Also, since these fusion molecules are expressed in a fusion protein form in E. coli through linking a gene encoding a therapeutic protein to an Fc gene, they are difficult to express in E. coli, or a therapeutic protein is difficult to produce in E. coli if its expression in E. coli in a fused form results in a significant decrease or loss or activity. Further, since the fusion of two molecules creates a non-naturally occurring abnormal amino acid sequence at the connection region between two proteins, the fusion protein could be potentially recognized as "non-self" by the immune system and thus induce immune responses. To solve these problems, the present inventors previously prepared an Fc fragment and a protein drug as separate polypeptides not using a fusion method based on genetic recombination but using the best expression systems and covalently linking the two polypeptides together to use the Fc fragment as a drug carrier. In this case, it is possible to prepare a conjugate of a glycosylated polypeptide drug and an aglycosylated Fc, which does not induce undesirable immune responses but has satisfactory properties of physiological drug activity, in vivo duration and stability. In the above case, since it is preferable that the Fc is in an aglycosylated form, a prokaryotic expression system such as E. coli is used. Protein production methods using an E. coli expression system have several advantages compared to methods using animal cells, as follows. An E. coli expression vector can be easily constructed, thus allowing rapid evaluation for protein expression. Due to its rapid growth rate, E. coli allows mass production of a protein of interest at low cost. Also, a relatively simple expression process can be used. Thus, E. coli is more useful for commercial production than other host cells. However, there is no report of an industrially available useful method for mass production in E. coli of immunoglobulin constant regions that are present as inclusion bodies upon overexpression in E. coli . Thus, leading to the present invention, the intensive and through research into a method capable of mass- producing immunoglobulin constant regions such as an immunoglobulin Fc fragment, conducted by the present inventors, resulted in the finding that, when a nucleotide sequence encoding an immunoglobulin constant region such as an immunoglobulin Fc fragment is expressed in E. coli in a form fused to an E. coli signal sequence, the immunoglobulin constant region is expressed not as inclusion bodies but in a water-soluble form in E. coli .
Disclosure of the Invention It is therefore an object of the present invention to provide a method of mass-producing an immunoglobulin constant region, comprising transforming a prokaryotic cell with a recombinant expression vector including a nucleotide sequence encoding an E. coli-derived signal sequence and a nucleotide sequence encoding an immunoglobulin constant region; culturing a resulting transformant; and isolating and purifying the immunoglobulin constant region expressed in a water-soluble form by the transformant. It is another object of the present invention to provide an immunoglobulin constant region prepared by the above method.
Brief Description of the Drawings The above and other objects, features and other advantages of the present invention will be more clearly understood from the following detailed description taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings, in which: FIG. 1 shows the results of Western blotting of immunoglobulin Fc fragments expressed in E. coli transformants; FIG. 2 shows the results of non-reduced and reduced SDS-PAGE of dimeric immunoglobulin Fc fragments expressed in E. coli transformants; FIG. 3 shows the results of non-reduced and reduced SDS-PAGE of mono eric immunoglobulin Fc fragments expressed in E. coli transformants; FIG. 4 shows the results of ELISA for the Clq binding capacity of immunoglobulin Fc fragments expressed in E. coli transformants and a native immunoglobulin; and FIG. 5 is a graph showing the results of pharmacokinetic analysis of a native EPO, Aranesp and an EPO-PEG-.E. coli-derived Fc conjugate.
Best Mode for Carrying Out the Invention
In one aspect, the present invention relates to a method of mass-producing an immunoglobulin constant region, comprising transforming a prokaryotic cell with a recombinant expression vector including a nucleotide sequence encoding an E. coli-derived signal sequence and a nucleotide sequence encoding an immunoglobulin constant region; culturing a resulting transformant; and isolating and purifying the immunoglobulin constant region expressed in a water-soluble form by the transformant. Immunoglobulins are divided into variable regions that perform antibody functions of specifically binding to antigens and exhibit many variations on sequences, and constant regions that have fixed sequences and effector functions, including activating the complement system, conferring an ability to pass across the placenta and acting as ligands for receptors on various immune cells . The present invention relates to a method of mass- producing an immunoglobulin constant region useful as a carrier for protein drugs . The immunoglobulin constant region capable of being produced by the present invention may be a native form isolated from humans and other animals including goats, swine, mice, rabbits, hamsters, rats and guinea pigs, or may be a recombinant or a derivative thereof, obtained from transformed animal cells or microorganisms. Preferred may be a constant region of IgG, IgA, IgM, IgE and IgD from humans, or a combination or hybrid thereof. The term "combination", as used herein, means that polypeptides encoding single-chain immunoglobulin Fc fragments of the same origin is linked to a single-chain polypeptide of a different origin to form a dimer or multimer. The term "hybrid", as used. herein, means that sequences encoding two or more immunoglobulin Fc fragments of different origins are present in a single- chain immunoglobulin Fc fragment. The immunoglobulin may preferably be a constant region of IgGl, IgG2, IgG3 and lgG4, or a combination or hybrid thereof. In detail, there are five distinct types of heavy chains based on differences in the amino acid sequences of their constant regions: gamma (γ) , mu (μ) , alpha (α) , delta (δ) and epsilon (ε) , and the heavy chains include the following subclasses : gamma 1 (γl) , gamma 2 (γ2 ) , gamma 3 (γ3) , gamma 4 (γ4 ) , alpha 1 (αl) and alpha 2 (α2) . Also, there are two types of the light chains based on differences in the amino acid sequences of their constant regions : kappa (K) and lambda (λ) types. Nucleotide sequences encoding human immunoglobulin constant regions and amino acid sequencing limiting the same, useful in the present invention, may be those encoded by nucleotide sequences from GenBank and/or
EMBL database. The heavy chain constant region of IgG, IgA, IgM, IgE consists of three domains: CH1, CH2 and CH3, and the heavy chain of IgM further includes CH4. The light chain has one constant domain, CL. The immunoglobulin constant region of the present invention is one or more selected from the group consisting of CH1, CH2, CH3, CH4 and CL domains. The selected domain may be the whole or a fragment thereof (form having 30 or more amino acid deletions) . For example, a CHI domain, a CH2 domain, a CH3 domain and a CH4 domain; a CHI domain and a CH2 domain; a CHI domain and a CH3 domain; and a CH2 domain" and a CH3 domain may be selected. However, the arrangement of the selected domains is not specifically limited. The immunoglobulin constant region of the present invention includes an amino acid sequence derivative. The amino acid sequence derivative means to have a sequence in which one or more amino acid residues differ from a wild- type amino acid sequence, and may naturally occur or be artificially generated. The immunoglobulin constant region includes derivatives resulting from a deletion, an insertion, a non-conservative or conservative substitution or combinations thereof. An insertion is typically made by the addition of a consecutive amino acid sequence of about 1 to 20 amino acids, or may be made with a longer sequence. A deletion is typically in the range of about 1 to 30 amino acid residues . Amino acid exchanges in proteins and peptides, which do not generally alter the activity of the proteins, or peptides are known in the art (H. Neurath, R. L. Hill, The Proteins, Academic Press, New York, 1979) . The most commonly occurring exchanges are Ala/Ser, Val/Ile, Asp/Glu, Thr/Ser, Ala/Gly, Ala/Thr, Ser/Asn, Ala/Val, Ser/Gly, Thy/Phe, Ala/Pro, Lys/Arg, Asp/Asn, Leu/Ile, Leu/Val, Ala/Glu and Asp/Gly, in both directions. Such derivatives may be prepared by a chemical peptide synthesis method or a DNA sequence-based recombinant method, which are known in the art (Sambrook et al., Molecular Cloning, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, New York, USA, 2d Ed., 1989). In addition, the immunoglobulin constant region, if desired, may be modified by phosphorylation, sulfation, acrylation, glycosylation, methylation, farnesylation, acetylation, amidation, and the like. The present invention may include a hinge region that allow a dimer formation. The hinge region may include, in addition to a native form, derivatives by a deletion, an insertion, a non-conservative or conservative substitution or combinations thereof. The immunoglobulin derivative of the present invention is preferably a functional equivalent to its natural form having a similar biological activity, or, if desired, could be made by altering the property of the natural form. Preferably, the derivatives of the immunoglobulin constant region are proteins that have increased structural stability against heat, pH, etc., or solubility, or that have improved characteristics in terms of disulfide bond formation, compatibility with an expression host, complement binding, Fc receptor binding and antibody-dependent cell-mediated cytotoxicity (ADCC) , so long as the derivatives produced do not induce unwanted immune responses in humans and animals . Preferred derivatives are as follows . (1) A cysteine residue at a hinge region, responsible for disulfide bond formation, may be removed. Preferably, twelve residues among fifteen amino acids of the hinge region of IgGl, from the 1st amino acid, Glu, to the 12th amino acid, Pro, may be deleted to remove two cysteine residues. Also, nine residues among twelve amino acids of the hinge region of IgG4, from the 1st amino acid, Glu, to the 9th amino acid, Pro, may be deleted to remove 'one cysteine residue. This cysteine residue removal avoids the association with other proteins containing cysteine in host cells, thus improving expression levels and stability in a water-soluble form. (2) An IgGl constant region may be altered in a specific residue to have reduced affinity to Fc receptors mediating antibody-dependent cell-mediated cytotoxicity (ADCC) . A derivative produced may contain a deletion or a replacement with another amino acid in the leucine residue at position 234 of an IgGl CH2 sequence (see, the sequence from Kobat database for the numbering of the amino acid residues) . Most preferably, Leu234 is replaced by phenylalanine, an amino acid residue at a corresponding position in IgG4. Such a derivative is not an unfamiliar sequence to humans, and thus is not expected to induce immune responses when administered to humans. (3) A derivative of an IgGl hinge region may contain a substitution at the first amino acid, proline. A proline residue, unlike other amino acid residues forms a closed ring structure. If proline is present at an amino terminal end, it may negatively affect the protein expression and elimination of a signal sequence. In this regard, the proline residue may be replaced by another amino acid, preferably serine, an amino acid residue at a corresponding position in IgG4. As noted above, this derivative is not an unfamiliar sequence to humans, and thus is not expected to induce immune responses when administered to humans. The immunoglobulin constant region of the present invention includes a heavy chain constant region. Preferably, a heavy chain constant region containing a hinge region to allow the formation of an IgGl dimer has the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO. 25, 21, 22 or 23. A heavy chain constant region not containing a hinge region to allow the formation of an IgGl monomer has the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO. 27. Also, a heavy chain constant region containing a hinge region to allow the formation of an IgG2 dimer has the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO. 35. A heavy chain constant region containing a hinge region to allow the formation of an IgG4 dimer has the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO. 29 or 24. A heavy chain constant region not containing a hinge region to allow the formation of an IgG4 monomer has the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO. 30. In addition, the immunoglobulin constant region of the present invention includes a light chain constant region. Preferably, the immunoglobulin light chain constant region has the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO. 34. Further, the immunoglobulin constant region of the present invention includes both heavy chain and light chain constant regions. Preferred is a dimer or tetramer that contains a heavy chain constant region having the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO. 24 and a light chain constant region having the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO. 34. When an immunoglobulin heavy chain region is overexpressed in a prokaryotic cell such as E. coli so as to be produced in an aglycosylated form, it is not completely folded and forms insoluble, inactive inclusion bodies by various mechanisms . Since inclusion bodies do not have activity as proteins, they need an additional denaturation and refolding process, which is conjugate and time-consuming, in order to be converted to a soluble form having biological activity. Thus, there is a need for the establishment of a mass production system useful in prokaryotic cells for the expression of an immunoglobulin heavy chain region as inclusion bodies . E. coli proteins transported to the outside of the cytosol have an N-terminal sequence, which is typically cleaved off by a peptidase on the trans side of the membrane. By the sequence called "signal sequence" or "signal peptide", E. coli proteins are transported to the outside of the cytosol. The term "signal sequence", as used herein, refers to a specific amino acid sequence that allows transport and secretion of a protein to the outside of the cytosol. The signal sequence of the present invention is an E. coli- derived signal sequence, which an E. coli secretory protein possesses. The E. coli-derived signal sequence is composed of 18 to 30 amino acids, and has several common features, as follows. The typical signal sequence possesses a very short amino-terminal N-domain of one to several positively charged amino acids, followed by a relatively long hydrophobic region, H-domain. At the amino terminal end, many polar positively charged amino acids, such as Lys and Arg, are present. The H-domain mainly contains hydrophobic residues such as Ala and Leu. A C-domain is located between the H-domain and a protein to be practically secreted, and has a sequence recognized by a signal peptidase. A protein having such a signal sequence arrives at the membrane by interaction with several proteins and is then cleaved at a specific site by a signal peptidase, releasing the mature protein. Non-limiting examples of the E. coli-derived signal sequence include alkaline phosphatase, penicillinase, Ipp, heat-stable enterotoxin II, LamB, PhoE, PelB, OmpA and maltose binding protein. The signal sequence of the present invention includes derivatives resulting from a deletion, an insertion, a non-conservative or conservative substitution or combinations thereof, so long as a protein expressed along with the signal sequence is allowed to be secreted to the outside of the cytosol. In particular, derivatives improving secretion efficacy of a fusion protein may be desirable. The . signal sequence is preferably heat-stable enterotoxin II. The heat-stable enterotoxin II includes its native form having the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO. 36 as well as derivatives thereof. It was previously reported that an E. coli heat-stable enterotoxin II signal sequence derivative improves the secretion efficiency of various heterogeneous proteins in E. coli (Korean Pat. Registration No. 0316347) . An enterotoxin II derivative preferably has a replacement of an amino acid sequence of one or more amino acid residues at positions 2, 4, 5, 12, 20 and 22 by another amino acid sequence, and more preferably by the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO. 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45 or 46. In the detailed practice of the present invention, an enterotoxin II having the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO. 38 was used, which is encoded by the nucleotide sequence of SEQ ID NO. 12. A nucleic acid encoding the native enterotoxin II may be naturally isolated or synthesized by a gene synthesis method. An enterotoxin II derivative may be prepared by performing site-directed mutagenesis for a naturally isolated native form, or may be synthesized by a gene synthesis method. The term "fusion protein", as used herein, means two or more different polypeptides that are linked through a peptide bond to become a single-chain polypeptide, and may be easily prepared by a genetic recombination method allowing translation into a single polypeptide. With the objects of the present invention, the fusion protein refers to comprise an immunoglobulin constant region fused to an E. coli-derived signal sequence. The signal sequence and the immunoglobulin constant region are in frame and translated into a single chain under the control of a single promoter, but the signal sequence is finally removed by cleavage from the translated polypeptide. A method of preparing the fusion protein is not specifically limited. Preferably, based on recombinant DNA technologies, the fusion protein is prepared by digesting a nucleic acid sequence encoding a signal sequence and another nucleic acid sequence encoding an immunoglobulin constant region with general restriction enzymes and ligating them with each other using an enzyme such as ligase. A nucleic acid sequence encoding the fusion protein is expressed .in the form of being inserted into a recombinant expression vector. The term "recombinant expression vector", as used herein, which describes a vector capable of expressing a target protein in a suitable host cell, refers to a genetic construct that comprises essential regulatory elements to which a gene insert is operably linked in such a manner as to be expressed in a host cell. The term "operably linked", as used herein, refers to a functional linkage between a nucleic acid expression control sequence and a second nucleic acid sequence coding for a target protein in such a manner as to allow general functions. The operable linkage to a recombinant vector may be prepared using a genetic recombinant technique well known in the art, and site-specific DNA cleavage and ligation may be carried out using enzymes generally known in the art. A suitable expression vector includes expression regulatory elements, such as a promoter, an initiation codon, a stop codon, a polyadenylation signal and an enhancer. If E. coli is used as a host, the following promoters may be used: trp promoter, lac promoter, recA promoter, λP L promoter, lpp promoter and T7 promoter. If a host belongs to Bacillus sp., the following promoters may be used: SPOl promoter, SP02 promoter and penP promoter. However, the present invention is not limited to these examples . The initiation and stop codons are necessary to be functional in an individual to whom a genetic construct has been administered, and must be in frame with the coding sequence. The promoter of the vector may be constitutive or inducible. In addition, expression vectors include a selectable marker that allows selection of host cells containing the vector, and replicable expression vectors include a replication origin. The expression vector of the present invention is a vector essentially containing an E. coli signal sequence, and preferably containing an E. coli heat-stable enterotoxin II signal sequence. A vector, which includes an enterotoxin II Shine-Dalgarno (SD) sequence along with an enterotoxin II signal sequence, is more preferable because it further enhances expression levels of a target protein. In the present invention, to express an enterotoxin II signal sequence-immunoglobulin heavy chain region fusion protein, a nucleotide sequence encoding an enterotoxin II Shine-Dalgarno (SD) sequence and an enterotoxin II signal sequence is linked to another nucleotide sequence encoding an immunoglobulin heavy chain region by a genetic recombination method in such a way as to be expressed in frame under the control of a promoter. In the detailed practice of the present invention, the following recombinant expression vectors are prepared: pSTIIGlCHl_3 expressing an immunoglobulin heavy chain region including an enterotoxin II signal sequence and the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO. 25; pSTIIdCGlFc expressing an immunoglobulin heavy chain region including an enterotoxin II signal sequence and the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO. 21; pSTIIdCGlSFc expressing an immunoglobulin heavy chain region including an enterotoxin II signal sequence and the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO. 22; pSTIIdCGlSFFc expressing an immunoglobulin heavy chain region including an enterotoxin II signal sequence and the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO. 23; pSTIIGlMo expressing an immunoglobulin heavy chain region including an enterotoxin II signal sequence and the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO. 27; pSTIIdCG2Fc expressing an immunoglobulin heavy chain region including an enterotoxin II signal sequence and the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO.. 35; pSTIldCG4Fc expressing an immunoglobulin heavy chain region including an enterotoxin II signal sequence and the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO. 29; pSTIIG4CHl_3 expressing an immunoglobulin heavy chain region including an enterotoxin II signal sequence and the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO. 24; and pSTIIG4Mo expressing an immunoglobulin heavy chain region including an enterotoxin II signal sequence and the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO. 30. In the detailed practice of the present invention, a recombinant expression vector, pSTIIG4H_K, expresses an immunoglobulin'' heavy chain constant region including an enterotoxin II signal sequence and the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO. 24, and an immunoglobulin light chain region including an enterotoxin II signal sequence and the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO. 34, under the control of independent promoters. The recombinant expression vectors expressing the fusion proteins are transformed into host cells. With respect to the objects of the present invention, the host cells are prokaryotic cells where glycosylation does not occur. Examples of these prokaryotic cells include Escherichia coli, Bacillus subtilis, Streptomyces, Pseudomonas, Proteus mirabilis or Staphylococcus . Preferred is E. coli . Non-limiting examples of E. coli strains include BL21 (DE3) , JM109, DH series, TOP10 and HB101, and the BL21 (DE3) strain is more preferable. When E. coli is used as a host cell, since E. coli does not have a system for protein glycosylation, an immunoglobulin constant region is produced in the form of being devoid of sugar moieties that are present in a CH2 domain of a native immunoglobulin. Sugar moieties of the immunoglobulin CH2 domain do not affect the structural stability of immunoglobulins, but cause immunoglobulins to mediate antibody-dependent cell-mediated cytotoxicity (ADCC) upon association with cells expressing Fc receptors and immune cells to secrete cytokines to induce inflammation. Also, the sugar moieties bind to the Clq part of the first complement component Cl, leading to complement fixation. Thus, when an immunoglobulin constant region is produced in an aglycosylated form and linked to a therapeutic protein, the therapeutic protein is present in the serum for a prolonged period of time without the undesirable effector functions of immunoglobulins . The transformation of the recombinant expression vectors into prokaryotic cells includes any methods by which nucleic acids can be introduced into cells, and, as known in the art, may be performed by selecting suitable standard techniques according to host cells. These methods include, but are not limited to, electroporation, protoplast fusion, calcium phosphate (CaP04) precipitation, calcium chloride (CaCl2) precipitation, agitation with silicon carbide fiber, and PEG-, dextran sulfate- and lipofectamine-mediated transformation. In the detailed practice of the present invention, the recombinant expression vectors are individually introduced into E. coli, thus generating the following transformants: BL21/pSTIIGlCHl_3 (HM10935) transformed with pSTIIGlCHl_3; BL21/pSTIIdCGlFc (HM10927) transformed with pSTIIdCGlFc; BL21/pSTIIdCGlSFc (HM10928) transformed with pSTIIdCGlSFc; BL21/pSTIIdCGlSFFc (HM10929) transformed with pSTIIdCGlSFFc; BL21/pSTIIGlMo (HM10930) transformed with pSTIIGlMo; BL21/pSTIIdCG2Fc (HM10936) transformed with pSTIIdCG2Fc; BL21/pSTIIdCG4Fc (HM10932) transformed with pSTIIdCG4Fc; BL21/pSTIIG4CHl_3 (HM10931) transformed with pSTIIG4CHl_3; B 21/pSTIIG4Mo (HM10933) transformed with pSTITG4Mo; and BL21/pSTIIG4H_K(HM10934) transformed with pSTIIG4H_K. The transformants transformed with the recombinant expression vectors are cultured by a general method. Culture conditions may be easily adjusted by those skilled in the art to be suitable for selected bacterial strains . Typically, a medium used in the culturing should contain all nutrients essential for the growth and survival of cells . The medium should contain a variety of carbon sources, nitrogen sources and trace elements. Examples of available carbon sources include glucose, sucrose, lactose, fructose, maltose, starch, carbohydrates such as cellulose, fats such as soybean oil, sunflower oil, castor oil and coconut oil, fatty acids such as palmitic acid, stearic acid and linoleic acid, alcohols such as glycerol and ethanol, and organic acids such as acetic acid. These carbon sources may be used singly or in combination of two or more. Examples of available nitrogen sources include organic nitrogen sources, such as peptone, yeast extract, meat extract, malt extract, corn steep liquor (CSL) and soybean whey, and inorganic nitrogen sources, such as urea, ammonium sulfate, ammonium chloride, ammonium phosphate, ammonium carbonate and ammonium nitrate. These nitrogen sources may be used singly or in combinations of two or more . A phosphorus source may be contained in the medium, which includes potassium dihydrogen phosphate, dipotassium hydrogen phosphate and corresponding sodium-containing salts. In addition, the medium may contain a metal salt, such as magnesium sulfate or iron sulfate. The medium may further include amino acids, vitamins, suitable precursors, and the like. The pH of the culture may be adjusted by adding a compound, such as ammonium hydroxide, potassium hydroxide, ammonia, phosphoric acid and sulfuric acid, to the culture by a suitable method. Also, during the culturing, antifoaming agents, such as polyglycol fatty acid esters, may be used to prevent bubble formation. To maintain the culture at favorable states, oxygen or an oxygen-containing gas (e.g., air) is introduced into the culture. The temperature of the culture is generally 20°C to 45°C, and preferably 25°C to 45°C. After protein expression is confirmed in a small volume of the medium, large-scale expression may be carried out using a fermentor. Protein production using a fermentor should be carried out taking into consideration several factors, including the growth rate of host cells and protein expression levels . Protein expression may be induced through adding, for example, IPTG to the medium under suitable culture conditions . The immunoglobulin constant region fused to a signal sequence according to the present invention, expressed in a prokaryotic cell according to the above method, was surprisingly not expressed in the periplasmic space but was overexpressed in a water-soluble form in the cytoplasm, and the signal sequence Was accurately processed. In the detailed practice of the present invention, the amount of the fusion protein secreted into the medium or periplasmic space was negligible. When cells were disrupted and subjected to Western blotting, proteins were overexpressed in the cytoplasm in a water-soluble form. Also, amino acid analysis of the N-terminal region of an immunoglobulin heavy chain region expressed in the cytoplasm revealed that a signal sequence is accurately processed. This protein expression strategy is much more effective than conventional methods based on isolating active proteins from inclusion bodies as well as other conventional methods based on secreting target proteins into the periplasmic space or medium through fusion with various signal sequences . This is because the conventional methods have the following major disadvantages. First, the lipase protein aggregated by overexpression should undergo an additional complex process including dissolution and denaturation in a -suitable solution and refolding using a refolding agent such as urea, guanidine or arginine (Kohno, Meth. Enzym. 185:187-195, 1990). Despite this complex process, the protein refolding efficiency is very low, and refolded proteins have lower activities than soluble proteins. Thus, this refolding method has no industrial benefits. Second, there are large differences between proteins to be expressed as recombinant forms in the degree of secretion into the periplasmic space or medium, aggregation degree after secretion, expression efficiency, and the like. As known previously, expression efficiencies are very low relative to proteins expressed in soluble forms in the cytoplasm. Also, proteins can be present as inclusion bodies even when secreted into the periplasmic space. Thus, the present method provides a novel system useful for industrial mass production of immunoglobulin constant regions . An immunoglobulin constant region overexpressed according to the present method may be purified by a general technique. The immunoglobulin constant regions of the present invention, produced by the transformants, may be isolated and purified by disrupting cells using a French press, an ultrasonicator, etc., and subjecting a water- soluble fraction containing the immunoglobulin constant region to, for example, salting out (e.g., ammonium sulfate precipitation, sodium phosphate precipitation, etc.), solvent precipitation (e.g., protein fraction precipitation using acetone, ethanol, etc.), dialysis, various chromatographies, such as gel filtration, ion exchange and reverse phase column chromatography, and ultrafiltration. These techniques are used singly or in combinations of two or more to obtain a protein coding for the immunoglobulin constant region of the present invention (Maniatis et al . , Molecular Cloning: A Laboratory Manual, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y. (1982); Sambrook et al., Molecular Cloning: A Laboratory Manual, 2d Ed., Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press (1989); Deutscher, M., Guide to Protein Purification Methods Enzymology, vol. 182. Academic Press. Inc., San Diego, CA (1990)). In another aspect, the present invention relates to an immunoglobulin constant region prepared according to the above method. The immunoglobulin constant region produced in prokaryotic cells such as E. coli according to the present method does not specifically have limited industrial applications . One exemplary application is use as a carrier for the formation of a conjugate with a certain drug. Construction of the conjugate comprising the immunoglobulin constant region linked to a drug is not specifically limited. For example, the immunoglobulin constant region and the drug may be linked together at various ratios, and the linkage may be mediated, for example, through a linker. The drug includes polypeptides, compounds, extracts and nucleic acids. Preferred is a polypeptide drug (used with meaning identical to the word "protein") . The linker includes peptide and non-peptide linkers. Preferred is a non-peptide linker, and more preferred is a non-peptide polymer. A preferred example of the immunoglobulin heavy chain is Fc. If the serum half-life needs to be enhanced, any physiologically active polypeptide may be used without specific limitation as a protein partner of the immunoglobulin constant region prepared according to the present method to form a conjugate. Such physiologically active polypeptides include those used for treating or preventing human diseases, which include cytokines, interleukins, interleukin binding protein, enzymes, antibodies, growth factors, transcription regulatory factors, coagulation factors, vaccines, structural proteins, ligand proteins or receptors, cell surface antigens, receptor antagonists, and derivatives and analogues thereof. In detail, non-limiting examples of the physiologically active polypeptide include human growth hormone, growth hormone releasing hormone, growth hormone releasing peptide, interferons and interferon receptors (e.g., interferon-α, -β and -γ, water-soluble type I interferon receptor, etc.), colony stimulating factors, interleukins (e.g., interleukin-1, -2, -3, -4, -5, -6, -7, -8, -9, -10, -11, -12, -13, -14, -15, -16, -17, - 18, -19, -20, -21, -22, -23, -24, -25, -26, -27, -28, -29, -30, etc.) and interleukin receptors (e.g., IL-1 receptor, IL-4 receptor, etc.), enzymes (e.g., glucocerebrosidase, iduronate-2-sulfatase, alpha-galactosidase-A, agalsidase alpha and beta, alpha-L-iduronidase, butyrylcholinesterase, chitinase, glutamate decarboxylase, imiglucerase, lipase, uricase, platelet-activating factor acetylhydrolase, neutral endopeptidase, myeloperoxidase, etc. ) , interleukin and cytokine binding proteins (e.g., IL-18bp, TNF-binding protein, etc.), acrophage activating factor, macrophage peptide, B cell factor, T cell factor, protein A, allergy inhibitor, cell necrosis glycoproteins, immunotoxin, lymphotoxin, tumor necrosis factor, tumor suppressors, metastasis growth factor, alpha-1 antitrypsin, albumin, alpha-lactalbumin, apolipoprotein-E, erythropoietin, highly glycosylated erythropoietin, angiopoietins, hemoglobin, thrombin, thrombin receptor activating peptide, thrombomodulin, factor VII, factor Vila, factor VIII, factor IX, factor XIII, plasminogen activating factor, fibrin-binding peptide, urokinase, streptokinase, hirudin, protein C, C-reactive protein, renin inhibitor, collagenase inhibitor, superoxide dismutase, leptin, platelet-derived growth factor, epithelial growth factor, epidermal growth factor, angiostatin, angiotensin, bone growth factor, bone stimulating protein, calcitonin, insulin, atriopeptin, cartilage inducing factor, elcatonin, connective tissue activating factor, tissue factor pathway inhibitor, follicle stimulating hormone, luteinizing hormone, luteinizing hormone releasing hormone, nerve growth factors (e.g., nerve growth factor, ciliary neurotrophic factor, axogenesis factor-1, brain-natriuretic peptide, glial derived neurotrophic factor, netrin, neurophil inhibitor factor, neurotrophic factor, neuturin, etc.), parathyroid hormone, relaxin, secretin, somatomedin, insulin-like growth factor, adrenocortical hormone, glucagon, cholecystokinin, pancreatic polypeptide, gastrin releasing peptide, corticotropin releasing _ factor, thyroid stimulating hormone, autotaxin, lactoferrin, myostatin, receptors (e.g., TNFR(P75), TNFR(P55), IL-1 receptor, VEGF receptor, B cell activating factor receptor, etc.), receptor antagonists (e.g., ILl-Ra etc.), cell surface antigens (e.g., CD 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 11a, lib, 18, 19, 20, 23, 25, 33, 38, 40, 45, 69, etc.), monoclonal antibodies, polyclonal antibodies, antibody fragments (e.g., scFv, Fab, Fab', F(ab')2 and Fd) , and virus derived vaccine antigens. The physiologically active polypeptide useful in the present invention may be a native form, may be produced by genetic recombination using prokaryotic cells such as E. coli or eukaryotic cells such as yeast cells, insect cells and animal cells, or may be a derivative having one or more amino acid mutations but having the biological activity identical to the native form. In a preferred embodiment of the present invention, an immunoglobulin constant region fragment produced by the BL21/pSTIIdCGlSFFc (HM10929) transformant was linked to human erythropoietin (EPO) using a water-soluble polymer, polyethylene glycol, thus providing an EPO-PEG- immunoglobulin constant region protein conjugate. This protein conjugate was found to exhibit extended serum half- life compared to the native EPO and the second generation EPO having improved serum half-life, Aranesp (Amgen) . Thus, the immunoglobulin constant region produced in a water- soluble form using an E. coli signal sequence according to the present invention, in the form of being linked to a physiologically active polypeptide, may be useful for enhancing the serum half-life and physiological activity of the physiologically active polypeptide with no risk of inducing immune responses . A better understanding of the present invention may be obtained through the following examples which are set forth to illustrate, but are not to be construed as the limit of the present invention.
EXAMPLE 1: Construction of human immunoglobulin IgGl Fc constant region expression vector
<1-1> Construction of dimeric IgGl constant region expression vector To clone heavy chain and light chain constant regions including the CHI domain and hinge region of IgGl, RT-PCR was carried out using RNA isolated from human blood cells as a template, as follows. First, total RNA was isolated from about 6 ml of blood using a Qiamp RNA blood kit (Qiagen) , and gene amplification was performed using the total RNA as a template and a One-Step RT-PCR kit (Qiagen) . To amplify a heavy chain gene, a pair of primers represented by SEQ ID Nos . 1 and 2 was used, and to amplify a gene encoding the constant region of a kappa light chain, another pair of primers represented by SEQ ID Nos . 3 and 4 was used. To facilitate gene cloning, a HindiII recognition site was introduced into 5' primers of SEQ ID Nos. 1 and 3, and a BamHI recognition site containing a stop codon into 3' primers of SEQ ID Nos. 2 and 4. The amplified heavy chain and light chain constant region products were digested with Hindlll and BamHI, respectively, and inserted into a pBluscript SK (-) plasmid (Stratagen) treated with the same restriction enzyme, thus giving pBGlCHl-3 and pBK, respectively. DNA sequencing analysis revealed that two genes cloned into the cloning vector, IgGl heavy chain CH1- hinge-CH2-CH3 gene and light chain constant region gene, have nucleotide sequences of SEQ ID Nos. 5 and 6, respectively. To construct vectors expressing IgGl constant regions, PCR was carried out using the plasmid as prepared above as a template to amplify genes encoding the following constant region fragments . A pair of primers represented by SEQ ID Nos. 7 and 2 was designed to amplify the CHI, hinge region, CH2 and CH3 of IgGl. An Fc fragment lacking cysteine residues not participating in disulfide bond formation in the hinge region was amplified using three primer pairs of SEQ ID Nos. 8 and 2, 9 and 2, and 10 and 2. A gene amplified using a primer pair of SEQ ID Nos. 7 and 2 and the pBGlCHl-3 plasmid as a template contained the CH1- hinge-CH2-CH3 of IgGl and encoded a protein having the amino acid sequence represented by SEQ ID No. 25. SEQ ID No. 8 is a nucleotide sequence starting from the 13th residue, proline, of 15 amino acid residues of the hinge region (Glu Pro Lys Ser Cys Asp Lys Thr His Thr Cys Pro Pro Cys Pro; SEQ ID No. 26) . A gene amplified using a primer pair of SEQ ID Nos . 8 and 2 and the pBGlCHl-3 plasmid as a template encoded a protein having an amino acid sequence (SEQ ID No. 21) that encodes an amino terminal end starting from the Pro-Cys-Pro sequence of the hinge region and CH2 and CH3 domains, among the whole IgGl constant region. SEQ ID No. 9 was prepared by replacing the 13th proline residue of the hinge region with serine, and SEQ ID No. 10 was prepared by replacing the 13th proline residue of the hinge region with serine and the 4th leucine residue of the CH2 with phenylalanine . Thus, genes amplified using two primer pairs of SEQ ID Nos. 9 and 2; and 10 and 2 and the pBGlCHl- 3 plasmid as a template may express dimeric proteins (SEQ ID Nos. 22 and 23) through disulfide bonds between cystenine residues of the hinge region in host cells. To clone the amplified IgGl constant region fragments into an expression vector containing an E. coli signal sequence, an expression vector pT14SlSH-4T20V22Q (Korean Pat. No. 38061), previously developed by the present inventors, was used as a starting vector. This expression vector contains an E. coli heat-stable enterotoxin signal sequence derivative having the nucleotide sequence represented by SEQ ID No. 12. To facilitate cloning, a Stul recognition site was inserted into an end of the E. coli heat-stable enterotoxin signal sequence derivative of the pTl4SlSH-4T20V22Q plasmid through site-directed mutagenesis using a pair of primers represented by SEQ ID Nos. 13 and 14 to induce mutagenesis to introduce the Stul site at a nucleotide sequence coding for the last amino acid residue of the signal sequence. This insertion of the Stul site was identified to be successful by DNA sequencing. The resulting pT14SlSH-4T20V22Q plasmid containing a Stul site was designated as "pmSTII". The pmSTII plasmid was treated with Stul and BamHI and subjected to agarose gel electrophoresis, and a large fragment (4.7 kb) was purified, which contained the E. coli heat-stable enterotoxin signal sequence derivative. Then, the amplified genes were digested with BamHI and ligated with the linearized expression vector, thus providing pSTIIGlCHl_3 (PCR product obtained using the primers of SEQ ID Nos. 7 and 2), and pSTIIdCGlFc (PCR product obtained using the ι primers of SEQ ID Nos. 8 and 2), pSTIIdCGlSFc (PCR product obtained using the primers of SEQ ID Nos . 9 and 2) , and pSTIIdCGlSFFc (PCR product obtained using the primers of SEQ ID Nos. 10 and 2). The final expression vectors were transformed into E. coli BL21 (DE3) , and the resulting transformants were designated as
"BL21/pSTIIGlCHl_3(HM10935)", "BL21/pSTIIdCGlFc (HM10927)",
"BL21/pSTIIdCGlSFc (HM10928)" and "BL21/pSTIIdCGlSFFc (HM10929)". The transformants were deposited at the Korean
Culture Center of Microorganisms (KCCM; Yurim B/D, Honje 1- dong, Sudaemum-gu, Seoul, Republic of Korea) on Sep. 15,
2004 and assigned accession numbers KCCM-10600, KCCM-10588,
KCCM-10589 and KCCM-10594.
<l-2> Construction of monomeric IgGl constant region expression vector To clone an IgGl constant region to be expressed in a monomeric form, PCR was carried out using a pair of primers represented by SEQ ID Nos. 11 and 2 and the same template as in the above <1-1>. The PCR product was cloned into an expression vector, pmSTII, according to the same procedure as in the above <1- 1>, thus providing pSTIIGlMo (PCR product obtained using the primers of SEQ ID NOS. 11 and 2) . This expression vector was transformed into E. coli BL21 (DE3), and the resulting transformant was designated as "BL21/pSTIIGlMo (HM10930)", which was deposited at the Korean Culture Center of Microorganisms (KCCM) on Sep. 15, 2004 and assigned accession number KCCM-10595. A protein expressed by the expression vector is expressed from the CH2 domain and presents in a monomeric form because it lacks the hinge region, and has the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID No. 27.
EXAMPLE 2 : Construction of human immunoglobulin IgG2 Fc expression vector To clone an IgG2 Fc gene, RT-PCR was carried out according to the same method as in the <1-1> of Example 1 using RNA isolated from human blood cells as a template and a One-Step RT-PCR kit (Qiagen) . To obtain a desired gene sequence, a pair of primers represented by SEQ ID Nos. 31 and 32 was used. SEQ ID No. 31 is a nucleotide sequence starting from the 10th residue, proline, of 12 amino acid residues of the hinge region (Glu Arg Lys Cys Cys Val Glu Cys Pro Pro Cys Pro; SEQ ID NO. 33) . The gene amplified using the pair of primers represented by SEQ ID Nos. 31 and 32 was identified to contain an amino terminal end starting with the Pro-Cys-Pro sequence of the hinge region and CH2 and CH3 domains, among a full-length IgG2 Fc gene sequence, and has the nucleotide sequence of SEQ ID No. 35. To clone the amplified IgG2 Fc gene into an expression vector containing an E. coli signal sequence, the aforementioned pmSTII vector was used. According to a cloning procedure similar to that in the <1-1> of Example 1, the pmSTII plasmid was treated with Stul and BamHI and subjected to agarose gel electrophoresis, and a large fragment (4.7 kb) was purified, which contained the E. coli heat-stable enterotoxin signal sequence derivative. Then, the amplified IgG2 Fc gene was digested with BamHI and ligated with the linearized expression vector, thus providing pSTIIdCG2Fc. This vector expresses in a host cell a protein that has the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID No. 35 and is present in a dimeric form by disulfide bonds between cysteine residues in the hinge region. The final expression vector was transformed into E. coli BL21 (DE3) , and the resulting transformant was designated as "BL21/pSTIIdCG2Fc (HM10936)".
EXAMPLE 3: Construction of human immunoglobulin IgG4 constant region expression vector
<3-l> Construction of dimeric IgG4 constant region expression vector To clone a heavy chain constant region of human immunoglobulin IgG4, site-directed mutagenesis was carried out using the pBGlCHl-3 plasmid of the <1-1> of Example 1, containing an IgGl heavy chain constant region, as a template, thus providing a pBG4CHl-3 plasmid carrying a gene encoding the CH1-Hinge-CH2-CH3 of IgG4. DNA sequencing analysis revealed that the mutated DNA sequence contains a substitution of an IgG4 constant region for the IgGl constant region and has the nucleotide sequence of SEQ ID No. 15. PCR was carried out according to the same method as in Example 1 except for the use of different primers and the pBG4CHl-3 plasmid as a template. This PCR was carried out to remove cysteine residues not participating in disulfide bond formation from the 5'-end of an IgG4 constant region, using the pBG4CHl-3 plasmid as a template and a pair of primers represented by SEQ ID Nos. 16 and 17. SEQ ID No. 16 is a nucleotide sequence starting from the 10th residue, _ serine, of 12 amino acid residues of the IgG4 hinge region (Glu Ser Lys Tyr Gly Pro Pro Cys Pro Ser Cys Pro: SEQ ID No. 28) . SEQ ID No. 17 has a BamHI recognition site containing a stop codon. A gene amplified using the above primer pair encoded an amino terminal end starting from the Ser-Cys-Pro sequence of the hinge region and CH2 and CH3 domains, among the whole IgG4 constant region. The amplified gene was treated with BamHI and inserted into a StuI/BamHI-digested pmSTII plasmid, thus providing pSTIIG4Fc. A protein expressed by this expression vector has the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID No. 29 and is present in a dimeric form through disulfide bonds between cysteine residues of the hinge region. Also, to construct an expression vector for a constant region (CH1-Hinge-CH2-CH3) containing a CHI domain, PCR was carried out using the pBG4CHl-3 as a template and a pair of primers represented by SEQ ID Nos. 19 and 17, and the PCR product was cloned according to the same method as described above, thus providing pSTIIG4CHl_3. A protein expressed by this expression vector has the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID No. 24. In addition, a vector expressing both heavy chain and light chain constant regions of an immunoglobulin was constructed as follows. First, a desired gene was amplified using the pBK plasmid prepared in the <1-1> of Example 1 as a template and a set of primers represented by SEQ ID Nos . 20 and 4, and cloned into a pmSTII vector containing an E. coli heat-stable enterotoxin II signal sequence derivative, thus generating a pSTIIK plasmid. The pSTIIK plasmid included a gene fragment comprising a kappa light chain constant region linked to an E. coli heat-stable enterotoxin II signal sequence derivative. The pSTIIK plasmid was digested with Hindi11 and Sail to obtain an about 1.2-kb gene fragment containing sequences required for protein expression, including a promoter and a signal sequence. The 1.2-kb gene fragment was inserted into an Nrul site of the pSTIIG4CHl_3 vector, thus providing a pSTIIG4H_K vector. This expression vector expresses a heavy chain constant region and a light chain constant region under the control of different promoters, and the expressed products form a dimer or tetramer linked through free cysteine residues in each chain. The above expression vectors were individually transformed into E. coli BL21 (DE3) , and the resulting transformants were designated as "BL21/pSTIIG4CHl_3(HM10931)", "BL21/pSTIIdCG4Fc (HM10932)" and "BL21/pSTIIG4H_K (HM10934)", and deposited at KCCM (accession numbers: KCCM-10596, KCCM-10597 and KCCM-10599) .
<3-2> Construction of monomeric IgG4 constant region expression vector To clone an IgG4 constant region to be expressed as a monomer, an IgG4 CH2-3 gene was amplified using a pair of primers of SEQ ID Nos. 18 and 17 according to the same method as in the <3-l> of Example 3, and was cloned into an expression vector, pmSTII, thus providing a pSTIIG4Mo plasmid. This expression vector was transformed into E. coli BL21 (DE3) , and the resulting transformant was designated as "BL21/pSTIIG4Mo (HM10933)", which was deposited at KCCM on Sep. 21, 2004 and assigned accession number KCCM-10598. A protein expressed by the expression vector has the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID No. 30, is expressed from the CH2 domain, and is present in a monomeric form because it lacks the hinge region. The recombinant expression vectors, capable of expressing an immunoglobulin constant region in a water- soluble form in E. coli using an E. coli heat-stable enterotoxin II signal sequence derivative, and microorganisms transformed with the expression vectors are summarized in Table 1, below.
TABLE 1
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EXAMPLE 4: Expression and purification of immunoglobulin constant regions
<4-l> Expression and purification Bacterial transformants prepared in Examples 1, 2 were individually inoculated in a fermentor (Marubishi Company) and allowed to ferment, and were evaluated to determine whether they express immunoglobulin constant region fragments . First, each transformant was grown in 100 ml of LB medium with agitation overnight and inoculated in the fermentor for large-scale culture. The fermentor was maintained at 30°C or 35°C. To prevent conversion from an aerobic to an anaerobic environment, the cultures were aerated with 20-wm air and stirred at 500 rpm. To compensate for the insufficient nutrients for bacterial growth during fermentation, the cultures were supplemented with glucose and yeast extracts according to the fermented states of bacteria. When the cultures reached an OD6oo value of 80, an inducer, IPTG, was added to the cultures to induce protein expression. The cultures were further cultured for 40 to 45 hrs until the OD value at 600 nm increased to 100 to 120. The expression of immunoglobulin Fc in the E. coli transformants and the expressed sites, water solubility and dimer formation of the expressed lg Fc were examined as follows. To determine whether an expressed product is secreted to the fermentation fluid or the periplasmic space of E. coli by the signal sequence fused to the expression vector, the fermentation fluid was centrifuged to obtain a cell-free fermentation fluid and collect cells. The cell- free fermentation fluid and a periplasmic space solution obtained by osmotic shock of the collected cells were subjected to Western blot analysis. As a result, a very small amount of immunoglobulin Fc was detected. To investigate intracellular expression of lg Fc, cells were disrupted using an ultrasonicator (Misonix Company) . The resulting cell lysate was centrifuged to separate water- soluble substances from water-insoluble substances, and the water-soluble substances were subjected to Western blot analysis, as follows. The water-soluble substances were mixed with a protein sample buffer not containing a reducing agent such as DTT or β-mercaptoethanol, and separated on a 15% SDS-PAGE gel (Criterion Gel, Bio-Rad) . Then, proteins were transferred onto a nitrocellulose membrane and detected with an HRP-conjugated anti-human Fc antibody (Sigma) . As shown in FIG. 1, immunoglobulin Fc was overexpressed in a water-soluble form and located in the cytosol of E. coli . Also, products, expressed by transformants transformed with expression vectors expressing lg Fc having a portion of a hinge region, were expressed as dimers . In FIG. 1, lanes 1, 2 and 3 show products expressed in HM10927, HM10932 and HM10936, respectively, and lane 4 shows Fc generated by papain treatment of immunoglobulins produced in animal cells, which showed a slightly larger size due to its sugar moieties on the SDS-PAGE gel than that produced in E. coli . <4-2> N-terminal sequence analysis The water-soluble dimeric lg Fc fragments, which were located in the cytosol of E. coli as demonstrated in the above <4-l>, were designed to be translated in a fused form to a signal sequence. Thus, to determine whether the lg Fc fragments are located in E. coli cytosol in a form fused to the signal sequence when not secreted without signal sequence processing, N-terminal amino acid sequences of the lg Fc fragments were determined by the Basic Science Research Institute, Seoul, Korea. Samples used in the N- terminal amino acid sequence analysis were prepared as follows . First, a PVDF membrane (Bio-Rad) was immersed in methanol for about 2-3 sec to be activated, and was sufficiently wet with a blocking buffer (170 mM glycine, 25 mM Tris-HCl (pH 8.0), 20% methanol). The protein samples separated on a non-reduced SDS-PAGE gel, prepared in the above <4-l>, were blotted onto a PVDF membrane for about one hour using a blotting kit (Hoefer Semi-Dry Transfer unit, Amersham) . Proteins transferred onto the PVDF membrane were stained with a protein dye, Coomassie Blue R- 250 (Amnesco) , for 3-4 sec, and washed with a destaining solution (water: acetic acid: methanol = 5: 1: 4). Then, fragments containing proteins from the membrane were cut out with scissors and subjected to N-terminal sequence analysis . As a result, the IgGl Fc protein was found to have an N-terminal sequence of Pro-Cys-Pro-Ala-Pro-Glu-Leu-Leu-Gly- Gly, the lgG4 Fc protein had an N-terminal sequence of Ser- Cys-Pro-Ala-Pro-Glu-Phe-Leu-Gly-Gly, and the IgG2 Fc protein had an N-terminal sequence of Pro-Cys-Pro-Ala-Pro- Pro-Val-Ala-Gly-Pro . As apparent from these results, the Fc fragments expressed by the E. coli transformants of the present invention were found to have an accurate N-terminal sequence. These results indicate that, when expressed in a form fused to a signal sequence, the Fc fragments are not secreted to the extracellular membrane or periplasmic space, are accurately processed in the signal sequence even upon overexpression and are present in a water-soluble form in the cytosol . To determine the expression of immunoglobulin constant regions in the E. coli transformants, immunoglobulin constant regions were purified using a protein-A affinity column known to have strong affinity to immunoglobulin, as follows. E. coli cells collected by centrifuging fermentation fluids were disrupted by a microfluizer (Microfludics) to give cell lysates. The cell lysates were subjected to two- step column chromatography to purify recombinant immunoglobulin constant regions present in the cytosol. 5 ml of a protein-A affinity column (Pharmacia) was equilibrated with PBS, and the cell lysates were loaded onto the column at a flow rate of 5 ml/min. Unbound proteins were washed out with PBS, and bound proteins were eluted with 100 mM citrate (pH 3.0). The collected fractions were desalted using a HiPrep 26/10 desalting column (Pharmacia) with 10 mM Tris buffer (pH 8.0). Then, secondary anion exchange column chromatography was carried out using 50 ml of a Q HP 26/10 column (Pharmacia) . The primary purified recombinant immunoglobulin constant regions were loaded onto the Q-Sepharose HP 26/10 column, and the column was eluted with a linear gradient of 0-0.2 M NaCI in 10 mM Tris buffer (pH 8.0), thus providing highly pure fractions. After being partially purified using the protein-A affinity column, expression levels of the recombinant lg constant regions were determined, and the results are given in Table 2, below.
TABLE 2
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<4-3> Analysis of expressed proteins Since the immunoglobulin constant regions thus obtained are present in a dimeric or monomeric form of the heavy chain, they have different migration patterns on reduced SDS-PAGE and non-reduced SDS-PAGE. The results of SDS-PAGE analysis, performed to determine protein purities after expressed products were purified, are given in FIGS. 2 and 3. FIGS. 2 and 3 show the results of SDS-PAGE analysis of the purified immunoglobulin constant regions in a dimeric or monomeric form under non-reduced and reduced conditions using a criterion gel (Bio-Rad) , wherein the constant regions were evaluated for differential migration on reduced versus non-reduced gels. In FIG. 2, the A region shows proteins separated on a non-reduced SDS-PAGE gel, and the B region shows proteins on a reduced SDS-PAGE gel. Lane M indicates a prestained low-range standard protein marker (Bio-Rad) , and lanes 1 to 4 indicate protein samples for immunoglobulin constant regions produced by E. coli transformants, HM10927, HM10928, HM10929 and HM10932 respectively. As shown in FIG. 2, on reduced SDS-PAGE, the lg Fc fragments were present in a monomeric form because disulfide bonds formed between cysteine residues of the hinge region were reduced, and were thus migrated the monomer distance. In contrast, on non-reduced SDS-PAGE, the lg Fc fragments were present in a dimeric form by disulfide bonds and thus had a migration distance of about 42 kDa. In FIG. -3, the A region shows proteins separated on a non-reduced SDS-PAGE gel, and the B region shows proteins on a reduced SDS-PAGE gel. Lane M indicates the standard protein marker, and lanes 1 and 2 indicate protein samples for immunoglobulin constant regions produced by E. coli transformants, HM10930 and HM10934, respectively. As shown in FIG. 2, the proteins did not show a large difference in migration on reduced versus non-reduced .gels, and only displayed a slightly different migration due to the reduction of intramolecular disulfide bonds.
EXAMPLE 5: Clq binding assay-using ELISA
To determine whether the derivatives prepared in Example 4 and proteins corresponding to the constant regions of immunoglobulins, expressed- in the E. coli transformants and purified, bind to human Clq, an enzyme linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) was carried out as follows. As test groups, immunoglobulin constant regions produced by the' HM10929, HM10930, HM10932 and HM10933 transformants prepared in the above Examples were used. As standards, a glycosylated immunoglobulin (IVIGG-globulin S, Green Cross PBM) was used. The test and standard samples were prepared in 10 mM carbonate buffer (pH 9.6) at a concentration of 1 μg/ml . The samples were aliquotted into a 96-well plate (Nunc) in an amount of 200 ng per well, and the plate was coated overnight at 4°C. Then, each well was washed with PBS-T (137 mM NaCI, 2 mM KCl, 10 mM Na2HP04, 2 mM KH2P04, 0.05% Tween 20) three times, • blocked with 250 μl of a blocking buffer (1% bovine serum albumin in PBS-T) at room temperature for 1 hr, and washed again with the same PBS-T three times . The standard and test samples were diluted in PBS-T to a predetermined concentration and added to antibody-coated wells, and the plate was incubated at room temperature for 1 hr and washed with PBS-T three times. Thereafter, 2 μg/ml Clq (R&D Systems) was added to the plate and reacted at room temperature for 2 hrs, and the plate was washed with PBS-T six times. 200 μl of a 1:1000 dilution of a human anti-human Clq antibody- peroxidase conjugate (Biogenesis, USA) in the blocking buffer was added to each well and reacted at room temperature for 1 hr. After each well was washed with PBS-T three times, equal volumes of color reagents A and B (Color A: stabilized peroxide and Color B: stabilized chromogen; DY 999, R&D Systems) were mixed, and 200 μl of the mixture was added to each well, followed by incubation for 30 min. Then, 50 μl of a reaction termination solution, 2 M sulphuric acid, was added to each well . The plate was read using a microplate reader (Molecular Device) . Absorbance of standard and test samples was measured at 450 nm, and the results are given in FIG. 4, respectively. As shown in FIG. 4, the immunoglobulin constant region proteins produced in E. coli according to the present invention exhibited markedly reduced binding affinity to Clq. These results indicate that the immunoglobulin constant region proteins of the present invention rarely have the risk of inducing immune responses such as cytotoxicity and inflammation in the body when used as a carrier for physiologically active polypeptides in a conjugate form.
EXAMPLE 6: Preparation and pharmacokinetic analysis of human EPO conjugate
<6-l> Preparation of human EPO To prepare a human EPO (erythropoietin) conjugate, first, an EPO gene was amplified by RT-PCR using total RNA isolated from blood cells and cloned into a pBluscript II (Stratagen) vector, thus generating a pBlueEP vector. To transfer the cloned EPO gene into an animal cell expression vector pCMV/dhfr-, the pBlueEP was digested with HindiII and BamHI, and an EPO gene-containing fragment was inserted into the animal cell expression vector treated with the same restriction enzymes, thus providing pcmvEP. This expression vector carrying an EPO gene was transfected into CHO cells allowing protein expression using a Lipofectamine reagent (Gibco) . The cells were treated with MTX, and MTX concentrations gradually increased to 120 nM to elevate expression levels. EPO was expressed at high levels, higher than 100 mg per liter.
<6-2> Preparation of human EPO-PEG complex 3.4-kDa polyethylene glycol having an aldehyde reactive group at both ends, ALD-PEG-ALD (Shearwater) , was mixed with the EPO prepared in the <6-l>, dissolved in 100 mM phosphate buffer in an amount of 5 mg/ml, at an EPO: PEG molar ratio of 1:1, 1:2.5, 1:5, 1:10 and 1:20. To this mixture, a reducing agent, sodium cyanoborohydride (NaCNBH3, Sigma) , was added at a final concentration of 20 mM and was allowed to react at 4°C for 2 hrs with gentle agitation to allow PEG to link to the amino terminal end of EPO. To obtain a 1:1 complex of PEG and EPO, the reaction mixture was subjected to size exclusion chromatography using a SuperdexR column (Pharmacia) . The EPO-PEG complex was eluted from the column using 10 mM potassium phosphate buffer (pH 6.0) as an elution buffer, and EPO not linked to PEG, unreacted PEG and dimer byproducts where PEG was linked to two EPO molecules were removed. The purified EPO- PEG complex was concentrated to 5 mg/ml. Through this experiment, the optimal reaction molar ratio for EPO to PEG, providing the highest reactivity and generating the smallest amount of byproducts such as dimers, was found to be 1:2.5 to 1:5.
<6-3> Preparation of conjugate of human EPO-PEG complex and recombinant immunoglobulin constant region The EPO-PEG complex prepared in the <6-2> was linked to an immunoglobulin constant region produced by the
HM10929 in the <4-3> of Example 4. In detail, the immunoglobulin constant region fragment (about 53 kDa) prepared in the <4-3> was dissolved in 10 mM phosphate buffer and mixed with the EPO-PEG complex at an EPO-PEG complex: constant region molar ratio of 1:1, 1:2, 1:4 and 1:8. After the phosphate buffer concentration of the reaction solution was adjusted "to 100 mM, a reducing agent, NaCNBH3, was added to the reaction solution at a final concentration of 20 mM and was allowed to react at 4°C for 20 hrs with gentle agitation. Through this experiment, the optimal reaction molar ratio for EPO-PEG complex to constant region fragment, providing the highest reactivity and generating the fewest byproducts such as dimers, was found to be 1:2. After the coupling reaction, the reaction mixture was subjected to high-pressure liquid chromatography so as to eliminate unreacted substances and byproducts. The coupling reaction solution was desalted using a HiPrep 26/10 desalting column (Pharmacia) with 10 mM Tris buffer (pH 8.0). Then, the reaction solution was then loaded onto 50 ml of a Q HP 26/10 column (Pharmacia) at a flow rate of 8 ml/min, and this column was eluted with a linear NaCI gradient of 0-0.2 M to obtain desired fractions. The collected fractions were again loaded onto a polyCAT 21.5x250 column equilibrated with 10 mM acetate buffer (pH 5.2) at a flow rate of 15 ml/min, and this column was eluted with a linear NaCI gradient of 0.1-0.3 M, thus providing highly pure fractions .
<6-4> Pharmacokinetic analysis The native EPO prepared in the <5-l> of Example 5,
Aranesp (Amgen) having greater sialic acid content to increase the half-life, and the EPO-PEG-Fc conjugate (test group) prepared in the <5-3> of Example 5 were subcutaneously injected at a dose of 100 μg/kg to five SD rats per group. After the subcutaneous injection, blood samples were collected at 0.5, 1, 2, 4, 6, 12, 24 and 48 hrs in the control groups, and, in the test groups, at 1, 12, 24, 30,
48, 72, 96, 120, 144, 168, 192, 240, 288, 336 and 384 hrs.
The blood samples were collected in 1.5 ml tubes, coagulated, and centrifuged for 10 min using an Eppendorf high-speed micro centrifugator to remove blood cells. Serum protein levels were measured by ELISA using an antibody specific to EPO. Table 3, below, and FIG. 5 show serum- half-lives of the native protein and the protein conjugate, respectively.
The EPO-PEG-Fc (E. coli) protein conjugate, prepared using the immunoglobulin constant region produced according to the present invention as a carrier, exhibited a longer serum half-life than the native EPO. This extended half- life was found to be higher than that of Aranesp, a hyperglycosylated EPO having a' long serum half-life.
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As described hereinbefore, the present method allows mass production of an immunoglobulin constant region in a water-soluble form using an E. coli signal sequence. The produced immunoglobulin constant region is useful when linked to a physiologically active protein for enhancing the serum half-life and physiological activity of the physiologically active protein with no risk of inducing immune responses . BUDAPEST TBEATY ON THE INTERNATIONAL RECOGNITION OF THE DEPOSIT OF MICROORGANISMS FOR THE PURPOSES OF PATENT PROCEDURE
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1. A method of producing an immunoglobulin constant region, comprising: transforming a prokaryotic cell with a recombinant expression vector including a nucleotide sequence encoding an E. coli-derived signal sequence and a nucleotide sequence encoding an immunoglobulin constant region; culturing a resulting transformant; and isolating and purifying the immunoglobulin constant region expressed by the transformant.
2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the immunoglobulin constant region is selected from the group consisting of constant regions from IgG, IgA, . IgM, IgE, IgD, and combinations and hybrids thereof.
3. The method according to claim 2, wherein the IgG is selected from the group consisting of constant regions from IgGl, IgG2, IgG3, IgG4, and combinations and hybrids thereof.
4. The method according to claim 3, wherein the immunoglobulin constant region is an IgG4 constant region.
5. The method according to claim 4, wherein the immunoglobulin constant region is a human aglycosylated IgG4 constant region.
6. The method according to claim 1, wherein the immunoglobulin constant region is composed of one to four domains selected from the group consisting of CH1, CH2, CH3, CH4 and C domains .
7. The method according to claim 6, wherein the immunoglobulin constant region further comprises a hinge region.
8. The method according to claim 1, wherein the recombinant expression vector comprises a nucleotide sequence encoding a heavy chain constant region and a nucleotide sequence encoding a light chain constant region.
9. The method according to claim 1, wherein the immunoglobulin constant region has an amino acid sequence represented by SEQ ID NO. 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 27, 29, 30, 34 or 35.
10. The method according to claim 1, wherein the E. coli-derived signal sequence is a signal sequence selected from the group consisting of alkaline phosphatase, penicillinase, Ipp, heat-stable enterotoxin II, LamB, PhoE, PelB, OmpA and maltose binding protein.
11. The method according to claim 10, wherein the heat-stable enterotoxin II signal peptide has an amino acid sequence represented by SEQ ID NO. 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45 or 46.
12. The method according to claim 1, wherein the recombinant expression vector is pSTIIGlCHl_3, pSTIIdCGlFc, pSTIIdCGlSFc, pSTIIdCGlSFFc, pSTIIGlMo, pSTIIdCG2Fc, pSTIIdCG4Fc, pSTIIG4CHl_3, pSTIIG4Mo, or pSTIIG4H_K.
13. The method according to claim 1, wherein the transformant is E. coli
BL21/pSTIIGlCHl_3(HM10935) , BL21/pSTIIdCGlFc (HM10927), BL21/pSTIIdCGlSFc (HM10928) , BL21/pSTIIdCGlSFFc (HM10929) , BL21/pSTIIGlMo (HM10930) , BL21/pSTIIdCG2Fc (HM10936) , BL21/pSTIIdCG4Fc (HM10932) , BL21/pSTIIG4CHl_3 (HM10931) , BL21/pSTIIG4Mo (HM10933) , or BL21/pSTIIG4H_K (HM10934).
14. The method according to claim 1, wherein 'the transformant is E. coli .
15. An immunoglobulin constant region prepared by the method of claim 1.
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