A method and kit are provided for selectively isolating genes encoding membrane-bound proteins by fusing proteins to a secretable protein having a binding affinity to an antigen (e.g., an antibody), expressing these fusions in host cells, and selectively isolating individual host cells by their ability to bind the antigen via the fusion protein. Host cells expressing fusion proteins that do not contain a membrane binding domain will be relatively unable to bind the antigen, since the fusion proteins in those cells are secreted and unattached to their host cells. The method and kit disclosed herein are particularly useful for identifying genes for membrane-bound proteins represented in cDNA libraries.

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›TECHNICAL FIELD

The present invention relates to a novel gene-cloning-method for selectively and efficiently isolating genes encoding membrane-bound proteins.

›BACKGROUND ART

Proteins synthesized in cells can be categorized by their individual characteristics into those localized in intracellular organelles, such as nucleus, mitochondria, cytoplasm, etc.; those that function by binding to the cell membrane, such as receptors and channeling molecules; and those that function by being secreted to the cell exterior, such as growth factors and cytokines, etc. In particular, protein molecules bound to the cell membrane are responsible for biologically important functions, such as cellular responses towards growth factors and differentiation factors, inflammatory responses, cell-cell interactions, hormone responses, and so on, and therefore, can be target molecules for diagnostic and therapeutic drugs for various types of disorders.

In recent years, as typified by the genome-project, mass gene-cloning-methods employing random approaches are being conducted, and enormous gene sequence information such as large amounts of ESTs (Expressed Sequence Tags) are accumulated (Matsubara, K. Artificial Organs (1996) 20, 823-827). However, the identification of a protein having a desired function from these ESTs is by no means an easy task, and in order to predict and analyze the function of an encoded-protein from gene sequence information, a great deal of time and efforts are required. Therefore, a method to select, at least upto a certain extent, a gene encoding a protein expected to have a desired function at the stage of random cDNA cloning has been long awaited.

Cloning methods utilizing protein localization were developed as a solution to such problems. For example, proteins secreted to the cell exterior have an amino acid sequence comprising 15 to 30 or so amino acid residues vital for secretion, which is generally termed as a secretion signal sequence or a leader sequence.

Tashiro, K. et al. focused their attention on the features of this secretory protein synthesis and developed a cloning method that specifically selects a gene encoding a secretory protein (Tashiro, K. et al., Science (1993) 261, 300-603). When the signal sequence of proteins that are normally secreted to the cell exterior, for example, interleukin-2 (IL-2) receptor, is deleted, they are unable to express on the cell membrane. If the cDNA encoding the secretion signal sequence is fused, this IL-2 receptor can be re-expressed on the cell membrane as a fusion protein. Since IL-2 receptor fusion protein-expressing cells can be selected by an antibody recognizing the IL-2 receptor, cDNA encoding the protein of which the signal sequence introduced to cells have functioned can be isolated. This method is generally called the SST (Signal Sequence Trap) method as it selectively clones a gene encoding a signal sequence. A cloning method for yeasts has also been developed by basically the same principle (U.S. Pat. No. 5,536,637).

However, even if a gene fragment encoding a protein comprising a signal sequence is obtained by this method, one cannot know whether it is a secretory protein, or whether it is a membrane-bound protein. Also, this method requires the utilization of a cDNA library comprising a 5′ end, but techniques for efficiently constructing a cDNA library that selectively contains a 5′ end are not necessarily easy, versatile techniques.

Recently, Ishihara et al. and Nakauchi et al. reported the TMT (Transmembrane Trap) method, which more selectively clones a gene encoding a membrane-bound protein (Yoshikazu Ichihara and Yoshikazu Kurozawa, Abstracts from the Annual Meeting of the Molecular Biology Society of Japan (1998), No. 3-509-P-533, Nakauchi et al. WO98/03645). The method of Ichihara et al. is based on a principle opposite to the above-mentioned SST method. Namely, the extracellular region of the IL-2 receptor and a protein containing the cell membrane-bound region encoded by cDNA are fused, the IL-2 receptor is expressed on cell membrane surface, and the cells are selected using an antibody against the IL-2 receptor. A model experiment of this method confirmed the expression of fusion molecules between type I or type II membrane-bound proteins, or glycosylphosphatidylinositol (GPI) anchor-type membrane-bound protein and IL-2 receptor on the cell membrane using the anti-IL-2 receptor antibody.

However, when the cDNA library was introduced, proteins not comprising the transmembrane region and membrane-bound region were also obtained within the selected cDNA. In other words, the cloning selectivity of the gene encoding the membrane-bound protein obtained by this TMT method is not necessarily high. This shows, for example, that although all fusion proteins not having the transmembrane region and GPI anchor should be secreted in principle, non-specific agglutinations not owing to the transmembrane region and GPI anchor may also occur on the cell membrane depending on the structures and amino acids compositions of the fusion proteins.

Furthermore, in the case of this TMT method, an epitope recognized by the antibody is expressed in the fusion protein. Therefore, even if fusion proteins expressed in the above manner are non-specifically adsorbed onto the cell membrane, the antibody will recognize and bind to the epitope as long as the epitope is exposed. Also, those molecules on the membrane surface that are on their way to being secreted to the cell exterior are also recognized by the antibody. Therefore, it is desired that the selectivity of membrane-bound protein-expressing cells obtained by this TMT method be further improved.

›DISCLOSURE OF THE INVENTION · 1 of 4

The present invention solves the problems of the TMT method and provides a gene cloning method with a superior selectivity.

A feature of the present invention is to isolate a gene encoding a membrane-bound protein by linking a functional protein to the fusion protein itself, differing from the conventional TMT method that carries an epitope recognizing an antibody. The present method thus enabled the selective isolation of genes encoding membrane-bound proteins.

Namely, the present invention provides:

(1) a method for isolating a gene encoding a membrane-bound protein, the method comprising the steps of

(i) introducing into cells a vector comprising a DNA comprising a DNA encoding a secretable, functional protein having a binding affinity to an antigen and a cDNA ligated downstream of the 3′ side of the functional protein-encoding DNA,

(ii) expressing within cells, the fusion protein of the secretable, functional protein.having a binding affinity to the antigen and the protein encoded by the cDNA,

(iii) selecting cells binding to-the antigen by contacting cells expressing the fusion protein on the cell membrane with an antigen, and

(iv) isolating cDNA inserted within the vector from the selected cells,

(2) the method of (1), wherein the vector introduced into cells in step (i) is obtained by introducing cDNA into a vector at the restriction enzyme site downstream of the 3′ side of the functional protein-encoding DNA,

(3) the method of (1), wherein the vector introduced into cells in step (i) is obtained by introducing into a vector, a DNA comprising a DNA encoding a functional protein and a cDNA ligated downstream of the 3, side of the functional protein-encoding DNA,

(4) the method of any one of (1) to (3), wherein the DNA encoding the functional protein and the cDNA downstream of the 3′ side thereof are ligated via a DNA encoding a peptide linker,

(5) the method of any one of (1) to (4), wherein the cDNA is derived from a cDNA library obtained from mammalian cells,

(6) the method of any one of (1) to (5), wherein the vector introduced into cells in the step (i) comprises a DNA encoding a secretion signal sequence upstream of the 5′ side of the DNA encoding a functional protein,

(7) the method of any one of (1) to (6), wherein the functional protein is an antibody,

(8) the method of any one of (1) to (7), wherein the functional protein having a binding affinity to the antigen is a single-chain antibody, which is preferably monovalent or bivalent,

(9) the method of any one of (1) to (8), wherein the vector contains a DNA in which a DNA encoding the constant region of the antibody is ligated downstream of the 3′ side of the DNA encoding a single-chain antibody,

(10) the method of any one of (1) to (9), wherein the antigen is bound to a supporter,

(11) the method of (10), wherein the supporter is for cell-culturing,

(12) the method of any one of (1) to (11), comprising determining whether or not the gene obtained from cells comprises a novel sequence,

(13) the method of (12) comprising screening a cDNA library to obtain the full-length gene of the gene obtained from cells, the gene comprising a novel sequence,

(14) the method of (13) comprising isolating the full-length gene of the gene obtained from cells, the gene comprising a novel sequence,

(15) a kit for isolating a gene encoding a membrane-bound protein, the kit comprising a vector having a restriction enzyme recognition site for inserting a cDNA downstream of the 3′ side of a DNA encoding a secretable, functional protein having a binding affinity to an antigen, and,

(16) the kit of (15) further comprising a supporter to which an antigen is bound and/or cells into which a vector is to be introduced.

As membrane-bound proteins isolatable by the method of the invention, for example, type I or type II membrane-bound proteins and GPI anchor-type membrane-bound proteins and such can be given. Type I or type II membrane-bound proteins are proteins comprising transmembrane regions, and bind to the membrane after being secreted to the cell exterior from N terminal side or C terminal side of the expressed polypeptides. Transmembrane regions are regions that penetrate the inside and the outside of the cell membrane, and because this transmembrane region remains in the cell membrane, proteins exist as being fixed onto the cell membrane. The transmembrane region is generally constituted of hydrophobic amino acid residue-rich regions within the amino acid sequence of the protein. A commercially available computer program, for example, the GCG Sequence Analysis Software Package (Genetic Computer Group, Oxford Molecular Group, Inc.) can easily predict whether a protein has a transmembrane region or not. GPI anchor type membrane-bound proteins are proteins that undergo modifications by GPI and that are anchored to the lipid layer of the cell membrane via GPI (GPI anchor type membrane-bound proteins).

In the first step ((i)) of the isolation method of the invention, a vector comprising a DNA encoding a secretable, functional protein having a binding affinity to an antigen and a DNA wherein a cDNA is ligated downstream of the 3′ side thereof, is introduced into cells.

“A functional protein having binding affinity to an antigen” means a protein that can functionally bind to a certain antigen. As functional proteins, those of which the binding constant with the antigen is 10 7 M or more are preferable. It is more preferably 10 8 M or more, and is even more preferably 10 9 M or more. Functional proteins are, specifically, antibodies, antibody fragments, single-chain antibodies, etc. Antibodies comprise two heavy chains (H chain) and two light chains (L chain), and these H chains and L chains bind via disulfide bonds to make a single antibody molecule. H chain and L chain are composed of a variable region (v region, Fv) and a constant region (C region, Fc). Antibody fragments are partial proteins of antibodies having a binding affinity to antigens, and, for example, Fab, F(ab′)2, Fv and such can be given. A single-chain antibody (hereafter called, single-chain Fv (scFv)), is a protein having binding affinity to an antigen, the protein in which the H chain Fv and L chain Fv are ligated by a linker, and, for example, a monovalent single-chain antibody and a bivalent single-chain antibody can be given. Monovalent single-chain antibodies have an antigen-binding site comprising one H chain Fv and L chain Fv, and bivalent single-chain antibodies have a structure in which two monovalent single-chain antibody molecules are ligated via a linker, and have two antigen-binding sites.

›DISCLOSURE OF THE INVENTION · 2 of 4

Antibodies, antibody fragments, or single-chain antibodies may be those wherein one or more amino acid residues have been deleted, inserted, and/or replaced with other amino acid residues for various purposes, such as improving the binding constant, or those which are fused with other peptides or polypeptides, and both are encompassed in the functional protein of the present invention. Also, modified antibodies may be used as the antibody, antibody fragment, or single-chain antibody. Examples of modified antibodies are chimeric antibodies and humanized antibodies. Chimeric antibodies are those comprising a V region and C region of antibodies derived from different animals. Humanized antibodies are those comprising complementarity determining region (CDR) of an antibody derived from an animal other than humans, and the framework region (FR) and the C region of an antibody derived from humans.

An antigen having binding affinity to the functional protein of the invention may be any substance as long as it has antigenicity. Examples are, proteins, peptides, and sugars and such, preferably proteins. Proteins used as antigens are, for example, cells or microorganisms expressing proteins, serum proteins, cytokines, intracellular proteins, membrane proteins, etc.

DNA encoding the antibody can be obtained by well-known means. Namely, they can be isolated from antibody-producing cells, for example, hybridoma, immortalized lymphocytes sensitized by an antigen, and cells producing a recombinant antibody following the introduction of an antibody gene. In addition, DNA that have been already isolated and inserted into a vector may also be used. The origin and type of the DNA encoding the antibody are not questioned as long as it can be used in the present invention.

DNA encoding an antibody fragment or single-chain antibody can be constructed from DNA encoding the antibody by following methods usually employed. DNA encoding a monovalent single-chain antibody is obtained by ligating DNA encoding the H chain V region (H chain Fv) of the antibody, DNA encoding the linker, and DNA encoding the L chain V region (L chain Fv). The linker is not restricted as long as it can sterically reproduce the H chain Fv and L chain Fv so that they have an antigen affinity. Preferably it is a peptide linker and, for example, comprises 12 to 19 amino acid residues (Huston, J. S. et al., Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. (1988) 85, 5879-5883). Specifically, a peptide linker having the following amino acid sequence can be given: GlyGlyGlyGlySerGlyGlyGlyGlySerGlyGlyGlyGlySer ((Gly 4 Ser) 3 ) (SEQ ID NO: 1). DNA encoding a bivalent single-chain antibody is constructed by linking the 5′ end and 3′ end of two DNA molecules encoding a monovalent single-chain antibody using a DNA encoding a peptide linker. The peptide linker ligating two single-chain antibodies comprises, for example, the amino acid sequence of GlyGlyGlyGlySerGlyGlyGlyGlySerGlyGlyGlyGlySer ((Gly 4 Ser) 3 ) (SEQ ID NO: 1).

In order to increase the cloning efficiency in the invention, for example, when using single-chain Fv as the functional protein, it is preferable that the C terminus contains a small amount of hydrophobic amino acids, and specifically, a single-chain Fv in which the elbow region has been deleted as described in Examples below can be used. Also, it is preferable that, in the present invention, stability and expression efficiency can be increased by ligating further a domain of secretory protein origin, for example, a DNA encoding amino acids of the constant region of an antibody described in Examples below, to the C terminus of single-chain Fv.

For a functional protein to be secretable, a secretion signal sequence can be used. Namely, it is enough to ligate a DNA encoding a secretion signal sequence upstream of the 5′ side of a DNA encoding a functional protein having a binding affinity to an antigen. As a secretion signal sequence, one that is suitable for cells used for the expression of a cDNA library and the secretion of proteins, is employed. The secretion signal sequence may be a signal sequence of any secretory protein as long as it can secrete the functional protein. Preferable animal-derived secretion signal sequences are those deriving from mammals, for example, the signal sequence of human immunoglobulin (Kabat, E. et al., Sequences of Proteins of Immunological Interest, US Department of Health and Human Services (1991)), of cytokines, and of cytokine receptors.

cDNA ligated downstream of the 3′ side of a DNA encoding the functional protein preferably derives from a cDNA library. As the cDNA library, one obtained using well-known methods, or one that is commercially available may be used. A cDNA library can be prepared by isolating mRNA from desired samples and synthesizing cDNA from the isolated mRNA.

Sources from which mRNA could be isolated are, for example, mammals, animals other than mammals, plants, yeasts, bacteria, or blue-green algae, and preferably, mammals are used. Humans, monkeys, rabbits, rats, mice and such can be given as examples of mammals, and especially humans are preferable. Animals other than mammals are, for example, insects such as fruit flies (Drosophila), etc.

Sources from which mRNA could be isolated may be any sources, for example, cells obtained from a living body, established cell lines, embryos, tissues, blood, or organs. Representative examples are osteoblasts, hematopoietic stem cells, smooth muscle cells, neurons, stromal cells, ES cells, liver, intestine, lung, kidney, lymph nodes, etc.

Isolation of mRNA could be done by suspending the samples for isolation under the presence of a commonly used buffer by commonly used methods. To prepare whole mRNA as the first step of mRNA isolation, for example, the guanosine ultracentrifugation method (Chirgwin, J. M. et al., Biochemistry (1979) 18, 5294-5299) or the AGPC method (Chomczynski, P. and Sacchi, N., Anal. Biochem. (1987) 162, 156-159) and such could be employed. Next, for purifying mRNA from the whole mRNA, for example, the mRNA Purification Kit (Pharmacia) and such could be used. For example, QuickPrep mRNA Purification Kit (Pharmacia) may also be used as a commercially available kit for concentrating mRNA through affinity purification using oligo dT.

›DISCLOSURE OF THE INVENTION · 3 of 4

cDNA is synthesized from the obtained mRNA using reverse transcriptase. Commercially available reverse transcriptase could be used. Single-stranded cDNA complementary to the mRNA could be synthesized by using an oligo dT primer complementary to the poly A of mRNA, or using an oligonucleotide of a random sequence as the primer. For example, the AMV Reverse Transcriptase First-strand cDNA Synthesis Kit (Seikagaku Corporation) and such may be utilized to synthesize cDNA. Double-stranded cDNA is prepared from the obtained single-stranded cDNA by DNA polymerase.

Furthermore, the cDNA library can also be selectively condensed for a specific purpose using commonly used methods. For a specific purpose, for example, for obtaining cDNA of a gene in which the expression amount varies, the differential cloning method (Lau, L. F. et al., and Nathans, D. EMBO J. (1985) 4, 3145-3151), the differential display method (Liang, P. and Pardee, A. B. Science (1992) 257, 967-971), the subtractive cloning method (Nucleic Acids Research (1988) 16, 10937), or the serial analysis gene expression method (SAGE method) (Velculescu, V. E. et al. Science (1995) 270, 484-487) may be utilized. The SST method (Tashiro, K. et al., Science (1993) 261, 300-603) and the method described in U.S. Pat. No. 5,536,637 may also be utilized to condense cDNA encoding a secretory protein.

Vectors may be any vectors as long as they can transform cells and express the DNA contained therein. It is preferable to select, as an expression vector, a vector that can operate in cells to be transformed. Examples of expression vectors are plasmid vectors and virus-derived vectors.

The obtained cDNA is ligated to a vector. At this instance, cDNA can be introduced into the vector by introducing it downstream of the 3′ side of a functional protein encoding-DNA that is already contained in the vector. For this purpose, a suitable restriction enzyme site, for example, a multi-cloning site is designed downstream of the 3′ side of the DNA encoding the functional protein, and the cDNA is introduced into that site. Also, cDNA may be ligated first downstream of the DNA encoding the functional protein, and then the obtained DNA may be introduced into the vector. The DNA construct can be introduced into a suitable restriction enzyme site comprised in a vector DNA. When preparing the vector, the DNA encoding the functional protein and the cDNA located downstream of the 3′ side may be directly ligated, or may be ligated via a DNA encoding a peptide linker to enable easy binding of the functional protein to the antigen.

The expression vector preferably contains an expression-regulating region needed for the expression of a desired DNA in cells. Promoters/enhancers can be given as expression regulating regions, and specifically, the human EF1α promoter HCMV promoter, or SV40 promoter and such can be given. Expression vectors prepared in such a manner can be introduced into cells using commonly used methods. Examples of such methods are, the electroporation method (EMBO J. (1982) 1, 841-845), the calcium phosphate method (Virology (1973) 52, 456-467), liposome method, DEAE dextran method, etc.

A cell that is subjected to transformation could be any cell as long as the secretion signal sequence and expression regulating region contained in the vector functions within the cell, and preferable are, animal cells, for example, COS, CHO, or BAF3, etc.

In the second step ((ii)) of the method of the invention, a fusion protein of a secretable, functional protein having a binding affinity to the antigen and a protein encoded by a cDNA is expressed within cells. Specifically, cells are transformed using a vector containing DNA encoding the above-mentioned fusion protein, and are cultured under conditions suitable for cell growth. The culture is conducted according to commonly used methods. For example, DMEM, MEM, RPMI1640, and IMDM can be used as the culture medium and may be used together with serum-supplementing solutions such as fetal calf serum (FCS).

In order to express DNA within cells, a system that induces DNA expression can be used. For example, if expression regulating systems using tetracycline, or promoters/enhancers that are expressed in response to stimulations such as, cytokines, lipopolysaccharide (LPS), steroid hormones and such are used, it is possible to induce expression of DNA within cells by stimulating the cells. When DNA is expressed, a fusion protein containing gene products of the functional protein and cDNA is produced. When the cDNA encodes a membrane-bound protein, the secretion signal sequence is eliminated at the process when the fusion protein is synthesized on the rough endoplasmic reticulum (ER) and the fusion protein is expressed on the cell membrane. When DNA encoding a peptide linker is ligated between DNA encoding a functional protein and cDNA, a fusion protein comprising the peptide linker between the functional protein and cDNA is expressed.

The third step ((iii)) of the method of the invention involves selecting a cell binding to an antigen by contacting cells expressing a fusion protein on the cell membrane with the antigen. The antigen is preferably bound to a supporter. Examples of supporters are those for cell-culture, and preferably plates, such as plastic plates, multi-well plates, culture plates, or beads. Magnetic beads can be used as beads. The antigen can be bound to the supporter using commonly used methods. For example, the antigen can be bound to the supporter by adding the antigen to a plate in the presence of a suitable buffer, leaving overnight, and washing. The antigen may be bound to the supporter via an antibody that specifically binds to the antigen. For example, after an antibody specifically binding to an antigen is added to and fixed on the plate, the antigen can be added to bind it to the supporter. Alternatively, an antigen that is not bound to the supporter and a cell may be bound first, and then, the cell can be bound to the supporter using an antibody that specifically binds to the antigen immobilized upon the supporter. After binding the antigen unbound to the supporter and the cell, the antigen and cell can be crosslinked by crosslinking agents such as DMS (dimethylsulberimidate), BS 3 (bis(sulfosuccinimididyl) suberate, and DSS (disuccinimidyl suberate).

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Cells unbound to the antigen are removed and cells bound to the antigen can be selected by incubating the plate under conditions where the cells can bind to the antigen on the plate and by washing the plate under suitable conditions after the cells are bound to the antigen. Flowcytometry (FACS) can also be used to select cells bound to the antigen. Cells selected by such methods are collected. By repeating these methods two to several times, the desired cells can be more selectively obtained.

Step four ((iv)) of the method of the invention involves isolating cDNA inserted within the vector from the selected cells.

First, the vector is extracted from the cells bound to the plate, in which the vector has been introduced, and cDNA contained in the vector is isolated. When a plasmid vector is used, the plasmid vector is extracted, introduced into E. coli amplified therein, and prepared to isolate cDNA. Next, the nucleotide sequence of the isolated gene is determined. Alternatively, a PCR primer is designed based on the nucleotide sequence on the vector, cDNA is amplified using this, and the nucleotide sequence is determined. When a retrovirus vector is used, cDNA is amplified by PCR in a similar manner, and the nucleotide sequence is determined.

The method of the present invention may include the step of analysis for determining whether the gene isolated above comprises a novel sequence or not. The novelty of the isolated DNA sequence may be analyzed by searching the homology of the sequence (the equivalence of the amino acid residues) using a DNA database, for example, GENBANK, EMBL, etc. The algorithm described in “Wilbur, W. J. and Lipman, D. J., Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA (1983) 80, 726-730” may be followed to determine the homology of a protein.

The method of the present invention may also include the step of screening a cDNA library to obtain the full-length gene of the gene isolated above. Following commonly used methods, a cDNA library can be screened as follows. First, a fragment of the isolated gene is labeled, used as a probe, and hybridized to the cDNA library. The cDNA clone bound to the fragment of the isolated gene is then detected using the label.

The method of the present invention can also include the step of isolating the full-length gene of the gene isolated above. This can be done by screening the cDNA library as mentioned above, isolating cDNA clones detected by methods commonly known, and determining the nucleotide sequence thereof.

Furthermore, the present invention comprises a kit used for isolating a gene encoding the above-mentioned membrane-bound protein. The kit of the invention includes a vector having a restriction enzyme recognition site for inserting a cDNA downstream of the 3′ side of a DNA encoding a secretable, functional protein having a binding affinity to an antigen. The kit of the invention preferably further includes, a supporter to which an antigen is bound and/or cells into which the vector is to be introduced. Additionally, wash solutions for panning, crosslinking agents for bridging cells with the antigen, a cDNA library, solutions for collecting DNA by dissolving the selected cells and such may also be contained.

›BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

FIG. 1 schematically shows the structure of the expression cloning vector pTMT-SR345. “SR345” in the figure indicates human IL-6 receptor extracellular region, “NEO r ” the neomycin resistant gene, “EF1α” the promoter/enhancer region of peptide chain elongation factor Iα, “SV40E” the SV40 early promoter/enhancer, and “Amp r ” the ampicillin resistant gene.

FIG. 2 schematically shows the structure of the expression vector pTMT-scFv. “scFv” in the figure indicates single-chain antibody, and “Ig's” the antibody secretion signal peptide. The other symbols are the same as FIG. 1 .

FIG. 3 shows the colony number recovered by panning using COS-7 cells into which various types of plasmid DNA have been introduced.

FIG. 4 schematically shows the structure of the expression vector pTMT-BvGS3. “hPM1-BvGS3” in the figure indicates bivalent single-chain antibody. The other symbols are the same as FIG. 1 and FIG. 2 .

FIG. 5 shows a histogram obtained when the COS-7 cells into which various types of plasmid DNA have been introduced were analyzed by a flow cytometer using a rabbit polyclonal antibody against humanized PM-1 antibody.

FIG. 6 shows a histogram obtained when the COS-7 cells into which various types of plasmid DNA have been introduced were analyzed by a flow cytometer using mouse anti-IL-6 receptor antibody MT-18.

FIG. 7 schematically shows the structure of the expression vector pTMT-shPM1F-K. “shPM1Kappa” in the figure indicates a single-chain antibody. The other symbols are the same as FIG. 1 and FIG. 2 .

›BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION

The cloning method of the invention can be specifically carried out as described below, but the present invention is by no means restricted thereto.

›Examples12

›EXAMPLE 1

Construction of Expression Cloning Vector pTMT-SR345

Expression cloning vector pTMT-SR345 was constructed. SR345, encoded by the DNA contained in expression cloning vector pTMT-SR345, is the extracellular region portion of human IL-6 receptor, and consists of 345 amino acid residues from the N terminus. In the expression cloning vector pTMT-SR345, the protein encoded by cDNA inserted downstream of the DNA encoding SR345 is expressed as a fusion protein with SR345. The nucleotide sequence of SR345 is shown in SEQ ID NO: 2 together with the amino acid sequence.

First, in order to amplify the app. 1.1 kb fragment containing the cDNA encoding SR345 from the cDNA of IL-6 receptor (Yamasaki, K. et al, Science (1988) 241, 825-828), PCR primers IL6R1 (SEQ ID NO: 3) and IL6R2 (SEQ ID NO: 4) were designed. A PCR reaction mixture (100 ul) containing 10 mM Tris-HCl (pH8.3), 50 mM KCl, 0.1 mM dNTPs, 1.5 mM MgCl 2 , 100 pmol each of the above-mentioned primers, 100 ng of template DNA (cDNA encoding IL-6 receptor), and 5 units of AmpliTaq Gold enzyme was subjected to denaturation at 94° C., incubated 30 cycles of 1 min at 94° C., 1 min at 55° C., and 1 min at 72° C., and finally, incubated for 10 min at 72° C. The amplified DNA fragment was collected and purified by 1% low melting point agarose gel electrophoresis, digested by EcoRI, and inserted into the EcoRI site of expression vector pCOS1. This was transfected into E. coli , and plasmids were prepared to obtain those in which the DNA fragment was inserted in the right direction. The expression vector pCOS1 was constructed from plasmid HEF-PMh-g γ1 (see WO92/19759) by deleting contained genes by EcoRI and SmaI digestion, and ligating with EcoRI-NotI-BamHI Adaptor (TaKaRa).

Next, the EcoRI site in the upstream side of SR345 was removed by the following method. First, the plasmid was partially digested by EcoRI, and a linear molecule obtained by cleavage at one site was collected. This was blunt-ended by DNA polymerase I (Klenow fragment), self-ligated, and transfected into E. coli to obtain expression cloning vector pTMT-SR345. The structure of the expression cloning vector pTMT-SR345 is shown in FIG. 1 .

›EXAMPLE 2

Construction of Expression Vector pTMT-scFv

Expression vector pTMT-scFv was constructed. The single-chain antibody (scFv) encoded by the DNA contained in the expression vector pTMT-scFv was designed using the variable region of the humanized monoclonal antibody PM-1, which recognizes human IL-6 receptor, and a linker region. In the expression vector pTMT-scFv, the protein encoded by the cDNA inserted downstream of the DNA encoding scFv, is expressed as a fusion protein with scFv. The nucleotide sequence of scFv gene is shown in SEQ ID NO: 5 together with the amino acid sequence.

1) Amplification of the DNA Fragment Encoding Antibody V Region

The genes of humanized PM1 antibody H chain and L chain V region (Sato, K et al, Cancer Res. (1993) 53, 851-856) were amplified by PCR. Backward primer TMT1 (SEQ ID NO: 6) for H chain V region was designed in such a manner that it should hybridize to DNA encoding the N terminus of H chain V region and comprise a SalI restriction enzyme recognition site. Forward primer LINK1 (SEQ ID NO: 7) for H chain V region was designed in such a manner that it should hybridize to DNA encoding the C terminus of H chain V region and comprise 5′ end sequence of a linker region. Also, backward primer LINK3 (SEQ ID NO: 8) for L chain V region was designed in such a manner that it should hybridize to DNA encoding the N terminus of L chain V region and comprise 3′ end sequence of a linker region. Forward primer SCP-C (SEQ ID NO: 9) for L chain V region was designed in such a manner that it should hybridize to the nucleotide sequence encoding the amino acid sequence forming L chain constant region elbow site, and also comprise HindIII restriction enzyme recognition site, nucleotide sequence encoding FLAG peptide (SEQ ID NO: 10), and two repetitive translation stop codons.

A PCR reaction mixture (100 ul) containing 10 mM Tris-HCl (pH8.3), 50 mM KCl, 0.1 mM dNTPs, 1.5 mM MgCl 2 , 100 pmol each of the above-mentioned primers, 100 ng of template DNA, and 5 units of AmpliTaq Gold enzyme was subjected to denaturation at 94° C. for 9 min, incubated 30 cycles of 30 sec at 94° C. and 1 min at 60° C., and finally, incubated for 5 min at 60° C. The PCR product was purified using a 1.5% low melting point agarose gel.

2) Amplification of the DNA Fragment Encoding a Linker Region

The DNA fragment encoding a linker region comprising the amino acid sequence of (Gly 4 Ser) 3 was amplified by the PCR method using humanized single-chain antibody; expression vector pSCFVT7-hM21 (see WO95/14041). Backward primer LINK2 (SEQ ID NO: 11) was designed in such a manner that it should hybridize to the 5′ end of the linker region, and also comprise the 3′ end DNA sequence of H chain V region. Forward primer LINK4 (SEQ ID NO: 12) was designed in such a manner that it should hybridize to 3′ end of the linker region, and also comprise the DNA sequence of 5′ end of L chain V region. PCR was conducted using 100 ng of template DNA(pSCFVT7-hM21) under the conditions above-mentioned, and the PCR product was purified using a 1.5% low melting point agarose gel.

3) Construction of Humanized PM1 Antibody Single-chain Fv

The DNA fragment encoding H chain and L chain V regions prepared above, and the DNA fragment encoding the linker region were assembled by the PCR method, and backward primer TMT1 and forward primer TMT2 (SEQ ID NO: 13) were added to amplify the full-length DNA fragment encoding scFv of humanized PM1. The forward primer TMT2 was designed in such a manner that it should hybridize to the DNA sequence encoding HindIII restriction enzyme recognition site and FLAG peptide, and also comprise two repetitive translation stop codons, and the EcoRI restriction enzyme recognition site. The primary PCR was conducted as follows: 98 ul of a PCR reaction mixture containing 10 mM Tris-HCl (pH8.3), 50 mM KCl, 0.1 mM dNTPs, 1.5 mM MgCl 2 , app.100 ng each of the above PCR products, and 5 units of AmpliTaq Gold enzyme was subjected to denaturation first at 94° C., and then 2 cycles of 2 min at 94° C., 2 min at 55° C., and 2 min at 72° C. were done to ligate each DNA fragment. The secondary PCR was done in the following manner: 100 pmol of each primer was added to the above PCR reaction solution, 30 cycles of 30 sec at 94° C. and 1 min at 60° C. were done, and finally, the mixture was incubated for 5 min at 60° C.

After the PCR product was purified using a 1.5% low melting point agarose gel, it was digested by SalI and NotI, and inserted into expression vector PSFLAG comprising human EF1α promoter and the leader sequence of the antibody (SEQ ID NO:14). After DNA sequencing, plasmid pTMT-scFv, containing a DNA fragment comprising the correct DNA sequence, was obtained. The structure of the expression vector pTMT-scFv is schematically shown in FIG. 2 . The construction of pSFLAG was done as mentioned below. Two overlapping oligonucleotides S-FLAG1 (SEQ ID NO: 15) and S-FLAG2 (SEQ ID NO: 16) in the sense and antisense directions, respectively, were designed and synthesized so as to encode EcoRI restriction enzyme recognition site, the leader sequence of the antibody (SEQ ID NO: 14), FLAG peptide (SEQ ID NO: 10), and KpnI, NotI, and BamHI restriction enzyme recognition sites. A reaction mixture containing 100 pmol each of the synthesized oligonucleotides was incubated for 5 min at 96° C., and the temperature was lowered to 65° C. over 20 min, and incubated for 5 min at 65° C. Then, the temperature was lowered to 42° C. over 20 min, the mixture was incubated for a further 5 min. and the two oligonucleotides were annealed by lowering the temperature to room temperature over 20 min. This DNA fragment was inserted into pCOS1 digested by EcoRI and BamHI.

›EXAMPLE 3

Construction of SR345-gp130 and scFV-gp130 Fusion Protein Expression Systems

(A) SR345-gp130

The cytokine signal transduction molecule gp130 is a type I membrane-bound protein (Taga, T. et al., Cell (1989) 58, 573-581, Saito, M., et al., J. Immunol. (1992) 148, 4066-4071). Aportion of mouse gp130 cDNA was ligated downstream of a cDNA encoding soluble-type IL-6 receptor (SR345) of the expression vector pTMT-SR345, to express a fusion protein comprising SR345 and a partial sequence of mouse gp130, in COS cells. Two types of fusion proteins were constructed according to their differences in the gp130 partial regions. One of them is a membrane-bound fusion protein (SR345-mgpTMIC) in which the transmembrane region of gp130 and the subsequent intracellular region are ligated, and the other is a secretory fusion protein (SR345-mgpIC) in which only the intracellular region of gp130 is ligated. SEQ ID NO: 17 shows the amino acid sequence and the nucleotide sequence of full-length mouse gp130.

1) Creation of the Membrane-bound Fusion Protein SR345-mgpTMIC Expression Vector

The full-length mouse gp130 cDNA was digested with EcoRI to obtain an EcoRI fragment of app. 1.1 kb. This EcoRI fragment encodes amino acids from the position 603 rd to the position 917 th (C terminus) of mouse gp130, and contains a portion (15 amino acids) of the extracellular region of mouse gp130 and the whole of the subsequent transmembrane region and the intracellular region. This EcoRI fragment was inserted into the EcoRI site of pTMT-SR345 expression vector to create the membrane-bound fusion protein SR345-mgpTMIC expression vector.

2) Creation of Secretory Fusion Protein SR345-mgpIC Expression Vector

To obtain a cDNA fragment encoding the intracellular region of mouse gp130, the PCR primers mgp2 (SEQ ID NO: 20; including DNA encoding the 646 th amino acid to the 651 th amino acid of the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 17), to which the HindIII and EcoRI sites had been added, and mgp3 (SEQ ID NO: 19; including DNA encoding the 912 th amino acid to the 917 th amino acid (C terminus) of the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 17) were synthesized, and using these primers, an app. 1 kb cDNA fragment of mouse gp130 was obtained. This app. 1 kb cDNA fragment encodes the 646 th amino acid to the 917 th amino acid in the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 17, and this corresponds to the intracellular region in which six amino acids from the N terminus are lacking. The cDNA fragment thus obtained, was digested with EcoRI, and inserted into EcoRI site of pTMT-SR345 expression vector to prepare the secretory fusion protein SR345-mgpIC expression vector.

(B) scFv-gp130

In the expression vector pTMT-scFv, a portion of mouse gp130 cDNA was ligated downstream of scFv cDNA to express a fusion protein comprising scFv and a partial region of mouse gp130 in COS cells. Two types of fusion proteins were constructed according to their differences in the ligated gp130 partial regions. One of them is a membrane-bound fusion protein (scFv-mgpTMIC) in which the transmembrane region of gp130 and the subsequent intracellular region are ligated, and the other is secretory fusion protein (scFv-mgpIC) in which only the intracellular region of gp130 is ligated.

1) Creation of Membrane-bound Fusion Protein scFv-mgpTMIC Expression Vector

To obtain a cDNA fragment encoding the whole intracellular region and transmembrane region of mouse gp130, the PCR primers mgp1 (SEQ ID NO: 18; including DNA encoding the 603 rd amino acid to the 608 th amino acid in the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 17), to which the HindIII site had been added, and mgp3 (SEQ ID NO: 19; including DNA encoding the 912 th amino acid to the 917 th amino acid (C terminus) of the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 17), to which the NotI site had been added, and using these primers, an app. 1.1 kb cDNA fragment of mouse gp130 was obtained. This app. 1.1 kb cDNA fragment encodes the 603 rd amino acid to the 917 th amino acid (C terminus) in the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 17, and this comprises a part of the extracellular region of mouse gp130 (15 amino acids) and the whole of the subsequent transmembrane region and the intracellular region. The cDNA fragment thus obtained was digested with HindIII and NotI, and inserted into the HindIII-NotI sites of pTMT-scFv expression vector to prepare the membrane-bound fusion protein scFv-mgpTMIC expression vector.

2) Creation of the Secretory Fusion Protein scFv-mgpIC Expression Vector

To obtain a cDNA fragment encoding the intracellular region of mouse gp130, the PCR primers mgp2 (SEQ ID NO: 20; including DNA encoding the 646 th amino acid to the 651 st amino acid in the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 17), to which the HindIII-EcoRI sites had been added, and mgp3 (SEQ ID NO: 19; including DNA encoding the 912 th amino acid to the 917 th amino acid (C terminus) of the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 17), to which the NotI site had been added, were synthesized, and, by PCR using these primers, an app. 1 kb cDNA fragment of mouse gp130 was obtained.

This app. 1 kb cDNA fragment encodes the 646 th amino acid to the 917 th amino acid (C terminus) in the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 17, and this corresponds to the intracellular region in which six amino acids from the N terminus are lacking. The cDNA fragment thus obtained was digested with HindIII and NotI, and inserted into HindIII-NotI sites of the expression vector pTMT-scFv to prepare the secretory fusion protein scFv-mgpIc expression vector.

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Expression by COS Cells

Each type of the above-mentioned expression vectors was transfected into COS cells, the fusion protein was transiently expressed, and it was verified that cells expressing the fusion protein on the cell membrane were selectively condensed by panning. COS cells transfected with the expression vector not containing genes were used as the negative control. The positive control were COS cells that were transfected with the expression vector P3.19, which was prepared by introducing DNA encoding the HM1.24 antigen protein (WO 98/14580) into the vector pCOS1, and that were panned with the corresponding antibody.

1) Transfection into COS Cells

The plasmid DNA was transfected into COS-7 cells using Lipofect AMINE PLUS™ Reagent (GIBCO-BRL). Namely, COS-7 cells seeded in 1×10 5 cells/well (6-well plate) on the day prior to the transfection were cultured overnight, and washed with serum-free DMEM culture medium (GIBCO-BRL), and then 0.8 ml of the same culture medium was added thereto. Separately, after 1 μg of plasmid DNA and 6 μl of PLUS Reagent were added to 0.1 ml serum-free DMEM culture medium, the mixture was incubated for 15 min at room temperature, mixed with 0.1 ml of LipofectAMINE solution (4 μl of LipofectAMINE/0.1 ml of serum-free DMEM:culture medium) and incubated for further 15 min at room temperature. Next, this mixture was added to the above-mentioned COS-7 cells and incubated for 3 hours at 37° C. DMEM culture medium (1 ml) containing 20% fetal calf serum (GIBCO-BRL) was added thereto (final concentration 10% serum). Following an overnight culture, the culture medium was changed to 3 ml of DMEM culture medium containing 10% fetal calf serum, and incubated for 3 days under the conditions of 37° C. and 5% CO 2 .

2) Preparation of the Panning-dish

When using the expression vector pTMT-SR345, a dish coated with the mouse anti-human IL-6 receptor antibody MT18 (see unexamined published Japanese patent application No. Hei 2-288898) was prepared according to the method of Seed, B. et al., Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. (1987) 84, 3365-3369. Namely, mouse anti-IL-6 receptor antibody was added to 50 mM Tris-HCl (pH9.5) to 10 μg/ml. The antibody solution thus prepared (3 ml) was incubated at room temperature for two hours in a 60 mm-diameter cell culture dish. After washing the culture dish three times with a 0.15M NaCl solution, PBS containing 5% fetal calf serum, 1 mM EDTA, and 0.02% NaN 3 was added, and then after blocking, panning was done as mentioned below.

When using pTMT-scFv, two types of panning dishes were prepared. One was coated with soluble-type IL-6 receptor (SR344) (Yasukawa, K. et al., J. Biochem. (1990) 108, 673-676), and the other was coated with the above-mentioned mouse anti-IL-6 receptor antibody. The concentration of SR344 was adjusted to 2 μg/ml with 50 mMTris-HCl (pH9.5), and a panning dish was prepared as mentioned above. When the negative control pCOS-1 was used, a dish coated with the above-mentioned mouse anti-IL-6 receptor antibody was utilized. When the positive control HM1.24 antigen protein expression vector P3.19 was used, a dish coated with the antibody against HM1.24 antigen was utilized.

3) Panning

pCOS-1- or, pTMT-SR345-transfected: COS-7 cells were detached from the plate by 1 MM EDTA containing PBS, washed once with PBS containing 5% fetal calf serum, suspended in 2 ml of PBS containing 5% fetal calf serum and 0.02% NaN 3 , and added to the panning plate coated with mouse anti-IL-6 receptor antibody.

pTMT-scFv-transfected COS-7 cells were panned by three different methods. In one method, after detached as mentioned above and washed once with PBS containing 5% fetal calf serum, COS-7 cells were suspended in 500 μl of PBS containing 2μg/ml SR344, 5% fetal calf serum, and 0.02% NaN 3 , and incubated on ice for 1 hr. After washing three times with ice-cold PBS, the cells were resuspended in PBS containing 0.2 mM crosslinker bis(sulfosuccinimidyl) suberate (BS 3 ; PIERCE) and 50 mM Hepes (pH8.0), and further incubated on ice for 30 min. Then, 1 M Tris-HCl (pH8.0) was added to 50 mM, and incubated further on ice for 10 min to remove the excess amount of the crosslinker. After washing cells with PBS, they were added to a panning plate coated with mouse anti-IL-6 receptor antibody. In the second method, COS-7 cells preincubated with SR344 were added to the panning plate coated with mouse anti-IL-6 receptor antibody without crosslinker treatment. In the third method, COS-7 cells were added to a plate directly coated with SR344. The time of incubation on ice, Tris-HCl treatment, and washing were similar in all the three methods.

COS-7 cells transfected with the HM1.24 antigen protein expression vector P3.19 were added to a panning plate coated with the antibody against HM1.24 antigen (WO 98/14580). After incubating the above-mentioned various types of COS-7 cells on the various panning plates for 2 hr at room temperature, the plates were gently washed three times with PBS containing 5% fetal calf serum and 0.02% NaN 3 , and plasmid DNAs were collected from cells bound to the panning dishes using 0.6% SDS and 10 mM EDTA-containing solution. The condensation effect due to panning was evaluated by transfection of a ⅕ th of the recovered plasmid DNA into E. coli DH5a using electroporation, and by the number of ampicillin-resistant colonies that had appeared. The results are shown in FIG. 3 .

When the expression vector pTMT-SR345 was used, SR345-mgpIC resulted in more colonies than SR345-mgpTMIC, and therefore, no specificity against the membrane-bound protein was seen. On the other hand, when using expression vector pTMT-scFv, in all panning methods, scFv-mgpTMIC resulted in more colonies than scFv-mgpIC, and therefore, cells expressing membrane-bound protein were specifically condensed. The selectivity was more evident especially when a crosslinking agent was used.

Thus, the above-mentioned results show that cDNA encoding a membrane-bound protein was more selectively and efficiently obtained by expressing the functional protein (single-chain antibody) as a fusion protein on the cell surface than by expressing just an epitope recognized by the antibody as the fusion protein.

›EXAMPLE 4 · 2 of 2

Generally, several repetitive pannings enhance the clone-selectivity, but, as shown by the present example, in the present invention, in which a functional protein is expressed on the cell membrane, an outstanding selectivity was observed in the first panning. Therefore, cloning of a gene encoding a membrane-bound protein can be extremely efficiently and selectively accomplished by panning further several times.

›EXAMPLE 5

Construction of the Fusion Protein Expression System using Humanized Bivalent Single-chain Fv

1. Construction of the Humanized PM1 Antibody Bivalent Single-chain Fv Expression Vector

A bivalent single-chain Fv expression vector was constructed based on humanized PM1 antibody Fv. The humanized PM1 antibody single-chain Fv (hPM1-BvGS3) having a bivalent variable region was designed so that two molecules of the humanized PM1 antibody single-chain Fv2 described in Example 2 were ligated via a peptide linker comprising (Gly 4 Ser) 3 (SEQ ID NO: 1). The amino acid sequence and nucleotide sequence of hPM1-BvGS3 are shown in SEQ ID NO: 21.

The construction of expression vector pTMT-BvGS3 was done as follows. A gene encoding a humanized PMI antibody single-chain Fv having, in its C terminus, a linker comprising (Gly 4 Ser) 3 was amplified by the PCR method. TMT-1 (SEQ ID NO: 6) was used as the backward primer. Also, the forward primer BvGS3 (SEQ ID NO: 22) was designed in such a manner that it should hybridize to DNA encoding the C terminus of L chain V region and also comprise the nucleotide sequence encoding the linker and restriction enzyme SalI recognition site. PCR was conducted using 100 ng of pTMT-scFv as the template DNA under the same conditions as mentioned above, and the PCR product was purified using 1.5% low melting point agarose gel.

The purified PCR product was digested with restriction enzyme SalI, and inserted into the cloning vector pBluescriptII (Stratagene). After DNA sequencing, the plasmid containing the DNA fragment comprising the correct DNA sequence was digested with restriction enzyme SalI, to obtain a gene encoding humanized PM1 antibody single-chain Fv having, in its C terminus, a linker comprising (Gly 4 Ser) 3. Next, by inserting the DNA fragment obtained as mentioned above into pTMT-scFv, hPM1-BvGS3 expression vector TMT-BvGS3 was obtained. The structure of the hPM1-BvGS3 expression vector pTMT-BvGS3 is schematically shown in FIG. 4 .

2. Construction of Fusion Protein hPM1-BvGS3-gp130 Expression Vector

In the expression vector pTMT-BvGS3, a portion of the mouse gp130 cDNA was ligated downstream of the cDNA encoding hPM1-BvGS3 to construct a fusion protein expression system comprising hPM1-BvGS3 and a partial region of mouse gp130. Two types of fusion proteins were constructed according to their differences in the gp130 partial regions that are ligated. One of them is a membrane-bound fusion protein (BvGS3-mgpTMIC) in which the transmembrane region of gp130 and the subsequent intracellular region are ligated, and the other is secretory fusion protein (BvGS3-mgpIC) in which only the intracellular region of gp130 is ligated. BvGS3-mgpTMIC and BvGS3-mgpIC were those prepared in Example 3 (B)-1) and 2), respectively, and by inserting these into the HindIII-NotI sites of pTMT-BvGS3, membrane-bound fusion protein expression vector pTMT-BvGS3-mgpTMIC and secretory fusion protein expressing vector pTMT-BvGS3-mgpIC were constructed.

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Analysis of Expression by a Flow Cytometer

Each type of the expression vectors constructed above, pTMT-BvGS3, pTMT-BvGS3-mgpIC, and pTMT-BvGS3-mgpTMIC, was transfected into COS-7 cells, the fusion protein was transiently expressed, and the expression on the cell membrane was analyzed with a flow cytometer (FACScan, Beckton Dickinson). The expression analysis was conducted by two types of methods. One involved detection by a rabbit polyclonal antibody against humanized PM-1 antibody, and the other involved detection by mouse anti-IL-6 receptor antibody MT-18 in the presence of soluble IL-6 receptor antibody. As a result, it was confirmed that the membrane-bound fusion protein BvGS3-mgpTMIC was strongly expressed on the cell membrane in a form that could recognize soluble IL-6 receptor. Cells transfected with expression vector pCOS-1 only were used as the negative control.

1) Transfection Into COS-7 Cells

The plasmid DNA was transfected into COS-7 cells using the transfection kit FuGENE™6 (Boehringer-Mannheim).

Namely, COS-7 cells seeded in 5×10 4 cells/well (6-well plate) on the day prior to the transfection were cultured overnight under the conditions of 37° C. and 5% CO 2 in 2 ml of DMEM culture medium (GIBCO-BRL) containing 10% fetal calf serum. On the day of transfection, 6 μl of FuGENE™6 was added to 0.1 ml of serum-free DMEM culture medium and, after incubating for 5 min at room temperature, was mixed with 2 μg of plasmid DNA, and incubated for further 15 min at room temperature. Next, this mixture was added to the above-mentioned COS-7 cells and incubated for three days under the conditions of 37° C. and 5% CO 2 .

2) Staining of COS-7 Cells

The above-mentioned COS-7 cells were detached with PBS containing 1 mM EDTA, washed with PBS containing 5% fetal calf serum, suspended in 50 μl of FACS buffer (PBS containing 2% fetal calf serum and 0.05% NaN 2 ), and stained by the following two types of methods.

A) Staining with a Rabbit Polyclonal Antibody Against Humanized PM-1 Antibody

A rabbit polyclonal antibody against humanized PM-1 antibody (2 μg/reaction) was added to the above-mentioned COS-7 cells, incubated for 30 min on ice, washed twice with 1 ml FACS buffer, and resuspended in 50 μl of FACS buffer. Next, 2 μl/reaction of FITC (fluorescein isothiocyanate)-labeled goat anti-rabbit IgG (AMERICAN QUAREX) and, for separately staining dead cells, 2.5 μg/reaction of PI (propidium iodide) were added and incubated for30 min on ice in the dark. After the incubation, the cells were washed twice with 1 ml of FACS buffer, and resuspended in 0.5 ml of FACS buffer to analyze with a flow cytometer.

B) Staining with Mouse Anti-IL-6 Receptor Antibody MT-18

Soluble-type IL-6 receptor (3 μg/reaction) was added to the above-mentioned COS-7 cells and incubated for 4 hr on ice, washed twice with 1 ml FACS buffer, and resuspended in 50 μl of FACS buffer. Next, 2 μg/reaction of mouse anti-IL-6 receptor antibody MT-18 was added and incubated for 30 min on ice. After the incubation, the cells were washed twice with 1 ml of FACS buffer and resuspended in 50 μl of FACS buffer. Next, 2 μl/reaction of FITC-labeled goat anti-mouse IgG2b (Dainippon Seiyaku) and, for separately staining dead cells, 2.5 μg/reaction PI (propidium iodide) were added and incubated for 30 min on ice in the dark. After the incubation, the cells were washed twice with 1 ml of FACS buffer, and resuspended in 0.5 ml of FACS buffer to analyze with a flow cytometer.

3) Analysis of Expression with a Flow Cytometer

Analysis by PI and FSC (Forward Scatter) revealed that a population of cells stained with PI (dead cells) was present. Dead cells disturb the analysis as they are non-specifically stained with FITC. Hence, the cell-population that was not stained with PI (living-cells) was gated, and analysis was carried out for this population only.

As a result of staining with the rabbit polyclonal antibody against humanized PM-1 antibody, no expression of secretory protein hPM1-BvGS3 was seen on the cell membrane, however, the expression of membrane-bound fusion protein BvGS3-mgpTMIC showed the strongest expression. From this fact, it is presumed that BvGS3-mgpTMIC, which has a transmembrane region, is not secreted and is trapped in the cell membrane. However, on the other hand, the expression of BvGS3-mgpIC was detected on the cell membrane, despite the fact that it is a secretory fusion protein. This is presumed to be due to the fact that the characteristics of BvGS3-mgpIC are different from that of BvGS3 in the molecular size and structure, hydrophobic region contained in the mgpIC connected downstream thereof, etc. Namely, it is presumed that, due to its difference in characteristics, BvGS3-mgpIC does not pass through the cell membrane as swiftly as BvGS3 does, and it takes more time to pass through. As a result, the amount localized on the cell membrane increases, and all whose epitopes are extruding extracellulary are detected by a rabbit polyclonal antibody against humanized PM-1. The results are shown in FIG. 5 .

On the other hand, in the case of staining with mouse anti IL-6 receptor antibody MT-18, similar to the results of staining by rabbit polyclonal antibody against humanized PM-1 antibody, though expression was not detected for secretory protein hPM1-BvGS3, the expression of membrane-bound fusion protein BvGS3-mgpTMIC was the strongest. However, for the secretory fusion protein BvGS3-mgpIC, the results were different from those obtained by rabbit polyclonal antibody against humanized PM-1 antibody, and any expression was hardly detected on the cell membrane. This indicates that, while the membrane-bound fusion protein BvGS3-mgpTMIC is expressed on the cell membrane forming a functional conformation that could recognize soluble-type IL-6 receptor, most of the secretory fusion protein BvGS3-mgpIC, though localized on the cell membrane, does not have a functional conformation that could recognize soluble-type IL-6 receptor. The results are shown in FIG. 6 .

›EXAMPLE 6 · 2 of 2

Thus, the results obtained by the flow cytometer suggests that when a mere epitope recognized by an antibody is expressed as a fusion protein, even secretory fusion proteins will be selected as false-positive if they are localized on the cell membrane. On the other hand, when the functional protein of the invention (for example, single-chain antibody) is expressed on cell surface as a fusion protein, the possibility of cloning cDNA encoding a membrane-bound protein more selectively and efficiently has been revealed.

›EXAMPLE 7 · 1 of 2

1. Designing of Humanized PM1 Antibody Single-chain Fv

In order to improve the cloning efficiency, three other types of single-chain Fv and their bivalent single-chain Fv were designed. Since the elbow region (SEQ ID NO: 5, amino acid sequence from the 242 nd to 256 th positions), added at the time of constructing above-mentioned humanized PM1 antibody single-chain Fv, contained amino acids residues with high hydrophobicity, the following three types of humanized PM1 antibody single-chain Fv were designed for more stable extracellular expression.

Namely, in order to remove the hydrophobic region in the C terminus, single-chain Fv depleted of the elbow region was designed and designated as shPM1(ΔEL) (SEQ ID NO: 23). Also, since it was perceived that the stability and expression efficiency would increase by adding a certain secretory protein-derived domain to the C terminus of single-chain Fv, the amino acid sequence encoded by human κ chain constant region or human membrane-type μ chain constant region exon 4 (Dorai, H and Gillies S. D. Nucleic Acid Res., 17, 6412, 1989) was added to the C terminus of single-chain Fv (SEQ ID NO: 23). Although the 107 th amino acid residue of human κ chain constant region is originally cysteine, one replaced with serine residue (SEQ ID NO: 24) was used this time. Also, the sequence from which transmembrane region and intracellular region had been deleted (SEQ ID NO: 25) was used as the amino acid sequence encoded by human membrane-type μ chain constant region exon 4. Those in which respective sequences mentioned above were added to the C terminus of single-chain Fv were termed shPM1-Kappa (SEQ ID NO: 26) and shPM1-MCH4 (SEQ ID NO: 27).

2. Construction of the shPM1(ΔEL) Expression Vector

The gene encoding shPM1(ΔEL) was amplified by PCR method. The backward primer EF-1 (SEQ ID NO: 28) and the forward primer SCP-C2 (SEQ ID NO: 29) were used. PCR was conducted using 100 ng of pTMT-scFv as template DNA under the conditions mentioned above, and the PCR product was purified using 1.5% low melting point agarose gel. The forward primer SCP-C2 was hybridized to DNA encoding the C-terminus of L chain V region, and, nucleotides encoding restriction enzyme HindIII-NotI recognition sites and FLAG peptide (SEQ ID NO: 10) were added thereto.

After the purified PCR product was digested with EcoRI and NotI, the digested product was inserted into PSFLAG vector to obtain the shPM1(ΔEL) expression vector pTMT-shPM1F. Moreover, pTMT-shPM1F-BvGS3, the expression vector for shPM1(ΔEL)-BvGS3 (SEQ ID NO: 30), single-chain Fv which had a bivalent variable region and whose elbow region had been deleted, was obtained by a similar method to that in Example 5.

3. Construction of the shPM1Kappa Expression Vector

The gene encoding the fusion protein of humanized PM1 antibody single-chain Fv (SEQ ID NO: 23) and human κ chain constant region (SEQ ID NO: 24) was constructed by PCR assembling. Namely, after the genes encoding humanized PM1 antibody single-chain Fv and human κ chain constant region were separately amplified by PCR, they were assembled by their complementarity and the full-length gene was amplified by the external primer.

First, the gene encoding human κ chain constant region was amplified by PCR. The backward primer Kappa1 (SEQ ID NO: 31) was designed in such a manner that it should hybridize to the nucleotide sequence encoding the elbow region of human κ chain constant region and the 12 th position Pro to the 21 st position Gly of the following amino acid sequence (SEQ ID NO: 24). The forward primer Kappa2 (SEQ ID NO: 32) was designed in such a manner that it should hybridize to the nucleotide sequence encoding the 101 st position Ser to the 111 th position Ser of human κ chain constant region C terminus (SEQ ID NO: 24) and comprise the nucleotide sequence encoding restriction enzyme HindIII and NotI recognition sites and FLAG peptide (SEQ ID NO: 10), and two stop codons. By using these primers, 107 th amino acid residue of SEQ ID NO: 24, which is originally a cysteine residue, was replaced with a serine residue. PCR was conducted under the similar conditions to those of the above-mentioned manner using the two kinds of primers above-mentioned, and humanized PM1 antibody L chain expression vector RV1-PM1a (see WO92/19759) as the template DNA. The PCR product was purified using 1.5% low melting point agarose gel.

Next, the gene encoding humanized PM1 antibody single-chain Fv was amplified in the same manner. PCR was conducted under the same conditions as above-mentioned using EF1 (SEQ ID NO: 28) as the backward primer, SCP-K (SEQ ID NO: 33) as the forward primer, and pTMT-scFv as the template DNA. The forward primer SCP-K was designed in such a manner that it should hybridize to the nucleotide sequence encoding single-chain Fv C terminus shown in SEQ ID NO: 5, and comprise a nucleotide sequence that was complementary to the 5′ end of the κ chain gene amplified by PCR. The PCR product was purified in the same manner.

Using the method shown in Example 2-3), the full-length cDNA fragment encoding shPM1Kappa was amplified. Namely, 100 ng each of the above-mentioned DNA fragments was assembled by primary PCR, and then 100 ng each of the backward primer EF-1 (SEQ ID NO: 28) and forward primer Kappa2 (SEQ ID NO: 32) was added to amplify the full-length cDNA fragment.

After purifying the PCR product with 1.5% low melting point agarose gel, it was digested with restriction enzymes EcoRI and NotI, and inserted into pSFLAG vector to obtain shPM1Kappa expression vector pTMT-shPM1F-K (FIG. 7 ). Moreover, using the similar methods to those described in Example 5, a single-chain Fv having a bivalent variable region and shPM1Kappa-BvGS3 (SEQ ID NO: 34) expression vector pTMT-shPM1FK-BvGS3 were obtained.

4. Construction of the shPM1MCH4 Expression Vector

The gene encoding the fusion protein of humanized PM1 antibody single-chain Fv (SEQ ID NO: 23) and human μ chain constant region partial sequence (SEQ ID NO: 25) was constructed by PCR assembling. Namely, the genes encoding humanized PM1 antibody single-chain Fv and human t chain constant region partial sequence were amplified separately by PCR method, and were assembled by their complementarity. The full-length gene was then amplified by the external primer.

›EXAMPLE 7 · 2 of 2

First, the gene encoding human μ chain constant region was amplified by PCR. The backward primer MCH4-1 (SEQ ID NO: 35) was designed in such a manner that it should hybridize to the nucleotide sequence encoding 5′ end of human μ chain constant region exon 4 and comprise the nucleotide sequence of 3′ end of humanized PM1 antibody single-chain Fv (SEQ ID NO: 23). The forward primer MCH4-2.1 (SEQ ID NO: 36) was designed in such a manner that it should hybridize to the nucleotide sequence encoding the extracellular region of human membrane-type μ chain constant region and comprise the restriction enzyme HindIII recognition site. PCR was conducted under the similar conditions to those of the above-mentioned manner using the two kinds of above-mentioned primers, and cDNA obtained from human myeloma cell-line CL-4 cells by common methods as the template DNA. The PCR product was purified using 1.5% low melting point agarose gel.

Next, the gene encoding humanized PM1 antibody single-chain Fv was amplified in the same manner. PCR was conducted under the same condition as mentioned above using EF1 (SEQ ID NO: 28) as the backward primer, SCP-Mu (SEQ ID NO: 37) as the forward primer, and pTMT-scFv as template DNA. The forward primer SCP-Mu was designed in such a manner that it should hybridize to the nucleotide sequence encoding single-chain Fv C terminus shown in SEQ ID NO: 23, and comprise a nucleotide sequence that was complementary to the 5′ end of the μ chain partial sequence gene amplified by PCR. The PCR product was purified in the same manner.

Using the method shown in Example 2-3), the full-length cDNA fragment encoding shPM1MCH4 was amplified. Namely, 100 ng each of the above-mentioned DNA fragments were assembled by primary PCR, and then 100 pmol each of the backward primer EF-1 (SEQ ID NO: 28) and forward primer MCH4-2.2 (SEQ ID NO: 38) was added to amplify the full-length cDNA fragment. The forward primer MCH4-2.2 was designed in such a manner that it should hybridize to the 3′ end of the nucleotide sequence encoding human membrane-type R chain partial sequence amplified above, and comprise the nucleotide sequence encoding FLAG peptide, two stop codons, and restriction enzyme NotI recognition site.

After purifying the PCR product with 1.5% low melting point agarose gel, it was digested with restriction enzymes EcoRI and NotI, and was inserted into pSFLAG vector to obtain shPM1-MCH4 expression vector pTMT-shPM1F-MCH4 (FIG. 7 ). Moreover, using methods as described in Example 5, single-chain Fv having a bivalent variable region, and shPM1-MCH4-BvGS3 (SEQ ID NO: 39) expression vector pTMT-shPM1FM-BvGS3 were obtained.

›EXAMPLE 8 · 1 of 2

Screening of STX561 cDNA Library by the TMT Method Using the shPM1-kappa Expression Vector (FIG. 7 )

1. Preparation of STX561 cDNA library mRNA from the mouse hematopoietic stromal cell line STX561 was prepared by the usual method and the cDNA synthesized from this was inserted into the TMT expression vector shPM1kappa to prepare STX561 cDNA library. cDNA library was prepared using cDNA synthesis kit (STRATAGENE, cDNA synthesis kit). Basically, the protocol of the cDNA synthesis kit of STRATAGENE was followed, with the modifications mentioned below. Namely, Superscript II of GIBCO-BRL was used as the reverse transcriptase, NotI-dT primer (Pharmacia Biotech, primer attached to 1st strand cDNA synthesis kit) as the primer for the first synthesis, HindIII-SmaI site adapter as the adapter added to the 5′ terminus of cDNA, and Size sep 400 Spun Column of Pharmacia Biotech as the column for size fractionation.

Specifically, the cDNA library was prepared as follows: The starting material was 5 μg of mRNA, and first, a first strand was synthesized from 3′ poly A tail by reverse transcriptase (Superscript II, GICO-BRL) using NotI-dT primer (Pharmacia Biotech, primer attached to 1st strand cDNA synthesis kit). Next, after synthesizing the second strand with DNA polymerase, both ends of the cDNA were blunt-ended, and the HindIII-SmaI site adaptor (Takara) was added. After digesting both ends with HindIII and NotI, size-fractionation (Pharmacia Biotech, Size sep 400 Spun Column) was done to remove cDNA fragments with 0.5 kb or less in size. The collected cDNA was inserted into the HindIII-NotI sites of TMT expression vector shPM1kappa, and the vectotr was introduced into E. coli DH10B (electroMAX DH10B, GIBCO-BRL) by electroporation method to prepare the STX561 cDNA library.

STX561 cDNA library was pooled by separating into 1000 clones/pool, and two pools thereof (pool no.: #kappa-1, #kappa-6), 2000 clones in total were used for screening by the TMT method.

2. Screening of STX cDNA Library by Panning

1) Transfection Into COS-7 Cells

2 μg each of the plasmid DNA prepared from #kappa-1 and #kappa-6 were transfected into COS-7 cells using FuGENE™6 (Boehringer-Mannheim).

Namely, COS-7 cells seeded in 1×10 5 cells/well (6-well plate) on the day prior to the transfection were cultured overnight under the conditions of 37° C. and 5% CO 2 in 2 ml of 10% fetal calf serum-containing DMEM culture medium (GIBCO-BRL). On the day of transfection, 6 μl FuGENE™ was added to 0.1 ml of serum-free DMEM culture medium and incubated for 5 min at room temperature, then mixed with 2 μg plasmid DNA, and incubated for further 15 min at room temperature. Next, this mixture was added to the above COS-7 cells, and incubated for 3 days under the conditions of 37° C. and 5% CO 2 .

2) Preparation of the Panning Dish

A panning dish coated with goat anti-mouse IgG antibody (Dainippon Seiyaku, goat anti-mouse IgG (H+L chains)) was prepared according to the method of “Seed, B. et al., Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. (1987) 84, 3365-3369”. Namely, goat anti-mouse IgG antibody was added to 50 mM Tris-HCl (pH9.5) to 10 μg/ml. The antibody solution thus prepared (3 ml) was added to 60 mm-diameter cell-culture dish, and incubated at room temperature for 3 hours. After washing three times with 0.15M NaCl solution, PBS containing 5% fetal calf serum, 1 mM EDTA, and 0.02% NaN 3 was added, and then, after blocking, the panning was done as follows.

3) Panning

COS-7 cells transfected as mentioned above, were detached from the plate with PBS containing 1 mM EDTA, washed once with PBS containing 5% fetal calf serum, suspended in 50 μl of FACS buffer (PBS containing 2% fetal calf serum and 0.05% NaN 2 ).

Soluble-type IL-6R (2 μg) was added to the cell-suspension and incubated for 90 min on ice. Next, after washed twice with FACS buffer, the cells were suspended in 50 μl of FACS buffer. Then, 1.5 μg of mouse anti-IL-6 receptor antibody MT-18 was added to the cell suspension, and the suspension was incubated for 30 min on ice. Cells were washed twice with FACS buffer, suspended in 2 ml of PBS containing 5% fetal calf serum and 0.02% NaN 3 , and added to a panning plate coated with goat anti-mouse IgG antibody.

After incubating the above-mentioned various COS-7 cells on panning plates at room temperature for about 2 hours, the plates were gently washed three times with PBS containing 5% fetal calf serum and 0.02% NaN 3 , and plasmid DNA were collected from cells bound to the panning dishes using Hirts' solution (solution containing 0.6% SDS and 10 mM EDTA). Half of the collected plasmid DNA were transfected into 40 μl of E. coli DH10B (electroMAX DH10B, GIBCO-BRL) by the electroporation method, and after incubating for 1 hr in 1 ml of SOC culture-medium, 50 μl was sampled for the titer-check and seeded onto an LB-ampicillin (100 μg/ml) plate. On the other hand, the remaining culture was transferred to 500 ml of LB-ampicillin (100 μg/ml) liquid culture medium and cultured. After an overnight culture, plasmid DNA were prepared by plasmid DNA purification kit (Plasmid-Maxi, QIAGEN) and cryopreserved at −20° C.

A 1 μg portion of each of the plasmid DNA obtained per pool was re-transfected into COS-7 cells using 3 μl of FuGENE™6 (Boehringer-Mannheim), and the second panning, and recovery and preparation of the plasmid DNA were done as mentioned above.

3. Analysis of the Nucleotide Sequence and Deduced Amino Acid Sequence of the Obtained cDNA Clone

Following the first and second panning, colonies were randomly collected from the plates for titer checking, and after culturing each in 2 ml of LB-ampicillin (100 μg/ml) liquid culture medium, plasmid DNAs were prepared. Next, one more cDNA insert was screened by restriction enzyme analysis using SmaI and NotI, sequencing was done from the 5′ side, and as a result of analyzing their nucleotide sequence and deduced amino acid sequence, it was revealed that genes of membrane-bound proteins could be selectively screened by using the TMT method. The results are shown in Table 1.

›EXAMPLE 8 · 2 of 2

From the first panning, known membrane-bound proteins, cytochrome oxidase (1 clone), NADH-dehydrogenase (2 clones), and ATP-synthase (1 clone) were obtained. On the other hand, from the second panning, known membrane-bound proteins, cytochrome oxidase (1 clone), NADH-dehydrogenase (2 clones), and ATP-synthase (3 clones) were obtained. All mentioned above are membrane-bound proteins localized in the mitochondria inner-membrane. For example, ATP-synthase is known to be one-transmembrane-type, cytochrome oxidase to be two-transmembrane-type, and NADH-dehydrogenase to be fifteen-transmembrane-type proteins. These results reveal that TMT method enables not only the isolation of type I membrane-bound proteins, but also proteins having multiple transmembrane regions.

A clone of poly T sequence obtained in the second panning is probably due to insertion of the cDNA comprising poly A in the opposite direction. Poly T is translated into an amino acid sequence in which phenylalanines, which are hydrophobic, are tandemly aligned, and is believed to have been isolated since it is extremely rich in hydrophobicity.

In addition, the percentage of membrane-bound proteins contained in the collected clones is higher in the second panning than in the first panning. This shows that membrane-bound proteins are selectively condensed by repeating pannings.

Thus, in an actual cDNA library screening system, the TMT method was revealed to be an effective method for selectively cloning type I membrane-bound proteins and membrane-bound proteins comprising multiple transmembrane regions.

›Industrial Applicability

Due to structural problems, it is believed that antibody molecules cannot easily exert their antigen-binding activity when they are in states where they are accumulated on the cell membrane in the secreting process, and where they are agglutinated due to unnatural structures with fusion proteins and due to the amino acid composition. Therefore, as in the present invention, cells functionally expressing antibody fusion proteins on the cell-surface can be selectively screened by using a panning plate prepared using an antigen recognizing an antibody. Namely, the present invention provided a method of extremely selectively cloning genes encoding cell membrane-bound proteins, by effective removal of cells having fusion proteins with little or no antigen-binding activity on the cell surface.

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Gly Gly Gly Gly Ser Gly Gly Gly Gly Ser Gly Gly Gly Gly Ser

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Met Leu Ala Val Gly Cys Ala Leu Leu Ala Ala Leu Leu Ala Ala Pro

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Gly Ala Ala Leu Ala Pro Arg Arg Cys Pro Ala Gln Glu Val Ala Arg

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Gly Val Leu Thr Ser Leu Pro Gly Asp Ser Val Thr Leu Thr Cys Pro

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Gly Val Glu Pro Glu Asp Asn Ala Thr Val His Trp Val Leu Arg Lys

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Pro Ala Ala Gly Ser His Pro Ser Arg Trp Ala Gly Met Gly Arg Arg

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Leu Leu Leu Arg Ser Val Gln Leu His Asp Ser Gly Asn Tyr Ser Cys

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Tyr Arg Ala Gly Arg Pro Ala Gly Thr Val His Leu Leu Val Asp Val

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Pro Pro Glu Glu Pro Gln Leu Ser Cys Phe Arg Lys Ser Pro Leu Ser

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Asn Val Val Cys Glu Trp Gly Pro Arg Ser Thr Pro Ser Leu Thr Thr

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Lys Ala Val Leu Leu Val Arg Lys Phe Gln Asn Ser Pro Ala Glu Asp

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Phe Gln Glu Pro Cys Gln Tyr Ser Gln Glu Ser Gln Lys Phe Ser Cys

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Gln Leu Ala Val Pro Glu Gly Asp Ser Ser Phe Tyr Ile Val Ser Met

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Cys Val Ala Ser Ser Val Gly Ser Lys Phe Ser Lys Thr Gln Thr Phe

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Gln Gly Cys Gly Ile Leu Gln Pro Asp Pro Pro Ala Asn Ile Thr Val

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Thr Ala Val Ala Arg Asn Pro Arg Trp Leu Ser Val Thr Trp Gln Asp

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Pro His Ser Trp Asn Ser Ser Phe Tyr Arg Leu Arg Phe Glu Leu Arg

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Tyr Arg Ala Glu Arg Ser Lys Thr Phe Thr Thr Trp Met Val Lys Asp

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Leu Gln His His Cys Val Ile His Asp Ala Trp Ser Gly Leu Arg His

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Val Val Gln Leu Arg Ala Gln Glu Glu Phe Gly Gln Gly Glu Trp Ser

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Glu Trp Ser Pro Glu Ala Met Gly Thr Pro Trp Thr Glu Ser Arg Ser

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Pro Pro Ala Glu Asn Glu Val Ser Thr Pro Met Gln Ala Leu Thr Thr

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Asn Lys Asp Asp Asp Asn Ile Leu Phe

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<220> FEATURE:

<223> OTHER INFORMATION: Description of Artificial Sequence: “IL6R1”,

an artificially synthesized primer sequence

<400> SEQUENCE: 3

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<210> SEQ ID NO 4

<211> LENGTH: 36

<212> TYPE: DNA

<213> ORGANISM: Artificial Sequence

<220> FEATURE:

<223> OTHER INFORMATION: Description of Artificial Sequence: “IL6R2”,

an artificially synthesized primer sequence

<400> SEQUENCE: 4

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<210> SEQ ID NO 5

<211> LENGTH: 768

<212> TYPE: DNA

<213> ORGANISM: Artificial Sequence

<220> FEATURE:

<221> NAME/KEY: CDS

<222> LOCATION: (1)..(768)

<220> FEATURE:

<223> OTHER INFORMATION: Description of Artificial Sequence: a designed

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Gln Val Gln Leu Gln Glu Ser Gly Pro Gly Leu Val Arg Pro Ser Gln

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Thr Leu Ser Leu Thr Cys Thr Val Ser Gly Tyr Ser Ile Thr Ser Asp

20 25 30

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His Ala Trp Ser Trp Val Arg Gln Pro Pro Gly Arg Gly Leu Glu Trp

35 40 45

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Ile Gly Tyr Ile Ser Tyr Ser Gly Ile Thr Thr Tyr Asn Pro Ser Leu

50 55 60

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Lys Ser Arg Val Thr Met Leu Arg Asp Thr Ser Lys Asn Gln Phe Ser

65 70 75 80

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Leu Arg Leu Ser Ser Val Thr Ala Ala Asp Thr Ala Val Tyr Tyr Cys

85 90 95

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Ala Arg Ser Leu Ala Arg Thr Thr Ala Met Asp Tyr Trp Gly Gln Gly

100 105 110

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Ser Leu Val Thr Val Ser Ser Gly Gly Gly Gly Ser Gly Gly Gly Gly

115 120 125

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Ser Gly Gly Gly Gly Ser Asp Ile Gln Met Thr Gln Ser Pro Ser Ser

130 135 140

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Leu Ser Ala Ser Val Gly Asp Arg Val Thr Ile Thr Cys Arg Ala Ser

145 150 155 160

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Gln Asp Ile Ser Ser Tyr Leu Asn Trp Tyr Gln Gln Lys Pro Gly Lys

165 170 175

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Ala Pro Lys Leu Leu Ile Tyr Tyr Thr Ser Arg Leu His Ser Gly Val

180 185 190

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Ile Ser Ser Leu Gln Pro Glu Asp Ile Ala Thr Tyr Tyr Cys Gln Gln

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Gly Asn Thr Leu Pro Tyr Thr Phe Gly Gln Gly Thr Lys Val Glu Ile

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Lys Arg Thr Val Ala Ala Pro Ser Val Phe Ile Phe Pro Pro Ser Asp

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<220> FEATURE:

<223> OTHER INFORMATION: Description of Artificial Sequence: “TMT1”,

an artificially synthesized primer sequence

<400> SEQUENCE: 6

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<211> LENGTH: 32

<212> TYPE: DNA

<213> ORGANISM: Artificial Sequence

<220> FEATURE:

<223> OTHER INFORMATION: Description of Artificial Sequence: “LINK1”,

an artificially synthesized primer sequence

<400> SEQUENCE: 7

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<210> SEQ ID NO 8

<211> LENGTH: 38

<212> TYPE: DNA

<213> ORGANISM: Artificial Sequence

<220> FEATURE:

<223> OTHER INFORMATION: Description of Artificial Sequence: “LINK3”,

an artificially synthesized primer sequence

<400> SEQUENCE: 8

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<210> SEQ ID NO 9

<211> LENGTH: 63

<212> TYPE: DNA

<213> ORGANISM: Artificial Sequence

<220> FEATURE:

<223> OTHER INFORMATION: Description of Artificial Sequence: “SCP-C”,

an artificially synthesized primer sequence

<400> SEQUENCE: 9

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gat 63

<210> SEQ ID NO 10

<211> LENGTH: 9

<212> TYPE: PRT

<213> ORGANISM: Artificial Sequence

<220> FEATURE:

<223> OTHER INFORMATION: Description of Artificial Sequence: FLAG

peptide

<400> SEQUENCE: 10

Met Asp Tyr Lys Asp Asp Asp Asp Lys

1 5

<210> SEQ ID NO 11

<211> LENGTH: 34

<212> TYPE: DNA

<213> ORGANISM: Artificial Sequence

<220> FEATURE:

<223> OTHER INFORMATION: Description of Artificial Sequence: “LINK2”,

an artificially synthesized primer sequence

<400> SEQUENCE: 11

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<210> SEQ ID NO 12

<211> LENGTH: 35

<212> TYPE: DNA

<213> ORGANISM: Artificial Sequence

<220> FEATURE:

<223> OTHER INFORMATION: Description of Artificial Sequence: “LINK4”,

an artificially synthesized primer sequence

<400> SEQUENCE: 12

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<210> SEQ ID NO 13

<211> LENGTH: 36

<212> TYPE: DNA

<213> ORGANISM: Artificial Sequence

<220> FEATURE:

<223> OTHER INFORMATION: Description of Artificial Sequence: “TMT2”,

an artificially synthesized primer sequence

<400> SEQUENCE: 13

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<210> SEQ ID NO 14

<211> LENGTH: 19

<212> TYPE: PRT

<213> ORGANISM: Artificial Sequence

<220> FEATURE:

<223> OTHER INFORMATION: Description of Artificial Sequence: leader

sequence

<400> SEQUENCE: 14

Met Gly Trp Ser Cys Ile Ile Leu Phe Leu Val Ala Thr Ala Thr Gly

1 5 10 15

Val Asp Ser

<210> SEQ ID NO 15

<211> LENGTH: 106

<212> TYPE: DNA

<213> ORGANISM: Artificial Sequence

<220> FEATURE:

<223> OTHER INFORMATION: Description of Artificial Sequence: “S-FLAG1”,

an artificially synthesized oligonucleotide sequence

<400> SEQUENCE: 15

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<210> SEQ ID NO 16

<211> LENGTH: 106

<212> TYPE: DNA

<213> ORGANISM: Artificial Sequence

<220> FEATURE:

<223> OTHER INFORMATION: Description of Artificial Sequence: “S-FLAG2”,

an artificially synthesized oligonucleotide sequence

<400> SEQUENCE: 16

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<210> SEQ ID NO 17

<211> LENGTH: 2995

<212> TYPE: DNA

<213> ORGANISM: Mus musculus

<220> FEATURE:

<221> NAME/KEY: CDS

<222> LOCATION: (29)..(2839)

<400> SEQUENCE: 17

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Met Ser Ala Pro Arg Ile Trp Leu

1 5

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Ala Gln Ala Leu Leu Phe Phe Leu Thr Thr Glu Ser Ile Gly Gln Leu

10 15 20

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Leu Glu Pro Cys Gly Tyr Ile Tyr Pro Glu Phe Pro Val Val Gln Arg

25 30 35 40

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Gly Ser Asn Phe Thr Ala Ile Cys Val Leu Lys Glu Ala Cys Leu Gln

45 50 55

cat tac tac gtg aat gcc agc tac atc gtg tgg aag acc aac cat gct 304

His Tyr Tyr Val Asn Ala Ser Tyr Ile Val Trp Lys Thr Asn His Ala

60 65 70

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Ala Val Pro Arg Glu Gln Val Thr Val Ile Asn Arg Thr Thr Ser Ser

75 80 85

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Val Thr Phe Thr Asp Val Val Leu Pro Ser Val Gln Leu Thr Cys Asn

90 95 100

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Ile Leu Ser Phe Gly Gln Ile Glu Gln Asn Val Tyr Gly Val Thr Met

105 110 115 120

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Leu Ser Gly Phe Pro Pro Asp Lys Pro Thr Asn Leu Thr Cys Ile Val

125 130 135

aat gag ggg aag aat atg ctg tgc cag tgg gac ccc gga agg gag act 544

Asn Glu Gly Lys Asn Met Leu Cys Gln Trp Asp Pro Gly Arg Glu Thr

140 145 150

tac ctt gaa aca aac tac act ttg aaa tca gag tgg gca aca gag aag 592

Tyr Leu Glu Thr Asn Tyr Thr Leu Lys Ser Glu Trp Ala Thr Glu Lys

155 160 165

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Phe Pro Asp Cys Gln Ser Lys His Gly Thr Ser Cys Met Val Ser Tyr

170 175 180

atg ccc acc tat tat gtc aac att gaa gtc tgg gtg gaa gca gag aat 688

Met Pro Thr Tyr Tyr Val Asn Ile Glu Val Trp Val Glu Ala Glu Asn

185 190 195 200

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Ala Leu Gly Lys Val Ser Ser Glu Ser Ile Asn Phe Asp Pro Val Asp

205 210 215

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Lys Val Lys Pro Thr Pro Pro Tyr Asn Leu Ser Val Thr Asn Ser Glu

220 225 230

gaa tta tcc agt ata tta aag cta tca tgg gtc agt tca ggg ctg ggc 832

Glu Leu Ser Ser Ile Leu Lys Leu Ser Trp Val Ser Ser Gly Leu Gly

›SEQUENCE LISTING · 3 of 10

235 240 245

ggt ctt tta gat cta aag tct gac atc caa tat agg acc aaa gat gcc 880

Gly Leu Leu Asp Leu Lys Ser Asp Ile Gln Tyr Arg Thr Lys Asp Ala

250 255 260

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Ser Thr Trp Ile Gln Val Pro Leu Glu Asp Thr Met Ser Pro Arg Thr

265 270 275 280

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Ser Phe Thr Val Gln Asp Leu Lys Pro Phe Thr Glu Tyr Val Phe Arg

285 290 295

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Ile Arg Ser Ile Lys Asp Ser Gly Lys Gly Tyr Trp Ser Asp Trp Ser

300 305 310

gag gag gct agt ggg acc aca tac gaa gac aga cca tcc aga cca cca 1072

Glu Glu Ala Ser Gly Thr Thr Tyr Glu Asp Arg Pro Ser Arg Pro Pro

315 320 325

agt ttc tgg tat aag aca aat cca tcc cat ggg cag gaa tat aga tct 1120

Ser Phe Trp Tyr Lys Thr Asn Pro Ser His Gly Gln Glu Tyr Arg Ser

330 335 340

gta cgg ctc ata tgg aag gca ctg cct ctt tct gaa gcc aat ggg aaa 1168

Val Arg Leu Ile Trp Lys Ala Leu Pro Leu Ser Glu Ala Asn Gly Lys

345 350 355 360

atc ttg gat tat gaa gtg att ctt acg cag tca aag tcc gtc tca caa 1216

Ile Leu Asp Tyr Glu Val Ile Leu Thr Gln Ser Lys Ser Val Ser Gln

365 370 375

acg tac aca gtc act ggc aca gag ctg acc gtg aat ctc acc aat gac 1264

Thr Tyr Thr Val Thr Gly Thr Glu Leu Thr Val Asn Leu Thr Asn Asp

380 385 390

cgc tat gtc gcg tct cta gca gca aga aac aag gtg ggc aaa tca gct 1312

Arg Tyr Val Ala Ser Leu Ala Ala Arg Asn Lys Val Gly Lys Ser Ala

395 400 405

gca gct gtc ctc acc atc ccc agc ccc cac gtc aca gct gct tat tct 1360

Ala Ala Val Leu Thr Ile Pro Ser Pro His Val Thr Ala Ala Tyr Ser

410 415 420

gta gtg aat ctt aaa gca ttt cca aaa gat aac ctg ctc tgg gtg gaa 1408

Val Val Asn Leu Lys Ala Phe Pro Lys Asp Asn Leu Leu Trp Val Glu

425 430 435 440

tgg aca cct cca cct aaa ccc gtg agc aag tac atc tta gag tgg tgt 1456

Trp Thr Pro Pro Pro Lys Pro Val Ser Lys Tyr Ile Leu Glu Trp Cys

445 450 455

gtg ttg tca gag aac gca ccc tgt gtt gaa gac tgg cag cag gaa gac 1504

Val Leu Ser Glu Asn Ala Pro Cys Val Glu Asp Trp Gln Gln Glu Asp

460 465 470

gct acc gtg aat cgg acc cac ttg aga gga cgc ctc ctg gag agc aag 1552

Ala Thr Val Asn Arg Thr His Leu Arg Gly Arg Leu Leu Glu Ser Lys

475 480 485

tgc tat caa atc aca gta act ccc gta ttc gcc acg ggg ccc gga ggc 1600

Cys Tyr Gln Ile Thr Val Thr Pro Val Phe Ala Thr Gly Pro Gly Gly

490 495 500

tct gag tcc ttg aag gcg tac ctc aaa caa gcc gct cct gcc aga gga 1648

Ser Glu Ser Leu Lys Ala Tyr Leu Lys Gln Ala Ala Pro Ala Arg Gly

505 510 515 520

ccg act gtt cgg aca aag aaa gtg ggg aaa aat gaa gct gtc tta gcg 1696

Pro Thr Val Arg Thr Lys Lys Val Gly Lys Asn Glu Ala Val Leu Ala

525 530 535

tgg gac cag att cct gtg gac gac cag aat ggc ttc att aga aac tac 1744

Trp Asp Gln Ile Pro Val Asp Asp Gln Asn Gly Phe Ile Arg Asn Tyr

540 545 550

tcc ata tct tac aga acc agc gtg gga aag gag atg gtt gtg cat gtg 1792

Ser Ile Ser Tyr Arg Thr Ser Val Gly Lys Glu Met Val Val His Val

555 560 565

gat tct tct cac acg gag tac acg ctg tcc tct ctg agt agt gat acg 1840

Asp Ser Ser His Thr Glu Tyr Thr Leu Ser Ser Leu Ser Ser Asp Thr

570 575 580

ttg tac atg gtc cga atg gcc gcg tac aca gat gaa ggt ggg aaa gat 1888

Leu Tyr Met Val Arg Met Ala Ala Tyr Thr Asp Glu Gly Gly Lys Asp

585 590 595 600

ggg ccg gaa ttc act ttt aca aca cca aag ttc gct caa gga gaa ata 1936

Gly Pro Glu Phe Thr Phe Thr Thr Pro Lys Phe Ala Gln Gly Glu Ile

605 610 615

gaa gcc ata gtc gtg cct gtg tgc tta gcc ttc ctc ctg aca acc ctg 1984

Glu Ala Ile Val Val Pro Val Cys Leu Ala Phe Leu Leu Thr Thr Leu

620 625 630

ctg ggc gtc ttg ttc tgc ttt aac aaa cga gac cta att aaa aaa cac 2032

Leu Gly Val Leu Phe Cys Phe Asn Lys Arg Asp Leu Ile Lys Lys His

635 640 645

atc tgg cct aat gtt cct gat cct tcc aag agt cat att gcc cag tgg 2080

Ile Trp Pro Asn Val Pro Asp Pro Ser Lys Ser His Ile Ala Gln Trp

650 655 660

tca cct cac acc ccc cca agg cac aat ttt aac tcc aaa gat caa atg 2128

Ser Pro His Thr Pro Pro Arg His Asn Phe Asn Ser Lys Asp Gln Met

665 670 675 680

tac tcg gac ggc aat ttc act gat gta agc gtt gtg gaa ata gaa gca 2176

Tyr Ser Asp Gly Asn Phe Thr Asp Val Ser Val Val Glu Ile Glu Ala

685 690 695

aac aac aag aag cct tgt cca gat gac ctg aag tcc gtg gac ctg ttc 2224

Asn Asn Lys Lys Pro Cys Pro Asp Asp Leu Lys Ser Val Asp Leu Phe

700 705 710

aag aag gag aaa gtg agt aca gaa ggg cac agc agt ggc atc ggg ggc 2272

Lys Lys Glu Lys Val Ser Thr Glu Gly His Ser Ser Gly Ile Gly Gly

715 720 725

tct tca tgc atg tcc tcc tcc agg ccc agc atc tcc agc aac gag gag 2320

Ser Ser Cys Met Ser Ser Ser Arg Pro Ser Ile Ser Ser Asn Glu Glu

730 735 740

aat gag tct gct cag agc acc gcc agc acg gtc gag tac tcc act gtg 2368

Asn Glu Ser Ala Gln Ser Thr Ala Ser Thr Val Glu Tyr Ser Thr Val

745 750 755 760

gtg cac agc ggc tac agg cac cag gtc ccg tcc gtg caa gtg ttc tca 2416

Val His Ser Gly Tyr Arg His Gln Val Pro Ser Val Gln Val Phe Ser

765 770 775

agg tcc gag tcc acc cag ccc ctg cta gac tcg gag gag cgg cca gaa 2464

Arg Ser Glu Ser Thr Gln Pro Leu Leu Asp Ser Glu Glu Arg Pro Glu

780 785 790

gac ctg cag ctg gtg gat agt gta gac ggt ggg gat gag atc ttg ccc 2512

Asp Leu Gln Leu Val Asp Ser Val Asp Gly Gly Asp Glu Ile Leu Pro

795 800 805

agg caa ccg tat ttc aag cag aac tgc agt cag cct gaa gcc tgt cca 2560

Arg Gln Pro Tyr Phe Lys Gln Asn Cys Ser Gln Pro Glu Ala Cys Pro

810 815 820

gag att tca cat ttt gaa agg tca aac cag gtt ttg tcc ggc aat gag 2608

Glu Ile Ser His Phe Glu Arg Ser Asn Gln Val Leu Ser Gly Asn Glu

825 830 835 840

gag gat ttt gtc aga ctg aag cag cag cag gtt tca gat cac att tct 2656

Glu Asp Phe Val Arg Leu Lys Gln Gln Gln Val Ser Asp His Ile Ser

845 850 855

cag ccc tat gga tcc gag caa cgg agg ctg ttt cag gaa ggc tct aca 2704

Gln Pro Tyr Gly Ser Glu Gln Arg Arg Leu Phe Gln Glu Gly Ser Thr

860 865 870

gcg gat gct ctt ggc acg ggg gct gat gga cag atg gag aga ttt gaa 2752

Ala Asp Ala Leu Gly Thr Gly Ala Asp Gly Gln Met Glu Arg Phe Glu

875 880 885

tct gtt gga atg gag acc aca att gat gaa gaa att ccc aaa agt tac 2800

Ser Val Gly Met Glu Thr Thr Ile Asp Glu Glu Ile Pro Lys Ser Tyr

890 895 900

ttg cca cag act gta aga caa ggt ggc tac atg ccg cag tgaaggactg 2849

Leu Pro Gln Thr Val Arg Gln Gly Gly Tyr Met Pro Gln

905 910 915

gctcctgaac ttcagcagga actgcaaaat aaagctaaag acgagtggct tcagatgaga 2909

›SEQUENCE LISTING · 4 of 10

aacagtcctc actccctgaa gataggcatt gcctctaagg acaaagtcac acctgggccg 2969

tctccattcc agagtagctg gaattc 2995

<210> SEQ ID NO 18

<211> LENGTH: 27

<212> TYPE: DNA

<213> ORGANISM: Artificial Sequence

<220> FEATURE:

<223> OTHER INFORMATION: Description of Artificial Sequence: “mgp1”,

an artificially synthesized primer sequence

<400> SEQUENCE: 18

cccaagcttg aattcacttt tacaaca 27

<210> SEQ ID NO 19

<211> LENGTH: 29

<212> TYPE: DNA

<213> ORGANISM: Artificial Sequence

<220> FEATURE:

<223> OTHER INFORMATION: Description of Artificial Sequence: “mgp3”,

an artificially synthesized primer sequence

<400> SEQUENCE: 19

tttgcggccg cgaattccag ctactctgg 29

<210> SEQ ID NO 20

<211> LENGTH: 33

<212> TYPE: DNA

<213> ORGANISM: Artificial Sequence

<220> FEATURE:

<223> OTHER INFORMATION: Description of Artificial Sequence: “mgp2”,

an artificially synthesized primer sequence

<400> SEQUENCE: 20

cccaagcttg aattcaaaaa acacatctgg ctt 33

<210> SEQ ID NO 21

<211> LENGTH: 1662

<212> TYPE: DNA

<213> ORGANISM: Artificial Sequence

<220> FEATURE:

<221> NAME/KEY: CDS

<222> LOCATION: (11)..(1648)

<220> FEATURE:

<223> OTHER INFORMATION: Description of Artificial Sequence:

“hPM1-BvGS3 ”, a designed single chain Fv gene sequence

<400> SEQUENCE: 21

gaattccacc atg gga tgg agc tgt atc atc ctc ttc ttg gta gca aca 49

Met Gly Trp Ser Cys Ile Ile Leu Phe Leu Val Ala Thr

1 5 10

gct aca ggt gtc gac tcc cag gtc caa ctg cag gag agc ggt cca ggt 97

Ala Thr Gly Val Asp Ser Gln Val Gln Leu Gln Glu Ser Gly Pro Gly

15 20 25

ctt gtg aga cct agc cag acc ctg agc ctg acc tgc acc gtg tct ggc 145

Leu Val Arg Pro Ser Gln Thr Leu Ser Leu Thr Cys Thr Val Ser Gly

30 35 40 45

tac tca att acc agc gat cat gcc tgg agc tgg gtt cgc cag cca cct 193

Tyr Ser Ile Thr Ser Asp His Ala Trp Ser Trp Val Arg Gln Pro Pro

50 55 60

gga cga ggt ctt gag tgg att gga tac att agt tat agt gga atc aca 241

Gly Arg Gly Leu Glu Trp Ile Gly Tyr Ile Ser Tyr Ser Gly Ile Thr

65 70 75

acc tat aat cca tct ctc aaa tcc aga gtg aca atg ctg aga gac acc 289

Thr Tyr Asn Pro Ser Leu Lys Ser Arg Val Thr Met Leu Arg Asp Thr

80 85 90

agc aag aac cag ttc agc ctg aga ctc agc agc gtg aca gcc gcc gac 337

Ser Lys Asn Gln Phe Ser Leu Arg Leu Ser Ser Val Thr Ala Ala Asp

95 100 105

acc gcg gtt tat tat tgt gca aga tcc cta gct cgg act acg gct atg 385

Thr Ala Val Tyr Tyr Cys Ala Arg Ser Leu Ala Arg Thr Thr Ala Met

110 115 120 125

gac tac tgg ggt caa ggc agc ctc gtc aca gtc tcc tca ggt ggt ggt 433

Asp Tyr Trp Gly Gln Gly Ser Leu Val Thr Val Ser Ser Gly Gly Gly

130 135 140

ggt tcg ggt ggt ggt ggt tcg ggt ggt ggc gga tcg gac atc cag atg 481

Gly Ser Gly Gly Gly Gly Ser Gly Gly Gly Gly Ser Asp Ile Gln Met

145 150 155

acc cag agc cca agc agc ctg agc gcc agc gtg ggt gac aga gtg acc 529

Thr Gln Ser Pro Ser Ser Leu Ser Ala Ser Val Gly Asp Arg Val Thr

160 165 170

atc acc tgt aga gcc agc cag gac atc agc agt tac ctg aat tgg tac 577

Ile Thr Cys Arg Ala Ser Gln Asp Ile Ser Ser Tyr Leu Asn Trp Tyr

175 180 185

cag cag aag cca gga aag gct cca aag ctg ctg atc tac tac acc tcc 625

Gln Gln Lys Pro Gly Lys Ala Pro Lys Leu Leu Ile Tyr Tyr Thr Ser

190 195 200 205

aga ctg cac tct ggt gtg cca agc aga ttc agc ggt agc ggt agc ggt 673

Arg Leu His Ser Gly Val Pro Ser Arg Phe Ser Gly Ser Gly Ser Gly

210 215 220

acc gac ttc acc ttc acc atc agc agc ctc cag cca gag gac atc gct 721

Thr Asp Phe Thr Phe Thr Ile Ser Ser Leu Gln Pro Glu Asp Ile Ala

225 230 235

acc tac tac tgc caa cag ggt aac acg ctt cca tac acg ttc ggc caa 769

Thr Tyr Tyr Cys Gln Gln Gly Asn Thr Leu Pro Tyr Thr Phe Gly Gln

240 245 250

ggg acc aag gtg gaa atc aaa tct aga ggt ggt ggt ggt tcg ggt ggt 817

Gly Thr Lys Val Glu Ile Lys Ser Arg Gly Gly Gly Gly Ser Gly Gly

255 260 265

ggt ggt tcg ggt ggt ggc gga tcg gtc gac tcc cag gtc caa ctg cag 865

Gly Gly Ser Gly Gly Gly Gly Ser Val Asp Ser Gln Val Gln Leu Gln

270 275 280 285

gag agc ggt cca ggt ctt gtg aga cct agc cag acc ctg agc ctg acc 913

Glu Ser Gly Pro Gly Leu Val Arg Pro Ser Gln Thr Leu Ser Leu Thr

290 295 300

tgc acc gtg tct ggc tac tca att acc agc gat cat gcc tgg agc tgg 961

Cys Thr Val Ser Gly Tyr Ser Ile Thr Ser Asp His Ala Trp Ser Trp

305 310 315

gtt cgc cag cca cct gga cga ggt ctt gag tgg att gga tac att agt 1009

Val Arg Gln Pro Pro Gly Arg Gly Leu Glu Trp Ile Gly Tyr Ile Ser

320 325 330

tat agt gga atc aca acc tat aat cca tct ctc aaa tcc aga gtg aca 1057

Tyr Ser Gly Ile Thr Thr Tyr Asn Pro Ser Leu Lys Ser Arg Val Thr

335 340 345

atg ctg aga gac acc agc aag aac cag ttc agc ctg aga ctc agc agc 1105

Met Leu Arg Asp Thr Ser Lys Asn Gln Phe Ser Leu Arg Leu Ser Ser

350 355 360 365

gtg aca gcc gcc gac acc gcg gtt tat tat tgt gca aga tcc cta gct 1153

Val Thr Ala Ala Asp Thr Ala Val Tyr Tyr Cys Ala Arg Ser Leu Ala

370 375 380

cgg act acg gct atg gac tac tgg ggt caa ggc agc ctc gtc aca gtc 1201

Arg Thr Thr Ala Met Asp Tyr Trp Gly Gln Gly Ser Leu Val Thr Val

385 390 395

tcc tca ggt ggt ggt ggt tcg ggt ggt ggt ggt tcg ggt ggt ggc gga 1249

Ser Ser Gly Gly Gly Gly Ser Gly Gly Gly Gly Ser Gly Gly Gly Gly

400 405 410

tcg gac atc cag atg acc cag agc cca agc agc ctg agc gcc agc gtg 1297

Ser Asp Ile Gln Met Thr Gln Ser Pro Ser Ser Leu Ser Ala Ser Val

415 420 425

ggt gac aga gtg acc atc acc tgt aga gcc agc cag gac atc agc agt 1345

Gly Asp Arg Val Thr Ile Thr Cys Arg Ala Ser Gln Asp Ile Ser Ser

430 435 440 445

tac ctg aat tgg tac cag cag aag cca gga aag gct cca aag ctg ctg 1393

Tyr Leu Asn Trp Tyr Gln Gln Lys Pro Gly Lys Ala Pro Lys Leu Leu

450 455 460

atc tac tac acc tcc aga ctg cac tct ggt gtg cca agc aga ttc agc 1441

Ile Tyr Tyr Thr Ser Arg Leu His Ser Gly Val Pro Ser Arg Phe Ser

465 470 475

ggt agc ggt agc ggt acc gac ttc acc ttc acc atc agc agc ctc cag 1489

Gly Ser Gly Ser Gly Thr Asp Phe Thr Phe Thr Ile Ser Ser Leu Gln

480 485 490

cca gag gac atc gct acc tac tac tgc caa cag ggt aac acg ctt cca 1537

Pro Glu Asp Ile Ala Thr Tyr Tyr Cys Gln Gln Gly Asn Thr Leu Pro

495 500 505

tac acg ttc ggc caa ggg acc aag gtg gaa atc aaa cga act gtg gct 1585

Tyr Thr Phe Gly Gln Gly Thr Lys Val Glu Ile Lys Arg Thr Val Ala

510 515 520 525

gca cca tct gtc ttc atc ttc ccg cca tct gat aag ctt gac tac aaa 1633

Ala Pro Ser Val Phe Ile Phe Pro Pro Ser Asp Lys Leu Asp Tyr Lys

530 535 540

gac gat gac gat aaa taataagcgg ccgc 1662

›SEQUENCE LISTING · 5 of 10

Asp Asp Asp Asp Lys

545

<210> SEQ ID NO 22

<211> LENGTH: 72

<212> TYPE: DNA

<213> ORGANISM: Artificial Sequence

<220> FEATURE:

<223> OTHER INFORMATION: Description of Artificial Sequence: “BvGS3”,

an artificially synthesized primer sequence

<400> SEQUENCE: 22

ggagtcgacc gatccgccac cacccgaacc accaccaccc gaaccaccac cacctttgat 60

ttccaccttg gt 72

<210> SEQ ID NO 23

<211> LENGTH: 780

<212> TYPE: DNA

<213> ORGANISM: Artificial Sequence

<220> FEATURE:

<221> NAME/KEY: CDS

<222> LOCATION: (1)..(780)

<220> FEATURE:

<223> OTHER INFORMATION: Description of Artificial Sequence:

“shPM1((EL)”, a designed single chain Fv gene sequence

<400> SEQUENCE: 23

atg gga tgg agc tgt atc atc ctc ttc ttg gta gca aca gct aca ggt 48

Met Gly Trp Ser Cys Ile Ile Leu Phe Leu Val Ala Thr Ala Thr Gly

1 5 10 15

gtc gac tcc cag gtc caa ctg cag gag agc ggt cca ggt ctt gtg aga 96

Val Asp Ser Gln Val Gln Leu Gln Glu Ser Gly Pro Gly Leu Val Arg

20 25 30

cct agc cag acc ctg agc ctg acc tgc acc gtg tct ggc tac tca att 144

Pro Ser Gln Thr Leu Ser Leu Thr Cys Thr Val Ser Gly Tyr Ser Ile

35 40 45

acc agc gat cat gcc tgg agc tgg gtt cgc cag cca cct gga cga ggt 192

Thr Ser Asp His Ala Trp Ser Trp Val Arg Gln Pro Pro Gly Arg Gly

50 55 60

ctt gag tgg att gga tac att agt tat agt gga atc aca acc tat aat 240

Leu Glu Trp Ile Gly Tyr Ile Ser Tyr Ser Gly Ile Thr Thr Tyr Asn

65 70 75 80

cca tct ctc aaa tcc aga gtg aca atg ctg aga gac acc agc aag aac 288

Pro Ser Leu Lys Ser Arg Val Thr Met Leu Arg Asp Thr Ser Lys Asn

85 90 95

cag ttc agc ctg aga ctc agc agc gtg aca gcc gcc gac acc gcg gtt 336

Gln Phe Ser Leu Arg Leu Ser Ser Val Thr Ala Ala Asp Thr Ala Val

100 105 110

tat tat tgt gca aga tcc cta gct cgg act acg gct atg gac tac tgg 384

Tyr Tyr Cys Ala Arg Ser Leu Ala Arg Thr Thr Ala Met Asp Tyr Trp

115 120 125

ggt caa ggc agc ctc gtc aca gtc tcc tca ggt ggt ggt ggt tcg ggt 432

Gly Gln Gly Ser Leu Val Thr Val Ser Ser Gly Gly Gly Gly Ser Gly

130 135 140

ggt ggt ggt tcg ggt ggt ggc gga tcg gac atc cag atg acc cag agc 480

Gly Gly Gly Ser Gly Gly Gly Gly Ser Asp Ile Gln Met Thr Gln Ser

145 150 155 160

cca agc agc ctg agc gcc agc gtg ggt gac aga gtg acc atc acc tgt 528

Pro Ser Ser Leu Ser Ala Ser Val Gly Asp Arg Val Thr Ile Thr Cys

165 170 175

aga gcc agc cag gac atc agc agt tac ctg aat tgg tac cag cag aag 576

Arg Ala Ser Gln Asp Ile Ser Ser Tyr Leu Asn Trp Tyr Gln Gln Lys

180 185 190

cca gga aag gct cca aag ctg ctg atc tac tac acc tcc aga ctg cac 624

Pro Gly Lys Ala Pro Lys Leu Leu Ile Tyr Tyr Thr Ser Arg Leu His

195 200 205

tct ggt gtg cca agc aga ttc agc ggt agc ggt agc ggt acc gac ttc 672

Ser Gly Val Pro Ser Arg Phe Ser Gly Ser Gly Ser Gly Thr Asp Phe

210 215 220

acc ttc acc atc agc agc ctc cag cca gag gac atc gct acc tac tac 720

Thr Phe Thr Ile Ser Ser Leu Gln Pro Glu Asp Ile Ala Thr Tyr Tyr

225 230 235 240

tgc caa cag gga aat act tta cca tac acg ttc ggc caa ggg acc aag 768

Cys Gln Gln Gly Asn Thr Leu Pro Tyr Thr Phe Gly Gln Gly Thr Lys

245 250 255

gtg gaa atc aaa 780

Val Glu Ile Lys

260

<210> SEQ ID NO 24

<211> LENGTH: 321

<212> TYPE: DNA

<213> ORGANISM: Homo sapiens

<220> FEATURE:

<221> NAME/KEY: CDS

<222> LOCATION: (1)..(321)

<400> SEQUENCE: 24

cga act gtg gct gca cca tct gtc ttc atc ttc ccg cca tct gat gag 48

Arg Thr Val Ala Ala Pro Ser Val Phe Ile Phe Pro Pro Ser Asp Glu

1 5 10 15

cag ttg aaa tct gga act gcc tct gtt gtg tgc ctg ctg aat aac ttc 96

Gln Leu Lys Ser Gly Thr Ala Ser Val Val Cys Leu Leu Asn Asn Phe

20 25 30

tat ccc aga gag gcc aaa gta cag tgg aag gtg gat aac gcc ctc caa 144

Tyr Pro Arg Glu Ala Lys Val Gln Trp Lys Val Asp Asn Ala Leu Gln

35 40 45

tcg ggt aac tcc cag gag agt gtc aca gag cag gac agc aag gac agc 192

Ser Gly Asn Ser Gln Glu Ser Val Thr Glu Gln Asp Ser Lys Asp Ser

50 55 60

acc tac agc ctc agc agc acc ctg acg ctg agc aaa gca gac tac gag 240

Thr Tyr Ser Leu Ser Ser Thr Leu Thr Leu Ser Lys Ala Asp Tyr Glu

65 70 75 80

aaa cac aaa gtc tac gcc tgc gaa gtc acc cat cag ggc ctg agc tcg 288

Lys His Lys Val Tyr Ala Cys Glu Val Thr His Gln Gly Leu Ser Ser

85 90 95

ccc gtc aca aag agc ttc aac agg gga gag tct 321

Pro Val Thr Lys Ser Phe Asn Arg Gly Glu Ser

100 105

<210> SEQ ID NO 25

<211> LENGTH: 363

<212> TYPE: DNA

<213> ORGANISM: Homo sapiens

<220> FEATURE:

<221> NAME/KEY: CDS

<222> LOCATION: (1)..(363)

<400> SEQUENCE: 25

gtg gcc ctg cac agg ccc gat gtc tac ttg ctg cca cca gcc cgg gag 48

Val Ala Leu His Arg Pro Asp Val Tyr Leu Leu Pro Pro Ala Arg Glu

1 5 10 15

cag ctg aac ctg cgg gag tcg gcc acc atc acg tgc ctg gtg acg ggc 96

Gln Leu Asn Leu Arg Glu Ser Ala Thr Ile Thr Cys Leu Val Thr Gly

20 25 30

ttc tct ccc gcg gac gtc ttc gtg cag tgg atg cag agg ggg cag ccc 144

Phe Ser Pro Ala Asp Val Phe Val Gln Trp Met Gln Arg Gly Gln Pro

35 40 45

ttg tcc ccg gag aag tat gtg acc agc gcc cca atg cct gag ccc cag 192

Leu Ser Pro Glu Lys Tyr Val Thr Ser Ala Pro Met Pro Glu Pro Gln

50 55 60

gcc cca ggc cgg tac ttc gcc cac agc atc ctg acc gtg tcc gaa gag 240

Ala Pro Gly Arg Tyr Phe Ala His Ser Ile Leu Thr Val Ser Glu Glu

65 70 75 80

gaa tgg aac acg ggg gag acc tac acc tgc gtg gcc cat gag gcc ctg 288

Glu Trp Asn Thr Gly Glu Thr Tyr Thr Cys Val Ala His Glu Ala Leu

85 90 95

ccc aac agg gtc acc gag agg acc gtg gac aag tcc acc gag ggg gag 336

Pro Asn Arg Val Thr Glu Arg Thr Val Asp Lys Ser Thr Glu Gly Glu

100 105 110

gtg agc gcc gac gag gag ggc ttt gag 363

Val Ser Ala Asp Glu Glu Gly Phe Glu

115 120

<210> SEQ ID NO 26

<211> LENGTH: 1101

<212> TYPE: DNA

<213> ORGANISM: Artificial Sequence

<220> FEATURE:

<221> NAME/KEY: CDS

<222> LOCATION: (1)..(1101)

<220> FEATURE:

<223> OTHER INFORMATION: Description of Artificial Sequence:

“shPM1-Kappa”, a designed single chain Fv gene sequence

<400> SEQUENCE: 26

atg gga tgg agc tgt atc atc ctc ttc ttg gta gca aca gct aca ggt 48

Met Gly Trp Ser Cys Ile Ile Leu Phe Leu Val Ala Thr Ala Thr Gly

1 5 10 15

gtc gac tcc cag gtc caa ctg cag gag agc ggt cca ggt ctt gtg aga 96

Val Asp Ser Gln Val Gln Leu Gln Glu Ser Gly Pro Gly Leu Val Arg

20 25 30

cct agc cag acc ctg agc ctg acc tgc acc gtg tct ggc tac tca att 144

Pro Ser Gln Thr Leu Ser Leu Thr Cys Thr Val Ser Gly Tyr Ser Ile

35 40 45

acc agc gat cat gcc tgg agc tgg gtt cgc cag cca cct gga cga ggt 192

Thr Ser Asp His Ala Trp Ser Trp Val Arg Gln Pro Pro Gly Arg Gly

›SEQUENCE LISTING · 6 of 10

50 55 60

ctt gag tgg att gga tac att agt tat agt gga atc aca acc tat aat 240

Leu Glu Trp Ile Gly Tyr Ile Ser Tyr Ser Gly Ile Thr Thr Tyr Asn

65 70 75 80

cca tct ctc aaa tcc aga gtg aca atg ctg aga gac acc agc aag aac 288

Pro Ser Leu Lys Ser Arg Val Thr Met Leu Arg Asp Thr Ser Lys Asn

85 90 95

cag ttc agc ctg aga ctc agc agc gtg aca gcc gcc gac acc gcg gtt 336

Gln Phe Ser Leu Arg Leu Ser Ser Val Thr Ala Ala Asp Thr Ala Val

100 105 110

tat tat tgt gca aga tcc cta gct cgg act acg gct atg gac tac tgg 384

Tyr Tyr Cys Ala Arg Ser Leu Ala Arg Thr Thr Ala Met Asp Tyr Trp

115 120 125

ggt caa ggc agc ctc gtc aca gtc tcc tca ggt ggt ggt ggt tcg ggt 432

Gly Gln Gly Ser Leu Val Thr Val Ser Ser Gly Gly Gly Gly Ser Gly

130 135 140

ggt ggt ggt tcg ggt ggt ggc gga tcg gac atc cag atg acc cag agc 480

Gly Gly Gly Ser Gly Gly Gly Gly Ser Asp Ile Gln Met Thr Gln Ser

145 150 155 160

cca agc agc ctg agc gcc agc gtg ggt gac aga gtg acc atc acc tgt 528

Pro Ser Ser Leu Ser Ala Ser Val Gly Asp Arg Val Thr Ile Thr Cys

165 170 175

aga gcc agc cag gac atc agc agt tac ctg aat tgg tac cag cag aag 576

Arg Ala Ser Gln Asp Ile Ser Ser Tyr Leu Asn Trp Tyr Gln Gln Lys

180 185 190

cca gga aag gct cca aag ctg ctg atc tac tac acc tcc aga ctg cac 624

Pro Gly Lys Ala Pro Lys Leu Leu Ile Tyr Tyr Thr Ser Arg Leu His

195 200 205

tct ggt gtg cca agc aga ttc agc ggt agc ggt agc ggt acc gac ttc 672

Ser Gly Val Pro Ser Arg Phe Ser Gly Ser Gly Ser Gly Thr Asp Phe

210 215 220

acc ttc acc atc agc agc ctc cag cca gag gac atc gct acc tac tac 720

Thr Phe Thr Ile Ser Ser Leu Gln Pro Glu Asp Ile Ala Thr Tyr Tyr

225 230 235 240

tgc caa cag gga aat act tta cca tac acg ttc ggc caa ggg acc aag 768

Cys Gln Gln Gly Asn Thr Leu Pro Tyr Thr Phe Gly Gln Gly Thr Lys

245 250 255

gtg gaa atc aaa cga act gtg gct gca cca tct gtc ttc atc ttc ccg 816

Val Glu Ile Lys Arg Thr Val Ala Ala Pro Ser Val Phe Ile Phe Pro

260 265 270

cca tct gat gag cag ttg aaa tct gga act gcc tct gtt gtg tgc ctg 864

Pro Ser Asp Glu Gln Leu Lys Ser Gly Thr Ala Ser Val Val Cys Leu

275 280 285

ctg aat aac ttc tat ccc aga gag gcc aaa gta cag tgg aag gtg gat 912

Leu Asn Asn Phe Tyr Pro Arg Glu Ala Lys Val Gln Trp Lys Val Asp

290 295 300

aac gcc ctc caa tcg ggt aac tcc cag gag agt gtc aca gag cag gac 960

Asn Ala Leu Gln Ser Gly Asn Ser Gln Glu Ser Val Thr Glu Gln Asp

305 310 315 320

agc aag gac agc acc tac agc ctc agc agc acc ctg acg ctg agc aaa 1008

Ser Lys Asp Ser Thr Tyr Ser Leu Ser Ser Thr Leu Thr Leu Ser Lys

325 330 335

gca gac tac gag aaa cac aaa gtc tac gcc tgc gaa gtc acc cat cag 1056

Ala Asp Tyr Glu Lys His Lys Val Tyr Ala Cys Glu Val Thr His Gln

340 345 350

ggc ctg agc tcg ccc gtc aca aag agc ttc aac agg gga gag tct 1101

Gly Leu Ser Ser Pro Val Thr Lys Ser Phe Asn Arg Gly Glu Ser

355 360 365

<210> SEQ ID NO 27

<211> LENGTH: 1143

<212> TYPE: DNA

<213> ORGANISM: Artificial Sequence

<220> FEATURE:

<221> NAME/KEY: CDS

<222> LOCATION: (1)..(1143)

<220> FEATURE:

<223> OTHER INFORMATION: Description of Artificial Sequence:

“shPM1-MCH4”, a designed single chain Fv gene sequence

<400> SEQUENCE: 27

atg gga tgg agc tgt atc atc ctc ttc ttg gta gca aca gct aca ggt 48

Met Gly Trp Ser Cys Ile Ile Leu Phe Leu Val Ala Thr Ala Thr Gly

1 5 10 15

gtc gac tcc cag gtc caa ctg cag gag agc ggt cca ggt ctt gtg aga 96

Val Asp Ser Gln Val Gln Leu Gln Glu Ser Gly Pro Gly Leu Val Arg

20 25 30

cct agc cag acc ctg agc ctg acc tgc acc gtg tct ggc tac tca att 144

Pro Ser Gln Thr Leu Ser Leu Thr Cys Thr Val Ser Gly Tyr Ser Ile

35 40 45

acc agc gat cat gcc tgg agc tgg gtt cgc cag cca cct gga cga ggt 192

Thr Ser Asp His Ala Trp Ser Trp Val Arg Gln Pro Pro Gly Arg Gly

50 55 60

ctt gag tgg att gga tac att agt tat agt gga atc aca acc tat aat 240

Leu Glu Trp Ile Gly Tyr Ile Ser Tyr Ser Gly Ile Thr Thr Tyr Asn

65 70 75 80

cca tct ctc aaa tcc aga gtg aca atg ctg aga gac acc agc aag aac 288

Pro Ser Leu Lys Ser Arg Val Thr Met Leu Arg Asp Thr Ser Lys Asn

85 90 95

cag ttc agc ctg aga ctc agc agc gtg aca gcc gcc gac acc gcg gtt 336

Gln Phe Ser Leu Arg Leu Ser Ser Val Thr Ala Ala Asp Thr Ala Val

100 105 110

tat tat tgt gca aga tcc cta gct cgg act acg gct atg gac tac tgg 384

Tyr Tyr Cys Ala Arg Ser Leu Ala Arg Thr Thr Ala Met Asp Tyr Trp

115 120 125

ggt caa ggc agc ctc gtc aca gtc tcc tca ggt ggt ggt ggt tcg ggt 432

Gly Gln Gly Ser Leu Val Thr Val Ser Ser Gly Gly Gly Gly Ser Gly

130 135 140

ggt ggt ggt tcg ggt ggt ggc gga tcg gac atc cag atg acc cag agc 480

Gly Gly Gly Ser Gly Gly Gly Gly Ser Asp Ile Gln Met Thr Gln Ser

145 150 155 160

cca agc agc ctg agc gcc agc gtg ggt gac aga gtg acc atc acc tgt 528

Pro Ser Ser Leu Ser Ala Ser Val Gly Asp Arg Val Thr Ile Thr Cys

165 170 175

aga gcc agc cag gac atc agc agt tac ctg aat tgg tac cag cag aag 576

Arg Ala Ser Gln Asp Ile Ser Ser Tyr Leu Asn Trp Tyr Gln Gln Lys

180 185 190

cca gga aag gct cca aag ctg ctg atc tac tac acc tcc aga ctg cac 624

Pro Gly Lys Ala Pro Lys Leu Leu Ile Tyr Tyr Thr Ser Arg Leu His

195 200 205

tct ggt gtg cca agc aga ttc agc ggt agc ggt agc ggt acc gac ttc 672

Ser Gly Val Pro Ser Arg Phe Ser Gly Ser Gly Ser Gly Thr Asp Phe

210 215 220

acc ttc acc atc agc agc ctc cag cca gag gac atc gct acc tac tac 720

Thr Phe Thr Ile Ser Ser Leu Gln Pro Glu Asp Ile Ala Thr Tyr Tyr

225 230 235 240

tgc caa cag gga aat act tta cca tac acg ttc ggc caa ggg acc aag 768

Cys Gln Gln Gly Asn Thr Leu Pro Tyr Thr Phe Gly Gln Gly Thr Lys

245 250 255

gtg gaa atc aaa gtg gcc ctg cac agg ccc gat gtc tac ttg ctg cca 816

Val Glu Ile Lys Val Ala Leu His Arg Pro Asp Val Tyr Leu Leu Pro

260 265 270

cca gcc cgg gag cag ctg aac ctg cgg gag tcg gcc acc atc acg tgc 864

Pro Ala Arg Glu Gln Leu Asn Leu Arg Glu Ser Ala Thr Ile Thr Cys

275 280 285

ctg gtg acg ggc ttc tct ccc gcg gac gtc ttc gtg cag tgg atg cag 912

Leu Val Thr Gly Phe Ser Pro Ala Asp Val Phe Val Gln Trp Met Gln

290 295 300

agg ggg cag ccc ttg tcc ccg gag aag tat gtg acc agc gcc cca atg 960

Arg Gly Gln Pro Leu Ser Pro Glu Lys Tyr Val Thr Ser Ala Pro Met

305 310 315 320

cct gag ccc cag gcc cca ggc cgg tac ttc gcc cac agc atc ctg acc 1008

Pro Glu Pro Gln Ala Pro Gly Arg Tyr Phe Ala His Ser Ile Leu Thr

325 330 335

gtg tcc gaa gag gaa tgg aac acg ggg gag acc tac acc tgc gtg gcc 1056

›SEQUENCE LISTING · 7 of 10

Val Ser Glu Glu Glu Trp Asn Thr Gly Glu Thr Tyr Thr Cys Val Ala

340 345 350

cat gag gcc ctg ccc aac agg gtc acc gag agg acc gtg gac aag tcc 1104

His Glu Ala Leu Pro Asn Arg Val Thr Glu Arg Thr Val Asp Lys Ser

355 360 365

acc gag ggg gag gtg agc gcc gac gag gag ggc ttt gag 1143

Thr Glu Gly Glu Val Ser Ala Asp Glu Glu Gly Phe Glu

370 375 380

<210> SEQ ID NO 28

<211> LENGTH: 18

<212> TYPE: DNA

<213> ORGANISM: Artificial Sequence

<220> FEATURE:

<223> OTHER INFORMATION: Description of Artificial Sequence:

“EF-1”, an artificially synthesized primer sequence

<400> SEQUENCE: 28

cagacagtgg ttcaaagt 18

<210> SEQ ID NO 29

<211> LENGTH: 107

<212> TYPE: DNA

<213> ORGANISM: Artificial Sequence

<220> FEATURE:

<223> OTHER INFORMATION: Description of Artificial Sequence:

“SCP-C2”, an artificially synthesized primer sequence

<400> SEQUENCE: 29

aaagcggccg cttattattt atcgtcatcg tctttgtagt ctgaagcttt gatttccacc 60

ttggtccctt ggccgaacgt gtatggtaaa gtatttccct gttggca 107

<210> SEQ ID NO 30

<211> LENGTH: 1557

<212> TYPE: DNA

<213> ORGANISM: Artificial Sequence

<220> FEATURE:

<221> NAME/KEY: CDS

<222> LOCATION: (1)..(1557)

<220> FEATURE:

<223> OTHER INFORMATION: Description of Artificial Sequence:

“shPM1((EL)-BvGS3”, a designed single chain Fv gene sequence

<400> SEQUENCE: 30

atg gga tgg agc tgt atc atc ctc ttc ttg gta gca aca gct aca ggt 48

Met Gly Trp Ser Cys Ile Ile Leu Phe Leu Val Ala Thr Ala Thr Gly

1 5 10 15

gtc gac tcc cag gtc caa ctg cag gag agc ggt cca ggt ctt gtg aga 96

Val Asp Ser Gln Val Gln Leu Gln Glu Ser Gly Pro Gly Leu Val Arg

20 25 30

cct agc cag acc ctg agc ctg acc tgc acc gtg tct ggc tac tca att 144

Pro Ser Gln Thr Leu Ser Leu Thr Cys Thr Val Ser Gly Tyr Ser Ile

35 40 45

acc agc gat cat gcc tgg agc tgg gtt cgc cag cca cct gga cga ggt 192

Thr Ser Asp His Ala Trp Ser Trp Val Arg Gln Pro Pro Gly Arg Gly

50 55 60

ctt gag tgg att gga tac att agt tat agt gga atc aca acc tat aat 240

Leu Glu Trp Ile Gly Tyr Ile Ser Tyr Ser Gly Ile Thr Thr Tyr Asn

65 70 75 80

cca tct ctc aaa tcc aga gtg aca atg ctg aga gac acc agc aag aac 288

Pro Ser Leu Lys Ser Arg Val Thr Met Leu Arg Asp Thr Ser Lys Asn

85 90 95

cag ttc agc ctg aga ctc agc agc gtg aca gcc gcc gac acc gcg gtt 336

Gln Phe Ser Leu Arg Leu Ser Ser Val Thr Ala Ala Asp Thr Ala Val

100 105 110

tat tat tgt gca aga tcc cta gct cgg act acg gct atg gac tac tgg 384

Tyr Tyr Cys Ala Arg Ser Leu Ala Arg Thr Thr Ala Met Asp Tyr Trp

115 120 125

ggt caa ggc agc ctc gtc aca gtc tcc tca ggt ggt ggt ggt tcg ggt 432

Gly Gln Gly Ser Leu Val Thr Val Ser Ser Gly Gly Gly Gly Ser Gly

130 135 140

ggt ggt ggt tcg ggt ggt ggc gga tcg gac atc cag atg acc cag agc 480

Gly Gly Gly Ser Gly Gly Gly Gly Ser Asp Ile Gln Met Thr Gln Ser

145 150 155 160

cca agc agc ctg agc gcc agc gtg ggt gac aga gtg acc atc acc tgt 528

Pro Ser Ser Leu Ser Ala Ser Val Gly Asp Arg Val Thr Ile Thr Cys

165 170 175

aga gcc agc cag gac atc agc agt tac ctg aat tgg tac cag cag aag 576

Arg Ala Ser Gln Asp Ile Ser Ser Tyr Leu Asn Trp Tyr Gln Gln Lys

180 185 190

cca gga aag gct cca aag ctg ctg atc tac tac acc tcc aga ctg cac 624

Pro Gly Lys Ala Pro Lys Leu Leu Ile Tyr Tyr Thr Ser Arg Leu His

195 200 205

tct ggt gtg cca agc aga ttc agc ggt agc ggt agc ggt acc gac ttc 672

Ser Gly Val Pro Ser Arg Phe Ser Gly Ser Gly Ser Gly Thr Asp Phe

210 215 220

acc ttc acc atc agc agc ctc cag cca gag gac atc gct acc tac tac 720

Thr Phe Thr Ile Ser Ser Leu Gln Pro Glu Asp Ile Ala Thr Tyr Tyr

225 230 235 240

tgc caa cag ggt aac acg ctt cca tac acg ttc ggc caa ggg acc aag 768

Cys Gln Gln Gly Asn Thr Leu Pro Tyr Thr Phe Gly Gln Gly Thr Lys

245 250 255

gtg gaa atc aaa ggt ggt ggt ggt tcg ggt ggt ggt ggt tcg ggt ggt 816

Val Glu Ile Lys Gly Gly Gly Gly Ser Gly Gly Gly Gly Ser Gly Gly

260 265 270

ggc gga tcg gtc gac tcc cag gtc caa ctg cag gag agc ggt cca ggt 864

Gly Gly Ser Val Asp Ser Gln Val Gln Leu Gln Glu Ser Gly Pro Gly

275 280 285

ctt gtg aga cct agc cag acc ctg agc ctg acc tgc acc gtg tct ggc 912

Leu Val Arg Pro Ser Gln Thr Leu Ser Leu Thr Cys Thr Val Ser Gly

290 295 300

tac tca att acc agc gat cat gcc tgg agc tgg gtt cgc cag cca cct 960

Tyr Ser Ile Thr Ser Asp His Ala Trp Ser Trp Val Arg Gln Pro Pro

305 310 315 320

gga cga ggt ctt gag tgg att gga tac att agt tat agt gga atc aca 1008

Gly Arg Gly Leu Glu Trp Ile Gly Tyr Ile Ser Tyr Ser Gly Ile Thr

325 330 335

acc tat aat cca tct ctc aaa tcc aga gtg aca atg ctg aga gac acc 1056

Thr Tyr Asn Pro Ser Leu Lys Ser Arg Val Thr Met Leu Arg Asp Thr

340 345 350

agc aag aac cag ttc agc ctg aga ctc agc agc gtg aca gcc gcc gac 1104

Ser Lys Asn Gln Phe Ser Leu Arg Leu Ser Ser Val Thr Ala Ala Asp

355 360 365

acc gcg gtt tat tat tgt gca aga tcc cta gct cgg act acg gct atg 1152

Thr Ala Val Tyr Tyr Cys Ala Arg Ser Leu Ala Arg Thr Thr Ala Met

370 375 380

gac tac tgg ggt caa ggc agc ctc gtc aca gtc tcc tca ggt ggt ggt 1200

Asp Tyr Trp Gly Gln Gly Ser Leu Val Thr Val Ser Ser Gly Gly Gly

385 390 395 400

ggt tcg ggt ggt ggt ggt tcg ggt ggt ggc gga tcg gac atc cag atg 1248

Gly Ser Gly Gly Gly Gly Ser Gly Gly Gly Gly Ser Asp Ile Gln Met

405 410 415

acc cag agc cca agc agc ctg agc gcc agc gtg ggt gac aga gtg acc 1296

Thr Gln Ser Pro Ser Ser Leu Ser Ala Ser Val Gly Asp Arg Val Thr

420 425 430

atc acc tgt aga gcc agc cag gac atc agc agt tac ctg aat tgg tac 1344

Ile Thr Cys Arg Ala Ser Gln Asp Ile Ser Ser Tyr Leu Asn Trp Tyr

435 440 445

cag cag aag cca gga aag gct cca aag ctg ctg atc tac tac acc tcc 1392

Gln Gln Lys Pro Gly Lys Ala Pro Lys Leu Leu Ile Tyr Tyr Thr Ser

450 455 460

aga ctg cac tct ggt gtg cca agc aga ttc agc ggt agc ggt agc ggt 1440

Arg Leu His Ser Gly Val Pro Ser Arg Phe Ser Gly Ser Gly Ser Gly

465 470 475 480

acc gac ttc acc ttc acc atc agc agc ctc cag cca gag gac atc gct 1488

Thr Asp Phe Thr Phe Thr Ile Ser Ser Leu Gln Pro Glu Asp Ile Ala

485 490 495

acc tac tac tgc caa cag gga aat act tta cca tac acg ttc ggc caa 1536

Thr Tyr Tyr Cys Gln Gln Gly Asn Thr Leu Pro Tyr Thr Phe Gly Gln

500 505 510

ggg acc aag gtg gaa atc aaa 1557

Gly Thr Lys Val Glu Ile Lys

515

<210> SEQ ID NO 31

<211> LENGTH: 29

<212> TYPE: DNA

<213> ORGANISM: Artificial Sequence

<220> FEATURE:

<223> OTHER INFORMATION: Description of Artificial Sequence: “Kappa1”,

an artificially synthesized primer sequence

›SEQUENCE LISTING · 8 of 10

<400> SEQUENCE: 31

ccgccatctg atgagcagtt gaaatctgg 29

<210> SEQ ID NO 32

<211> LENGTH: 54

<212> TYPE: DNA

<213> ORGANISM: Artificial Sequence

<220> FEATURE:

<223> OTHER INFORMATION: Description of Artificial Sequence: “Kappa2”,

an artificially synthesized primer sequence

<400> SEQUENCE: 32

ttatttatcg tcatcgtctt tgtagtcaag cttagactct cccctgttga agct 54

<210> SEQ ID NO 33

<211> LENGTH: 29

<212> TYPE: DNA

<213> ORGANISM: Artificial Sequence

<220> FEATURE:

<223> OTHER INFORMATION: Description of Artificial Sequence: “SCP-K”,

an artificially synthesized primer sequence

<400> SEQUENCE: 33

ttcaactgct catcagatgg cgggaagat 29

<210> SEQ ID NO 34

<211> LENGTH: 1878

<212> TYPE: DNA

<213> ORGANISM: Artificial Sequence

<220> FEATURE:

<221> NAME/KEY: CDS

<222> LOCATION: (1)..(1878)

<220> FEATURE:

<223> OTHER INFORMATION: Description of Artificial Sequence:

“shPM1-Kappa-BvGS3”, a designed single chain Fv gene sequence

<400> SEQUENCE: 34

atg gga tgg agc tgt atc atc ctc ttc ttg gta gca aca gct aca ggt 48

Met Gly Trp Ser Cys Ile Ile Leu Phe Leu Val Ala Thr Ala Thr Gly

1 5 10 15

gtc gac tcc cag gtc caa ctg cag gag agc ggt cca ggt ctt gtg aga 96

Val Asp Ser Gln Val Gln Leu Gln Glu Ser Gly Pro Gly Leu Val Arg

20 25 30

cct agc cag acc ctg agc ctg acc tgc acc gtg tct ggc tac tca att 144

Pro Ser Gln Thr Leu Ser Leu Thr Cys Thr Val Ser Gly Tyr Ser Ile

35 40 45

acc agc gat cat gcc tgg agc tgg gtt cgc cag cca cct gga cga ggt 192

Thr Ser Asp His Ala Trp Ser Trp Val Arg Gln Pro Pro Gly Arg Gly

50 55 60

ctt gag tgg att gga tac att agt tat agt gga atc aca acc tat aat 240

Leu Glu Trp Ile Gly Tyr Ile Ser Tyr Ser Gly Ile Thr Thr Tyr Asn

65 70 75 80

cca tct ctc aaa tcc aga gtg aca atg ctg aga gac acc agc aag aac 288

Pro Ser Leu Lys Ser Arg Val Thr Met Leu Arg Asp Thr Ser Lys Asn

85 90 95

cag ttc agc ctg aga ctc agc agc gtg aca gcc gcc gac acc gcg gtt 336

Gln Phe Ser Leu Arg Leu Ser Ser Val Thr Ala Ala Asp Thr Ala Val

100 105 110

tat tat tgt gca aga tcc cta gct cgg act acg gct atg gac tac tgg 384

Tyr Tyr Cys Ala Arg Ser Leu Ala Arg Thr Thr Ala Met Asp Tyr Trp

115 120 125

ggt caa ggc agc ctc gtc aca gtc tcc tca ggt ggt ggt ggt tcg ggt 432

Gly Gln Gly Ser Leu Val Thr Val Ser Ser Gly Gly Gly Gly Ser Gly

130 135 140

ggt ggt ggt tcg ggt ggt ggc gga tcg gac atc cag atg acc cag agc 480

Gly Gly Gly Ser Gly Gly Gly Gly Ser Asp Ile Gln Met Thr Gln Ser

145 150 155 160

cca agc agc ctg agc gcc agc gtg ggt gac aga gtg acc atc acc tgt 528

Pro Ser Ser Leu Ser Ala Ser Val Gly Asp Arg Val Thr Ile Thr Cys

165 170 175

aga gcc agc cag gac atc agc agt tac ctg aat tgg tac cag cag aag 576

Arg Ala Ser Gln Asp Ile Ser Ser Tyr Leu Asn Trp Tyr Gln Gln Lys

180 185 190

cca gga aag gct cca aag ctg ctg atc tac tac acc tcc aga ctg cac 624

Pro Gly Lys Ala Pro Lys Leu Leu Ile Tyr Tyr Thr Ser Arg Leu His

195 200 205

tct ggt gtg cca agc aga ttc agc ggt agc ggt agc ggt acc gac ttc 672

Ser Gly Val Pro Ser Arg Phe Ser Gly Ser Gly Ser Gly Thr Asp Phe

210 215 220

acc ttc acc atc agc agc ctc cag cca gag gac atc gct acc tac tac 720

Thr Phe Thr Ile Ser Ser Leu Gln Pro Glu Asp Ile Ala Thr Tyr Tyr

225 230 235 240

tgc caa cag ggt aac acg ctt cca tac acg ttc ggc caa ggg acc aag 768

Cys Gln Gln Gly Asn Thr Leu Pro Tyr Thr Phe Gly Gln Gly Thr Lys

245 250 255

gtg gaa atc aaa ggt ggt ggt ggt tcg ggt ggt ggt ggt tcg ggt ggt 816

Val Glu Ile Lys Gly Gly Gly Gly Ser Gly Gly Gly Gly Ser Gly Gly

260 265 270

ggc gga tcg gtc gac tcc cag gtc caa ctg cag gag agc ggt cca ggt 864

Gly Gly Ser Val Asp Ser Gln Val Gln Leu Gln Glu Ser Gly Pro Gly

275 280 285

ctt gtg aga cct agc cag acc ctg agc ctg acc tgc acc gtg tct ggc 912

Leu Val Arg Pro Ser Gln Thr Leu Ser Leu Thr Cys Thr Val Ser Gly

290 295 300

tac tca att acc agc gat cat gcc tgg agc tgg gtt cgc cag cca cct 960

Tyr Ser Ile Thr Ser Asp His Ala Trp Ser Trp Val Arg Gln Pro Pro

305 310 315 320

gga cga ggt ctt gag tgg att gga tac att agt tat agt gga atc aca 1008

Gly Arg Gly Leu Glu Trp Ile Gly Tyr Ile Ser Tyr Ser Gly Ile Thr

325 330 335

acc tat aat cca tct ctc aaa tcc aga gtg aca atg ctg aga gac acc 1056

Thr Tyr Asn Pro Ser Leu Lys Ser Arg Val Thr Met Leu Arg Asp Thr

340 345 350

agc aag aac cag ttc agc ctg aga ctc agc agc gtg aca gcc gcc gac 1104

Ser Lys Asn Gln Phe Ser Leu Arg Leu Ser Ser Val Thr Ala Ala Asp

355 360 365

acc gcg gtt tat tat tgt gca aga tcc cta gct cgg act acg gct atg 1152

Thr Ala Val Tyr Tyr Cys Ala Arg Ser Leu Ala Arg Thr Thr Ala Met

370 375 380

gac tac tgg ggt caa ggc agc ctc gtc aca gtc tcc tca ggt ggt ggt 1200

Asp Tyr Trp Gly Gln Gly Ser Leu Val Thr Val Ser Ser Gly Gly Gly

385 390 395 400

ggt tcg ggt ggt ggt ggt tcg ggt ggt ggc gga tcg gac atc cag atg 1248

Gly Ser Gly Gly Gly Gly Ser Gly Gly Gly Gly Ser Asp Ile Gln Met

405 410 415

acc cag agc cca agc agc ctg agc gcc agc gtg ggt gac aga gtg acc 1296

Thr Gln Ser Pro Ser Ser Leu Ser Ala Ser Val Gly Asp Arg Val Thr

420 425 430

atc acc tgt aga gcc agc cag gac atc agc agt tac ctg aat tgg tac 1344

Ile Thr Cys Arg Ala Ser Gln Asp Ile Ser Ser Tyr Leu Asn Trp Tyr

435 440 445

cag cag aag cca gga aag gct cca aag ctg ctg atc tac tac acc tcc 1392

Gln Gln Lys Pro Gly Lys Ala Pro Lys Leu Leu Ile Tyr Tyr Thr Ser

450 455 460

aga ctg cac tct ggt gtg cca agc aga ttc agc ggt agc ggt agc ggt 1440

Arg Leu His Ser Gly Val Pro Ser Arg Phe Ser Gly Ser Gly Ser Gly

465 470 475 480

acc gac ttc acc ttc acc atc agc agc ctc cag cca gag gac atc gct 1488

Thr Asp Phe Thr Phe Thr Ile Ser Ser Leu Gln Pro Glu Asp Ile Ala

485 490 495

acc tac tac tgc caa cag gga aat act tta cca tac acg ttc ggc caa 1536

Thr Tyr Tyr Cys Gln Gln Gly Asn Thr Leu Pro Tyr Thr Phe Gly Gln

500 505 510

ggg acc aag gtg gaa atc aaa cga act gtg gct gca cca tct gtc ttc 1584

Gly Thr Lys Val Glu Ile Lys Arg Thr Val Ala Ala Pro Ser Val Phe

515 520 525

atc ttc ccg cca tct gat gag cag ttg aaa tct gga act gcc tct gtt 1632

Ile Phe Pro Pro Ser Asp Glu Gln Leu Lys Ser Gly Thr Ala Ser Val

530 535 540

gtg tgc ctg ctg aat aac ttc tat ccc aga gag gcc aaa gta cag tgg 1680

Val Cys Leu Leu Asn Asn Phe Tyr Pro Arg Glu Ala Lys Val Gln Trp

545 550 555 560

aag gtg gat aac gcc ctc caa tcg ggt aac tcc cag gag agt gtc aca 1728

Lys Val Asp Asn Ala Leu Gln Ser Gly Asn Ser Gln Glu Ser Val Thr

565 570 575

›SEQUENCE LISTING · 9 of 10

gag cag gac agc aag gac agc acc tac agc ctc agc agc acc ctg acg 1776

Glu Gln Asp Ser Lys Asp Ser Thr Tyr Ser Leu Ser Ser Thr Leu Thr

580 585 590

ctg agc aaa gca gac tac gag aaa cac aaa gtc tac gcc tgc gaa gtc 1824

Leu Ser Lys Ala Asp Tyr Glu Lys His Lys Val Tyr Ala Cys Glu Val

595 600 605

acc cat cag ggc ctg agc tcg ccc gtc aca aag agc ttc aac agg gga 1872

Thr His Gln Gly Leu Ser Ser Pro Val Thr Lys Ser Phe Asn Arg Gly

610 615 620

gag tct 1878

Glu Ser

625

<210> SEQ ID NO 35

<211> LENGTH: 29

<212> TYPE: DNA

<213> ORGANISM: Artificial Sequence

<220> FEATURE:

<223> OTHER INFORMATION: Description of Artificial Sequence: “MCH4-1”,

an artificially synthesized primer sequence

<400> SEQUENCE: 35

gtggaaatca aagtggccct gcacaggcc 29

<210> SEQ ID NO 36

<211> LENGTH: 68

<212> TYPE: DNA

<213> ORGANISM: Artificial Sequence

<220> FEATURE:

<223> OTHER INFORMATION: Description of Artificial Sequence: “MCH4-2.1”,

an artificially synthesized primer sequence

<400> SEQUENCE: 36

tagtcaagct tctcaaatcc ctcttcgtcg gcgctaacct ctccttcggt ggacttgtcc 60

acggtcct 68

<210> SEQ ID NO 37

<211> LENGTH: 29

<212> TYPE: DNA

<213> ORGANISM: Artificial Sequence

<220> FEATURE:

<223> OTHER INFORMATION: Description of Artificial Sequence: “SCP-Mu”,

an artificially synthesized primer sequence

<400> SEQUENCE: 37

tgcagggcca ctttgatttc caccttggt 29

<210> SEQ ID NO 38

<211> LENGTH: 53

<212> TYPE: DNA

<213> ORGANISM: Artificial Sequence

<220> FEATURE:

<223> OTHER INFORMATION: Description of Artificial Sequence: “MCH4-2.2”,

an artificially synthesized primer sequence

<400> SEQUENCE: 38

aaagcggccg cttattattt atcgtcatcg tctttgtagt caagcttctc aaa 53

<210> SEQ ID NO 39

<211> LENGTH: 1920

<212> TYPE: DNA

<213> ORGANISM: Artificial Sequence

<220> FEATURE:

<221> NAME/KEY: CDS

<222> LOCATION: (1)..(1920)

<220> FEATURE:

<223> OTHER INFORMATION: Description of Artificial Sequence:

“shPM1-MCH4-BvGS3”, a designed single chain Fv gene sequence

<400> SEQUENCE: 39

atg gga tgg agc tgt atc atc ctc ttc ttg gta gca aca gct aca ggt 48

Met Gly Trp Ser Cys Ile Ile Leu Phe Leu Val Ala Thr Ala Thr Gly

1 5 10 15

gtc gac tcc cag gtc caa ctg cag gag agc ggt cca ggt ctt gtg aga 96

Val Asp Ser Gln Val Gln Leu Gln Glu Ser Gly Pro Gly Leu Val Arg

20 25 30

cct agc cag acc ctg agc ctg acc tgc acc gtg tct ggc tac tca att 144

Pro Ser Gln Thr Leu Ser Leu Thr Cys Thr Val Ser Gly Tyr Ser Ile

35 40 45

acc agc gat cat gcc tgg agc tgg gtt cgc cag cca cct gga cga ggt 192

Thr Ser Asp His Ala Trp Ser Trp Val Arg Gln Pro Pro Gly Arg Gly

50 55 60

ctt gag tgg att gga tac att agt tat agt gga atc aca acc tat aat 240

Leu Glu Trp Ile Gly Tyr Ile Ser Tyr Ser Gly Ile Thr Thr Tyr Asn

65 70 75 80

cca tct ctc aaa tcc aga gtg aca atg ctg aga gac acc agc aag aac 288

Pro Ser Leu Lys Ser Arg Val Thr Met Leu Arg Asp Thr Ser Lys Asn

85 90 95

cag ttc agc ctg aga ctc agc agc gtg aca gcc gcc gac acc gcg gtt 336

Gln Phe Ser Leu Arg Leu Ser Ser Val Thr Ala Ala Asp Thr Ala Val

100 105 110

tat tat tgt gca aga tcc cta gct cgg act acg gct atg gac tac tgg 384

Tyr Tyr Cys Ala Arg Ser Leu Ala Arg Thr Thr Ala Met Asp Tyr Trp

115 120 125

ggt caa ggc agc ctc gtc aca gtc tcc tca ggt ggt ggt ggt tcg ggt 432

Gly Gln Gly Ser Leu Val Thr Val Ser Ser Gly Gly Gly Gly Ser Gly

130 135 140

ggt ggt ggt tcg ggt ggt ggc gga tcg gac atc cag atg acc cag agc 480

Gly Gly Gly Ser Gly Gly Gly Gly Ser Asp Ile Gln Met Thr Gln Ser

145 150 155 160

cca agc agc ctg agc gcc agc gtg ggt gac aga gtg acc atc acc tgt 528

Pro Ser Ser Leu Ser Ala Ser Val Gly Asp Arg Val Thr Ile Thr Cys

165 170 175

aga gcc agc cag gac atc agc agt tac ctg aat tgg tac cag cag aag 576

Arg Ala Ser Gln Asp Ile Ser Ser Tyr Leu Asn Trp Tyr Gln Gln Lys

180 185 190

cca gga aag gct cca aag ctg ctg atc tac tac acc tcc aga ctg cac 624

Pro Gly Lys Ala Pro Lys Leu Leu Ile Tyr Tyr Thr Ser Arg Leu His

195 200 205

tct ggt gtg cca agc aga ttc agc ggt agc ggt agc ggt acc gac ttc 672

Ser Gly Val Pro Ser Arg Phe Ser Gly Ser Gly Ser Gly Thr Asp Phe

210 215 220

acc ttc acc atc agc agc ctc cag cca gag gac atc gct acc tac tac 720

Thr Phe Thr Ile Ser Ser Leu Gln Pro Glu Asp Ile Ala Thr Tyr Tyr

225 230 235 240

tgc caa cag ggt aac acg ctt cca tac acg ttc ggc caa ggg acc aag 768

Cys Gln Gln Gly Asn Thr Leu Pro Tyr Thr Phe Gly Gln Gly Thr Lys

245 250 255

gtg gaa atc aaa ggt ggt ggt ggt tcg ggt ggt ggt ggt tcg ggt ggt 816

Val Glu Ile Lys Gly Gly Gly Gly Ser Gly Gly Gly Gly Ser Gly Gly

260 265 270

ggc gga tcg gtc gac tcc cag gtc caa ctg cag gag agc ggt cca ggt 864

Gly Gly Ser Val Asp Ser Gln Val Gln Leu Gln Glu Ser Gly Pro Gly

275 280 285

ctt gtg aga cct agc cag acc ctg agc ctg acc tgc acc gtg tct ggc 912

Leu Val Arg Pro Ser Gln Thr Leu Ser Leu Thr Cys Thr Val Ser Gly

290 295 300

tac tca att acc agc gat cat gcc tgg agc tgg gtt cgc cag cca cct 960

Tyr Ser Ile Thr Ser Asp His Ala Trp Ser Trp Val Arg Gln Pro Pro

305 310 315 320

gga cga ggt ctt gag tgg att gga tac att agt tat agt gga atc aca 1008

Gly Arg Gly Leu Glu Trp Ile Gly Tyr Ile Ser Tyr Ser Gly Ile Thr

325 330 335

acc tat aat cca tct ctc aaa tcc aga gtg aca atg ctg aga gac acc 1056

Thr Tyr Asn Pro Ser Leu Lys Ser Arg Val Thr Met Leu Arg Asp Thr

340 345 350

agc aag aac cag ttc agc ctg aga ctc agc agc gtg aca gcc gcc gac 1104

Ser Lys Asn Gln Phe Ser Leu Arg Leu Ser Ser Val Thr Ala Ala Asp

355 360 365

acc gcg gtt tat tat tgt gca aga tcc cta gct cgg act acg gct atg 1152

Thr Ala Val Tyr Tyr Cys Ala Arg Ser Leu Ala Arg Thr Thr Ala Met

370 375 380

gac tac tgg ggt caa ggc agc ctc gtc aca gtc tcc tca ggt ggt ggt 1200

Asp Tyr Trp Gly Gln Gly Ser Leu Val Thr Val Ser Ser Gly Gly Gly

385 390 395 400

ggt tcg ggt ggt ggt ggt tcg ggt ggt ggc gga tcg gac atc cag atg 1248

Gly Ser Gly Gly Gly Gly Ser Gly Gly Gly Gly Ser Asp Ile Gln Met

405 410 415

acc cag agc cca agc agc ctg agc gcc agc gtg ggt gac aga gtg acc 1296

Thr Gln Ser Pro Ser Ser Leu Ser Ala Ser Val Gly Asp Arg Val Thr

420 425 430

atc acc tgt aga gcc agc cag gac atc agc agt tac ctg aat tgg tac 1344

Ile Thr Cys Arg Ala Ser Gln Asp Ile Ser Ser Tyr Leu Asn Trp Tyr

435 440 445

cag cag aag cca gga aag gct cca aag ctg ctg atc tac tac acc tcc 1392

Gln Gln Lys Pro Gly Lys Ala Pro Lys Leu Leu Ile Tyr Tyr Thr Ser

450 455 460

aga ctg cac tct ggt gtg cca agc aga ttc agc ggt agc ggt agc ggt 1440

›SEQUENCE LISTING · 10 of 10

Arg Leu His Ser Gly Val Pro Ser Arg Phe Ser Gly Ser Gly Ser Gly

465 470 475 480

acc gac ttc acc ttc acc atc agc agc ctc cag cca gag gac atc gct 1488

Thr Asp Phe Thr Phe Thr Ile Ser Ser Leu Gln Pro Glu Asp Ile Ala

485 490 495

acc tac tac tgc caa cag gga aat act tta cca tac acg ttc ggc caa 1536

Thr Tyr Tyr Cys Gln Gln Gly Asn Thr Leu Pro Tyr Thr Phe Gly Gln

500 505 510

ggg acc aag gtg gaa atc aaa gtg gcc ctg cac agg ccc gat gtc tac 1584

Gly Thr Lys Val Glu Ile Lys Val Ala Leu His Arg Pro Asp Val Tyr

515 520 525

ttg ctg cca cca gcc cgg gag cag ctg aac ctg cgc gag tcg gcc acc 1632

Leu Leu Pro Pro Ala Arg Glu Gln Leu Asn Leu Arg Glu Ser Ala Thr

530 535 540

atc acg tgc ctg gtg acg ggc ttc tct ccc gcg gac gtc ttc gtg cag 1680

Ile Thr Cys Leu Val Thr Gly Phe Ser Pro Ala Asp Val Phe Val Gln

545 550 555 560

tgg atg cag agg ggg cag ccc ttg tcc ccg gag aag tat gtg acc agc 1728

Trp Met Gln Arg Gly Gln Pro Leu Ser Pro Glu Lys Tyr Val Thr Ser

565 570 575

gcc cca atg cct gag ccc cag gcc cca ggc cgg tac ttc gcc cac agc 1776

Ala Pro Met Pro Glu Pro Gln Ala Pro Gly Arg Tyr Phe Ala His Ser

580 585 590

atc ctg acc gtg tcc gaa gag gaa tgg aac acg ggg gag acc tac acc 1824

Ile Leu Thr Val Ser Glu Glu Glu Trp Asn Thr Gly Glu Thr Tyr Thr

595 600 605

tgc gtg gcc cat gag gcc ctg ccc aac agg gtc acc gag agg acc gtg 1872

Cys Val Ala His Glu Ala Leu Pro Asn Arg Val Thr Glu Arg Thr Val

610 615 620

gac aag tcc acc gag ggg gag gtg agc gcc gac gag gag ggc ttt gag 1920

Asp Lys Ser Thr Glu Gly Glu Val Ser Ala Asp Glu Glu Gly Phe Glu

625 630 635 640

›Tables in the description — 1

TABLE 1

		Clone number	Details (insert size,
Pool name	Analyzed	having	amino acid residue number,
(1000	clone	transmembrane	transmembrane region
clones/pool)	number	regions	number)
First Panning
kappa-1	11	1	Cytochrome oxidase
			(0.75 kb, 44aa, 1TM)
kappa-6	7	3	NADH-dehydrogenase
			(1.7 kb, 88aa, 2TM)
			NADH-dehydrogenase
			(1.7 kb, 88aa, 2TM)
			ATP-synthase
			(0.85 kb, 42aa, 1TM)
Second Panning
kappa-1	11	4	ATP-synthase
			(0.85 kb, 42aa, 1TM)
			ATP-synthase
			(0.85 kb, 42aa, 1TM)
			ATP-synthase
			(0.85 kb, 42aa, 1TM)
			Cytochrome oxidase
			0.75 kb, 44aa, 1TM)
kappa-6	11	3	NADH-dehydrogenase
			(1.2 kb, 81aa, 2TM)
			NADH-dehydrogenase
			(3.5 kb, 58aa, 2TM)
			Poly T
			(0.9 kb, 35aa, 1TM)

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Section C — Chemistry; metallurgy

C07K14/705
C07K16/28
C12N15/13
C12N15/10
C07K16/00
C12N15/12

USPC · US Patent Classification

435/6435/69.7

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