Synthesis of α-gal epitopes (Ga1α1-3Galβ1-4GlcNAc-R) on human tumor cells by recombinant α1,3galactosyltransferase produced in Pichia pastoris

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作者
Chen, ZC
Tanemura, M
Galili, U
机构
[1] Rush Univ, Dept Immunol Microbiol, Chicago, IL 60612 USA
[2] Rush Univ, Dept Thorac & Cardiovasc Surg, Chicago, IL 60612 USA
关键词
recombinant alpha 1,3galactosyltransferase; Pichia pastoris; anti-Gal; tumor vaccines; alpha-gal epitope;
D O I
10.1093/glycob/11.7.577
中图分类号
Q5 [生物化学]; Q7 [分子生物学];
学科分类号
071010 ; 081704 ;
摘要
This study describes the processing of human tumor cells or cell membranes to express a-gal epitopes (Gal alpha1-3Gal-beta1-4GlcNAc-R) by the use of New World monkey (marmoset) recombinant alpha1,3galactosyltransferase (r alpha1,3GT), produced in the yeast Pichia pastoris, Such tumor cells and membranes may serve, in cancer patients, as autologous tumor vaccines that are targeted in vivo to antigen-presenting cells by the anti-Gal antibody. This r alpha1,3GT lacks transmembrane and cytoplasmic domains, ensuring its solubility without detergent. It is effectively produced in P, pastoris under constitutive expression of the P,,, promoter and is secreted into the culture medium in a soluble, truncated form fused to a (His), tag. This tag enables the simple affinity purification of r alpha1,3GT on a nickel-Sepharose column and elution with imidazole, The purified enzyme appears in SDS-PAGE as two bands with the size of 40 and 41 kDa and displays the same acceptor specificity as the mammalian native enzyme. r alpha1,3GT is very effective in synthesizing a-gal epitopes on membrane-bound carbohydrate chains and displays a specific activity of 1.2 nM membrane bound alpha -gal epitopes/min/mg. Incubation of very large amounts of human acute myeloid leukemia cells (1 x 10(9) cells) with neuraminidase, r alpha1,3GT, and UDP-Gal resulted in the synthesis of approximately 6 x 10(6) alpha -gal epitopes per cell. Effective synthesis of a-gal epitopes could be achieved also with as much as 2 g cell membranes prepared from the tumor of a patient with ovarian carcinoma. These data imply that r alpha1,3GT produced in P, pastoris is suitable for the synthesis of a-gal epitopes on bulk amounts of tumor cells or cell membranes required for the preparation of autologous tumor vaccines.
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页码:577 / 586
页数:10
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