WO2000028037A1 - GENE tfIIIA DE CANDIDA ALBICANS (CatfIIIA) ET LA PROTEINE CODEE CATFIIIA - Google Patents
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Definitions
- TflIIA gene from Candida albicans (CatflIIA) and the coded protein CATFIIIA.
- the present invention relates to the transcription factor of Candida albicans hereinafter called CATFIIIA and its analogs as well as the polynucleotides (RNA, DNA) coding for this protein or for polypeptides analogous to this protein.
- the present invention also relates to the process for the preparation of these polypeptides and polynucleotides, their use for the study of the mechanisms of transcription in Candida albicans and for the preparation of inhibitors of this transcription factor CATFIIIA which can be used as antifungal agents and the pharmaceutical compositions containing such inhibitors.
- the present invention therefore relates in particular to a new transcription factor of Candida albicans and the DNA sequence coding for this transcription factor, their preparation and their uses.
- the following abbreviations will also be used below: AA for amino acids, AN for nucleic acids, RNA for ribonucleic acid, RNase for ribonuclease, DNA or DNA for deoxyribonucleic acid, cDNA for complementary DNA, bp for base pairs, PCR for reaction in chain by a polymerase, CA or Candida a. for Candida albicans and SC or Saccharomyces c. for Saccharomyces c ⁇ revisiae.
- polynucleotides hereinafter designates the polynucleotides of the present invention, namely the DNA sequences and also RNA coding for the factor CATFIIIA of the present invention and its homologs having the same function of transcription factor.
- CAtflIIA has the meaning given above to polynucleotides.
- polypeptides denotes below the polypeptides of the present invention, namely the factor CATFIIIA of the present invention and its analogs or homologs functional as defined below, therefore having the same function of transcription factor.
- CATFIIIA has the meaning given above to polypeptides.
- tflIIA or tfC2
- CAtflIIA or CAtfC2 designates the gene coding for the transcription factor of Candida albicans CATFIIIA.
- the spectrum of known fungal infections ranges from fungal attack of the skin or nails to more serious mycotic infections of internal organs. Such infections and the resulting diseases are identified as yeast infections. Antimycotic substances with fungistatic or fungicidal effects are used for the treatment of these fungal infections.
- the present invention thus relates to the identification of antimycotic substances and in particular of anti-Candida albicans substances.
- the present invention thus relates to inhibitors of transcription factors which can be used as antifungal agents.
- Candida albicans is a pathogenic yeast that causes infectious diseases in the human body.
- intracellular targets In order to find ways to treat diseases, one can choose intracellular targets and the transcription factor TFIIIA can be one of these targets.
- this factor plays a key role in the initiation of transcription of 5S RNA genes by RNA polymerase III.
- SC which is a yeast close to CA
- this SC yeast could not survive without an additional source of 5S RNA when the chromosomal gene for factor TFIIIA was interrupted, this additional 5S RNA being synthesized using of a plasmid without the participation of the factor TFIIIA (reference: S. Camier, A. -M. Dechampesme, A. Sentenac. / Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. (1995) 92, 9338-9342).
- TFIIIA The tflIIA gene and the corresponding protein TFIIIA would be involved in the regulation of the biological mechanism of transcription as indicated below. Since the TFIIIA protein was purified as a transcription factor for the first time in 1980 from Xenopus oocytes [Segall et Al, J. Biol. Chem., 255, 11986-11991 (1980)], work has been carried out in vivo and in vitro in Xenopus to study the mechanism of transcription control exerted by TFIIIA.
- TFIIIA from Xenope is necessary for the initiation of transcription of the 5S RNA gene [Sakonji et al, Cell 19, 13-25 (1980)] and binds to an internal control region of the 5S RNA gene [ Bogenhagen et al, Cell, 19, .. 27-35 (1980)].
- DNA-binding transcription factors are known which also have this zinc finger structure such as, for example, in humans, XT1 of the human tumor gene.
- tfC2 yeast tflIIA
- the present invention thus made it possible to isolate the DNA and RNA polynucleotides coding for the protein of the transcription factor CATFIIIA of Candida albicans and to reveal their nucleotide sequences.
- the subject of the present invention is therefore an isolated polynucleotide containing a nucleotide sequence chosen from the following group: a) a polynucleotide having at least 50% or at least 60% and preferably at least 70% of identity with a polynucleotide encoding a polypeptide having the function of transcription factor and having an amino acid sequence homologous to the sequence SEQ ID No. 3 indicated below. b) a polynucleotide complementary to the polynucleotide a) c) a polynucleotide comprising at least 15 consecutive bases of the polynucleotide defined in a) and b).
- the present invention thus relates to a polynucleotide defined above such that this polynucleotide is a DNA.
- the present invention thus relates to a polynucleotide defined above such that this polynucleotide is an RNA.
- the present invention more specifically relates to the polynucleotide as defined above comprising the nucleotide sequence SEQ ID No. 1.
- the present invention has thus made it possible to isolate the DNA sequence coding for the transcription factor of Candida albicans CATFIIIA.
- the present invention also made it possible to reveal the nucleic acid sequence of the CAtflIIA gene and also the amino acid sequence of the CATFIIIA protein encoded by this gene.
- a subject of the present invention is therefore a DNA sequence as defined by the above polynucleotide, characterized in that this DNA sequence is that of the gene CAtflIIA coding for a protein having the biological function of the transcription factor of Candida albicans CATFIIIA and containing the nucleotide sequence SEQ ID No. 1.
- Such a sequence SEQ ID No. 1 of the present invention therefore comprises 2060 nucleotides.
- the present invention specifically relates to a DNA sequence as defined above having the sequence starting at nucleotide 720 and ending at nucleotide 1955 of SEQ ID No. 1. Such a sequence therefore comprises 1236 nucleotides.
- the present invention also relates to the DNA sequence of the CAtflIIA gene as defined above coding for the amino acid sequence SEQ ID No. 3.
- the sequence SEQ ID No. 3 therefore comprises 412 AA.
- the present invention particularly relates to the DNA sequence coding for the transcription factor CATFIIIA as defined above as well as the DNA sequences which hybridize with it and / or exhibit significant homologies with this sequence or fragments thereof and having the same function.
- the present invention also relates to a DNA sequence as defined above comprising modifications introduced by deletion, insertion and / or substitution of at least one nucleotide coding for a protein having the same biological activity as the transcription factor. CATFIIIA.
- the subject of the present invention is in particular the DNA sequence as defined above as well as the DNA sequences which have a nucleotide sequence homology of at least 50% or at least 60% and preferably at least 70% with said DNA sequence.
- the present invention thus also relates to the DNA sequence as defined above as well as the DNA sequences which code for a protein of similar function whose AA sequence has a homology of at least 40% and in particular 45% or at least 50%, rather at least 60% and preferably at least 70% with the AA sequence encoded by said DNA sequence.
- sequences which hybridize one includes the DNA sequences which hybridize with one of the DNA sequences above under standard conditions of high, medium or low stringency and which code for a polypeptide having the same function of factor of transcription.
- the stringency conditions are those carried out under conditions known to those skilled in the art such as those described by Sambrook et al, Molecular cloning, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, 1989.
- Such stringency conditions are, for example, 65 ° hybridization C, for 18 hours in a 5 x SSPE solution; 10 x Denhardt's; 100 ⁇ g / ml ssDNA; 1% SDS followed by 3 washes for 5 minutes with 2 x SSC; 0.05% SDS, then 3 washes for 15 minutes at 65 ° C in 1 x SSC; 0.1% SDS.
- the high stringency conditions include, for example, hybridization at 65 ° C for 18 hours in a 5 x SSPE solution; 10 x Denhardt; 100 ⁇ g / ml ssDNA; 1% SDS followed by 2 washes for 20 minutes with a 2 x SSC solution; 0.05% SDS at 65 ° C followed by a final wash for 45 minutes in a 0.1 x SSC solution; 0.1% SDS at 65 ° C.
- the conditions of medium stringency include, for example, a final wash for 20 minutes in a 0.2 x SSC, 0.1% SDS solution at 65 ° C.
- sequences which have significant homologies we include the sequences having an identity. oder or significant nucleotide sequence with one of the above DNA sequences and which encode a protein having the same function of transcription factor.
- DNA sequences which may belong to other fungi than Candida albicans and in particular to SC, and which are similar or identical to the DNA sequence of the Candida albicans gene CatflIIA. These similar DNA sequences are not necessarily identical to the DNA sequence of the Candida albicans CatflIIA gene. Sequence homology at the nucleotide level may be moderate or important.
- the present invention thus relates in particular to DNA sequences which have a nucleotide sequence homology of at least 50%, preferably of at least 60% and even more more preferred at least 70% with the CAtflIIA sequence of the present invention.
- these similar DNA sequences do not necessarily code for proteins which are identical, in terms of amino acid sequence, to the protein encoded by the CAtflIIA gene.
- the present invention relates in particular to DNA sequences which code for proteins called homologous having an amino acid sequence homology of at least 40%, in particular 45%, preferably at least 50%, more preferably at least 60% and even more preferably at least 70% with the protein encoded by CAtflIIA of the present invention.
- the gene of the present invention is represented as a single-stranded DNA sequence as indicated in SEQ ID No. 1 but it is understood that the present invention includes the DNA sequence complementary to this single-stranded DNA sequence and also includes the so-called double-stranded DNA sequence consisting of these two DNA sequences complementary to one another.
- the DNA sequence as defined above is an example of a combination of codons coding for amino acids corresponding to the amino acid sequence SEQ ID No. 3, but it is also understood that the present invention includes any other combination arbitrary codons coding for this same amino acid sequence SEQ ID No. 3.
- DNA sequences modified as indicated above or even homologous DNA sequences as defined above can be used known to those skilled in the art and in particular those described in the work of Sambrook, J. Fritsh, EF ⁇ Maniatis, T. (1989) entitled: 'Molecular cloning: a laboratory manual', Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor NY.
- the homologous DNA sequences as defined above can in particular be isolated according to the methods known to those skilled in the art, for example by the PCR technique using degenerate nucleotide primers for amplify these DNAs from genomic libraries or cDNA libraries of the corresponding fungi.
- the cDNAs can also be prepared from RNA isolated from fungi of different species studied in the context of the present invention such as Candida albicans but for example and just as well: Candida stellatoidea, Candida tropicalis, Candida parapsilosis, Candida krusei, Candida pseudotropicalis, Candida quillermondii, Candida glabrata, Candida lusianiae or Candida rugosa or also fungi such as Saccharomyces cerevisiae or even fungi of the Aspergillus or Cryptococcus type and in particular, for example, Aspergillus fumigatus, Coccidioides immitisocytypus capsulatum, Blastomyces dermatitidis, Paracoc- cidioides brasiliens and Sporothrix schenckii or fungi of the classes of phycomycetes or eumycetes in particular the subclasses of basidiomycetes, ascomycetes, mehiascomyc
- the polynucleotides of the present invention can thus be obtained using the usual cloning and screening methods such as those of cloning and sequencing from fragments of chromosomal DNA extracted from cells.
- cloning and screening methods such as those of cloning and sequencing from fragments of chromosomal DNA extracted from cells.
- the clones containing a DNA identical to that of the probe can thus be identified under stringent conditions.
- polypeptide having the function of CATFIIIA transcription factor and having the amino acid sequence SEQ ID No. 3 encoded by the DNA sequence as defined above and the analogs of this polypeptide .
- polypeptide analogues polypeptides whose amino acid sequence has been modified by substitution, deletion or addition of one or more amino acids but which retain the same biological function.
- Such analogous polypeptides can be produced spontaneously or can be produced by post-transcriptional modification or by modification of the DNA sequence of the present invention as indicated above, using the techniques known to those skilled in the art: among these techniques , mention may in particular be made of the directed mutagenesis technique known to a person skilled in the art (Kramer, W., et al., Nucl. Acids Res., 12, 9441 (1984); Kramer, W. and Fritz, HJ, Methods in Enzymology, 154, 350 (1987); Zoller, MJ and Smith, M. Methods in Enzymology, 100, 468 (1983)).
- modified DNA can be carried out as indicated above and in particular by using well-known chemical synthesis techniques such as for example the phosphotriester method [Letsinger, R.L and Ogilvie, K.K., K. Am. CHEM. Soc, 91, 3350 (1969); Merrifield, R.B., Sciences, 150, 178 (1968)] or the phosphoamidite method [Beaucage, S.L and Caruthers, M .H., Tetrahedron Lett. , 22, 1859 (1981); McBRIDE, L.J. and Caruthers, M.H. Tetrahedron Lett., 24 245 (1983)] or by the combination of these methods.
- phosphotriester method Letsinger, R.L and Ogilvie, K.K., K. Am. CHEM. Soc, 91, 3350 (1969); Merrifield, R.B., Sciences, 150, 178 (1968)
- the phosphoamidite method Beaucage, S.L and Caruth
- polypeptides of the present invention can therefore be prepared by techniques known to those skilled in the art, in particular partially by chemical synthesis or also by the recombinant DNA technique by expression in a prokaryotic or eukaryotic host cell as indicated below. .
- the present invention particularly relates to the process for the preparation of the recombinant protein CATFIIIA having the amino acid sequence SEQ ID No. 3 comprising the expression of the DNA sequence as defined above in an appropriate host and then the isolation and purification of said recombinant protein.
- polypeptide of the present invention it is possible in particular to use the techniques of recombinant DNA using the genetic engineering and cell culture methods known to those skilled in the art.
- the following steps can thus be carried out: first preparation of the appropriate gene, then incorporation of this gene into a vector, transfer of the vector carrying the gene into an appropriate host cell, production of the polypeptide by expression of the gene, isolation of the polypeptide, the polypeptide thus produced can then be purified.
- polypeptides of the present invention obtained by expression of the polynucleotides of the present invention can be purified from cell cultures transformed by methods well known to those skilled in the art such as precipitation with ammonium sulfate or ethanol, extraction under acidic conditions, chromatography anion or cation exchanger, hydrophobic interaction chromatography, affinity chromatography, hydroxylapatite chromatography and high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC). Techniques well known to those skilled in the art can be used to regenerate the protein when it is denatured during its isolation or purification.
- the DNA sequences according to the present invention and in particular SEQ ID No. 1 and SEQ ID No. 2 can be prepared according to techniques known to those skilled in the art, in particular by chemical synthesis or by screening a genomic library or a cDNA library using probes of synthetic oligonucleotides by known hybridization techniques, thus amplification of DNA from isolated fragments or by reverse transcriptase from messenger RNA (mRNA).
- mRNA messenger RNA
- the advantage of the technique comprising first the isolation of mRNA by extraction of total RNA then the synthesis of cDNA from these mRNA by reverse transcriptase lies in particular in the fact that the mRNA does not contain the introns then that these non-coding sequences are present in genomic DNA.
- plasmid which can be supplied with a suitable commercial kit and then transforming a bacterial strain with the plasmid thus obtained.
- E. coli XL1 Blue or DH5 alpha can be used.
- the clones can then be cultured to extract the plasmid DNA according to the conventional techniques of those skilled in the art referenced above (Sambrook, Fritsh and Maniatis).
- the amplified fragment contained in the plasmid DNA can be sequenced.
- the polypeptides of the present invention can be obtained by expression in a host cell containing a polynucleotide according to the present invention and in particular a DNA sequence coding for a polypeptide of the present invention preceded by a suitable promoter sequence.
- the host cell can be a prokaryotic cell, for example E. coli or a eukaryotic cell such as yeasts, for example ascomycetes, including saccharomyces, or mammalian cells, for example Cos cells.
- the present invention particularly relates to the expression vector containing a DNA sequence as defined above.
- such a DNA sequence is thus in particular the DNA sequence of the CAtflIIA gene coding for a protein having the biological function of the transcription factor of Candida albicans CATFIIIA and containing the nucleotide sequence SEQ ID N ° l.
- such a DNA sequence is thus more particularly the DNA sequence starting at nucleotide 720 and ending at nucleotide 1955 of SEQ ID No. 1.
- such a DNA sequence is thus even more particularly that of the CAtflIIA gene as defined above coding for the amino acid sequence SEQ ID No. 3.
- such a DNA sequence is thus a DNA sequence as defined above coding for the transcription factor CATFIIIA as well as the DNA sequences which hybridize with it and / or have significant homologies with this sequence or fragments thereof or even DNA sequences comprising modifications introduced by deletion, insertion and / or substitution of at least one nucleotide coding for a protein having the same biological activity as the factor of CATFIIIA transcription.
- such a DNA sequence is in particular a DNA sequence as defined above as well as similar DNA sequences which have a nucleotide sequence homology of at least 50% or at least. at least 60% and preferably at least 70% with said DNA sequence or similar DNA sequences which code for a protein whose AA sequence has a homology of at least 40% and in particular 45% or d 'at least 50%, rather at least 60% and preferably at least 70% with the AA sequence encoded by said DNA sequence.
- Expression vectors are vectors allowing expression of the protein under the control of a suitable promoter.
- Such a vector can be a plasmid, a cosmid or a viral DNA.
- the promoter can for example be the lac promoter, the trp promoter, the tac promoter, the ⁇ -lactamase promoter or the PL promoter.
- the promoter can be, for example, the PGK promoter or the GAL promoter.
- the promoter can for example be the SV40 promoter or the adenovirus promoters.
- Baculovirus-like vectors can also be used for expression in insect cells.
- the host cells are, for example, prokaryotic cells or eukaryotic cells.
- Prokaryotic cells are for example E. coli, Bacillus or Streptomyces.
- Eukaryotic host cells include yeasts as well as cells of higher organisms, for example mammalian cells or insect cells.
- the mammalian cells are for example fibroblasts such as CHO or BHK hamster cells and Cos monkey cells.
- the insect cells are for example SF9 cells.
- the present invention therefore relates to a method which comprises the expression of a polynucleotide according to the present invention coding for the protein CATFIIIA in a host cell transformed by a polynucleotide according to the present invention and in particular a DNA sequence coding for the acid sequence amines SEQ ID N ° 3.
- the host cell is in particular a eukaryotic cell.
- the vectors used can be for example pGEX or pBAD and the host cell can be E. coli or for example the vector pYX222 and the host cell can in particular be Saccharomyces cerevisiae.
- the subject of the present invention is in particular the host cell transformed with a vector as defined above and containing a DNA sequence according to the present invention.
- the present invention thus relates to the process for the preparation of a recombinant protein according to the present invention, as defined above, in which the host cell is E. coli DH5 alpha or E. coli XLl-Blue or in particular Saccharomyces cerevisiae .
- the host cell is E. coli DH5 alpha or E. coli XLl-Blue or in particular Saccharomyces cerevisiae .
- Saccharomyces cerevisiae Saccharomyces cerevisiae
- the present invention very specifically relates to the plasmid deposited at the CNCM under the number 1-2072.
- This gene therefore corresponds to the sequence 720-1955 of SEQ ID No. 1.
- the TFIIIA protein encoded by the CAtflIIA gene is therefore a transcription factor.
- the TFIIIA protein encoded by the gene of the present invention has a biological role as a protein binding to DNA and would be useful as a transcription factor.
- the gene of the present invention is expressed in different tissues and plays an important role in initiating transcription of the 5S ribosomal RNA gene.
- the study of these factors can also be useful in the analysis of the mechanisms of regulation of transcription.
- the subject of the present invention is therefore a method of screening for antifungal products, characterized in that it includes a step in which the activity of CATFIIIA transcription factor as defined above is measured in the presence of each of the products whose antifungal properties are to be determined and the products having an inhibitory effect on this activity are selected .
- the activity of CATFIIIA or one of its functional counterparts consisting of a transcription factor TFIIIA is measured in the presence of each of the products for which it is desired to determine antifungal properties and products with an inhibiting effect on this activity are selected.
- Such screening can be done by measuring the transcription activity of TFIIIA in the presence of potential activators or inhibitors to be tested.
- the transcription of 5S RNA can for example be measured in vitro directly by detecting the synthesis of 5S RNA in an appropriate reaction medium. Transcription activity can also be measured in vivo by a cell viability test. For example, the transcription activity can be advantageously measured in cells of a mutant of Saccharomyces cerevisiae not expressing TFIIIA of SC transformed by the CAtflIIA gene.
- the invention also encompasses the use of a product selected as indicated above for its inhibitory properties of a transcription factor TFIIIA for obtaining an antifungal agent.
- the present invention will be better understood with the aid of the experimental part which follows and which describes the cloning of the CAtflIIa gene of the present invention.
- the present invention thus relates to the use of a product selected by the. method of screening for antifungal products as defined above to obtain an antifungal agent.
- the present invention also relates to the use of the gene for the transcription factor CAtflIIA of
- the present invention also relates to pharmaceutical compositions containing, as active principle, at least one inhibitor of the transcription factor of Candida albicans as defined above.
- Such compositions may in particular be useful for treating topical and systemic fungal infections.
- the pharmaceutical compositions indicated above can be administered by the oral, rectal, parenteral or local route by topical application to the skin and mucous membranes or by intravenous or intramuscular injection.
- These compositions can be solid or liquid and can be presented in all the pharmaceutical forms commonly used in human medicine such as, for example, simple or coated tablets, capsules, granules, suppositories, injections, ointments, creams, gels and aerosol preparations; they are prepared according to the usual methods.
- the active ingredient can be incorporated therein into excipients usually used in these pharmaceutical compositions, such as talc, gum arabic, lactose, starch, magnesium stearate, cocoa butter, aqueous vehicles or not, fatty substances of animal or vegetable origin, paraffinic derivatives, glycols, various wetting, dispersing or emulsifying agents, preservatives.
- excipients usually used in these pharmaceutical compositions such as talc, gum arabic, lactose, starch, magnesium stearate, cocoa butter, aqueous vehicles or not, fatty substances of animal or vegetable origin, paraffinic derivatives, glycols, various wetting, dispersing or emulsifying agents, preservatives.
- the dosage will vary depending on the product used, the subject being treated and the condition involved.
- a subject of the present invention is thus in particular the use of the compositions as defined above as antifungal agents.
- a subject of the present invention is also a method of inducing an immunological response in a mammal comprising the inoculation into this mammal of the polypeptide according to the present invention as defined above or a fragment of this polypeptide having the same function of way to produce an antibody to protect the animal from disease.
- a subject of the present invention is thus antibodies directed against the polypeptides of the present invention as defined above having the function of transcription factor CATFIIIA or against a fragment of these polypeptides having the same function and coded by the polynucleotides of the present invention and in particular by a DNA sequence as defined above.
- the polypeptides of the present invention can thus be used as immunogens to produce immunospecific antibodies for these polypeptides.
- the term antibody used denotes both monoclonal and polyclonal, chimeric, single chain antibodies, non-human antibodies and human antibodies, as well as Fab fragments, thus including the products of an immunoglobulin Fab library.
- the antibodies generated against the polypeptides of the present invention can be obtained by administration of the polypeptides of the present invention or of fragments carrying epitopes, their analogs or even cells to an animal, preferably non-human, using routine protocols for the preparation of monoclonal antibodies. Such antibodies can be prepared by methods well known in this field such as those described in the book Antibodies, Laboratory manual Ed. Harbow and David Larre, Cold Spring Harbor laboratory Eds, 1988.
- a very particular subject of the present invention is thus an antibody directed against the CATFIIIA protein of the present invention or a fragment of this protein having in particular the same function.
- Another subject of the present invention is the use of the gene for the transcription factor CAtflIIA or the transcription factor encoded by this gene as defined above for the preparation of compositions useful for the diagnosis or treatment of diseases caused by yeast pathogenic Candida albicans.
- the present invention also relates to the use of the polynucleotides of the present invention as diagnostic reagents.
- the detection of a polynucleotide according to the present invention coding for the protein TFIIIA of Candida albicans or its analogues in a eukaryote in particular a mammal and more particularly a human being can constitute a means of diagnosis of a disease: thus, one can detect such a polynucleotide according to the present invention and in particular a DNA sequence by a wide variety of techniques in a eukaryote in particular a mammal and more particularly a human being, infected by an organism containing at least one of the polynucleotides of the present invention.
- the nucleic acids for such use as a diagnostic tool can be detected from infected cells or tissues, such as bone, blood, muscle, cartilage or skin.
- genomic DNA can be used directly or even be amplified by PCR or another amplification technique.
- RNA or DNA and cDNA can also be used for the same purpose.
- the line of the fungus present in a eukaryote, in particular a mammal and more particularly a human being can be characterized by the analysis of the genotype. Deletions or insertions can be detected by the change in size of the amplified product by comparison with the genotype of the reference sequence.
- the mutation points can be identified by hybridization DNA amplified with the radioactively labeled sequences of polynucleotides of the present invention. Perfectly complementary sequences can thus be distinguished from duplexes which are poorly resistant to digestion by nucleases. Differences in DNA sequences can also be detected by alterations in the electrophoretic mobility of DNA fragments in gels, with or without denaturing agent, or by direct DNA sequencing (reference: Myers et al. Science, 230: 1242 (1985)).
- Sequence changes at specific locations can also be revealed by nuclease protection experiments such as RNase I and SI or by chemical cleavage methods (reference: Cotton et al., Proc Natl Acad Sci, USA, 85: 4397-4401 (1985)
- Cells containing one of the polynucleotides of the present invention carrying mutations or polymorphisms can also be detected by a large number of techniques which in particular make it possible to determine the serotype, for example the RT technique -PCR can be used to detect mutations. It is particularly preferred to use RT-PCR techniques in conjunction with automatic detection systems, such as for example in the GeneScan technique.
- RNA and ADNC can be used in the techniques PCR or RT-PCR.
- primers complementary to the polynucleotides encoding the polypeptides of the present invention can be e used to identify and analyze mutations.
- Primers can thus be used to amplify DNA isolated from the infected individual. In this way mutations in the DNA sequence can be detected and used to diagnose the infection and determine the serotype or classification of the infectious agent.
- Such techniques are usual for those skilled in the art and are described in particular in the manual 'Current Protocols in Molecular Biology', Ausubel et al, ed. John Wiley ⁇ sons, Inc., 1995).
- the present invention thus relates to a method for diagnosing a disease and preferably a fungal infection caused in particular by Candida albicans such as yeast infections as indicated above, this method comprising determining from a sample taken from an infected individual, an increase in the amount of polynucleotide of the present invention.
- Such a polynucleotide can in particular have a DNA sequence of the present invention as defined above. Increases or decreases in the amount of polynucleotides can be measured by techniques well known to those of skill in the art, such as amplification, PCR, RT PCR, Northern blotting or other hybridization techniques.
- a diagnostic method in accordance with the present invention consists in detecting an excessive expression of the polypeptides of the present invention, by comparison with control samples made up of normal, uninfected tissues used to detect the presence of an infection.
- the present invention also relates to a kit for the diagnosis of fungal infections comprising a DNA sequence according to the present invention as defined above or a sequence having a similar function or a functional fragment of this sequence, the encoded polypeptide by this sequence or a polypeptide fragment having the same function or an antibody directed against such a polypeptide encoded by this DNA sequence or against a fragment of this polypeptide.
- This kit may thus contain a DNA sequence according to the present invention as defined above and for example the DNA sequence SEQ ID No. 1 or a fragment of this sequence or even the sequence 720 to 1955 of SEQ ID N ° l.
- kit may likewise contain a polypeptide according to the present invention or a fragment of this polypeptide and in particular the protein having the sequence in AA SEQ ID No. 3 or still an antibody as defined above.
- a kit can be prepared according to methods well known to those skilled in the art.
- the bacterium Escherichia coli (E. coli) of the line DH5 alpha (Gibco BRL) or XL1-Blue type K12 (Stratagene) was used for the preparation of the plasmids of the present invention.
- the growth of this bacterium was carried out according to the usual conditions in LB liquid medium which contains 10 g of bacterotryptone, 5 g of yeast extract and 10 g of NaCl for one liter of water and which also contains 100 microg / ml of 'ampicillin (SIGMA).
- the incubation was carried out at 37 ° C. under a normal atmosphere and shaking at 225 rpm.
- the viability of the strain is checked when the strain grows on LB medium + ampicillin at 100 microg / ml. It can be noted that an ampicillin Bla resistance gene is part of the vector into which the CAtflIIA fragments are cloned.
- the selection of the strains containing the plasmids containing the tflIIA gene of Candida albicans of the present invention can be carried out by the culture of the strains in this medium containing ampicillin (100 microg / ml), such a medium allowing survival only strains which contain the ampicillin resistance gene and thus only strains which contain the tflIIA gene from Candida a. of the present invention.
- ampicillin 100 microg / ml
- the Plasmid DNA of several bacteria from each of the clones indicated below is prepared using a commercial kit (Qiagen Plasmids kit) .
- the fragments corresponding to the sequence of the CAtflIIA gene are sequenced on both strands according to conventional techniques known in the art. skilled in the art (use of the ABI 377 XL sequencer, Perkin Elmer) b) Cloning and sequencing of the CAtflIIA gene:
- the gene coding for the transcription factor of CA ie SEQ ID No. 1 represented in FIG. 1, was isolated from the genomic fragment library of Candida albicans. (Sanglard et al., Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy 39, 2378-2386, (1995)). The structure of the gene has been identified by sequencing. The strategy used is based on the assumption that SC and CA are close yeasts whose gene structure can be homologous. We proceeded as follows:
- oligonucleotides also made it possible to synthesize a DNA fragment from genomic DNA from Candida albicans in order to prepare a probe labeled with 32P (phosphorus 32) using a kit (Mega Prime, Amersham). This fragment was used for the screening of the Sau 3A genomic fragment library of Candida albicans cloned into the BamHI site of the vector YEp24 (multicopy-Ura3) [Botstein et al., Gene, 8, 17-24, (1979)] .
- the E. coli DH5 alpha cells transformed with the vector YEp24 (multicopy vector with selection gene URA3) containing the fragments described above (17,000 clones) are spread on dishes containing LB + ampicillin medium and cultured at 37 ° C.
- the filters are kept for 10 minutes at
- the probe is labeled with 32P with the MegaPrime kit and (alpha
- Hybridization on a filter with the 32P-labeled probe made it possible to select several positive clones which were reseeded on dishes in order to isolate them. Individual clones were thus isolated.
- the YEp24 plasmids containing Candida albicans inserts were recovered from these colonies.
- the restriction map of each of these plasmids was established, and made it possible to note that all of the inserts came from the same region of the genome of Candida albicans.
- the following oligonucleotides were used: INT-Cand located at position: 720-740 of SEQ ID No. 1 and named
- TFIIIA of Saccharomyces cerevisiae Analysis of the protein makes it possible to find the 9 zinc finger patterns which are characteristic of the transcription factor TFIIIA.
- the comparison of the protein sequences of CATFIIIA and TFIIIA of SC makes it possible to highlight a similarity of 50% and an identity of 45%.
- account has been taken of the fact that in Candida albicans the codon CTG is translated into serine and that there are 2 CTG codons in Candida albicans TFIIIA.
- a fragment contained in clone 9 was amplified by PCR using primers containing the sequences recognized by the restriction enzymes EcoRI and Xhol and hybridizing to the tfC2 gene, the primers are the following: 5-EcoTF located at position 720 -732 of SEQ ID N ° l and named SEQ ID N ° 8 and
- 0.5 micrograms of DNA of clone 9 are added to 50 microliters of a reaction solution containing 200 nanograms / ml of each dNTP, the primers indicated above at a rate of 25 micromoles / 1 for each, 2mM MgC12, 1 x Pfu Buffer, 5U Pfu polymerase (Perkin Elmer).
- the reaction medium is subjected to 30 PCR cycles each corresponding to 94 ° C for 30 seconds, then to 60 ° C for 45 seconds then to 72 ° C for 1 minute.
- the fragment containing the coding sequence for CATFIIIA was subcloned into the vectors pYX122 (CEN, HIS 3) and pYX222 (2 micron, HIS3) (R and D System).
- This plasmid was used to transform cells of Saccharomyces c. YWRI (Mat alpha, can 1-100, his 3-11, leu 2-3, 112 trp 1-1, ura 3-1, ade 2-1, tfC2 :: leu2 + pJA230), (Camier et al, Proc Natl. Acad. Sci. 92 9338-9342, 1995).
- the TFIIIA factor gene of Candida albicans was isolated in three clones 9, 18 and 47 obtained as indicated above in Example 1 from the gene bank of Candida albicans using a hybridization technique. The structure of this gene has been identified by sequencing.
- the CATFIIIA protein of the CAtflIIA gene obtained in Example 1 consists of 412 AA and shows strong homology with the factor TFIIIA of SC. This protein contains a region rich in SER residues in the N-terminal part and 9 zinc fingers whose arrangement is identical to that of the protein TFIIIA of SC. 3) The subcloning of the factor TFIIIA gene from Candida albicans was carried out and the gene was placed under the control of an SC promoter.
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