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- the present invention relates to purification and chemical modification of proteins to prolong their circulating lifetimes and reduce their immunogenicity. More specifically, the invention relates to the removal of aggregates larger than octamers from urate oxidases (uricases) prior to conjugation of poly(ethylene glycols) or poly(ethylene oxides). This substantially eliminates uricase immunogenicity without compromising its uricolytic activity.
- uricases urate oxidases
- Urate oxidases are enzymes that catalyze the oxidation of uric acid to a more soluble product, allantoin, a purine metabolite that is more readily excreted. Humans do not produce enzymatically active uricase, as a result of several mutations in the gene for uricase acquired during the evolution of higher primates. Wu, X, et al., (1992) J Mol Evol 34:78-84. As a consequence, in susceptible individuals, excessive concentrations of uric acid in the blood (hyperuricemia) and in the urine (hyperuricosuria) can lead to painful arthritis (gout), disfiguring urate deposits (tophi) and renal failure.
- the aggregation of proteins is known to increase their immunogenicity. This understanding has contributed to the development of methods for intentionally aggregating proteins by treatments such as thermal denaturation and cross-linking by exposure to glutaraldehyde prior to use in the preparation of vaccines or for immunization of animals to produce antisera.
- Unintentional aggregation of proteins has also been recognized as contributing to immunization or sensitization during clinical use of therapeutic proteins, e.g. for human gamma globulin (Henney et al. (1968) N. Engl. J. Med. 278:2244-2246) and for human growth hormone (Moore et al. (1980) J. Clin. Endocrinol. Metab. 51:691-697).
- the contribution of aggregates to the immunogenicity of human interferon alpha has been demonstrated in BALB/c mice (Braun et al. (1997) Pharm. Res. 14:1472-1478) and an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) has been developed for their measurement (Braun et al. (1997) Pharm. Res. 14:1394-1400).
- Conjugation of proteins with poly(alkylene glycols), especially PEG produces conjugates with reduced immunogenicity and increased persistence in the bloodstream.
- poly(alkylene glycols) especially PEG
- conjugates with reduced immunogenicity and increased persistence in the bloodstream In attempting to produce substantially non-immunogenic conjugates of uricase that retain substantially all of the uricolytic activity of the unmodified uricase preparation, it was discovered that traces of large aggregates of uricase in the starting material were surprisingly effective at provoking both antibody formation and accelerated clearance from the circulation, both of which are deleterious, after repeated infections of PEG conjugates prepared from uricase containing such aggregates.
- the present inventors found that the increased immunogenicity and accelerated clearance were not due to the presence of well-defined, moderate-sized aggregates of the uricase subunit that are larger than the native tetramer, e.g. aggregates containing eight subunits (octamers).
- the octameric form of uricase is present at sufficiently high concentrations in most preparations of uricase to be detectable by its absorbance of UV light, e.g. at 214 nm or 276 nm, or by its contribution to the refractive index or other measurements of protein concentration.
- uricase urate oxidase
- the uricase is mammalian uricase. More preferably, the uricase is porcine liver, bovine liver or ovine liver uricase. In one aspect of this preferred embodiment, the uricase is recombinant. In another aspect of this preferred embodiment, the uricase has substantially the sequence of porcine, bovine, ovine or baboon liver uricase.
- the uricase is chimeric.
- the uricase is PKS uricase.
- the uricase has substantially the sequence of baboon liver uricase in which tyrosine 97 has been replace by histidine.
- the uricase comprises an amino terminus and a carboxy terminus, and wherein the uricase is truncated at one terminus or both termini.
- the uricase is a fungal or microbial uricase.
- the fungal or microbial uricase is isolated from Aspergillus flavus, Arthrobacter globiformis, Bacillus sp. or Candida utilis, or is a recombinant enzyme having substantially the sequence of one of said uricases.
- the uricase is an invertebrate uricase.
- the invertebrate uricase is isolated from Drosophila melanogaster or Drosophila pseudoobscura, or is a recombinant enzyme having substantially the sequence of one of said uricases.
- the uricase is a plant uricase.
- the plant uricase is isolated from root nodules of Glycine max or is a recombinant enzyme having substantially the sequence of the uricase.
- the uricase described above is conjugated to poly(ethylene glycol) or poly(ethylene oxide), under conditions such that the uricase in the conjugate is substantially free of aggregates larger than octamers.
- the uricase is conjugated to poly(ethylene glycol) or poly(ethylene oxide) via a urethane (carbamate), secondary amine or amide linkage.
- the poly(ethylene glycol) is monomethoxy poly(ethylene glycol).
- the poly(ethylene glycol) or poly(ethylene oxide) has a molecular weight between about 5 kDa and 30 kDa.
- the poly(ethylene glycol) or poly(ethylene oxide) has a molecular weight between about 10 kDa and 20 kDa.
- the average number of strands of said poly(ethylene glycol) or poly(ethylene oxide) is between about 2 and 12 per uricase subunit. More advantageously, the average number of strands of said poly(ethylene glycol) or poly(ethylene oxide) is between about 6 and 10 per uricase subunit. Most advantageously, the average number of strands of said poly(ethylene glycol) or poly(ethylene oxide) is between about 7 and 9 per uricase subunit.
- the poly(ethylene glycol) or poly(ethylene oxide) is linear. Alternatively, the poly(ethylene glycol) or poly(ethylene oxide) is branched.
- the present invention also provides a pharmaceutical composition for lowering uric acid levels in a body fluid or tissue, comprising the uricase conjugate described above and a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier.
- a pharmaceutical composition for lowering uric acid levels in a body fluid or tissue comprising the uricase conjugate described above and a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier.
- the composition is stabilized by lyophilization and dissolves upon reconstitution to provide solutions suitable for parenteral administration.
- Another embodiment of the invention is a method for purifying uricase having reduced immunogenicity, comprising the step of separating uricase aggregates larger than octamers in uricase fractions, and excluding such aggregates from the purified uricase.
- the separating step comprises the step of detecting aggregates larger than octamers from at least a portion of the uricase fractions and excluding the fractions containing the aggregates.
- the detecting step comprises measurement of light scattering.
- the present invention also provides isolated uricase prepared by the method described above.
- FIG. 1 illustrates uricase activity, total protein and salt concentrations in fractions from a Pharmacia Biotech Mono Q (1 ⁇ 10 cm) anion exchange column.
- Uricase activity was measured at room temperature by monitoring the decrease in absorbance at 292 nm of 100 ⁇ M uric acid in 200 mM sodium borate, pH 9.2.
- Total protein was determined from the area under the curve of the absorbance peak of uricase in size-exclusion HPLC analyses. Salt concentrations were calculated from the conductivities at room temperature using a standard curve for NaCl in the same buffer.
- FIG. 2 illustrates size-exclusion HPLC analysis on a Pharmacia Superdex 200 column (1 ⁇ 30 cm) of the load and selected fractions from a preparative Mono Q chromatography of porcine uricase containing the mutations R291K and T301S (PKS uricase) showing data obtained by a light-scattering detector at 90° C. (upper curves) and by absorbance at 276 nm (lower curves).
- the different signal strengths of the tetromeric, octameric and more highly aggregated forms of uricase in the unfractionated sample (load) and the various fractions are evident.
- the load was diluted 1 ⁇ 5 with Mono Q column buffer, fraction 5 was diluted 1 ⁇ 3 and fraction 6 was diluted 1/9. Fractions 5 and 6 were combined to form the “low salt pool.”
- FIG. 3 illustrates size-exclusion analyses of fractions from the Mono Q column in FIG. 1 , showing data obtained by a light-scattering detector at 90° and by absorbance at 276 nm, as in FIG. 2 .
- the fractions shown in this figure were used to form the “high salt pool”, from which PEG conjugates were prepared and injected into BALB/c mice.
- the resultant serum activities and immunologic responses in BALB/c mice are shown in FIGS. 5 and 6 .
- FIG. 4 illustrates octamer content, determined by absorbance at 276 nm and by light scattering at 90°, calculated from the data in FIGS. 2 and 3 , of unfractionated PKS uricase and of selected fractions from the preparative MonoQ column chromatography of PKS uricase ( FIG. 1 ).
- FIG. 5 illustrates UV assays, as in FIG. 1 , of uricase activity after a 4-hour incubation at 37° C., in sera drawn 24 hours after each of six weekly injections of 6 ⁇ 10-kDa PEG conjugates of PKS uricase or of pools from Mono Q column fractions.
- FIG. 6 illustrates ELISA analyses of IgG antibody formation against PEG conjugates of PKS uricase and against PEG conjugates of the pools of fractions from the Mono Q column shown in FIG. 1 , in sera drawn 24 hours after each of six weekly injections of female BALB/c mice with 0.2 mg of uricase protein per 20 grams of body weight. For each mouse, data from bleedings 24 hours after the first through sixth injections are shown from left to right. The assay conditions are described in Example 6. Data for the eight mice in each group were arranged in order of increasing immune response, from left to right.
- the present invention includes the observation that traces of aggregates of urate oxidases larger than octamers substantially contribute to immunogenicity and the induction of accelerated clearance of PEG-uricase conjugates. This discovery is most likely applicable to proteins other than uricases, including interferons and growth factors.
- the present invention provides a method for producing uricase that excludes uricase aggregates larger than octamers for use in the synthesis of PEG-uricase. This PEG-uricase retains all or nearly all of the uricolytic activity of the unmodified enzyme.
- the present invention also provides purified uricase substantially free of aggregates larger than octamers. The term “substantially free” indicates that the purified uricase comprises no more than about 2%, ard preferably no more than about 1% of aggregates larger than octamers.
- the present invention provides a method for purifying uricase such that aggregates larger then octamers are excluded from the purified preparation. Because these larger aggregates are highly immunogenic, their presence in the purified uricase preparation is undesirable.
- the method involves monitoring column fractions by light scattering rather than or in addition to ultraviolet absorbance at 280 nm, because the aggregates may be too dilute to be detected by ultraviolet absorbance.
- the purified uricase is then conjugated to water-soluble polymers, preferably poly(ethylene glycols) or poly(ethylene oxides) as described in copending U.S. application Ser. No. 09/370,084, the entire contents of which are incorporated herein by reference.
- the removal of aggregated uricase from a preparation consisting predominantly of tetrameric uricase can be accomplished by any of the methods know to those skilled in the art, including size-exclusion chromatography, ion-exchange chromatography, ultrafiltration through a microporous membrane and centrifugation, including ultracentrifugation.
- the separation method may include separation and analysis of fractions and the rejection or exclusion of those fractions containing excessive quantities of large aggregates.
- the resultant uricase preparation is better suited for the synthesis of substantially non-immunogenic conjugates of uricase than is the unfractionated uricase.
- PEG conjugates of proteins e.g. PEG-uricase, have low immunogenicity and do not provoke progressively more rapid clearance from the bloodstream after repeated doses.
- the invention also provides pharmaceutical compositions of the polymer-uricase conjugates.
- These conjugates are substantially non-immunogenic and retain at least 75%, preferably 85%, and more preferably 95% or more of the uricolytic activity of the unmodified enzyme.
- Uricases suitable for conjugation to water-soluble polymers include naturally occurring urate oxidases isolated from bacteria, fungi and the tissues of plants and animals, both vertebrates and invertebrates, as well as recombinant forms of uricase, including mutated, hybrid, and/or truncated enzymatically active variants of uricase.
- Water-soluble polymers suitable for use in the present invention include linear and branched poly(ethylene glycols) or poly(ethylene oxides), all commonly known as PEGs.
- Examples of branched PEG are the subject of U.S. Pat. No. 5,643,575.
- One preferred example of linear PEG is monomethoxyPEG, of the general structure CH 3 O—(CH 2 CH 2 O) n H, where n varies from about 100 to about 2,300.
- One embodiment of the present invention is a conjugate of urate oxidase (uricase) that retains at least about 75% of the uricolytic activity of unconjugated uricase and has substantially reduced immunogenicity.
- the uricase of this aspect of the invention may be recombinant. Whether recombinant or not, the uricase may be of mammalian origin. In one aspect of this embodiment, the uricase may be porcine, bovine or ovine liver uricase. In another aspect of this embodiment, the uricase may be chimeric. The chimeric uricase may contain portions of porcine liver and/or baboon liver uricase.
- the chimeric uricase may be porcine uricase containing the mutations R291K and T301S (PKS uricase).
- the uricase may be baboon liver uricase in which tyrosine 97 has been replaced by histidine, whereby the specific activity of the uricase may be increased by at least about 60%.
- the uricase of the invention may also be in a form that is truncated, either at the amino terminal, or at the carboxyl terminal, or at both terminals.
- the uricase may be fungal or microbial uricase.
- the fungal or microbial uricase may be a naturally occurring or recombinant form of uricase from Aspergillus flavus, Arthrobacter globiformis, Bacillus sp. or Candida utilis.
- the uricase may be an invertebrate uricase, such as, for example, a naturally occurring or recombinant form of uricase from Drosophila melanogaster or Drosophila pseudoobscura.
- the uricase of the invention may also be a plant uricase, for example, a naturally occurring or recombinant form of uricase from soybean root nodule ( Glycine max ).
- the PEG may have an average molecular weight between about 5 kDa and 100 kDa; preferably the PEG may have an average molecular weight between about 8 kDa and 60 kDa; more preferably, the PEG may have an average molecular weight between about 10 kDa and about 40 kDa, such as, for example, 10 to 20 kDa.
- the average number of covalently coupled strands of PEG may be 2 to 12 strands per uricase subunit; preferably, the average number of covalently coupled strands may be 6 to 10 per subunit; more preferably, the average number of strands of PEG may be 7 to 9 per subunit.
- the uricase may be tetrameric.
- the strands of PEG may be covalently linked to uricase via urethane (carbamate) linkages, secondary amine linkages, and/or amide linkages.
- urethane carbamate
- secondary amine linkages secondary amine linkages
- amide linkages urethane linkages
- the recombinant form may have substantially the sequence of the naturally occurring form.
- One preferred mammalian uricase is recombinant pig-baboon chimeric uricase, composed of portions of the sequences of pig liver and baboon liver uricase, both of which were first determined by Wu, et al., (1989).
- a chimeric uricase contains the first 288 amino acids from the porcine sequence (SEQ ID NO: 1) and the last 16 amino acids from the baboon sequence (SEQ ID NO: 2).
- PKS uricase has one more lysine residue and, hence, one more potential site of PEGylation than either the porcine or baboon sequence.
- uricase may be conjugated via a biologically stable, nontoxic, covalent linkage to a relatively small number of strands of PEG.
- linkages may include urethane (carbamate) linkages, secondary amine linkages, and amide linkages.
- urethane (carbamate) linkages may include urethane (carbamate) linkages, secondary amine linkages, and amide linkages.
- Various activated PEGs suitable for such conjugation are available commercially from Shearwater Polymers, Huntsville, Ala.
- urethane linkages to uricase may be formed by incubating uricase in the presence of the succimmidyl carbonate (SC) or p-nitrophenyl carbonate (NPC) derivative of PEG.
- SC-PEG may be synthesized using the procedure described in U.S. Pat. No. 5,612,460, which is hereby incorporated by reference.
- NPC-PEG may be synthesized by reacting PEG with p-nitrophenyl chloroformate according to methods described in Veronese, F M, et al., (1985) Appl Biochem Biotechnol 11:141-152, and in U.S. Pat. No. 5,286,637, which is hereby incorporated by reference.
- Amide linkages to uricase may be obtained using an N-hydroxysuccinimide ester of a carboxylic acid derivative of PEG (Shearwater Polymers). Secondary amine linkages may be formed using 2,2,2-trifluoroethanesulfonyl PEG (tresyl PEG; Shearwater Polymers) or by reductive alkylation using PEG aldehyde (Shearwater Polymers) and sodium cyanoborohydride.
- the maximum number of strands of PEG that were coupled per subunit, while retaining at least 75% of the uricolytic activity of the unmodified enzyme was about 12 strands for mammalian uricases (e.g. PKS uricase, a mutein of porcine uricase; see assay conditions in Example 5).
- the latter extent of PEGylation corresponds to about 40% of the total amino groups.
- the average number of strands of PEG coupled per uricase subunit is between about 2 and 12. In a preferred embodiment, the average number of strands of PEG coupled per uricase subunit is between about 6 and 10.
- the average number of covalently linked strands of PEG per uricase subunit is between about 7 and 9.
- the molecular weight of PEG used for the coupling reaction is between about 5 kDa and 30 kDa, preferably between about 10 kDa and 20 kDa.
- PEG conjugates of mammalian uricase were prepared from the purified tetrameric and octameric forms of the enzyme (containing four or eight subunits of approximately 35 kDa), they displayed profoundly reduced immunogenicity in mice, in contrast to the moderate immunogenicity of PEG conjugates of uricase preparations containing large aggregates (see FIG. 6 ) and the very high immunogenicity of the unmodified enzyme.
- Purified preparations of naturally occurring and recombinant uricases usually contain a mixture of very large aggregates of the enzyme, in addition to the tetrameric (140-kDa) and the octameric (280-kDa) forms.
- the percentage of each uricase preparation that is in either the tetrameric or octameric form generally varies from about 20% to 95% (see FIGS. 2-4 ).
- substantially all large aggregates of the enzyme may be removed by ion-exchange chromatography ( FIGS. 1-3 ) or size-exclusion chromatography at a pH between about 9 and 10.5, preferably 10.2, prior to conjugation of the resulting substantially aggregate-free preparation of uricase to PEG.
- the molecular weight of the uricase in each fraction from the preparative column may be monitored by any size-dependent analytical technique, including, for example, HPLC, conventional size-exclusion chromatography, centrifugation, light scattering, capillary electrophoresis or gel electrophoresis in a non-denaturing buffer.
- fractions containing only the 140 kDa and 280-kDa forms of the enzyme may be pooled and used for conjugation to PEG.
- fractions from the ion-exchange column may be analyzed with respect to size to determine which fractions contain substantial amounts of the tetrameric and octameric forms without the large aggregates detected by light scattering.
- the undesirable large aggregates may thus constitute as little as about 1%, or less, of the total uricase.
- the PEG-uricase conjugates of the present invention are useful for lowering the levels of uric acid in the body fluids and tissues of mammals, preferably humans, and can thus be used for treatment of elevated uric acid levels associated with conditions including gout, tophi, renal insufficiency, organ transplantation and malignant disease.
- PEG-uricase conjugates may be injected into a mammal having excessive uric acid levels by any of a number of routes, including intravenous, subcutaneous, intradermal, intramuscular and intraperitoneal routes. Alternatively, they may be aerosolized and inhaled. See Patton, J S, (1996) Adv Drug Delivery Rev 19:3-36 and U.S. Pat. No. 5,458,135.
- PEG-uricase of the present invention will depend on the level of uric acid and the size of the individual.
- PEG-uricase is administered in a pharmaceutically acceptable excipient or diluent in an amount ranging from about 10 ⁇ g to about 1 g. In a preferred embodiment, the amount administered is between about 100 ⁇ g and 500 mg. More preferably, the conjugated uricase is administered in an amount between 1 mg and 100 mg, such as, for example, 5 mg, 20 mg or 50 mg. Masses given for dosage amounts of the embodiments refer to the amount of protein in the conjugate.
- compositions containing PEG-uricase can be prepared by conventional techniques, e.g., as described in Gennaro, A R (Ed.) (1990) Remington's Pharmaceutical Sciences, 18th Edition, Easton, Pa.: Mack Publishing Co.
- Suitable excipients for the preparation of injectable solutions include, for example, phosphate buffered saline, lactated Ringer's solution, water, polyols and glycerol.
- Pharmaceutical compositions for parenteral injection comprise pharmaceutically acceptable sterile aqueous or non-aqueous liquids, dispersions, suspensions, or emulsions as well as sterile powders for reconstitution into sterile injectable solutions or dispersions just prior to use.
- These formulations may contain additional components, such as, for example, preservatives, solubilizers, stabilizers, wetting agents, emulsifiers, buffers, antioxidants and diluents.
- PEG-uricase may also be provided as controlled-release compositions for implantation into an individual to continually control elevated uric acid levels in body fluids.
- These materials when implanted or injected, gradually break down and release the active material to the surrounding tissue.
- one method of encapsulating PEG-uricase comprises the method disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 5,653,974, which is hereby incorporated by reference.
- bioerodible, biodegradable and other depot formulations is expressly contemplated in the present invention.
- infusion pumps and matrix entrapment systems for delivery of PEG-uricase is also within the scope of the present invention.
- PEG-uricase may also advantageously be enclosed in micelles or liposomes. Liposome encapsulation technology is well known in the art. See, e.g., Lasic, D, et al., (Eds.) (1995) Stealth Liposomes . Boca Raton, Fla.: CRC Press.
- the PEG-uricase pharmaceutical compositions of the invention will decrease the need for hemodialysis in patients at high risk of urate-induced renal failure, e.g., organ transplant recipients (see Venkataseshan, V S, et al., (1990) Nephron 56:317-321) and patients with some malignant diseases. In patients with large accumulations of crystalline urate (tophi), such pharmaceutical compositions will improve the quality of life more rapidly than currently available treatments.
- PEG-uricases prepared by coupling activated PEG (e.g., the p-nitrophenyl carbonate derivative) to a mutein of porcine uricases.
- activated PEG e.g., the p-nitrophenyl carbonate derivative
- FPLC Fast Protein Liquid Chromatography
- the Mono Q column (1 ⁇ 10 cm, Amersham Pharmacia) was eluted with a gradient of 50 mM sodium carbonate, pH 10.3, 0.1 M NaCl (Buffer A) to 50 mM sodium carbonate, pH 10.3, 0.6 M NaCl (Buffer B) at a flow rate of 0.5 ml/min. except that the sample was loaded at a lower flow-rate.
- This technique was used to fractionate 25 mL of a solution of PKS uricase (pH 10.3).
- PKS uricase was obtained from Bio-Technology General Limited (Rehovot, Israel). The latter is recombinant porcine uricase in which one residue of lysine (K) and one residue of serine (S) have replaced one residue of arginine and one residue of threonine, respectively, in the parental porcine sequence (Lee et al. (1988) Science 239:1288-1291; Wu et al. (1989) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 86:9412-9416). After the sample was loaded, the column was washed with 100 mL of Buffer A.
- Fractions #5-10 were coupled to PEG, as described in Example 3. Based on the results of the analyses in Example 2, the PEG conjugates of Fractions #5 and 6 were combined as the “Low-Salt Pool” and the PEG conjugates of Fractions #7-10 were combined as the “High-Salt Pool,” as indicated in FIG. 1 .
- Size-exclusion HPLC was performed at room temperature on a Superdex 200 column (1 ⁇ 30 cm, Amersham Pharmacia Biotech) on unfractionated PKS uricase and on selected fractions from the preparative Mono Q chromatography of PKS uricase of Example 1.
- the eluate from the absorbance monitor (UV 2000) of the Thermo Separations HPLC (Sunnyvale, Calif.) was analyzed by light scattering at 90° to the incident light, using a MiniDawn detector from Wyatt Technologies (Santa Barbara, Calif.).
- FIGS. 2-4 illustrate the resolution among the tetramer, octamer and larger aggregates of the uricase subunit and the different proportions of the signals detected from these forms of uricase in the various samples.
- the light scattering signal is proportional to the product of the concentration times the size of the light scattering unit.
- the resultant sensitivity of the light scattering detector to very small amounts of highly aggregated uricase revealed the presence of the largest aggregates, which are eluted at or near the void volume (approximately 7 mL).
- Veronese, F M, et al., (1985) Appl Biochem Biotechnol 11:141-152; Kito M, et al., (1996) J Clin Biochem Nutr 21:101-111) and NPC-PEG has been used for the synthesis of PEG protein conjugates by previous investigators including the present inventors (e.g. Veronese et al., supra; Sherman, M R, et al., in J M Harris, et al., (Eds.) Poly ( ethylene glycol ) Chemistry and Biological Applications. ACS Symposium Series 680 (pp. 155-176) Washington, D.C.: American Chemical Society).
- the number of strands of 10-kDa PEG coupled to each subunit of uricase was determined to be six by the method described by Kunitani, M, et al., (1991) J Chromatogr 588:125-137.
- PEG conjugates of recombinant mammalian uricases prepared according to the method of Example 3, were adjusted to 1 mg protein/mL in phosphate-buffered saline (PBS), pH 7.4, for injection. Samples were frozen and stored until analyzed or injected. Samples were warmed to 37° C. or up to 1 hour prior to injection into groups of eight BALB/c female mice. The groups of mice had mean weights in the range of 18-22 g at the start of the studies.
- PBS phosphate-buffered saline
- mice The weights of all mice were monitored and evidence of adverse reactions to the injections or other evidence of ill health was recorded. Twenty-four hours after each of six weekly injections, the animals were anesthetized with ketamine and 100-200 ⁇ L of blood was obtained retro-orbitally, except at sacrifice (exsanguination), when a larger volume was collected. Serum was prepared from blood that had clotted for between 4 and 32 hours at 2-8° C. Sera were stored at ⁇ 20° C. Sera were analyzed for uricolytic activity as described in Example 5 and analyzed for antibodies against uricases as described in Example 6.
- UV assay An activity assay based on ultraviolet light absorbance (UV assay) was performed with 100 ⁇ M uric acid as the substrate in 200 mM sodium borate, pH 9.2, in a microplate adaptation of the method of I. Fridovich ( J Biol Chem. (1965) 240:2491-2494). The decrease in absorbance at 292 nm was monitored for 15 minutes at room temperature in a 96-well plate with a UV-transparent bottom (Costar, Corning, N.Y.), using a SpectraMAX 250 microplate reader from Molecular Devices (Sunnyvale, Calif.). The data were analyzed by finding the maximum slope (in milli-absorbance units per minute) of absorbance measurements made during the interval while between 10 and 40% of the substrate was oxidized. Results obtained with this assay are illustrated in FIGS. 1 and 5 .
- mice injected for the first time with PKS uricase coupled to six strands of 10-kDa PEG per subunit (6 ⁇ 10-kDa PEG PKS) was 29 ⁇ 4 hours, based on data from sera obtained 24 and 72 hours after the injection.
- FIG. 5 shows that the recovery of uricolytic activity after repeated weekly injections of 6 ⁇ 10-kDa PEG PKS uricase was greatest when the enzyme was purified by Mono Q column chromatography, as in Example 1, prior to PEGylation according to the method of Example 3. Recovery was highest after the injection of conjugates prepared from the high-salt eluate pool of Example 1 (see FIG. 1 ), which has the smallest content of the very large aggregates (see the light scattering profiles of Fractions 7-10 in FIG. 3 ).
- Non-competitive ELISA analyses were performed with porcine uricase bound to 96-well Immulon 2 plates (Dynex Technologies, from VWR Scientific, San Francisco, Calif.).
- the primary antisera were from mice injected with uricase or 6 ⁇ 10-kDa PEG conjugates prepared according to the method of Example 3.
- the secondary antibody was goat anti-mouse IgG coupled to horseradish peroxidase (Calbiochem-Novabiochem #401 253 La Jolla, Calif.) and the substrate was o-phenylenediamine dihydrochloride (Sigma P-9187, St. Louis, Mo.), as described by B. Porstmann et al. ( J Clin. Chem. Clin. Biochem. (1981) 19:435-440).
- FIG. 6 illustrates the results of the non-competitive ELISA analyses.
- the results demonstrate that the 6 ⁇ 10-kDa PEG PKS uricase synthesized according to the method of Example 3 from the high-salt eluate from the Mono Q column of Example 1 (shown in FIG. 1 ) did not produce detectable immune responses in any of the eight mice that received weekly injections for six weeks.
- a few mice injected with conjugates prepared from unfractionated PKS uricase according to the method of Example 3 showed low but detectable immune responses.
- the highest incidence of immune responses was in mice injected with conjugates prepared according to the method of Example 3 from the low-salt eluate pool from the Mono Q column of Example 1.
- Example 2 Without the benefit of the light scattering detector for the size-exclusion HPLC analyses, as described in Example 2, it would not have been apparent that the presence of the largest aggregates, not of the octameric form of uricase, is associated with progressively decreased recovery of PEG-uricase conjugates after repeated injections, as observed in Example 5 ( FIG. 5 ) and with an increase in immunogenicity in BALB/c mice, as observed in Example 6 ( FIG. 6 ). These results have important implications for the specifications of the uricase used as a starting material for the production of PEG-uricase for clinical use.
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Description
- A portion of the research described in this application was made with support from the U.S.-Israel Binational Industrial Research and Development Foundation. Accordingly, the U.S. Government may have certain rights in the invention.
- 1. Field of the Invention
- The present invention relates to purification and chemical modification of proteins to prolong their circulating lifetimes and reduce their immunogenicity. More specifically, the invention relates to the removal of aggregates larger than octamers from urate oxidases (uricases) prior to conjugation of poly(ethylene glycols) or poly(ethylene oxides). This substantially eliminates uricase immunogenicity without compromising its uricolytic activity.
- 2. Description of the Related Art
- Statements contained in this background section do not constitute an admission of prior art, but instead reflect the inventors' own subjective comments on and interpretations of the state of the art at the time the invention was made. These interpretations may include personal, heretofore undisclosed, insights of the inventors, which insights were not themselves part of the prior art.
- Urate oxidases (uricases; E.C. 1.7.3.3) are enzymes that catalyze the oxidation of uric acid to a more soluble product, allantoin, a purine metabolite that is more readily excreted. Humans do not produce enzymatically active uricase, as a result of several mutations in the gene for uricase acquired during the evolution of higher primates. Wu, X, et al., (1992) J Mol Evol 34:78-84. As a consequence, in susceptible individuals, excessive concentrations of uric acid in the blood (hyperuricemia) and in the urine (hyperuricosuria) can lead to painful arthritis (gout), disfiguring urate deposits (tophi) and renal failure. In some affected individuals, available drugs such as allopurinol (an inhibitor of uric acid synthesis) produce treatment-limiting adverse effects or do not relieve these conditions adequately. Hande, K R, et al., (1984) Am J Med 76:47-56; Fam, A G, (1990) Baillière's Clin Rheumatol 4:177-192. Injections of uricase can decrease hyperuricemia and hyperuricosuria, at least transiently. Since uricase is a foreign protein in humans, however, even the first injection of the unmodified protein from Aspergillus flavus has induced anaphylactic reactions in several percent of treated patients (Pui, C-H, et al., (1997) Leukemia 11:1813-1816), and immunologic responses limit its utility for chronic or intermittent treatment. Donadio, D, et al., (1981) Nouv Presse Méd 10:711-712; Leaustic, M, et al., (1983) Rev Rhum Mal Osteoartic 50:553-554.
- U.S. patent application Ser. No. 09/370,034 and published International Application No. PCT/US99/17514, the entire contents of which are incorporated herein by reference, disclose poly(ethylene glycol)-urate oxidase (PEG-uricase) that retains at least about 75% of the uricolytic activity of unconjugated uricase and has substantially reduced immunogenicity. In one such purified uricase, each subunit is covalently linked to an average of 2 to 10 strands of PEG, wherein each molecule of PEG may have a molecular weight between about 5 kDa and 100 kDa.
- The aggregation of proteins is known to increase their immunogenicity. This understanding has contributed to the development of methods for intentionally aggregating proteins by treatments such as thermal denaturation and cross-linking by exposure to glutaraldehyde prior to use in the preparation of vaccines or for immunization of animals to produce antisera.
- Unintentional aggregation of proteins has also been recognized as contributing to immunization or sensitization during clinical use of therapeutic proteins, e.g. for human gamma globulin (Henney et al. (1968) N. Engl. J. Med. 278:2244-2246) and for human growth hormone (Moore et al. (1980) J. Clin. Endocrinol. Metab. 51:691-697). The contribution of aggregates to the immunogenicity of human interferon alpha has been demonstrated in BALB/c mice (Braun et al. (1997) Pharm. Res. 14:1472-1478) and an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) has been developed for their measurement (Braun et al. (1997) Pharm. Res. 14:1394-1400).
- In contrast to the known effects of aggregation on the immunogenicity of proteins, there are not reports of the effect of aggregation on the immunogenicity of proteins conjugated to poly(alkylene glycols) such as PEG. There is a need for poly(alkylene glycol)-uricase conjugates that substantially eliminates uricase immunogenicity without compromising its uricolytic activity. The present invention provide such compositions.
- Conjugation of proteins with poly(alkylene glycols), especially PEG, produces conjugates with reduced immunogenicity and increased persistence in the bloodstream. In attempting to produce substantially non-immunogenic conjugates of uricase that retain substantially all of the uricolytic activity of the unmodified uricase preparation, it was discovered that traces of large aggregates of uricase in the starting material were surprisingly effective at provoking both antibody formation and accelerated clearance from the circulation, both of which are deleterious, after repeated infections of PEG conjugates prepared from uricase containing such aggregates. Surprisingly, the present inventors found that the increased immunogenicity and accelerated clearance were not due to the presence of well-defined, moderate-sized aggregates of the uricase subunit that are larger than the native tetramer, e.g. aggregates containing eight subunits (octamers). The octameric form of uricase is present at sufficiently high concentrations in most preparations of uricase to be detectable by its absorbance of UV light, e.g. at 214 nm or 276 nm, or by its contribution to the refractive index or other measurements of protein concentration. Nevertheless, the octamers themselves were found to contribute minimally to the immunogenicity and accelerated clearance of PEG-uricase conjugates, in contrast with the much smaller quantities of the much larger aggregates that are undetectable by UV absorbance under the conditions tested but are readily detected by static (Raleigh) or dynamic light scattering. Therefore, the removal of such traces of very large aggregates prior to conjugation with PEG was found to decrease the immunogenicity and the accelerated clearance of the resultant PEG-uricase conjugates to a surprising extent.
- One embodiment of the present invention is purified urate oxidase (uricase) substantially free of aggregates larger than octamers. Preferably, the uricase is mammalian uricase. More preferably, the uricase is porcine liver, bovine liver or ovine liver uricase. In one aspect of this preferred embodiment, the uricase is recombinant. In another aspect of this preferred embodiment, the uricase has substantially the sequence of porcine, bovine, ovine or baboon liver uricase. Advantageously, the uricase is chimeric. Preferably, the uricase is PKS uricase. In another aspect of this preferred embodiment, the uricase has substantially the sequence of baboon liver uricase in which tyrosine 97 has been replace by histidine. Preferably, the uricase comprises an amino terminus and a carboxy terminus, and wherein the uricase is truncated at one terminus or both termini. Advantageously, the uricase is a fungal or microbial uricase. Preferably, the fungal or microbial uricase is isolated from Aspergillus flavus, Arthrobacter globiformis, Bacillus sp. or Candida utilis, or is a recombinant enzyme having substantially the sequence of one of said uricases. Alternatively, the uricase is an invertebrate uricase. Preferably, the invertebrate uricase is isolated from Drosophila melanogaster or Drosophila pseudoobscura, or is a recombinant enzyme having substantially the sequence of one of said uricases. In another aspect of this preferred embodiment, the uricase is a plant uricase. Preferably, the plant uricase is isolated from root nodules of Glycine max or is a recombinant enzyme having substantially the sequence of the uricase.
- In one aspect of this preferred embodiment, the uricase described above is conjugated to poly(ethylene glycol) or poly(ethylene oxide), under conditions such that the uricase in the conjugate is substantially free of aggregates larger than octamers. Preferably, the uricase is conjugated to poly(ethylene glycol) or poly(ethylene oxide) via a urethane (carbamate), secondary amine or amide linkage. In one aspect of this preferred embodiment, the poly(ethylene glycol) is monomethoxy poly(ethylene glycol). In another aspect of this preferred embodiment, the poly(ethylene glycol) or poly(ethylene oxide) has a molecular weight between about 5 kDa and 30 kDa. Preferably, the poly(ethylene glycol) or poly(ethylene oxide) has a molecular weight between about 10 kDa and 20 kDa. Advantageously, the average number of strands of said poly(ethylene glycol) or poly(ethylene oxide) is between about 2 and 12 per uricase subunit. More advantageously, the average number of strands of said poly(ethylene glycol) or poly(ethylene oxide) is between about 6 and 10 per uricase subunit. Most advantageously, the average number of strands of said poly(ethylene glycol) or poly(ethylene oxide) is between about 7 and 9 per uricase subunit. Preferably, the poly(ethylene glycol) or poly(ethylene oxide) is linear. Alternatively, the poly(ethylene glycol) or poly(ethylene oxide) is branched.
- The present invention also provides a pharmaceutical composition for lowering uric acid levels in a body fluid or tissue, comprising the uricase conjugate described above and a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier. Preferably, the composition is stabilized by lyophilization and dissolves upon reconstitution to provide solutions suitable for parenteral administration.
- Another embodiment of the invention is a method for purifying uricase having reduced immunogenicity, comprising the step of separating uricase aggregates larger than octamers in uricase fractions, and excluding such aggregates from the purified uricase. Preferably, the separating step comprises the step of detecting aggregates larger than octamers from at least a portion of the uricase fractions and excluding the fractions containing the aggregates. Advantageously, the detecting step comprises measurement of light scattering.
- The present invention also provides isolated uricase prepared by the method described above.
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FIG. 1 illustrates uricase activity, total protein and salt concentrations in fractions from a Pharmacia Biotech Mono Q (1×10 cm) anion exchange column. Uricase activity was measured at room temperature by monitoring the decrease in absorbance at 292 nm of 100 μM uric acid in 200 mM sodium borate, pH 9.2. Total protein was determined from the area under the curve of the absorbance peak of uricase in size-exclusion HPLC analyses. Salt concentrations were calculated from the conductivities at room temperature using a standard curve for NaCl in the same buffer. -
FIG. 2 illustrates size-exclusion HPLC analysis on a Pharmacia Superdex 200 column (1×30 cm) of the load and selected fractions from a preparative Mono Q chromatography of porcine uricase containing the mutations R291K and T301S (PKS uricase) showing data obtained by a light-scattering detector at 90° C. (upper curves) and by absorbance at 276 nm (lower curves). The different signal strengths of the tetromeric, octameric and more highly aggregated forms of uricase in the unfractionated sample (load) and the various fractions are evident. The load was diluted ⅕ with Mono Q column buffer,fraction 5 was diluted ⅓ andfraction 6 was diluted 1/9.Fractions -
FIG. 3 illustrates size-exclusion analyses of fractions from the Mono Q column inFIG. 1 , showing data obtained by a light-scattering detector at 90° and by absorbance at 276 nm, as inFIG. 2 . The fractions shown in this figure were used to form the “high salt pool”, from which PEG conjugates were prepared and injected into BALB/c mice. The resultant serum activities and immunologic responses in BALB/c mice are shown inFIGS. 5 and 6 . -
FIG. 4 illustrates octamer content, determined by absorbance at 276 nm and by light scattering at 90°, calculated from the data inFIGS. 2 and 3 , of unfractionated PKS uricase and of selected fractions from the preparative MonoQ column chromatography of PKS uricase (FIG. 1 ). -
FIG. 5 illustrates UV assays, as inFIG. 1 , of uricase activity after a 4-hour incubation at 37° C., in sera drawn 24 hours after each of six weekly injections of 6×10-kDa PEG conjugates of PKS uricase or of pools from Mono Q column fractions. -
FIG. 6 illustrates ELISA analyses of IgG antibody formation against PEG conjugates of PKS uricase and against PEG conjugates of the pools of fractions from the Mono Q column shown inFIG. 1 , in sera drawn 24 hours after each of six weekly injections of female BALB/c mice with 0.2 mg of uricase protein per 20 grams of body weight. For each mouse, data frombleedings 24 hours after the first through sixth injections are shown from left to right. The assay conditions are described in Example 6. Data for the eight mice in each group were arranged in order of increasing immune response, from left to right. - Previous studies have shown that when a significant reduction in the immunogenicity and/or antigenicity of uricase is achieved by conjugation with PEG (PEGylation), it is invariably associated with a substantial loss of uricolytic activity. The present invention includes the observation that traces of aggregates of urate oxidases larger than octamers substantially contribute to immunogenicity and the induction of accelerated clearance of PEG-uricase conjugates. This discovery is most likely applicable to proteins other than uricases, including interferons and growth factors.
- The safety, convenience and cost-effectiveness of biopharmaceuticals are all adversely impacted by decreases in their potencies and the resultant need to increase the administered dose. Thus, there is a need for a safe and effective alternative means for lowering elevated levels of uric acid in body fluids, including blood and urine. The present invention provides a method for producing uricase that excludes uricase aggregates larger than octamers for use in the synthesis of PEG-uricase. This PEG-uricase retains all or nearly all of the uricolytic activity of the unmodified enzyme. The present invention also provides purified uricase substantially free of aggregates larger than octamers. The term “substantially free” indicates that the purified uricase comprises no more than about 2%, ard preferably no more than about 1% of aggregates larger than octamers.
- The present invention provides a method for purifying uricase such that aggregates larger then octamers are excluded from the purified preparation. Because these larger aggregates are highly immunogenic, their presence in the purified uricase preparation is undesirable. The method involves monitoring column fractions by light scattering rather than or in addition to ultraviolet absorbance at 280 nm, because the aggregates may be too dilute to be detected by ultraviolet absorbance. The purified uricase is then conjugated to water-soluble polymers, preferably poly(ethylene glycols) or poly(ethylene oxides) as described in copending U.S. application Ser. No. 09/370,084, the entire contents of which are incorporated herein by reference.
- The removal of aggregated uricase from a preparation consisting predominantly of tetrameric uricase can be accomplished by any of the methods know to those skilled in the art, including size-exclusion chromatography, ion-exchange chromatography, ultrafiltration through a microporous membrane and centrifugation, including ultracentrifugation. The separation method may include separation and analysis of fractions and the rejection or exclusion of those fractions containing excessive quantities of large aggregates. The resultant uricase preparation is better suited for the synthesis of substantially non-immunogenic conjugates of uricase than is the unfractionated uricase. For chronic administration, it is important that PEG conjugates of proteins, e.g. PEG-uricase, have low immunogenicity and do not provoke progressively more rapid clearance from the bloodstream after repeated doses.
- The invention also provides pharmaceutical compositions of the polymer-uricase conjugates. These conjugates are substantially non-immunogenic and retain at least 75%, preferably 85%, and more preferably 95% or more of the uricolytic activity of the unmodified enzyme. Uricases suitable for conjugation to water-soluble polymers include naturally occurring urate oxidases isolated from bacteria, fungi and the tissues of plants and animals, both vertebrates and invertebrates, as well as recombinant forms of uricase, including mutated, hybrid, and/or truncated enzymatically active variants of uricase. Water-soluble polymers suitable for use in the present invention include linear and branched poly(ethylene glycols) or poly(ethylene oxides), all commonly known as PEGs. Examples of branched PEG are the subject of U.S. Pat. No. 5,643,575. One preferred example of linear PEG is monomethoxyPEG, of the general structure CH3O—(CH2CH2O)nH, where n varies from about 100 to about 2,300.
- One embodiment of the present invention is a conjugate of urate oxidase (uricase) that retains at least about 75% of the uricolytic activity of unconjugated uricase and has substantially reduced immunogenicity. The uricase of this aspect of the invention may be recombinant. Whether recombinant or not, the uricase may be of mammalian origin. In one aspect of this embodiment, the uricase may be porcine, bovine or ovine liver uricase. In another aspect of this embodiment, the uricase may be chimeric. The chimeric uricase may contain portions of porcine liver and/or baboon liver uricase. For example, the chimeric uricase may be porcine uricase containing the mutations R291K and T301S (PKS uricase). Alternatively, the uricase may be baboon liver uricase in which tyrosine 97 has been replaced by histidine, whereby the specific activity of the uricase may be increased by at least about 60%. The uricase of the invention, whatever the origin, may also be in a form that is truncated, either at the amino terminal, or at the carboxyl terminal, or at both terminals. Likewise, the uricase may be fungal or microbial uricase. In one aspect of this embodiment, the fungal or microbial uricase may be a naturally occurring or recombinant form of uricase from Aspergillus flavus, Arthrobacter globiformis, Bacillus sp. or Candida utilis. Alternatively, the uricase may be an invertebrate uricase, such as, for example, a naturally occurring or recombinant form of uricase from Drosophila melanogaster or Drosophila pseudoobscura. The uricase of the invention may also be a plant uricase, for example, a naturally occurring or recombinant form of uricase from soybean root nodule (Glycine max). The PEG may have an average molecular weight between about 5 kDa and 100 kDa; preferably the PEG may have an average molecular weight between about 8 kDa and 60 kDa; more preferably, the PEG may have an average molecular weight between about 10 kDa and about 40 kDa, such as, for example, 10 to 20 kDa. The average number of covalently coupled strands of PEG may be 2 to 12 strands per uricase subunit; preferably, the average number of covalently coupled strands may be 6 to 10 per subunit; more preferably, the average number of strands of PEG may be 7 to 9 per subunit. In one aspect of this embodiment, the uricase may be tetrameric. The strands of PEG may be covalently linked to uricase via urethane (carbamate) linkages, secondary amine linkages, and/or amide linkages. When the uricase is a recombinant form of any of the uricases mentioned herein, the recombinant form may have substantially the sequence of the naturally occurring form.
- One preferred mammalian uricase is recombinant pig-baboon chimeric uricase, composed of portions of the sequences of pig liver and baboon liver uricase, both of which were first determined by Wu, et al., (1989). One example of such a chimeric uricase contains the first 288 amino acids from the porcine sequence (SEQ ID NO: 1) and the last 16 amino acids from the baboon sequence (SEQ ID NO: 2). Since the latter sequence differs from the porcine sequence at only two positions, having a lysine (K) in place of arginine at residue 291 and a serine (S) in place of threonine at residue 301, this mutant is referred to as pig-K-S or PKS uricase (SEQ ID NO: 3). PKS uricase has one more lysine residue and, hence, one more potential site of PEGylation than either the porcine or baboon sequence.
- The cDNAs for various mammalian uricases including PKS uricase, were subcloned and the optimal conditions, were determined for expression in E. coli, using standard methods. See Erlich H A, (Ed.) (1989) PCR Technology Principles and Applications for DNA Amplification. New York: Stockton Press; Sambrook, J, et al., (1989) Molecular Cloning. A Laboratory Manual, Second Edition. Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y.: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press. The recombinant uricases were extracted, purified and their stability and activity were assessed using a modification of standard assays. See Fridovich, I, (1965) J Biol Chem 240:2491-2494; Nishimura, et al., (1979), and Examples 1 and 5.
- In one embodiment of the invention, uricase may be conjugated via a biologically stable, nontoxic, covalent linkage to a relatively small number of strands of PEG. Such linkages may include urethane (carbamate) linkages, secondary amine linkages, and amide linkages. Various activated PEGs suitable for such conjugation are available commercially from Shearwater Polymers, Huntsville, Ala.
- For example, urethane linkages to uricase may be formed by incubating uricase in the presence of the succimmidyl carbonate (SC) or p-nitrophenyl carbonate (NPC) derivative of PEG. SC-PEG may be synthesized using the procedure described in U.S. Pat. No. 5,612,460, which is hereby incorporated by reference. NPC-PEG may be synthesized by reacting PEG with p-nitrophenyl chloroformate according to methods described in Veronese, F M, et al., (1985) Appl Biochem Biotechnol 11:141-152, and in U.S. Pat. No. 5,286,637, which is hereby incorporated by reference. The methods described in the '637 patent are adapted to PEGs of higher molecular weight by adjusting the concentrations of the reactants to maintain similar stoichiometry. An alternative method of synthesis of NPC-PEG is described by Büttner, W, et al. East German Patent Specification DD 279 486 A1.
- Amide linkages to uricase may be obtained using an N-hydroxysuccinimide ester of a carboxylic acid derivative of PEG (Shearwater Polymers). Secondary amine linkages may be formed using 2,2,2-trifluoroethanesulfonyl PEG (tresyl PEG; Shearwater Polymers) or by reductive alkylation using PEG aldehyde (Shearwater Polymers) and sodium cyanoborohydride.
- In conjugates containing PEG with a molecular weight of 10 kDa, the maximum number of strands of PEG that were coupled per subunit, while retaining at least 75% of the uricolytic activity of the unmodified enzyme, was about 12 strands for mammalian uricases (e.g. PKS uricase, a mutein of porcine uricase; see assay conditions in Example 5). The latter extent of PEGylation corresponds to about 40% of the total amino groups. In one embodiment of the invention, the average number of strands of PEG coupled per uricase subunit is between about 2 and 12. In a preferred embodiment, the average number of strands of PEG coupled per uricase subunit is between about 6 and 10. In a more preferred embodiment, the average number of covalently linked strands of PEG per uricase subunit is between about 7 and 9. In another embodiment, the molecular weight of PEG used for the coupling reaction is between about 5 kDa and 30 kDa, preferably between about 10 kDa and 20 kDa.
- There are several factors that may affect the choice of the optimal molecular weight and number of strands of PEG for coupling to a given form of uricase. In general, the reduction or elimination of immunogenicity without substantial loss of uricolytic activity may require the coupling of relatively more strands of PEG of lower molecular weight, compared to relatively fewer strands of PEG of higher molecular weight. Likewise, each different form of uricase may have a different optimum with respect to both the size and number of strands. The optimal number of strands of PEG and PEG molecular weight can be readily determined using the methods described herein.
- When PEG conjugates of mammalian uricase were prepared from the purified tetrameric and octameric forms of the enzyme (containing four or eight subunits of approximately 35 kDa), they displayed profoundly reduced immunogenicity in mice, in contrast to the moderate immunogenicity of PEG conjugates of uricase preparations containing large aggregates (see
FIG. 6 ) and the very high immunogenicity of the unmodified enzyme. - Purified preparations of naturally occurring and recombinant uricases usually contain a mixture of very large aggregates of the enzyme, in addition to the tetrameric (140-kDa) and the octameric (280-kDa) forms. The percentage of each uricase preparation that is in either the tetrameric or octameric form generally varies from about 20% to 95% (see
FIGS. 2-4 ). Despite evidence that unPEGylated aggregates of several other proteins are highly immunogenic (see, e.g., Moore, W V, et al., (1980) J Clin Endocrinol Metab 51:691-697), previous studies of PEG-uricase do not describe any efforts to limit the content of aggregates, suggesting that the potential immunogenicity of the PEG-modified aggregates was not considered. On the basis of the observations of the present inventors, it appears likely that such aggregates were present in the enzyme preparations used for previous syntheses of PEG-uricase. Their presence may have rendered the task of preparing non-immunogenic conjugates more difficult. It also appears that the large losses of uricolytic activity observed in previous efforts to PEGylate uricase were related to the large number of strands of low molecular weight PEG that were coupled. On the other hand, the methods of uricase purification and PEGylation described herein permit the covalent attachment of as many as 12 strands of PEG per subunit while retaining more than 75% of the uricolytic activity, at least for certain uricases, e.g., PKS uricase (a mutein of porcine uricase) and the enzyme from thermophilic Bacillus sp. - In another preferred embodiment, substantially all large aggregates of the enzyme may be removed by ion-exchange chromatography (
FIGS. 1-3 ) or size-exclusion chromatography at a pH between about 9 and 10.5, preferably 10.2, prior to conjugation of the resulting substantially aggregate-free preparation of uricase to PEG. The molecular weight of the uricase in each fraction from the preparative column may be monitored by any size-dependent analytical technique, including, for example, HPLC, conventional size-exclusion chromatography, centrifugation, light scattering, capillary electrophoresis or gel electrophoresis in a non-denaturing buffer. For aggregate-free uricase isolated using size-exclusion chromatography, fractions containing only the 140 kDa and 280-kDa forms of the enzyme may be pooled and used for conjugation to PEG. For tetrameric plus octameric uricase isolated using ion-exchange chromatography, fractions from the ion-exchange column may be analyzed with respect to size to determine which fractions contain substantial amounts of the tetrameric and octameric forms without the large aggregates detected by light scattering. In the purified product, the undesirable large aggregates may thus constitute as little as about 1%, or less, of the total uricase. - The results presented herein indicate that, even when extensively PEGylated, forms of PKS uricase larger than the octamer provoke accelerated clearance (
FIG. 5 ) and are somewhat immunogenic in mice (FIG. 6 ). In contrast, conjugates prepared from uricase that is essentially free of large aggregates (detectable by light scattering) could be reinjected at least six times at one-week intervals with much less evidence of accelerated clearance rates (FIG. 5 ) and without the detectable formation of antibodies, as measured by a sensitive enzyme-linked immunoassay (FIG. 6 ). The use of highly purified tetrameric or octameric uricase further distinguishes the improved conjugates of the present invention from the PEG-uricase preparations described previously. In contrast, the presence of a significant content of large aggregates in the uricase preparations used by some previous investigators may have led them to couple large numbers of strands of PEG in efforts to suppress the immunogenicity. Consequently, the enzymatic activity of the resultant conjugates was decreased substantially. - The PEG-uricase conjugates of the present invention are useful for lowering the levels of uric acid in the body fluids and tissues of mammals, preferably humans, and can thus be used for treatment of elevated uric acid levels associated with conditions including gout, tophi, renal insufficiency, organ transplantation and malignant disease. PEG-uricase conjugates may be injected into a mammal having excessive uric acid levels by any of a number of routes, including intravenous, subcutaneous, intradermal, intramuscular and intraperitoneal routes. Alternatively, they may be aerosolized and inhaled. See Patton, J S, (1996) Adv Drug Delivery Rev 19:3-36 and U.S. Pat. No. 5,458,135. The effective dose of PEG-uricase of the present invention will depend on the level of uric acid and the size of the individual. In one embodiment of this aspect of the invention, PEG-uricase is administered in a pharmaceutically acceptable excipient or diluent in an amount ranging from about 10 μg to about 1 g. In a preferred embodiment, the amount administered is between about 100 μg and 500 mg. More preferably, the conjugated uricase is administered in an amount between 1 mg and 100 mg, such as, for example, 5 mg, 20 mg or 50 mg. Masses given for dosage amounts of the embodiments refer to the amount of protein in the conjugate.
- Pharmaceutical formulations containing PEG-uricase can be prepared by conventional techniques, e.g., as described in Gennaro, A R (Ed.) (1990) Remington's Pharmaceutical Sciences, 18th Edition, Easton, Pa.: Mack Publishing Co. Suitable excipients for the preparation of injectable solutions include, for example, phosphate buffered saline, lactated Ringer's solution, water, polyols and glycerol. Pharmaceutical compositions for parenteral injection comprise pharmaceutically acceptable sterile aqueous or non-aqueous liquids, dispersions, suspensions, or emulsions as well as sterile powders for reconstitution into sterile injectable solutions or dispersions just prior to use. These formulations may contain additional components, such as, for example, preservatives, solubilizers, stabilizers, wetting agents, emulsifiers, buffers, antioxidants and diluents.
- PEG-uricase may also be provided as controlled-release compositions for implantation into an individual to continually control elevated uric acid levels in body fluids. For example, polylactic acid, polyglycolic acid, regenerated collagen, poly-L-lysine, sodium alginate, gellan gum, chitosan, agarose, multilamellar liposomes and many other conventional depot formulations with biologically active compositions. These materials that can be formulated with biologically active compositions. These materials, when implanted or injected, gradually break down and release the active material to the surrounding tissue. For example, one method of encapsulating PEG-uricase comprises the method disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 5,653,974, which is hereby incorporated by reference. The use of bioerodible, biodegradable and other depot formulations is expressly contemplated in the present invention. The use of infusion pumps and matrix entrapment systems for delivery of PEG-uricase is also within the scope of the present invention. PEG-uricase may also advantageously be enclosed in micelles or liposomes. Liposome encapsulation technology is well known in the art. See, e.g., Lasic, D, et al., (Eds.) (1995) Stealth Liposomes. Boca Raton, Fla.: CRC Press.
- The PEG-uricase pharmaceutical compositions of the invention will decrease the need for hemodialysis in patients at high risk of urate-induced renal failure, e.g., organ transplant recipients (see Venkataseshan, V S, et al., (1990) Nephron 56:317-321) and patients with some malignant diseases. In patients with large accumulations of crystalline urate (tophi), such pharmaceutical compositions will improve the quality of life more rapidly than currently available treatments.
- The following examples, which are not to be construed as limiting the invention in any way, illustrate the various aspects disclosed above. These examples describe PEG-uricases prepared by coupling activated PEG (e.g., the p-nitrophenyl carbonate derivative) to a mutein of porcine uricases. These examples provide guidance to one of ordinary skill in the art for producing substantially non-immunogenic conjugates of uricase that retain at least about 75% of the uricolytic activity of the unmodified enzyme and are well suited for chronic administration.
- Preparative ion-exchange chromatography was performed on a Fast Protein Liquid Chromatography (FPLC) apparatus (Amersham Pharmacia, Piscataway, N.J.). The Mono Q column (1×10 cm, Amersham Pharmacia) was eluted with a gradient of 50 mM sodium carbonate, pH 10.3, 0.1 M NaCl (Buffer A) to 50 mM sodium carbonate, pH 10.3, 0.6 M NaCl (Buffer B) at a flow rate of 0.5 ml/min. except that the sample was loaded at a lower flow-rate. This technique was used to fractionate 25 mL of a solution of PKS uricase (pH 10.3). PKS uricase was obtained from Bio-Technology General Limited (Rehovot, Israel). The latter is recombinant porcine uricase in which one residue of lysine (K) and one residue of serine (S) have replaced one residue of arginine and one residue of threonine, respectively, in the parental porcine sequence (Lee et al. (1988) Science 239:1288-1291; Wu et al. (1989) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 86:9412-9416). After the sample was loaded, the column was washed with 100 mL of Buffer A. The peak of uricase began to elute at the end of a 31-mL linear gradient of 0 to 26% Buffer B. Most of the uricase was eluted isocratically by 7 mL of buffer containing 26% Buffer B. The remainder of the recovered uricase was eluted by a linear 89-mL gradient of 26% to 100% buffer B. Fractions of 4 mL or 6 mL were collected. Aliquots of Fractions #4-11 were assayed for uricase, total protein and NaCl concentration (
FIG. 1 ) and were analyzed by size-exclusion high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) as described in Example 2 (FIGS. 2 and 3 ). The remaining portions of Fractions #5-10 were coupled to PEG, as described in Example 3. Based on the results of the analyses in Example 2, the PEG conjugates ofFractions # FIG. 1 . - Size-exclusion HPLC was performed at room temperature on a Superdex 200 column (1×30 cm, Amersham Pharmacia Biotech) on unfractionated PKS uricase and on selected fractions from the preparative Mono Q chromatography of PKS uricase of Example 1. The eluate from the absorbance monitor (UV 2000) of the Thermo Separations HPLC (Sunnyvale, Calif.) was analyzed by light scattering at 90° to the incident light, using a MiniDawn detector from Wyatt Technologies (Santa Barbara, Calif.).
- The results shown in
FIGS. 2-4 illustrate the resolution among the tetramer, octamer and larger aggregates of the uricase subunit and the different proportions of the signals detected from these forms of uricase in the various samples. Unlike the absorbance signal, which is directly proportional to the concentration, the light scattering signal is proportional to the product of the concentration times the size of the light scattering unit. The resultant sensitivity of the light scattering detector to very small amounts of highly aggregated uricase revealed the presence of the largest aggregates, which are eluted at or near the void volume (approximately 7 mL). - Unfractionated PKS uricase (from Bio-Technology General Limited) and the uricase in fractions from the Mono Q column of Example 1 were coupled to 10-kDa PEG using the p-nitrophenyl carbonate derivative of PEG (NPC-PEG) obtained from Shearwater Polymers (Huntsville, Ala.). The preparation of NPC-PEG from PEG using phenylchloroformates has been described in several reports (e.g. Veronese, F M, et al., (1985) Appl Biochem Biotechnol 11:141-152; Kito M, et al., (1996) J Clin Biochem Nutr 21:101-111) and NPC-PEG has been used for the synthesis of PEG protein conjugates by previous investigators including the present inventors (e.g. Veronese et al., supra; Sherman, M R, et al., in J M Harris, et al., (Eds.) Poly(ethylene glycol) Chemistry and Biological Applications. ACS Symposium Series 680 (pp. 155-176) Washington, D.C.: American Chemical Society). The number of strands of 10-kDa PEG coupled to each subunit of uricase was determined to be six by the method described by Kunitani, M, et al., (1991) J Chromatogr 588:125-137.
- PEG conjugates of recombinant mammalian uricases, prepared according to the method of Example 3, were adjusted to 1 mg protein/mL in phosphate-buffered saline (PBS), pH 7.4, for injection. Samples were frozen and stored until analyzed or injected. Samples were warmed to 37° C. or up to 1 hour prior to injection into groups of eight BALB/c female mice. The groups of mice had mean weights in the range of 18-22 g at the start of the studies.
- The weights of all mice were monitored and evidence of adverse reactions to the injections or other evidence of ill health was recorded. Twenty-four hours after each of six weekly injections, the animals were anesthetized with ketamine and 100-200 μL of blood was obtained retro-orbitally, except at sacrifice (exsanguination), when a larger volume was collected. Serum was prepared from blood that had clotted for between 4 and 32 hours at 2-8° C. Sera were stored at −20° C. Sera were analyzed for uricolytic activity as described in Example 5 and analyzed for antibodies against uricases as described in Example 6.
- An activity assay based on ultraviolet light absorbance (UV assay) was performed with 100 μM uric acid as the substrate in 200 mM sodium borate, pH 9.2, in a microplate adaptation of the method of I. Fridovich (J Biol Chem. (1965) 240:2491-2494). The decrease in absorbance at 292 nm was monitored for 15 minutes at room temperature in a 96-well plate with a UV-transparent bottom (Costar, Corning, N.Y.), using a
SpectraMAX 250 microplate reader from Molecular Devices (Sunnyvale, Calif.). The data were analyzed by finding the maximum slope (in milli-absorbance units per minute) of absorbance measurements made during the interval while between 10 and 40% of the substrate was oxidized. Results obtained with this assay are illustrated inFIGS. 1 and 5 . - The mean half-life in sera of mice injected for the first time with PKS uricase coupled to six strands of 10-kDa PEG per subunit (6×10-kDa PEG PKS) was 29±4 hours, based on data from sera obtained 24 and 72 hours after the injection.
- In separate experiments, it was established that the detectable uricolytic activity in the sera of mice injected with PEG-uricase declines during storage at −20° C. and that maximal recovery of this activity is obtained by a 4-hour incubation at 37° prior to assay.
FIG. 5 shows that the recovery of uricolytic activity after repeated weekly injections of 6×10-kDa PEG PKS uricase was greatest when the enzyme was purified by Mono Q column chromatography, as in Example 1, prior to PEGylation according to the method of Example 3. Recovery was highest after the injection of conjugates prepared from the high-salt eluate pool of Example 1 (seeFIG. 1 ), which has the smallest content of the very large aggregates (see the light scattering profiles of Fractions 7-10 inFIG. 3 ). Intermediate recovery was obtained with conjugates prepared from the low-salt eluate pool from the Mono Q column of Example 1, and the poorest recovery was obtained with conjugates made from unfractionated PKS uricase, which has the highest content of very large aggregates (seeFIG. 2 ). The same order of relative activities recovered in sera after repeated injections (high salt pool>low salt pool>unfractionated uricase) was observed regardless of whether the UV assay described above or a colorimetric assay adapted from P. Fossati et al. (J. Clin Chem (1980) 26:227-231), was used and regardless of whether the sera were incubated at 37° C. before they were assayed. - Non-competitive ELISA analyses were performed with porcine uricase bound to 96-
well Immulon 2 plates (Dynex Technologies, from VWR Scientific, San Francisco, Calif.). The primary antisera were from mice injected with uricase or 6×10-kDa PEG conjugates prepared according to the method of Example 3. The secondary antibody was goat anti-mouse IgG coupled to horseradish peroxidase (Calbiochem-Novabiochem #401 253 La Jolla, Calif.) and the substrate was o-phenylenediamine dihydrochloride (Sigma P-9187, St. Louis, Mo.), as described by B. Porstmann et al. (J Clin. Chem. Clin. Biochem. (1981) 19:435-440). -
FIG. 6 illustrates the results of the non-competitive ELISA analyses. The results demonstrate that the 6×10-kDa PEG PKS uricase synthesized according to the method of Example 3 from the high-salt eluate from the Mono Q column of Example 1 (shown inFIG. 1 ) did not produce detectable immune responses in any of the eight mice that received weekly injections for six weeks. A few mice injected with conjugates prepared from unfractionated PKS uricase according to the method of Example 3 showed low but detectable immune responses. The highest incidence of immune responses was in mice injected with conjugates prepared according to the method of Example 3 from the low-salt eluate pool from the Mono Q column of Example 1. - Without the benefit of the light scattering detector for the size-exclusion HPLC analyses, as described in Example 2, it would not have been apparent that the presence of the largest aggregates, not of the octameric form of uricase, is associated with progressively decreased recovery of PEG-uricase conjugates after repeated injections, as observed in Example 5 (
FIG. 5 ) and with an increase in immunogenicity in BALB/c mice, as observed in Example 6 (FIG. 6 ). These results have important implications for the specifications of the uricase used as a starting material for the production of PEG-uricase for clinical use. - Although the foregoing invention has been described in some detail by way of illustration and example for purposes of clarity of understanding, it is readily apparent to those of ordinary skill in the art in light of the teachings of this invention that certain changes and modifications may be made thereto without departing from the spirit and scope of that which is described and claimed.
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