Engineering of a functional interleukin-5 monomer: a paradigm for redesigning helical bundle cytokines with therapeutic potential in allergy and asthma |
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Authors: | R. R. Dickason J. D. English D. P. Huston |
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Affiliation: | (1) Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Baylor College of Medicine, One Baylor Plaza, FBRN B567, 77030 Houston, TX, USA;(2) Division of Neuroscience, Baylor College of Medicine, One Baylor Plaza, FBRN B567, 77030 Houston, TX, USA;(3) Department of Medicine and Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Baylor College of Medicine, One Baylor Plaza, FBRN B567, 77030 Houston, TX, USA |
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Abstract: | Interleukin (IL) 5 specifically induces the differentiation of eosinophils which are central to the pathogenesis of allergies and asthma. Structurally, IL-5 is a unique member of the short-chain helical bundle subfamily of cytokines. In contrast to other subfamily members which fold unimolecularly into a single helical bundle, IL-5 forms a pair of helical bundles by the inter-digitation of two identical monomers covalently linked by a pair of intermolecular disulfide bonds. Although a native IL-5 monomer lacks bioactivity, we recently reported the engineering of an insertional mutant of IL-5 (designated mono5) which folds unimolecularly into a single helical bundle and has biological activity similar to that of native IL-5. Here we demonstrate no differences in signal transduction pathways utilized by mono5 and IL-5, as determined by western blot analysis of early tyrosine phosphorylation events, Jak2 activation, and mitogen-activated protein kinase activation. However, binding studies utilizing conformationally dependent neutralizing anti-IL-5 monoclonal antibodies localized a tertiary structural perturbation near the insert of mono5. This perturbation enabled localization of a limited region of the tertiary structure of IL-5 that engages the IL-5 receptor -chain. Fluorescent labeling studies further revealed that the cysteines of mono5 contained free sulfhydryl groups, thereby demonstrating that the role of the disulfide bonds of IL-5 is the structural maintenance of other functional domains. The retention of conformational epitopes by mono5, but not IL-5, under reducing conditions and the equivalent thermostability of mono5 and IL-5 despite the absence of a disulfide bond in mono5 indicated that the conformation assumed by mono5 is very stable. In addition to providing the structural framework for designing novel IL-5 agonists and antagonists, the knowledge gained from the development of mono5 will enable other helical bundle proteins to be redesigned with therapeutic potential.Abbreviations ELISA Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay - IFN Interferon - IL Interleukin - mAb Monoclonal antibody - MAPK Mitogen-activated protein kinase |
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Keywords: | Interleukin-5 Helical bundle proteins Signal transduction Allergy and asthma Redesigning cytokines |
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