THE JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY 0 1986 by The American Society of Biological Chemists, Inc.

Vol. 261, No. 33, Issue of November 25, pp. 15690-15695,1986 Printed in 1I.S.A.

Structure of an Antifreeze Polypeptide Precursor from the Sea Raven, Hemitripterus americanus*

(Received for publication, June 5, 1986)

Nancy F, Ng, Khiet-Yen Trinh, and Choy L. Hew From the Research Institute, Hospital for Sick Children and the Departments of Clinical Biochemistry and Biochemistry, ~ ~ i v e r s i ~ y of Toronto, Torunto, Ontario, Canada M5G f L 5

The cystine-rich antifreeze polypeptides (AFP) from sea raven were fractionated by reverse-phase high performance liquid chromatography into several com- ponents, with SR2 (M, 17,000) as the major AFP. Sea raven AFP cDNA clones were isolated from a liver cDNA library using a synthetic oligonucleotide, and the identity of one of the clones, C2-1, was confirmed by hybridization selection and cell-free translation. C2-1 encodes a pre-AFP of 195 amino acids with no evidence of any profragments. Comparison of the de- duced amino acid sequence with partial peptide se- quences from SR2 showed substitutions in at least four amino acid positions, suggesting that C2-1 cDNA codes for a minor component. Both the primary and the predicted secondary structures of sea raven AFP are completely different from those of other fish AFP. This further confirms that sea raven AFP belongs to a dif- ferent class of antifreezes. The high frequency of re- verse turns and the presence of paired hydrophilic amino acids in these structures are striking features of the protein and may contribute to their antifreeze ac- tion.

Fish inhabiting the northern and polar seas encounter temperatures as low as -1.8 “C (1). To survive, many of these fish produce serum antifreeze proteins or p o l ~ e p t i d e s which lower the serum-freezing temperature below that of the sur- rounding seawater (1,Z). The antifreeze p o l ~ e p t i d e s (AFP’) from various species living in the coastal waters of Newfound- land have been characterized. These include AFP from the winter flounder (3-6), shorthorn sculpin (7) , ocean pout (8), and sea raven (9). Although they exhibit the same biological function, many studies have revealed structural and chemical diversities among these AFP. AFP from the winter flounder and shorthorn sculpin are rich in alanine (60 mol %) and a- helix (5, 10, 11). The sequence data from both AFP indicate the presence of a triplicated eleven-residue unit of threonine- Xz-polar amino acid-X7, where X is a nonpolar amino acid, mostly alanine (5, 7). By comparison, ocean pout AFP is not alanine-rich; it contains no significant a-helix or &structure,

* This work was supported by grants from the Medical Research Council of Canada (to C. L. H.). The costs of publication of this article were defrayed in part by the payment of page charges. This article must therefore be hereby marked “advertisement” in accord- ance with 18 U.S.C. Section 1734 solely to indicate this fact.

The nucleotide sequenee(s1 reported in this paper has been submitted

J0.2593. to the GenBankTM/EMBL Data Bank with accession number(s1

The abbreviations used are: AFP, antifreeze polypeptides; HPLC, high ~ r f o ~ a n c e liquid chromatography; SDS-PAGE, sodium do- decyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis; BSA, bovine serum albumin; ND, not determined.

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and its sequence does not indicate’the presence of any re- peating amino acid unit (8). Sea raven AFP represents yet a different type of AFP. It contains average amounts of alanine; and to date, it is the only fish AFP which contains a significant amount of half-cystine. The role of cystine appears to be important as the activity of sea raven AFP is sensitive to sulfhydryl reagents. Circular dichroism studies indicate the presence of @-structure and little a-helical content (9). Anti- bodies to sea raven AFP do not cross-react with either winter flounder or shorthorn sculpin AFP. This immunological spec- ificity is consistent with sea raven AFP being a different type of antifreeze protein (9).

In order to further understand the structure-function rela- tionship in antifreeze polypeptides, we have determined the structure of a precursor to sea raven AFP.

EXPERIMENTAL P R O C ~ D U R E S ~

RESULTS

Microheterogeneity and Size of Sea Raven AFP--We have demonstrated earlier that sea raven AFP can be fractionated into two major and three minor components by reverse-phase HPLC (12). However, slightly different profiles were obtained from AFP isolated from different pools of fish sera (Fig. 1). The variation was demonstrated in the relative amounts of each component. Nonetheless, SR2 was the major component.

The sea raven AFP components showed similar molecular weights, as estimated by SDS-PAGE (Fig. 2). Sephadex G- 75-purified AFP and all five AFP components purified by reverse-phase HPLC were analyzed with or without reduction and alkylation. The estimated molecular weight of nonre- duced AFP was about 14,000 and was 17,000 for the reduced and alkylated AFP. These results are similar to the range of 14,500-16,000 for the AFP, as previously estimated from gel filtration chromatography by Slaughter et al. (9).

The amino acid composition of SR2 is presented in Table 1. There is a significant level of half-cystine, an amino acid not found in any other fish AFP, A~though present in modest amounts, alanine is still the most abundant amino acid, and its level is similar to that found in ocean pout AFP (29). This is in contrast to the 60 mol % of alanine in AFP from winter flounder and shorthorn sculpin (4, 7 ) . The amino acid com- positions of the other sea raven AFP components are similar

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to that of SR2, as is the case with the composition of the components from other fish AFP (4, 7,291.

The number of cysteine residues in SR2 was estimated. SR2 was reduced and alkylated with varying ratios of charged and neutral alkylating agents, followed by elect~phoretic separation based on charge differences (Fig. 3). The number (n) of cysteine residues was determined by counting the number of bands (n + 1). A total of 12 bands corresponding to 11 cysteine residues is shown (lune 6) .

Specificity of Antibodies to SRZ-Polyclonal antibodies were produced against the major component SR2 and were used to check the immunological relationship of SR2 with the other sea raven AFP and AFP from other fish. Results from the immunoblot (Fig. 4) show that antibodies against SR2 cross- react"with the other sea raven AFP, thus establishing their immunological similarity. These antibodies do not react with AFP from winter flounder, shorthorn sculpin, or ocean pout, indicating the immunological or structural differences be- tween sea raven AFP and AFP from these other fish.

Z ~ e n t i f ~ c u ~ ~ n of the 3iosyn~het~c Precursor-RNA enriched for the 10-11 S mRNA species was recovered from a sucrose density gradient (Fig. 5, lane 4 ) and translated in a rabbit reticulocyte-lysate cell-free translation system. The transla- t.ion products were immunoprecipi~ted with antibodies to SR2. The reduced and alkylated immunoprecipitates and the reduced and ~3H]iodoacetate-alkylated SR2 were subjected to SDS-PAGE followed by fluorography. Immunoprecipitation of the translation products gave one predominant 20,000- dalton and one minor 14,000-dalton product (Fig. 6A, lane 1 ) . Before the immunoprecipitation, the 14,000-dalton product was the major species (see Fig. 6B, lane 2) . Immunoprecipi- tation resulted in an enrichment of the larger species. In the presence of nonlabeled SR2, a significant decrease in the recovery of the larger product provides evidence for its com- petition with SR2 for antibodies (Fig. 6A, lane 2) and thus establishes its identity as the biosynthetic precursor for sea raven AFP. This precursor is about 20,000 daltons, whereas the mature AFP (Fig. 6A, lane 3 ) is about 17,000 daltons. The difference of about 3,000 daltons could be accounted for by the presence of a signal peptide on the precursor. It does not appear to contain an additional prosequence.

Zsolation and Sequence of a Sea Raven A F P cDNA-A mixed 17-mer synthetic oligonucleotide was derived from the amino acid sequence of a tryptic peptide of SR2. This probe was used to screen clones from a cDNA library enriched for the liver poly(A)+ 10-11 S RNA. In the initial screening, the cDNA probe used was made by primer-extension of the syn- thetic oligonucleotide. Positives from this first screening were rescreened by colony hybridization to 32P end-labeled syn- thetic oligonucleotide. Use of the primer-extended cDNA probe enabled high stringency washes, resulting in lower background, and reduced the number of clones to be re- examined by hybridization with the synthetic 17-mer. The second screen with the 17-mer was more specific, although the background was higher due to the necessary decrease in washing stringency. Seven positive clones were obtained from a screening of 20,000 clones. One of the stronger positives, C2-1, was chosen for further analysis. Plasmid DNA was isolated from C2-1 and immobilized on nitrocellulose. The mRNA hybridizing to (22-1 cDNA was isolated by hybridiza- tion select.ion. It was then translated in a cell-free translation system, immunoprecipitated with anti-SR2 antibodies, and examined by SDS-PAGE and fluorography (Fig. 63). The sea raven AFP precursor was indicated by the 20,000-dalton component (tune 2). The hybri~zation-selected mRNA gave

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FIG. 8. Secondary structure prediction for a sea raven AFP precursor. Residues are shown as a-helix (..~...Q.), @-sheet (MI, or unstructured (-). A change in the direction of the chain indicates a reverse or @-turn. The arrow indicates the position of the predicted signal peptidase cleavage site.

a translation product which migrated with the AFP precursor (lane 3). This translation product was immunoprecipitable by anti-SR2 antibodies (lane 5) . These results provided addi- tional confirmation that C2-1 was a sea raven AFP clone.

The insert in clone C2-1 (874 base pairs) was sequenced by the dideoxy chain terminating procedure (Fig. 7, Appendix). The reading frame was established by matching with chymo- tryptic, tryptic, and thermo~ysin peptide sequences from SR2.3 However, there are at least four amino acid substitutions between the deduced sequence and the partial peptide se- quences. The DNA sequence in (22-1 encodes a 195-residue preprotein with a molecular weight of 20,009, which is in complete agreement with the size of the biosynthetic precur- sor identified from the cell-free transiation studies. There are 11 base pairs in the 5'-untranslated region and 270 base pairs in the 3'-untranslated region. The highly conserved polyade- nylation signal AATAAA is not found in this 3"untranslated region.

The predicted secondary structure for the deduced amino acid sequence is, shown in Fig. 8. The presence of a limited amount of &structure and little a-helix is in agreement with the earlier circular dichroism studies of sea raven AFP (9). No homology was found to exist between the sea raven AFP sequence and sequences listed in the MicroGenie Nucleotide and Protein Sequence Data Bank.

DISCUSSION

We have confirmed our earlier observations (12) of the microheterogeneity in sea raven AFP both by reverse-phase HPLC and cDNA sequence analysis (e.g. the amino acid substitutions between (22-1 and SR2). As with the other AFP studied, the source of the microheterogeneity may include post-translational modification and the expression of multi- gene families (5,6,8, 30). Furthermore, the variability of sea raven AFP may be related to a recent observation made by Fletcher et al. (31) that phenotypic variations of plasma AFP levels are present in the sea raven. In that study, they found that significant levels of AFP were present during the summer and that 4040% of the fish did not increase their AFP levels during the winter. Population variation as a cause was ruled out as sea ravens from other geographical locations also demonstrated the same result. The authors postulated that since sea ravens do not normally encounter ice-laden seawa- ter, AFP may not be essential to their survival, and thus, considerable genetic polymorphism may have developed. Re-

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cent evidence from genomic Southern blots4 indicates the presence of more than 40 AFP genes in the sea raven genome. Thus, it is possible that one of the reasons for the observed individual variability may be the differential expression of such polymorphic genes.

The N terminus of the AFP precursor contains a stretch of residues typical of a signal peptide. Based on observations of signal peptidase cleavage sites in 39 proteins (32), cleavage may occur after serine at position 29 or after threonine at position 30. These positions correspond to the end of a hydro- phobic stretch of residues as seen on a hydrophilicity plot of the precursor (Fig. 9). Since the N terminus of the mature AFP is blocked, further studies wi11 be needed to identify the cleavage site. However, proteolytic processing at the above positions would generate.a mature polypeptide of about 17,000 daltons, which is in complete agreement with the molecular mass for sea raven AFP as estimated by SDS-PAGE in this study. The sea raven AFP precursor is therefore similar to that of the ocean pout AFP. Both of these precursors contain only the signal sequence with no evidence of a profragment as demonstrated in flounder prepro-AFP.

The presence of substitutions in at least four amino acid positions between the deduced sequence of the cDNA and the peptide sequences of the major component SR2 suggests that this cDNA encodes a minor component of sea raven AFP. The amino acid composition of one of the minor components, SR3, resembles closely the composition from C2-1 (Table 1). Thus, C2-1 cDNA may code for SR3. In the winter flounder, sequencing of the two major components has revealed three amino acid substitutions in otherwise identical sequences (5, 33). Similarly, the sequences of two ocean pout AFP compo- nents have shown differences in at least two amino acid positions. The amino acid substitutions in these fish AFP do not appear to affect antifreeze activity (8, 33).

Comparison of the amino acid composition of SR2 and of C2-1 shows that they are similar (Table 1). The number of cysteine residues in SR2, as estimated by reduction and alkylation, agrees with the number predicted for (22-1. This is not surprising, as the number of cysteine residues is ex- pected to be conserved despite the presence of some amino acid substitutions.

Examination of the predicted secondary structure (Fig. 8) shows a high frequency of reverse turns, with the turns accounting for about 37% of the protein. Reverse turns occur in proteins with an average frequency of about 19% (34) and have been implicated with roles in receptor binding, antibody recognition, and post-translational modifications (i.e., phos- phorylation, glycosy~ation) (35). Due to their intrinsically polar nature and general occurrence at the surface of proteins (35), the reverse turns in sea raven AFP may be involved in forming hydrogen bonds with water. In addition, the presence of paired hydrophilic amino acids (Asp-Asp at positions 51- 52, 160-161, and 179-180) on some of these turns may be important to the AFP-ice interaction. One way of investigat- ing the importance of these turns would be to perform frag- ment deletion or site-specific mutagenesis in these regions and analyze the effect on AFP activity. Such studies (includ- ing chemical modifications) to elucidate the structure-func- tion relationship of sea raven AFP are currently underway in our laboratory.

Acknowledgments-We wish to thank Dr. Nam C. Wang and Shashi B. Joshi for their generous assistance and advice. We are

* G. K. Scott, N. F. Ng, C. L. Hew, and P. L. Davies, unpublished results.

grateful to Joanne McLaurin and the Amino Acid Analysis Facility, Hospital For Sick Children for the amino acid analysis, We also thank Dr. Peter L. Davies for a critical reading of the manuscript.

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APPENDIX

FIG. 7. Sequence of a sea raven AFP precursor deduced from its cDNA. Half-arrows indicate sequences indentical with SR2, whereas residues in parentheses below the sequence indicate amino acid substitutions. The arrow above the nucleotide sequence indicates the predicted signal peptidase cleavage site.

5' W U T G A -1

ATG CAG AGG C M CAG GCT GAC ACT G M A U AGA G M GAT ATT TCT A U G U GCG CTA T U 60 Met Gln Arg Gln G l n Ala ASP T h r G l u Thr Arg G l u Asp Ile Ser Thr A l a G l y leu 5er

20 4 lo ATC ATC lTC ATC GTC TGC ACC ATC TCT ACC ACG AGC ATC CTC ACT GTG TCT CTA CTG GTT 120 Ile I l e P h e Ile Val C y s Thr l i e Ser Thz Thr Arg Hst leu Thhr V a l Ser leu Leu Val

30 40

TGT GCC ATG A X GCT CTG ACT UA GCT M 7 GAT GAC A M ATA CTC AM CCC ACC GCT ACA 180 Cy6 A l a Wst Wet Ala Leu Thr G l n Ala AS" ASP Asp L y e Ile Leu Ly6 Gly Thr Ala mh~

50 60

GAG GCT GGA CCG GTC TCT CAG AGA GCC CCA CCA M C TCT CCC GCT CGT TGG W CCT CTT 240 Glu A l e G l y Pro Val Sex' G l n Arg Ala Pro Pro *en Cye Pro A l a C l y T r p G l n Pro'Leu

70 80

OGT GAC CGC TGT ATX TAT TAT GAG ACA IU GCG ATC ACT rn ~m CTC GCT GAG ACA MC ma G l y Asp Arg C y s Ile Tyr Tyr Glu Thr Thr N a Met Thr r r p N a leu N a G l u Thr Asn

90 LOO

TGT ATG A M TTG CGT GGA U C CTT GCA TCC ATC U C AGC U G GAC GAG U T ACT TTC ATT 360 Cy8 Wst L y s Leu G l y G l y His Leu Als Ser I l e Hie Ser G l n G l u G l u His Ser Phe Ile

I IO 120

G l n Thr L e u A m Ala G l y V J l V 4 T q Ile C l Y G l y Ser N a Cye leu C l n N a G l y Ala U G ACC TTC M T GCT GGT GTT ClA TGG ATC GGA GGC TCC GCT TGC CTC U G GCh GGT GCT 420

130 140

TGG ACC TGG TCT GAT GGT ACA CCT ATC MT TTT CGT K C ICG K T TCT ACC MA CCT GAT 480

( A T B ) ~ 150 4 qfmt G m A -(Ala)

CAT GTA CTG GCC CCG TGC ' E T ATC U G ATC ACT GCT GCA CCT GAC C M TGC TCC GAT GAC 540

Trp Thhr T r Ser hs G1 Thr Pro Wet ASn K e Arg Ser 'R a Ser Thhr I s Pro ASP

3 V+ + g+ Cy$ q e C+ Met Thr A l l Ala Ala Asp G l n Cy8 Trp Asp Asp 170 180

"TG CCT TGT CCG GCA TCC CAC AM T U GTC TGC GCC ATC A U 11c %A G C T M W G A G G C C 603 Leu Pro Cys Pro N s Ser His L y s Ser Val Cya N a net Thr Phe Tcm

190

A T C C A T U C A C ~ C A C I T G C C T G T T ~ T T G T G T C ~ ~ ~ U T A C T U T C ~ ~ C G T C ~ U G C C T U T 682

G C r Z M C C n ; M G G n % A U I I T C T U T A ~ U T C ~ M l T ~ ~ C T A ~ ~ ~ G ~ C ~ ~ T G A G A C G 761

A C M G A G C ~ ~ C * U C U T C T G A ~ G C ~ ~ G M G M A ~ G M T C G ~ T A T G A U I I ~ A T G G T C ~ A T C T A ~ A T G 840

T ~ ~ ~ G ~ ~ ~ C G ~ A 3' 864

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EXP~IM?HTAL PRKEDURES

M?&&& SoIvents used in high performance liquid chromalcgraphy were obtained

trom Wedon Labarmies Lld , Ccorgelwn. Ontarlo. Deoxynbonucl&das m d d l ~ x y r i b o n u c l e ~ ~ , MI3 universal primer l S ~ G T C A C G A ~ 3 ' ) ~ terminal sanderase. and T4 polynucleotide kinase were trom P. L. Blochemicrls. lnc. Restrtnion mdonucleases Psl I, Bam HI. Hind 111 and Sau 3A. DNA polymer= I -KIem fragment, and mRNA-depndMlt rabbit

reverx lransiptasc. and T4 DNA b a s e were [ram Lite Sdencea lnc. reticulcqle lysate kit wvre lrom Bethesda Rcxarch Laboratories. AMV

i3H!-iodouccUte. i3sSI-L-mefhionine. and &HANCE were from New England Nuclear i12sII-Rotem A. b-32Pl-dATP and ir32Pl-ATP were trom

using an DNA aynlhrrmr from Applied BioJylems, Inc.. by the OnlariaCancer 1CN Biomedlcrls. Inc. The mixed 17-mer synlhetic oli8onucleolide was made

Institute. Toronto. hltario

Sea raven AFP was irolated Irom pmled fish sera using rewaled Sephldea G-75 chromatography as desuibed earlmr (9). AcUve fractions. as detected by a freezing point osmometer (Model 3R. Advanced Instruments, 1nc.l. were pmled. lyophilized. and designated as G-7S AFP The AFP was further Irmlonateb by revers-phase HPLC OII s Waters tlWndspak CI8 mtumn 17.8 mm x 30 cm) usin8 a O.OSr lritluoroaatrc acid (TFA)-scelonitrik gradient at room temperature The molecular wierghl of the AFP was edlmaled by SDS-~lyauylamlde gel electrophoresis (SDS-PAGE) 1131 A F P samples were reduced and allylaled in 6 M guanidme-HU. usmg 3H-iodourlale ( 1 4 ) . (Redudloo by the standard proadure d boiling in excess reducing agent

mnrtstent mobthty on separate runs. Reductton followed by alkylation mlved prior to electmphmeds gave dlffuse bands. wvhlch did not mistate w t h

this problem.)

Amino acid analysis VIM pertamed using the waters Plm-Tag System. Follwiag Yapour phme hydrolysis in 6 N HW at I10 %lor 24 hr. the smino awdr were derivatued with an excess d phenytiJoltuccyanate in methanol mntaining Inethylamme The phenylthioarbamoyl amino adds were separated hy reverse-phase HPLC usins a W 8 f K s P h - T a g d u m n and the reaimmended gradiem qrtcm. To delea the cysteic acid derivatives. samples were oxidized with performic .ad prior to hydrolysis.

to Creishton (IS). The d e t e r m i n a ~ is baxd on redudinn d the protein. The inwral number d cysteine residues m SR2 was determined m r d l l l g

lollwed by alkylation with mirlures d varying ratios d neutral iodoralamlde and acidic ialoaceule. The PrOteln is men elecwophorelrally separated based on the presence d dlnerent numbers 04 acidic carbo1ymelhyl groups SR2 (0 I mg) was reduced in 0.2s ml d 8 M urea. IO

the reduced pmtein were reacted with 12.5 u1 each Or 0.25 M iodM+XIamide, mM dilhlothreilal, SO mM Tris. I mM mTA pH 8 lor 30 mm. SO 81 aliquots d

0 2 s M iodourute (pH to 8 with KOH). and 1.1. I 3 and 1.9 rauos 01 the

were plaDed on ioe. Aliquois oi each wmpk. and a mixture d a11 the samples iodwcet%mide to iodoloeute AlkylaUOnmured for I S min, and ihe samples

were sublected to elecwophoresls lor 6 S hr m a IS% polyawlamidel8 M urea gel using a high pH diswntinuous system (16) Tbe gel was rurned with 0.1% (w/v) Cmmaste Brilliant Blue m 10% TCA (wulv) and IO% (wlv) sulphosalicylic actd overnight. lollowed by derlammng in 7 5% notic acid and SI methanol

The maior APP mmponent. SRZ. puritied by reverse-phax HPLC was used 10 produce polyclonal antibcdies. 0 3 mg d SR2 was dissolved in 5 ml 0.9% NaCI, and then emulsilied m 5 ml mmplele Prcund's adiuvanl. Rabblts ( I kg, New &&d White) were rmmunized inVamusculsrly a1 7-day mlervds. Following the first appearance of antibody as detected by lhe ring tesl 117). b w l e r inlemons (SRZ m equal volumes d 0 9 s NaW and Freund's mcnmplete adiuvanti were given . The rabbits were bied 7 days laler when the ring test was positwe The anti-SR2 anlibodm were used in an immunoblot 5 P8 each of G-75 AFP. d l live reverse-phase HPLC-punlled AFP. and APP trom Winter flounder. shalhorn sculpin. and m a n p w l were elenrophoresed on a 9-22Sx mncave erpanenlial gradient Sfk-poly- awlnmide gel The subsequent protern blot and mmunodetedlon were performed acmrdw lo Burnette (181. -

Sea raven poly (A)' mRNA VIS isolaed using the proadwe as described by navies and Hew (19). Told cellular RNA was isolated from IO g d lrnr uslng phcnollchlordam catracuons and proteinax K treatment. The RNA was enriched ror poly mRNA by remted Ebromafograpby on oligo- fdT)-cellulox mlumn. Purther enrichment involved xdimenlalia through a

The gradtent l r a d i a s were monitored hy ekcuophoresis on a 1.5x .garow IS-(Ox linear suuoae gradient In a S I - 4 1 rota. at 35.000 rpm tor 16 hr.

ee l mntsiains 10 mM methyl mercury hydroxide (19). The tractions enriched for the 10-11 S mRNA species were pmled. ethanol-precipitated. and IVOPhitilrd.

15694 Structure of Sea Raven Antifreeze Polypeptide

Sea raven poly (A)* mRNA was translated using a mRNA-dependent rabbit reticulocyte lysate all-free translation kit. 0.5-1.5 pg of mRNA and 13SSI-L-methionine (,IO00 Cilmmol) were used with the recnmmended reaclion mnditions. in a volume of 30 pl. and incubated at 37 OC for I hr. Translation products were immunoprecipitated with antibodies to SR2. Following translation. samples were diluted with an equal volume of water. and two volumes of phosphate buffered saline (PBS. 50 mM sodium

L-methionine). 3-5 pg of SR2 was added IO some samples IO mmpete with phosphate pH 7.2. 1.81 NaU. 0.6s BSA. IS SD5. 2 1 Triton X-100. I mglml

followed by an wernight incubation at 4 %. Goat anti-rabbit IgG antibody antibody. I p1 of anti-SR2 serum was added, and incubated at 37 "C fa I hr.

immunoprecipitates were pelleted and washed four times with ice-mld PBS. (IO p11 was added, and the samples were incubated overnight at 4 %. The

Prior to SDS-PAGE, they =re reduced and alkylated as described by Scheele

resuspcnded in IO p1 of reducing buffer (5s SI&. 60 mM Tris pH 6.8, 10s el ai (20). with some modification. The immunoprecipitates were

glycerol. 0.1 M dithiothreitol. 0 IS bromophenol blue). boiled for 3 min, and incubated at 37 OC for 30 min. 1 pl of I M iodoacetate (prepared prior lo use) was added. follwed by Incubation at room temperature for 30 min. I 111 of 0.5 N NaOH was added to readjust the buffer pH. and the samples were subieded to SDS-PAGE. The translation prod~cts were detected by fluorography using EN3HANCE.

A CDNA library was made aaxlrding to the procedure of Heidecker and Messing (2 I ). using the Plasmid vector pUC 9. The cDNA was synthesized from sea raven poly (A)' mRNA enriched for the 10-1 1 S fraction.

An amino acid sequence ol 16 residues was Obtained from a tryptic peptide of SR2. SR2-T9 (C. L. Hew el d. unpublished results). The sequence

mmplemenlary sequence of a mixed synthetic 17-mer oligonucleotide. Ala Ala Cys Cys Met Gln gave the least degeneracy and was used IO derive the

Following custom synthesis. it was purdied by polyacrylamldelurea gel electrophoresis.

The cDNA clones were prepared for hybridization on nitrocellulose filters as dercribed by Maniatis el ai (22). and further treated to reduce background. a-dw lo Wmds (23). The first r c r w used a cDNA probe made by primerixtension. with sea raven poly (A)' mRNA as the template and the synthetic oligonucleotide as the primer. Synthesis of this probe was essentially as demibed by Houghton e/ d. (24). except that the probe was

Positives from the first rcreening were re-screened by hybridization at 42 % annealed to the mRNA in the presence of 0.1 M KU. at 42 % for 1 hr.

with the synthetic prcbe. which was end-labelled using lr32Pl-ATFJ b3000 Cilmmol) and T4 polynuctwtide kinase as described by Woods (23). The filters were washed with excess 6X SSC (IX SSC is 0.15 M NaU. 0.015 M sodaurn citrate. pH 7) and 0 05s sodium pyrophosphate for IO min at rmm temperature. three times at 42 %for 20 min each time. and finally on- at 47 % for 10 min.

One of the positives. clone C2-I. was chaen f a further analysis by

fixed onto a nitrocellulose filter (22). The mRNA axresponding to the C2-l hybridization selection. C2-l plasmid DNA was prepared. and 20 pg was

cDNA was purified by hybridization selection amrding to Ricciardi PIai(2S). with hybridization muring at 47 % for 4 hr. The mRNA isolated was translaled immediatedly in a rabbit reticulqte lysate cell-free translation system. The translation products were immunoprewpitated with anti-SR2 serum. reduced and alkylated. and subjected to SDS-PAGE and fluorography as described above.

DNA sequencing was perlamed by the didmnl-chain termination method

cDNA were subcloned into the MI3 mp8 and mp9 vectors. (26.27). Restriction fragments from both a Sau 3A and an Alu 1 disest of the

v DNA and protein sequence analyses includw the hydrophilicity plot.

were performed using the software program DNA Inspector I1 from Textm. West Lebanon. New Hampshire. The seomday structure was predicted la the amino acid sequence deduced from the sea raven AFP cDNA. Tbs prediction was performed on an Apple I I mmputer using the program made by Dr. P. C Humg. Lkparlmcnt d Biochemistry. the Jahnr Hopkins University.

Using the DNAIRotein sequence analysis software and MiuoCcnie. from Md. The program was based on the Chou and Fasman predictive method (28).

International Biotechnologies. Inc.. New Haven, CI. and Beckman Instruments. respectively. the nucleotide and deduced amino acid sequence was used to search lor homology with nquences listed in the MlucGenie Data Bank. The Data Bank mntained nucleotide sequences from NIH's Genetic Sequence Data Bank (CenBank), and protem sequences from the National Biomedical Research Foundation (NBRF) Rotein Data Bank.

0.3 EO

i .I J uzo i o2 """""~ 11"""""~

0 5

: 1 *:4 1:. .I2

I Qo8 """""- --------- I!

ELMON TIME (MIW

Ei8.l Analysis of sea raven AFP on reverse phase HPLC AFP samples were chromatographed on a p h d a p a k C18 wlumn (7.8 mm I. D. x

en1 with a flow rate of I mllmin. A. and B are profiles Obtained 30 cm) at rmm temperature, using a 0.05% TFA-acelonitrile gradi-

from two different preparations.

x104 MI

25.7- 16.9, 12.4-

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 x) 11 12 13 14 15

Ek.2 SDS-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis cf sea raven AFP. Lanes 3 IO 8 represent AFP samples not reduoed, while lanes 9 to 14 represent

SRI, SR2. SF3 SR4 and SR5 are in lanes 3 to 8. respectively. and are reduced and alkylated AFP samples. Sephadex G-75-purilied AFP.

similarly represented in lanes 9 IO 14, respenively. Lanes I. 2. and I S wntain molecular weight standards.

1 2 3 . 4 5 6 Eiel; Determination of the number of cysteine residues in SR2. SR2 m-

tpinins 0 IO n acidiccarboxymethyl groups. where n is the number of cysteine residues. was subjecled to PAGE using a hiih pH dismn- tinuous system. SR2 was reduced. and alkylated in the presence of neutral 0.25 M iodoacetamide (lane I ) . acidic 0.25 M iodoacetate (lane 5) . and I:l. 1.3. and 1:9 ratios of iodoacetamide to iodoacetate (lanes 2.3, and 4, respectively). Lane 6 wntains a mixture of the Samples applied in lanes 1-3. The bands are wunted on the right by the number of acidic groups.

Eie

Structure of Sea Raven Antifreeze Polypeptide

43.

25.1.

18.4.

14.3. 6.2.

3.

Y W G-75 1 2 3 4 5 rn op SS

'Id I SR I

9. lmmunodetection of AQP by Western blotting. Sephadex G-75- purilied sea raven (SR) AFP. all live AFP from HPLC (lanet 1-51, and AFP from winter flounder (WF). m a n pout (OP). and shorthorn

SDS-polyamylamide gel. and then electrophoretically transferred sculpin (ssl were electrophoresed on a 9-22.5s exponential gradient

onto a nitrmllulose filter. The blotted proteins were reacted with anti-SR2 antibodies,which were then reacted wilh12SI-Protein A. The filter was autoradmgraphed overnight at -70 OC.

1 2 3 4 5 6

EipJ: Agarose gel electrophwesls of sea raven poly (A)' mRNA. The sucrose gradient fracttonr of the poly (AI* mRNA (lanes 1-51. and total poly (Ar mRNA (lane 6 ) were elemophwesed on a methyl mercury assrose gel (1.51) a1 70 V for 4 hr, stained wilh ethidium bromide, and photographed under UV illumination. Sea raven AFP mRNA migrates with the 10-1 I S species

A B

25.7 -

16.9 - 12.4 -

1 2 3 1 2 3 4 5

EieA A: Identilication of the sea raven AFP biosynthetic precursor. Cell- lree translation products were immunopreciptlaled in the absence (lane I ) . and in lhe p r c x n a (lane 2) of unlabelled SR2. SR2 (lane 3) was radiolabelled by reduction and alkylation with 3H-iodascetate. 8: Identillcation of cDNA clone by hybridization selection. The mRNA from the posllive clone C2-I was isolated by hybridization selection. and translated in a rabbit reliculwte lysate all-free translation

antt-SR2 antibodies. and examined by SDS-PAGE and lluwography. system. The translation products were immunopreclpitaled wilh

The auwadiograph shows translation products ol: mntrol transla- tion, no added mRNA (lane1 ), poly (A)' mRNA (lane 2). hybridi- zalion selected mRNA (lane 3). mntrol sample immunoprecipitated wilh anli-SR2 antibodies (lane 4). hybridization Selected mRNA. immunoprecipitated with anti-SRZ anribodles (lane 5 )

u- +3 -

hydrophilic

-3 -2-1 - hydrophobic

0 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.4 0.6 0.6 0.7 0.8 0.9 j.0 FRACTION OF LENGTH

4- , 1 , 1 , , , , , 1 , 1 ) , , , , , ,

Eikp; Hydrophilicity plot of the deduced amino acid sequence from sea raven AFP. The arrow indicates the predicted signal peptidase cleavage site.

I abkL Amino acid mmposition of SR2. and C2-I cDNA sequence. Pcf SR2. yield of amino acids is in nmol. and the figures in brackets repre-

figures represent the number of amino acid residues. sent calculated numbers d amino acid residues. For C Z - I . the

COmposition from SR2 SR3 U-l cDNA

Asx 333 (12) 7.90 (151 Thr 3.86 (12) 1.91 (11)

I4 16

Ser 3.86 i l l ) Gh 4.59 (15) R O 4.18 (I31 GlY 4.34 (14) Ala Val

7.50 (24) 0.80 (3)

Met Ile

2.82 (9)

Leu 1.33 (4)

Tyr 3.55 ( I l l 0.73 (2)

Phe 1.39 (4) His LVS

2.01 (6) 0.78 (31

L g 1.32 (4) I/2-Cys 4.86 (I51

2.29 (7) Trp

Total Mr

53.62 (1691 18.014

5.60 (11) 7.41 (14) 5.12 (101

2.15 (4) 1.47 (3) 6.32 (12) ND

78.27 (I501 15.397

I I 13 9

11 22

7 9 5

I I 2 3 4 5 4

I I 7

166 17.000

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