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J. Biol. Chem., Vol. 266, Issue 26, 17376-17381, 09, 1991

Increased cytotoxic activity of Pseudomonas exotoxin and two chimeric toxins ending in KDEL

S Seetharam, VK Chaudhary, D FitzGerald and I Pastan
Laboratory of Molecular Biology, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892.

Pseudomonas exotoxin (PE) is a 66,000 molecular weight protein secreted by Pseudomonas aeruginosa. PE is made up of three domains, and PE40 is a form of PE which lacks domain Ia (amino acids 1-252) and has very low cytotoxicity because it cannot bind to target cells. The sequence Arg- Glu-Asp-Leu-Lys (REDLK) at the carboxyl terminus of Pseudomonas exotoxin has been shown to be important for its cytotoxic activity (Chaudhary, V. K., Jinno, Y., FitzGerald, D. J., and Pastan, I. (1990) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 87, 308-312). In this study, we tested the effect of altering the carboxyl sequence of PE from REDLK to the characteristic endoplasmic reticulum retention sequence, KDEL, or to KDEL repeated three times (KDEL)3. We also made similar changes at the carboxyl terminus of two chimeric toxins in which domain I of PE (amino acids 1-252) was either replaced with transforming growth factor alpha (TGF alpha) to make TGF alpha-PE40 or with a single chain antibody (anti-Tac) reacting with the human interleukin 2 receptor to make anti- Tac(Fv)-PE40. Statistical analyses of our results demonstrate that PE and its derivatives ending in KDEL or (KDEL)3 are significantly more active than PE or derivatives ending in REDLK. We have also found that brefeldin A, which is known to perturb the endoplasmic reticulum, inhibits the cytotoxic action of PE. Our results suggest that the altered carboxyl terminus may enable the toxin to interact more efficiently with a cellular component involved in translocation of the toxin to the cytosol.
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