論文

国際誌
2021年12月27日

Grafting Hydrophobic Amino Acids Critical for Inhibition of Protein-Protein Interactions on a Cell-Penetrating Peptide Scaffold.

Molecular pharmaceutics
  • Yuki Nagano
  • ,
  • Jan Vincent V Arafiles
  • ,
  • Keiko Kuwata
  • ,
  • Yoshimasa Kawaguchi
  • ,
  • Miki Imanishi
  • ,
  • Hisaaki Hirose
  • ,
  • Shiroh Futaki

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開始ページ
558
終了ページ
567
記述言語
英語
掲載種別
研究論文(学術雑誌)
DOI
10.1021/acs.molpharmaceut.1c00671

Stapled peptides are a promising class of conformationally restricted peptides for modulating protein-protein interactions (PPIs). However, the low membrane permeability of these peptides is an obstacle to their therapeutic applications. It is common that only a few hydrophobic amino acid residues are mandatory for stapled peptides to bind to their target proteins. Hoping to create a novel class of membrane-permeable PPI inhibitors, the phenylalanine, tryptophan, and leucine residues that play a critical role in inhibiting the p53-HDM2 interaction were grafted into the framework of CADY2─a cell-penetrating peptide (CPP) having a helical propensity. Two analogues (CADY-3FWL and CADY-10FWL) induced apoptotic cell death but lacked the intended HDM2 interaction. Pull-down experiments followed by proteomic analysis led to the elucidation of nesprin-2 as a candidate binding target. Nesprin-2 is considered to play a role in the nuclear translocation of β-catenin upon activation of the Wnt signaling pathway, which leads to the expression of antiapoptosis proteins and cell survival. Cells treated with the two analogues showed decreased nuclear localization of β-catenin and reduced mRNA expression of related antiapoptotic proteins. These data suggest inhibition of β-catenin nuclear translocation as a possible mode of action of the described cell-penetrating stapled peptides.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.molpharmaceut.1c00671
PubMed
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34958576
ID情報
  • DOI : 10.1021/acs.molpharmaceut.1c00671
  • PubMed ID : 34958576

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