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FEBS Lett ; 588(2): 341-9, 2014 Jan 21.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-24269681

RESUMO

Nanoencapsulation of anticancer drugs improves their therapeutic indices by virtue of the enhanced permeation and retention effect which achieves passive targeting of nanoparticles in tumors. This effect can be significantly enhanced by active targeting of nanovehicles to tumors. Numerous ligands have been proposed and used in various studies with peptides being considered attractive alternatives to antibodies. This is further reinforced by the availability of peptide phage display libraries which offer an unlimited reservoir of target-specific probes. In particular landscape phages with multivalent display of target-specific peptides which enable the phage particle itself to become a nanoplatform creates a paradigm for high throughput selection of nanoprobes setting the stage for personalized cancer management. Despite its promise, this conjugate of combinatorial chemistry and nanotechnology has not made a significant clinical impact in cancer management due to a lack of using robust processes that facilitate scale-up and manufacturing. To this end we proposed the use of phage fusion protein as the navigating modules of novel targeted nanomedicine platforms which are described in this review.


Assuntos
Bacteriófagos , Terapia de Alvo Molecular/métodos , Nanomedicina/métodos , Neoplasias/tratamento farmacológico , Proteínas Virais/metabolismo , Animais , Sistemas de Liberação de Medicamentos , Humanos , Proteínas Virais/química
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Protein Eng Des Sel ; 23(6): 423-30, 2010 Jun.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-20185523

RESUMO

Tumor-specific cytotoxicity of drugs can be enhanced by targeting them to tumor receptors using tumor-specific ligands. Phage display technology with its high throughput capacity for the analysis of targeting ligands possessing specific binding properties represents a very attractive tool in the quest for molecular ligands. Also, current phage nanobiotechnology concepts allow the use of intact phage particles and isolated phage coat proteins per se as components of nanomedicines. Herein, we describe the use of two landscape phage libraries to obtain phage ligands against PC3 prostate carcinoma cells. Following a very stringent selection scheme, we were able to identify three phage ligands, bearing the fusion peptides, DTDSHVNL, DTPYDLTG and DVVYALSDD that demonstrated specificity and selectivity to PC3 cells based on target-association assays, microscopy and flow cytometry. The phage ligands and their fusion coat proteins can be used as navigating modules in both therapeutic and diagnostic approaches to prostate carcinoma.


Assuntos
Oligopeptídeos/metabolismo , Biblioteca de Peptídeos , Neoplasias da Próstata/metabolismo , Proteínas Recombinantes de Fusão/metabolismo , Análise de Variância , Linhagem Celular Tumoral , Escherichia coli , Citometria de Fluxo , Humanos , Ligantes , Masculino , Oligopeptídeos/química , Proteínas Recombinantes de Fusão/química , Sensibilidade e Especificidade
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Protein Eng Des Sel ; 22(10): 631-9, 2009 Oct.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-19633313

RESUMO

Multibillion-clone libraries of phages displaying guest peptides fused to the major coat protein pVIII (landscape libraries) are a rich source of probes for proteinaceous and non-proteinaceous targets. As opposed to the pIII-type fusion phages, which display peptides as independent structural domains, the guest peptides in the pVIII-fusion phages can be structurally and functionally influenced by contiguous subunits. To decipher the impact of the locale of a guest peptide on its affinity characteristics, we constructed a library of phages carrying beta-galactosidase-binding peptide ADTFAKSMQ at the N-terminus of the pVIII protein surrounded by random amino acids. It was found that mutagenesis of amino acids 12-19 (domain C) has polar effects on target binding affinity of the displayed peptide. The phages with highest affinity are characterized by: (i) a net electrostatic charge around -1 of domain C of the mutated phages at pH 7.0; (ii) a lower radius of cylinder coaxial to alpha-helix formed by domain C; (iii) a lower higher occupied molecular orbital (HOMO) of domain C leading to a decreased formation of hydrogen bonds and (iv) positively charged surface and torsion energy of domain C, which may require a conformational transition of N-terminal peptide ADTFAKSMQ for its binding with beta-galactosidase. Influence of the guest peptide on the diversity of mutations in the neighboring landscape area was also observed.


Assuntos
Bacteriófago M13/genética , Proteínas do Capsídeo/genética , Biblioteca de Peptídeos , Peptídeos/genética , Sequência de Aminoácidos , Bacteriófagos/genética , Sequência de Bases , Proteínas do Capsídeo/química , Proteínas do Capsídeo/metabolismo , Modelos Moleculares , Dados de Sequência Molecular , Mutação , Peptídeos/metabolismo , Ligação Proteica , beta-Galactosidase/química , beta-Galactosidase/genética , beta-Galactosidase/metabolismo
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Protein Eng Des Sel ; 22(1): 9-18, 2009 Jan.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-18988692

RESUMO

Libraries of random peptides displayed on the surface of filamentous phages are a valuable source for biospecific ligands. However, their successful use can be hindered by a disproportionate representation of different phage clones and fluctuation of their composition that arises during phage reproduction, which have potential to affect efficiency of selection of clones with an optimal binding. Therefore, there is a need to develop phage display libraries with extended and varied repertoires of displayed peptides. In this work, we compared the complexity, evolution and representation of two phage display libraries displaying foreign octamers and nonamers in 4000 copies as the N-terminal part of the major coat protein pVIII of phage fd-tet (landscape libraries). They were obtained by replacement of amino acids 2-4 and 2-5 of pVIII with random octa- and nonamers, respectively. Statistical analysis of the libraries revealed their dramatic censoring and evolution during amplification. Further, a survey of both libraries for clones that bind common selectors revealed the presence of different non-overlapping families of target-specific clones in each library justifying the concept that different landscape libraries cover different areas of a sequence space.


Assuntos
Bacteriófago M13/genética , Oligopeptídeos/química , Oligopeptídeos/genética , Biblioteca de Peptídeos , Sequência de Aminoácidos , Sequência de Bases , Proteínas do Capsídeo/genética , Vetores Genéticos , Engenharia de Proteínas
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