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Preclinical development of a novel class of CXCR4 antagonist impairing solid tumors growth and metastases. PLoS One 2013; 8:e74548. [PMID: 24058588 PMCID: PMC3772838 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0074548] [Citation(s) in RCA: 68] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/12/2013] [Accepted: 08/02/2013] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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The CXCR4/CXCL12 axis plays a role in cancer metastases, stem cell mobilization and chemosensitization. Proof of concept for efficient CXCR4 inhibition has been demonstrated in stem cell mobilization prior to autologous transplantation in hematological malignancies. Nevertheless CXCR4 inhibitors suitable for prolonged use as required for anticancer therapy are not available. To develop new CXCR4 antagonists a rational, ligand-based approach was taken, distinct from the more commonly used development strategy. A three amino acid motif (Ar-Ar-X) in CXCL12, also found in the reverse orientation (X-Ar-Ar) in the vMIP-II inhibitory chemokine formed the core of nineteen cyclic peptides evaluated for inhibition of CXCR4-dependent migration, binding, P-ERK1/2-induction and calcium efflux. Peptides R, S and I were chosen for evaluation in in vivo models of lung metastases (B16-CXCR4 and KTM2 murine osteosarcoma cells) and growth of a renal cells xenograft. Peptides R, S, and T significantly reduced the association of the 12G5-CXCR4 antibody to the receptor and inhibited CXCL12-induced calcium efflux. The four peptides efficiently inhibited CXCL12-dependent migration at concentrations as low as 10 nM and delayed CXCL12-mediated wound healing in PES43 human melanoma cells. Intraperitoneal treatment with peptides R, I or S drastically reduced the number of B16-CXCR4-derived lung metastases in C57/BL mice. KTM2 osteosarcoma lung metastases were also reduced in Balb/C mice following CXCR4 inhibition. All three peptides significantly inhibited subcutaneous growth of SN12C-EGFP renal cancer cells. A novel class of CXCR4 inhibitory peptides was discovered. Three peptides, R, I and S inhibited lung metastases and primary tumor growth and will be evaluated as anticancer agents.
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Langelaan DN, Ngweniform P, Rainey JK. Biophysical characterization of G-protein coupled receptor-peptide ligand binding. Biochem Cell Biol 2011; 89:98-105. [PMID: 21455262 DOI: 10.1139/o10-142] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
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G-protein coupled receptors (GPCRs) are ubiquitous membrane proteins allowing intracellular responses to extracellular factors that range from photons of light to small molecules to proteins. Despite extensive exploitation of GPCRs as therapeutic targets, biophysical characterization of GPCR-ligand interactions remains challenging. In this minireview, we focus on techniques that have been successfully used for structural and biophysical characterization of peptide ligands binding to their cognate GPCRs. The techniques reviewed include solution-state nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy, solid-state NMR, X-ray diffraction, fluorescence spectroscopy and single-molecule fluorescence methods, flow cytometry, surface plasmon resonance, isothermal titration calorimetry, and atomic force microscopy. The goal herein is to provide a cohesive starting point to allow selection of techniques appropriate to the elucidation of a given GPCR-peptide interaction.
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- David N Langelaan
- Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Dalhousie University, 5850 College Street, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
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Interaction between ghrelin and the ghrelin receptor (GHS-R1a), a NMR study using living cells. Bioorg Med Chem 2010; 18:1583-90. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bmc.2010.01.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/01/2009] [Revised: 12/24/2009] [Accepted: 01/02/2010] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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Yang TC, Rendell J, Gulliver W, Booth V. Peptide T exhibits a well-defined structure in fluorinated solvent at low temperature. J Pept Sci 2010; 15:818-23. [PMID: 19862845 DOI: 10.1002/psc.1179] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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The structure of Peptide T was determined by solution NMR spectroscopy, under strong structure-inducing conditions: 40% hexafluoro-2-propanol aqueous solution at 5 degrees C. Under these conditions it was possible to detect medium-range NOEs for the first time for this peptide. This allowed a much better-defined structure to be determined for Peptide T in comparison with earlier NMR and computational studies. Peptide structures consistent with the experimental restraints were generated using a restrained MD simulation with a full empirical force field. Residues 4-8 of Peptide T take on a well-defined structure with a heavy atom RMSD of 0.78 A. The structure is stabilized by hydrogen bonding to side-chain oxygen atoms of Thr 4 and Thr 8, as well as backbone hydrogen bonding between residues 5 and 7 that forms this region into a classic gamma-turn.
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- Tran-Chin Yang
- Department of Biochemistry, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, NL, Canada
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Langelaan DN, Bebbington EM, Reddy T, Rainey JK. Structural Insight into G-Protein Coupled Receptor Binding by Apelin. Biochemistry 2009; 48:537-48. [DOI: 10.1021/bi801864b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 72] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/21/2023]
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- David N. Langelaan
- Departments of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology and Chemistry, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia B3H 1X5 Canada
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- Departments of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology and Chemistry, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia B3H 1X5 Canada
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- Departments of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology and Chemistry, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia B3H 1X5 Canada
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- Departments of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology and Chemistry, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia B3H 1X5 Canada
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Slupsky CM, Spyracopoulos L, Booth VK, Sykes BD, Crump MP. Probing nascent structures in peptides using natural abundance 13C NMR relaxation and reduced spectral density mapping. Proteins 2007; 67:18-30. [PMID: 17256768 DOI: 10.1002/prot.21294] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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The main chain motional properties for a series of peptides that appear to have preferred conformations in solution have been systematically studied using solution-state nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy. The series of peptides were derived from the N-termini of pro-inflammatory chemokine proteins and HoxB1, a transcriptional regulator. As an unstructured control, a ten residue peptide was designed, synthesized, and found to be minimally structured from solution NMR data. The dynamic properties of the main chain for the peptides were assessed through longitudinal and transverse main chain (13)Calpha relaxation rates and the heteronuclear nuclear Overhauser effect. Motional parameters were interpreted using reduced spectral density mapping and compared with those derived from an extended Lipari-Szabo model in which the rotational correlation time was calculated for each main chain site of the peptide. Comparison of spectral density and Lipari-Szabo analyses for the peptides to those of the unstructured control peptide reveals significant differences in the dynamic behavior of the peptides. The amplitude of picosecond to nanosecond timescale motions for the main chain is observed to decrease for all of the chemokine peptides and HoxB1 over the regions that show partial structure at low temperatures. Comparatively, changes in picosecond to nanosecond timescale motions for the unstructured control peptide show no correlation with sequence position. These results indicate that there are distinguishable low temperature motional differences between an intrinsically unstructured peptide and peptides that have an inherent propensity to structure.
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- Carolyn M Slupsky
- Protein Engineering Network Centres of Excellence, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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Yeaman MR, Yount NY, Waring AJ, Gank KD, Kupferwasser D, Wiese R, Bayer AS, Welch WH. Modular determinants of antimicrobial activity in platelet factor-4 family kinocidins. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOMEMBRANES 2006; 1768:609-19. [PMID: 17217910 PMCID: PMC2827485 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbamem.2006.11.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 71] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/10/2006] [Revised: 11/02/2006] [Accepted: 11/09/2006] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Mammalian platelets contain an array of antimicrobial peptides, termed platelet microbicidal proteins (PMPs). Human and rabbit PMPs include known chemokines, such as platelet factor-4 (hPF-4); PMP-1 is the rabbit orthologue of hPF-4. Chemokines that also exert direct antimicrobial activity have been termed kinocidins. A consensus peptide domain library representing mammalian PF-4 family members was analyzed to define structural domains contributing to antimicrobial activity against a panel of human pathogens. Secondary conformations were assessed by circular dichroism spectrometry, and molecular modeling was employed to investigate structural correlates of antimicrobial efficacy. Antimicrobial activity against isogenic peptide-susceptible or -resistant Staphylococcus aureus, Salmonella typhimurium, and Candida albicans strain pairs mapped to the C-terminal hemimer (38-74) and modular domains thereof (49-63 and 60-74). Increasing electrostatic charge and steric bulk were general correlates of efficacy. Structural data corroborated spatial distribution of charge, steric bulk and putative secondary structure with organism-specific efficacy. Microbicidal efficacies of the cPMP antimicrobial hemimer and C-terminal peptide (60-74) were retained in a complex human-blood biomatrix assay. Collectively, these results suggest that modular determinants arising from structural components acting independently and cooperatively govern the antimicrobial functions of PF-4 family kinocidins against specific target pathogens.
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- Michael R Yeaman
- Division of Infectious Diseases, LAC-Harbor UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA 90509, USA.
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Palladino P, Tizzano B, Pedone C, Ragone R, Rossi F, Saviano G, Tancredi T, Benedetti E. Structural determinants of unexpected agonist activity in a retro-peptide analogue of the SDF-1α N-terminus. FEBS Lett 2005; 579:5293-8. [PMID: 16182292 DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2005.07.100] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/29/2005] [Revised: 07/04/2005] [Accepted: 07/25/2005] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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We have synthesised two retro-peptide analogues of the stromal cell derived growth factor 1 (SDF-1alpha) segment known to be critical for CXCR4 receptor binding, corresponding to the sequences HSEFFRCPCRFFESH and HSEFFRGGGRFFESH. We have assayed the ability of these peptides to activate extracellular signal-regulated kinase 1/2 phosphorylation in cells over expressing the SDF-1alpha receptor, finding that the first variant was able to serve as an agonist of CXCR4, whereas the second one was inactive. Finally, by comparing representative solution structures of the two peptides, we have found that the biological response of HSEFFRCPCRFFESH may be ascribed to a beta-beta-type turn motif centred on Phe(4)-Phe(5).
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- Pasquale Palladino
- Dipartimento delle Scienze Biologiche, CIRPeB, Università Federico II di Napoli, CNR, Italy.
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Megy S, Bertho G, Gharbi-Benarous J, Evrard-Todeschi N, Coadou G, Ségéral E, Iehle C, Quéméneur E, Benarous R, Girault JP. STD and TRNOESY NMR Studies on the Conformation of the Oncogenic Protein β-Catenin Containing the Phosphorylated Motif DpSGXXpS Bound to the β-TrCP Protein. J Biol Chem 2005; 280:29107-16. [PMID: 15927956 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m501628200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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beta-TrCP is the F-box protein component of an Skp1/Cul1/F-box (SCF)-type ubiquitin ligase complex. Biochemical studies have suggested that beta-TrCP targets the oncogenic protein beta-catenin for ubiquitination and followed by proteasome degradation. To further elucidate the basis of this interaction, a complex between a 32-residue peptide from beta-catenin containing the phosphorylated motif DpSGXXpS (P-beta-Cat17-48) and beta-TrCP was studied using Saturation Transfer Difference (STD) Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) experiments. These experiments make it possible to identify the binding epitope of a ligand at atomic resolution. An analysis of STD spectra provided clear evidence that only a few of the 32 residues receive the largest saturation transfer. In particular, the amide protons of the residues in the phosphorylated motif appear to be in close contact to the amino acids of the beta-TrCP binding pocket. The amide and aromatic protons of the His24 and Trp25 residues also receive a significant saturation transfer. These findings are in keeping with a recently published x-ray structure of a shorter beta-catenin fragment with the beta-TrCP1-Skp1 complex and with the earlier findings from mutagenesis and activity assays. To better characterize the ligand-protein interaction, the bound conformation of the phosphorylated beta-catenin peptide was obtained using TRansfer Nuclear Overhauser Effect SpectroscopY (TRNOESY) experiments. Finally, we obtained the bound structure of the phosphorylated peptide showing the protons identified by STD NMR as exposed in close proximity to the molecule surface.
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- Simon Megy
- Laboratoire de Chimie et Biochimie Pharmacologiques et Toxicologiques (UMR 8601 CNRS), Université René Descartes-Paris V, 45 rue des Saints-Pères, 75270 Paris Cedex 06, France
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CXCL11 (ITAC) is one of three chemokines known to bind the receptor CXCR3, the two others being CXCL9 (Mig) and CXCL10 (IP-10). CXCL11 differs from the other CXCR3 ligands in both the strength and the particularities of its receptor interactions: It has a higher affinity, is a stronger agonist, and behaves differently when critical N-terminal residues are deleted. The structure of CXCL11 was determined using solution NMR to allow comparison with that of CXCL10 and help elucidate the source of the differences. CXCL11 takes on the canonical chemokine fold but exhibits greater conformational flexibility than has been observed for related chemokines under the same sample conditions. Unlike related chemokines such as IP-10 and IL-8, ITAC does not appear to form dimers at millimolar concentrations. The origin for this behavior can be found in the solution structure, which indicates a beta-bulge in beta-strand 1 that distorts the dimerization interface used by other CXC chemokines.
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- Valerie Booth
- Protein Engineering Network of Centres of Excellence, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, T5G 2S2, Canada
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Ott TR, Lio FM, Olshefski D, Liu XJ, Struthers RS, Ling N. Determinants of high-affinity binding and receptor activation in the N-terminus of CCL-19 (MIP-3 beta). Biochemistry 2004; 43:3670-8. [PMID: 15035637 DOI: 10.1021/bi035895h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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CC chemokine receptor 7 (CCR-7) is expressed on mature dendritic cells and T-cells. Its ligands, CCL-19 (MIP-3beta) and CCL-21 (SLC), play an important role in the migration of these cells to secondary lymphoid organs where they are predominantly expressed. For most chemokines, the N-terminal domain preceding the first two conserved cysteines is involved in stabilizing the active conformation of its cognate receptors. We have chemically synthesized N-terminal analogues of CCL-19 with the aid of a native chemical ligation method to investigate structure function requirements of this ligand domain by performing ligand binding, GTP-gammaS binding, and chemotaxis assays. Successive truncations of the N-terminus of CCL-19 reduced the affinity of the receptor for the ligand in a size-dependent manner. Furthermore, Ala substitutions of Asn(3), Asp(4), and Asp(7) show that the side chains of these residues are important for high-affinity binding of CCL-19 to CCR-7. The effects observed were mirrored in both GTP-gammaS binding and chemotaxis assays, highlighting the functional importance of this ligand domain. We also describe two partial agonists of CCR-7 ([Nle(72)]CCL-19(6-77) and Ac-[Nle(72)]CCL-19(7-77)), and identify the first analogue of CCL-19 (Ac-[Nle(72)]CCL-19(8-77)) that acts as a functional antagonist in vitro (K(B) approximately 350 nM for GTP-gammaS binding assays). As mutations of both Glu(6) and Asp(7) to Ala did not dissociate effects on ligand binding from receptor activation, it is likely that the backbone of these two residues is crucial for agonist activity.
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- T R Ott
- Department of Exploratory Discovery, San Diego, California 92121, USA
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Glickman JF. Literature Search and Reviews. Assay Drug Dev Technol 2003. [DOI: 10.1089/154065803322302844] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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