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JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 134, Issue 17, Pages 7406-7413Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/ja211855q
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- Warwick Effect Polymers Ltd
- European Regional Development Fund (ERDF)
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Direct polymer conjugation at peptide tyrosine residues is described. In this study Tyr residues of both leucine enkephalin and salmon calcitonin (sCT) were targeted using appropriate diazonium salt-terminated linear monomethoxy poly(ethylene glycol)s (mPEGs) and poly(mPEG) methacrylate prepared by atom transfer radical polymerization. Judicious choice of the reaction, conditions-pH, stoichiometry, and chemical structure of diazonium salt-led to a high degree of site-specificity in the conjugation reaction, even in the presence of competitive peptide amino acid targets such as histidine, lysines, and N-terminal amine. In vitro studies showed that conjugation of mPEG(2000) to sCT did not affect the peptide's ability to increase intracellular cAMP induced in T47D human breast cancer cells bearing sCT receptors. Preliminary in vivo investigation showed preserved ability to reduce [Ca2+] plasma levels by mPEG(2000)-sCT conjugate in rat animal models.
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