Journal
CHINESE CHEMICAL LETTERS
Volume 31, Issue 7, Pages 1787-1791Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.cclet.2020.03.065
Keywords
Self-assembly; Peptide; N-Cadherin; Cancer; Ligand-receptor interaction
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [51890891, 51725302, 21807020, 51573031, 51573032]
- National Key R&D Program of China [2018YFE0205400]
- Science Fund for Creative Research Groups of the National Natural Science Foundation of China [11621505]
- CAS Interdisciplinary Innovation Team
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About 90% cancer-related mortality results from the cancer metastasis, which generally undergoes after epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) process. N-Cadherin, overexpressed on cancer cell surface during EMT, can enhance the migration of cancer cells. Herein, we design and synthesize a transformable peptide BP-KLVFF-SWTLYTPSGQSK (BFS) that can block N-cadherin for inhibiting cancer migration and metastasis. The peptide BFS consists of three modules including (1) the hydrophobic bis-pyrene (BP) unit for forming and locating nanoparticles, (2) the KLVFF peptide sequence for forming and stabilizing fibrous structures and (3) the targeting peptide sequence SWTLYTPSGQSK that can specifically bind to N-cadherin. The peptide BFS can form nanoparticles in PBS, which can transform to nanofibers when targeting and binding to N-cadherin. The nanofibers inhibit the migration of N-cadherin overexpressed MDA-MB-436 cancer cells. The peptide BFS shows 83.6% inhibiting rate in cells wound healing assay. In addition, the inhibition rate is 67.9% when the BFS applied in transwell migration assay. These results indicate that the BFS has excellent ability to inhibit migration of cancer cells. This self-assembly strategy could be potentially utilized to regulate the key protein during EMT for inhibiting the tumor metastasis. (C) 2020 Chinese Chemical Society and Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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