Journal
BIOORGANIC CHEMISTRY
Volume 135, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.bioorg.2023.106483
Keywords
Nitric oxide; Cell -penetrating peptide; Nuclear localization signal; Mesenchymal stem cells; Differentiation
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This study developed an organelle-specific, peptide-based NO delivery material that targets the nucleus. The delivery concept can be extended to cells other than stem cells to explore the effects of NO release in the nucleus. Furthermore, NO can be delivered to other organelles such as mitochondria and lysosomes through conjugation with specific targeting signals.
Nitric oxide (NO) is an important gaseous signaling molecule in various physiological processes, which functions through interactions with its acceptor molecules located in organelles. NO has an extremely short half-life, making it challenging to experimentally achieve effective NO levels in organelles to study these interactions. Here we developed an organelle-specific, peptide-based NO delivery material that targets the nucleus. NO was attached to the SH group of a cysteine residue inserted into the N-terminus of a cell-penetrating peptide (CPP) conjugated to varying repeats of the nuclear localization signal (NLS), which we denoted NO-CysCPP-NLS, through S-nitrosylation. NO-CysCPP-NLS strongly induced osteogenic differentiation of mesenchymal stem cells. This delivery concept can be extended to cells other than stem cells to elucidate the effects of NO release in the nucleus. Furthermore, conjugation of NO to CysCPP fused to mitochondria-or lysosome-targeting signals can be used to deliver NO to other organelles such as mitochondria and lysosomes, respectively.
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