Journal
CURRENT PHARMACEUTICAL BIOTECHNOLOGY
Volume 18, Issue 7, Pages 569-584Publisher
BENTHAM SCIENCE PUBL LTD
DOI: 10.2174/1389201018666170822125737
Keywords
Cell-penetrating peptides (CPPs); cellular internalization; direct membrane translocation; drug delivery system (DDS); lactoferricin; helical wheel projection; protein transduction domains (PTDs)
Funding
- Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan [MOST 105-2320-B-259-002-MY3, MOST 104-2311-B-320-002-MY3, MOST 106-2320-B-320-001-MY3]
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Background: Development of effective drug delivery systems (DDS) is a critical issue in health care and medicine. Advances in molecular biology and nanotechnology have allowed the introduction of nanomaterial-based drug delivery systems. Cell-penetrating peptides (CPPs) can form the basis of drug delivery systems by virtue of their ability to support the transport of cargoes into the cell. Potential cargoes include proteins, DNA, RNA, liposomes, and nanomaterials. These cargoes generally retain their bioactivities upon entering cells. Method: In the present study, the smallest, fully-active lactoferricin-derived CPP, L5a is used to demonstrate the primary contributor of cellular internalization. Results: The secondary helical structure of L5a encompasses symmetrical positive charges around the periphery. The contributions of cell-specificity, peptide length, concentration, zeta potential, particle size, and spatial structure of the peptides were examined, but only zeta potential and spatial structure affected protein transduction efficiency. FITC-labeled L5a appeared to enter cells via direct membrane translocation insofar as endocytic modulators did not block FITC-L5a entry. This is the same mechanism of protein transduction active in Cy5 labeled DNA delivery mediated by FITC-L5a. A significant reduction of transduction efficiency was observed with structurally incomplete FITC-L5a formed by tryptic destruction, in which case the mechanism of internalization switched to a classical energy-dependent endocytosis pathway. Conclusion: These results support the continued development of the non-cytotoxic L5a as an efficient tool for drug delivery.
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