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JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 127, Issue 8, Pages 2477-2484Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/ja043935e
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- NIDA NIH HHS [DA08590, DA015700] Funding Source: Medline
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Cocaine is a highly addictive drug, and despite intensive efforts, effective therapies for cocaine craving and addiction remain elusive. In recent years, we and others have reported advances in anticocaine immunopharmacotherapy based on specific antibodies capable of sequestering the drug before it reaches the brain. In an effort to obtain high affinity therapeutic anti-cocaine antibodies, either whole IgGs or other antibody constructs, fluorescence spectroscopic techniques could provide a means of assisting selection and engineering strategies. We report the synthesis of a series of cocaine-fluorophore conjugates (GNC-F1, GNC-F2, GNC-I) and the functional evaluation of these compounds against single-chain Fv antibodies obtained via crystallographic analysis/engineering and against commercially available anti-cocaine monoclonal antibodies with a wide range of cocaine-binding affinities. From these studies, we determined that the GNC-F2 fluorophore reproduced affinity constants obtained using [H-3]-labeled cocaine. We anticipate that the readily synthesized and nonradioactive GNC-F2 will find use both as a tool for bioimaging and in the high-throughput selection and engineering of potential therapeutic antibodies against cocaine.
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