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NATURE BIOTECHNOLOGY
Volume 19, Issue 10, Pages 958-961Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/nbt1001-958
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Screening peptide libraries is a proven strategy for identifying inhibitors of protein-ligand interactions. Compounds identified in these screens often bind to their targets with low affinities. When the target protein is present at a high density on the surface of cells or other biological surfaces, it is sometimes possible to increase the biological activity of a weakly binding ligand by presenting multiple copies of it on the same molecule. We isolated a peptide from a phage display library that binds weakly to the heptameric cell-binding subunit of anthrax toxin and prevents the interaction between cell-binding and enzymatic moieties. A molecule consisting of multiple copies of this nonnatural peptide, covalently linked to a flexible backbone, prevented assembly of the toxin complex in vitro and blocked toxin action in an animal model. This result demonstrates that protein-protein interactions can be inhibited by a synthetic, polymeric, polyvalent inhibitor in vivo.
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