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BIOCHEMICAL PHARMACOLOGY
Volume 82, Issue 10, Pages 1438-1456Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.bcp.2011.07.091
Keywords
Chemokine analogues; Chemokine receptors; Antagonists; Therapeutic peptides; CXCR4; CCR5
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- Fonds National de la Recherche, Luxembourg [C09/BM/20]
- Centre de Recherche Public-Sante, Luxembourg [20100708]
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Chemokines are small chemoattractive proteins involved in many important physiological and pathological processes such as leukocyte mobilisation, inflammation, cancer and HIV-1 infection. The N-terminus of chemokines was shown to be crucial for interaction and activation with their cognate receptors. Therefore, multiple strategies including elongation, truncation, mutagenesis or chemical modifications of chemokine N-terminus were developed to identify analogues with modified selectivity displaying antagonist or enhanced agonist activities. Library approaches allowed fast screening of a large number of such chemokine variants and led to the identification of promising therapeutic candidates. Additional studies were able to reduce the chemokine to the size of a peptide while retaining its receptor affinity and selectivity. In analogy to full length chemokines, peptides derived from the chemokine N-terminal sequence were improved by mutagenesis, elongation and truncation approaches to develop potential therapeutic molecules used in various clinical trials. Altogether these studies demonstrated the pharmacophore potential of the chemokine N-terminus and its vast modulation properties to develop analogues with great therapeutic value for a large set of pathologies. (C) 2011 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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