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BIOCHEMISTRY
Volume 49, Issue 42, Pages 9106-9112Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/bi1009503
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- National Institutes of Health [GM084552, N01-HV28184, CC987654321, R01CA128797, 2U54CA096300-06A1]
- Department of Defense [W81XWH-07-2-0101, W81XWH-09-1-0212]
- Welch Foundation [H-1296]
- Alliance for Nano Health
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CD44, the primary receptor for hyaluronic acid, plays an important role in tumor growth and metastasis. CD44 hyaluronic acid interactions can be exploited for targeted delivery of anticancer agents specifically to cancer cells. Although various splicing variants of CD44 are expressed on the plasma membrane of cancer cells, the hyaluronic acid binding domain (HABD) is highly conserved among the CD44 splicing variants. Using a novel two-step process, we have identified monothiophosphate-modified aptamers (thioaptamers) that specifically bind to the CD44's HABD with high affinities. Binding affinities of the selected thioaptamers for the HABD were in the range of 180-295 nM, an affinity significantly higher than that of hyaluronic acid (K-d above the micromolar range). The selected thioaptamers bound to CD44 positive human ovarian cancer cell lines (SKOV3, IGROV, and A2780) but failed to bind the CD44 negative NIH3T3 cell line. Our results indicated that thio substitution at specific positions of the DNA phosphate backbone results in specific and high-affinity binding of thioaptamers to CD44. The selected thioaptamers will be of great interest for further development as a targeting or imaging agent for the delivery of therapeutic payloads for cancer tissues.
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