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JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 123, Issue 7, Pages 1275-1279Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/ja003305m
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Polynorbornenes substituted with two different peptide sequences from the RGD-containing integrin cell-binding domain of fibronectin are potent inhibitors of human foreskin fibroblast cell adhesion to fibronectin-coated surfaces. Ring-opening metathesis polymerization (ROMP)using Ru=CHPh(Cl)(2)(PCy3)(DHIMes) (1) as an initiator produced polymers substituted with GRGDS and PHSRN peptide sequences. The inhibitory activity was quantified for these polymers and compared to the free peptides and GRGES-containing controls. A homopolymer substituted with GRGDS peptides was significantly more active than the free GRGDS peptide (IC50 of 0.18 +/- 0.03 and 1.33 +/- 0.20 mM respectively), and the copolymer containing both GRGDS and PHSRN is the most potent inhibitor (IC50 of 0.04 +/- 0.01 mM). These results demonstrate that significant enhancements of observed biological activity can be obtained from polymeric materials containing more than one type of multivalent ligand and that ROMP is a-useful method to synthesize such well-defined copolymers.
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