期刊
ACS COMBINATORIAL SCIENCE
卷 18, 期 1, 页码 75-85出版社
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acscombsci.5b00164
关键词
anticancer agent; bicyclic peptide; cell-penetrating peptide; peptide library; Ras inhibitor
资金
- National Institutes of Health [GM062820, GM110208]
Cyclic peptides have great potential as therapeutic agents and research tools. However, their applications against intracellular targets have been limited, because cyclic peptides are generally impermeable to the cell membrane. It was previously shown that fusion of cyclic peptides with a cyclic cell-penetrating peptide resulted in cell-permeable bicyclic peptides that are proteolytically stable and biologically active in cellular assays. In this work, we tested the generality Of the bicyclic approach by synthesizing a combinatorial library of 5.7 x 10(6) bicyclic peptides featuring a degenerate sequence in the first ring and an invariant cell-penetrating peptide in the second ring. Screening of the library against oncoprotein K-Ras G12V followed by hit optimization produced a moderately potent and cell-permeable K-Ras inhibitor, which physically blocks the Ras-effector interactions in vitro, inhibits the signaling events downstream of Ras in cancer cells, and induces apoptosis of the cancer cells. Our approach should be generally applicable to developing cell-permeable bicyclic peptide inhibitors against other intracellular proteins.
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