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BIOCONJUGATE CHEMISTRY
卷 32, 期 1, 页码 111-120出版社
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.bioconjchem.0c00494
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- Camille & Henry Dreyfus Foundation
- National Institutes of Health (NIH-NIMHD) [8-G-12-MD007599]
- CUNY Graduate Center Graduate Fellowship program
- NSF-IGERT
- NIH-MARC program [T34GM007823]
The study introduces a mechanism based on ROMP for controlled VLP disassembly, by covalently conjugating ROMP substrate with surface-exposed lysine residues of VLP, inducing ROMP with AquaMet to release target substances. This strategy does not rely on specific VLP structure or morphology, applicable for potential pharmacological applications.
Virus-like particles (VLPs) show considerable promise for the in vivo delivery of therapeutic compounds such as bioactive venom peptides. While loading and targeting protocols have been developed for numerous VLP prototypes, induced disassembly under physiological conditions of neutral pH, moderate temperature, and aqueous medium remain a challenge. Here, we implement and evaluate a general mechanism, based on ring-opening metathesis polymerization (ROMP), for controllable VLP disassembly. This mechanism is independent of cell-specific factors or the manipulation of environmental conditions such as pH and temperature that cannot be readily controlled in vivo. The ROMP substrate norbornene is covalently conjugated to surface-exposed lysine residues of a P22 bacteriophage-derived VLP, and ROMP is induced by treatment with the water-soluble ruthenium catalyst AquaMet. Disruption of the P22 shell and release of a GFP reporter is confirmed via native agarose electrophoresis, TEM, and dynamic light scattering (DLS) analyses. Our ROMP disassembly strategy does not depend on the particular structure or morphology of the P22 nanocontainer and is adaptable to other VLP prototypes for the potential delivery of venom peptides for pharmacological applications.
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