期刊
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL MACROMOLECULES
卷 252, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2023.126520
关键词
Protein cyclization; Protein delivery; Photodynamic therapy; Liposomes; Permeability; Stability
This study demonstrates the importance of cyclized recombinant proteins in terms of cell permeability and stability. Cyclized proteins show higher permeability and resistance to enzymatic degradation compared to linear proteins. This strategy can improve photodynamic therapy outcomes.
Despite the therapeutic potential of recombinant proteins, their cell permeabilities and stabilities remain sig-nificant challenges. Here we demonstrate that cyclized recombinant proteins can be used as universal cargos for permeable and stable delivery into cells and polydiacetylene liposomes. Utilizing a split intein-mediated process, cyclized model fluorescent proteins containing short tetraarginine (R4) and hexahistidine (H6) tags were generated without compromising their native protein functions. Strikingly, as compared to linear R4/H6-tagged proteins, the cyclized counterparts have substantially increased permeabilities in both cancer cells and synthetic liposomes, as well as higher resistances to enzymatic degradation in cancer cells. These properties are likely a consequence of structural constraints imposed on the proteins in the presence of short functional peptides. Additionally, photodynamic therapy by cyclized photoprotein-loaded liposomes in cancer cells was significantly improved in comparison to that by their non-cyclized counterparts. These findings suggest that our strategy will be universally applicable to intercellular delivery of proteins and therapeutics.
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