期刊
CHEMBIOCHEM
卷 14, 期 11, 页码 1316-1322出版社
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/cbic.201300228
关键词
amino acids; bicyclic peptides; glycine; peptides; urokinase
资金
- Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF Professorship) [PP00P3_123524/1]
- EMBO [EMBO ALTF 241]
Improving the binding affinity and/or stability of peptide ligands often requires testing of large numbers of variants to identify beneficial mutations. Herein we propose a type of mutation that promises a high success rate. In a bicyclic peptide inhibitor of the cancer-related protease urokinase-type plasminogen activator (uPA), we observed a glycine residue that has a positive phi dihedral angle when bound to the target. We hypothesized that replacing it with a D-amino acid, which favors positive phi angles, could enhance the binding affinity and/or proteolytic resistance. Mutation of this specific glycine to D-serine in the bicyclic peptide indeed improved inhibitory activity (1.75-fold) and stability (fourfold). X-ray-structure analysis of the inhibitors in complex with uPA showed that the peptide backbone conformation was conserved. Analysis of known cyclic peptide ligands showed that glycine is one of the most frequent amino acids, and that glycines with positive phi angles are found in many protein-bound peptides. These results suggest that the glycine-to-D-amino acid mutagenesis strategy could be broadly applied.
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