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ArticleBioconjugate chemistry2010

Synthesis and splice-redirecting activity of branched, arginine-rich peptide dendrimer conjugates of peptide nucleic acid oligonucleotides.

Amer F Saleh, Andrey Arzumanov, Rachida Abes, David Owen, Bernard Lebleu, Michael J Gait

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Article in Bioconjugate chemistry, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers.

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17 citing papers in PubMed, 50 citations in OpenAlex.

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6 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Amer F SalehMedical Research Council, Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
Andrey Arzumanov
Rachida Abes
David Owen
Bernard Lebleu
Michael J Gait
Medical Research Council · GBMRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology · GBUniversité de Montpellier · FR

Funding

Medical Research Council MC_U105178803
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Arginine-rich cell-penetrating peptides have found excellent utility in cell and in vivo models for enhancement of delivery of attached charge-neutral PNA or PMO oligonucleotides. We report the synthesis of dendrimeric peptides containing 2- or 4-branched arms each having one or more R-Ahx-R motifs and their disulfide conjugation to a PNA705 splice-redirecting oligonucleotide. Conjugates were assayed in a HeLa pLuc705 cell assay for luciferase up-regulation and splicing redirection. Whereas 8-Arg branched peptide-PNA conjugates showed poor activity compared to a linear (R-Ahx-R)(4)-PNA conjugate, 2-branched and some 4-branched 12 and 16 Arg peptide-PNA conjugates showed activity similar to that of the corresponding linear peptide-PNA conjugates. Many of the 12- and 16-Arg conjugates retained significant activity in the presence of serum. Evidence showed that biological activity in HeLa pLuc705 cells of the PNA conjugates of branched and linear (R-Ahx-R) peptides is associated with an energy-dependent uptake pathway, predominantly clathrin-dependent, but also with some caveolae dependence.

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ArginineRNA SplicingAmino Acid MotifsBase SequenceDendrimersHeLa CellsHumansPeptide Nucleic AcidsPeptidesProtein TransportArginineDendrimersPeptide Nucleic AcidsPeptides

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PMID20879728
PMCPMC2963316
OpenAlexW2091562881

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