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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2010

Discovery of a CXCR4 agonist pepducin that mobilizes bone marrow hematopoietic cells.

Boris Tchernychev, Yong Ren, Pallavi Sachdev, Jay M Janz, Lynn Haggis, Adam O'Shea, Ed McBride, Richard Looby, Qing Deng, Thomas McMurry and 4 more

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 56 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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56 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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5 · Who and what money

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14 authors.

Boris TchernychevAnchor Therapeutics, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA.
Yong Ren
Pallavi Sachdev
Jay M Janz
Lynn Haggis
Adam O'Shea
Ed McBride
Richard Looby
Qing Deng
Thomas McMurry
Manija A Kazmi
Thomas P Sakmar
Stephen Hunt
Kenneth E Carlson

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The G protein-coupled receptor (GPCR), chemokine CXC-type receptor 4 (CXCR4), and its ligand, CXCL12, mediate the retention of polymorphonuclear neutrophils (PMNs) and hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells (HSPCs) in the bone marrow. Agents that disrupt CXCL12-mediated chemoattraction of CXCR4-expressing cells mobilize PMNs and HSPCs into the peripheral circulation and are therapeutically useful for HSPC collection before autologous bone marrow transplantation (ABMT). Our aim was to develop unique CXCR4-targeted therapeutics using lipopeptide GPCR modulators called pepducins. A pepducin is a synthetic molecule composed of a peptide derived from the amino acid sequence of one of the intracellular (IC) loops of a target GPCR coupled to a lipid tether. We prepared and screened a small CXCR4-targeted pepducin library and identified several pepducins with in vitro agonist activity, including ATI-2341, whose peptide sequence derives from the first IC loop. ATI-2341 induced CXCR4- and G protein-dependent signaling, receptor internalization, and chemotaxis in CXCR4-expressing cells. It also induced dose-dependent peritoneal recruitment of PMNs when administered i.p. to mice. However, when administered systemically by i.v. bolus, ATI-2341 acted as a functional antagonist and dose-dependently mediated release of PMNs from the bone marrow of both mice and cynomolgus monkeys. ATI-2341-mediated release of granulocyte/macrophage progenitor cells from the bone marrow was confirmed by colony-forming assays. We conclude that ATI-2341 is a potent and efficacious mobilizer of bone marrow PMNs and HSPCs and could represent a previously undescribed therapeutic approach for the recruitment of HSPCs before ABMT.

Indexed as

Hematopoietic Stem Cell MobilizationAnimalsChemotaxisDose-Response Relationship, DrugHEK293 CellsHematopoietic Stem CellsHumansLeukocytes, MononuclearMacaca fascicularisMiceMice, Inbred BALB CPeptidesReceptors, CXCR4Signal TransductionCXCR4 protein, humanCXCR4 protein, mousePeptidesReceptors, CXCR4

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PMID21139054
PMCPMC3009824

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