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ArticleJournal of computer-aided molecular design2013

Engineering strategy to improve peptide analogs: from structure-based computational design to tumor homing.

David Zanuy, Francisco J Sayago, Guillem Revilla-López, Gema Ballano, Lilach Agemy, Venkata Ramana Kotamraju, Ana I Jiménez, Carlos Cativiela, Ruth Nussinov, April M Sawvel and 3 more

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Article in Journal of computer-aided molecular design, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5citing papers in PubMed
0.3field-weighted citation impact, top 43% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed, 17 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Dendritic Self-assembled Structures from Therapeutic Charged Pentapeptides.Langmuir : the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids · 2022
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  5. New p32/gC1qR Ligands for Targeted Tumor Drug Delivery.Chembiochem : a European journal of chemical biology · 2016
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

13 authors at 6 institutions in 3 countries.

David ZanuyDepartment of Chemical Engineering, ETSEIB, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Diagonal 647, 08028 Barcelona, Spain. david.zanuy@upc.edu
Francisco J Sayago
Guillem Revilla-López
Gema Ballano
Lilach Agemy
Venkata Ramana Kotamraju
Ana I Jiménez
Carlos Cativiela
Ruth Nussinov
April M Sawvel
Galen Stucky
Erkki Ruoslahti
Carlos Alemán
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute · USUniversitat Politècnica de Catalunya · ESInstituto de Síntesis Química y Catálisis Homogénea · ESUniversidad de Zaragoza · ESUniversity of California, Santa Barbara · USScience Applications International Corporation (United States) · US

Funding

Tumor Microenvironment and Cancer ImmunologyP30CA030199 · NCI · SANFORD BURNHAM PREBYS MEDICAL DISCOVERY INSTITUTE · PI Michael Jackson · 1985 to 2026
$107.2M
Protein Structure, Stability, and Amyloid FormationZIABC010440 · NCI · DIVISION OF BASIC SCIENCES - NCI · PI NUSSINOV, RUTH · 2009 to 2025
$11.8M
Biomolecular Recognition and Binding MechanismsZIABC010441 · NCI · DIVISION OF BASIC SCIENCES - NCI · PI NUSSINOV, RUTH · 2009 to 2025
$9.4M
Protein Structure, Stability, and Amyloid FormationZ01BC010440 · NCI · DIVISION OF BASIC SCIENCES - NCI · PI NUSSINOV, RUTH · 2002 to 2008
$1.4M
CCR NIH HHS HHSN261200800001CIntramural NIH HHS Z01 BC010440NCI NIH HHS 5P30CA30199-28NCI NIH HHS HHSN261200800001ENCI NIH HHS P30 CA030199
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We present a chemical strategy to engineer analogs of the tumor-homing peptide CREKA (Cys-Arg-Glu-Lys-Ala), which binds to fibrin and fibrin-associated clotted plasma proteins in tumor vessels (Simberg et al. in Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 104:932-936, 2007) with improved ability to inhibit tumor growth. Computer modeling using a combination of simulated annealing and molecular dynamics were carried out to design targeted replacements aimed at enhancing the stability of the bioactive conformation of CREKA. Because this conformation presents a pocket-like shape with the charged groups of Arg, Glu and Lys pointing outward, non-proteinogenic amino acids α-methyl and N-methyl derivatives of Arg, Glu and Lys were selected, rationally designed and incorporated into CREKA analogs. The stabilization of the bioactive conformation predicted by the modeling for the different CREKA analogs matched the tumor fluorescence results, with tumor accumulation increasing with stabilization. Here we report the modeling, synthetic procedures, and new biological assays used to test the efficacy and utility of the analogs. Combined, our results show how studies based on multi-disciplinary collaboration can converge and lead to useful biomedical advances.

Indexed as

Drug DesignAmino AcidsAnimalsAntineoplastic AgentsDrug Screening Assays, AntitumorMiceMolecular Dynamics SimulationNanostructuresOligopeptidesPeptidesProtein ConformationAmino AcidsAntineoplastic Agentscysteinyl-arginyl-glutamyl-lysyl-alanylOligopeptidesPeptides

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PMID23239171
PMCPMC7553648
OpenAlexW2011685576

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