Anticancer peptides are promising drug candidates for cancer treatment, but the short circulation time and low delivery efficiency limit their clinical applications. Herein, we designed several lasso-like self-assembling anticancer peptides (LASAPs) integrated with multiple functions by a computer-aided approach. Among these LASAPs, LASAP1 (CRGDKGPDCGKAFRRFLGALFKALSHLL, 1-9 disulfide bond) was determined to be superior to the others because it can self-assemble into homogeneous nanoparticles and exhibits improved stability in serum. Thus, LASAP1 was chosen for proving the design idea. LASAP1 can self-assemble into nanoparticles displaying iRGD on the surface because of its amphiphilic structure and accumulate to the tumor site after injection because of the EPR effect and iRGD targeting to alpha V beta 3 integrin. The nanoparticles could disassemble in the acidic microenvironment of the solid tumor, and cleaved by the overexpressed hK2, which was secreted by prostate tumor cells, to release the effector peptide PTP-7b (FLGALFKALSHLL), which was further activated by the acidic pH. Therefore, LASAP1 could target the orthotopic prostate tumor in the model mice after intraperitoneal injection and specifically inhibit tumor growth, with low systematic toxicity. Combining the multiple targeting functions, LASAP1 represents a promising design of self-delivery of peptide drugs for targeted cancer treatments.
基金:
National Key Research and Development Program of China [2021YFC2103900]; National Natural Science Foundation of China [91853116, 22077010]; Military Biosecurity Research Program [19SWAQ06]; Joint Project of BRC-BC (Biomedical Translational Engineering Research Center of BUCT-CJFH) [XK2020-09, XK2022-07]
第一作者单位:[1]Beijing Univ Chem Technol, Coll Life Sci & Technol, Beijing Key Lab Bioproc, Beijing 100029, Peoples R China
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Pei Pengfei,Chen Long,Fan Ruru,et al.Computer-Aided Design of Lasso-like Self-Assembling Anticancer Peptides with Multiple Functions for Targeted Self-Delivery and Cancer Treatments[J].ACS NANO.2022,doi:10.1021/acsnano.2c01014.
APA:
Pei, Pengfei,Chen, Long,Fan, Ruru,Zhou, Xi-Rui,Feng, Shan...&Luo, Shi-Zhong.(2022).Computer-Aided Design of Lasso-like Self-Assembling Anticancer Peptides with Multiple Functions for Targeted Self-Delivery and Cancer Treatments.ACS NANO,,
MLA:
Pei, Pengfei,et al."Computer-Aided Design of Lasso-like Self-Assembling Anticancer Peptides with Multiple Functions for Targeted Self-Delivery and Cancer Treatments".ACS NANO .(2022)