to a redox-activatable cyclic peptide incorporating cell-penetrating peptide (CPP), expecting selective activation under intracellular reducing conditions. The cyclic peptide moiety exhibited enhanced stability to protease and was converted to the linear, unmodified LSD1 inhibitor peptide under reducing conditions. The cyclic peptide with CPP inhibited the proliferation of human acute myeloid leukemia
肽是有吸引力的候选药物,但是其用途受到蛋白
水解降解的固有敏感性以及无法通过细胞膜的极大限制。在这里,我们采用暂时环化的策略来开发细胞活性的赖
氨酸特异性脱甲基酶1(L
SD1 / K
DM1A)
抑制剂肽。我们首先在结合
抑制剂肽的L
SD1·CoREST的X射线晶体结构数据的帮助下,鉴定了一种高效的L
SD1抑制性线性肽。将该肽转化为掺入细胞穿透肽(CPP)的可氧化还原激活的环状肽,期望在细胞内还原条件下进行选择性激活。环状肽部分对
蛋白酶表现出增强的稳定性,并在还原条件下转化为线性,未修饰的L
SD1
抑制剂肽。