申请人:Wang Lai-Xi
公开号:US20050159341A1
公开(公告)日:2005-07-21
Disclosed are scaffolded maleimide clusters, methods of making said clusters and use of said clusters as templates for multivalent peptide assembly. Multiple maleimide functionalities were introduced onto a scaffold molecule by the reaction of a core-centered polyamines with methoxycarbonylmaleimide or with activated esters of maleimide-containing compounds. The scaffolded maleimides allow rapid, highly chemoselective, and high-yield ligation with thiolcontaining peptides under virtually neutral conditions at room temperature. The disclosed mild and highly efficient ligation method is extremely valuable for synthesizing large and complex multivalent peptides that may not be easily obtained by conventional ligation methods. These novel scaffolded maleimide clusters allow a highly chemoselective ligation with a thiolcontaining peptide under virtually neutral conditions, providing a new and efficient approach for multivalent peptide assembly. The disclosed mild and highly efficient ligation method is extremely valuable for synthesizing large and complex multivalent peptides that may not be easily obtained by conventional ligation methods. A series of multivalent peptides containing the sequence of the 36-mer HIV-1 inhibitor DP178 (T20), the T-helper epitope from tetanus toxoid (830-844), and the minimum epitope sequence of the potent HIV-neutralizing antibody 2F5 were synthesized. Carbohydrates and cholic acid were chosen as the scaffold because of their rigidity and mufti-functionality. Thus, the topology of the multivalent peptides can be controlled by the defined spatial orientation of the maleimide functionalities on the rigid scaffold core. The resulting multivalent gp41 peptides incorporating strands of DP178 on the monosaccharide and the cholic acid templates were found to be able to form three or four a-helix bundles. Moreover, the multivalent peptides containing strands of the long gp41 peptide DP178 were highly immunogenic and were able to raise high titers of peptide-specific antibodies in the absence of any additional adjuvant. Therefore, these and related multivalent peptides constructed on the maleimide clusters may be used as novel immunogens, potential inhibitors, protein mimics, artificial proteins, and powerful antigens for a broad range of biomedical applications.
本发明涉及支架式马来酰亚胺聚集体、制备该聚集体的方法以及将该聚集体用作多价肽组装的模板。通过将核心中心的多胺与甲氧羰基马来酰亚胺或含马来酰亚胺的化合物的活化酯反应,引入多个马来酰亚胺官能团到支架分子上。支架马来酰亚胺允许在几乎中性条件下在室温下与含巯基的肽快速、高度化学选择性和高收率地连接。揭示的温和高效的连接方法对于合成大型和复杂的多价肽非常有价值,这些肽可能不容易通过传统的连接方法获得。这些新型的支架马来酰亚胺聚集体允许在几乎中性条件下与含巯基的肽高度化学选择性地连接,为多价肽组装提供了一种新的高效方法。合成了一系列多价肽,其中包含36-mer HIV-1抑制剂DP178(T20)的序列、破伤风类毒素T-helper表位(830-844)和强效HIV中和抗体2F5的最小表位序列。由于其刚性和多功能性,选择了碳水化合物和胆酸作为支架。因此,通过在刚性支架核心上定义的空间定向马来酰亚胺官能团的拓扑结构,可以控制多价肽的拓扑结构。结果发现,包含DP178链的多价gp41肽在单糖和胆酸模板上能够形成三或四个α-螺旋束。此外,包含长gp41肽DP178链的多价肽高度免疫原性,并且能够在没有任何额外佐剂的情况下产生高滴度的肽特异性抗体。因此,这些和相关的在马来酰亚胺聚集体上构建的多价肽可以用作新的免疫原、潜在的抑制剂、蛋白质模拟体、人造蛋白和广泛的生物医学应用中的强大抗原。