Chapter title |
Protein Mimicry and the Design of Bioactive Cell-Penetrating Peptides.
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Chapter number | 12 |
Book title |
Cell-Penetrating Peptides
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Published in |
Methods in molecular biology, January 2015
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DOI | 10.1007/978-1-4939-2806-4_12 |
Pubmed ID | |
Book ISBNs |
978-1-4939-2805-7, 978-1-4939-2806-4
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Authors |
John Howl, Sarah Jones |
Editors |
Ülo Langel |
Abstract |
The multi-domain architecture of many human proteins provides a structural basis for the physical maintenance of interactomes, or networks of protein-protein interactions (PPIs), that are so obviously crucial to cellular functions. Moreover, the structural and electrostatic complementarity provided by PPI interfaces, predominantly located on protein surfaces, is a fundamental component of signal transduction events that are known to be compromised in human diseases including many cancers.The pharmacokinetic advantages provided by cell-penetrating peptides (CPPs) are entirely compatible with the development of intrinsically permeable agents capable of modulating intracellular PPIs. Thus, the term bioportide is a useful descriptor of numerous bioactive CPPs that are distinct from the more usual inert CPP vectors. Herein we illustrate a generic strategy, predominantly centered upon the identification of cationic peptides derived from helical protein domains, which offers a reliable platform to identify bioportides capable of modulating intracellular signal transduction events. In addition, we describe robust methodologies to determine the precise intracellular distribution of fluorescent bioportides and present assays routinely employed to screen for the detrimental pharmacodynamic properties often exhibited by both CPPs and bioportides; namely adverse cytotoxicity and the receptor-independent stimulation of mast cell secretion. |
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