Isolation of novel cell-penetrating peptides from a random peptide library using in vitro virus and their modifications
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- Published online on: January 1, 2010 https://doi.org/10.3892/ijmm_00000311
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Abstract
A number of cell-penetrating peptides (CPPs) have been reported, but their transduction efficiencies are too low to be used as intracellular carriers for therapeutic purposes. We conducted a comprehensive search to find novel CPPs using an in vitro virus (IVV) library, which presented random peptides consisting of 15 amino acids (diversity of the library was >1012). We found 9 kinds of novel CPPs with an intracellular translocation efficiency higher than that of the TAT peptide (YGRKKKRRQRRR). Interestingly, one of the novel CPPs, No. 14 (KLWMRWYSPTTRRYG), showed a dramatic improvement in translocation activity relative to the TAT peptide in CHO cells (>10-fold efficiency in 50 µM). As the intracellular translocation efficiency of No. 14 was increased by substitution Arg for Lys1 (14-1), we carried out alanine scanning on the basis of 14-1 to determine important amino acids for the intracellular translocation. The Ala substitution analysis showed that both Arg and Trp residues were important for the cell-penetrating activity and that their contribution was in the order Trp3
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January 2010
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