Low Molecular Weight Disulfide Cross-Linking Peptides as Nonviral Gene Delivery Carriers
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Abstract
Cross-linking peptides have been developed by inserting multiple Cys residues into a 20 amino acid condensing peptide that polymerizes through disulfide bond formation when bound to DNA resulting in small, highly stable DNA condensates that mediate efficient in vitro gene transfer [McKenzie et al. (2000) J. Biol. Chem. 275, 9970-9977]. In the present study, a minimal peptide of four Lys and two terminal Cys residues was found to substitute for Cys-Trp-(Lys)(17)-Cys, resulting in DNA condensates with similar particle size and gene expression in HepG2 cells. Substitution of His for Lys residues resulted in an optimal peptide of Cys-His-(Lys)(6)-His-Cys that, in addition to the attributes described above, also provided buffering capacity to enhance in vitro gene expression in the absence of chloroquine. The reported structure-activity relationships systematically explore peptides with combinations of Lys, Cys, and His residues resulting in low molecular weight peptides with improved gene transfer properties.
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