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<strong>Proceedings</strong> of the 31 st European Peptide SymposiumMichal Lebl, Morten Meldal, Knud J. Jensen, Thomas Hoeg-Jensen (Editors)European Peptide Society, 2010Anti-Plasmodium Effects of Angiotensin II AnaloguesVani X. Oliveira Jr. 1 , Mayra Chamlian 1 , Ceres Maciel 2 ,Margareth L. Capurro 2 , and Antonio Miranda 31 Universidade Federal do ABC, Santo André, 09210-170, Brazil; 2 Universidade de SãoPaulo, São Paulo, 05508-000, Brazil; 3 Universidade Federal de São Paulo,São Paulo, 04023-900, BrazilIntroductionMalaria is a major parasitic disease affecting around 300-500 million people in the world.The efforts to control this disease are hampered by drug resistance in parasites, insecticideresistance in mosquitoes, and the lack of an effective vaccine. Recently, we performed astudy, which showed that Angiotensin II (AII) and some analogues are highly activeagainst immature and mature sporozoites of Plasmodium gallinaceum [1]. In an attempt toincrease the biological activity, we have scanned the whole AII sequence with i-(i+2) andi-(i+3) lactam bridge, consisting of the Asp-(X) n -Lys scaffold. The biological resultsindicated cell damage, after 60 minutes incubation with cyclic analogues VC-5, VC-17 andVC-19, which present the introduction of the side-chain to side-chain bridging element inthe N-terminal portion, and with the linear peptides VC-12, VC-26 and VC-28, that presentthe insertion of Asp and Lys residues in the C-terminal portion. These results suggest thatthe lactam bridge position in the sequence is important for the association of the moleculewith the sporozoite membrane; and that biological effect could be increased with theaddition of charged amino acid residues. This kind of approach may offer the basis fordevelopment the new drugs for malaria prevention and chemotherapy.Results and DiscussionThe peptides were synthesized by solid-phase methodology, using t-Boc strategy on achloromethylated resin [2]. Solid phase side-chain to side-chain cyclization of the peptideson the resin was performed by BOP/DIEA [3]. Peptides were cleaved from the resin usinganhydrous HF, purified by RP-HPLC and characterized by RP-HPLC, capillary zoneelectrophoresis, amino acid analysis and mass spectrometry [4].In the bioassays, the sporozoites were incubated with 40 µM digitonin, 60 µM AIIanalogues or PBS, for 60 minutes at 37°C. Cell membrane integrity was then monitored byfluorescence microscopy, adding 1 µl of propidium iodide. The biological results arepresented in the Figure 1.VC-30VC-29Fig. 1. Effects on membrane permeability of mature sporozoites when incubatedVC-28VC-27with AII and VC peptides.PeptidesVC-26VC-25VC-24VC-23VC-22VC-21VC-20VC-19VC-18VC-17VC-16VC-15VC-14VC-13VC-12VC-11VC-10VC-9VC-8VC-7VC-6VC-5VC-4VC-3VC-2VC-1Ang II0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100% Sporozoites FluorescentFig. 1. Effects on membrane permeability of mature sporozoites when incubated with AII andVC peptides.352

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