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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, 2010Rational Design and Optimization of the Newly DesignedGlycopeptide Sequence to Develop the Diagnostic/PrognosticAssay for Multiple SclerosisShashank Pandey 1,2 , Elisa Peroni 3 , Paolo Rovero 1,5 , Francesco Lolli 1,4 ,Mario Chelli 1,2 , Anna Maria D’Ursi 6 , and Anna Maria Papini 1,2,31 Laboratory of Peptide & Protein Chemistry & Biology, University of Florence, I-50019,Sesto Fiorentino (FI), Italy; 2 Department of Chemistry “Ugo Schiff”and CNR ICCOM,Via della Lastruccia 3/13, University of Florence, I-50019, Sesto Fiorentino (FI), Italy;3 Laboratoire SOSCO-EA4505, Universitè de Cergy-Pontoise, Neuville-sur-Oise, F-95031,Cergy-Pontoise, France; 4 Department of Neurological Sciences & Azienda OspedalieraCareggi, Viale Morgagni 34, University of Florence, I-50134, Firenze, Italy; 5 Departmentof Pharmaceutical Sciences Via Ugo Schiff 6, University of Florence, I-50019, SestoFiorentino (FI), Italy; 6 Deptartment of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Salerno,I-84084, Fisciano, ItalyIntroductionFig. 1. Ribbon diagram of thelowest energy conformer of 50calculated structures of designedglycopeptide analogs derived fromNMR data in micelles of DPC/SDS.Circulating autoantibodies are interesting biomarkersof patients affected by autoimmune diseases. Thesespecific autoantibodies can be used as diagnostic,prognostic, and theragnostic tools for autoimmunediseases.In previous studies, we have already demonstratedthe ability of an N-glucosylated peptide [i.e.,CSF114(Glc)] as an efficient probe to detect, isolate,and characterize autoantibodies as biomarkers ofMultiple Sclerosis. In fact, CSF114(Glc) is a simple,reliable, and efficient tool, based on an aberrantN-glucosylation possibly involved in triggeringautoantibodies in Multiple Sclerosis [1-4]. Thisglycopeptide is characterized by a type I′ β-turnsurrounding the minimal but fundamental epitopeAsn(Glc) that allows an efficient exposure of thismoiety for antibody recognition in the context of asolid-phase immunoenzymatic assay [5].We report herein, how once again a structurallydesigned glycopeptides could display increasedantibody recognition (IgMs and IgGs) <strong>com</strong>pared toCSF114(Glc) in the solid-phase conditions of ELISAon MS patients’ sera for the development of MSPepKit (Figure 1).Results and DiscussionWith the aim of optimizing autoantibody recognition in MS patients’ sera, we designed anew glycopeptide to develop an efficient MS PepKit. Some fragments of nervous systemproteins, containing N-glycosylation consensus sequences (Asn-Xaa-Ser/Thr), wereselected from SwissProt database. Maintaining Asn(Glc) at position 7 and modifying aminoacids sequence to increase homology towards native fragments of nervous system proteins(Table1).504

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