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Table 2. Enzymatic Digestion of GnRH-III(Dau-spacer) conjugates by Cathepsin Ba, GnRH-III-Ttds(Ac-CALAL-Dau)b, GnRH-III-Ttds(Ac-CGGFL-Dau)MBHA resin. Daunorubicin was conjugated to the spacers via amide bond, while the spacersequences were attached to the GnRH-III peptide via thioether bond. The peptides and theconjugates were purified by semi-preparative RP-HPLC and characterized by analyticalRP-HPLC and mass spectrometry.Racemization was observed at the conjugation of spacer molecules containing Leu attheir C-terminus.The influence of the spacer sequences on the in vitro antitumor ativity of theconjugates was investigated on MCF-7 human breast and HT-29 human colon cancer cellsby MTT assay (Table 1).The drug release from the amide bond-linked GnRH-III(Dau-spacer) conjugates wasdetermined in the presence of Cathepsin B. In case of conjugates GnRH-III-Ttds-(Dau-AcCGFLG) and GnRH-III-Ttds-(Dau-AcCALAL), the smallest metabolites were Daucontaining tripeptides (H-LAL-Dau, H-FLG-Dau). The GnRH-III-Ttds-(Dau-AcCGFLG)conjugate degraded in the highest rate, followed by the GnRH-III-Ttds-(Dau-AcCALAL).No significant cleavage was observed in case of GnRH-III-Ttds-(Dau-AcCGGFL).The GnRH-III-Ttds-(Dau-AcCYRRL) conjugate has not been analyzed yet. Free Dau wasnot detected in the digestion mixtures.Degradation of the bioconjugates in lysosomal homogenates will be performed.Further experiments are needed to determine the correlation between the cytostatic effectand the metabolites.AcknowledgmentsThe authors thank to Hedvig Medzihradszky-Schweiger PhD, C.Sc. This study was supported bygrants from the Hungarian National Science Fund (OTKA NK77485, F 67884, K 81596), theUniversity of Konstanz (Zukunftskolleg, Project 879/08) and GVOP-3.2.1.-2004-04-0005/3.References1. Mező, G., et al. Collection Symposium Series 11, 72-76 (2009).2. Szabó, I., et al. Bioconjug. Chem. 20, 656-665 (2009).3. Calderon, M., et al. Bioorg. Med. Chem. Lett. 19, 3725-3728 (2009).4. Ajaj, K.A., et al. Cancer Chemother. Pharmacol. 64, 413-418 (2009).5. Bartos, Á., et al. Biopolymers 92, 110-115 (2009).517

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