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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, 2010Development of Drug Delivery Systems for Targeted CancerChemotherapy Based on GnRH Antagonist andAgonist PeptidesBence Kapuvári 1 , Borbála Vincze 1 , Marilena Manea 2 , Miguel Tejeda 1 ,Ákos Schulcz 1 , József Tóvári 1 , Dezső Gaál 1 , Erika Orbán 3 ,Ildikó Szabó 3 , and Gábor Mező 31 National Institute of Oncology, Budapest, Hungary; 2 University of Konstanz,Zukunftskolleg and Department of Chemistry, Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry andBiopolymer Structure Analysis, Konstanz, Germany; 3 Research Group of PeptideChemistry, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Eötvös L. University, , Budapest, HungaryIntroductionTargeted cancer chemotherapy has been developed to over<strong>com</strong>e the drawbacks associatedwith the application of free anticancer drugs (e.g. lack of selectivity, toxic side effects,multi-drug resistance of cancer cells). Tumor targeting is achieved by conjugating achemotherapeutic agent to a targeting moiety which is directed to specific binding sites oncancer cells [1]. Gonadotropin releasing hormone (GnRH) receptor expression wasidentified on different types of tumors, such as breast, ovarian, colon, endometrial, prostate,renal, brain, pancreatic, melanomas and non-Hodgkin’s lymphomas [2].The aim of our work was to use GnRH agonist and antagonist peptides as targetingmoieties for the attachment of anticancer drugs. Bioconjugates in which thechemotherapeutic agent daunorubicin (Dau) was attached through an oxime bond to theGnRH analogs MI-1892 (Ac-wxwSkD(LQPa-NH 2 )-DEA, where x is D-p-chlorophenylalanine,DEA is diethylamide, and small letters mean D-amino acids) [3] and GnRH-III(

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