Vascular ligand-receptor mapping by direct combinatorial selection in cancer patients
Vascular ligand-receptor mapping by direct combinatorial selection in cancer patients
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DOI:
10.1073/pnas.1114503108
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发表时间:
2011-11-15
影响因子:
11.1
通讯作者:
Arap, Wadih
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作者:
Staquicini, Fernanda I.;Cardo-Vila, Marina;Arap, Wadih
Molecules differentially expressed in blood vessels among organs or between damaged and normal tissues, are attractive therapy targets; however, their identification within the human vasculature is challenging. Here we screened a peptide library in cancer patients to uncover ligand-receptors common or specific to certain vascular beds. Surveying similar to 2.35 x 10(6) motifs recovered from biopsies yielded a nonrandom distribution, indicating that systemic tissue targeting is feasible. High-throughput analysis by similarity search, protein arrays, and affinity chromatography revealed four native ligand-receptors, three of which were previously unrecognized. Two are shared among multiple tissues (integrin alpha 4/annexin A4 and cathepsin B/apolipoprotein E3) and the other two have a restricted and specific distribution in normal tissue (prohibitin/annexin A2 in white adipose tissue) or cancer (RAGE/leukocyte proteinase-3 in bone metastases). These findings provide vascular molecular markers for biotechnology and medical applications.