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Anticancer peptide therapeutics

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基本信息

批准号：
9754621
负责人：
Yin Wang
金额：
$ 34.28万
依托单位：
UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
财政年份：
2017
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2017-08-01 至 2022-11-30
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9754621
关键词：
Acute Myelocytic Leukemia Affinity Antibodies Antineoplastic Agents Apoptotic Binding Cancer Patient Cancerous Cell physiology Cellular Stress Cessation of life Chemistry Clinical Clinical Treatment Colon Carcinoma Country DNA Damage DNA Sequence Alteration Development Discipline Disease Disease remission Drug Industry Drug Targeting Expenditure Funding Goals Growth Health Care Costs Hematopoietic Homologous Gene Human Impairment In Vitro Intervention Laboratories Lead MDM2 gene Malignant Neoplasms Malignant neoplasm of liver Malignant neoplasm of lung Modality Molecular Target Molecular Weight Monoclonal Antibodies Mus Mutate Mutation Mutation Analysis Normal Cell Pathway interactions Patients Peptide Hydrolases Peptide antibodies Peptides Pharmaceutical Preparations Pharmacology Play Pluripotent Stem Cells Predisposition Primary Neoplasm Property Protein p53 Proteins Proteolysis Recombinants Relapse Research Resistance Role Runaway Running Series Side Signal Pathway Specificity Structure Survival Rate TP53 gene Techniques Testing Therapeutic Transactivation Transplantation Treatment Efficacy Tumor Cell Line Tumor Suppressor Proteins Uterine Cancer X-Ray Crystallography acute myeloid leukemia cell anti-cancer anti-cancer therapeutic antibody conjugate base cancer cell cancer therapy cell injury chemotherapy design drug discovery genotoxicity improved in vivo inhibitor/antagonist innovation leukemia leukemia treatment malignant breast neoplasm malignant stomach neoplasm molecular targeted therapies myeloid leukemia cell nanomolar neoplastic cell new therapeutic target novel novel therapeutics overexpression peptide L peptide drug prevent protein protein interaction rare cancer research and development response transcription factor trend tumor tumor growth tumorigenesis ubiquitin-protein ligase uptake weapons

项目摘要

Despite an exponential increase over decades in research and development (R&D) expenditures by the pharmaceutical industry, the average number of new drugs approved annually by the FDA, 25 or so, has remained stagnant. The unsustainable trend of runaway spending in R&D directly contributes to skyrocketing health care costs across the country, underscoring an urgent need for new drug targets and classes. Protein-protein interactions (PPIs) control all aspects of cellular processes and are considered to be the “Holy Grail” in drug discovery and ultimate drug targets for disease intervention. Unfortunately, neither of the two major classes of existing drugs – low molecular weight compounds and antibodies are effective in interfering with intracellular PPIs. On the other hand, although small peptides are capable of effectively disrupting PPIs, they generally lack drug-like properties due primarily to their susceptibility to proteolytic degradation in vivo. A sensible solution to this long-running enigma in drug discovery is side chain-stapled L-peptides and proteolysis-resistant D-peptides. Antagonizing MDM2/MDMX to activate p53 is one of the most promising therapeutic paradigms for anticancer therapy. We have recently developed a series of high-affinity L- and D-peptide antagonists of MDM2 that effectively suppress tumor growth in vitro and in vivo in a p53- and MDM2-dependent manner. To achieve sustained and robust p53 activation and optimal therapeutic efficacy, however, dual-specificity antagonists of both MDM2 and MDMX are needed. The overall goal of this proposed research is to develop ultrahigh- affinity, dual-specificity, and proteolysis-resistant peptide antagonists of MDM2 and MDMX as a powerful p53- activating modality for the treatment of acute myeloid leukemia – where mutations of the TP53 gene are rare and MDM2 and MDMX are often amplified or over-expressed. This project may lead to the addition of new weapons to the existing anticancer arsenal and broadly impact the development of peptide therapeutics for targeted molecular therapy of many other diseases as well.

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