CN113604214A - High-stability oncolytic peptide fluorescent probe and preparation method and application thereof - Google Patents

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Abstract

The invention provides a high-stability oncolytic peptide fluorescent probe and a preparation method and application thereof, belonging to the technical field of biological medicine and disease treatment. The invention synthesizes a series of novel oncolytic peptide fluorescent probes, which are formed by connecting LTX-315 and rhodamine B by different connecting groups, and experiments prove that the novel oncolytic peptide fluorescent probes prepared by the invention not only can emit red fluorescence, but also greatly increase the activity of oncolytic peptide on adherent cells. Meanwhile, the dose-response curve shows that the antitumor activity of the modified polypeptide is obviously improved, and the antitumor activity is about 10 times of that of LTX-315. The aging curve shows that the structural modification of the oncolytic peptide increases the stability of the oncolytic peptide, prolongs the action time and solves the defects of low activity, incapability of tracing and the like of LTX-315 on adherent cells. Therefore, it has good practical application value.

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High-stability oncolytic peptide fluorescent probe and preparation method and application thereof
Technical Field
The invention belongs to the technical field of biological medicine and disease treatment, and particularly relates to a high-stability oncolytic peptide fluorescent probe, and a preparation method and application thereof.
Background
The information in this background section is only for enhancement of understanding of the general background of the invention and is not necessarily to be construed as an admission or any form of suggestion that this information forms the prior art that is already known to a person of ordinary skill in the art.
In 2020, there are about 1930 million new cancer cases and nearly 1000 million cancer patients die due to ineffective treatment. Chemotherapy remains a conventional and important systemic treatment in tumor treatment options, but is limited by adverse reactions and drug resistance, so that a new effective anticancer drug with small toxic and side effects is urgently needed to be found.
Oncolytic peptides are a class of antineoplastic drugs derived from or inspired by natural antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) that exhibit high antitumor activity while being less toxic to normal cells. Importantly, the oncolytic peptides mediate anti-cancer effects regardless of the genetic and epigenetic characteristics of the tumor cells, which is largely determined by their unique physicochemical properties, in particular, the net positive charge on the surface of the oncolytic peptide and the specific distribution of hydrophobic residues are critical for oncolytic peptide activity. The oncolytic peptide is combined with the cell membrane of the tumor cell due to electrostatic interaction, and hydrophobic residues are inserted into the cell membrane to destroy a lipid bilayer, promote the lysis of the membrane and finally cause the death of the tumor cell.
The cationic oncolytic peptide LTX-315 obtained by modifying natural antimicrobial peptide bovine lactoferrin has high anti-tumor activity (4-hour IC) on suspended tumor cells50Only 8.3 +/-1.2 mu M) is a cationic oncolytic peptide with wide prospect. LTX-315 disrupts the cell membrane and mitochondrial membrane of tumor cells, and after cell membrane disruption, the cellular contents flow out, releasing danger-associated molecular pattern molecules (danger-associated molecular pattern molecules) that trigger a strong immune response, which reflects the ability of LTX-315 to kill tumor cells and induce a protective immune response. The treatment of LTX-315 can reduce the number of immunosuppressive cells, increase the abundance of effector T cells, and finally achieve the effect of remodeling the tumor microenvironment.
The inventors found that although LTX-315 had a strong activity on suspended tumor cells, the peptide synthesized by the former human had a poor activity on adherent tumor cells with a 24-hour IC50About 150 μ M, and the specific mechanism of anticancer has been unknown, which has limited its application.
Disclosure of Invention
Based on the defects of the prior art, the invention provides a high-stability oncolytic peptide fluorescent probe and a preparation method and application thereof. The invention synthesizes a series of novel oncolytic peptide fluorescent probes, which are formed by connecting different connecting groups of LTX-315 and rhodamine B and are verified by experiments, the novel oncolytic peptide fluorescent probes prepared by the invention not only can emit red fluorescence, but also greatly increase the inhibitory activity of oncolytic peptide on adherent tumor cells, and a dose-effect curve shows that the antitumor activity of the modified polypeptide is obviously improved, and the antitumor activity is about 10 times of that of LTX-315. Meanwhile, the aging curve shows that the structural modification of the oncolytic peptide greatly increases the stability of the oncolytic peptide, prolongs the action time and solves the defects of low activity, incapability of tracing and the like of LTX-315 on adherent cells. Therefore, the high-stability oncolytic peptide fluorescent probe has good practical application value.
In order to achieve the technical purpose, the technical scheme adopted by the invention is as follows:
in a first aspect of the present invention, a high-stability oncolytic peptide fluorescent probe is provided, which comprises the following amino acid residue sequence:
WKW-212 rhodamine B-5-amino-3-oxopentanoic acid-KKWWKKW (Dip) K-NH2
WKW-217 rhodamine B-GABA-KKWWKKW (Dip) K-NH2
WKW-223 rhodamine B-11-amino-3, 6, 9-trioxaundecanoic acid-KKWWKKW (Dip) K-NH2
WKW-385 rhodamine B-AEEA-KKWWKKW (Dip) K-NH2
The oncolytic peptide fluorescent probe can emit red fluorescence, and realizes the space-time positioning and tracing of the oncolytic peptide. Meanwhile, the anti-tumor activity and stability of the oncolytic peptide are greatly improved, and particularly the killing activity to adherent tumor cells is remarkably improved.
In a second aspect of the present invention, there is provided a nucleotide encoding the oncolytic peptide fluorescent probe, comprising any one of the following groups:
(a) a nucleotide encoding a polypeptide having the amino acid sequence;
(b) a nucleotide complementary to the nucleotide of (a).
The third aspect of the invention provides a synthesis method of the oncolytic peptide fluorescent probe, wherein the synthesis method comprises the steps of synthesizing polypeptide by adopting a solid-phase polypeptide synthesis method, and carrying out condensation reaction on the polypeptide, a connecting group and a fluorescent group for connection.
Specifically, the polypeptide is synthesized by a solid-phase polypeptide synthesis method (Fmoc-SPPS) based on 9-fluorenylmethyloxycarbonyl.
In a fourth aspect of the present invention, an application of the above-mentioned oncolytic peptide fluorescent probe in preparation of a medicament for preventing and/or treating (adjunctively treating) tumor-related diseases is provided.
Also, it is noted that tumors are used in the present invention as known to those skilled in the art, which include benign tumors and/or malignant tumors. Benign tumors are defined as cellular hyperproliferation that fails to form aggressive, metastatic tumors in vivo. Conversely, a malignant tumor is defined as a cell with various cellular and biochemical abnormalities capable of forming a systemic disease (e.g., forming tumor metastases in distant organs).
In a fifth aspect of the invention, a composition is provided, which comprises the above-described high-stability oncolytic peptide fluorescent probe.
In a sixth aspect of the invention, a formulation is provided, which comprises a high-stability oncolytic peptide fluorescent probe and pharmaceutically acceptable excipients and/or carriers.
In a seventh aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method for preventing and/or treating a tumor, the method comprising: comprising administering to a subject a therapeutically effective dose of the above-described high stability oncolytic peptide fluorescent probe, the above-described composition or the above-described formulation.
In an eighth aspect of the present invention, there is provided the use of the above-described high-stability oncolytic peptide fluorescent probe as a non-therapeutic tumor cell inhibitor and/or tracer. According to the invention, the "non-therapeutic purpose" is, for example, inhibition of tumor cell proliferation and promotion of tumor cell death in vitro, and in particular, the killing activity of the high-stability oncolytic peptide fluorescent probe on adherent tumor cells is higher; meanwhile, the high-stability oncolytic peptide fluorescent probe can emit red fluorescence so as to realize space-time positioning and tracing of the oncolytic peptide, has longer red fluorescence wavelength and stronger penetrating power, is applied to imaging of cells, tissues and living animals, and can be used as a tracing agent so as to explore the anti-tumor activity and action mechanism of the oncolytic peptide at the level of molecules, cells, tissues and animals.
The beneficial technical effects of the technical scheme are as follows:
1) according to the technical scheme, the time-space positioning and tracing of the oncolytic peptide are realized by enabling the oncolytic peptide to emit red fluorescence. The red fluorescence has longer wavelength and stronger penetrating power, can be widely applied to cell imaging, living animal imaging and the like, and the fluorescent probe is an important tool for researching the action mechanism and positioning of the oncolytic peptide at the cell and animal level.
2) The technical scheme can greatly improve the anti-tumor activity of the oncolytic peptide. The synthetic oncolytic peptide fluorescent probe greatly improves the killing activity of the oncolytic peptide on adherent tumor cells. Wherein, IC of each peptide50(24 hours) 14.7. + -. 2.7. mu.M (WKW-212), 15.2. + -. 0.9. mu.M (WKW-217), 14.3. + -. 1.4. mu.M (WKW-223) and 13.8. + -. 0.3. mu.M (WKW-385), respectively, compared to the IC of the classical oncolytic peptide LTX-31550The killing activity of the oncolytic peptide fluorescent probe on adherent tumor cells is improved by more than 10 times according to the experiment, wherein the killing activity is as high as 152 +/-5.9 mu M.
3) The technical scheme can greatly improve the stability of the oncolytic peptide. The oncolytic peptides such as LTX-315 and the like developed by the predecessors have relatively simple structure, are easily degraded by protease in vivo, and have poor biological stability and short half-life. According to the project, groups such as rhodamine B, polyethylene glycol and the like are introduced to the oncolytic peptide, so that the degradation of the oncolytic peptide by protease can be prevented, the enzymolysis stability of the oncolytic peptide is improved, and the application value is high. The aging curve shows that the anti-tumor activity of the oncolytic peptide fluorescent probe can be maintained for more than 72 hours; while the antitumor activity of traditional oncolytic peptides such as LTX-315 and the like begins to decline in 12 hours, and almost disappears in 48 hours.
In conclusion, the cationic oncolytic peptide LTX-315 developed by the predecessor has lower killing activity on adherent tumor cells, poorer enzymolysis stability, shorter half-life and undefined antitumor mechanism. Aiming at the problems, the invention designs and synthesizes a novel oncolytic peptide fluorescent probe, and the probe can emit red fluorescence, has higher killing activity aiming at adherent tumor cells, and has very high enzymolysis and anti-tumor cell stability. The fluorescent probe not only can be used as a tool molecule for exploring the anti-tumor activity and action mechanism of the oncolytic peptide at the molecular, cell and animal levels, but also can be used as a potential anti-tumor lead polypeptide for developing anti-tumor polypeptide medicaments, so the fluorescent probe has good practical application value.
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FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of a solid phase polypeptide synthesis method of the present invention.
FIG. 2 is a structural formula, a primary amino acid sequence, an analytical reversed-phase high performance liquid chromatogram and an ESI-MS mass spectrum of WKW-212 in example 1 of the present invention.
FIG. 3 is a structural formula, a primary amino acid sequence, an analytical reversed-phase high performance liquid chromatogram and an ESI-MS mass spectrum of WKW-217 in example 1 of the present invention.
FIG. 4 is a structural formula, a primary amino acid sequence, an analytical reversed-phase high performance liquid chromatogram and an ESI-MS mass spectrum of WKW-223 in example 1 of the present invention.
FIG. 5 is a structural formula, a primary amino acid sequence, an analytical reversed-phase high performance liquid chromatogram and an ESI-MS mass spectrum of WKW-385 in example 1 of the present invention.
FIG. 6 is a spectrum of excitation and emission spectra of oncolytic peptide fluorescent probes WKW-385 in example 1 of the present invention.
FIG. 7 is a graph showing the relationship between the molar concentration and the fluorescence intensity of oncolytic peptide fluorescent probes WKW-385 in example 1 of the present invention.
FIG. 8 shows oncolytic peptide probes WKW-385 in HepG in example 1 of the present invention2Profile in adherent hepatoma cells.
FIG. 9 is a distribution diagram of oncolytic peptide probes WKW-385 in tumor-bearing mice according to example 1 of the present invention.
FIG. 10 shows the oncolytic peptide fluorescent probe pair HepG in example 1 of the present invention2Inhibition of adherent hepatoma cell proliferation.
FIG. 11 is a graph showing changes in morphology of adherent tumor cells caused by oncolytic peptide fluorescent probes WKW-385 in example 1 of the present invention.
FIG. 12 is a graph showing the time course of the inhibitory effect of the oncolytic peptide fluorescent probe on adherent tumor cells in example 1 of the present invention.
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It is to be understood that the following detailed description is exemplary and is intended to provide further explanation of the invention as claimed. Unless defined otherwise, all technical and scientific terms used herein have the same meaning as commonly understood by one of ordinary skill in the art to which this invention belongs.
It is noted that the terminology used herein is for the purpose of describing particular embodiments only and is not intended to be limiting of example embodiments in accordance with the present application. As used herein, the singular forms "a", "an" and "the" are intended to include the plural forms as well, and it should be understood that when the terms "comprises" and/or "comprising" are used in this specification, they specify the presence of stated features, steps, operations, devices, components, and/or combinations thereof, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise.
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peptide: from amino groups (-NH) of amino acids2) And carboxyl (-COOH) to form a peptide bond, wherein the compound formed by dehydration condensation of 10-100 amino acid molecules is called polypeptide. The polypeptide drug has the advantages of higher activity, stronger stability, smaller toxic and side effect, less dosage and the like, has obvious treatment benefits for tumors, autoimmune diseases, hypertension and certain cardiovascular and metabolic diseases, and has wide development and application prospects.
An oncolytic peptide: oncolytic peptides are a class of antineoplastic drugs derived from or inspired by natural antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) that exhibit high antitumor activity while being less toxic to normal cells. Importantly, oncolytic peptides exert anti-cancer effects regardless of the phenotypic or genetic characteristics of tumor cells, which is largely determined by their unique physicochemical properties, in particular, the net positive charge on the surface of the oncolytic peptide and the specific distribution of hydrophobic residues are critical for oncolytic peptide activity. The oncolytic peptide is combined with the cell membrane of the tumor cell due to electrostatic interaction, and hydrophobic residues are inserted into the cell membrane to break down a lipid bilayer, promote the lysis of the membrane and finally cause the death of the tumor cell.
Polypeptide fluorescent probe: after being excited by exciting light, the fluorescent material emits light in the ultraviolet-visible-near infrared region and is called as fluorescence. The polypeptide fluorescent probe is a molecule which can emit fluorescence and is formed by combining polypeptide and a fluorescent group in a covalent bond mode.
And (3) rhodamine B: is a typical artificial synthetic dye of triphenylmethane, the overall charge is positive charge, and the molecular weight is 479.029. It has bright peach red color, the aqueous solution is blue red, and has strong fluorescence after dilution, and is a common fluorescent group.
IC50: the concentration required for half the maximal inhibitory effect of the drug. The smaller the value, the stronger the inhibitory activity.
The following models explain the mechanism of oncolytic peptide membrane-breaking killing of tumor cells.
A barrel wall model. Monomeric oncolytic peptides accumulate on cells and subsequently undergo conformational changes and aggregation to form barrel-like multimers. In this model, aggregation forces the polypeptide into the hydrophobic center of the cell membrane, and then the hydrophobic chains of the oncolytic peptide contact the acyl chains of the membrane, aligning with the lipid core of the bilayer, weakening the cell membrane. Whereas the hydrophilic part of the peptide forms water pores, which widen as the number of aggregated peptides increases.
A carpet model. This model describes the interaction of a positively charged alpha helix with a negatively charged phospholipid on the outer membrane, which is covered with a peptide to form a "carpet" of peptides. The oncolytic peptide remains parallel to the cell surface without insertion into the lipid bilayer, but as the concentration of peptide increases, the phospholipid spins and reorients itself, a process that increases the fluidity of the membrane, thus impairing the barrier properties of the membrane, disrupting the lipid bilayer and forming micelles.
And (4) an annular hole model. This is a two-stage model, peptides are inactive at low concentrations, distributed parallel to the bilayer, while they are converted to the active form at high concentrations and perpendicular to the bilayer, irreversibly destroying the membrane. The instability of the newly formed circular pore allows the peptide to enter the membrane, enter the intracellular space and inhibit various life processes, such as DNA replication and protein synthesis, leading to tumor cell death.
As mentioned above, the cationic oncolytic peptide LTX-315 obtained by modifying bovine lactoferrin as a natural antimicrobial peptide has high anti-tumor activity on suspended tumor cells, but has poor activity on adherent tumor cells, and the specific anti-cancer mechanism of the cationic oncolytic peptide is not clear, so that the application of the cationic oncolytic peptide is limited.
In view of the above, in an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, a high-stability oncolytic peptide fluorescent probe is provided, which comprises the following amino acid residue sequence:
WKW-212 rhodamine B-5-amino-3-oxopentanoic acid-KKWWKKW (Dip) K-NH2
WKW-217 rhodamine B-GABA-KKWWKKW (Dip) K-NH2
WKW-223 rhodamine B-11-amino-3, 6, 9-trioxaundecanoic acid-KKWWKKW (Dip) K-NH2
WKW-385 rhodamine B-AEEA-KKWWKKW (Dip) K-NH2
The oncolytic peptide fluorescent probe can emit red fluorescence, and realizes the space-time positioning and tracing of the oncolytic peptide; meanwhile, the anti-tumor activity and stability of the oncolytic peptide are greatly improved, and especially the killing activity to adherent tumor cells is remarkably improved.
In still another embodiment of the present invention, there is provided a nucleotide encoding the high-stability oncolytic peptide fluorescent probe, which comprises any one of the following groups:
(a) a nucleotide encoding a polypeptide having the amino acid sequence;
(b) a nucleotide complementary to the nucleotide of (a).
In another embodiment of the present invention, there is provided a method for synthesizing the above-described oncolytic peptide fluorescent probe, the method comprising: synthesizing polypeptide by solid phase polypeptide synthesis method; and carrying out condensation reaction connection on the polypeptide, a connecting group and a fluorescent group.
Specifically, the polypeptide is synthesized by a solid-phase polypeptide synthesis method (Fmoc-SPPS) based on 9-fluorenylmethyloxycarbonyl.
Unless otherwise specified, the present invention used Rink Amide Am resin (degree of substitution 0.32mmol/g) to synthesize the target polypeptide having an Amide at the nitrogen terminus, and all amino acids used were Fmoc-L-type amino acids.
More specifically, the synthesis method of the oncolytic peptide fluorescent probe comprises the following steps:
s1, synthesizing the polypeptide by a solid-phase polypeptide synthesis method based on 9-fluorenylmethyloxycarbonyl;
s2, carrying out condensation reaction on the polypeptide prepared in the step S1, a connecting group and a fluorescent group;
s3, adding a peptide cutting reagent into the condensation product prepared in the step S2 for peptide cutting treatment, and separating and purifying to obtain the oncolytic peptide fluorescent probe.
The specific method of step S1 includes:
pre-activating and activating Rink Amide Am resin, and then removing Fmoc protecting groups by using piperidine-containing DMF (dimethyl formamide) solution for deprotection; and (3) condensing the amino acids until all the amino acids are completely condensed, removing the Fmoc protecting group of the last amino acid, and then cleaning.
In another embodiment of the present invention, the pre-activation treatment method comprises: alternately cleaning the resin with DMF and DCM, and soaking for 1-2 hours at room temperature;
the activation treatment method comprises the following steps: the pretreated resin is immersed in a DMF/DCM mixed solution (1:1, volume ratio, v: v), and is subjected to a shaking activation treatment at 25-30 deg.C (preferably 28 deg.C) for 0.5-2 hours (preferably 1 hour).
The deprotection method comprises the following steps: the Fmoc protecting group is removed in DMF solution containing 20% piperidine (v: v) under the condition of 25-30 deg.C (preferably 28 deg.C), and the deprotection operation is carried out twice for 5 minutes and 10 minutes respectively.
The condensation reaction comprises the following specific steps: each amino acid condensation reaction is carried out twice under the condition of 25-30 ℃ (preferably 28 ℃), and the time is 20 minutes and 30 minutes respectively. The mixture ratio of the reactant amino acid is Fmoc-L-type amino acid: HCTU: DIPEA is 3 equivalent times: 2.8 times equivalent: 6 times equivalent.
The cleaning step comprises: the resin is washed with DMF and DCM alternately, and finally washed clean with DCM, and the solvent remaining in the resin is removed completely (e.g. by pumping with a water pump or an oil pump).
The specific method of the step S2 includes:
and (3) carrying out condensation reaction on the polypeptide prepared in the step S1 and a fluorescent group, wherein the reactant ratio is rhodamine B: HATU: HOAT: DIPEA is 6 equivalent times: 2.8 times equivalent: 3 times of equivalent: 6 times equivalent. Solid-phase condensation is carried out for three times at 25-30 ℃ (preferably 28 ℃), and the reaction time is 30 minutes, 40 minutes and 50 minutes respectively. During the fluorophore linkage, rhodamine B must be in excess (6-fold equivalent of resin). After the DIPEA reagent was added, the condensation solution had to be added to the synthesis tube within two minutes.
In step S3, the specific method of the peptide cutting process includes:
a peptide-cleaving reagent containing TFA (TFA: TIPS: water: phenol: 88:2:5:5(v: v: v)) is added to the synthesis tube to cleave the polypeptide for 2.5 to 3 hours at a reaction temperature of 25 to 30 ℃ (preferably 28 ℃). After the reaction is finished, concentrating the reaction product, then adding anhydrous ether (precooled to 4-10 ℃ in advance) which is ice-bathed in advance into the concentrated reaction solution, and precipitating the target polypeptide; subsequent centrifugation yielded a white precipitate of the crude peptide. And repeatedly cleaning with ice-bath anhydrous ether, centrifuging twice, ventilating and drying the obtained solid precipitate, and volatilizing the organic solvent to obtain powdery crude peptide.
The specific separation and purification method comprises the following steps:
the crude peptide was dissolved in a mixed solvent of acetonitrile and water containing 0.1% TFA, and lyophilized to obtain a flocculent crude peptide solid. Dissolving the crude peptide solid in a mixed solvent of acetonitrile and water containing 0.1% TFA, separating and purifying the crude peptide solution by semi-preparative reverse phase high performance liquid chromatography (RP-HPLC) to obtain a pure target polypeptide solution, and freeze-drying the polypeptide solution to obtain the pure solid target polypeptide.
The target polypeptide can be analyzed and identified by analytical reversed-phase high performance liquid chromatography, ESI-MS and the like. The solid target polypeptide is sealed and stored in a refrigerator at the temperature of 20 ℃ below zero for later use.
In another embodiment of the present invention, the application of the above-mentioned oncolytic peptide fluorescent probe in the preparation of a medicament for preventing and/or treating tumor-related diseases is provided.
Also, it is to be noted that the terms "tumor" or "cancer" are used interchangeably and mean the presence of cells having the typical characteristics of oncogenic cells, such as uncontrolled proliferation, immortalization, metastatic potential, rapid growth and proliferation rate, and certain characteristic morphological characteristics. Cancer cells are typically in the form of tumors, but such cells may be present alone in the animal, or may be non-tumorigenic cancer cells, such as leukemia cells. These terms include solid tumors, soft tissue tumors, or metastatic lesions. As used herein, the term "tumor" includes premalignant tumors as well as malignant tumors. In certain embodiments, the tumor is a solid tumor, a soft tissue tumor, or a metastatic lesion. The term also refers to solid tumors named for the cell types that form solid tumors, hematological, myeloid, or lymphoid cancers. Examples of solid tumors include, but are not limited to, sarcomas and carcinomas. Examples of hematological cancers include, but are not limited to, leukemia, lymphoma, and myeloma. These terms include, but are not limited to, a primary cancer originating at a particular site in the body, metastatic cancer that spreads from its point of origin to other regions of the body, recurrence of the original primary cancer after remission, and a second primary cancer that is a new primary cancer of a person with a different type of past cancer history than the latter.
In yet another embodiment of the present invention, the cancer is selected from the group consisting of benign or malignant tumors: lung (including small cell lung cancer and non-small cell lung cancer), bronchus, prostate, breast (including sporadic breast cancer and cowden patient), pancreas, gall bladder, gastrointestinal tract, colon, rectum, colon cancer, colorectal cancer, thyroid, liver, biliary tract, intrahepatic bile duct, hepatocyte, adrenal gland, stomach, central or peripheral nervous system (including astrocytoma, neuroblastoma, glioma, glioblastoma and schwannoma), neuroendocrine, endometrial, kidney, renal pelvis, bladder, uterus, cervix, vagina, ovary, multiple myeloma, esophagus, nose, neck or head, brain, mouth and pharynx, larynx, small intestine, melanoma, villous adenoma of the colon, sarcomas (including osteosarcoma, fibrosarcoma or rhabdomyosarcoma and kaposi's sarcoma), neoplasias, epithelial tumors, breast cancer, basal cell carcinoma, Squamous cell carcinoma, actinic keratosis, polycythemia, essential thrombocythemia, thyroid follicular cancer, leukemia (including acute myeloid leukemia, chronic myeloid leukemia, lymphocytic leukemia, myeloid leukemia, meningeal leukemia, and promyelocytic leukemia), lymphoma (including non-hodgkin's lymphoma, mantle cell lymphoma, chronic lymphocytic leukemia, B cell lymphoma, T cell lymphoma, hairy cell lymphoma, and burcky's lymphoma), myelodysplastic syndrome, choriocarcinoma, rhabdoid cancer, seminoma, teratocarcinoma, xeroderma pigmentosum; retinoblastoma, keratoacanthoma, myeloid myelofibrosis, Waldenstrom's disease, and Barret adenocarcinoma.
In another embodiment of the present invention, a pharmaceutical composition comprising the above-described oncolytic peptide fluorescent probe is provided.
Pharmaceutical compositions of the compounds of the present invention may be administered in any manner selected from: oral, aerosol inhalation, rectal, nasal, vaginal, topical, parenteral such as subcutaneous, intravenous, intramuscular, intraperitoneal, intrathecal, intraventricular, intrasternal or intracranial injection or infusion, or by means of an explanted reservoir, with oral, intramuscular, intraperitoneal or intravenous administration being preferred.
In yet another embodiment of the present invention, a pharmaceutical formulation is provided comprising an oncolytic peptide fluorescent probe and a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier.
The pharmaceutical preparation can be any pharmaceutically acceptable pharmaceutical dosage form, such as tablets (including dispersible tablets, sustained release tablets, enteric-coated tablets, effervescent tablets, orally disintegrating tablets, chewable tablets, irregular tablets and the like), hard capsules (including gastric-soluble capsules, enteric-coated capsules and sustained release capsules), soft capsules (including gastric-soluble capsules and enteric-coated capsules), dropping pills, micro-pills, granules, dry suspension, powder, oral liquid (including solution, suspension and emulsion), injection (including powder injection for injection and injection liquid) and the like, and the pharmaceutical dosage forms are recorded and described in Chinese pharmacopoeia.
Other suitable pharmaceutical carriers such as diluents, fillers, disintegrants, surfactants, suspending agents, binders, lubricants, coloring agents, flavoring agents, etc. may optionally be included according to the pharmaceutical dosage form. The term "optionally contains" means that one or more of them may be selected or not selected.
Suitable fillers or diluents used include lactose, mannitol, sorbitol, microcrystalline cellulose, starch, modified starch, dextrin, cyclodextrin and its derivatives, calcium phosphate, sucrose, polyethylene glycol (polyethylene glycols of various molecular weights), pregelatinized starch, xylitol, fructose, maltitol, dextran, glucose, calcium sulfate, calcium hydrogen phosphate, and the like; the disintegrant includes sodium carboxymethylcellulose, croscarmellose sodium, sodium carboxymethyl starch, low substituted hydroxypropyl cellulose, crospovidone, pregelatinized starch, corn starch, sodium croscarmellose, microcrystalline cellulose, calcium carboxymethylcellulose, and the like; the surfactant includes sodium lauryl sulfate, sodium tetradecyl sulfate, sodium hexadecyl sulfate, sodium octadecyl sulfate, polysorbate (common name: tween including its various types), sorbitan fatty acid (common name: span including its various types), and the like; the binder comprises polyvinylpyrrolidone, starch slurry, methylcellulose, hydroxymethylcellulose, hydroxypropylmethylcellulose, hydroxypropylcellulose, hydroxyethylcellulose, gelatin, guar gum, xanthan gum, and the like; suspending agents include, but are not limited to, hydroxypropylmethyl cellulose, ethyl cellulose, gum arabic, xanthan gum, sodium carboxymethyl cellulose, and the like; such lubricants include magnesium stearate, stearic acid, talc, sodium stearyl fumarate, and the like. In addition, pH adjusting agents or buffers such as phosphate buffer, citric acid, sodium citrate, acetate buffer, dilute hydrochloric acid, sodium carbonate, sodium hydroxide, and the like; preservatives such as sodium benzoate, potassium sorbate, methylparaben, propylparaben, and the like; stabilizers and antioxidants such as sodium calcium edetate, sodium sulfite, vitamin C, vitamin E, and the like; taste modifiers may also be included, for example maltitol, aspartame, stevia, fructose, sucrose, saccharin sodium, flavors such as orange flavor, strawberry flavor, and the like.
Of course, the pharmaceutical carrier is not limited to the above, and may further include other conventional and appropriate additives or pharmaceutical excipients, such as wetting agents, which can be selected from water, ethanol, water-ethanol solution, etc., according to the different dosage forms.
In still another embodiment of the present invention, there is provided a method for preventing and/or treating tumor, the method comprising: comprising administering to a subject a therapeutically effective dose of the above-described high stability oncolytic peptide fluorescent probe, the above-described pharmaceutical composition or the above-described pharmaceutical formulation.
The subject refers to an animal, preferably a mammal, most preferably a human, who has been the object of treatment, observation or experiment. A "therapeutically effective dose" refers to an amount that results in an improvement in any parameter or clinical symptom. The actual dosage may vary from patient to patient and does not necessarily refer to the total amount of all disease symptoms eliminated, and can be determined by methods well known in the art.
In yet another embodiment of the present invention, there is provided the use of the above-described high stability oncolytic peptide fluorescent probe as a non-therapeutic tumor cell inhibitor and/or tracer. According to the invention, the "non-therapeutic purpose" is, for example, inhibition of tumor cell proliferation and promotion of tumor cell death in vitro, and in particular, the killing activity of the high-stability oncolytic peptide fluorescent probe on adherent tumor cells is higher; meanwhile, the high-stability oncolytic peptide fluorescent probe can emit red fluorescence so as to realize space-time positioning and tracing of the oncolytic peptide, has longer red fluorescence wavelength and stronger penetrating power, is applied to imaging of cells, tissues and living animals, and can be used as a tracing agent so as to explore the anti-tumor activity and action mechanism of the oncolytic peptide at the level of molecules, cells, tissues and animals.
The invention is further illustrated by the following examples, which are not to be construed as limiting the invention thereto. It should be understood that these examples are for illustrative purposes only and are not intended to limit the scope of the present invention.
Example 1
In this example, all target polypeptides were prepared using the solid phase peptide synthesis technique based on 9-fluorenylmethyloxycarbonyl (Fmoc-SPPS). In the process of synthesizing the polypeptide, the target polypeptide with Amide at the nitrogen terminal is synthesized by using Rink Amide Am resin (the substitution degree is 0.32mmol/g) and all the amino acids are Fmoc-L-type amino acids unless otherwise specified.
The scale of the synthesized polypeptide is generally 0.15 mmol. As shown in FIG. 1, a basic scheme for polypeptide synthesis is presented, comprising:
solid phase polypeptide synthesis procedure: 470mg of Rink Amide Am resin (1 equivalent) was weighed out and the resin was then washed alternately with DMF and DCM and soaked for 1-2 hours at room temperature to pre-activate the resin. 8 ml of a DMF/DCM mixture (1:1 by volume, v: v) was added to soak the resin and activated by shaking in a constant temperature shaker at 28 ℃ for 1 hour. The Fmoc protecting group was then removed using a solution of 20% piperidine (v: v) in DMF. Deprotection was carried out twice at 28 ℃ for 5 min and 10 min, respectively. The amino acids were condensed at 28 ℃ twice for 20 min and 30 min each. The mixture ratio of the reactant amino acid is Fmoc-L-type amino acid: HCTU: DIPEA is 3 equivalent times: 2.8 times equivalent: 6 times equivalent. After the condensation of all amino acids was completed, the Fmoc protecting group of the last amino acid was removed, followed by alternate washing with DMF and DCM, and finally the resin was washed clean with DCM, and the residual solvent in the resin was thoroughly drained with a water pump, an oil pump.
Synthesis of oncolytic peptide fluorescent probe: after the solid phase condensation of the polypeptide fragments and the linker groups is completed using the solid phase polypeptide synthesis procedure described above, the condensation of the fluorophore is performed. The mixture ratio of reactants is rhodamine B: HATU: HOAT: DIPEA is 6 equivalent times: 2.8 times equivalent: 3 times of equivalent: 6 times equivalent. Solid phase condensation was carried out three times at 28 ℃ for 30 minutes, 40 minutes and 50 minutes, respectively. During the fluorophore linkage, rhodamine B must be in excess (6-fold equivalent of resin). After the DIPEA reagent was added, the condensation solution had to be added to the synthesis tube within two minutes.
And (3) cutting peptide: to the synthesis tube, a peptide-cleaving reagent containing TFA (TFA: TIPS: water: phenol: 88:2:5:5(v: v: v: v)) was added to cleave the polypeptide for 2.5 to 3 hours at 28 ℃. The cleaved peptide solution was retained and transferred to a three-necked flask, and the cleaved peptide solution was concentrated to 2 ml using high purity nitrogen bubbling. Then, anhydrous ether (precooled to 4-10 ℃ in advance) in an ice bath is added into the concentrated reaction solution, and the target polypeptide is precipitated. Subsequent centrifugation through a centrifuge resulted in a white precipitate of the crude peptide. And repeatedly cleaning with ice-bath anhydrous ether, centrifuging twice, standing the obtained solid precipitate in a fume hood for 1 hour, and volatilizing the organic solvent to obtain powdery crude peptide.
Separation and purification: the crude peptide was dissolved in a mixed solvent of acetonitrile and water containing 0.1% TFA, and lyophilized in a vacuum lyophilizer to obtain a flocculent crude peptide solid. Dissolving the crude peptide solid in a mixed solvent of acetonitrile and water containing 0.1% TFA, separating and purifying the crude peptide solution by semi-preparative reverse phase high performance liquid chromatography (RP-HPLC) to obtain a pure target polypeptide solution, and then putting the polypeptide solution into a vacuum freeze dryer for freeze drying to obtain the pure solid target polypeptide.
And analyzing and identifying the target polypeptide by using analytical reversed-phase high-performance liquid chromatography, ESI-MS and the like. The structural formula, the primary amino acid sequence, the analytical reverse phase high performance liquid chromatogram and the ESI-MS mass spectrogram of the 4 prepared oncolytic peptide fluorescent probes are shown in figures 2-5. The solid target polypeptide is sealed and stored in a refrigerator at the temperature of 20 ℃ below zero for later use.
Oncolytic peptide fluorescent probe wavelength scanning experiment
The Flexstation instrument was started and warmed, and WKW-385 solution was prepared at 300 μ M concentration using triple distilled water, and 200 μ L per well was added to a black 96-well plate. Reading in a flexstation of a 96-hole plate, firstly scanning emission wavelength, setting the excitation wavelength to be 550 nanometers, setting the scanning emission wavelength range to be 560-650 nanometers, and setting the scanning interval to be 1 nanometer. And scanning the excitation wavelength, wherein the emission wavelength is set to be 600 nanometers, the scanning excitation wavelength range is 500-580 nanometers, and the scanning interval is 1 nanometer.
As shown in FIG. 6, the maximum excitation wavelength of the oncolytic peptide fluorescent probes WKW-385 is 560 nm and the maximum emission wavelength is 590 nm.
Experiment of relationship between fluorescence intensity and concentration of oncolytic peptide fluorescent probe
The flexstation master was turned on and warmed up, and WKW-385 solutions at concentrations of 50. mu.M, 75. mu.M, 100. mu.M, 150. mu.M, 200. mu.M, 300. mu.M, 400. mu.M, 500. mu.M, 700. mu.M, 800. mu.M, 900. mu.M and 1000. mu.M were prepared with a triple-distilled water gradient, 200. mu.L per well was added to a black 96-well plate and three wells were set. The 96-well plate was read in flexstation, setting the excitation wavelength at 560 nm and the emission wavelength at 590 nm.
As a result, as shown in FIG. 7, the fluorescence intensity of the novel oncolytic peptide probes WKW-385 shows a concentration-dependent pattern, and the fluorescence intensity increases with increasing concentration.
Distribution experiment of oncolytic peptide fluorescent probe in adherent tumor cells
Liver cancer cell HepG2(derived from the center for cell resources of the institute of basic medicine of Chinese academy of medical sciences) in MEM medium containing 10% fetal bovine serum. Good-state HepG2Adherent cells were trypsinized, collected, diluted with medium, and plated well in 6-well plates (500. mu.L/well). After overnight cell culture, 1 mL of WKW-385 solution (final concentration 30. mu.M) was prepared with medium, which also contained 2. mu.g/mL Hoechst 33258 (nuclear blue fluorescent probe) and 1. mu.M Mito-Tracker Green (mitochondrial Green fluorescent probe). After adding to the cells, the 6-well plate was returned to the incubator for incubation, taken out at 30 minutes, the supernatant was discarded, washed three times with phenol red-free DMEM, observed with a fluorescence microscope and photographed.
As shown in FIG. 8, WKW-385 fluoresced red in the cells and, as seen from the fused image, there was good co-localization of red and blue fluorescence, indicating that WKW-385 mainly concentrated in the nucleus. The above experiments show that fluorescent probes such as WKW-385 can be used as tool molecules to search the action mechanism of oncolytic peptide.
In vivo imaging experiment of oncolytic peptide fluorescent probe in mouse
In the fluorescence probe in-vivo imaging experiment, CB6F1 mice loaded with B16-F10 transplantation tumor are selected, after the trunk of the mice is unhaired, the experimental group is injected with 50 mu L of 10mg/mL WKW-385 solution (in normal saline) in the transplantation tumor under the right axilla, and the control group is injected with 50 mu L of 10mg/mL LTX-315 solution (in normal saline). The mice were subjected to in vivo imaging at 0 hours, 1 hour, 6 hours, 12 hours, 24 hours and 48 hours, and were anesthetized with chloral hydrate prior to imaging. After the imaging was completed for 24 hours, the mice were sacrificed, and the organs thereof were dissected and subjected to fluorescent imaging of the organs. Imaging conditions are as follows: excitation wavelength 570 nm and emission wavelength 620 nm.
As shown in FIG. 9, the right mice showed significant aggregation of the novel oncolytic probes WKW-385, which were able to aggregate in tumor regions for a long time, with significant distribution in tumor tissues and no significant distribution in other organs within 48 hours, while the left control group showed no fluorescence.
Experiment for inhibiting proliferation of adherent tumor cells by using oncolytic peptide fluorescent probe
Good-state HepG2Cells were trypsinized, collected, diluted with medium, and plated well in 96-well plates (100. mu.L/well). After overnight cell culture, the drug solution was prepared and 30mM of WKW-212, WKW-217, WKW-223, WKW-385 and LTX-315 stock solutions were diluted with medium in 2-fold gradient to the indicated concentrations (100. mu.M, 50. mu.M, 25. mu.M, 12.5. mu.M, 6.25. mu.M, 3.125. mu.M), and 3 wells (150. mu.L) were repeated for each concentration. After the drug solution was added to the wells, the 96-well plate was returned to the incubator and incubated for 24 hours. After 24 hours, 15. mu.L of MTT working solution (5mg/mL) was added to each well, and after 4 hours of reaction, the supernatant was discarded, 150. mu.L of DMSO was added thereto, and after standing for 1 hour, the OD value was read with a microplate reader at a wavelength of 490 nm.
As shown in FIG. 10, the novel oncolytic peptides kill tumor cells in a concentration-dependent manner with 24-hour IC50About 15 μ M, LTX-315 IC50The molecular weight of the fluorescent probe is about 150 mu M, and the experiment shows that the fluorescent probe shows stronger anti-adherent tumor cell activity which is ten times that of the classical oncolytic peptide LTX-315.
Morphological experiment for influence of oncolytic peptide fluorescent probe on tumor cells
The liver cancer adherent cells HepG with good state2Cells were trypsinized, collected, diluted with medium, and plated well in 6-well plates (500. mu.L/well). After overnight cell culture, 30mM WKW-385 stock was diluted to 30. mu.M with medium, added to the cells, and the 6-well plate was returned to the incubator for incubation, removed at 0 min, 15 min, 30 min and 60 min, observed with a microscope and photographed.
As shown in FIG. 11, cytomorphology experiments show that oncolytic peptide fluorescent probes WKW-385 induce adherent tumor cell morphology change, cell atrophy and fragmentation, and the number of dead cells gradually increases with time, and shows a time-dependent characteristic.
Cell stability assay for oncolytic peptide fluorescent probes
The liver cancer adherent cells HepG with good state2After trypsinization, the cells were collected, diluted with medium and plated well in 96-well plates (100. mu.L/well). After overnight cell culture, the drug solution was prepared and 30mM of WKW-212, WKW-217, WKW-223, WKW-385 and LTX-315 stock solutions were diluted to 30. mu.M with medium and 3 wells (150. mu.L) were repeated for each concentration. After the liquid medicine was added to the wells, the 96-well plate was returned to the incubator for incubation, and MTT experiments were performed at 4 hours, 12 hours, 24 hours, 36 hours, 48 hours, and 72 hours, respectively. mu.L of MTT working solution (5mg/mL) was added to each well, the reaction was carried out for 4 hours, the supernatant was discarded, 150. mu.L of DMSO was added, the mixture was allowed to stand for 1 hour, and then OD was read with a microplate reader at 490nm, and the inhibition ratio was calculated from the OD at each time point.
As shown in fig. 12, the antitumor activity of the oncolytic peptide fluorescent probe gradually increased with time, and reached a peak at 36 hours. The anti-tumor activity of the oncolytic peptide fluorescent probe at each time point is far higher than that of LTX-315, and the activity can be kept for more than 72 hours. The antitumor activity of LTX-315 peaked at 12 hours and then began to decline, by 48 hours the antitumor activity was substantially lost. The above results indicate that the oncolytic peptide fluorescent probe has higher anti-tumor activity and anti-tumor stability.
Finally, it should be noted that the above mentioned embodiments are only preferred embodiments of the present invention, and not intended to limit the present invention, and although the present invention has been described in detail with reference to the foregoing embodiments, it will be apparent to those skilled in the art that the technical solutions described in the foregoing embodiments may be modified or partially replaced with equivalents. Any modification, equivalent replacement, or improvement made within the spirit and principle of the present invention should be included in the protection scope of the present invention. Although the present invention has been described with reference to the specific embodiments, it should be understood by those skilled in the art that various changes and modifications may be made without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention.

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1. A high-stability oncolytic peptide fluorescent probe, which is characterized by comprising the following amino acid residue sequence:
WKW-212 rhodamine B-5-amino-3-oxopentanoic acid-KKWWKKW (Dip) K-NH2
WKW-217 rhodamine B-GABA-KKWWKKW (Dip) K-NH2
WKW-223 rhodamine B-11-amino-3, 6, 9-trioxaundecanoic acid-KKWWKKW (Dip) K-NH2
WKW-385 rhodamine B-AEEA-KKWWKKW (Dip) K-NH2
2. A nucleotide encoding the high-stability oncolytic peptide fluorescent probe according to claim 1, comprising any one of the following groups:
(a) a nucleotide encoding a polypeptide having the amino acid sequence;
(b) a nucleotide complementary to the nucleotide of (a).
3. The method for synthesizing an oncolytic peptide fluorescent probe according to claim 1, wherein the method comprises the following steps: synthesizing polypeptide by solid phase polypeptide synthesis method; and carrying out condensation reaction connection on the polypeptide, a connecting group and a fluorescent group.
4. The method of claim 3, wherein the polypeptide is synthesized by a solid phase polypeptide synthesis method based on 9-fluorenylmethyloxycarbonyl.
5. The method of synthesizing according to claim 3 wherein the method of synthesizing the oncolytic peptide fluorescent probe comprises:
s1, synthesizing the polypeptide by a solid-phase polypeptide synthesis method based on 9-fluorenylmethyloxycarbonyl;
s2, carrying out condensation reaction on the polypeptide prepared in the step S1, a connecting group and a fluorescent group rhodamine B;
s3, adding a peptide cutting reagent into the condensation product prepared in the step S2 for peptide cutting treatment, and separating and purifying to obtain the oncolytic peptide fluorescent probe.
6. Use of the oncolytic peptide fluorescent probe according to claim 1 for the preparation of a medicament for preventing and/or treating tumor-related diseases;
preferably, the tumor comprises a solid tumor and a non-solid tumor.
7. A pharmaceutical composition comprising the oncolytic peptide fluorescent probe of claim 1.
8. A pharmaceutical formulation comprising an oncolytic peptide fluorescent probe according to claim 1 and a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier;
preferably, the carrier includes diluents, fillers, disintegrants, surfactants, suspending agents, binders, lubricants, colorants and flavoring agents.
9. A method for preventing and/or treating a tumor, the method comprising: comprising administering to a subject a therapeutically effective dose of the high stability oncolytic peptide fluorescent probe of claim 1, the pharmaceutical composition of claim 7 or the pharmaceutical formulation of claim 8.
10. Use of the high stability oncolytic peptide fluorescent probe according to claim 1 as a tumor cell inhibitor and/or tracer for non-therapeutic purposes.
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