Department of Pharmacy, University of Naples "Federico" II, Via D. Montesano 49, 80131 Napoli, Italy.
Molecular Immunology and Immunoregulation, Istituto Nazionale Tumori "Fondazione G. Pascale", IRCCS-Napoli, 80131 Naples, Italy.
Int J Mol Sci. 2022 Jul 31;23(15):8504. doi: 10.3390/ijms23158504.
Synthetic nucleic acid interactors represent an exciting research field due to their biotechnological and potential therapeutic applications. The translation of these molecules into drugs is a long and difficult process that justifies the continuous research of new chemotypes endowed with favorable binding, pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic properties. In this scenario, we describe the synthesis of two sets of homo-thymine nucleopeptides, in which nucleobases are inserted in a peptide structure, to investigate the role of the underivatized amino acid residue and the distance of the nucleobase from the peptide backbone on the nucleic acid recognition process. It is worth noting that the CD spectroscopy investigation showed that two of the reported nucleopeptides, consisting of alternation of thymine functionalized -Orn and -Dab and -Arg as underivatized amino acids, were able to efficiently bind DNA and RNA targets and cross both cell and nuclear membranes.
合成核酸相互作用物由于其生物技术和潜在的治疗应用而成为一个令人兴奋的研究领域。将这些分子转化为药物是一个漫长而困难的过程,这也证明了不断研究具有良好结合、药代动力学和药效学特性的新型化学型是合理的。在这种情况下,我们描述了两组同胸腺嘧啶核苷肽的合成,其中碱基插入到肽结构中,以研究未衍生的氨基酸残基和碱基与肽骨架的距离对核酸识别过程的作用。值得注意的是,圆二色光谱研究表明,报告的两种核肽之一,由胸腺嘧啶功能化的-Orn 和 -Dab 和 -Arg 作为未衍生的氨基酸交替组成,能够有效地结合 DNA 和 RNA 靶标,并穿过细胞膜和核膜。