Wakabayashi Rie, Syahid Fathullah Ghazian Dzaky, Higuchi Ayato, Cui Honggang, Minamihata Kosuke, Kamiya Noriho, Goto Masahiro
Department of Applied Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyushu University, Fukuoka 819-0395, Japan.
Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, and Institute for NanoBiotechnology, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21218, United States.
ACS Appl Mater Interfaces. 2025 Aug 6;17(31):44240-44248. doi: 10.1021/acsami.5c10222. Epub 2025 Jul 23.
Supramolecular fibers assembled from peptide amphiphiles are promising materials for the delivery of biopharmaceuticals. However, strategies for directly conjugating folded proteins onto these supramolecular dynamic assemblies remain limited. Herein, we demonstrate that aromatic peptide amphiphiles that integrate self-assembly motifs with enzymatic recognition sequences enable the synthesis of supramolecular fibrous materials amenable to protein conjugation in their native folded state. The designed peptide amphiphiles self-assembled into fibers through a combination of hydrophobic, aromatic, and hydrogen bonding interactions in aqueous media. Using microbial transglutaminase, a recombinant enhanced green fluorescent protein (EGFP), used as a model proteinaceous antigen, was covalently coupled to the fibers via site-specific enzymatic cross-linking. This direct conjugation greatly enhanced the intracellular delivery of EGFP to murine dendritic cells in a manner dependent upon the peptide design. Notably, the resulting conjugates exhibited markedly increased immunogenicity compared to the protein alone, as evidenced by the elevated production of antigen-specific immunoglobulin G. These findings position the conjugated supramolecular fibers as a versatile platform for protein delivery and vaccine development.
由肽两亲分子组装而成的超分子纤维是用于生物药物递送的有前景的材料。然而,将折叠蛋白直接偶联到这些超分子动态组装体上的策略仍然有限。在此,我们证明,将自组装基序与酶识别序列整合的芳香族肽两亲分子能够合成在其天然折叠状态下适合蛋白偶联的超分子纤维材料。所设计的肽两亲分子通过疏水、芳香和氢键相互作用在水性介质中自组装成纤维。使用微生物转谷氨酰胺酶,将重组增强型绿色荧光蛋白(EGFP)用作模型蛋白抗原,通过位点特异性酶交联将其共价偶联到纤维上。这种直接偶联以依赖于肽设计的方式极大地增强了EGFP向小鼠树突状细胞的细胞内递送。值得注意的是,与单独的蛋白相比,所得偶联物表现出显著增强的免疫原性,这通过抗原特异性免疫球蛋白G产量的提高得到证明。这些发现将偶联的超分子纤维定位为用于蛋白递送和疫苗开发的通用平台。
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