Persistent Degradation of HER2 Protein by Hybrid nanoPROTAC for Programmed Cell Death

Proteolysis-targeting chimera (PROTAC) has emerged as a promising strategy for degrading proteins of interest. Peptide-based PROTACs offer several advantages over small-molecule-based PROTACs, such as high specificity, low toxicity, and large protein-protein interaction surfaces. However, peptide-based PROTACs have several intrinsic shortcomings that strongly limit their application including poor cell permeability and low stability and potency. Herein, we designed a nanosized hybrid PROTAC (GNCTACs) to target and degrade human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2) in tumor cells. Gold nanoclusters (GNCs) were utilized to connect HER2-targeting peptides and cereblon (CRBN)-targeting ligands. GNCTACs could overcome the intrinsic barriers of peptide-based PROTACs, efficiently delivering HER2-targeting peptides in the cytoplasm and protecting them from degradation. Furthermore, a fasting-mimicking diet was applied to enhance the cellular uptake and proteasome activity. Consequently, more than 95% of HER2 in SKBR3 cells was degraded by GNCTACs, and the degradation lasted for at least 72 h, showing a catalytic-like reaction.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:66

Enthalten in:

Journal of medicinal chemistry - 66(2023), 9 vom: 11. Mai, Seite 6263-6273

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Wang, Zhihang [VerfasserIn]
Tan, Mixiao [VerfasserIn]
Su, Wen [VerfasserIn]
Huang, Wenping [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Jie [VerfasserIn]
Jia, Fuhao [VerfasserIn]
Cao, Guoliang [VerfasserIn]
Liu, Xinyang [VerfasserIn]
Song, Haohao [VerfasserIn]
Ran, Haitao [VerfasserIn]
Nie, Guangjun [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Hai [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

EC 2.3.2.27
EC 2.7.10.1
ERBB2 protein, human
Journal Article
Proteins
Proteolysis Targeting Chimera
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Ubiquitin-Protein Ligases

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Date Completed 17.05.2023

Date Revised 29.06.2023

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1021/acs.jmedchem.3c00013

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM355964074