Identification and optimization of peptide inhibitors to block VISTA/PSGL-1 interaction for cancer immunotherapy

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Developing new therapeutic agents for cancer immunotherapy is highly demanding due to the low response ratio of PD-1/PD-L1 blockade in cancer patients. Here, we discovered that the novel immune checkpoint VISTA is highly expressed on a variety of tumor-infiltrating immune cells, especially myeloid derived suppressor cells (MDSCs) and CD8+ T cells. Then, peptide C1 with binding affinity to VISTA was developed by phage displayed bio-panning technique, and its mutant peptide VS3 was obtained by molecular docking based mutation. Peptide VS3 could bind VISTA with high affinity and block its interaction with ligand PSGL-1 under acidic condition, and elicit anti-tumor activity in vivo. The peptide DVS3-Pal was further designed by d-amino acid substitution and fatty acid modification, which exhibited strong proteolytic stability and significant anti-tumor activity through enhancing CD8+ T cell function and decreasing MDSCs infiltration. This is the first study to develop peptides to block VISTA/PSGL-1 interaction, which could act as promising candidates for cancer immunotherapy.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:13

Enthalten in:

Acta pharmaceutica Sinica. B - 13(2023), 11 vom: 27. Nov., Seite 4511-4522

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Niu, Xiaoshuang [VerfasserIn]
Wu, Menghan [VerfasserIn]
Li, Guodong [VerfasserIn]
Zhou, Xiuman [VerfasserIn]
Cao, Wenpeng [VerfasserIn]
Zhai, Wenjie [VerfasserIn]
Wu, Aijun [VerfasserIn]
Zhou, Xiaowen [VerfasserIn]
Jin, Shengzhe [VerfasserIn]
Chen, Guanyu [VerfasserIn]
Li, Yanying [VerfasserIn]
Du, Jiangfeng [VerfasserIn]
Wu, Yahong [VerfasserIn]
Qiu, Lu [VerfasserIn]
Zhao, Wenshan [VerfasserIn]
Gao, Yanfeng [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Cancer immunotherapy
Immune checkpoint
Journal Article
MDSC
PSGL-1
Peptide
Phage displayed bio-panning
T cell
VISTA

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Date Revised 12.02.2024

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.apsb.2023.08.003

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM364613084