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In Vivo Anti-Tumor Activity of Polypeptide HM-3 Modified by Different Polyethylene Glycols (PEG)

HM-3, designed by our laboratory, is a polypeptide composed of 18 amino acids. Pharmacodynamic studies in vivo and in vitro indicated that HM-3 could inhibit endothelial cell migration and angiogenesis, thereby inhibiting tumor growth. However, the half-life of HM-3 is short. In this study, we modif...

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Autores principales: Liu, Zhendong, Ren, Yinling, Pan, Li, Xu, Han-Mei
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Molecular Diversity Preservation International (MDPI) 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3127140/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21731464
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijms12042650
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Sumario:HM-3, designed by our laboratory, is a polypeptide composed of 18 amino acids. Pharmacodynamic studies in vivo and in vitro indicated that HM-3 could inhibit endothelial cell migration and angiogenesis, thereby inhibiting tumor growth. However, the half-life of HM-3 is short. In this study, we modified HM-3 with different polyethylene glycols (PEG) in order to reduce the plasma clearance rate, extend the half-life in the body, maintain a high concentration of HM-3 in the blood and increase the therapeutic efficiency. HM-3 was modified with four different types of PEG with different molecular weights (ALD-mPEG(5k), ALD-mPEG(10k), SC-mPEG(10k) and SC-mPEG(20k)), resulting in four modified products (ALD-mPEG(5k)-HM-3, ALD-mPEG(10k)-HM-3, SC-mPEG(10k)-HM-3 and SC-mPEG(20k)-HM-3, respectively). Anti-tumor activity of these four modified HM-3 was determined in BALB/c mice with Taxol as a positive control and normal saline as a negative control. Tumor weight inhibition rates of mice treated with Taxol, HM-3, ALD-mPEG(5k)-HM-3, ALD-mPEG(10k)-HM-3, SC-mPEG(10k)-HM-3 and SC-mPEG(20k)-HM-3 were 44.50%, 43.92%, 37.95%, 31.64%, 20.27% and 50.23%, respectively. Tumor inhibition rates in the Taxol, HM-3 and SC-mPEG(20k)-HM-3 groups were significantly higher than that in the negative control group. The efficiency of tumor inhibition in the SC-mPEG(20k)-HM-3 group (drug treatment frequency: once per two days) was better than that in the HM-3 group (drug treatment frequency: twice per day). In addition, tumor inhibition rate in the SC-mPEG(20k)-HM-3 group was higher than that in the taxol group. We conclude that SC-mPEG(20k)-HM-3 had a low plasma clearance rate and long half-life, resulting in high anti-tumor therapeutic efficacy in vivo. Therefore, SC-mPEG(20k)-HM-3 could be potentially developed as new anti-tumor drugs.