4C41

Corticosteroid-binding globulin with engineered disulphide bridge between residues 100 and 236

4C41 の概要

• エントリーDOI: 10.2210/pdb4c41/pdb
• 関連するPDBエントリー: 4C49
• 分子名称: CORTICOSTEROID-BINDING GLOBULIN (2 entities in total)
• 機能のキーワード: transport protein, serpin, engineered disulphide
• 由来する生物種: HOMO SAPIENS (HUMAN)
• 細胞内の位置: Secreted: P08185
• タンパク質・核酸の鎖数: 1
• 化学式量合計: 41645.50

構造登録者

Chan, W.L.,Zhou, A.,Read, R.J. (登録日: 2013-08-28, 公開日: 2014-10-01, 最終更新日: 2024-11-20)

主引用文献

Chan, W.L.,Zhou, A.,Read, R.J.
Towards Engineering Hormone-Binding Globulins as Drug Delivery Agents.
Plos One, 9:13402-, 2014

PubMed Abstract: The treatment of many diseases such as cancer requires the use of drugs that can cause severe side effects. Off-target toxicity can often be reduced simply by directing the drugs specifically to sites of diseases. Amidst increasingly sophisticated methods of targeted drug delivery, we observed that Nature has already evolved elegant means of sending biological molecules to where they are needed. One such example is corticosteroid binding globulin (CBG), the major carrier of the anti-inflammatory hormone, cortisol. Targeted release of cortisol is triggered by cleavage of CBG's reactive centre loop by elastase, a protease released by neutrophils in inflamed tissues. This work aimed to establish the feasibility of exploiting this mechanism to carry therapeutic agents to defined locations. The reactive centre loop of CBG was altered with site-directed mutagenesis to favour cleavage by other proteases, to alter the sites at which it would release its cargo. Mutagenesis succeeded in making CBG a substrate for either prostate specific antigen (PSA), a prostate-specific serine protease, or thrombin, a key protease in the blood coagulation cascade. PSA is conspicuously overproduced in prostatic hyperplasia and is, therefore, a good way of targeting hyperplastic prostate tissues. Thrombin is released during clotting and consequently is ideal for conferring specificity to thrombotic sites. Using fluorescence-based titration assays, we also showed that CBG can be engineered to bind a new compound, thyroxine-6-carboxyfluorescein, instead of its physiological ligand, cortisol, thereby demonstrating that it is possible to tailor the hormone binding site to deliver a therapeutic drug. In addition, we proved that the efficiency with which CBG releases bound ligand can be increased by introducing some well-placed mutations. This proof-of-concept study has raised the prospect of a novel means of targeted drug delivery, using the serpin conformational change to combat the problem of off-target effects in the treatment of diseases.

PubMed: 25426859
DOI: 10.1371/JOURNAL.PONE.0113402

実験手法

X-RAY DIFFRACTION (1.8 Å)