Advanced Aqueous-Phase Phosphoramidation Reactions for Effectively Synthesizing Peptide鈥揙ligonucleotide Conjugates Trafficked into a Human Cell Line

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• 作者：Tzu-Pin Wang ; Ni Chien Ko ; Yu-Chih Su ; Eng-Chi Wang ; Scott Severance ; Chi-Ching Hwang ; Ying Ting Shih ; Min Hui Wu ; Yen-Hsu Chen
• 刊名：Bioconjugate Chemistry
• 出版年：2012
• 出版时间：December 19, 2012
• 年：2012
• 卷：23
• 期：12
• 页码：2417-2433
• 全文大小：568K
• 年卷期：v.23,no.12(December 19, 2012)
• ISSN：1520-4812

文摘

Peptide鈥搊ligonucleotide conjugates (POCs) have held promise as effective therapeutic agents in treating microbial infections and human genetic diseases including cancers. In clinical applications, POCs are especially useful to circumvent cellular delivery and specificity problems of oligonucleotides. We previously reported that nucleic acid phosphoramidation reactions performed in aqueous solutions have the potential for facile POC synthesis. Here, we carried out further studies to significantly improve aqueous-phase two-step phosphoramidation reaction yield. Optimized reactions were employed to effectively synthesize POCs for delivery into human A549 cells. We achieved optimization of aqueous-phase two-step phosphoramidation reaction and improved reaction yield by (1) determining appropriate co-solutes and co-solute concentrations to acquire higher reaction yields, (2) exploring a different nucleophilicity of imidazole and its derivatives to stabilize essential nucleic acid phosphorimidazolide intermediates prior to POC formation, and (3) enhancing POC synthesis by increasing reactant nucleophilicity. The advanced two-step phosphoramidation reaction was exploited to effectively conjugate a well-studied cell penetrating peptide, the Tat_48鈥?7 peptide, with oligonucleotides, bridged by either no linkers or a disulfide-containing linker, to have the corresponding POC yields of 47鈥?5%. Phosphoramidation-synthesized POCs showed no cytotoxicity to human A549 cells at studied POC concentrations after 24 h inoculation and were successfully trafficked into the human A549 cell line as demonstrated by flow cytometry, fluorescent microscopy, and confocal laser scanning microscopy study. The current report provides insight into aqueous-phase phosphoramidation reactions, the knowledge of which was used to develop effective strategies for synthesizing POCs with crucial applications including therapeutic agents for medicine.