机构:[1]Department of Pharmacology, Hebei Medical University, Shijiazhuang, China[2]Department of Pharmacy, The Fourth Hospital of Hebei Medical University, Shijiazhuang, China药学部药学部河北医科大学第四医院[3]Department of Neurobiology, Beijing Institute for Brain Disorders, Beijing Center of Neural Regeneration and Repair, Key Laboratory for Neurodegenerative Diseases of the Ministry of Education, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
Voltage-gated sodium channel Na(V)1.7 serves as an attractive target for chronic pain treatment. Several venom peptides were found to selectively inhibit Na(V)1.7 but with intrinsic problems. Among them, Ssm6a, a recently discovered centipede venom peptide, shows the greatest selectivity against Na(V)1.7, but dissociates from the target too fast and loses bioactivity in synthetic forms. As a disulfide-rich venom peptide, it is difficult to optimize Ssm6a by artificial mutagenesis and produce the peptide with common industrial manufacturing methods. Here, we developed a novel protein scaffold fusion strategy to address these concerns. Instead of directly mutating Ssm6a, we genetically fused Ssm6a with a protein scaffold engineered from human muscle fatty acid-binding protein. The resultant fusion protein, SP-TOX, maintained the selectivity and potency of Ssm6a upon Na(V)1.7 but dissociated from target at least 10 times more slowly. SP-TOX dramatically reduced inflammatory pain in a rat model through DRG-targeted delivery. Importantly, SP-TOX can be expressed cytosolically in Escherichia coli and purified in a cost-effective way. In summary, our study provided the first example of cytosolically expressed fusion protein with high potency and selectivity on Na(V)1.7. Our protein scaffold fusion approach may have its broad application in optimizing disulfide-rich venom peptides for therapeutic usage.
基金:
National Natural Science Foundation of China,
Grant/Award Number: 31171051, 31371108,
31171097 and 31270882; National Basic Research
Program of China, Grant/Award Number:
2013CB531302; Natural Science Foundation
of Beijing, Grant/Award Number: 5112008 and
5132007; Natural Science Foundation of Hebei
Province, Grant/Award Number: C2014206419;
General Program of Science and Technology
Development Project of Beijing Municipal
Education Commission of China, Grant/Award
Number: KM201110025001; Research Project
of Science and Technology of Higher Education
of Hebei Province, Grant/Award Number:
ZD2015007; Beijing Municipal Technology
Foundation for Selected Overseas Chinese Scholar
第一作者机构:[1]Department of Pharmacology, Hebei Medical University, Shijiazhuang, China
通讯作者:
通讯机构:[3]Department of Neurobiology, Beijing Institute for Brain Disorders, Beijing Center of Neural Regeneration and Repair, Key Laboratory for Neurodegenerative Diseases of the Ministry of Education, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China[*1]Department of Neurobiology, Beijing Institute for Brain Disorders, Beijing Center of Neural Regeneration and Repair, Key Laboratory for Neurodegenerative Diseases of the Ministry of Education, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China.
推荐引用方式(GB/T 7714):
Wang Chuan,Shan Bin,Wang Qiong,et al.Fusion of Ssm6a with a protein scaffold retains selectivity on Na(V)1.7 and improves its therapeutic potential against chronic pain[J].CHEMICAL BIOLOGY & DRUG DESIGN.2017,89(6):825-833.doi:10.1111/cbdd.12915.
APA:
Wang, Chuan,Shan, Bin,Wang, Qiong,Xu, Qunyuan,Zhang, Hailin&Lei, Huimeng.(2017).Fusion of Ssm6a with a protein scaffold retains selectivity on Na(V)1.7 and improves its therapeutic potential against chronic pain.CHEMICAL BIOLOGY & DRUG DESIGN,89,(6)
MLA:
Wang, Chuan,et al."Fusion of Ssm6a with a protein scaffold retains selectivity on Na(V)1.7 and improves its therapeutic potential against chronic pain".CHEMICAL BIOLOGY & DRUG DESIGN 89..6(2017):825-833