Human prostate tumor cell invasion and metastasis are dependent in part on cell adhesion to extracellular matrix proteins and cell migration. We previously identified a synthetic D-amino acid tumor cell adhesion peptide called HYD1 (kikmviswkg) that supported adhesion of tumor cells derived from breast, prostate, ovary and pancreas tissue. Alanine ...
Using a random combinatorial peptide library method [Wu, J., Ma, Q. N. & Lam, K. S. (1994) Biochemistry 33, 14825-14833] a novel peptide, YIYGSFK, was identified as a substrate for p60c-src protein tyrosine kinase. Mass spectrometric analysis showed that tyrosine-3 from the N-terminus was the phosphorylation site. Kinetic studies showed that the Km...
The E2 subunit of pyruvate dehydrogenase complex (PDC-E2) is the major autoantigen recognized by antimitochondrial Abs (AMA) in primary biliary cirrhosis (PBC). Recently, we replaced the lipoic acid moiety of PDC-E2 with a battery of synthetic structures designed to mimic a xenobiotically modified lipoyl hapten on a 12-aa peptide that was found wit...
Using "one-bead one-compound" combinatorial chemistry technology, we generated random peptide libraries containing millions of 90 mum TentaGel beads, each with its own unique amino acid sequence. A cyclic random 8-mer library was screened with CAOV-3 (a human ovarian adenocarcinoma cell line) and beads with a unique ligand that bind to the cell sur...
The discovery of small molecule inhibitors of cytotoxicity induced by amyloid-beta (Abeta) oligomers, either applied extracellularly or accumulated intraneuronally, is an important goal of drug development for Alzheimer s disease (AD), but has been limited by the lack of efficient screening methods. Here we describe our approach using two cell-base...
The field of combinatorial peptide chemistry has emerged as a powerful tool in the study of many biological systems. This review focuses on combinatorial peptide library methodology, which includes biological library methods, spatially addressable parallel library methods, library methods requiring deconvolution, the "one-bead one-compound" library...