High-throughput evaluation of relative cell permeability between peptoids and peptides.

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Tan NC, Yu P, Kwon YU, Kodadek T

High-throughput evaluation of relative cell permeability between peptoids and peptides.

Bioorg Med Chem. 2008 Jun 1;16(11):5853-61. doi: 10.1016/j.bmc.2008.04.074. Epub 2008 May 3.

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Abstract

Peptides are limited in their use as drugs due to low cell permeability and vulnerability to proteases. In contrast, peptoids are immune to enzymatic degradation and some peptoids have been shown to be relatively cell permeable. In order to facilitate future design of peptoid libraries for screening experiments, it would be useful to have a high-throughput method to estimate the cell permeability of peptoids containing different residues. In this paper, we report the strengths and limitations of a high-throughput cell-based permeability assay that registers the relative ability of steroid-conjugated peptides and peptoids to enter a cell. A comparative investigation of the physicochemical properties and side chain composition of peptoids and peptides is described to explain the observed higher cell permeability of peptoids over peptides. These data suggest that the conversion of the monomeric residues in peptides to an N-alkylglycine moiety in peptoids reduced the hydrogen-bonding potential of the molecules and is the main contributor to the observed permeability improvement.

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Drug	Target	Property	Measurement	pH	Temperature (°C)
Dexamethasone	Glucocorticoid receptor	IC 50 (nM)	5	N/A	N/A	Details