Comparative cell biological study of in vitro antitumor and antimetastatic activity on melanoma cells of GnRH-III-containing conjugates modified with short-chain fatty acids

• Eszter Lajkó,
• Sarah Spring,
• Rózsa Hegedüs,
• Beáta Biri-Kovács,
• Sven Ingebrandt,
• Gábor Mező and
• László Kőhidai

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 2495–2509, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.226

• 2.5% water (v/v/v) for 2.5 h at room temperature (rt) and then precipitated with ice-cold diethyl ether followed by purification on RP-HPLC. Daunorubicin was attached to the purified peptides via oxime linkage that was formed under slightly acidic conditions (0.2 M NH4OAc buffer at pH 5) at rt

Drug targeting to decrease cardiotoxicity – determination of the cytotoxic effect of GnRH-based conjugates containing doxorubicin, daunorubicin and methotrexate on human cardiomyocytes and endothelial cells

• Livia Polgár,
• Eszter Lajkó,
• Pál Soós,
• Orsolya Láng,
• Marilena Manea,
• Béla Merkely,
• Gábor Mező and
• László Kőhidai

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 1583–1594, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.136

• drug conjugates. Dox has three potential conjugation sites; i) a primary OH group at C-14 on the aglycone part, which is suitable for ester bond formation, ii) an oxo group at C-13 is available for the generation of an oxime linkage and iii) the amino group on the daunosamine sugar moiety, which can be

• amide bond through the sugar moiety (glut) (2) in solution. Furthermore, an oxime linkage was formed between Dox and an aminooxyacetyl moiety connected to the enzymatically cleavable tetrapeptide spacer GFLG (3). These conjugates were prepared with the aim of comparing the influence of the homing

• peptide and of the type of the linkage on the toxic effect. Dau was coupled to the GnRH-III derivatives via oxime linkage in all cases. The oxime ligation was carried out under slightly acidic (pH 5) conditions [26] and the drug was attached directly either to GnRH-III (4) or to its derivatives in which

On the design principles of peptide–drug conjugates for targeted drug delivery to the malignant tumor site

• Eirinaios I. Vrettos,
• Gábor Mező and
• Andreas G. Tzakos

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 930–954, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.80

Development of novel cyclic NGR peptide–daunomycin conjugates with dual targeting property

• Andrea Angelo Pierluigi Tripodi,
• Szilárd Tóth,
• Kata Nóra Enyedi,
• Gitta Schlosser,
• Gergely Szakács and
• Gábor Mező

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 911–918, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.78

• release; NGR peptides; oxime-linkage; targeted drug delivery; Introduction Targeted chemotherapy is one of the most promising approaches for selective cancer treatment that may decrease the toxic side effects of anticancer drugs. This therapeutic approach is based on the fact that tumor specific

• characterization of novel cyclic NGR peptides and their corresponding NGR-drug conjugates. Special attention was paid on the chemostability and in vitro biological activity of the compounds [17][18]. Daunomycin (Dau) was used as cytotoxic agent, attached to the NGR-derivatives via oxime linkage. The prepared

• spacer to the lysine side chain connected to the chatepsin B labile GFLG spacer that allows lysosomal drug release. Dau was conjugated to the GFLG spacer via oxime linkage through an incorporated aminooxyacetyl (Aoa) moiety. The preparation of the conjugate required a sophisticated synthetic route and

Synthesis and in vitro biochemical evaluation of oxime bond-linked daunorubicin–GnRH-III conjugates developed for targeted drug delivery

• Sabine Schuster,
• Beáta Biri-Kovács,
• Bálint Szeder,
• Viktor Farkas,
• László Buday,
• Zsuzsanna Szabó,
• Gábor Halmos and
• Gábor Mező

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 756–771, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.64

• cellular uptake of the bioconjugates were strongly affected by the amino acid exchange which in turn had an impact on the antitumor activity of the bioconjugates. Keywords: cytostatic effect; daunorubicin; drug-targeting; GnRH derivatives; oxime linkage; Introduction Cancer is one of the most serious

• provides a suitable conjugation site and can be used for the formation of oximes. We have recently reported that Dau was efficiently linked to the 8Lys side-chain by incorporation of an aminooxyacetic acid (Aoa) moiety [21][25]. The formed oxime linkage is more stable under physiological conditions than

• appropriate TFA–scavenger mixture and purification of the crude compounds by preparative HPLC, the attachment of daunorubicin via oxime linkage was carried out in solution as previously reported [21]. The resulting GnRH-III–Dau conjugates were purified by preparative HPLC, the final products K1, K2 and 1–6

Carbohydrate PEGylation, an approach to improve pharmacological potency

• M. Eugenia Giorgi,
• Rosalía Agusti and
• Rosa M. de Lederkremer

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2014, 10, 1433–1444, doi:10.3762/bjoc.10.147

• , instead of hydrazide-PEGs, generated a more stable oxime linkage with the carbohydrate aldehydes. Similar to the other gonadotropins, TSH is a glycosylated protein, and the role of the N-linked oligosaccharides is well established. The effect of PEG size and mono- vs multi-PEGylation was compared both in

Synthesis of heteroglycoclusters by using orthogonal chemoselective ligations

• Baptiste Thomas,
• Michele Fiore,
• Isabelle Bossu,
• Pascal Dumy and
• Olivier Renaudet

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2012, 8, 421–427, doi:10.3762/bjoc.8.47

• from the same carbohydrate building blocks and the cyclopeptide 7. Similar experimental conditions were followed, with the exception of the stoichiometry of reagents (see Experimental section). In this series, one oxime linkage was formed from 7 by using aminooxy αMan 1a, αFuc 2a and βLac 3a, and three