Synthesis and biological activity of Ub2 derived peptides as potential host-directed antitubercular therapy

Chemical Biology & Drug Design
Shalini SinghWahajul Haq

Abstract

The correlation of mycobactericidal property of macrophages with its potential to deliver bacteria to hydrolytic lysosomes, augmented with ubiquitin-derived peptides (Ub2), activates the process of autophagy. This leads to the formation of phagolysosomes supported by factor involving increased cationic charges which regulate the acidic pH causing elimination of Mycobacterium. To better understand this interaction of cationic-rich ubiquitin-derived peptides with mycobacteria and to identify putative mycobacterial intrinsic resistance mechanisms for phagolysosome formation, we have synthesized a new series of Ub2 peptides, wherein the Gly residues are replaced with azaGly with the aim to improve metabolic stability. In addition to that a new methodology is reported for the synthesis of heteroaryl tethered peptides using azaGly as a linker. We have demonstrated that positive puncta (directly proportional to the acidification of lysosome) in cytosol was significantly increased after 6 hours on the treatment of macrophage with Ub2 peptide derivatives (1, 6, 10, and 11) causing the higher intensity of lysosome observed through LysoTracker Red Dye. The circular dichroism spectral studies are carried out in water and water:TFE mixture ...Continue Reading

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