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Role of pronase-resistant peptide segments of the antitumor protein antibiotics, auromomycin and macromomycin, in stabilizing cytocidal activity of the chromophore moieties to carcinoma cells.

Abstract
The free chromophores isolated from the antitumor protein antibiotics, auromomycin (AUR) and macromomycin (MCR), were rapidly inactivated by incubation in serum-containing medium at 37 degrees C in the dark with respect to cytocidal activity to human lung carcinoma A549 cells. Under the same conditions, the intact antibiotics, their pronase-hydrolysates and reconstituents from the chromophores and apo-proteins were stable. Intact and reconstituted AUR and MCR were more resistant to pronase digestion than the apo-proteins. The analyses of the pronase-hydrolysates of AUR and MCR by SDS-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis and ultrafiltration showed that the antibiotics (13 kilodaltons (kDa] were degraded to produce peptide fragments (1-3 kDa) in which most cytotoxicity of the pronase-hydrolysates resided. The pronase-hydrolysates exhibited a differential cytocidal activity to normal diploid fibroblasts (WI38), their SV40-transformants (VA13) and carcinoma cells (A549) of human lung origin as was observed for the intact antibiotics. These results indicate that specific interaction between the chromophores and the pronase-resistant peptide segments (1-3 kDa) of the protein moiety stabilizes the cytocidal activity of the chromophores and also protects the peptide segments from pronase digestion.
AuthorsN Miwa, S Mizuno, S Okamoto
JournalThe Journal of antibiotics (J Antibiot (Tokyo)) Vol. 36 Issue 6 Pg. 721-7 (Jun 1983) ISSN: 0021-8820 [Print] England
PMID6307961 (Publication Type: Journal Article)
Chemical References
  • Anti-Bacterial Agents
  • Antibiotics, Antineoplastic
  • Peptides
  • auromomycin
  • Pronase
Topics
  • Anti-Bacterial Agents
  • Antibiotics, Antineoplastic (toxicity)
  • Cell Line
  • Cell Survival (drug effects)
  • Cell Transformation, Neoplastic
  • Humans
  • Kinetics
  • Lung (drug effects, embryology)
  • Lung Neoplasms (physiopathology)
  • Peptides (toxicity)
  • Pronase
  • Simian virus 40 (genetics)
  • Structure-Activity Relationship

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