Issue 11, 2024

Engineered coiled-coil HIF1α protein domain mimic

Abstract

The development of targeted anti-cancer therapeutics offers the potential for increased efficacy of drugs and diagnostics. Utilizing modalities agnostic to tumor type, such as the hypoxic tumor microenvironment (TME), may assist in the development of universal tumor targeting agents. The hypoxia-inducible factor (HIF), in particular HIF1, plays a key role in tumor adaptation to hypoxia, and inhibiting its interaction with p300 has been shown to provide therapeutic potential. Using a multivalent assembled protein (MAP) approach based on the self-assembly of the cartilage oligomeric matrix protein coiled-coil (COMPcc) domain fused to the critical residues of the C-terminal transactivation domain (C-TAD) of the α subunit of HIF1 (HIF1α), we generate HIF1α-MAP (H-MAP). The resulting H-MAP demonstrates picomolar binding affinity to p300, the ability to downregulate hypoxia-inducible genes, and in vivo tumor targeting capability.

Graphical abstract: Engineered coiled-coil HIF1α protein domain mimic

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Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
08 Mar 2024
Accepted
16 Apr 2024
First published
24 Apr 2024

Biomater. Sci., 2024,12, 2951-2959

Engineered coiled-coil HIF1α protein domain mimic

D. Britton, O. Katsara, O. Mishkit, A. Wang, N. Pandya, C. Liu, H. Mao, J. Legocki, S. Jia, Y. Xiao, O. Aristizabal, D. Paul, Y. Deng, R. Schneider, Y. Z. Wadghiri and J. K. Montclare, Biomater. Sci., 2024, 12, 2951 DOI: 10.1039/D4BM00354C

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