Artículo de revista
Mechanistic aspects of CPP-mediated intracellular drug delivery: Relevance of CPP self-assembly
Fecha
2006-03Registro en:
BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOMEMBRANES Volume: 1758 Issue: 3 Pages: 264-279 Published: MAR 2006
0005-2736
Autor
Pujals, Sílvia
Fernández Carneado, Jimena
López Iglesias, Carmen
Kogan Bocian, Marcelo
Giralt, Ernest
Institución
Resumen
In recent years, cell-penetrating peptides have proven to be an efficient intracellular delivery system. The mechanism for CPP internalisation, which first involves interaction with the extracellular matrix, is followed in most cases by endocytosis and finally, depending on the type of endocytosis, an intracellular fate is reached. Delivery of cargo attached to a CPP requires endosomal release, for which different methods have recently been proposed. Positively charged amino acids, hydrophobicity and/or amphipathicity are common to CPPs. Moreover, some CPPs can self-assemble. Herein is discussed the role of self assembly in the cellular uptake of CPPs. Sweet Arrow Peptide (SAP) CPP has been shown to aggregate by CD and TEM (freeze-fixation/freeze-drying), although the internalised species have yet to be identified as either the monomer or an aggregate.