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Intracellular enzymes or receptors are interesting targets for thepharmacomodulation of cellular metabolism. We have previously shown thatmodification of relatively long peptides by a palmitoyl-lysine residue couldfacilitate their delivery into the cytoplasm of living cells. Severalpeptides containing pseudosubstrate sequences of protein kinase C (PKC) havebeen evaluated for their ability to modulate phosphorylation of modelsubstrate, neuronal morphology or tumor necrosis factor secretion. In thiswork we have evaluated the effect of palmitoyl-modified PKC-pseudosubstratepeptides on induction of apoptosis. We have established that these peptidesare able to induce apoptosis in different human cell types (primaryfibroblasts, T- and B-lymphocyte cell lines) as assessed by (terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase dUTP nick-end labelling) and DNAfragmentation. In contrast, control peptides (non-lipidicPKC-pseudosubstrate peptides and irrelevant lipopeptides) had no or littleeffect on programmed cell death. This work highlights the pharmacologicalinterest of lipopeptides and argues in favor of the potential role of PKC(s)in the cell death machinery.
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Thiam, K., Loing, E., Gilles, F. et al. Induction of apoptosis by protein kinase C pseudosubstrate lipopeptides in several human cells. Letters in Peptide Science 4, 397–402 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1008833929317
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