PMID- 15297722 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20040928 LR - 20190724 IS - 0031-6903 (Print) IS - 0031-6903 (Linking) VI - 124 IP - 8 DP - 2004 Aug TI - [Creation of functional muteins using phage libraries for pharmacoproteomic-based drug discovery and development of DDS]. PG - 531-9 AB - Tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-alpha) has been expected to be a promising new antitumor agent, but toxic side effects by the systemic administration of TNF-alpha limit its clinical application. In this study, we attempted to improve the therapeutic potency of TNF-alpha by using our protein-drug innovation systems. Among phage libraries displaying various mutant TNF-alphas, we isolated some lysine-deficient super mutant TNF-alphas, typified by mTNF-alpha-K90R, with higher TNF-receptor affinities and stronger bioactivity in vitro, in spite of the importance of lysine residues for trimer formation and receptor binding. mTNF-alpha-K90R showed more than 10 times stronger in vivo antitumor effects and 1.3 times less toxicity than wild-type TNF-alpha (wTNF-alpha). Site-specifically mono-PEGylated mTNF-alpha-K90R (sp-PEG-mTNF-alpha-K90R) at N-terminus showed higher in vitro bioactivity than unmodified wTNF-alpha, whereas randomly mono-PEGylated wTNF-alpha at a lysine residue (ran-PEG-wTNF-alpha) had less than 6% of the bioactivity of wTNF-alpha. The antitumor therapeutic window of sp-PEG-mTNF-alpha-K90R was extended by about 5 times, 60 times and 18 times compared with those of mTNF-alpha-K90R, wTNF-alpha and ran-PEG-wTNF-alpha, respectively. sp-PEG-mTNF-alpha-K90R may, thus, be a potential systemic anti-tumor therapeutic agent. These data suggested that our fusion protein-drug innovation system composed of a creation system of functional mutant proteins based on phage display technique and a site-specific PEGylation system may open up a new avenue to the optimal protein therapy. FAU - Yoshioka, Yasuo AU - Yoshioka Y AD - Department of Biopharmaceutics, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Osaka University, Yamadaoka, Suita, Japan. y-yoshioka@nihs.go.jp LA - jpn PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't PT - Review PL - Japan TA - Yakugaku Zasshi JT - Yakugaku zasshi : Journal of the Pharmaceutical Society of Japan JID - 0413613 RN - 0 (Antineoplastic Agents) RN - 0 (Peptide Library) RN - 0 (Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha) RN - 3WJQ0SDW1A (Polyethylene Glycols) RN - K3Z4F929H6 (Lysine) SB - IM MH - Animals MH - *Antineoplastic Agents MH - *Bacteriophages MH - *Drug Delivery Systems MH - Drug Design MH - Humans MH - Lysine MH - *Peptide Library MH - Polyethylene Glycols MH - Proteomics/methods MH - *Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha RF - 25 EDAT- 2004/08/07 05:00 MHDA- 2004/09/29 05:00 CRDT- 2004/08/07 05:00 PHST- 2004/08/07 05:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2004/09/29 05:00 [medline] PHST- 2004/08/07 05:00 [entrez] AID - JST.JSTAGE/yakushi/124.531 [pii] AID - 10.1248/yakushi.124.531 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Yakugaku Zasshi. 2004 Aug;124(8):531-9. doi: 10.1248/yakushi.124.531.