Highly potent metallopeptide analogues of luteinizing hormone-releasing hormone

Journal Article · Tue Aug 01 00:00:00 EDT 1989 · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America; (USA)

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.86.16.6313· OSTI ID:7191552

Bajusz, S; Janaky, T; Csernus, V J; Bokser, L; Fekete, M; Srkalovic, G; Redding, T W; Schally, A V ^[1]

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1. Tulane Univ. School of Medicine, New Orleans, LA (USA)

Metal complexes related to the cytotoxic complexes cisplatin (cis-diamminedichloroplatinum(II)) and transbis(salicylaldoximato)copper(II) were incorporated into suitably modified luteinizing hormone-releasing hormone (LH-RH) analogues containing D-lysine at position 6. Some of the metallopeptides thus obtained proved to be highly active LH-RH agonists or antagonists. Most metallopeptide analogues of LH-RH showed high affinities for the membrane receptors of rat pituitary and human breast cancer cells. Some of these metallopeptides had cytotoxic activity against human breast cancer and prostate cancer and prostate cancer cell lines in vitro. Such cytostatic metallopeptides could be envisioned as targeted chemotherapeutic agents in cancers that contain receptors for LH-RH-like peptides.

• OSTI ID: 7191552
• Journal Information: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America; (USA), Vol. 86:16; ISSN 0027-8424
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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AMINO ACIDS
METALLOPROTEINS
CROSS-LINKING
RECEPTORS
IODINE 125
LH
LIBERINS
LIQUID COLUMN CHROMATOGRAPHY
LYSINE
MAMMARY GLANDS
MOLECULAR STRUCTURE
PLATINUM COMPOUNDS
TUMOR CELLS
ANIMAL CELLS
BETA DECAY RADIOISOTOPES
BODY
CARBOXYLIC ACIDS
CHEMICAL REACTIONS
CHROMATOGRAPHY
DAYS LIVING RADIOISOTOPES
ELECTRON CAPTURE RADIOISOTOPES
GLANDS
GONADOTROPINS
HORMONES
INTERMEDIATE MASS NUCLEI
IODINE ISOTOPES
ISOTOPES
MEMBRANE PROTEINS
NUCLEI
ODD-EVEN NUCLEI
ORGANIC ACIDS
ORGANIC COMPOUNDS
ORGANS
PEPTIDE HORMONES
PITUITARY HORMONES
POLYMERIZATION
PROTEINS
RADIOISOTOPES
SEPARATION PROCESSES
TRANSITION ELEMENT COMPOUNDS
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