title: In vitro effects of SIKVAV retro and retro-enantio analogues on tumor metastatic events.
abstract: The SIKVAV peptide, located on the long arm of the laminin alpha1 chain, promotes cell adhesion, invasion and migration of tumor and endothelial cells, resulting in tumor growth, angiogenesis and metastasis. In this paper, we report the synthesis of the SIKVAV peptide and its retro (reverse l-amino acid order) and retro-enantio (reverse d-amino acid order) analogues and their effect on three critical steps in the metastatic process: cell-extracellular matrix protein (ECM) adhesion, cell migration and homotypic cell adhesion, using B16F10 melanoma cells. Results show that all peptides compete with laminin-1 cell attachment, but only SIKVAV induces peptide-cell adhesion. Retro analogue, but not retro-enantio, inhibits cell adhesion to SIKVAV, indicating that retro peptide recognizes the SIKVAV receptors while retro-enantio does not. Retro-enantio peptide is able to inhibit cell migration, by contrast of the SIKVAV chemoattractant activity. All three peptides reduce the homotypic cell adhesion in a dose-dependent manner, but retro-enantio sequence is the most effective reaching a 35% inhibition of controls at the higher concentration. These findings suggest that that both analogues of SIKVAV peptide, especially retro-enantio, may be considered as potential antimetastatic agents.
authors.affiliation: Department of Peptide and Protein Chemistry, Institute for Chemical and Environmental Research, CSIC, 08034 Barcelona, Spain.
authors.forename: Núria
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Almiñana
authors.forename: M Rosa
authors.initials: MR
authors.lastname: Grau-Oliete
authors.forename: Francesca
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Reig
authors.forename: M Pilar
authors.initials: MP
authors.lastname: Rivera-Fillat
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D002448:Cell Adhesion / Q000187:drug effects*; D002465:Cell Movement / Q000187:drug effects*; D005109:Extracellular Matrix / Q000378:metabolism; D007797:Laminin / Q000378:metabolism*; D008546:Melanoma, Experimental / Q000378:metabolism; D051379:Mice; D009842:Oligopeptides / Q000032:analysis / Q000138:chemical synthesis / Q000494:pharmacology*; D010446:Peptide Fragments / Q000737:chemistry / Q000494:pharmacology*; D014407:Tumor Cells, Cultured
chemical_list: D007797:Laminin; D009842:Oligopeptides; D010446:Peptide Fragments; C121346:laminin 1; C077583:seryl-isoleucyl-lysyl-valyl-alanyl-valinamide