Selective delivery of molecules into cells or marking of cells in diseased tissue regions using environmentally sensitive transmembrane peptide

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 8703909
APP PUB NO 20120142042A1
SERIAL NO

13316742

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A polypeptide with a predominantly hydrophobic sequence long enough to span a membrane lipid bilayer as a transmembrane helix (TM) and comprising one or more dissociable groups inserts across a membrane spontaneously in a pH-dependant fashion placing one terminus inside cell. The polypeptide conjugated with various functional moieties delivers and accumulates them at cell membrane with low extracellular pH. The functional moiety conjugated with polypeptide terminus placed inside cell are translocated through the cell membrane in cytosol. The peptide and its variants or non-peptide analogs can be used to deliver therapeutic, prophylactic, diagnostic, imaging, gene regulation, cell regulation, or immunologic agents to or inside of cells in vitro or in vivo in tissue at low extracellular pH.

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  • YALE UNIVERSITY

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Andreev, Oleg A South Kingstown, US 25 116
Engelman, Donald M New Haven, US 26 255
Lehnert, Ursula Richmond, GB 3 35
Reshetnyak, Yana K South Kingstown, US 26 116

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