Effect of SXWS/WSXWS peptides on chemotaxis and adhesion of the macrophage‐like cell line J774 |
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| Authors: | Rita Szabó Orsolya Láng Júlia Láng Eszter Illyés Ferenc Hudecz |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Research Group of Peptide Chemistry, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary;2. Department of Genetics, Cell‐ and Immunobiology, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary |
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| Abstract: | WSXWS motif is a conserved amino acid sequence that is present in type I cytokine receptors. This motif that can be found both in the ligand binding chains and signal transducer molecule of the receptors with different amino acids at the position “X” plays a role in the receptor folding, ligand binding and signal transduction as well. Structural analysis proved that WSEWS motif of IL‐6R is located in a highly accessible location in the protein. Structural properties and chemotaxis of a tetrapeptide library with SXWS sequence, where X was the 19 proteinogenic amino acids except cystein were systematically studied earlier. It has been proved that C‐terminal amidation and the identity of amino acid X had a pronounced influence on the chemotactic properties but less of the structure of the peptides. Here, we present our findings on the effect of a tetrapeptide and a pentapeptide library with the sequence of SXWS and WSXWS on the chemotaxis and adhesion of J774 murine macrophage cell line. We studied the effect of the presence/absence of N‐terminal tryptophan and the different amino acids at the X position on these physiological responses. Results indicated that amino acid X had a marked influence on chemotaxis, adhesion as well as on proliferation induced by (W)SXWS peptides. Elongation of SXWS sequence with a tryptophan at the N terminus also altered pronouncedly all the physiological responses of the cells studied. A good correlation could be observed between the chemotaxis and the proliferation and physicochemical parameters of the amino acid X. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. |
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| Keywords: | IL‐6R peptides chemotaxis adhesion physicochemical parameters J774 cells |
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