Cytoplasmic transduction peptide and intracellular messenger comprising same
AssigneeAvixgen Inc.
InventorsYi Yong BAEK, Min Jung KIM
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Abstract
The present invention relates to a cell membrane penetrating peptide and an intracellular delivery carrier including the same. The intracellular delivery carrier of the present invention has an advantage of efficiently transferring substances into cells even at a low concentration thereof compared with the existing cell membrane penetrating peptide derived from the virus.
Claims15
A cell penetrating peptide comprising an amino acid sequence represented by the following Formula I:
- Cys-Xaa1-Xaa2-Cys-Xaa3-Xaa4-Xaa5-Gly-His-Xaa6-Xaa7-Xaa8-Xaa9-Cys [Formula I]
- wherein Xaa1 is an amino acid selected from the group consisting of Ala, Val, Ile, Leu, Met, Phe, Tyr, Trp, Ser, Thr, Asn and Gln,
- wherein Xaa2 is an amino acid selected from the group consisting of Ala, Val, Ile, Leu, Met, Phe, Tyr, Trp, Arg, His, Lys, Asn, Ser, Thr and Gln,
- wherein Xaa3 and Xaa4 are individually an amino acid selected from the group consisting of Asp, Glu, Arg, His, Lys, Ser, Thr, Asn, Gln and Gly,
- wherein Xaa5 is an amino acid selected from the group consisting of Asp, Glu, Arg, His, Lys, Ala, Val, Ile, Leu, Met, Phe, Tyr, Trp and Pro,
- wherein Xaa6 and Xaa7 are individually an amino acid selected from the group consisting of Ser, Thr, Asn, Gln, Ala, Val, Ile, Leu, Met, Phe, Tyr and Trp,
- wherein Xaa8 is an amino acid of Lys, Ala or Arg, and
- wherein Xaa9 is an amino acid selected from the group consisting of Asp, Glu, Ser, Thr, Asn and Gln.
An intracellular delivery carrier in which a cargo of an object to be delivered into a cell is conjugated with the end of an NC peptide of a retrovirus.
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