Abstract
Core peptide (CP) is a unique peptide derived from thetransmembrane sequence of T cell antigen receptor (TCR)-alpha chain and is capable of inhibiting the immuneresponse both in vitro and in animal models of Tcell mediated inflammation. The structure of CP, withsequence GLRILLLKV, is similar to the amphipathic regionof many peptides. Unlike antimicrobial peptides,however, which damage cell membranes, electron microscopyand propidium iodide exclusion assays on cell membranessuggest that CP does not create pores and may act byinterfering with signal transduction at the membranelevel. To investigate this effect further we report theresults of 31P and 2H solid-state NMRspectroscopy of CP on model membranes. As predicted,even at high concentrations of CP, the structure of modelmembranes was not significantly perturbed. Only at thevery high peptide-to-lipid molar ratio of 1:10significant effects on the model membranes were observed. We conclude that CP does not destroy the integrity of thelipid bilayer.
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Ali, M., De Planque, M., Huynh, N. et al. Biophysical studies of a transmembrane peptide derived from the T cell antigen receptor. Letters in Peptide Science 8, 227–233 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1016204408204
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