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:Epidermal growth factor (EGF) is a local growth factor that stimulates cell growth, proliferation, and differentiation by binding to its receptor EGFR. EGF and EGFR are involved in many aspects of the development of carcinomas. Because EGFR has been found to be over-expressed in many tumors of epithelial origin, it is a potential target for antitumor therapy. In this study we designed a mutated form of hEGF (mEGF) with a deletion of four amino acids residues (Gln43, Tyr44, Arg45 and Asp46) in order to show importance of Leu spatial location for EGFR binding/activation. Expression vector pET32a+ and E. Coli, strain Rosetta-gami B (DE3) were used to enhance solubility of the recombinant protein with yielding approximately 10mg/l of cell culture. The purified cleaved hEGF as well as non-cleaved fusion protein were biologically active, which was confirmed by their equal ability to stimulate proliferation of MCF7 cells. The mEGF showed specificity and high affinity for EGFR binding, however binding affinity of mEGF for EGFR was reduced about 11.5 fold compared with that of hEGF. The mEGF effect on the MCF7 cell proliferation had a relatively different outcome; mEGF simulated differential cell growth in a dose dependent manner. On the other hand, in MDA-MB468 cells, hEGF and mEGF induced growth inhibition, which was much more severe for hEGF than that of mEGF. Also, hEGF strongly induced the phosphorylation of EGF receptor in MDA-MB468 cells while mEGF induced poor EGFR phosphorylation. The same observations were also made for migration of cancer cells, especially induction of MDA-MB468 migration by mEGF was significantly lower than that of hEGF, suggesting a connection between tyrosine phosphorylation of EGFR and cell migration. Docking analysis revealed that the binding affinity and the buried surface area of mEGF to EGFR complex are lower than those of hEGF/EGFR. Although theoretical studies confirmed reduction in mEGF-EGFR binding affinity, the data of the present study indicate that mEGF is a potential EGFR blocker but may highlight it as excellent delivery agent of protein/non-protein toxins as well as for α-, β-, γ-emitting radio-immunotherapy.
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Int J Biol Macromoljournal_title
International journal of biological macromoleculesauthors
Mehrabi M,Mansouri K,Soleymani B,Hoseinkhani Z,Shahlaie M,Khodarahmi Rdoi
10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2017.05.035subject
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2017-10-01 00:00:00pages
275-285eissn
0141-8130issn
1879-0003pii
S0141-8130(17)30899-1journal_volume
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