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Int J Med Sci 2013; 10(3):331-337. doi:10.7150/ijms.5374 This issue Cite

Research Paper

SPPS Resins Impact the PNA-Syntheses' Improvement

Rüdiger Pipkorn¹ , Stephan Rawer², Manfred Wiessler³, Waldemar Waldeck⁴, Mario Koch¹, Hans Hermann Schrenk³, Klaus Braun³

1. German Cancer Research Center, Peptide Synthesis Core Facility, INF 280, D-69120 Heidelberg, Germany;
2. Life Technologies, Frankfurter Strasse 129, D-64293 Darmstadt, Germany;
3. German Cancer Research Center, Medical Physics in Radiology, INF 580, D-69120 Heidelberg, Germany;
4. German Cancer Research Center, Biophysics of Macromolecules, INF 280, D-69120 Heidelberg, Germany.

✉ Corresponding author: E-mail: r.pipkornde.

Abstract

The personalized medicine, also documented as “individualized medicine”, is an effective and therapeutic approach. It is designed to treat the disease of the individual patient whose precise differential gene expression profile is well known. The trend in the biomedical and biophysical research shows important consequences for the pharmaceutical drug and diagnostics research. It requires a high variability in the design and safety of target-specific pharmacologically active molecules and diagnostic components for imaging of metabolic processes. A key technology which may fulfill the highest demands during synthesis of these individual drugs and diagnostics is the solid phase synthesis which is congenial to automated manufacturing. Additionally the choice of tools like resins and reagents is pivotal to synthesize drugs and diagnostics in high quality and yields. Here we demonstrate the solid phase synthesis effects dependent on the choice of resin and of the deprotection agent.

Keywords: peptide nucleic acid (PNA), solid phase peptide synthesis (SPPS).

Introduction

The increasingly expanding biomedical and biophysical research areas trace back to the human genome project (HGP) founded and started in 1990 as a manhood's big challenge for providing scientific findings to better understand biochemistry, molecular biology and medical sciences [1]. In the year 2001 the human's genome decryption was first documented by the International Human Genome Sequencing Consortium and by Greg Venter's founded Celera Corporation [2, 3] simultaneously. With the release in 2003 of the genome's complete decoding in 2003, the HUGO was considered as finished [4, 5]. It was then taken as the basis for the development of new diagnostic tools [6-8] and therapeutic approaches [9, 10] with a previously unreached precision in sensitivity and sensibility. This led to the Gene Ontology Annotation (GOA) project and the proteome [11, 12]. Also important is on the combination of both which describes the new expanding research field in the development of theranostic tools [13] enabling a successful pharmacotherapy with a minimum of adverse reactions, realizing a perfect fit to the patient's differential gene expression profile.. Due to the lack of stability of natural DNA and RNA against nucleases their use as a drug is not possible till now, and modifications are inevitable. Derivatives like peptide nucleic acids (PNAs) however, are not a substrate for the cell immanent enzymes and therefore they are resistant, highly sensitive and specific tools for antisense strategies [14-16] and can be applied both in cancer diagnostics and in therapy [23-25]. To increase their efficiency further they can be conjugated with cell penetrating peptides (CPP) and peptide-based sequences for subcellular targeting [17-19] and are individually designed by solid phase peptide synthesis (SPPS) methodologies. This is carried out by coupling of building blocks combined with protection group chemistry [20-22]. Despite the improvement in the PNA syntheses, high quality PNAs' syntheses remain a challenge in ligation and deprotection chemistry. The success of synthesis strongly depends on different parameters, like activator's quality and deproctection kinetics which also correlate with the length of the PNA SPPS polymer. Modifications of the solid phase PNA synthesis's methods like micro wave [26] and the use of suitable deprotection reagents, like piperidine and pyrrolidine [27] which optimize yield and quality, were established and documented. It became increasingly apparent, that the choice of resin matrices [28] with physical properties especially for a high quality PNA synthesis is pivotal to a considerable extent and additional investigations in the resin development are required [29]. Here we report how we synthesized a PNA (see Figure 5) targeted to the translation initiation region which is part of the complementary coding sequence of the human c-myc Exon II [30]. We compared, analyzed and optimized the synthesis strategy for forthcoming functional PNA studies dealing with the cell cycle behavior, apoptosis, alterations of the cell phenotype and differential gene expression.

Chemical Procedure

The synthesis of the human c-myc specific PNA TACGGGGAGTTGCAA-NH₂ shown in Figure 5, was performed on the ABI synthesizer 433A (Applied Biosystems, Foster City, USA). We used 9-fluorenylmethoxycarbonyl (Fmoc)-building blocks with blocked side chains of Adenine A, Cytosine C, and Guanine G by benzhydroxylcarbonyl (Bhoc) groups. The syntheses were performed in a 5 μmol scale on a H-Rink-Amide-ChemMatrix® resin (PCAS BioMatrix, Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Canada) loading 0.52 mmol/g and on a TentaGel® R RAM high swell resin (RAPP Polymers, Tuebingen, Germany) loading 0.62 mmol/g. In the first step the Fmoc-groups were cleaved with 20% piperidine in N,N'-dimethylformamide (DMF) and 20% pyrrolidine in N-methylpyrrolidone for 10 min at 20°C. After that, the resin was washed 5 times with DMF. The coupling reaction was performed with 2-(1H-7-azabenzotriazole-1-yl)-1,1,3,3-tetramethyl uronium hexafluorophosphate (HATU) and N,N'-diisopropylethylamine (DIPEA) for 40 min. After the coupling all residual free amino groups were capped with acetic acid anhydride in DIPEA (1eq:2eq) in DMF and the resin was washed with DMF. At the end of the synthesis the N-terminal protecting group was removed with piperidine or pyrrolidine respectively and the reaction product was finally cleaved from the resin with TFA (95%) and scavanger triisopropylethylsilane/water (2.5%/2.5%) for 2.5 h at room temperature. The PNA product was precipitated in diethylether and subsequently lyophilized. The crude material was characterized with analytical HPLC on a Kromasil 100-5µm C 18 reverse phase column (30 × 250 mm) using an eluent of 0.1% trifluoro acetic acid in water (A) and 80% acetonitrile in water (B). The PNA product was eluted with a successive linear gradient of 10% B to 80% B in 30 min at a flow rate of 1 ml/min. (Figure 1 and Figure 2) and mass spectrometry (ESI-MS, Finnigan™ TSQ 7000) (Figure 3).

The chemical formula is C₁₆₃H₂₀₁N₉₃O₄₄; exact mass: 4164.63; molecular weight: 4166.93; found mass: 4166.3. The nucleobase sequences derived from human-HSMMYCC GenBank AC NO.: X00364).

Results and Discussion

The solid phase peptide synthesis (SPPS) introduced by Merrifield is considered as the key technology in the automatized technique for the synthesis of functional peptides as well as for DNA derivatives like the peptide nucleic acids based on amino acids and peptide nucleic acid building blocks. Whereas at the beginning of the “SPPS age” time and efforts were immense, the progress in the synthesis' development led to reaction products with high puritiy and yield. The use of different modifications like microwaves [31, 32] and ultrasound [33] resulted in a clear diminishment of the time rate in the reaction steps and resulted in simultaneously improvement of the quality. The resin acts as the solid phase platform originally described as “Merrifield-Resin” [34, 35]. Its enormous advantage is shown in the following data which highlight different aspects of a PNA SPPS. The diagrams (left & right) document the HPLC analysis (Figure 1 and 2) and the corresponding mass (Figure 3) of the PNA product. It was exemplarily synthesized by SPPS dependent on the resin chosen [22] either TentaGel® R RAM high swell Rapp Polymers (Figure 1) or H-Rink Amide-ChemMatrix® Polymer (Figure 2) and the basicity of the protection reagent.

The HPLC diagrams in Figure 1 and in Figure 2 show the peaks of the PNA synthesis products synthesized on TentaGel® R RAM high swell Rapp Polymer and H-Rink-Amide-ChemMatrix® Resin as a solid phase. The higher number of peaks in the diagrams after using the piperidine-step (left diagrams) indicates a higher number of truncated products.

 Figure 1 

Shows the HPLC diagram of the c-myc PNA synthesized on the peptide ABI synthesizer 433A equipped with the special deprotection module with fixed deprotection time. The left picture shows the TentaGel® R RAM high swell Rapp Polymers [loading 0.62 mmol/g] deprotected with piperidine and the right picture exhibits the diagram of the pyrrolidine experiment (detection Ch1 /210 nm). The yields are 6.0 mg (28.8%) deprotected with piperidine and, with pyrrolidine 8.9 mg (42.8%). The product peaks are shown at 11.48 in the left and at 11.565 in the right diagram. The left picture reveals the higher number of peaks compared to the right picture.

 Figure 2 

Also shows the graphs of the HPLC chromatogram of the c-myc PNA synthesized on the peptide synthesizer 433A equipped with the special deprotection module with fixed deprotection time. Here the left side reveals the H-Rink-Amide-ChemMatrix® Resin [loading 0.52 mmol/g] deprotected with piperidine and the right picture exhibit the diagram of the pyrrolidine experiment. (detection A Ch2 /280 nm). The yields are 5.5 mg (26.4%) deprotected with piperidine and, with pyrrolidine 7.8 mg (37.5%). The product peaks are shown at 11.693 in the left and at 11.565 in the right diagram. The left picture displays more peaks than the right picture.

The ESI-MS diagrams in Figure 3 show the correct mass peaks after deprotection with pyrrolidine but independent from the used resins. More or less conspicuous but mentionable is the detection of the fivefold loaded [M+5H]⁵⁺ substance peak in the TentaGel® R RAM high swell Rapp Polymer representing diagram (right picture). The slight differences of the purities could be explained by the resins' different spatial patterns and surface characteristics which influence the syntheses: the TentaGel® R RAM high swell Rapp Polymer synthesis occurs spacer-mediated, whereas the synthesis runs directly at the ChemMatrix® Resin's backbone.

Furthermore, the graphs (Figure 4 A and B) highlight the discrepancies of the dissociated PNA building blocks as a function of the deprotection potential.

Since the liberated fluorenyl group is a chromophore, a deprotection by Fmoc can be monitored by UV absorbance of the fractions, a strategy which is employed in automated synthesizers. In the chart diagrams the bars represent the extent of the UV absorption at 301 nm of the separated fluorenyl groups. If a middle bar (as shown in B) occurs, a third deprotection step is carried out by the synthesizer's program routinely.

As shown in the left diagrams in the part A and B of Figure 4, we observed a more efficient deprotection behavior by pyrrolidine as a cleavage agent. Whereas one cleavage step was here sufficient, the use of piperidine as agent required three deprotection steps at all purines and also at the thymine. Additionally, the TentaGel® R RAM high swell resin seems to be more suitable for the deprotection steps during the PNA synthesis.

 Figure 3 

Shows the ESI-MS diagrams of the c-myc PNA. The left picture describes the H-Rink-Amide-ChemMatrix® Resin deprotected with pyrrolidine and the right picture depicts the diagram of the reaction product synthesized with the TentaGel® R RAM high swell Rapp Polymer under identical deprotection conditions.

 Figure 4 

Visualizes the deprotection in every coupling step (left bars) and shows a better performance of pyrrolidine (right diagrams in the parts A and B). This is compared to piperidine in the final step. Each measurement was collected after a base treatment of 2.5 minutes. The upper part (A) shows the TentaGel® R RAM high swell Rapp Polymers and the lower part illustrates the H-Rink-Amide-ChemMatrix® Resin bars (B). The products after the deprotection by piperidine are shown in the left column whereas the right column of the figure represents the bars of the pyrrolidine deprotected molecules. The height of the bars represents the amount of the Fmoc-group removed. The apparatus follows a cut off line 5% in front of the first bar. As soon as the second bar is lower then the adjusted value the program continoues, if not, a further deprotection is carried out.

 Figure 5 

Illustrates a schematized structure of the peptide nucleic acid with the nucleobase sequence TACGGGGAGTTGCAA complementary to the human c-myc RNA Exon II (GenBank AC No.: X00364) [37].

With this experience we could achieve the best reaction product's purity on the TentaGel® R RAM high swell resin with pyrrolidine as cleaving reagent. This result can be explained with the different physical properties of the TentaGel® R RAM high swell resin and the ChemMatrix resin. Namely, in the first case we performed the synthesis on a spacer and in the second case the synthesis occurred on the backbone of the resin and these properties gave rise to different swelling conditions [36].

Conclusion

Modern drugs consist of combined peptide-based functional modules with delivery and targeting properties. They are designed for use as a cargo of genetic material [38, 39], highly pharmacologically active substances like temozolomide (TMZ) [40, 41] or components for imaging of morphologic structures and metabolic processes in PET, SPECT [42], MRT [43], and CT [44] as well as for optical imaging (OI) [45-48]. In case of theranostic agents [13, 49-51] both groups of cargos (therapeutic and diagnostic) may be combined and a monitoring of the therapeutic success is much easier. The efficacy of the delivery and the specificity of the targeting allow a successful therapy and medical diagnosis by application of drastically reduced doses resulting in minimized adverse reactions which then would lead to discontinuation of the therapy. The criteria for therapeutic and diagnostic use of these new conjugates pose highest requirements on the synthesis as well as on optimized ligation procedures [52-55]. The SPPS can be considered as an excellent technology and the choice of appropriate resins and deprotection chemicals is indispensable.

Acknowledgements

This work was partially supported by Deutsche Krebshilfe, D-53004 Bonn; Grant Number: 1066335.

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interest exists.

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Received 2012-10-12
Accepted 2012-12-19
Published 2013-2-13

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