Abstract:
Cyclic peptides inhibit LFA-1 interaction with ICAM-1 and are useful in treatment of hematopoietic neoplasms and in adjunct therapy in prevention of retinoic acid syndrome and diseases involving emigration of leukocytes into organ tissue.
Abstract:
Viruses and other bioagents are of high medical and biodefense concern and their detection at concentrations well below the threshold necessary to cause health hazards continues to be a challenge with respect to sensitivity, specificity, and selectivity. Ideally, assays for accurate and real time detection of viral agents and other bioagents would not necessitate any pre-processing of the analyte, which would make them applicable for example to bodily fluids (blood, sputum) and man-made as well as naturally occurring bodies of water (pools, rivers). We describe herein a robust biosensor that combines the sensitivity of surface acoustic waves (SAW) generated at a frequency of 325 MHz with the specificity provided by antibodies and other ligands for the detection of viral agents. In preferred embodiments, a lithium tantalate based SAW transducer with silicon dioxide waveguide sensor platform featuring three test and one reference delay lines was used to adsorb antibodies directed against Coxsackie virus B4 or the negative-stranded category A bioagent Sin Nombre virus (SNV), a member of the genus Hantavirus, family Bunyaviridae, negative-stranded RNA viruses. Rapid detection (within seconds) of increasing concentrations of viral particles was linear over a range of order of magnitude for both viruses, although the sensor was approximately 50x104 -fold more sensitive for the detection of SNV. For both pathogens, the sensor's selectivity for its target was not compromised by the presence of confounding Herpes Simplex virus type 1. The biosensor was able to detect SNV at doses lower than the load of virus typically found in a human patient suffering from hantavirus cardiopulmonary syndrome (HCPS). Further, in a proof-of-principle real world application, the SAW biosensor was capable of selectively detecting SNV agents in complex solutions, such as naturally occurring bodies of water (river, sewage effluent) without analyte pre-processing.
Abstract:
The invention provides tertiary structures) of cyclic nonapeptide ICAM-1 inhibitors and methods of using the tertiary structures tp identify additional ICAM-1 inhibitors, particularly non-peptide modulators. The invention also provides methods of treating ICAM1/LFA-1 mediated diseases comprising administ4ring a non-peptide ICAM-1 modulator of the invention to a patient in need thereof.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to peptide compounds which modulate the interaction of ICAM-1 and LFA-1, and in particular, function as inhibitors of the interaction of integrins, more particularly, LFA-I, and one or several distinct intercellular adhesion molecules (ICAMS), in particular ICAM-1, pharmaceutical compositions comprising effective amounts of these peptide compounds and methods for the treatment and/or prevention of related disease states and conditions which are mediated through ICAM-1/LFA-1 interactions, for example, the interaction of cellular adhesion molecules with integrins and/or the emigration of leukocytes from blood into tissue.