Title:Evaluation of Strategies for Decreasing Blood Glucose Using Albuminbinding Domain
Volume: 21
Issue: 7
Author(s): Lin Fan, Yani Fan, Hongwei Fan*Kaizong Huang*
Affiliation:
- Department of Clinical Pharmacology Lab, Nanjing First Hospital, Nanjing Medical University, Changle road 68, Nanjing, 210006,China
- Department of Clinical Pharmacology Lab, Nanjing First Hospital, Nanjing Medical University, Changle road 68, Nanjing, 210006,China
Keywords:
Albumin, depot, SA motif, inverse transition cycle, GLP-1, circulation time.
Abstract:
Objective: Frequent administrations for DPPIV-resistant GLP-1 analogs are necessary to
maintain the blood concentrations due to the short half-life of less than 5 minutes. However, most delivery
systems that possess the ability of sustainable release of GLP-1 have drawbacks such as low
yield, high cost and undesirable side effects. Therefore, we aimed to prepare a simple and efficient delivery
system that could be feasibly applied to reduce blood glucose.
Methods: A novel GLP-1 delivery system (GLP-1-ELPs-SA) was prepared and characterized by circular
dichroism. Furthermore, the activity and property of GLP-1-ELPs-SA were evaluated in vitro and
in vivo.
Results: GLP-1-ELPs-SA are easily expressed in E. coli in a soluble formulation and purified through
the inverse transition cycle. GLP-1-ELPs-SA spontaneously generated depot under physiological conditions.
GLP-1-ELPs-SA was also found to be dispersed in the blood vessels from the depot and
showed a high affinity to bind with mice (C57BL/6J) albumin, which shows that GLP-1-ELPs-SA has
a long circulation time in vivo.
Conclusion: Our delivery system could markedly decrease the clearance of recombinant proteins
based on serum albumin, without substantially increasing the protein molecular weight and remarkably
reducing the blood glucose within 120 h.