Arg-Gly-Asp

Chemical properties

White to off-white powder

The Uses of Arg-Gly-Asp

Arg-Gly-Asp has been used:

• to saturate the cell surface Arg-Gly-Asp (RGD) receptors and inhibit marrow stromal cell (MSC) attachment to peptide modified hydrogel
• in adhesion assay
• in inhibition assay to confirm the β1-integrin-dependency of cell adhesion
• in textile fabrication and RGD textile functionalization
• to engineer a population of human dermal fibroblasts with impaired migration
• to modify glass substrate and evaluate the behavior of human bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells (hBM-MSCs)
• in the cell culture of human mammary epithelial cells

Definition

ChEBI: Arg-Gly-Asp is an oligopeptide.

General Description

Arg-Gly-Asp (RGD) is an integrin binding site, which belongs to the class of adhesive proteins. It functions as a brain tumor targeting ligand.

Biological Activity

synthetic peptides containing the arginine-glycine-aspartate (rgd) were extensively used as inhibitors of integrin-ligand interactions in studies of cell adhesion, migration, growth and differentiation, since the rgd motif is an integrin-recognition motif found in many ligands.

Biochem/physiol Actions

Primary sequence involved with the binding of proteins to cell surfaces

in vitro

rgd peptide can induce apoptosis in the absence of signals and integrin-mediated cell clustering. previous study demonstrates that rgd peptides promote apoptosis through activation of conformation changes enhancing pro-caspase-3 activation and autoprocessing [1].

in vivo

anima study suggested that the rgd-4c-fitc-peptide bound to both endothelial and tumor cells in vivo and that peptide targeting should allow the delivery of therapeutic drugs to both endothelial and tumor cells [2].

Storage

Store at -20°C

References

[1] nature. 1999 feb 11;397(6719):534-9.rgd peptides induce apoptosis by direct caspase-3 activation. buckley cd1, pilling d, henriquez nv, parsonage g, threlfall k, scheel-toellner d, simmons dl, akbar an, lord jm, salmon m.
[2] cancer res. 2002 sep 15;62(18):5139-43. arginine-glycine-aspartic acid (rgd)-peptide binds to both tumor and tumor-endothelial cells in vivo. zitzmann s1, ehemann v, schwab m.