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The "library" is stocked. Early results are encouraging. So now Dr. David Krag, S.D. Ireland Professor of Surgery, is taking aim at breast cancer in real women with an innovative new weapon.

Laptop Battery A world-renowned cancer researcher best known for his pioneering work in sentinel node biopsy, Krag has spent the last several years identifying amino acid compounds, called peptides, that bind to cancer cells in the laboratory. These binding peptides, or ligands, may someday be used to target anti-cancer compounds directly to breast cancer cells.

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Microsoft "Were hopeful that this research will help us identify a small peptide that binds to an important breast cancer membrane receptor, which may in turn lead to improved therapy for cancer patients," said Krag, speaking at a recent medical meeting. "These tumor-targeting ligands could then be joined to cell-destroying agents, considerably increasing the effective concentration of an anti-cancer drug at the cancer site."

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State-of-the-art laboratory technology plays an important role in Krags work, and he is quick to credit his team of scientists for their use of random peptide library technology to construct a large panel of peptides, and determine which are most likely to bind to targeted breast cancer cells. Developing these libraries was a major step in the project; this was completed during Krags sabbatical last year.

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Laptop Computer Peptide libraries are created using a phage-display system. Phage are viruses containing a circular single-stranded DNA genome, which have an outer layer of protein. A library is created by inserting synthetic DNA with random sequences into phage genome so that peptides are produced, or displayed, on the outer protein layer of the phage particle.

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Desktop Computer "Each phage produces a unique peptide, and millions of different peptides are present (on millions of different phage) in a single library," explains Vermont Cancer Center research scientist Susan Fuller. "The library is then exposed in the laboratory to cancer cells and screened for those peptides that bind to the target. Only those unique peptides that have good binding affinity stick."

Notebooks A goal of the study is to identify peptide ligands that have the ability to target specific cancer cells, but have the benefit of being smaller than the antibodies used today in cancer therapy. These smaller ligands can be better absorbed, distributed, metabolized, and eliminated by the body.

Lenovo "While the process is complicated, we are pleased with our results so far," says Fuller. "These peptides could be coupled with anti-cancer agents and hold great promise in the development of safe and effective compounds for the treatment of breast cancer."

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Now that the libraries have been developed and initial studies are complete, Krags theory that screening for peptides with possible therapeutic value can be done by directly administering them to a cancer patient is ready to be tested.

Travelstar "This method allows us to bring our library directly to the patient," says Krag. "We can deliver over a million peptides directly to a tumor site, and determine back in the lab which peptides bind to the tumor cells."

Gateway Krag, who will personally work with each patient in the current trial, will inject a peptide library and after about an hour will surgically remove a small tumor specimen. Back in the laboratory, his team of scientists will analyze the specimen to identify those peptides that have bound to the tumor.

Laptop Parts "Random peptide library technology has revolutionized the drug discovery process, and plays an important part in leading-edge cancer research" says Krag. "We hope our work will produce promising compounds that may lead to the development of new drugs with great potential efficacy in the treatment of breast cancer."

Software For more information on Dr. Krags research, visit the Vermont Cancer Center at: www.vermontcancer.org/Research/Programs/ClinicalHilites.html

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