The application discloses a
stapled peptide compound for selectively degrading MYC
protein, a preparation method and application thereof; the compound is sequentially connected in the N-terminal to C-terminal direction by
a peptide recognition segment, a flexible
linker and a chaperone-mediated
autophagy recognition motif KFERQ or a similar motif; the
peptide recognition segment is introduced by an (i, i+7) site alkenyl
amino acid and a Grubbs catalytic RCM reaction to form a full carbon
hydrogen stapling bridge to stabilize the alpha-
helix conformation; stapled modification of a typical compound MAX-7 significantly improves the alpha-
helix content, the
protease stability and the
cell penetration, so that the compound can efficiently enter cells and be located in lysosomes, and MYC
protein is selectively degraded through the CMA pathway; in-vitro experiments show that MAX-7 can inhibit the proliferation, migration and invasion of various MYC-driven
tumor cells, and induce
apoptosis; the application provides a brand-new
lysosome-directed degradation strategy for the "undruggable" target MYC, and establishes a universal technical platform which can be popularized to other difficult
drug proteins.