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Highly potent side-chain to side-chain cyclized enkephalin analogues containing a carbonyl bridge: synthesis, biology
D Pawlak1, M Oleszczuk, J Wójcik
1Department of Chemistry, University of Warsaw, Poland.
Abstract:
Six novel cyclic enkephalin analogues have been synthesized. Cyclization of the linear peptides containing basic amino acid residues in position 2 and 5 was achieved by treatment with bis(4-nitrophenyl)carbonate. It was found that some of the compounds exibit unusually high mu-opioid activity in the guinea pig ileum (GPI) assay. The 18-membered analogue cyclo(N(epsilon),N(beta)-carbonyl-D-Lys2,Dap5)-enkephalinamide turned out to be one of the most potent mu-agonists reported so far. NMR spectra of the peptides were recorded and structural parameters were determined. The conformational space was exhaustively examined for each of them using the electrostatically driven Monte Carlo method. Each peptide was finally described as an ensemble of conformations. A model of the bioactive conformation of this class of opioid peptides was proposed.
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