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Hybrid peptides endomophin-2/DAMGO: Design, synthesis and biological evaluation
Mollica, Adriano,Costante, Roberto,Stefanucci, Azzurra,Pinnen, Francesco,Luisi, Grazia,Pieretti, Stefano,Borsodi, Anna,Bojnik, Engin,Benyhe, Sándor
, p. 167 - 177 (2013/10/01)
Endomorphin-2 [Tyr-Pro-Phe-Phe-NH2] and DAMGO [Tyr-D-Ala-Gly-(N-Me)Phe-Gly-ol] are natural (EM2) and synthetic (DAMGO) opioid peptides both selective for μ opioid receptor with high analgesic activity. In this work we report synthesis, in vitro and in vivo biological evaluation of five new hybrid EM2/DAMGO analogues, with the aim to obtain compounds with high affinity at μ-opioid receptor, high activity in animal nociception tests (hot plate and tail flick) and improved enzymatic stability. Double N-methylation on both Phe residues and C-terminal ethanolamide led to analogue 6e, which possesses a good in vitro μ affinity (Kiμ = 34 nM), combined with a remarkable in vivo antinociceptive activity.