Journal
BIOORGANIC & MEDICINAL CHEMISTRY
Volume 12, Issue 10, Pages 2671-2677Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.bmc.2004.03.017
Keywords
MC4R; pharmacophore models; NMR; cyclic peptides
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Using nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy, we have determined the solution structures for a series of potent agonists for the human melanocortin-4 receptor (hMC4R), based on the cyclic peptide MT-II [Ac- Nle-cyclo-(Asp- Lys) (Asp-His(D)Phe-Arg-Trp-Lys)-NH2]. Members of this series were designed to improve selectivity for MC4R versus the other melanocortin receptors, and to reduce the flexibility of the side chains. The most selective and rigid analog [penta-cyclo(D-K)-Asp-Apc-(D)PheArg-(2S,3S)-beta-methylTrp-Lys-NH2] was found to be a full agonist of hMC4R with an EC50 of 11 nM against hMC4R, and to exhibit 65-fold selectivity against hMC1R. This Compound represents the most constrained hMC4R peptide agonist described to date. A P-turn structure was conserved among all of the cyclic peptides studied. The rigidity of the analogs allowed an exceptionally well-defined pharmacophore model to be derived. This model was used to perform a virtual screen using a library of 1000 drug-like compounds, to which a small set of known potent ligands had been intentionally added. The utility of the model was validated by its ability to identify the known ligands from among this large library. (C) 2004 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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