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BIOCHEMISTRY
Volume 50, Issue 38, Pages 8181-8192Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/bi2008036
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- National Institutes of Health [DK46577]
- Mayo Clinic
- Peking Union Medical College Hospital
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The natural ligands for family B G protein-coupled receptors are moderate-length linear peptides having diffuse pharmacophores. The amino-terminal regions of these ligands are critical for biological activity, with their amino-terminal truncation leading to production of orthosteric antagonists. The carboxyl-terminal regions of these peptides are thought to occupy a ligand-binding cleft within the disulfide-bonded amino-terminal domains of these receptors, with the peptides in amphipathic helical conformations. In this work, we have characterized the binding and activity of a series of 11 truncated and lactam-constrained secretin(5-27) analogues at the prototypic member of this family, the secretin receptor. One peptide in this series with lactam connecting residues 16 and 20 [c[E-16,K-20][Y-10 ]sec(5-27)] improved the binding affinity of its unconstrained parental peptide 22-fold while retaining the absence of endogenous biological activity and competitive antagonist characteristics. Homology modeling with molecular mechanics and molecular dynamics simulations established that this constrained peptide occupies the ligand-binding cleft in an orientation similar to that of natural full-length secretin and provided insights into why this peptide was more effective than other truncated conformationally constrained peptides in the series. This lactam bridge is believed to stabilize an extended a-helical conformation of this peptide while in solution and not to interfere with critical residue residue approximations while docked to the receptor.
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