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Development of Novel High-Affinity Antagonists for the Relaxin Family Peptide Receptor 1

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ACS PHARMACOLOGY & TRANSLATIONAL SCIENCE
卷 6, 期 5, 页码 842-853

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AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acsptsci.3c00053

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relaxin; H2 relaxin; RXFP1 antagonist; GPCR; peptide

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H2 relaxin is a peptide hormone that acts through the RXFP1 receptor and has important biological functions. Overexpression of H2 relaxin and RXFP1 in prostate cancer suggests their potential as targets for inhibiting tumor growth. In this study, a novel high-affinity RXFP1 antagonist, H2 B-R13HR, was developed and shown to inhibit relaxin-mediated tumor growth in a mouse model. This compound provides insights into relaxin actions through RXFP1 and may have therapeutic potential for prostate cancer.
H2 relaxin is a peptide hormone that exerts its biological actions through the G protein-coupled receptor, RXFP1. The numerous important biological functions of H2 relaxin, including potent renal, vasodilatory, cardioprotective, and anti-fibrotic actions, have resulted in considerable interest in its use as a therapeutic for various cardiovascular diseases and other fibrotic indications. Interestingly though, H2 relaxin and RXFP1 have been shown to be overexpressed in prostate cancer, allowing for the downregulation or blocking of relaxin/RXFP1 to decrease prostate tumor growth. These findings suggest the application of an RXFP1 antagonist for the treatment of prostate cancer. However, these therapeutically relevant actions are still poorly understood and have been hindered by the lack of a high-affinity antagonist. In this study, we chemically synthesized three novel H2 relaxin analogues that have complex insulin-like structures with two chains (A and B) and three disulfide bridges. We report here the structure-activity relationship studies on H2 relaxin that resulted in the development of a novel high-affinity RXFP1 antagonist, H2 B-R13HR (similar to 40 nM), that has only one extra methylene group in the side chain of arginine 13 in the B-chain (ArgB13) of H2 relaxin. Most notably, the synthetic peptide was shown to be active in a mouse model of prostate tumor growth in vivo where it inhibited relaxin-mediated tumor growth. Our compound H2 B-R13HR will be an important research tool to understand relaxin actions through RXFP1 and may be a potential lead compound for the treatment of prostate cancer.

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