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CURRENT MEDICINAL CHEMISTRY
卷 12, 期 4, 页码 471-481出版社
BENTHAM SCIENCE PUBL LTD
DOI: 10.2174/0929867053362983
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opioid peptides; agonists and antagonists; structure-activity relationships; receptor binding; receptor selectivity
The discovery of endogenous opioid peptides with their limited receptor selectivity more than two decades ago implicated their involvement in analgesia and initiated efforts to understand the molecular mechanisms underlying their action., Opioid peptides mediate their physiological and pharmacological effects through three major opioid receptor types (g, 8, K), but the role of each of these receptors is not easy to distinguish. There has therefore, been an increasing need for potent and selective agonists and antagonists in this area. The incorporation of conformational constraints into analogs of biologically active peptides is a well-known approach for enhancing receptor selectivity and modulating efficacy. Conformational restriction has proven a valuable means for assessing disparities between the peptide binding characteristics at each of the opioid receptor types, since peptide analogs designed with appropriate conformational constraints possess the ability to adopt the conformation required for interaction at one receptor type but not another. In efforts to obtain better conformational integrity various conformationally restricted analogs of endogenous opioid peptides have been developed. In this paper we review the development of opioid analogs whose conformation was restricted either globally through different types of cyclization (such as amide bond formation, disulfide and monosulfide bridges, carbonyl and amine bridges) or locally, through incorporation of side-chain conformational constraints at a specific amino acid residue by synthesizing cyclic amino acids or constraining torsion angles by suitable substitutions. These two approaches have led to the development of potent and very selective agonists and antagonists at all three opioid receptor types.
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