Fluorescent Mu Selective Opioid Ligands from a Mixture Based Cyclic Peptide Library
作者:Yangmei Li、Colette T. Dooley、Jaime A. Misler、Ginamarie Debevec、Marc A. Giulianotti、Margaret E. Cazares、Laura Maida、Richard A. Houghten
DOI:10.1021/co300110t
日期:2012.12.10
A positional scanning cyclic peptide library was generated using a penta-peptide thioester scaffold. Glycine was fixed at position R-1. Diaminopropionic acid was fixed at position R-3, with its gamma-amino attaching to an anthraniloyl group. Positions R-2 and R-4 contained 36 L- and D- amino acids and position R-5 contained 19 L- amino acids. Cyclization was performed in a mixture of acetonitrile and 1.5 M aqueous imidazole solution (7:1 v/v) at room temperature for 5 days. No significant cross-oligomerization was detected under the cyclization conditions. The library was screened in a binding assay for mu opioid receptor, identifying the active amino acid mixture at each position. A total of 40 individual cyclic peptides were identified and synthesized by the combinations of the most active amino acid mixtures found at three positions 5 x 4 x 2. Two cyclic peptides exhibited high binding affinities to opioid receptor. The most active cyclic peptide in the library was yielded to have Tyr at R-2, D-Lys at R-4, and Tyr at R-5. Further investigation on this compound revealed the side chain-to-tail isomer to have greater binding affinity (14 nM) than the head-to-tail isomer (39 nM). Both isomers were selective for the mu-opioid receptor.