| Title: | Design and synthesis of downsized metastin (45-54) analogs with maintenance of high GPR54 agonistic activity |
| Author(s): | Niida A; Wang Z; Tomita K; Oishi S; Tamamura H; Otaka A; Navenot JM; Broach JR; Peiper SC; Fujii N; |
| Address: | "Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences of Kyoto University, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8501, Japan" |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.bmcl.2005.09.054 |
| ISSN/ISBN: | 0960-894X (Print) 0960-894X (Linking) |
| Abstract: | "Metastin has been identified as a metastasis suppressor gene product that mediates its function through a G protein coupled receptor, GPR54. To refine insight into the critical pharmacophore for the activation of GPR54, we have conducted alanine and d-amino acid scanning on a biologically active metastin fragment (45-54). Based on these data and structures of peptides previously reported to activate GPR54, a series of shortened metastin (45-54) derivatives were synthesized and tested for the ability to induce GPR54 signaling. These biological experiments were performed in yeast containing human GPR54 that was coupled to the pheromone response pathway and a pheromone responsive lacZ reporter gene. Compounds 32, 33, and 39, which possess an N-terminal basic group and a C-terminal RW-amide motif, were strong agonists, similar to the level of metastin. This may provide an approach to reverse the pro-metastatic effect of metastin deletion in multiple malignant tumors" |
| Keywords: | "Amino Acid Motifs Amino Acid Sequence Chemistry, Pharmaceutical/*methods Dose-Response Relationship, Drug Drug Design Fungal Proteins/chemistry Genes, Reporter Humans Kisspeptins Lac Operon Models, Chemical Molecular Sequence Data Neoplasms/drug therapy P;" |
| Notes: | "MedlineNiida, Ayumu Wang, Zixuan Tomita, Kenji Oishi, Shinya Tamamura, Hirokazu Otaka, Akira Navenot, Jean-Marc Broach, James R Peiper, Stephen C Fujii, Nobutaka eng Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't England 2005/10/26 Bioorg Med Chem Lett. 2006 Jan 1; 16(1):134-7. doi: 10.1016/j.bmcl.2005.09.054. Epub 2005 Oct 18" |
