scholarly journals In vitro and in vivo characterization of the bifunctional μ and δ opioid receptor ligand UFP‐505

2018 ◽  
Vol 175 (14) ◽  
pp. 2881-2896 ◽  
Author(s):  
N Dietis ◽  
H Niwa ◽  
R Tose ◽  
J McDonald ◽  
V Ruggieri ◽  
...  
Molecules ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 26 (23) ◽  
pp. 7236
Author(s):  
Yazan J. Meqbil ◽  
Hongyu Su ◽  
Robert J. Cassell ◽  
Kendall L. Mores ◽  
Anna M. Gutridge ◽  
...  

The δ-opioid receptor (δOR) holds great potential as a therapeutic target. Yet, clinical drug development, which has focused on δOR agonists that mimic the potent and selective tool compound SNC80 have largely failed. It has increasingly become apparent that the SNC80 scaffold carries with it potent and efficacious β-arrestin recruitment. Here, we screened a relatively small (5120 molecules) physical drug library to identify δOR agonists that underrecruit β-arrestin, as it has been suggested that compounds that efficaciously recruit β-arrestin are proconvulsant. The screen identified a hit compound and further characterization using cellular binding and signaling assays revealed that this molecule (R995045, compound 1) exhibited ten-fold selectivity over µ- and κ-opioid receptors. Compound 1 represents a novel chemotype at the δOR. A subsequent characterization of fourteen analogs of compound 1, however did not identify a more potent δOR agonist. Computational modeling and in vitro characterization of compound 1 in the presence of the endogenous agonist leu-enkephalin suggest compound 1 may also bind allosterically and negatively modulate the potency of Leu-enkephalin to inhibit cAMP, acting as a ‘NAM-agonist’ in this assay. The potential physiological utility of such a class of compounds will need to be assessed in future in vivo assays.


Carbon ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 103 ◽  
pp. 291-298 ◽  
Author(s):  
Valeria Ettorre ◽  
Patrizia De Marco ◽  
Susi Zara ◽  
Vittoria Perrotti ◽  
Antonio Scarano ◽  
...  

2006 ◽  
Vol 16 ◽  
pp. S435 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. Marko ◽  
G. Szabo ◽  
S. Udvari ◽  
M. Agoston ◽  
E. Szabo ◽  
...  

2015 ◽  
Vol 137 (21) ◽  
pp. 6972-6972 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fuwu Zhang ◽  
Shiyi Zhang ◽  
Stephanie F. Pollack ◽  
Richen Li ◽  
Amelia M. Gonzalez ◽  
...  

2012 ◽  
Vol 39 (5) ◽  
pp. 679-686 ◽  
Author(s):  
Javier Giglio ◽  
Soledad Fernández ◽  
Hans-Jürgen Pietzsch ◽  
Sylvia Dematteis ◽  
María Moreno ◽  
...  

Nature ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 460 (7258) ◽  
pp. 1021-1025 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yasushi Itoh ◽  
Kyoko Shinya ◽  
Maki Kiso ◽  
Tokiko Watanabe ◽  
Yoshihiro Sakoda ◽  
...  

2008 ◽  
Vol 111 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 95-100 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christiane Otto ◽  
Iris Fuchs ◽  
Helga Altmann ◽  
Mario Klewer ◽  
Gilda Schwarz ◽  
...  

2009 ◽  
Vol 78 (7) ◽  
pp. 913 ◽  
Author(s):  
James N.C. Kew ◽  
Selina Mok ◽  
Annette Weil ◽  
Caterina Virginio ◽  
Laura Castelletti ◽  
...  

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