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Tyagi C, Marik T, Szekeres A, Vágvölgyi C, Kredics L, Ötvös F. Modeling the Effect on a Novel Fungal Peptaibol Placed in an All-Atom Bacterial Membrane Mimicking System via Accelerated Molecular Dynamics Simulations. Life (Basel) 2023; 13:2288. [PMID: 38137889 PMCID: PMC10744397 DOI: 10.3390/life13122288] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/10/2023] [Revised: 11/23/2023] [Accepted: 11/27/2023] [Indexed: 12/24/2023] Open
Abstract
We previously reported on a novel peptaibol, named Tripleurin XIIc (TPN), an 18-residue long sequence produced by the fungus Trichoderma pleuroti. We elucidated its 3D structure via classical and accelerated molecular dynamics simulation (aMD) methods and reported the folding dynamics of TPN in water and chloroform solvents. Peptaibols, in general, are insoluble in water, as they are amphipathic and may prefer hydrophobic environments like transmembrane regions. In this study, we attempted to use aMD simulations to model an all-atom bacterial membrane system while placing a TPN molecule in its vicinity. The results highlighted that TPN was able to introduce some disorder into the membrane and caused lipid clustering. It could also enter the transmembrane region from the water-bilayer interface. The structural dynamics of TPN in the transmembrane region revealed a single energetically stable conformation similar to the one obtained from water and chloroform solvent simulations reported by us previously. However, this linear structure was found to be at the local energy minimum (stable) in water but at a metastable intermediate state (higher energy) in chloroform. Therefore, it could be said that the water solvent can be successfully used for folding simulations of peptaibols.
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- Chetna Tyagi
- Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Science and Informatics, University of Szeged, Közép fasor 52, H-6726 Szeged, Hungary; (T.M.); (A.S.); (C.V.); (L.K.)
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- Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Science and Informatics, University of Szeged, Közép fasor 52, H-6726 Szeged, Hungary; (T.M.); (A.S.); (C.V.); (L.K.)
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- Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Science and Informatics, University of Szeged, Közép fasor 52, H-6726 Szeged, Hungary; (T.M.); (A.S.); (C.V.); (L.K.)
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- Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Science and Informatics, University of Szeged, Közép fasor 52, H-6726 Szeged, Hungary; (T.M.); (A.S.); (C.V.); (L.K.)
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- Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Science and Informatics, University of Szeged, Közép fasor 52, H-6726 Szeged, Hungary; (T.M.); (A.S.); (C.V.); (L.K.)
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- Institute of Biochemistry, Biological Research Centre, Temesvári krt. 62, H-6726 Szeged, Hungary;
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Abdou MM, Ötvös F, Dong D, Matziari M. Novel glycosyl prodrug of RXP03 as MMP-11 prodrug: design, synthesis and virtual screening. BMC Chem 2023; 17:167. [PMID: 38007463 PMCID: PMC10675898 DOI: 10.1186/s13065-023-01075-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/10/2023] [Accepted: 11/01/2023] [Indexed: 11/27/2023] Open
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Like most phosphinic acids, the potent and selective RXP03 inhibitor of different MMPs exhibited moderate absorption and low bioavailability, which impaired its use. In an unprecedented attempt, we present an interesting synthetic approach to a new class of phosphinate prodrug, glycosyl ester of RXP03, to provide a potentially improved blood-brain barrier (BBB) behavior compared to the former lead compound RXP03. To validate this speculation, a predictive study for permeability enhancer of glycosyl ester of RXP03 showed encouraging insights to improve drug delivery across biological barriers.
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- Moaz M Abdou
- Egyptian Petroleum Research Institute, P.O. 11727, Nasr City, Cairo, Egypt.
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- Institute of Biochemistry, Biological Research Centre, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 6726, Szeged, Hungary
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- Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun, 130022, China
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- Department of Chemistry, Xi'an Jiaotong Liverpool University, Suzhou, 215123, Jiangsu, People's Republic of China
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Ötvös F, Szűcs E, Urai Á, Köteles I, Szabó PT, Varga ZK, Gombos D, Hosztafi S, Benyhe S. Synthesis and biochemical evaluation of 17-N-beta-aminoalkyl-4,5α-epoxynormorphinans. Sci Rep 2023; 13:20305. [PMID: 37985681 PMCID: PMC10660610 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-46317-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/27/2023] [Accepted: 10/30/2023] [Indexed: 11/22/2023] Open
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Opiate alkaloids and their synthetic derivatives are still widely used in pain management, drug addiction, and abuse. To avoid serious side effects, compounds with properly designed pharmacological profiles at the opioid receptor subtypes are long needed. Here a series of 17-N-substituted derivatives of normorphine and noroxymorphone analogues with five- and six-membered ring substituents have been synthesized for structure-activity study. Some compounds showed nanomolar affinity to MOR, DOR and KOR in in vitro competition binding experiments with selective agonists [3H]DAMGO, [3H]Ile5,6-deltorphin II and [3H]HS665, respectively. Pharmacological characterization of the compounds in G-protein signaling was determined by [35S]GTPγS binding assays. The normorphine analogues showed higher affinity to KOR compared to MOR and DOR, while most of the noroxymorphone derivatives did not bind to KOR. The presence of 14-OH substituent resulted in a shift in the pharmacological profiles in the agonist > partial agonist > antagonist direction compared to the parent compounds. A molecular docking-based in silico method was also applied to estimate the pharmacological profile of the compounds. Docking energies and the patterns of the interacting receptor atoms, obtained with experimentally determined active and inactive states of MOR, were used to explain the observed pharmacological features of the compounds.
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- Ferenc Ötvös
- Institute of Biochemistry, HUN-REN Biological Research Centre, Temesvári Krt. 62, 6726, Szeged, Hungary.
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- Institute of Biochemistry, HUN-REN Biological Research Centre, Temesvári Krt. 62, 6726, Szeged, Hungary
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- Institute of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Semmelweis Medical University, Hőgyes Endre Utca 9, 1092, Budapest, Hungary
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- Institute of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Semmelweis Medical University, Hőgyes Endre Utca 9, 1092, Budapest, Hungary
- Department of Chemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Gothenburg, Medicinaregatan 19, 41390, Göteborg, Sweden
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- Research Centre for Natural Sciences, MS Metabolomics Research Laboratory, Magyar Tudósok Krt. 2, 1117, Budapest, Hungary
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- Institute of Biochemistry, HUN-REN Biological Research Centre, Temesvári Krt. 62, 6726, Szeged, Hungary
- Theoretical Medical Doctoral School, Faculty of Medicine, University of Szeged, 6726, Szeged, Hungary
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- Institute of Biochemistry, HUN-REN Biological Research Centre, Temesvári Krt. 62, 6726, Szeged, Hungary
- Theoretical Medical Doctoral School, Faculty of Medicine, University of Szeged, 6726, Szeged, Hungary
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- Institute of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Semmelweis Medical University, Hőgyes Endre Utca 9, 1092, Budapest, Hungary
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- Institute of Biochemistry, HUN-REN Biological Research Centre, Temesvári Krt. 62, 6726, Szeged, Hungary.
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Kovács I, Ötvös F, Farkas AP, Kiss J, Kónya Z. A round dance of acetaldehyde molecular ensembles on Rh(111) surface; formation and decomposition of various paraldehyde conformers. J Mol Struct 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.molstruc.2022.133311] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Tyagi C, Marik T, Vágvölgyi C, Kredics L, Ötvös F. Correction: Tyagi, C., et al. Accelerated Molecular Dynamics Applied to the Peptaibol Folding Problem. International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2019, 20, 4268. Int J Mol Sci 2021; 22:ijms22073707. [PMID: 33918535 PMCID: PMC8038155 DOI: 10.3390/ijms22073707] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/24/2020] [Accepted: 08/05/2020] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
Affiliation(s)
- Chetna Tyagi
- Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Science and Informatics, University of Szeged, Szeged, Közép fasor 52, H-6726 Szeged, Hungary; (T.M.); (C.V.); (L.K.)
- Doctoral School of Biology, Faculty of Science and Informatics, University of Szeged, Szeged, Közép fasor 52, H-6726 Szeged, Hungary
- Correspondence: ; Tel.: +36-705251491
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- Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Science and Informatics, University of Szeged, Szeged, Közép fasor 52, H-6726 Szeged, Hungary; (T.M.); (C.V.); (L.K.)
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- Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Science and Informatics, University of Szeged, Szeged, Közép fasor 52, H-6726 Szeged, Hungary; (T.M.); (C.V.); (L.K.)
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- Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Science and Informatics, University of Szeged, Szeged, Közép fasor 52, H-6726 Szeged, Hungary; (T.M.); (C.V.); (L.K.)
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- Institute of Biochemistry, Biological Research Centre, Szeged, Temesvári krt. 62., H-6726 Szeged, Hungary;
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Szűcs E, Marton J, Szabó Z, Hosztafi S, Kékesi G, Tuboly G, Bánki L, Horváth G, Szabó PT, Tömböly C, Varga ZK, Benyhe S, Ötvös F. Synthesis, biochemical, pharmacological characterization and in silico profile modelling of highly potent opioid orvinol and thevinol derivatives. Eur J Med Chem 2020; 191:112145. [PMID: 32092588 DOI: 10.1016/j.ejmech.2020.112145] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/12/2019] [Revised: 01/22/2020] [Accepted: 02/12/2020] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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Morphine and its derivatives play inevitably important role in the μ-opioid receptor (MOR) targeted antinociception. A structure-activity relationship study is presented for novel and known orvinol and thevinol derivatives with varying 3-O, 6-O, 17-N and 20-alkyl substitutions starting from agonists, antagonists and partial agonists. In vitro competition binding experiments with [3H]DAMGO showed low subnanomolar affinity to MOR. Generally, 6-O-demethylation increased the affinity toward MOR and decreased the efficacy changing the pharmacological profile in some cases. In vivo tests in osteoarthritis inflammation model showed significant antiallodynic effects of thevinol derivatives while orvinol derivatives did not. The pharmacological character was modelled by computational docking to both active and inactive state models of MOR. Docking energy difference for the two states separates agonists and antagonists well while partial agonists overlapped with them. An interaction pattern of the ligands, involving the interacting receptor atoms, showed more efficient separation of the pharmacological profiles. In rats, thevinol derivatives showed antiallodynic effect in vivo. The orvinol derivatives, except for 6-O-desmethyl-dihydroetorfin (2c), did not show antiallodynic effect.
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- Edina Szűcs
- Institute of Biochemistry, Biological Research Center, Temesvári krt. 62, H-6726, Szeged, Hungary; Doctoral School of Theoretical Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Szeged, Dóm tér 10, H-6720, Szeged, Hungary
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- ABX Advanced Biochemical Compounds, Biomedizinische Forschungsreagenzien GmbH, Heinrich-Glaeser-Strasse 10-14, D-01454, Radeberg, Germany
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- Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), School of Engineering Sciences in Chemistry, Biotechnology and Health, Department of Chemistry, Organic Chemistry, S-100 44, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Institute of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Semmelweis Medical University, Hőgyes Endre utca 9, H-1092, Budapest, Hungary
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- Department of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Szeged, Dóm tér 10, H-6720, Szeged, Hungary
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- Department of Neurology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Szeged, Semmelweis u 6, H-6725, Szeged, Hungary
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- Department of Traumatology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Szeged, Semmelweis u 6, H-6725, Szeged, Hungary
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- Department of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Szeged, Dóm tér 10, H-6720, Szeged, Hungary
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- Research Centre for Natural Sciences, MS Metabolomics Research Laboratory, H-1117, Budapest, Magyar tudósok krt. 2, Hungary
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- Institute of Biochemistry, Biological Research Center, Temesvári krt. 62, H-6726, Szeged, Hungary
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- Institute of Biochemistry, Biological Research Center, Temesvári krt. 62, H-6726, Szeged, Hungary; Doctoral School of Theoretical Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Szeged, Dóm tér 10, H-6720, Szeged, Hungary
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- Institute of Biochemistry, Biological Research Center, Temesvári krt. 62, H-6726, Szeged, Hungary
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- Institute of Biochemistry, Biological Research Center, Temesvári krt. 62, H-6726, Szeged, Hungary.
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Erdei AI, Borbély A, Magyar A, Szűcs E, Ötvös F, Gombos D, Al-Khrasani M, Stefanucci A, Dimmito MP, Luisi G, Mollica A, Benyhe S. Biochemical and pharmacological investigation of novel nociceptin/OFQ analogues and N/OFQ-RYYRIK hybrid peptides. Peptides 2019; 112:106-113. [PMID: 30513351 DOI: 10.1016/j.peptides.2018.11.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/21/2018] [Revised: 11/30/2018] [Accepted: 11/30/2018] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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The endogenous ligand nociceptin (N/OFQ) and a positively charged synthetic peptide RYYRIK are both selective for the nociceptin opioid receptor (NOPr). Despite their structural dissimilarity, N/OFQ and RYYRIK compete for the same binding site of NOP receptor possessing full and partial agonistic character, respectively. In the view of the message-address concept, hybrid peptide constructs were probed for the NOP receptor combining different regions of N/OFQ and RYYRIK related peptide sequences. Nine novel nociceptin- or Ac-RYYRIK-NH2 peptide variants or hybrid peptides were synthesized and characterized. Peptides P2 and P8 contain fragments of native N/OFQ. The other seven analogues (P1, P3-7, P9) are composed of Ac-RYYRIK-NH2 fragments and parts of the original nociceptin sequence. The analogues were characterized in receptor binding assays and G-protein activation experiments on rat brain membranes, as well as by electrically stimulated mouse vas deferens bioassay. In receptor binding assays ligands P2, P4, P6 (Ki 0.37 nM) and P7 showed higher affinity (Ki 0.65 nM, 0.6 nM, 0.37 nM and 0.44 nM, respectively) for NOP receptor than their parent compounds N/OFQ (Ki 2.8 nM) or Ac-RYYRIK-NH2 (Ki 4.2 nM). In [35S]GTPγS binding experiments P2 and P3 behaved as full agonists. The other variants exhibited partial agonist properties characterized by submaximal stimulatory effects. In mouse vas deferens bioassay only P2 showed agonist activity. P4, P5, P6 inhibited the biological activity of N/OFQ more effectively than the NOP receptor selective antagonist JTC-801. In summary, hybrid peptides P4, P5 and P6 proved to be NOP receptor partial agonists even antagonists, while P2 peptide retained the full agonist property.
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- Anna I Erdei
- Institute of Biochemistry, Biological Research Center, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, H-6726 Szeged, Temesvári krt. 62., Hungary; Doctoral School of Theoretical Medicine, University of Szeged, Faculty of Medicine, Szeged, Hungary
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- MTA-ELTE Research Group of Peptide Chemistry, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Eötvös Loránd University, H-1117, Budapest, Pázmány Péter sétány 1/A, Hungary
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- MTA-ELTE Research Group of Peptide Chemistry, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Eötvös Loránd University, H-1117, Budapest, Pázmány Péter sétány 1/A, Hungary
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- Institute of Biochemistry, Biological Research Center, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, H-6726 Szeged, Temesvári krt. 62., Hungary; Doctoral School of Theoretical Medicine, University of Szeged, Faculty of Medicine, Szeged, Hungary
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- Institute of Biochemistry, Biological Research Center, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, H-6726 Szeged, Temesvári krt. 62., Hungary
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- Institute of Biochemistry, Biological Research Center, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, H-6726 Szeged, Temesvári krt. 62., Hungary
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- Department of Pharmacology and Pharmacotherapy, Semmelweis University, H-1445 Budapest, Nagyvárad tér 4., Hungary
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- Dipartimento di Farmacia, Università̀ degli Studi "G. d'Annunzio" di Chieti-Pescara, Via dei Vestini 31, Chieti, 66100, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Farmacia, Università̀ degli Studi "G. d'Annunzio" di Chieti-Pescara, Via dei Vestini 31, Chieti, 66100, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Farmacia, Università̀ degli Studi "G. d'Annunzio" di Chieti-Pescara, Via dei Vestini 31, Chieti, 66100, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Farmacia, Università̀ degli Studi "G. d'Annunzio" di Chieti-Pescara, Via dei Vestini 31, Chieti, 66100, Italy
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- Institute of Biochemistry, Biological Research Center, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, H-6726 Szeged, Temesvári krt. 62., Hungary.
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Tyagi C, Marik T, Szekeres A, Vágvölgyi C, Kredics L, Ötvös F. Tripleurin XIIc: Peptide Folding Dynamics in Aqueous and Hydrophobic Environment Mimic Using Accelerated Molecular Dynamics. Molecules 2019; 24:E358. [PMID: 30669493 PMCID: PMC6359335 DOI: 10.3390/molecules24020358] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/24/2018] [Revised: 01/14/2019] [Accepted: 01/18/2019] [Indexed: 01/11/2023] Open
Abstract
Peptaibols are a special class of fungal peptides with an acetylated N-terminus and a C-terminal 1,2-amino alcohol along with non-standard amino acid residues. New peptaibols named tripleurins were recently identified from a strain of the filamentous fungal species Trichoderma pleuroti, which is known to cause green mould disease on cultivated oyster mushrooms. To understand the mode of action of these peptaibols, the three-dimensional structure of tripleurin (TPN) XIIc, an 18-mer peptide, was elucidated using an enhanced sampling method, accelerated MD, in water and chloroform solvents. Non-standard residues were parameterized by the Restrained Electrostatic Potential (RESP) charge fitting method. The dihedral distribution indicated towards a right-handed helical formation for TPN XIIc in both solvents. Dihedral angle based principal component analysis revealed a propensity for a slightly bent, helical folded conformation in water solvent, while two distinct conformations were revealed in chloroform: One that folds into highly bent helical structure that resembles a beta-hairpin and another with an almost straight peptide backbone appearing as a rare energy barrier crossing event. The hinge-like movement of the terminals was also observed and is speculated to be functionally relevant. The convergence and efficient sampling is addressed using Cartesian PCA and Kullback-Leibler divergence methods.
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- Chetna Tyagi
- Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Science and Informatics, University of Szeged, Szeged, Közép fasor 52, H-6726 Szeged, Hungary.
- Doctoral School of Biology, Faculty of Science and Informatics, University of Szeged, Szeged, Közép fasor 52, H-6726 Szeged, Hungary.
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- Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Science and Informatics, University of Szeged, Szeged, Közép fasor 52, H-6726 Szeged, Hungary.
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- Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Science and Informatics, University of Szeged, Szeged, Közép fasor 52, H-6726 Szeged, Hungary.
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- Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Science and Informatics, University of Szeged, Szeged, Közép fasor 52, H-6726 Szeged, Hungary.
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- Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Science and Informatics, University of Szeged, Szeged, Közép fasor 52, H-6726 Szeged, Hungary.
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- Institute of Biochemistry, Biological Research Centre, Szeged, Temesvári krt. 62, H-6726 Szeged, Hungary.
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Erdei AI, Borbély A, Magyar A, Taricska N, Perczel A, Zsíros O, Garab G, Szűcs E, Ötvös F, Zádor F, Balogh M, Al-Khrasani M, Benyhe S. Biochemical and pharmacological characterization of three opioid-nociceptin hybrid peptide ligands reveals substantially differing modes of their actions. Peptides 2018; 99:205-216. [PMID: 29038035 DOI: 10.1016/j.peptides.2017.10.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/24/2017] [Revised: 10/10/2017] [Accepted: 10/11/2017] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
Abstract
In an attempt to design opioid-nociceptin hybrid peptides, three novel bivalent ligands, H-YGGFGGGRYYRIK-NH2, H-YGGFRYYRIK-NH2 and Ac-RYYRIKGGGYGGFL-OH were synthesized and studied by biochemical, pharmacological, biophysical and molecular modelling tools. These chimeric molecules consist of YGGF sequence, a crucial motif in the N-terminus of natural opioid peptides, and Ac-RYYRIK-NH2, which was isolated from a combinatorial peptide library as an antagonist or partial agonist that inhibits the biological activity of the endogenously occurring heptadecapeptide nociceptin. Solution structures for the peptides were studied by analysing their circular dichroism spectra. Receptor binding affinities were measured by equilibrium competition experiments using four highly selective radioligands. G-protein activating properties of the multitarget peptides were estimated in [35S]GTPγS binding tests. The three compounds were also measured in electrically stimulated mouse vas deferens (MVD) bioassay. H-YGGFGGGRYYRIK-NH2 (BA55), carrying N-terminal opioid and C-terminal nociceptin-like sequences interconnected with GGG tripeptide spacer displayed a tendency of having either unordered or β-sheet structures, was moderately potent in MVD and possessed a NOP/KOP receptor preference. A similar peptide without spacer H-YGGFRYYRIK-NH2 (BA62) exhibited the weakest effect in MVD, more α-helical periodicity was present in its structure and it exhibited the most efficacious agonist actions in the G-protein stimulation assays. The third hybrid peptide Ac-RYYRIKGGGYGGFL-OH (BA61) unexpectedly displayed opioid receptor affinities, because the opioid message motif is hidden within the C-terminus. The designed chimeric peptide ligands presented in this study accommodate well into a group of multitarget opioid compounds that include opioid-non-opioid peptide dimer analogues, dual non-peptide dimers and mixed peptide- non-peptide bifunctional ligands.
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- Anna I Erdei
- Institute of Biochemistry, Biological Research Center, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, H-6726, Szeged, Temesvári krt. 62., Hungary
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- MTA-ELTE Research Group of Peptide Chemistry, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Eötvös Loránd University, H-1117, Budapest, Pázmány Péter sétány 1/A, Hungary
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- MTA-ELTE Research Group of Peptide Chemistry, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Eötvös Loránd University, H-1117, Budapest, Pázmány Péter sétány 1/A, Hungary
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- Laboratory of Structural Chemistry and Biology, Institute of Chemistry, Eötvös Loránd University, Pázmány P. sétány 1/A, Budapest, H-1117, Hungary
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- Laboratory of Structural Chemistry and Biology, Institute of Chemistry, Eötvös Loránd University, Pázmány P. sétány 1/A, Budapest, H-1117, Hungary; MTA-ELTE Protein Modelling Research Group, Institute of Chemistry, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Eötvös Loránd University, H-1117, Budapest, Pázmány Péter sétány 1/A, Hungary
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- Institute of Plant Biology, Biological Research Center, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, H-6726, Szeged, Temesvári krt. 62., Hungary
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- Institute of Plant Biology, Biological Research Center, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, H-6726, Szeged, Temesvári krt. 62., Hungary
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- Institute of Biochemistry, Biological Research Center, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, H-6726, Szeged, Temesvári krt. 62., Hungary
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- Institute of Biochemistry, Biological Research Center, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, H-6726, Szeged, Temesvári krt. 62., Hungary
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- Institute of Biochemistry, Biological Research Center, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, H-6726, Szeged, Temesvári krt. 62., Hungary
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- Department of Pharmacology and Pharmacotherapy, Semmelweis University, H-1445, Budapest, Nagyvárad tér 4., Hungary
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- Department of Pharmacology and Pharmacotherapy, Semmelweis University, H-1445, Budapest, Nagyvárad tér 4., Hungary
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- Institute of Biochemistry, Biological Research Center, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, H-6726, Szeged, Temesvári krt. 62., Hungary.
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Monti L, Stefanucci A, Pieretti S, Marzoli F, Fidanza L, Mollica A, Mirzaie S, Carradori S, De Petrocellis L, Schiano Moriello A, Benyhe S, Zádor F, Szűcs E, Ötvös F, Erdei AI, Samavati R, Dvorácskó S, Tömböly C, Novellino E. Evaluation of the analgesic effect of 4-anilidopiperidine scaffold containing ureas and carbamates. J Enzyme Inhib Med Chem 2016; 31:1638-47. [DOI: 10.3109/14756366.2016.1160902] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/07/2023] Open
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- Ludovica Monti
- Dipartimento di Chimica e Tecnologia del Farmaco, Sapienza Università di Roma, Rome, Italy,
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- Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Dipartimento del Farmaco, Rome, Italy,
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- Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Dipartimento del Farmaco, Rome, Italy,
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- Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Dipartimento del Farmaco, Rome, Italy,
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- Dipartimento di Farmacia, Università di Chieti-Pescara “G. d’Annunzio”, Chieti, Italy,
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- Department of Biochemistry, Islamic Azad University, Sanandaj, Iran,
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- Dipartimento di Farmacia, Università di Chieti-Pescara “G. d’Annunzio”, Chieti, Italy,
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- Endocannabinoid Research Group, Institute of Biomolecular Chemistry, National Research Council, Naples, Italy,
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- Endocannabinoid Research Group, Institute of Biomolecular Chemistry, National Research Council, Naples, Italy,
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- Institute of Biochemistry, Biological Research Centre, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Szeged, Hungary, and
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- Institute of Biochemistry, Biological Research Centre, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Szeged, Hungary, and
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- Institute of Biochemistry, Biological Research Centre, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Szeged, Hungary, and
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- Institute of Biochemistry, Biological Research Centre, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Szeged, Hungary, and
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- Institute of Biochemistry, Biological Research Centre, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Szeged, Hungary, and
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- Institute of Biochemistry, Biological Research Centre, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Szeged, Hungary, and
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- Institute of Biochemistry, Biological Research Centre, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Szeged, Hungary, and
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- Institute of Biochemistry, Biological Research Centre, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Szeged, Hungary, and
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- Dipartimento di Farmacia, Università di Napoli “Federico II”, Naples, Italy
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Winter Z, Buhala A, Ötvös F, Jósvay K, Vizler C, Dombi G, Szakonyi G, Oláh Z. Functionally important amino acid residues in the transient receptor potential vanilloid 1 (TRPV1) ion channel--an overview of the current mutational data. Mol Pain 2013; 9:30. [PMID: 23800232 PMCID: PMC3707783 DOI: 10.1186/1744-8069-9-30] [Citation(s) in RCA: 59] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/18/2013] [Accepted: 06/17/2013] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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This review aims to create an overview of the currently available results of site-directed mutagenesis studies on transient receptor potential vanilloid type 1 (TRPV1) receptor. Systematization of the vast number of data on the functionally important amino acid mutations of TRPV1 may provide a clearer picture of this field, and may promote a better understanding of the relationship between the structure and function of TRPV1. The review summarizes information on 112 unique mutated sites along the TRPV1, exchanged to multiple different residues in many cases. These mutations influence the effect or binding of different agonists, antagonists, and channel blockers, alter the responsiveness to heat, acid, and voltage dependence, affect the channel pore characteristics, and influence the regulation of the receptor function by phosphorylation, glycosylation, calmodulin, PIP2, ATP, and lipid binding. The main goal of this paper is to publish the above mentioned data in a form that facilitates in silico molecular modelling of the receptor by promoting easier establishment of boundary conditions. The better understanding of the structure-function relationship of TRPV1 may promote discovery of new, promising, more effective and safe drugs for treatment of neurogenic inflammation and pain-related diseases and may offer new opportunities for therapeutic interventions.
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- Zoltán Winter
- Institute of Pharmaceutical Analysis, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary.
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Pecze L, Winter Z, Jósvay K, Ötvös F, Kolozsi C, Vizler C, Budai D, Letoha T, Dombi G, Szakonyi G, Oláh Z. Divalent heavy metal cations block the TRPV1 Ca(2+) channel. Biol Trace Elem Res 2013; 151:451-61. [PMID: 23264033 PMCID: PMC3566393 DOI: 10.1007/s12011-012-9570-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/04/2012] [Accepted: 12/03/2012] [Indexed: 01/17/2023]
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Transient receptor potential vanilloid 1 (TRPV1) is a non-selective cation channel involved in pain sensation and in a wide range of non-pain-related physiological and pathological conditions. The aim of the present study was to explore the effects of selected heavy metal cations on the function of TRPV1. The cations ranked in the following sequence of pore-blocking activity: Co(2+) [half-maximal inhibitory concentration (IC(50)) = 13 μM] > Cd(2+) (I (50) = 38 μM) > Ni(2+) (IC(50) = 62 μM) > Cu(2+) (IC(50) = 200 μM). Zn(2+) proved to be a weak (IC(50) = 27 μM) and only partial inhibitor of the channel function, whereas Mg(2+), Mn(2+) and La(3+) did not exhibit any substantial effect. Co(2+), the most potent channel blocker, was able not only to compete with Ca(2+) but also to pass with it through the open channel of TRPV1. In response to heat activation or vanilloid treatment, Co(2+) accumulation was verified in TRPV1-transfected cell lines and in the TRPV1+ dorsal root ganglion neurons. The inhibitory effect was also demonstrated in vivo. Co(2+) applied together with vanilloid agonists attenuated the nocifensive eye wipe response in mice. Different rat TRPV1 pore point mutants (Y627W, N628W, D646N and E651W) were created that can validate the binding site of previously used channel blockers in agonist-evoked (45)Ca(2+) influx assays in cells expressing TRPV1. The IC(50) of Co(2+) on these point mutants were determined to be reasonably comparable to those on the wild type, which suggests that divalent cations passing through the TRPV1 channel use the same negatively charged amino acids as Ca(2+).
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- László Pecze
- Institute of Pharmaceutical Analysis, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary
- Institute of Biochemistry, Biological Research Centre of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Szeged, Hungary
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- Institute of Pharmaceutical Analysis, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary
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- Institute of Pharmaceutical Analysis, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary
- Institute of Biochemistry, Biological Research Centre of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Szeged, Hungary
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- Institute of Biochemistry, Biological Research Centre of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Szeged, Hungary
- Greenformatix Nonprofit Ltd., Szeged, Hungary
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- Institute of Pharmaceutical Analysis, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary
- Institute of Biochemistry, Biological Research Centre of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Szeged, Hungary
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- Institute of Biochemistry, Biological Research Centre of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Szeged, Hungary
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- Institute of Pharmaceutical Analysis, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary
- Pharmacoidea Ltd., Szeged, Hungary
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- Institute of Pharmaceutical Analysis, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary
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- Institute of Pharmaceutical Analysis, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary
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- Institute of Pharmaceutical Analysis, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary
- Acheuron Hungary Ltd., Szeged, Hungary
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Zádor F, Ötvös F, Benyhe S, Zimmer A, Páldy E. Inhibition of forebrain μ-opioid receptor signaling by low concentrations of rimonabant does not require cannabinoid receptors and directly involves μ-opioid receptors. Neurochem Int 2012; 61:378-88. [DOI: 10.1016/j.neuint.2012.05.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/21/2011] [Revised: 04/12/2012] [Accepted: 05/10/2012] [Indexed: 01/22/2023]
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Ötvös F, Gembitsky DS, Murphy RF, Lovas S. Synthesis and Structure-Activity Relationship of [Nle10]Neurokinin A (4–10) Analogs with Constraint in the Backbone and at Position Six. Int J Pept Res Ther 2007. [DOI: 10.1007/s10989-007-9087-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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Ötvös F, Tóth G, Schmidhammer H. Tritium Labelling of Cyprodime ( = (-)-17-(Cyclopropylmethyl)-4,14-dimethoxymorphinan-6-one), a μ Receptor-Selective Opioid Antagonist. Helv Chim Acta 2004. [DOI: 10.1002/hlca.19920750524] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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Ötvös F, Tóth G, Lovas S, Simon C, Hosztafi S. Synthesis and Tritium Labelling of 6β-Amino-4,5α-epoxymorphinans and their 14-hydroxy derivatives as potential affinity labelling probes with μ opioid agonist activity. Helv Chim Acta 2004. [DOI: 10.1002/hlca.19960790114] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Ötvös F, Körtvélyesi T, Tóth G. Structure-activity relationships of endomorphin-1, endomorphin-2 and morphiceptin by molecular dynamics methods. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2003. [DOI: 10.1016/j.theochem.2003.08.044] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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- Ferenc Ötvös
- Isotope Laboratory, Biological Research Centre of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, P.O. Box 521, H‐6701 Szeged, Hungary
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- Isotope Laboratory, Biological Research Centre of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, P.O. Box 521, H‐6701 Szeged, Hungary
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- Chinoin Pharmaceutical and Chemical Works Co. Ltd., P.O. Box 110, H‐1325 Budapest, Hungary
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- Chinoin Pharmaceutical and Chemical Works Co. Ltd., P.O. Box 110, H‐1325 Budapest, Hungary
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Mezö I, Lovas S, Pályi I, Vincze B, Kálnay A, Turi G, Vadász Z, Seprödi J, Idei M, Gulyás E, Ötvös F, Mák M, Horváth JE, Teplán I, Murphy RF. Synthesis of Gonadotropin-Releasing Hormone III Analogs. Structure−Antitumor Activity Relationships. J Med Chem 1998. [DOI: 10.1021/jm9801152] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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