title: Centrally truncated and stabilized porcine neuropeptide Y analogs: design, synthesis, and mouse brain receptor binding.
abstract: Porcine neuropeptide Y (pNPY) has been proposed to form an intramolecularly stabilized structure characterized by N- and C-terminal helical regions arranged antiparallel due to a central turn region. Analogs based on this structural model that have the central turn region and various amounts of the helical regions removed, yet retain the N and C termini in a similar spatial orientation were designed. The gap formed by removal of the central residues (residues 8-17 or 7-20) was spanned with a single 8-aminooctanoic acid residue (Aoc) and the structure was further stabilized by the introduction of a disulfide bridge. [D-Cys7,Aoc8-17,Cys20]pNPY and [Cys5,Aoc7-20,D-Cys24]pNPY were synthesized and found to have receptor binding affinities of 2.3 nM and 150 nM, respectively, in mouse brain membranes (pNPY affinity is 3.6 nM in this assay). It is proposed that the central region (residues 7-17) of pNPY serves a structural role in the peptide and is not involved in direct receptor interaction.
authors.affiliation: Merrell Dow Research Institute, Cincinnati, OH 45215.
authors.forename: J L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Krstenansky
authors.forename: T J
authors.initials: TJ
authors.lastname: Owen
authors.forename: S H
authors.initials: SH
authors.lastname: Buck
authors.forename: K A
authors.initials: KA
authors.lastname: Hagaman
authors.forename: L R
authors.initials: LR
authors.lastname: McLean
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D001921:Brain / Q000378:metabolism*; D002942:Circular Dichroism; D015195:Drug Design; D004355:Drug Stability; D007202:Indicators and Reagents; D051379:Mice; D008958:Models, Molecular; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009478:Neuropeptide Y / Q000031:analogs & derivatives* / Q000138:chemical synthesis* / Q000378:metabolism; D011487:Protein Conformation; D017476:Receptors, Neuropeptide Y; D017981:Receptors, Neurotransmitter / Q000378:metabolism*; D013045:Species Specificity
chemical_list: D007202:Indicators and Reagents; D009478:Neuropeptide Y; D017476:Receptors, Neuropeptide Y; D017981:Receptors, Neurotransmitter