Marine cyanobacterial fatty acid amides acting on cannabinoid receptors.
Marine cyanobacterial fatty acid amides acting on cannabinoid receptors.
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10.1002/cbic.201200502
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2012-12-21
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影响因子:
3.2
通讯作者:
Luesch, Hendrik
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作者:
Montaser, Rana;Paul, Valerie J.;Luesch, Hendrik
Lipids are utilized by diverse organisms, which suggests an evolutionarily conserved role of this class of compounds.[1] Indeed, lipidomics is emerging as a crucial field of research because of the key role of lipid biomolecules in a wide array of physiological functions.[2] Research has also uncovered some vital lipid-protein interactions where lipid molecules can bind to specific protein domains to mediate physiological effects. The endocannabinoid system is a representative example, where two characterized G-protein coupled cannabinoid receptors CB1 and CB2 are modulated by endogenous lipids known as endocannabinoids. Importantly, this system has been implicated in various pathophysiologies, including neurodegenerative diseases, eating disorders, pain, inflammation and cancer.[3–7] Therefore, a better understanding of this system has become of significant interest, and the cannabinoid receptors have been viewed as possible targets for different diseases.[1, 5] The classical concept that all agonists at a given GPCR induce a similar repertoire of downstream events is now uncertain, and the latest experimental evidence supports the existence of ligandspecific functional selectivity at the cannabinoid receptors.[3] Consequently, the identification of new structural scaffolds that can bind to the cannabinoid receptors remains an essential tool to dig further into this complex system.Anandamide (N-arachidonoylethanolamine)(1)(Scheme 1) was the first endogenous ligand to be identified among the endocannabinoid family.[8] Influenced by its structure, the discovery of this fatty acid amide suggested that other natural and synthetic fatty acid amides might function as cannabinoid receptor ligands as well. In that context, marine cyanobacteria of the genus Lyngbya have a characteristic metabolic profile that is rich in fatty acid amides (in addition to peptides),[9] and therefore represent a potential source of new model compounds acting on the cannabinoid receptors. Support for this assumption arises from reports of metabolites isolated from Lyngbya samples that can interact with the cannabinoid receptors. To the best of our knowledge, there are only five marine cyanobacterial fatty acid amides identified to date with binding affinities to the cannabinoid receptors; grenadamide (2)[10], semiplenamides A (3), B, and G [11] and the recently reported metabolite serinolamide A (4)[12](Scheme 1). However, none of them have been tested in
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影响因子:
3.8
作者:
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通讯作者:
Luesch H
影响因子:
4.2
作者:
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通讯作者:
Wenk, Gary L.
影响因子:
3.4
作者:
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通讯作者:
VEDANAYAGAM, HS
影响因子:
5.8
作者:
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通讯作者:
Lambert, Didier M.
影响因子:
4.9
作者:
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通讯作者:
Di Marzo, V