Tritium-Labelled Isovaleryl-RYYRIK-NH2 as Potential Antagonist Probe for ORL1 Nociceptin Receptor
Tritium-Labelled Isovaleryl-RYYRIK-NH2 as Potential Antagonist Probe for ORL1 Nociceptin Receptor
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氚标记的异戊酰基-RYYRIK-NH2 作为 ORL1 伤害感受素受体的潜在拮抗剂探针
DOI:
10.1016/j.bmc.2014.09.018
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发表时间:
2014
影响因子:
3.5
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and Y. Shimohigashi
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作者:
S. Inamine;H. Nishimura;J. Li;K. Isozaki;A. Matsushima;T. Costa;and Y. Shimohigashi
IsoVa-RYYRIK-NH2is a highly specific antagonist ligand of the opioid receptor-like 1 (ORL1) receptor, an endogenous ligand of which is 17-mer peptide nociceptin. ORL1 antagonists have potential for clinical use as analgesic and antineuropathic drugs, and thus information on the receptor-binding characteristics of antagonists is very important for rational drug design. In the present study, we prepared tritium-labelled isova-RYYRIK-NH2from its precursor with the 3-methylcrotonyl (CH3)2Cdouble bondCHCO group by a catalytic reduction using tritium gas. The resulting [3H]isoVa-RYYRIK-NH2was evaluated in a saturation binding assay using the COS-7 cell membrane preparations of transiently expressed ORL1. It exhibited more than 90% specific binding with a dissociation constant of 1.21 ± 0.03 nM. From the mutual heterologous binding assays using [3H]isoVa-RYYRIK-NH2and [3H]nociceptin, isoVa-RYYRIK-NH2and nociceptin were found to share the receptor-binding site, but each also had a separate specific binding site of its own. They differentiated the two different binding states or conformations of ORL1, which might represent the agonist-active and antagonist-inactive conformations of ORL1. [3H]isoVa-RYYRIK-NH2is thus a key tracer to uncover the amino acid residues important for receptor inactivation.