Alpha-melanotropin: the minimal active sequence in the lizard skin bioassay
| Autor: | Ana Maria de Lauro Castrucci, D J Staples, M.F. Hintz, Brian C. Wilkes, O. Dym, M. E. Hadley, J.P. Riehm, K.R. Rao, Tomi K. Sawyer, Fahad Al-Obeidi, A.E. de Vaux, Victor J. Hruby |
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| Rok vydání: | 1989 |
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medicine.medical_specialty
Stereochemistry Molecular Sequence Data Biology Peptide hormone Structure-Activity Relationship Endocrinology Internal medicine medicine Structure–activity relationship Potency Bioassay Animals Amino Acid Sequence Peptide sequence Skin chemistry.chemical_classification Binding Sites Tetrapeptide Biological activity Lizards Peptide Fragments Amino acid chemistry alpha-MSH Animal Science and Zoology |
| Zdroj: | General and comparative endocrinology. 73(1) |
| ISSN: | 0016-6480 |
| Popis: | alpha-Melanotropin (alpha-melanocyte-stimulating hormone, alpha-MSH) is a tridecapeptide, Ac-Ser-Tyr-Ser-Met-Glu-His-Phe-Arg-Trp-Gly-Lys-Pro-Val-NH2. The minimal sequence of alpha-MSH required for agonism in the lizard (Anolis carolinensis) skin bioassay was determined to be Ac-His-Phe-Arg-Trp-NH2 (Ac-alpha-MSH6-9-NH2). Smaller fragments of this sequence (Ac-alpha-MSH6-8-NH2, Ac-alpha-MSH6-7-NH2, Ac-alpha-MSH7-9-NH2, and Ac-alpha-MSH7-8-NH2) were devoid of melanotropic activity. The tetrapeptide, Ac-alpha-MSH7-10-NH2, was also inactive, thus again demonstrating the importance of His at position 6 for minimal activity. The important potentiating amino acids were found to be Met-4, Lys-11, and Pro-12, since Ac-alpha-MSH4-10-NH2 was about 100 times more potent than Ac-alpha-MSH5-10-NH2, and Ac-[Nle4]-alpha-MSH4-11-NH2 was about 40 times more potent than Ac-alpha-MSH4-10-NH2 or Ac-[Nle4]-alpha-MSH4-10-NH2. Ac-alpha-MSH4-12-NH2 and Ac-[Nle4]-alpha-MSH4-12-NH2 were equipotent and about six times more potent than alpha-MSH. Since [Nle4]-alpha-MSH and Ac-[Nle4]-alpha-MSH4-13-NH2 were both equipotent but about sixfold less active than Ac-[Nle4]-alpha-MSH4-12-NH2, it is clear that valine at position 13 does not contribute to the potency of alpha-MSH, except possibly in a negative way. The minimal message sequence for equipotency to alpha-MSH appears to be Ac-Met-Glu-His-Phe-Arg-Trp-Gly-Lys-NH2, since the analog, Ac-[Nle4]-alpha-MSH4-11-NH2, was as active as the native hormone. Ser-1, Tyr-2, Ser-3, Glu-5, and Val-13 are not important for melanotropic potency since Ac-alpha-MSH4-12-NH2 was more potent than alpha-MSH, and Ac-alpha-MSH5-10-NH2 and Ac-alpha-MSH6-10-NH2 were equipotent, being about 4,000 times less active than alpha-MSH. |
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