Abstract:
:The corticotropin release factor 2 receptor (CRF2R) has many biological activities including modulation of the stress response. Recently, we have demonstrated that CRF2R activation functions to prevent skeletal muscle wasting resulting from a variety of physiological stimuli. Thus we are interested in identifying CRF2R selective agonists with optimal pharmacological properties for use in treating muscle wasting diseases. Several CRF2R agonists are known including the frog peptide sauvagine (Svg), which display superior pharmacological properties compared to other CRF2R agonists. Unfortunately sauvagine is a nonselective CRFR agonist, thus making it of less utility due to side effects resulting from corticotropin release factor 1 receptor (CRF1R) activation. Because our initial modifications of Svg at position 11 improved CRF2R selectivity, we investigated the role of amino acids at positions 12 and 13 in Svg. We observed that phenylalanine, leucine, isoleucine, threonine, glutamine, histidine, and tyrosine at the 12th position were the strongest promoters of CRF2R selectivity whereas phenylalanine, glutamine, trytophane, tyrosine, valine, isoleucine, leucine, and 2-naphthylalanine were the preferred residues at the 13th position. Selective sauvagine peptides demonstrated improved antiatrophy effects in a mouse-casting model when compared to sauvagine itself. Thus, we demonstrate that the CRF2R selectivity can be improved by optimizing amino acids at positions 12 and 13 (all with proline at position 11) and that the selective sauvagine analogues demonstrate better in vivo efficacy than sauvagine itself.
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J Med Chemjournal_title
Journal of medicinal chemistryauthors
Isfort RJ,Wang F,Tscheiner M,Donnelly E,Bauer MB,Lefever F,Hinkle RT,Mazur AWdoi
10.1021/jm049490mkeywords:
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2005-01-13 00:00:00pages
262-5issue
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0022-2623issn
1520-4804journal_volume
48pub_type
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