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Publication Abstract from PubMed

Bifunctional mu- and delta-opioid receptor (OR) ligands are potential therapeutic alternatives, with diminished side effects, to alkaloid opiate analgesics. We solved the structure of human delta-OR bound to the bifunctional delta-OR antagonist and mu-OR agonist tetrapeptide H-Dmt-Tic-Phe-Phe-NH2 (DIPP-NH2) by serial femtosecond crystallography, revealing a cis-peptide bond between H-Dmt and Tic. The observed receptor-peptide interactions are critical for understanding of the pharmacological profiles of opioid peptides and for development of improved analgesics.

Structural basis for bifunctional peptide recognition at human delta-opioid receptor.,Fenalti G, Zatsepin NA, Betti C, Giguere P, Han GW, Ishchenko A, Liu W, Guillemyn K, Zhang H, James D, Wang D, Weierstall U, Spence JC, Boutet S, Messerschmidt M, Williams GJ, Gati C, Yefanov OM, White TA, Oberthuer D, Metz M, Yoon CH, Barty A, Chapman HN, Basu S, Coe J, Conrad CE, Fromme R, Fromme P, Tourwe D, Schiller PW, Roth BL, Ballet S, Katritch V, Stevens RC, Cherezov V Nat Struct Mol Biol. 2015 Mar;22(3):265-8. doi: 10.1038/nsmb.2965. Epub 2015 Feb , 16. PMID:25686086^[1]

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