Probes for narcotic receptor mediated phenomena. 41. Unusual inverse ?-agonists and potent ?-opioid antagonists by modification of the N-substituent in enantiomeric 5-(3-hydroxyphenyl)morphans.

ABSTRACT: Conformational restraint in the N-substituent of enantiomeric 5-(3-hydroxyphenyl)morphans was conferred by the addition of a cyclopropane ring or a double bond. All of the possible enantiomers and isomers of the N-substituted compounds were synthesized. Opioid receptor binding assays indicated that some of them had about 20-fold higher ?-affinity than the compound with an N-phenylpropyl substituent (K(i) = 2-450 nM for the examined compounds with various N-substituents). Most of the compounds acted unusually as inverse agonists in the [(35)S]GTP-?-S functional binding assay using nondependent cells that stably express the cloned human ?-opioid receptor. Two of the N-substituted compounds with a cyclopropane ring were very potent ?-opioid antagonists ((+)-29, K(e) = 0.17 and (-)-30, K(e) =0.3) in the [(35)S]GTP-?-S functional binding assay. By comparison of the geometry-optimized structures of the newly synthesized compounds, an attempt was made to rationalize their ?-opioid receptor affinity in terms of the spatial position of N-substituents.

SUBMITTER: Cheng K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3047451 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature