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Structurally minimized mu-conotoxin analogues as sodium channel blockers: implications for designing conopeptide-based therapeutics.

ABSTRACT: Disulfide bridges that stabilize the native conformation of conotoxins pose a challenge in the synthesis of smaller conotoxin analogues. Herein we describe the synthesis of a minimized analogue of the analgesic mu-conotoxin KIIIA that blocks two sodium channel subtypes, the neuronal Na(V)1.2 and skeletal muscle Na(V)1.4. Three disulfide-deficient analogues of KIIIA were initially synthesized in which the native disulfide bridge formed between either C1-C9, C2-C15, or C4-C16 was removed. Deletion of the first bridge only slightly affected the peptide's bioactivity. To further minimize this analogue, the N-terminal residue was removed and two nonessential serine residues were replaced by a single 5-amino-3-oxapentanoic acid residue. The resulting "polytide" analogue retained the ability to block sodium channels and to produce analgesia. Until now, the peptidomimetic approach applied to conotoxins has progressed only modestly at best; thus, the disulfide-deficient analogues containing backbone spacers provide an alternative advance toward the development of conopeptide-based therapeutics.

SUBMITTER: Han TS

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4074532 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Structurally minimized mu-conotoxin analogues as sodium channel blockers: implications for designing conopeptide-based therapeutics.

Han Tiffany S TS Zhang Min-Min MM Walewska Aleksandra A Gruszczynski Pawel P Robertson Charles R CR Cheatham Thomas E TE Yoshikami Doju D Olivera Baldomero M BM Bulaj Grzegorz G

ChemMedChem 20090301 3

Disulfide bridges that stabilize the native conformation of conotoxins pose a challenge in the synthesis of smaller conotoxin analogues. Herein we describe the synthesis of a minimized analogue of the analgesic mu-conotoxin KIIIA that blocks two sodium channel subtypes, the neuronal Na(V)1.2 and skeletal muscle Na(V)1.4. Three disulfide-deficient analogues of KIIIA were initially synthesized in which the native disulfide bridge formed between either C1-C9, C2-C15, or C4-C16 was removed. Deletion ...[more]

PMID: 19107760

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Structurally minimized mu-conotoxin analogues as sodium channel blockers: implications for designing conopeptide-based therapeutics.

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