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SUBMITTER: Talhami A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7689096 | biostudies-literature | 2020
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Talhami Alaa A Swed Avi A Hess Shmuel S Ovadia Oded O Greenberg Sarit S Schumacher-Klinger Adi A Rosenthal David D Shalev Deborah E DE Hurevich Mattan M Lazarovici Philip P Hoffman Amnon A Gilon Chaim C
Frontiers in chemistry 20201112
Painkillers are commonly used medications. Native peptide painkillers suffer from various pharmacological disadvantages, while small molecule painkillers like morphine are highly addictive. We present a general approach aimed to use backbone-cyclization to develop a peptidomimetic painkiller. Backbone-cyclization was applied to transform the linear peptide Tyr-Arg-Phe-Sar (TAPS) into an active backbone-cyclic peptide with improved drug properties. We designed and synthesized a focused backbone-c ...[more]