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SUBMITTER: Ballet S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2840614 | biostudies-other | 2010 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Ballet Steven S Marczak Ewa D ED Feytens Debby D Salvadori Severo S Sasaki Yusuke Y Abell Andrew D AD Lazarus Lawrence H LH Balboni Gianfranco G Tourwé Dirk D
Bioorganic & medicinal chemistry letters 20100120 5
The dimerization and trimerization of the Dmt-Tic, Dmt-Aia and Dmt-Aba pharmacophores provided multiple ligands which were evaluated in vitro for opioid receptor binding and functional activity. Whereas the Tic- and Aba multimers proved to be dual and balanced delta/mu antagonists, as determined by the functional [S(35)]GTPgammaS binding assay, the dimerization of potent Aia-based 'parent' ligands unexpectedly resulted in substantial less efficient receptor binding and non-active dimeric compoun ...[more]