Metorphamide: isolation, structure, and biologic activity of an amidated opioid octapeptide from bovine brain.
AUTOR(ES)
Weber, E
RESUMO
Acid acetone extracts of caudate nucleus from bovine brain were found to contain an amidated opioid octapeptide with the following structure: Tyr-Gly-Gly-Phe-Met-Arg-Arg-Val-NH2. The peptide has been named metorphamide. Bovine metorphamide appears to be derived by proteolytic cleavage from proenkephalin, the common precursor to [Met5]enkephalin and [Leu5]enkephalin. The cleavage within the precursor giving rise to the carboxyl terminus of metorphamide occurs at a single arginine residue and is followed by transformation of a carboxyl-terminal glycine into an amide group. Metorphamide was detected in bovine caudate nucleus extracts by radioimmunoassay, and it was purified to homogeneity by gel filtration and reversed-phase high performance liquid chromatography. Amino acid composition analysis and automated Edman degradation in the gas-phase sequencer confirmed the postulated amino acid sequence. Carboxyl-terminal amidation of bovine metorphamide was shown by stability to carboxypeptidase A digestion and full crossreactivity in a radioimmunoassay that required the carboxyl-terminal amide as part of the recognition site. A synthetic replicate of metorphamide as well as several synthetic analogs were tested for opioid activity in several bioassays and binding assays, and metorphamide was found to have a high mu-binding activity. Metorphamide is the only known naturally occurring opioid peptide that has a high mu-binding activity. The kappa-binding activity is approximately equal to 50% that of the mu-binding activity, but delta-binding activity is negligible.
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