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Abstract
The discovery that the pentapeptides Tyr-Gly-Gly-Phe-Met (${Met}^5$-enkephalin) and Tyr-Gly-Gly-Phe-Leu (${Leu}^5$-enkephalin), present in the mammalian central nervous system [1,2], possess opioid activity has stimulated considerable interest in their conformations [3-15]. The enkephalins have been shown to bind to the opiate receptor in brain and displace naloxone, a powerful opiate antagonist [16]. The structures of the enkephalins have been the subject of a number of spectroscopic and theoretical investigations. There have been attempts to build a structural model for the pentapeptides that mimics the essential features of the morphine molecule [8-11]. From these studies conflicting suggestions have emerged about the low energy conformation of enkephalins and also the possible conformation of the pentapeptides at the opiate receptor site.
Item Type: | Journal Article |
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Publication: | FEBS Letters |
Publisher: | Elsevier |
Additional Information: | Copyright for this article belongs to Elsevier Science Ltd. |
Department/Centre: | Division of Biological Sciences > Molecular Biophysics Unit Division of Chemical Sciences > Solid State & Structural Chemistry Unit |
Date Deposited: | 17 May 2005 |
Last Modified: | 19 Sep 2010 04:18 |
URI: | http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/3191 |
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