Analysis of C-terminally substituted tachykinin-like peptide agonists by means of aequorin-based luminescent assays for human and insect neurokinin receptors4413

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Abstract:

Aequorin-based assays for stable fly, Stomoxys calcitrans, (STKR) and human (neurokinin receptor 1 (NK1), neurokinin receptor 2 (NK2)) neurokinin-like receptors were employed to investigate the impact of a C-terminal amino acid exchange in synthetic vertebrate (‘FXGLMa’) and invertebrate (‘FX1GX2Ra’) tachykinin-like peptides. C-terminally (Arg to Met) substituted analogs of the insect tachykinin-related peptide, Lom-TK I, displayed increased agonistic potencies in luminescent assays for human NK1 and NK2 receptors, whereas they showed reduced potencies in the STKR-assay. The opposite effect…

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