TY - JOUR
T1 - Morphine like peptides, leucine enkephalin and methionine enkephalin
T2 - Interactions with the opiate receptor
AU - Simantov, R.
AU - Snyder, S. H.
PY - 1976/12/1
Y1 - 1976/12/1
N2 - The morphine like peptides leucine enkephalin and methionine enkephalin compete for opiate receptor binding with affinities resembling that of morphine. In the absence of added sodium, methionine enkephalin is about twice as potent as leucine enkephalin in reducing [3H]naloxone binding, whereas binding of the agonist [3H]dihydromorphine is reduced equally by the two enkephalins. Sodium decreases competition by both enkephalins for [3H]naloxone, but with twice as great an effect on leucine enkephalin as on methionine enkephalin. In contrast, competition by the enkephalins for [3H]dihydromorphine binding is enhanced by sodium. Manganese increases the apparent affinities of both leucine and methionine enkephalins for the opiate receptor. Incubations exceeding 20 min at 25° and 5 min at 37° result in a marked apparent degradation of both leucine and methionine enkephalins, which can be prevented by bacitracin.
AB - The morphine like peptides leucine enkephalin and methionine enkephalin compete for opiate receptor binding with affinities resembling that of morphine. In the absence of added sodium, methionine enkephalin is about twice as potent as leucine enkephalin in reducing [3H]naloxone binding, whereas binding of the agonist [3H]dihydromorphine is reduced equally by the two enkephalins. Sodium decreases competition by both enkephalins for [3H]naloxone, but with twice as great an effect on leucine enkephalin as on methionine enkephalin. In contrast, competition by the enkephalins for [3H]dihydromorphine binding is enhanced by sodium. Manganese increases the apparent affinities of both leucine and methionine enkephalins for the opiate receptor. Incubations exceeding 20 min at 25° and 5 min at 37° result in a marked apparent degradation of both leucine and methionine enkephalins, which can be prevented by bacitracin.
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M3 - Article
C2 - 63912
AN - SCOPUS:0017151920
SN - 0026-895X
VL - 12
SP - 987
EP - 998
JO - Molecular Pharmacology
JF - Molecular Pharmacology
IS - 6
ER -