Collect. Czech. Chem. Commun.
1991, 56, 2991-2998
https://doi.org/10.1135/cccc19912991
Analogues of cholecystokinin methylated in the side chain of carboxyterminal phenylalanine
Jan Hlaváček, Jana Pírková, Pavel Majer, Miroslava Žertová, Lenka Maletínská and Jiřina Slaninová
Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, 166 10 Prague 6
Abstract
In the course of our study on cholecystokinin (CCK) a series of Boc-CCK-7 was synthesized. Their carboxyterminal part was modified by phenylalanine derivatives containing 2 or 4 and 2,6 or 2,4,6 methylated aromatic side-chain. During the synthesis, the racemic phenylalanine derivatives were used and peptides containing either L- or D- methylated phenylalanine were separated using a preparative HPLC. Gall bladder contraction, anorectic, sedative and analgetic bioassays of these analogues revealed that all of them behaved as CCK-8 agonists. While the analogues containing L-form of the methylated phenylalanines had almost the same potency (80% - 130%) in comparison to CCK-8, the presence of the D-form decreased the biological activity of corresponding analogues to 8 – 62% of the CCK-8 potency. These results are in agreement with the suggestion that phenylalanine residue in C-terminus takes part in biological activity transduction only.
