Hemorphins are biologically active peptides, derived from hemoglobin, which presents a number of physiological activities. Proteolytic generation of these peptides is not fully understood; however, among their roles, is to provoke reduction on blood pressure. In this work, this particular biological effect was chosen as the monitor for the selection of mammalian vasoactive peptides. By combining high-performance liquid chromatography and mass spectrometry, including 'de novo' sequencing, several hemorphin-like peptides were identified presenting bradykinin potentiating activity. Moreover, taking LVV-hemorphin-7 as model compound, we evaluated its biological effect on blood pressure of anaesthetized rats. By summarizing all the results, it is possible to present the hemorphins as a family of proteolytically generated peptides that are able to potentiate bradykinin activity in vivo.
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Peptides
November 2006
Center for Applied Toxinology, CAT-CEPID, Laboratório Especial de Toxinologia Aplicada, Instituto Butantan, Av. Vital Brasil 1500, Sao Paulo, SP 05503-900, Brazil.
Hemorphins are biologically active peptides, derived from hemoglobin, which presents a number of physiological activities. Proteolytic generation of these peptides is not fully understood; however, among their roles, is to provoke reduction on blood pressure. In this work, this particular biological effect was chosen as the monitor for the selection of mammalian vasoactive peptides.
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April 2005
School of Biological Sciences, Nanjing Agriculture University, Nanjing, Jiangshu 210095, China.
An opioid peptide, which shares similarity with mammalian hemorphins, has been identified from the synganglia (central nervous system) of the hard tick, Amblyomma testindiarium. Its primary sequence was established as LVVYPWTKM that contains a tetrapeptide sequence Tyr-Pro-Trp-Thr of hemorphin-like opioid peptides. By hot-plate bioassay, the purified peptide and synthetic peptide displayed dose-related antinociceptive effect in mice, as observed for other hemorphin-like opioid peptides.
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May 2003
Department of Orthopaedics, Nagoya City University Medical School, Mizuho-ku, 467-8601 Nagoya, Japan.
In order to find the most effective antagonist for dipeptidyl peptidase III degrading enkephalin, we synthesized hemorphin-like pentapeptides with aliphatic or aromatic amino acids at the N-termini, such as VVYPW, LVYPW, IVYPW, YVYPW, FVYPW and WVYPW. Among those pentapeptides, IVYPW and WVYPW showed the strongest inhibitory activity toward rDPP III. The K(i) values of IVYPW and WVYPW were 0.
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