Synthesis and biological evaluation of two analogues of (S)-alpha-methyl-3-carboxyphenylalanine.

Bioorg Med Chem Lett

State Key Laboratory of Bio-organic and Natural Product Chemistry, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China.

Published: September 1998

Two analogues 2, 3 of (S)-alpha-methyl-3-carboxylphenylalanine 1 were synthesized to test their activity for metabotropic glutamate receptors (mGluRs). Both compounds 2 and 3 were inactive as antagonist for mGluRs, but 2 showed weak agonistic activity for GluR6 in contrast to that reported by Kemp and co-workers.

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