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Alfonso Carotenuto1, Francesco Merlino1, Minying Cai2, Diego Brancaccio1, Ali Munaim Yousif1, Ettore Novellino1, Victor J Hruby2, Paolo Grieco1,3.
Abstract
The melanocortin receptors 3 and 4 control energy homeostasis, food-intake behavior, and correlated pathophysiological conditions. The melanocortin-4 receptor (MC4R) has been broadly investigated. In contrast, the knowledge related to physiological roles of the melanocortin-3 receptor (MC3R) is lacking because of the limited number of known MC3R selective ligands. Here, we report the design, synthesis, biological activity, conformational analysis, and docking with receptors of two potent and selective agonists at the human MC3 receptor.Entities:
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Year: 2015 PMID: 26599352 PMCID: PMC5070805 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jmedchem.5b01285
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Med Chem ISSN: 0022-2623 Impact factor: 7.446