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  • Title: Structural studies of opioid peptides: a review of recent progress in x-ray diffraction studies.
    Author: Deschamps JR, George C, Flippen-Anderson JL.
    Journal: Biopolymers; 1996; 40(1):121-39. PubMed ID: 8541444.
    Abstract:
    The solid state structures of many opioid peptide agonists have been elucidated by x-ray diffraction analysis. Recently, the first structure of an opioid peptide antagonist has been determined. Theoretically, linear peptides can have many different backbone conformations, yet early x-ray studies (1983-1987) on enkephalin and its analogues showed only two different backbone conformations: extended and single beta-bend. In 1989 enkephalin was observed in a third conformation, a double beta-bend. Since that time diffraction studies have been completed on the rationally designed linear opioid peptide agonists DTLET (Tyr-D-Thr-Gly-Phe-Leu-Thr) and DADLE (D-Ala2,D-Leu5-enkephalin) as well as on several cyclic enkephalin analogues including DPDPE (Tyr-[D-Pen-Gly-Phe-D-Pen]) and JOM-13 (Tyr-[D-Cys-Phe-D-Pen]). The most recent review of the x-ray studies on this class of compounds was written in 1988. This paper will update that review to include the results of studies completed since that time.
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