Compounds that activate the mouse melanocortin-1 receptor identified by screening a small molecule library based upon the β-turn

Journal of Medicinal Chemistry

Volumn 42, Issue 21, 1999, Pages 4380-4387

  Haskell Luevano, Carrie ^a,c   Rosenquist, Åsa ^b   Souers, Andrew ^b   Khong, Kathy C ^a   Ellman, Jonathon A ^b   Cone, Roger D ^a  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MELANOCORTIN RECEPTOR; RECEPTOR SUBTYPE;

AGONIST; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; GENE LIBRARY; GENETIC SCREENING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION;

ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; DRUG DESIGN; LIGANDS; MICE; OLIGOPEPTIDES; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; RECEPTORS, CORTICOTROPIN; RECEPTORS, MELANOCORTIN; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP;

EID: 0032695824     PISSN: 00222623     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jm990190s     Document Type: Article

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