Biochemistry
July 28, 2009
Feng Yan, Ruslan V Bikbulatov, Viorel Mocanu et al.
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Salvinorin A, the most potent naturally occurring hallucinogen, has attracted an increasing amount of attention since the kappa-opioid receptor (KOR) was identified as its principal molecular target by us [Roth, B. L., et al. (2002) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 99, 11934-11939]. Here we report the design, synthesis, and biochemical characterization of novel, irreversible, salvinorin A-derived...
Acta crystallographica. Section E, Structure reports online
June 28, 2008
Paulo Carvalho, Ruslan V Bikbulatov, Jordan K Zjawiony et al.
The salvinorin A analog dimethyl (2R,3aR,4R,6aR,7R,9S,9aS,9bS)-2-(3-fur-yl)-9,9a-dihydr-oxy-3a,6a-dimethyl-dodeca-hydro-benzo[de]chromene-4,7-dicarboxyl-ate, C(22)H(30)O(8), has a relatively simple spatial arrangement in which mol-ecules are linked into layers by two pairs of O-H⋯O hydrogen bonds. Each mol-ecule has as the central feature a dodeca-hydro-1H-phenalene ring system. Its three...
Tetrahedron Letters
February 4, 2008
Ruslan V Bikbulatov, Jeremy Stewart, Wentao Jin et al.
Novel semisynthetic analogs of salvinorin A, a full agonist having extraordinary affinity as well as selectivity for the κ-opioid receptor (KOR), were obtained in good yields. The derivatives are remarkable for their unusual and unique hemiacetal structure in the salvinorin series of compounds. The formation of the hemiacetal occurs with epimerization at C-12, thus preserving the original...
Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters
April 15, 2007
Ruslan V Bikbulatov, Feng Yan, Bryan L. Roth et al.
To study drug-receptor interactions, new thio-derivatives of salvinorin A, an extremely potent natural kappa-opioid receptor (KOR) agonist, were synthesized. Obtained compounds were examined for receptor binding affinity. Analogs with the same configuration at carbon atom C-2 as in natural salvinorin A showed higher affinity to KOR than their corresponding epimers.