Structural basis for bifunctional peptide recognition at human delta-opioid receptor.
Fenalti, G., Zatsepin, N.A., Betti, C., Giguere, P., Han, G.W., Ishchenko, A., Liu, W., Guillemyn, K., Zhang, H., James, D., Wang, D., Weierstall, U., Spence, J.C., Boutet, S., Messerschmidt, M., Williams, G.J., Gati, C., Yefanov, O.M., White, T.A., Oberthuer, D., Metz, M., Yoon, C.H., Barty, A., Chapman, H.N., Basu, S., Coe, J., Conrad, C.E., Fromme, R., Fromme, P., Tourwe, D., Schiller, P.W., Roth, B.L., Ballet, S., Katritch, V., Stevens, R.C., Cherezov, V.(2015) Nat Struct Mol Biol 22: 265-268
- PubMed: 25686086 
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/nsmb.2965
- Primary Citation of Related Structures:  
4RWA, 4RWD - PubMed Abstract: 
Bifunctional μ- and δ-opioid receptor (OR) ligands are potential therapeutic alternatives, with diminished side effects, to alkaloid opiate analgesics. We solved the structure of human δ-OR bound to the bifunctional δ-OR antagonist and μ-OR agonist tetrapeptide H-Dmt-Tic-Phe-Phe-NH2 (DIPP-NH2) by serial femtosecond crystallography, revealing a cis-peptide bond between H-Dmt and Tic. The observed receptor-peptide interactions are critical for understanding of the pharmacological profiles of opioid peptides and for development of improved analgesics.
Organizational Affiliation: 
Department of Integrative Structural and Computational Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, USA.