阅读说明：本技术 一类以pd-1受体为靶点的多肽化合物、其制备方法及应用 (Polypeptide compounds with PD-1 receptor as target spot, preparation method and application thereof ) 是由 陈罡 赵龙 罗浩 杨日云 陆沐幸 于 2021-06-10 设计创作，主要内容包括：本发明公开了一类以PD-1受体为靶点的多肽化合物,多肽化合物包括化合物1、化合物2、化合物3、化合物4和化合物5；其中,化合物1-5的氨基酸序列如SEQ ID NO：1-5所示。本发明还公开了一类以PD-1受体为靶点的多肽化合物的制备方法,包括以下过程：利用固相合成方式,按照肽序列依次将化合物1-5的氨基酸偶联到固相树脂上,经过切割试剂裂解、冷冻干燥、制备纯化获得目的化合物。发明还公开了一类以PD-1受体为靶点的多肽化合物在制备镇痛药物的应用。本发明的小分子多肽：化合物1～5能够结合PD-1,鞘内给药下对炎症痛和内脏痛均具有显著的抑制效果；且合成简单,易纯化,利于大规模合成。(The invention discloses polypeptide compounds taking a PD-1 receptor as a target spot, wherein the polypeptide compounds comprise a compound 1, a compound 2, a compound 3, a compound 4 and a compound 5; wherein, the amino acid sequences of the compounds 1-5 are shown in SEQ ID NO: 1-5. The invention also discloses a preparation method of the polypeptide compound taking the PD-1 receptor as a target spot, which comprises the following steps: the amino acids of the compounds 1-5 are coupled to solid phase resin in turn according to peptide sequence by utilizing a solid phase synthesis mode, and the target compound is obtained by cracking, freeze drying, preparation and purification of a cutting reagent. The invention also discloses application of the polypeptide compound taking the PD-1 receptor as a target spot in preparing analgesic drugs. The small molecule polypeptide of the invention: the compounds 1-5 can be combined with PD-1, and have remarkable inhibitory effects on inflammatory pain and visceral pain under intrathecal administration; and the synthesis is simple, the purification is easy, and the large-scale synthesis is facilitated.)

1. Polypeptide compounds taking PD-1 receptors as targets are characterized by comprising a compound 1, a compound 2, a compound 3, a compound 4 and a compound 5; wherein, the amino acid sequences of the compounds 1-5 are shown in SEQ ID NO: 1-5, SEQ ID NO: 1-5 are respectively:

SEQ ID NO：1：Val Tyr Arg Cys Met Ile Ser Tyr Gly；

SEQ ID NO：2：Tyr Arg Cys Met Ile Ser Tyr Gly Gly；

SEQ ID NO：3：Met Ile Ser Tyr Gly Gly Ala Asp Tyr；

SEQ ID NO：4：Ser Tyr Gly Gly Ala Asp Tyr Lys Arg；

SEQ ID NO：5：Tyr Gly Gly Ala Asp Tyr Lys Arg Ile。

2. a preparation method of polypeptide compounds taking PD-1 receptors as targets is characterized by comprising the following steps: (1) the amino acids are coupled to solid phase resin in turn according to peptide sequence by utilizing a solid phase synthesis mode, and (2) the target compound is obtained by cracking, freeze drying, preparing and purifying a cutting reagent.

3. The method for preparing a class of polypeptide compounds targeting a PD-1 receptor according to claim 2, wherein step (1) specifically comprises the steps of:

(1-1) the solid phase carrier in the solid phase synthesis is wang resin, the wang resin is swelled by dichloromethane, compressed by anhydrous methanol, and washed by N, N-dimethylacetamide;

(1-2) adding a proper amount of Fmoc group removal reagent into the pretreated resin to remove the protection of the resin amino, wherein the removal reagent of the amino protection group 9-fluorenylmethyloxycarbonyl is a N, N-dimethylformamide solution of 20% hexahydropyridine, the elution times are 3 times and 5min each time, and after the elution is finished, washing the resin with N, N-dimethylformamide and performing indene detection on the resin/peptide resin;

(1-3) in the presence of a solid-phase synthesis condensing agent, sequentially condensing the first amino acid from the C terminal of the peptide sequence of the compound 1-5 onto the peptide resin, wherein the amount of the amino acid is 3 times of the amount of the substance of the peptide resin, the time for condensing the amino acid is 1-1.5 h, and the condensation reaction is carried out in an inert gas atmosphere to obtain a crude peptide resin; wherein the solid-phase synthesis condensing agent is N, N-diisopropylethylamine/1-hydroxybenzotriazole/O-benzotriazol-tetramethylurea hexafluorophosphate, and the dosage of the condensing agent is 3-6 times of that of the resin.

4. The method for preparing a class of polypeptide compounds targeting a PD-1 receptor according to claim 2, wherein the step (2) specifically comprises the steps of:

(2-1) repeatedly swelling and compressing the crude peptide resin obtained in the step (1) by dichloromethane/anhydrous methanol;

(2-2) cutting the crude peptide from the crude peptide resin by adopting a cutting reagent, spin-drying, extracting, and freeze-drying to obtain the required crude peptide; the cleavage reagent required for the cleavage of the crude peptide resin comprises trifluoroacetic acid, triisopropylsilane and double distilled water, wherein the ratio of trifluoroacetic acid to triisopropylsilane: the volume ratio of double distilled water is 95:2.5: 2.5;

(2-3) carrying out freeze drying and reverse-HPLC preparative column purification on the crude peptide resin to obtain 1-5% of a white solid compound with the yield of 35% -45%; prepare a polypeptide compound taking PD-1 receptor as a target spot.

5. Application of polypeptide compounds taking PD-1 receptors as targets in preparing analgesic drugs.

6. The use of a class of polypeptide compounds targeting PD-1 receptors according to claim 5 in the preparation of analgesic drugs, wherein said analgesic drugs include drugs for the treatment of inflammatory and visceral pain.

7. The use of a class of polypeptide compounds targeting PD-1 receptors according to claim 5 in the preparation of analgesic drugs, wherein said drugs are suitable for any one of intrathecal, subcutaneous, caudal vein, lateral ventricle, intraperitoneal or oral administration.

8. The application of the polypeptide compounds taking PD-1 receptor as a target point in the preparation of analgesic drugs according to claim 5, characterized in that the therapeutic target point of the drugs is PD-1 receptor.

9. The use of a class of polypeptide compounds targeting a PD-1 receptor according to claim 5 in the preparation of analgesic drugs, wherein said polypeptide compound comprises one of compound 1, compound 2, compound 3, compound 4 and compound 5.

Technical Field

The invention belongs to the technical field of biological medicines, and particularly relates to polypeptide compounds taking PD-1 receptors as targets, and a preparation method and application thereof.

Background

In recent years, various chronic pains including lumbago, arthritis, postoperative persistent pain, fibromyalgia, and neuropathic diseases are very common social problems today, and more than 20% of adults in developed countries are afflicted with chronic pain (j. neurosci.2021,41, 855-865). Chronic pain is not fatal, but is not well treated, and imposes a serious burden on society and economy. Although signal transduction between immune cells, glial cells and neurons is now considered essential for the initiation and maintenance of chronic pain, most therapeutic drugs are still targeted only to neurons.

Currently, opioids have been widely used in clinical treatment of non-cancer chronic pain, but the opioid inevitably causes side effects such as drug tolerance, physical and mental dependence, gastrointestinal tract function inhibition, nausea, sedation, dysphoria, hallucinations, and motor function impairment, which are major problems hindering their use in clinical treatment. Thus, there is an urgent need to develop novel effective and safe analgesic drugs.

Programmed death ligand (PD-L1 also known as B7-H1 or CD274), one of the members of the B7 family, is widely expressed in humans with cancer. In the tumor microenvironment, PD-L1 was able to bind to PD-1 and participate in immune regulation as a co-inhibitory checkpoint molecule. Currently, much of the research work on the PD-1/PD-L1 pathway has focused mainly on T-lymphocyte tolerance and macrophage activation and polarization in tumor immune escape. In recent years, PD-L1/PD-1 has been reported to have functions other than tumor therapy, including murine lupus, colitis, collagen-induced arthritis, and brain injury.

The latest research finds that the PD-L1/PD-1 channel has good curative effect on acute and chronic pain after nerve injury, and the injection of exogenous PD-L1 can obviously improve the pain threshold of normal mice (Nat. Neurosci.2017,20, 917-926); and the combined administration of PD-L1 and low dose morphine can obviously enhance the analgesic effect of morphine, thereby reducing the side effect caused by high dose morphine (Sci. Transl. Med.2020,12, eaaw 6471). Therefore, the PD-1 target has potential application prospect in the research and development of new analgesic drugs.

Disclosure of Invention

The purpose of the invention is as follows: aiming at the problems or the defects in the prior art, the invention provides a polypeptide compound taking a PD-1 receptor as a target spot, a preparation method and application thereof.

In order to achieve the above objects, the embodiments of the present invention provide a class of polypeptide compounds targeting PD-1 receptor, wherein the polypeptide compounds include compound 1, compound 2, compound 3, compound 4, and compound 5; wherein, the amino acid sequences of the compounds 1-5 are shown in SEQ ID NO: 1-5, SEQ ID NO: 1-5 are respectively:

SEQ ID NO：1：Val Tyr Arg Cys Met Ile Ser Tyr Gly；

SEQ ID NO：2：Tyr Arg Cys Met Ile Ser Tyr Gly Gly；

SEQ ID NO：3：Met Ile Ser Tyr Gly Gly Ala Asp Tyr；

SEQ ID NO：4：Ser Tyr Gly Gly Ala Asp Tyr Lys Arg；

SEQ ID NO：5：Tyr Gly Gly Ala Asp Tyr Lys Arg Ile。

the embodiment of the invention also provides a preparation method of the polypeptide compound taking the PD-1 receptor as a target spot, which is characterized by comprising the following steps: (1) the method comprises the following steps of (1) sequentially coupling amino acids of compounds 1-5 to solid-phase resin according to a peptide sequence by utilizing a solid-phase synthesis mode, and (2) cracking, freeze-drying, preparing and purifying by using a cutting reagent to obtain a target compound.

Further, the step (1) specifically comprises the following steps:

(1-1) the solid phase carrier in the solid phase synthesis is wang resin, the wang resin is swelled by dichloromethane, compressed by anhydrous methanol, and washed by N, N-dimethylacetamide;

(1-2) adding a proper amount of Fmoc group removal reagent into the pretreated resin to protect the amino group of the resin, wherein the used removal reagent of the amino protecting group 9-fluorenylmethyloxycarbonyl is N, N-dimethylformamide solution of 20% hexahydropyridine, the elution times are 3 times and 5min each time, and after the elution is finished, washing the resin with N, N-dimethylformamide and performing indene detection on the resin/peptide resin;

(1-3) in the presence of a solid-phase synthesis condensing agent, sequentially condensing the first amino acid from the C terminal of the peptide sequence of the compound 1-5 onto the peptide resin, wherein the amount of the amino acid is 3 times of the amount of the substance of the peptide resin, the time for condensing the amino acid is 1-1.5 h, and the condensation reaction is carried out in an inert gas atmosphere to obtain a crude peptide resin; wherein the solid-phase synthesis condensing agent is N, N-diisopropylethylamine/1-hydroxybenzotriazole/O-benzotriazol-tetramethylurea hexafluorophosphate, and the dosage of the condensing agent is 3-6 times of that of the resin.

Further, the step (2) specifically includes the following steps:

(2-1) repeatedly swelling and compressing the crude peptide resin obtained in the step (1) by dichloromethane/anhydrous methanol;

(2-2) cutting the crude peptide from the crude peptide resin by adopting a cutting reagent, spin-drying, extracting, and freeze-drying to obtain the required crude peptide; the cleavage reagent required for the cleavage of the crude peptide resin comprises trifluoroacetic acid, triisopropylsilane and double distilled water, wherein the ratio of trifluoroacetic acid to triisopropylsilane: the volume ratio of double distilled water is 95:2.5: 2.5;

(2-3) carrying out freeze drying and reverse-HPLC preparative column purification on the crude peptide resin to obtain 1-5% of a white solid compound with the yield of 35% -45%; prepare a polypeptide compound taking PD-1 receptor as a target spot.

The embodiment of the invention also provides application of the polypeptide compound taking the PD-1 receptor as a target point in preparing analgesic drugs.

Preferably, the analgesic drug includes a drug for treating inflammatory pain and visceral pain.

Preferably, the medicament is suitable for any mode of intrathecal administration, subcutaneous administration, tail vein administration, lateral ventricle administration, abdominal cavity administration or oral administration.

Preferably, the therapeutic target of the drug is the PD-1 receptor.

Preferably, the polypeptide compound comprises one of compound 1, compound 2, compound 3, compound 4 and compound 5.

The technical scheme of the invention has the following beneficial effects:

(1) the small molecule polypeptide of the invention: the compounds 1-5 are 5 pieces of Amber compounds with scores in the range of-90 to-80, which are obtained by screening peptide libraries by using a molecular docking technology; the five compounds can be combined with PD-1, and have obvious inhibition effect on inflammatory pain and visceral pain under intrathecal administration; and the synthesis is simple, the purification is easy, and the large-scale synthesis is facilitated.

(2) Compared with PD-L1, the short peptide sequence of the compounds 1-5 is easier to modify and transform as a chemical template so as to improve the pharmacological property and the pharmacokinetic property.

(3) Based on the previous research basis, the invention discovers a novel small molecular polypeptide which has partially similar characteristics to PD-L1, can be combined with PD-1 in a targeted manner, has a remarkable analgesic effect on formalin-induced inflammatory pain and acetic acid-induced visceral pain, and has a potential clinical application value.

(4) Compared with the conventional opioid drugs, the compound 1-5 has the effect target of PD-1 receptor, can better avoid opioid-related side effects induced by activating opioid receptors, has relatively more advantages in drug safety, and has the potential of clinical application.

Drawings

FIG. 1 is an ESI-MS spectrum of Compound 4 in an example of the present invention;

FIG. 2 is a graph of the inhibitory effect of Compound 4 on the induction of increased free Ca2+ in DRG cells by high K + solutions in accordance with an example of the present invention;

FIG. 3 is a graph showing the analgesic effect of intrathecal injection of Compound 4 on formalin-induced acute inflammatory pain in accordance with an embodiment of the invention;

FIG. 4 is a graph showing the analgesic effect of intrathecal injection of Compound 4 on visceral pain induced by intraperitoneal injection of acetic acid solution in accordance with an embodiment of the invention.

Detailed Description

In order to make the technical problems, technical solutions and advantages to be solved by the present invention clearer, the following detailed description is given with reference to specific embodiments.

Example 1 solid phase Synthesis of Compounds 1 to 5

The synthesis of the compounds 1-5 adopts an Fmoc-solid phase synthesis method, and the solid phase carrier is wang-resin. The removal reagent of the amino protecting group 9-fluorenylmethyloxycarbonyl (Fmoc) is a N, N-dimethylformamide solution of 20 percent hexahydropyridine. The condensation reagent required by the peptide chain extension is N, N-diisopropylethylamine/1-hydroxybenzotriazole/O-benzotriazol-tetramethylurea hexafluorophosphate, and the required amount is 3-6 times of the amount of the resin substance. The cleavage agent required for cleaving the crude peptide from the resin is a mixture of trifluoroacetic acid/triisopropylsilane/double distilled water in a volume ratio of 95:2.5: 2.5. The components and proportions of the condensation reagent, Fmoc removal reagent and indene detection reagent of the invention are well known to those skilled in the art.

1) Synthesis of Compound 1

Weighing wang resin, swelling with dichloromethane, compressing with anhydrous methanol, and washing with N, N-dimethylacetamide. And adding a proper amount of Fmoc group removing reagent into the pretreated resin to remove the protection of the resin amino. Under the participation of N, N-diisopropylethylamine/1-hydroxybenzotriazole/O-benzotriazol-tetramethyluronium hexafluorophosphate condensation reagent, sequentially adding N-fluorenylmethoxycarbonyl-glycine, N-fluorenylmethoxycarbonyl-O-tert-butyl-L-tyrosine, N-fluorenylmethoxycarbonyl-L-serine, N-fluorenylmethoxycarbonyl-L-isoleucine, N-fluorenylmethoxycarbonyl-L-methionine, N- (9-fluorenylmethoxycarbonyl) -S-trityl-L-cysteine, N- (9-fluorenylmethoxycarbonyl) -NG-2,2,4,6, 7-pentamethylbenzofuran-5-sulfonyl-L-arginine, N-fluorenylmethyloxycarbonyl-L-isoleucine, N-fluorenylmethyloxycarbonyl-L-methionine, N- (9-fluorenylmethoxycarbonyl) -S-trityl-L-cysteine, N- (9-fluorenylmethoxycarbonyl) -NG-2,2,4,6, 7-pentamethylbenzofuran-5-sulfonyl-L-arginine, Condensing N-fluorenylmethyloxycarbonyl-O-tertiary butyl-L-tyrosine and N-fluorenylmethyloxycarbonyl-L-valine on the peptide resin. The crude peptide resin is swelled by dichloromethane, compressed by anhydrous methanol, and then pumped to dry after repeated three times. Cutting the crude peptide from resin by adopting trifluoroacetic acid/triisopropylsilane/double distilled water, spin-drying, extracting, and freeze-drying to obtain the crude peptide: H-Val-Tyr-Arg-Cys-Met-Ile-Ser-Tyr-Gly-OH, purified via RP-HPLC preparative column in 38% yield.

The results of mass spectrometry and purity analysis are shown in Table 1.

2) Synthesis of Compound 2

Resin pretreatment and Fmoc group removal during the synthesis of Compound 1. Under the participation of N, N-diisopropylethylamine/1-hydroxybenzotriazole/O-benzotriazol-tetramethyluronium hexafluorophosphate condensation reagent, sequentially adding N-fluorenylmethoxycarbonyl-glycine, N-fluorenylmethoxycarbonyl-O-tert-butyl-L-tyrosine, N-fluorenylmethoxycarbonyl-L-serine, N-fluorenylmethoxycarbonyl-L-isoleucine, N-fluorenylmethoxycarbonyl-L-methionine, N- (9-fluorenylmethoxycarbonyl) -S-trityl-L-cysteine, N- (9-fluorenylmethoxycarbonyl) -NG-2,2,4,6, 7-pentamethylbenzofuran-5-sulfonyl-L-arginine, N-fluorenylmethylfuran-5-sulfonyl-L-arginine, N-fluorenylmethyloxycarbonyl-L-tyrosine, N-fluorenylmethyloxycarbonyl-L-serine, N-fluorenylmethoxycarbonyl-L-isoleucine, N-fluorenylmethyloxycarbonyl-L-methionine, N- (9-fluorenylmethoxycarbonyl) -S-trityl-L-cysteine, Condensing N-fluorenylmethyloxycarbonyl-O-tertiary butyl-L-tyrosine onto the peptide resin. The crude peptide resin is swelled by dichloromethane, compressed by anhydrous methanol, and then pumped to dry after repeated three times. Cutting the crude peptide from resin by adopting trifluoroacetic acid/triisopropylsilane/double distilled water, spin-drying, extracting, and freeze-drying to obtain the crude peptide: H-Tyr-Arg-Cys-Met-Ile-Ser-Tyr-Gly-Gly-OH, purified via RP-HPLC preparative column with a yield of 35%.

The results of mass spectrometry and purity analysis are shown in Table 1.

3) Synthesis of Compound 3

Resin pretreatment and Fmoc group removal during the synthesis of Compound 1. Under the participation of N, N-diisopropylethylamine/1-hydroxybenzotriazole/O-benzotriazol-tetramethylurea hexafluorophosphate condensation reagent, condensing N-fluorenylmethoxycarbonyl-O-tert-butyl-L-tyrosine, N-fluorenylmethoxycarbonyl-L-aspartic acid-4-tert-butyl ester, N-fluorenylmethoxycarbonyl-alanine, N-fluorenylmethoxycarbonyl-glycine, N-fluorenylmethoxycarbonyl-O-tert-butyl-L-tyrosine, N-fluorenylmethoxycarbonyl-L-serine, N-fluorenylmethoxycarbonyl-L-isoleucine and N-fluorenylmethoxycarbonyl-L-methionine on peptide resin in sequence. The crude peptide resin is swelled by dichloromethane, compressed by anhydrous methanol, and then pumped to dry after repeated three times. Cutting the crude peptide from resin by adopting trifluoroacetic acid/triisopropylsilane/double distilled water, spin-drying, extracting, and freeze-drying to obtain the crude peptide: H-Met-Ile-Ser-Tyr-Gly-Gly-Ala-Asp-Tyr-OH, purified via RP-HPLC preparative column in 45% yield.

The results of mass spectrometry and purity analysis are shown in Table 1.

4) Synthesis of Compound 4

Resin pretreatment and Fmoc group removal during the synthesis of Compound 1. In the presence of N, N-diisopropylethylamine/1-hydroxybenzotriazole/O-benzotriazol-tetramethyluronium hexafluorophosphate condensation reagent, sequentially adding N' - [ (2, 3-dihydro-2, 2,4,6, 7-pentamethylbenzofuran-5-yl) sulfonyl ] -N-fluorenylmethoxycarbonyl-L-arginine, N-alpha-fluorenylmethoxycarbonyl-N-epsilon-tert-butyloxycarbonyl-L-lysine, N-fluorenylmethoxycarbonyl-O-tert-butyl-L-tyrosine, N-fluorenylmethoxycarbonyl-L-aspartic acid-4-tert-butyl ester, N-fluorenylmethoxycarbonyl-alanine, N-fluorenylmethoxycarbonyl-glycine, N-fluorenylmethyluronium hexafluorophosphate, Condensing N-fluorenylmethyloxycarbonyl-glycine, N-fluorenylmethyloxycarbonyl-O-tertiary butyl-L-tyrosine and N-fluorenylmethyloxycarbonyl-L-serine on the peptide resin. The crude peptide resin is swelled by dichloromethane, compressed by anhydrous methanol, and then pumped to dry after repeated three times. Cutting the crude peptide from resin by adopting trifluoroacetic acid/triisopropylsilane/double distilled water, spin-drying, extracting, and freeze-drying to obtain the crude peptide: H-Ser-Tyr-Gly-Gly-Ala-Asp-Tyr-Lys-Arg-OH, purified via RP-HPLC preparative column in 40% yield.

The mass spectrum and purity analysis and identification results are shown in table 1, and the mass spectrum is shown in figure 1.

5) Synthesis of Compound 5

Resin pretreatment and Fmoc group removal during the synthesis of Compound 1. Under the participation of N, N-diisopropylethylamine/1-hydroxybenzotriazole/O-benzotriazol-tetramethyluronium hexafluorophosphate condensation reagent, sequentially adding N-fluorenylmethoxycarbonyl-L-isoleucine, N' - [ (2, 3-dihydro-2, 2,4,6, 7-pentamethylbenzofuran-5-yl) sulfonyl ] -N-fluorenylmethoxycarbonyl-L-arginine, N-alpha-fluorenylmethoxycarbonyl-N-epsilon-tert-butyloxycarbonyl-L-lysine, N-fluorenylmethoxycarbonyl-O-tert-butyl-L-tyrosine, N-fluorenylmethoxycarbonyl-L-aspartic acid-4-tert-butyl ester, N-fluorenylmethoxycarbonyl-alanine, N-fluorenylmethyloxycarbonyl-L-arginine, N-alpha-ethylcarbonyl-L-lysine, N-ethylcarbonyl-L-aspartic acid-4-tert-butyl ester, Condensing N-fluorenylmethyloxycarbonyl-glycine, N-fluorenylmethyloxycarbonyl-glycine and N-fluorenylmethyloxycarbonyl-O-tert-butyl-L-tyrosine on the peptide resin. The crude peptide resin is swelled by dichloromethane, compressed by anhydrous methanol, and then pumped to dry after repeated three times. Cutting the crude peptide from resin by adopting trifluoroacetic acid/triisopropylsilane/double distilled water, spin-drying, extracting, and freeze-drying to obtain the crude peptide: H-Tyr-Gly-Gly-Ala-Asp-Tyr-Lys-Arg-Ile-OH, purified via RP-HPLC preparative column in 42% yield.

The results of mass spectrometry and purity analysis are shown in Table 1.

The peptide sequence, mass spectrometric identification, Amber scoring and purity analysis results of the compounds 1-5 of the invention are shown in Table 1:

TABLE 1 analysis table of physicochemical properties, Amber score and purity of compound

The amino acid abbreviations of the present invention are shown in table 2:

shorthand writing	English abbreviation	Full scale
			V	Val	Valine
Y	Tyr	Tyrosine
			R	Arg	Arginine
C	Cys	Cysteine
			M	Met	Methionine
I	Ile	Isoleucine
			S	Ser	Serine
G	Gly	Glycine
			A	Ala	Alanine
D	Asp	Aspartic acid
			K	Lys	Lysine

Example 2DRG neuronal calcium imaging experiments

Identifying the inhibitory effect of the compounds 1-5 on pain signal transduction by a DRG neuron calcium imaging technology, which specifically comprises the following steps:

female ICR mice, 3 weeks, were acutely detached, DRG extracted in a sterile operating table, collagenase a and pancreatin were sequentially lysed. The pancreatin lysis was stopped with complete serum-containing medium, centrifuged at 800r, the supernatant was discarded, and after adding Neurobasal medium (containing 2% B27, Clutanine 1%, and 1% penicillin-streptomycin double antibody solution) and pipetting well, the mixture was cultured in a petri dish with PDL spread in advance for 48 hours. The method comprises the steps of marking DRG neurons by using Flou-4/AM before an experiment, stimulating the DRG neurons by using a high K + solution after pretreatment of 1-5/isometric HBSS (hydrogen sulfide) of different doses of compounds, and detecting the change of the intracellular free calcium ion concentration of the DRG neurons under laser confocal conditions.

The experimental results of calcium imaging are shown in fig. 2: compound 4 pre-treatment (1nM) DRG neurons had a significant inhibitory effect on high K + induced increase in intracellular Ca2+ concentration, suggesting that compound 4 is able to modulate pain signaling.

Example 3 formalin-induced inflammatory pain test

The method comprises the steps of selecting an ICR male mouse with the weight range of 25-30g, placing the ICR male mouse into an observation room to adapt for 15min, injecting compound 4(5nmol, 10nmol and 30nmol) or normal saline with different doses into a sheath, injecting 5% formalin solution (20 mu l) subcutaneously through a sole after 5min, immediately placing the ICR male mouse into the observation room, and respectively counting the accumulation time of pain behaviors (licking, biting and foot throwing injection) of the mouse within the time periods of 0-10min and 10-45 min.

In a formalin-induced mouse pain model, after formalin was injected subcutaneously into the sole of a foot, mice exhibited nociceptive behaviors such as licking, biting, paw flinging, leg stretching and the like. Phase I is 0-10min after formalin injection, and is mainly caused by direct activation of nociceptive neurons; phase II is 10-35min, and is mainly induced by formalin-induced inflammatory reaction. The experimental results are shown in fig. 3, and compared with the control group, compound 4 significantly shortens the pain behavior of mice in two phases after licking, flinging and injecting feet, which indicates that compound 4 can reduce the pain behavior caused by nociceptive neuron activation and inflammation. The inhibitory effect of compound 4 on formalin inflammatory factor-induced pain behavior was more pronounced than on nociceptive behavior induced by direct activation of nociceptive neurons. Wherein in phase II pain, the ED50 (median effective dose) of compound 4 is 6.28(5.34-7.39) nmol.

Example 4 acetic acid-induced visceral pain test

The invention selects an ICR male mouse with the weight range of 25-30g, puts the mouse into an observation room to adapt for 15min, injects compound 4(5nmol, 10nmol,30nmol) or physiological saline with different dosage into the sheath, and injects 0.6% glacial acetic acid solution (10mL/kg) into the abdominal cavity after 5 min. And (5) placing the mouse in an observation room, and counting the times of body twisting of the mouse within 20 min.

In the acetic acid-induced writhing model, mice exhibited writhing, limb extension, abdominal plaster, etc. The results of the experiment are shown in fig. 4, and the number of writhing of the mice is reduced along with the increase of the administration dose. Compound 4 was able to significantly reduce the number of abdominal writhing in mice dose-dependently. The rate of inhibition of writhing behavior in mice by compound 4 was 63% at a dose of 30nmol injected intrathecally. The ED50 for compound 4 was 13.5(11.88-15.34) nmol. The experimental results show that compound 4 has a good inhibitory effect on visceral pain induced by acetic acid.

In conclusion, the compounds 1-5 disclosed by the invention can be combined with PD-1 receptors in a targeted manner, have a good relieving effect on inflammatory pain and visceral pain, and have a potential application value in the aspect of preparing analgesic drugs.

In the examples of the present invention it is preferred that said compound 4 is evaluated for in vitro and in vivo pharmaceutical activity; the compound 4 is evaluated for analgesic activity of the drug by DRG neuron calcium imaging, formalin-induced inflammatory pain model, and acetic acid writhing assay, but the application of the polypeptide compound of the present invention in the preparation of analgesic drugs, including but not limited to inflammatory pain and visceral pain, such as postoperative neuralgia, chemotherapy-induced pain, diabetic pain, and cancer pain, is also included.

In formalin experiments and acetic acid writhing experiments, the administration mode is preferably intrathecal administration, and a person skilled in the art can understand that the compound disclosed in the patent can be applied to various administration modes, such as subcutaneous administration, tail vein administration, lateral ventricle administration, intraperitoneal administration, oral administration and the like.

While the foregoing is directed to the preferred embodiment of the present invention, it will be understood by those skilled in the art that various changes and modifications may be made without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention as defined in the appended claims.

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