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Thrombin, the most potent physiological platelet agonist interacts with cells through a specific G protein-coupled receptor which has been cloned and sequenced. Synthetic thrombin receptor peptides (TRAPS) comprising the first 5 amino acids (SFLLR and SFLLR-NH2) of the new N-terminus tethered ligand of the thrombin receptor that is generated by thrombin's proteolytic activity were found to cause full platelet aggregation. During the screening of novel thrombin receptor derived non-peptide mimetics in the platelet aggregation assay we found that 1-phenylacetyl-4-(6-guanidohexanoyl)-piperazine (1) and 1-(6-guanidohexanoyl)-4-(phenylacetylamidomethyl)-piperidine (2) exertedin vitro antagonist activities (56% and 40% correspondingly) as it is depicted by the platelet aggregation assay. Using Molecular Modeling, the synthetic compounds were overlayed with SFFLR. All three superimposed low energy structures had Phe and Arg aminoacids in spatial close proximity. The superimposition results revealed that1 resembled more the stereoelectronic environment of SFLLR than2. This difference may be related to their different antagonist efficacy.
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Alexopoulos, K., Matsoukas, J., Tsehos, T. et al. A comparative SAR study of thrombin receptor derived non peptide mimetics: Importance of phenyl/guanidino proximity for activity. Amino Acids 15, 211–220 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01318860
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