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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Nov 19.
Published in final edited form as: J Mol Biol. 2010 Sep 8;404(1):45–55. doi: 10.1016/j.jmb.2010.08.054

Table 3.

EC50 values for inhibition of NDP-MSH stimulated cAMP production

MC1R MC4R

Peptide EC50 (nM) EC50 (nM)

no ligand 0.25 ± 0.04 0.79 ± 0.01
ASIP [chi(+1 +1 +1)] 0.83 ± 0.02 6.4 ± 2.6
AgRP [chi(−1 −1 −1)] no binding 17 ± 3
chi(−1 −1 0) no binding 13 ± 3
chi(+1 +1 0) agonist 20 ± 3
chi(−1 +1 0) agonist 1.4 ± 0.4
chi(+1 −1 0) agonist 56 ± 7
chi(+1 +1 −1) no shift 11 ± 2
chi(−1 −1 +1) 0.42 ± 0.06 14 ± 2
chi(+1 −1 +1) 1.1 ± 0.1 19 ± 5
chi(+1 +1 +0.5) 3.5 ± 0.7 61 ± 8