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. 2018 Oct 4;3(10):12658–12678. doi: 10.1021/acsomega.8b01237

Table 7. Antagonism of KOR in the βarrestin2-KOR Enzyme Fragment Complementation Assay (DiscoveRx) and cAMP Cisbio Assaya,b.

  βarrestin2 recruitment
inhibition of cAMP accumulation
compound IC50 (nM) Imax (% 120) IC50 (nM) Imax (% 120)
120 2.0 ± 0.3 100 4.0 ± 0.8 100
28 794 ± 50 92 ± 1 2220 ± 830 122 ± 13
39 4200 ± 940 77 ± 3 13100 ± 6000 105 ±3
40 2220 ± 540 76 ± 2 12100 ± 4400 100 ± 1
43 NC (10* ± 15) NC (23 ± 5)
54 NC (35* ± 4) NC (16 ± 6)
a

Data are the mean ± SEM of N = 3 Assays Performed in Duplicate (Figures 1 and 2).

b

NC: not converged; (% inhibition at 30 μM). 120 (norbinaltorphimine, nor-BNI) is the reference KOR antagonist.