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Synthesis and immunological effects of heroin vaccines

Featured Paper of the Month – January 2015

Synthesis and immunological effects of heroin vaccines.

Li, Fuying; Cheng, Kejun; Antoline, Joshua F G; Iyer, Malliga R; Matyas, Gary R; Torres, Oscar B; Jalah, Rashmi; Beck, Zoltan; Alving, Carl R; Parrish, Damon A; Deschamps, Jeffrey R; Jacobson, Arthur E; Rice, Kenner C

Synthesis and immunological effects of heroin vaccines. Journal Article

In: Org Biomol Chem, vol. 12, no. 37, pp. 7211–7232, 2014, ISSN: 1477-0539 (Electronic); 1477-0520 (Linking).

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@article{Li2014,
title = {Synthesis and immunological effects of heroin vaccines.},
author = {Li, Fuying and Cheng, Kejun and Antoline, Joshua F G and Iyer, Malliga R and Matyas, Gary R and Torres, Oscar B and Jalah, Rashmi and Beck, Zoltan and Alving, Carl R and Parrish, Damon A and Deschamps, Jeffrey R and Jacobson, Arthur E and Rice, Kenner C},
url = {https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24995943},
doi = {10.1039/c4ob01053a},
issn = {1477-0539 (Electronic); 1477-0520 (Linking)},
year = {2014},
date = {2014-10-07},
urldate = {2014-10-07},
journal = {Org Biomol Chem},
volume = {12},
number = {37},
pages = {7211--7232},
abstract = {Three haptens have been synthesized with linkers for attachment to carrier macromolecules at either the piperidino-nitrogen or via an introduced 3-amino group. Two of the haptens, with a 2-oxopropyl functionality at either C6, or at both the C3 and C6 positions on the 4,5-epoxymorphinan framework, as well as the third hapten (DiAmHap) with diamido moieties at both the C3 and C6 positions, should be much more stable in solution, or in vivo in a vaccine, than a hapten with an ester in one of those positions, as found in many heroin-based haptens. A "classical" opioid synthetic scheme enabled the formation of a 3-amino-4,5-epoxymorphinan which could not be obtained using palladium chemistry. Our vaccines are aimed at the reduction of the abuse of heroin and, as well, at the reduction of the effects of its predominant metabolites, 6-acetylmorphine and morphine. One of the haptens, DiAmHap, has given interesting results in a heroin vaccine and is clearly more suited for the purpose than the other two haptens.},
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Three haptens have been synthesized with linkers for attachment to carrier macromolecules at either the piperidino-nitrogen or via an introduced 3-amino group. Two of the haptens, with a 2-oxopropyl functionality at either C6, or at both the C3 and C6 positions on the 4,5-epoxymorphinan framework, as well as the third hapten (DiAmHap) with diamido moieties at both the C3 and C6 positions, should be much more stable in solution, or in vivo in a vaccine, than a hapten with an ester in one of those positions, as found in many heroin-based haptens. A "classical" opioid synthetic scheme enabled the formation of a 3-amino-4,5-epoxymorphinan which could not be obtained using palladium chemistry. Our vaccines are aimed at the reduction of the abuse of heroin and, as well, at the reduction of the effects of its predominant metabolites, 6-acetylmorphine and morphine. One of the haptens, DiAmHap, has given interesting results in a heroin vaccine and is clearly more suited for the purpose than the other two haptens.

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  • https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24995943
  • doi:10.1039/c4ob01053a

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