Talk:Sunobinop
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Sunobinop article improvements
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Hello! My name is Valentine, I'm an employee of Imbrium, the company developing sunobinop. I joined Wikipedia to put forth a more accurate, and in doing so, comprehensive description of sunobinop. I understand that because of my financial conflict I cannot make the changes to the article directly. I've prepared the infobox and text below that I think makes the article more accurate and up to date. Would someone here be willing to review and implement if it looks good? As I'm here, I welcome others to make any changes needed to meet Wikipedia's standards.
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Sunobinop (developmental code names V117957; IMB-115) is an investigational drug under study. It is a novel, high affinity, high-potency, small molecule agonist of the nociceptin/orphanin-FQ peptide (NOP) receptor. Sunobinop has nanomolar affinity (Ki) and efficacy (EC50) at human recombinant NOP receptors. It has low binding affinity for mu, kappa and delta opioid receptors (Ki >1500 nM). It also has a high degree of functional selectivity for the NOP receptor as its EC50 against mu, delta and kappa receptors is between 500- and 5000-fold greater than for the NOP receptor.[1] Sunobinop was generally well tolerated in 3 studies involving 70 healthy subjects at doses that ranged from 0.6 to 30 mg. The most prominent adverse event was dose-dependent sedation/somnolence, which was more common at doses greater than 10 mg. In these studies, the majority of absorbed sunobinop was excreted unchanged via rapid renal elimination.[2] As of Feb 2024, it is under clinical investigation for the treatment of insomnia/alcohol use disorder, interstitial cystitis, and overactive bladder.[3] The safety and effectiveness of sunobinop has not been evaluated by the FDA. There is no guarantee that sunobinop will successfully complete development or gain FDA approval.[3] References
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Thank you for taking a look, and drop me a line if you have any questions. ImbriumValentine (talk) 19:13, 3 May 2024 (UTC)
- Thanks for this requested edit:
- You say "potent", and the current text says "partial agonist" - are you happy that both are correct (they can be, if the intrinsic efficacy is close to one, noting that the affinity is high).
- It's often helpful to use sections to help readers identify relevant text (it helps with readability on mobile devices too
- Your suggested text has no Wikilinks, which makes it inappropriate to substitute directly
- You write "low binding affinity for mu, kappa and delta opioid receptors (Ki >1500 nM)", but 1.5microM isn't 'low' in the content of small-molecule affinity; just keeping the following sentence on relative affinity seems sufficient
- You write "EC50"; do you mean the (inhibitory) EC50, or did you mean IC50?
- So, I've made some edits reflecting your request and adding most of you content. I've marked the template as 'accepted' (done), even though I haven't done this precisely as you request. Please review and ping me if you'd like anything I've done corrected. Klbrain (talk) 09:00, 7 May 2024 (UTC)
- @Klbrain: Thanks for promptly acting on my request and your constructive edits to the post! I wish to make one further clarification. As described by Whiteside et al (Ref 4 - Data found in supplementary materials), sunobinop is only an antagonist at mu and kappa receptors (with much weaker binding affinity, ~1.6uM and ~2uM respectively, as compared to Ki at NOP, 3.3nM) and a weak (low affinity, Ki ~5uM) partial (16% Emax) agonist at delta receptors. The AdisInsight reference that is cited is incorrect in referring to sunobinop as a pan-opioid antagonist. As per data above from Ref 4 the predominant action is at NOP with a wide margin of selectivity. Given this would the following additional minor edits be acceptable?
- Change "...is a high affinity small molecule nociceptin receptor partial agonist and weak opioid antagonist." to "...is a high affinity small molecule nociceptin receptor partial agonist." and change the citation to Whiteside et al.
- Following "...receptors is between 500- and 5000-fold greater than for the NOP receptor." add "Sunobinop does not activate human mu and kappa opioid receptors and is a low affinity weak partial agonist at human delta opioid receptors." per Whiteside et al.
- Move Harris et al (Ref 3) to the end of the previous sentence, it verifies the "insomnia" claim.
- Thanks again! Let me know if you have any questions. ImbriumValentine (talk) 17:58, 8 May 2024 (UTC)
- @Klbrain: Thanks for promptly acting on my request and your constructive edits to the post! I wish to make one further clarification. As described by Whiteside et al (Ref 4 - Data found in supplementary materials), sunobinop is only an antagonist at mu and kappa receptors (with much weaker binding affinity, ~1.6uM and ~2uM respectively, as compared to Ki at NOP, 3.3nM) and a weak (low affinity, Ki ~5uM) partial (16% Emax) agonist at delta receptors. The AdisInsight reference that is cited is incorrect in referring to sunobinop as a pan-opioid antagonist. As per data above from Ref 4 the predominant action is at NOP with a wide margin of selectivity. Given this would the following additional minor edits be acceptable?
- First point: agree, in particular that the mention of the opioid receptor effect doesn't need to be in the lede, and is elsewhere in the article.
- Second point: 'Does not activate' is true but incomplete - it does bind to the mu and kappa, and source does describe them as an antagonist at these receptors; agree with the comments re: human delta receptors
- Third point: Agree.
- I've made edits consistent with the above. Klbrain (talk) 18:52, 8 May 2024 (UTC)
- @Klbrain: Looks good, thanks again! ImbriumValentine (talk) 18:12, 9 May 2024 (UTC)