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Melanotan-1 and Melanotan-2 Sibling Rivalry Reaches the Holiday Table
Satire. Everything below is a joke about peptide culture. All characters are fictional and nothing here is advice.
“I’m thirteen residues,” said Melanotan-1, passing the potatoes. “I’m basically the original.” Melanotan-2 set down its fork. “I’m a ring,” it said. “Six residues in a lactam bridge. Please go on.”
Key takeaways
- The joke: siblings, one linear and one cyclic.
- The point: MT-1 has two key substitutions, MT-2 has a ring.
- Their masses differ by more than 600 daltons.
Round one
“I have Nle4 and D-Phe7,” said Melanotan-1. “Two swaps. That’s it. That’s the whole redesign.” Melanotan-2 said it also had D-Phe7 “and a bridge, which is a lot less common.”
Dessert
A relative asked whether they were really related. They both said “alpha-MSH” at the same time and quickly returned to their pie.
The serious point
- Two swaps in MT-1: the Nle4 and D-Phe7 post.
- The ring in MT-2: the lactam bridge post.
- Side-by-side: MT-1 vs MT-2.
- Receptor background: melanocortin receptors.
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