The present invention provides stable metastin derivatives having
excellent biological activities (a cancer metastasis suppressing
activity, a cancer growth suppressing activity, a gonadotropic hormone
secretion stimulating activity, sex hormone secretion stimulating
activity, etc.).
By substituting the constituent amino acids of metastin with specific
amino acids, the metastin derivatives of the present invention achieve
more improved blood stability, solubility, etc., reduced gelation
tendency, improved pharmacokinetics, as well as exhibit an excellent
cancer metastasis suppressing activity or a cancer growth suppressing
activity. The metastin derivatives of the present invention also have a
gonadotropic hormone secretion suppressing activity, sex hormone
secretion suppressing activity, etc.