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Trends in Heterocyclic Chemistry   Volumes    Volume 5 
Abstract
Natural templates for N. S. receptors ligands. I. Competitive antagonist alkaloids at the glycinergic, GABAergic, cholinergic and serotoninergic receptors
E. Gâlvez-Ruano, I. Iriepa, A. Morreale
Pages: 135 - 144
Number of pages: 10
Trends in Heterocyclic Chemistry
Volume 5 

Copyright © 1997 Research Trends. All rights reserved

ABSTRACT
 
We used molecular modeling techniques to examine seven reported alkaloids known as competitive antagonists at the Glycinergic (strychnine, and brucine),  GABAergic ((+)-bicuculline, securinine and d-tubocurarine), Nicotinic-ACh (d-tubocurarine, dihydro-β-erythroidine and erysodine) and Serotoninergic-3 receptors (d-tubocurarine); also, we studied the corresponding neurotransmitters: glycine, GABA, acetylcholine and serotonin, and several representative agonists for each of these receptors. We located a neurotrasmitter-like fragment in each of the above mentioned alkaloids that, when compared to the corresponding neurotransmitter, provides an excellent topological and electronic charge congruence; similar congruence is found by using several characteristic agonists in each of these receptors. Our results are in quite agreement, under a stereoelectronic point of view, with the accepted model in which, within the pentameric configuration of these four complexes, the agonist binding sites are in equivalent regions in the four receptor/channel complexes.
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