ReviewAnesthesiology2011
Use of concatemers of ligand-gated ion channel subunits to study mechanisms of steroid potentiation.
Review in Anesthesiology, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.
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5 citing papers in PubMed, 9 citations in OpenAlex.
- Unravelling the multifaceted actions of neurosteroids: Machine learning and in vitro screening for novel target discovery.British journal of pharmacology · 2025Article
- Identifiability of equilibrium constants for receptors with two to five binding sites.The Journal of general physiology · 2023Article
- A molecular perspective on identifying TRPV1 thermosensitive regions and disentangling polymodal activation.Temperature (Austin, Tex.) · 2023Review
- Etomidate produces similar allosteric modulation in α1β3δ and α1β3γ2L GABA(A) receptors.British journal of pharmacology · 2014Article
- Two etomidate sites in α1β2γ2 γ-aminobutyric acid type A receptors contribute equally and noncooperatively to modulation of channel gating.Anesthesiology · 2012Article
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Abstract
Synaptic receptors of the nicotinic receptor gene family are pentamers of subunits. This modular structure creates problems in studies of drug actions, related to the number of copies of a subunit that are present and their position. A separate issue concerns the mechanism of action of many anesthetics, which involves potentiation of responses to neurotransmitters. Potentiation requires an interaction between a transmitter and a potentiator, mediated through the target receptor. We have studied the mechanism by which neurosteroids potentiate transmitter responses, using concatemers of covalently linked subunits to control the number and position of subunits in the assembled receptor and to selectively introduce mutations into positionally defined copies of a subunit. We found that the steroid needs to interact with only one site to produce potentiation, that the native sites for steroid interaction have indistinguishable properties, and that steroid potentiation appears to result from a global effect on receptor function.
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