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ArticleJournal of computer-aided molecular design2013

Investigating the hydrogen-bond acceptor site of the nicotinic pharmacophore model: a computational and experimental study using epibatidine-related molecular probes.

Clelia Dallanoce, Giovanni Grazioso, Diego Yuri Pomè, Miriam Sciaccaluga, Carlo Matera, Cecilia Gotti, Sergio Fucile, Marco De Amici

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Article in Journal of computer-aided molecular design, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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8 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Clelia DallanoceSezione di Chimica Farmaceutica "Pietro Pratesi", Dipartimento di Scienze Farmaceutiche, Università degli Studi di Milano, Via L. Mangiagalli 25, 20133, Milan, Italy.
Giovanni Grazioso
Diego Yuri Pomè
Miriam Sciaccaluga
Carlo Matera
Cecilia Gotti
Sergio Fucile
Marco De Amici
University of Milan · ITIstituto Neurologico Mediterraneo · ITSapienza University of Rome · IT

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Abstract

The binding mode of nicotinic agonists has been thoroughly investigated in the last decades. It is now accepted that the charged amino group is bound by a cation-π interaction to a conserved tryptophan residue, and that the aromatic moiety is projected into a hydrophobic pocket deeply located inside the binding cleft. A hydrogen bond donor/acceptor, maybe a water molecule solvating this receptor subsite, contributes to further stabilize the nicotinic ligands. The position of this water molecule has been established by several X-ray structures of the acetylcholine-binding protein. In this study, we computationally analyzed the role of this water molecule as a putative hydrogen bond donor/acceptor moiety in the agonist binding site of the three most relevant heteromeric (α4β2, α3β4) and homomeric (α7) neuronal nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (nAChR) subtypes. Our theoretical investigation made use of epibatidine 1 and deschloroepibatidine 2 as molecular probes, and was then extended to their analogues 3 and 4, which were subsequently synthesized and tested at the three target receptor subtypes. Although the pharmacological data for the new ligands 3 and 4 indicated a reduction of the affinity at the studied nAChRs with respect to reference agonists, a variation of the selectivity profile was clearly evidenced.

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Amino Acid SequenceBinding SitesBridged Bicyclo Compounds, HeterocyclicCrystallography, X-RayHumansHydrogen BondingModels, MolecularMolecular ProbesMolecular Sequence DataNicotinic AgonistsPyridinesReceptors, CholinergicWaterBridged Bicyclo Compounds, HeterocyclicepibatidineMolecular ProbesNicotinic AgonistsPyridinesReceptors, CholinergicWater

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