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Engineered Flumazenil Recognition Site Provides Mechanistic Insight Governing Benzodiazepine Modulation in GABAA Receptors.
ACS chemical biology - 17 Aug 2018
Siebert David C B, Bampali Konstantina, Puthenkalam Roshan, Varagic Zdravko, Sarto-Jackson Isabella, Scholze Petra, Sieghart Werner, Mihovilovic Marko D, Schnürch Michael, Ernst Margot
Abstract excerpt
The anxiolytic, anticonvulsant, muscle-relaxant, and sedative-hypnotic effects of benzodiazepine site ligands are mainly elicited by allosteric modulation of GABAA receptors via their extracellular αx+/γ2- ( x = 1, 2, 3, 5) interfaces. In addition, a low affinity binding site at the homologous α+/β- interfaces was reported for some benzodiazepine site ligands. Classical benzodiazepines and pyrazoloquinolinones...
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