| Literature DB >> 25173999 |
Silvia Pittolo1, Xavier Gómez-Santacana2, Kay Eckelt3, Xavier Rovira4, James Dalton5, Cyril Goudet6, Jean-Philippe Pin6, Artur Llobet7, Jesús Giraldo5, Amadeu Llebaria8, Pau Gorostiza9.
Abstract
Controlling drug activity with light offers the possibility of enhancing pharmacological selectivity with spatial and temporal regulation, thus enabling highly localized therapeutic effects and precise dosing patterns. Here we report on the development and characterization of what is to our knowledge the first photoswitchable allosteric modulator of a G protein-coupled receptor. Alloswitch-1 is selective for the metabotropic glutamate receptor mGlu5 and enables the optical control of endogenous mGlu5 receptors.Mesh:
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Year: 2014 PMID: 25173999 DOI: 10.1038/nchembio.1612
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Nat Chem Biol ISSN: 1552-4450 Impact factor: 15.040