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ReviewExpert opinion on drug discovery2016

Leveraging allostery to improve G protein-coupled receptor (GPCR)-directed therapeutics: cannabinoid receptor 1 as discovery target.

David R Janero, Ganesh A Thakur

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Review in Expert opinion on drug discovery, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.

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14citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

14 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Review
  2. Pharmacological Evaluation of Cannabinoid Receptor Modulators Using GRABInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2024
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  9. The In Vivo Effects of the CBJournal of ocular pharmacology and therapeutics : the official journal of the Association for Ocular Pharmacology and Therapeutics · 2017
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  14. Assessing Allosteric Modulation of CBMethods in enzymology · 2017
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

David R Janeroa Center for Drug Discovery; Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, School of Pharmacy, Bouvé College of Health Sciences; Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, College of Science; and Health Sciences Entrepreneurs , Northeastern University , Boston , MA , USA.
Ganesh A Thakurb Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, School of Pharmacy, Bouvé College of Health Sciences , Northeastern University , Boston , MA , USA.

Funding

A Novel Pharmacotherapy for GlaucomaR01EY024717 · NEI · NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY · PI THAKUR, GANESH A · 2014 to 2018
$2.2M
Allosteric Modulators of CB1 Cannabinoid ReceptorR03DA027113 · NIDA · NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY · PI THAKUR, GANESH A · 2009 to 2010
$390k
NEI NIH HHS R01 EY024717NIDA NIH HHS R03 DA027113
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

introductionAllosteric modulators of G-protein coupled receptors (GPCRs) hold the promise of improved pharmacology and safety over typical orthosteric GPCR ligands. These features are particularly relevant to the cannabinoid receptor 1 (CB1R) GPCR, since typical orthosteric CB1R ligands are associated with adverse events that limit their translational potential. Areas covered: The contextual basis for applying allostery to CB1R is considered from pharmacological, drug-discovery, and medicinal standpoints. Rational design of small-molecule CB1R allosteric modulators as potential pharmacotherapeutics would be greatly facilitated by direct experimental characterization of structure-function correlates underlying the biological activity of chemically-diverse CB1R allosteric modulators, CB1R allosteric ligand-binding binding pockets, and amino acid contact residues critical to allosteric ligand engagement and activity. In these regards, designer covalent probes exhibiting well-characterized molecular pharmacology as CB1R allosteric modulators are emerging as valuable molecular reporters enabling experimental interrogation of CB1R allosteric site(s) and informing the design of new CB1R agents as drugs. Expert opinion: Synthesis and pharmacological profiling of CB1R allosteric ligands will continue to provide valuable insights into CB1R structure-function correlates. The resulting data should expand the repertoire of novel agents capable of exerting therapeutic benefit by modulating CB1R-dependent signaling.

Indexed as

Drug DesignAllosteric RegulationAllosteric SiteAnimalsCannabinoid Receptor ModulatorsDrug DiscoveryHumansLigandsMolecular Targeted TherapyReceptor, Cannabinoid, CB1Receptors, G-Protein-CoupledCannabinoid Receptor ModulatorsLigandsReceptor, Cannabinoid, CB1Receptors, G-Protein-CoupledAllosteric modulatorbinding motifcannabinoid GPCRchemical probeendocannabinoid systemisothiocyanateligand biasmolecular pharmacologyorthosteric modulatorsignal transductiontransmembrane receptor

Identifiers

PMID27712124
PMCPMC6108444

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