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ReviewInternational journal of molecular sciences2021

Opioid Receptors and Protonation-Coupled Binding of Opioid Drugs.

Samo Lešnik, Éva Bertalan, Urban Bren, Ana-Nicoleta Bondar

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Review in International journal of molecular sciences, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
10citing papers in PubMed
1.1field-weighted citation impact, top 25% of its field
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

10 citing papers in PubMed, 13 citations in OpenAlex.

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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

4 authors at 4 institutions in 3 countries.

Samo LešnikFaculty of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, University of Maribor, SI-2000 Maribor, Slovenia.
Éva BertalanTheoretical Molecular Biophysics Group, Department of Physics, Freie Universität Berlin, 14195 Berlin, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-1673-5178
Urban BrenFaculty of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, University of Maribor, SI-2000 Maribor, Slovenia.
Ana-Nicoleta BondarTheoretical Molecular Biophysics Group, Department of Physics, Freie Universität Berlin, 14195 Berlin, Germany.
Freie Universität Berlin · DEUniversity of Bucharest · ROUniversity of Maribor · SIUniversity of Primorska · SI

Funding

MOLECULAR RECOGNITION OF LIPIDS AND LIPOPHILES BY CYCLODEXTRIN DERIVATIVESZ01AG000046 · NIA · AGING · PI PITHA, J · 1985 to 1994
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Freie Universität Berlin Center for Research StrategyFreie Universität Berlin Excellence Initiative of the German Federal and State Governments provided via the Freie Uni-versität Berlin, by the German Research Foundation (DFG) Collaborative Research Center SFB 1078 Project C4Slovenian Ministry of Science and Education C3330-19-952021Slovenian Research Agency J1-2471Slovenian Research Agency P2-0046
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Opioid receptors are G-protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) part of cell signaling paths of direct interest to treat pain. Pain may associate with inflamed tissue characterized by acidic pH. The potentially low pH at tissue targeted by opioid drugs in pain management could impact drug binding to the opioid receptor, because opioid drugs typically have a protonated amino group that contributes to receptor binding, and the functioning of GPCRs may involve protonation change. In this review, we discuss the relationship between structure, function, and dynamics of opioid receptors from the perspective of the usefulness of computational studies to evaluate protonation-coupled opioid-receptor interactions.

Indexed as

Analgesics, OpioidHumansPainReceptors, OpioidAnalgesics, OpioidReceptors, Opioidforce field parametersGPCRsmolecular dynamicsopioid drugsopioid receptorsprotonation-coupled dynamicssafe painkillers

Identifiers

PMID34948150
PMCPMC8707250
OpenAlexW4200074786

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