Nature Communications (Jan 2019)

Structural elements of a pH-sensitive inhibitor binding site in NMDA receptors

  • Michael C. Regan,
  • Zongjian Zhu,
  • Hongjie Yuan,
  • Scott J. Myers,
  • Dave S. Menaldino,
  • Yesim A. Tahirovic,
  • Dennis C. Liotta,
  • Stephen F. Traynelis,
  • Hiro Furukawa

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-08291-1
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Context-dependent inhibition of NMDA receptors has important therapeutic implications for treatment of neurological diseases. Here, the authors use structural biology and biophysics to describe the basis for pH-dependent inhibition for a class of allosteric NMDAR inhibitors, called the 93-series.