Receptors General Overview

Complexes are also formed in certain instances between neutral molecules and macrocyclic receptors. Neutral molecules which form such complexes for the most part contain polar O—H, N—H or C—H bonds, and hydrogen bonding interactions are responsible for the solid state structural characteristics of these complexes. For many of these complexes, stoichiometries range considerably, from 1 1 to 1 6 host guest, and include a variety of odd ratios such as 3 2, 2 7, etc. Structural results for these complexes indicate them not to be of the inclusion type in a majority of cases. Thus, discussion in this subsection will be limited to a general overview. A more complete review of neutral molecule complexation can be obtained elsewhere.21... 

Here we will focus on current progress in structural analyses of nuclear hormone receptors, and how these proteins interact with their ligands, both natural and pharmaceutical. We will provide first a general overview of nuclear receptors and then using several nuclear receptors as examples, we will discuss the receptor-ligand specificity throughout the nuclear receptor... 

Previous reviews on peptidomimetics have addressed pseudopeptides (11), macrocyclic mimetics (13), natural product mimetics (14), cyclic protease inhibitors (15), mimetics for receptor ligands (16-22), and earlier general overviews (23-29). This review will focus on the design process itself. Novel peptidomimetics in which the structural relationship between parent peptide and the peptidomimetic has been established by biophysical methods are used to clarify the principles. Successful approaches are highlighted to illustrate how these concepts are currently used. 

Hormones are measured by a variety of analytical techniques including bioassay, receptor assay, immunoassay, and instrumental techniques, such as mass spectrometry interfaced with either liquid or gas chromatography. A general overview of these techniques is given here. Analytical details for individual hormones using such techniques are found in the discussion of the individual hormones in their respective chapters. 

The use of anions as templating agents is discussed by Vilar. The chapter starts with a general overview of the area and a discussion of the applications of anion templates in organic and coordination chemistry. The second part of the chapter deals with examples where anions are employed as templates in dynamic combinatorial libraries. This approach promises to provide an efficient route for the synthesis of better and more selective anion receptors. The last chapter by Ewen and Steinke also deals with the use of anions as templates but in this case in the context of molecular imprinted polymers. The first half of the chapter provides an introduction into molecularly imprinted polymers and this is followed by a detailed discussion of examples where anionic species have been used to imprint this class of polymeric materials. 

In a very broad overview of the structural categories one can state several statistical correlations with type of function. Hemes are almost always bound by helices, but never in parallel a//3 structures. Relatively complex enzymatic functions, especially those involving allosteric control, are occasionally antiparallel /3 but most often parallel a//3. Binding and receptor proteins are most often antiparallel /3, while the proteins that bind in those receptor sites (i.e., hormones, toxins, and enzyme inhibitors) are most apt to be small disulfide-rich structures. However, there are exceptions to all of the above generalizations (such as cytochrome cs as a nonhelical heme protein or citrate synthase as a helical enzyme), and when one focuses on the really significant level of detail within the active site then the correlation with overall tertiary structure disappears altogether. For almost all of the dozen identifiable groups of functionally similar proteins that are represented by at least two known protein structures, there are at least... 

Through the years a number of different structure-activity relationships (SARs) and receptor models have been developed (for reviews see refs. 91, 92). Therefore this introduction will only give a short overview of the general aspects of dopamine receptor agonist SARs. 

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Fig. 11.12 Overview of signaling pathways associated with activation of lymphocytes. The triggering signal for activation of T lymphocytes is generally antigen binding to the Tcell receptor. The activated receptor passes the signal on to associated tyrosine kinases like Fyn, Lck and ZAP70. These phospho-rylate the transmembrane protein LAT on cytoplasmic tyrosine residues. The LAT phospho-tyro-sine residues are docking sites for adaptors ( She,...

Terrestrial wildlife movements are such that site-specific tools are more efficiently used to refine exposure estimate. In this case, site-specific exposure estimates are used and compared with safe thresholds for toxicity, termed toxicity reference values (TRVs). Toxicity reference values for wildlife have been developed for energetic compounds. This chapter presents a brief overview of the processes used to establish these tools for ERA for explosives and related soil contaminants that are frequently of potential ecological concern at the affected military sites. This chapter also provides recommendations for use of these values in the ERA process. Investigations addressing the importance and extent of habitat disturbance as a component of the ERA process on explosives-contaminated ranges are reviewed in Chapter 11. General bioaccumulation principles and applications of the bioaccumulation factor and bioconcentration factor (BAF and BCF, respectively) concepts that are often employed in the ERA process to determine bioaccumulation potential of MC for terrestrial receptors are reviewed in Chapter 10. 

In succeeding paragraphs, an overview of enzymes as catalytic receptors and general concepts of enzyme Inhibitors and their rational design into drugs... 

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