Lecture 3

1.
What is the concentration response curve equivalent to binding Kd?
EC50
2.
What is another term for EC50?
Potency
3.
What is another term for EMax?
Efficacy
4.
How to overcome an irreversible antagonist?
Cell needs to make new receptors
5.
What is the primary binding site for the endogenous ligand called?
Orthosteric binding site
6.
What is an allosteric modulator?
A ligand that binds to a site different than that of the orthosteric binding site and causes modulation to affinity, efficacy, or response (allosteric agonist)
7.
What are the classes of allosteric modulators?
Positive, negative, neutral
8.
What is the ceiling effect of allosteric modulators?
Extent of modulation is limited by cooperativity between orthosteric and allosteric ligand making overdose unlikely
9.
How do allosteric modulators have increased selectivity compared to orthosteric ligands?
Less of them - increased specificity
10.
How is signalling of endogenous ligands maintained with allosteric modulation?
Allosteric binding does not remove orthosteric binding...it mediates it
11.
How do drugs act on enzymes or transporters?
They inhibit them
12.
How do drugs inhibit enzymes?
The occupy the active site of the enzyme
13.
What enzyme degrades ACh?
Acetylcholineesterase
14.
What are the classes of AChE?
Irreversible, reversible
15.
Where are irreversible AChEs used?
Biological weapons eg. nerve gas
16.
How to overcome irreversible AChEs?
Make more enzyme
17.
Where are reversible AChEs used?
Alzheimer's, myasthenia gravis treatments
18.
What ways are neurotransmitters removed from a synapse?
Transported, degraded
19.
How is seritonin removed from a synapse?
Transported out
20.
What is the precurso to seritonin?
Tryptophan
21.
How is ACh removed from a synapse?
Degraded