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Design, synthesis, and structure-activity relationship of a novel series of GluN2C-selective potentiators
Zimmerman, Sommer S.,Khatri, Alpa,Garnier-Amblard, Ethel C.,Mullasseril, Praseeda,Kurtkaya, Natalie L.,Gyoneva, Stefka,Hansen, Kasper B.,Traynelis, Stephen F.,Liotta, Dennis C.
, p. 2334 - 2356 (2014)
NMDA receptors are tetrameric complexes composed of GluN1 and GluN2A-D subunits that mediate a slow Ca2+-permeable component of excitatory synaptic transmission. NMDA receptors have been implicated in a wide range of neurological diseases and thus represent an important therapeutic target. We herein describe a novel series of pyrrolidinones that selectively potentiate only NMDA receptors that contain the GluN2C subunit. The most active analogues tested were over 100-fold selective for recombinant GluN2C-containing receptors over GluN2A/B/D-containing NMDA receptors as well as AMPA and kainate receptors. This series represents the first class of allosteric potentiators that are selective for diheteromeric GluN2C-containing NMDA receptors.
