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SUBMITTER: Castriconi F
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6071950 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Castriconi Federica F Paolino Marco M Donati Alessandro A Giuliani Germano G Anzini Maurizio M Mennuni Laura L Sabatini Chiara C Lanza Marco M Caselli Gianfranco G Makovec Francesco F Sbraccia Maria M Molinari Paola P Costa Tommaso T Cappelli Andrea A
MedChemComm 20170209 3
5-HT<sub>4</sub> receptors are known to form constitutive dimers in membranes. To explore whether multivalency can enhance ligand interactions and/or efficacy in 5-HT<sub>4</sub> receptors, the structure of the partial agonist ML10302 was modified with oligo(ethylene glycol) chains, thus generating, by a gradual approach, short and long tethered bivalent or tetravalent ligands and the corresponding spanner-linked monovalent controls. Both bivalent and tetravalent ligands displayed a 10-20-fold i ...[more]