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“There's a very good chance that the first drug is unlikely to be…nicotine itself, but will take advantage of nicotinic receptors in the therapy,” he says.
nAChR - nicotinic acetylcholine receptor
Based on data obtained from affinity labeling and site directed mutagenesis studies, several regions of the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor have been implicated in ligand binding [ 10 ] . Six essential loops appear to contribute to the binding site with the position of each loop differing slightly depending on whether the receptor is heteromeric or homomeric [ 4 ] . For homomeric receptors such as the α7 nAChR, the loops are identified as A, B, C, D, E and F [ 4 11 ] . The amino acids that interact with ligands presumably extend into the binding site from these loops.
Sherry Leonard and Robert Freedman of the University of Colorado in Denver, Colorado, have shown that expression of the gene for the alpha 7 neuronal nicotinic receptor is reduced in schizophrenics, and have argued that alpha 7 abnormalities lead to attention problems.
It's less than a decade that we've known how important nicotinic receptors are.