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* The following is a list of Pharmacokinetic Parameters. See: [[Pharmaceutical Drugs]] for more information | * The following is a list of Pharmacokinetic Parameters. See: [[Pharmaceutical Drugs]] for more information | ||
===Mechanism of Action=== | ===Mechanism of Action=== | ||
<scene name='Main_Page/E2020_in_ache_spinning/1'>Aricept (E2020)</scene> is one of the most interesting drugs that have been designed as AChE bivalent inhibitors. It was developed, synthesized and evaluated by the Eisai Company in Japan. These inhibitors were designed on the basis of QSAR studies prior to elucidation of the 3D structure of ''Torpedo californica'' AChE (''Tc''AChE) ([[1ea5]]). It significantly enhances performance in animal models of cholinergic hypofunction and has a high affinity for AChE, binding to both electric eel and mouse AChE in the nanomolar range. The X-ray structure of the E2020-''Tc''AChE complex ([[1eve]]) shows that E2020 has a <scene name='1eve/E2020_close_up_with_84_279/13'>unique orientation</scene> along the active-site gorge, extending from the anionic subsite (<scene name='1eve/E2020_close_up_with_84lbld/7'>W84</scene>) of the active site, at the bottom, to the peripheral anionic site (<scene name='1eve/E2020_close_up_with_84_279lbld/5'>near W279</scene>), at the top, via aromatic stacking interactions with conserved aromatic acid residues. E2020 does not, however, interact directly with either the catalytic triad or the 'oxyanion hole' but only <scene name='1eve/E20_interactionshown/8'>indirectly via solvent molecules</scene>. The X-ray structure shows, a posteriori, that the design of E2020 took advantage of several important features of the active-site gorge of AChE, to produce a drug with both high affinity for AChE and a high degree of selectivity for AChE versus butyrylcholinesterase (BChE). It also delineates voids within the gorge that are not occupied by E2020 and could provide sites for potential modification of E2020 to produce drugs with improved pharmacological profiles <ref name="Kryger">PMID:10368299</ref>. | |||
===Pharmacokinetics=== | ===Pharmacokinetics=== | ||