Galanthamine

In 1951, the Russian pharmacologist Mikhail Mashkovsky discovered that local villagers from the Urals used the wild snowdrop (Galanthus spp., most notably Galanthus woronowii Losinsk.) to stave off paralysis in children suffering from poliomyelitis. The ethnobotanical use of the snowdrop in the Urals led to the isolation of galanthamine for the first time in 1952, an alkaloid with AChE-inhibiting propertiesAlkaloid from caucasian snow-drop Galenthus woronowii, the common snowdrop Galanthus nivalis Ungernia genus, Amaryllidaceae, from Narcissus spp. Selectivity for AChE. The CAS number of Galanthamine Hydrobromide is 1953-04-4. || Nivalin Reminyl trademark approved for treatment of Alzheimer disease in Austria. || Galantamine is a specific competitive and reversible aceylcholinesterase inhibitor. It is also an allosteric modulator at nicotinic cholinergic receptor sites potentiating cholinergic nicotinic neurotransmission at the ganglionic and the neuromuscular junctions.

General

Type : Derivative of Galanthamine, Natural, Alkaloid, Drug, Benzazepin, Azepane, Multitarget, Nicotinic agonist

Chemical_Nomenclature : 1,2,3,4,6,7,7a,11c-octahydro-9-methoxy-2methylbenzofuro[4,3,2-efg][2]benzazocin-6-ol

Canonical SMILES : CN1CCC23C=CC(CC2OC4=C(C=CC(=C34)C1)OC)O

InChI : InChI=1S\/C17H21NO3\/c1-18-8-7-17-6-5-12(19)9-14(17)21-16-13(20-2)4-3-11(10-18)15(16)17\/h3-6,12,14,19H,7-10H2,1-2H3\/t12-,14-,17-\/m0\/s1

InChIKey : ASUTZQLVASHGKV-JDFRZJQESA-N

Other name(s) : Galantamine  ||  Lycoremine  ||  Jilkon  ||  Nivalin  ||  Reminyl  ||  Razadyne


MW : 287.35

Formula : C17H21NO3

CAS_number : 357-70-0

PubChem : 9651

UniChem : ASUTZQLVASHGKV-JDFRZJQESA-N

IUPHAR : 6693

Wikipedia : Galanthamine

Target

Families : Galanthamine ligand of proteins in family
ACHE

Structure :
1DX6 1QTI 1W6R 1W76 4EY6

Protein :
torca-ACHE human-ACHE

References (49)

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Title : Loss of Basal Forebrain Cholinergic Neurons Following Adolescent Binge Ethanol Exposure: Recovery With the Cholinesterase Inhibitor Galantamine - Crews_2021_Front.Behav.Neurosci_15_652494
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Gene_locus related to this paper: human-ACHE

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Title : The complex of a bivalent derivative of galanthamine with torpedo acetylcholinesterase displays drastic deformation of the active-site gorge: implications for structure-based drug design - Greenblatt_2004_J.Am.Chem.Soc_126_15405
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Gene_locus related to this paper: torca-ACHE

Title : Acetylcholinesterase inhibitory activity of some Amaryllidaceae alkaloids and Narcissus extracts - Lopez_2002_Life.Sci_71_2521
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Title : Galantamine: effect on nicotinic receptor binding, acetylcholinesterase inhibition, and learning - Woodruff-Pak_2001_Proc.Natl.Acad.Sci.U.S.A_98_2089
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Gene_locus related to this paper: torca-ACHE

Title : Potent acetylcholinesterase inhibitors: design, synthesis and structure-activity relationships of alkylene linked bis-galanthamine and galanthamine-galanthaminium salts - Guillou_2000_Bioorg.Med.Chem.Lett_10_637
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Title : Galantamine: additional benefits to patients with Alzheimer's disease - Lilienfeld_2000_Dement.Geriatr.Cogn.Disord_11 Suppl 1_19
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Title : Effect of the acetylcholinesterase inhibitor galanthamine on learning and memory in prolonged alcohol intake rat model of acetylcholine deficit - Iliev_1999_Methods.Find.Exp.Clin.Pharmacol_21_297
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Title : Structure of acetylcholinesterase complexed with (-)-galanthamine at 2.3 A resolution - Greenblatt_1999_FEBS.Lett_463_321
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Gene_locus related to this paper: torca-ACHE

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Title : Effect of the cholinesterase-inhibiting substance galanthamine on evoked visual potentials in rats - Lewandowski_1995_Acta.Neurobiol.Experiment_55_141
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Title : Physostigmine, galanthamine and codeine act as 'noncompetitive nicotinic receptor agonists' on clonal rat pheochromocytoma cells - Storch_1995_Eur.J.Pharmacol_290_207
Author(s) : Storch A , Schrattenholz A , Cooper JC , Abdel Ghani EM , Gutbrod O , Weber KH , Reinhardt S , Lobron C , Hermsen B , Soskic V , Pereira EF , Albuquerque EX , Methfessel C , Maelicke A
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