Fig. 11.
Effects of allosteric modulators on receptor signaling. PAMs (a) and NAMs (b) modulate the effect of orthosteric agonists, while NALs (c) have no influence on receptor signaling mediated by orthosteric agonists. BAMs (d) potentiate signaling pathway a while inhibiting signaling pathway b of the receptor. The dose-dependence curves (below) display the effect of orthosteric agonists in the presence of allosteric modulations. The color saturation indicates the concentrations of allosteric modulators. OA: orthosteric agonist. e The binding sites of BAMs in receptors. SBI-553 (blue) binds to the pocket located at an intracellular region composed of TM6-7 and H8 of NTSR1 (PDB: 8FN0), while compound 9n sits in the upper portion between TM5-6 and ECL2 of HCAR2 (PDB: 8JII)