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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: Bioorg Med Chem. 2011 Oct 13;19(23):7044–7048. doi: 10.1016/j.bmc.2011.10.007

Table 1.

Potencies to activate TAAR1

No Compound Name EC50 (μM)
Human Rhesus
(S)-l (S)-amphetamine 0.6 ± 0.002 1.01 ± 0.08
(R)-1 (R)-amphetamine 1.3 ± 0.03 1.86 ± 0.03
(S)-2 (S)-p-hydroxyamphetamine 2.96 ± 0.1 0.101 ± 0.02
(R)-2 (R)-p-hydroxyamphetamine 3.16 ± 1.2 0.424 ± 0.2
(S)-3 (S)-3,4-methylenedioxyamphetamine 6.57 ± 1.2 1.35 ± 0.3
(R)-3 (R)-3,4-methylenedioxyamphetamine 11.73 ± 6.3 2.48 ± 0.5
(S)-4 (S)-3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine 73.7 ± 31 16.1 ± 6.8
(R)-4 (R)-3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine inactive 7.4 ± 0.5
(S)-5 (S)-m-methoxyamphetamine 1.9 ± 0.9 3.3 ± 1.8
(R)-5 (R)-m-methoxyamphetamine 6.5 ± 4.5 inactive
(S)-6 (S)-norfenfluramine active* ND
(R)-6 (R)-norfenfluramine inactive ND
(S)-7 (S)-4-bromo-2,5-dimethoxyamphetamine 15.34 ± 0.1 2.14 ± 0.08
(R)-7 (R)-4-bromo-2,5-dimethoxyamphetamine 31.94 ± 6.6 13.9 ± 5
(S)-8 (S)-4-methyl-2,5-dimethoxyamphetamine inactive 0.9 ± 0.04
(R)-8 (R)-4-methyl-2,5-dimethoxyamphetamine inactive inactive
(S)-9 (S)-4-ethyl-2,5-dimethoxyamphetamine 5.02 ± 1.8 inactive
(R)-9 (R)-4-ethyl-2,5-dimethoxyamphetamine inactive inactive
(S)-10 (S)-methamphetamine 1.5 ± 0.4 5.3 ± 0.5
(R)-10 (R)-methamphetamine 3.3 ± 1.7 2.5 ± 1.2

ND= not determined

*

43% of maximum in screen, using 10 μM in hTAAR1/G 16 CHO-K1 cells loaded with Calcium 4 dye and analyzed using a FlexStation 2 microplate reader (Molecular Devices).