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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: Pharmacol Res. 2014 Apr 18;0:3–9. doi: 10.1016/j.phrs.2014.04.002

Table 1.

Select pharmacological chaperones used to enhance proteostasis of lysosomal enzymes, GPCRs and ion channels. See Figure 4 for chemical structures.

Protein type Deficient protein Disease Pharmacological chaperones
Lysosomal enzymes α-galactosidase A Fabry disease DGJ (56)
Acid β-glucosidase Gaucher disease NN-DNJ (63)

Ion channels hERG channel Long QT syndrome E4031 (69)
CFTR Cystic fibrosis RDR1 (78)
nAChR Many such as epilepsy Nicotine (72, 73)
GABAA receptor Epilepsy GABA (71)

GPCRs V2 vasopressin receptor Nephrogenic diabetes insipidus SR121463 (86)
GnRH receptor Hypogonadotropic hypogonadsm IN3 (90)
Opsin Retinitis pigmentosa 11-cis-7-ring-retinal (94)
δ-opioid receptor Pain Naltrexone (97)