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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Feb 17.
Published in final edited form as: Neuron. 2016 Feb 17;89(4):683–694. doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2016.01.040

Table 1.

Representative Chemogenetic Technologies

Name Protein(s) Ligand Reference
Representative kinases
Allele-specific kinase inhibitors v-I388G Compound 3g Liu et al., 1998
Analogue-sensitive kinases v-Src (I338G, v-Src-as1), c-Fyn (T339G, c-Fyn-as1), c-Abl (T315A, c-Abl-as2), CAMK IIα (F89G, CAMK IIα-as1) and CDK2 (F80G, CDK2-as1) K252a and PPI analogues Bishop et al., 1998
Rapamycin-insensitive TOR complex 2 TORC2 V2227L BEZ235 Bishop et al., 2000
ATP-binding pocket mutations in EphB1, EphB2 and EphB3 Ephb1T697G, Ephb2T699A, and Ephb3T706A PP1 analogues Soskis et al., 2012
ATP-binding pocket mutations of TrkA, TrkB and TrkC TrkAF592A, TrkBF616A, and TrkCF617A 1NMPP1 and 1NaPP1 Chen et al., 2005
Representative Enzymes
Metalloenzymes Achiral biotinylated rhodium-diphosphine complexes Collot et al., 2003
Engineered transaminases Chemically conjugating a pyridoxamine moiety within the large cavity of intestinal fatty acid binding protein Enhanced activity Häring and Distefano, 2001
Representative GPCRs
Allele-specific GPCRs β2-adrenergic receptor, D113S 1-(3′,4′-dihydroxyphenyl)-3-methyl-L-butanone (L-185,870) Strader et al., 1991
RASSL-Gi (receptors activated solely by synthetic ligands) κ-opioid chimeric receptor Spiradoline Coward et al., 1998
Engineered GPCRs 5-HT2A serotonin receptor F340→L340 Ketanserin analogues Westkaemper et al., 1999
Gi-DREADD M2- and M4 mutant muscarinic receptors Clozapine-N-Oxide Armbruster and Roth, 2005; Armbruster et al., 2007
Gq-DREADD M1, M3, and M5- mutant muscarinic receptors Clozapine-N-oxide Armbruster and Roth, 2005; Armbruster et al., 2007
Gs-DREADD Chimeric M3-frog Adrenergic receptor Clozapine-N-oxide Guettier et al., 2009
Arrestin-DREADD M3Dq R165L Clozapine-N-oxide Nakajima and Wess, 2012
Axonally-targeted silencing hM4D-neurexin variant Clozapine-N-oxide Stachniak et al., 2014
KORD κ-opioid receptor D138N mutant Salvinorin B Vardy et al., 2015
Representative Channels
GluCl Insect Glutmate chloride channel; Y182F mutation Ivermectin Lerchner et al., 2007
TrpV1 TrpV1 in TrpV1 KO mice capsaicin Arenkiel et al., 2008
PSAM Chimeric channels PSAMQ79G,L141S PSEM9S Magnus et al., 2011
PSEM PSAM-GlyR fusions PSEM89S; PSSEM22S Magnus et al., 2011