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. 2020 May 12;11:627. doi: 10.3389/fphar.2020.00627

Table 1.

Chemicals identified as having positive allosteric modulator activity at P2X receptors.

Drug name Target Receptor Predicted PAM effect
(Type I, II, mixed)
Reference
MRS2219 P2X1 (rat) Unknown (Jacobson et al., 1998)
Gintonin P2X1 (rat) Unknown (Sun-Hye et al., 2013)
PIP2 P2X1 (rat) Type I (Bernier et al., 2008a)
PSB-10129 P2X2 (rat) Type I (Baqi et al., 2011)
DHEA P2X2 (rat)
P2X2/3 (rat)
Type II (De Roo et al., 2003)
Progesterone P2X2 (rat) Type II (De Roo et al., 2010)
Testosterone butyrate P2X2,
P2X4
Type II
Mixed Type I/II
(Sivcev et al., 2019)
Ivermectin P2X4 (rat)
P2X4 (human)
P2X7 (human)
Mixed Type I/II
Mixed Type I/II
(Khakh et al., 1999)
(Priel and Silberberg, 2004)
(Nörenberg et al., 2012)
Abamectin P2X4 (rat) Unknown (Asatryan et al., 2014)
Selamectin P2X4 (rat) Unknown (Asatryan et al., 2014)
Moxidectin P2X4 Unknown (Huynh et al., 2017)
Cibacron blue P2X4 (rat) Unknown (Miller et al., 1998)
Alfaxolone P2X4 (rat) Unknown (Codocedo et al., 2009)
Allopregnanolone P2X4 (rat) Unknown (Codocedo et al., 2009)
THDOC P2X4 (rat) Unknown (Codocedo et al., 2009)
Ginsenoside CK P2X7 (human),
P2X7 (mouse)
P2X4 (human)
Mixed Type I/II
Mixed Type I/II
Mixed Type I/II
(Helliwell et al., 2015)
(Bidula et al., 2019a)
(Dhuna et al., 2019)
Ginsenoside Rd P2X7,
P2X4
Unknown
Unknown
(Helliwell et al., 2015)
(Dhuna et al., 2019)
Clemastine P2X7 (human) Type II (Norenberg et al., 2011)
Tenidap P2X7 (mouse) Mixed Type I/II (Sanz et al., 1998)
Polymyxin B P2X7 Mixed Type I/II (Ferrari et al., 2004)
Garcinolic acid P2X7 (human) Unknown (Fischer et al., 2014)
Agelastine P2X7 (human) Unknown (Fischer et al., 2014)
GW791343 P2X7 (rat) Mixed Type I/II (Michel et al., 2008a)

A Type I positive allosteric modulator (PAM) effect increases efficacy whereas a Type II PAM effect increases sensitivity to agonist seen as a left-ward shift in the concentration response curve. A mixed Type I/II PAM effect represents both features.