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Chemical Name:DL-threo-b-Benzyloxyaspartic acid
Biological Activity:
A potent, competitive,
non-transportable blocker of excitatory amino acid transporters with high
selectivity for EAATs versus ionotropic and metabotropic glutamate receptors
(IC50/Ki values are 70, 6, 6, 4.4 and 3.2 μM
for EAAT1, EAAT2, EAAT3, EAAT4 and EAAT5 respectively).
Shimamotoet al (1998) DL-threo-β-benzyloxyaspartate,
a potent blocker of excitatory amino acid transporters. Mol.Pharmacol. 53
195. Jabaudonet al (1999) Inhibition of uptake unmasks rapid
extracellular turnover of glutamate of nonvesicular origin.
Proc.Natl.Acad.Sci.USA 96 8733. Shimamotoet al
(2000) Syntheses of optically pure β-hydroxyaspartate
derivatives as glutamate transporter blockers. Bioorg.Med.Chem.Lett. 10
2407. Shigeriet al (2001) Effects of threo-β-hydroxyaspartate
derivatives on excitatory amino acid transporters (EAAT4 and EAAT5).
J.Neurochem. 79 297.