Cellular sources of TSPO expression in healthy and diseased brain

E Nutma, K Ceyzériat, S Amor, S Tsartsalis… - European journal of …, 2021 - Springer
The 18 kDa translocator protein (TSPO) is a highly conserved protein located in the outer
mitochondrial membrane. TSPO binding, as measured with positron emission tomography …

The alpha keto amide moiety as a privileged motif in medicinal chemistry: current insights and emerging opportunities

M Robello, E Barresi, E Baglini, S Salerno… - Journal of Medicinal …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Over the years, researchers in drug discovery have taken advantage of the use of privileged
structures to design innovative hit/lead molecules. The α-ketoamide motif is found in many …

Unbiased molecular dynamics of 11 min timescale drug unbinding reveals transition state stabilizing interactions

SD Lotz, A Dickson - Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2018 - ACS Publications
Ligand (un) binding kinetics is being recognized as a determinant of drug specificity and
efficacy in an increasing number of systems. However, the calculation of kinetics and the …

Translocator protein (18 kDa): an update on its function in steroidogenesis

V Papadopoulos, J Fan, B Zirkin - Journal of …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Translocator protein (18 kDa)(TSPO) is a ubiquitous mitochondrial protein. Studies of its
responses to drug and endogenous ligands have shown TSPO to be involved either directly …

Microglial pro-inflammatory and anti-inflammatory phenotypes are modulated by translocator protein activation

E Da Pozzo, C Tremolanti, B Costa… - International journal of …, 2019 - mdpi.com
A key role of the mitochondrial Translocator Protein 18 KDa (TSPO) in neuroinflammation
has been recently proposed. However, little is known about TSPO-activated pathways …

TSPO: an evolutionarily conserved protein with elusive functions

F Bonsack, S Sukumari-Ramesh - International journal of molecular …, 2018 - mdpi.com
TSPO (18 kDa translocator protein) was identified decades ago in a search for peripheral
tissue binding sites for benzodiazepines, and was formerly called the peripheral …

An update into the medicinal chemistry of translocator protein (TSPO) ligands

E Barresi, M Robello, B Costa, E Da Pozzo… - European Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract The Translocator Protein 18 kDa (TSPO) has been discovered in 1977 as an
alternative binding site for the benzodiazepine diazepam. It is an evolutionary well …

Differential effects of TSPO ligands on mitochondrial function in mouse microglia cells

S Bader, L Wolf, VM Milenkovic, M Gruber… - …, 2019 - Elsevier
The translocator protein 18 kDa (TSPO), initially characterized as peripheral
benzodiazepine receptor, is a conserved outer mitochondrial membrane protein, implicated …

Protein–ligand (un) binding kinetics as a new paradigm for drug discovery at the crossroad between experiments and modelling

M Bernetti, A Cavalli, L Mollica - MedChemComm, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
In the last three decades, protein and nucleic acid structure determination and
comprehension of the mechanisms, leading to their physiological and pathological …

Translocator protein ligand protects against neurodegeneration in the MPTP mouse model of Parkinsonism

J Gong, ÉM Szego, A Leonov, E Benito… - Journal of …, 2019 - Soc Neuroscience
Parkinson's disease is the second most common neurodegenerative disease, after
Alzheimer's disease. Parkinson's disease is a movement disorder with characteristic motor …