title: Receptors responsive to extracellular pyrimidine nucleotides.
abstract: Extracellular adenine nucleotides have long been known to mediate pharmacological responses via several subtypes of P2 purinoceptors. More recently, however, similar responses to uracil nucleotides have been demonstrated. Here, Didier Communi and Jean-Marie Boeynaems discuss the evidence to suggest that distinct pyrimidinoceptors do indeed exist, although they do not appear to constitute a separate receptor family of their own.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Interdisciplinary Research, Free University of Brussels.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Communi
authors.forename: J M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Boeynaems
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D003001:Cloning, Molecular; D006801:Humans; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D018048:Receptors, Purinergic P2 / Q000737:chemistry / Q000302:isolation & purification*
chemical_list: D018048:Receptors, Purinergic P2; C104749:purinoceptor P2Y4; C099845:purinoceptor P2Y6