title: Pharmacophore models for metabotropic 5-HT receptor ligands.
abstract: An overview of pharmacophore models, developed for different subtypes of serotonin receptors belonging to the GPCR family, is presented. Starting with early models for 5-HT1A and 5-HT2 receptor ligands, and ending with the latest ones for 5-HT6- and 5-HT7 receptors, as many as fifty others are briefly summarized. No models have been developed for 5-HT1F-, 5-HT2B- and 5-HT5B receptor ligands, and in the case of 5-HT1E- and 5-HT5A Rs only single pilot studies with non-selective tryptamine derivatives are reported. For all the other subtypes of 5-HTRs, various pharmacophore hypotheses--either qualitative and/or quantitative--are characterized by sets of ligands used for their generation, a templates for alignment, the computational methods applied and, eventually, interfeature distances and/or statistical results--if available.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicinal Chemistry Institute of Pharmacology, Polish Academy of Sciences, 12 Smetna Street, 31-343 Kraków, Poland. bojarski@if-pan.krakow.pl
authors.forename: Andrzej J
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: Bojarski
mesh_terms: D008024:Ligands; D015394:Molecular Structure; D011985:Receptors, Serotonin / Q000378:metabolism*; D012702:Serotonin Antagonists / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000494:pharmacology*; D017366:Serotonin Receptor Agonists / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000494:pharmacology*; D013329:Structure-Activity Relationship
chemical_list: D008024:Ligands; D011985:Receptors, Serotonin; D012702:Serotonin Antagonists; D017366:Serotonin Receptor Agonists