DrugBank: Acetylcholine (DB03128)

targets (1) enzymes (1) transporters (2)

Identification

Name

Acetylcholine

Accession Number

DB03128 (EXPT00412)

Type

small molecule

Groups

experimental

Description

A neurotransmitter. Acetylcholine in vertebrates is the major transmitter at neuromuscular junctions, autonomic ganglia, parasympathetic effector junctions, a subset of sympathetic effector junctions, and at many sites in the central nervous system. It is generally not used as an administered drug because it is broken down very rapidly by cholinesterases, but it is useful in some ophthalmological applications. [PubChem]

Structure

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Display: 2D Structure | 3D Structure

Synonyms

Acetylcholine Chloride

Salts

Not Available

Brand names

Not Available

Brand mixtures

Not Available

Categories

Vasodilator Agents
Cholinergic Agents
Acetylcholinesterase inhibitor

CAS number

51-84-3

Weight

Average: 146.2074
Monoisotopic: 146.118103761

Chemical Formula

C₇H₁₆NO₂

InChI Key

InChIKey=OIPILFWXSMYKGL-UHFFFAOYSA-N

InChI

InChI=1S/C7H16NO2/c1-7(9)10-6-5-8(2,3)4/h5-6H2,1-4H3/q+1

Plain Text

IUPAC Name

[2-(acetyloxy)ethyl]trimethylazanium

SMILES

CC(=O)OCC[N+](C)(C)C

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Mass Spec

Not Available

Taxonomy

Kingdom

Not Available

Classes

Not Available

Substructures

Not Available

Pharmacology

Indication

Not Available

Pharmacodynamics

Not Available

Mechanism of action

Not Available

Absorption

Not Available

Volume of distribution

Not Available

Protein binding

Not Available

Metabolism

Not Available

Route of elimination

Not Available

Half life

Not Available

Clearance

Not Available

Toxicity

Not Available

Affected organisms

Not Available

Pathways

Not Available

Pharmacoeconomics

Manufacturers

Novartis pharmaceuticals corp

Packagers

Novartis AG
OMJ Pharmaceuticals

Dosage forms

Not Available

Prices

Not Available

Patents

Country	Patent Number	Approved	Expires (estimated)
United States	6261546	1999-04-29	2019-04-29

Properties

State

solid

Experimental Properties

Not Available

Predicted Properties

Property	Value	Source
water solubility	1.36e-01 g/l	ALOGPS
logP	-2.9	ALOGPS
logP	-4.2	ChemAxon
logS	-3.1	ALOGPS
pKa (strongest basic)	-7	ChemAxon
physiological charge	1	ChemAxon
hydrogen acceptor count	1	ChemAxon
hydrogen donor count	0	ChemAxon
polar surface area	26.3	ChemAxon
rotatable bond count	4	ChemAxon
refractivity	51.35	ChemAxon
polarizability	16.69	ChemAxon

References

Synthesis Reference

Not Available

General Reference

Not Available

External Links

Resource	Link
KEGG Compound	C01996
PubChem Compound	187
PubChem Substance	46504484
ChEBI	15355
ChEMBL	15355
PharmGKB	PA448031
IUPHAR	294
Guide to Pharmacology	294
HET	ACH

ATC Codes

S01EB09

AHFS Codes

Not Available

PDB Entries

2ACE

FDA label

Not Available

MSDS

Not Available

Interactions

Drug Interactions

Drug	Interaction
Tacrine	The acetylcholinesterase inhibitor, Tacrine, may increase the adverse/toxic effects of Acetylcholine, a cholinergic agonist. Monitor for increased cholinergic effects and toxicity.

Food Interactions

Not Available

Targets
1. Acetylcholinesterase Pharmacological action: unknown Rapidly hydrolyzes choline released into the synapse Organism class: human UniProt ID: P22303 Gene: ACHE Protein Sequence: FASTA Gene Sequence: FASTA SNPs: SNPJam Report References: Overington JP, Al-Lazikani B, Hopkins AL: How many drug targets are there? Nat Rev Drug Discov. 2006 Dec;5(12):993-6. Pubmed Imming P, Sinning C, Meyer A: Drugs, their targets and the nature and number of drug targets. Nat Rev Drug Discov. 2006 Oct;5(10):821-34. Pubmed Berman HM, Westbrook J, Feng Z, Gilliland G, Bhat TN, Weissig H, Shindyalov IN, Bourne PE: The Protein Data Bank. Nucleic Acids Res. 2000 Jan 1;28(1):235-42. Pubmed

Targets

1. Acetylcholinesterase

Pharmacological action: unknown

Rapidly hydrolyzes choline released into the synapse

Organism class: human
UniProt ID: P22303 Link_out

Gene: ACHE Link_out

Protein Sequence: FASTA
Gene Sequence: FASTA
SNPs: SNPJam Report Link_out

References:

Overington JP, Al-Lazikani B, Hopkins AL: How many drug targets are there? Nat Rev Drug Discov. 2006 Dec;5(12):993-6. Pubmed
Imming P, Sinning C, Meyer A: Drugs, their targets and the nature and number of drug targets. Nat Rev Drug Discov. 2006 Oct;5(10):821-34. Pubmed
Berman HM, Westbrook J, Feng Z, Gilliland G, Bhat TN, Weissig H, Shindyalov IN, Bourne PE: The Protein Data Bank. Nucleic Acids Res. 2000 Jan 1;28(1):235-42. Pubmed

Enzymes
1. Cytochrome P450 2D6 Actions: substrate Responsible for the metabolism of many drugs and environmental chemicals that it oxidizes. It is involved in the metabolism of drugs such as antiarrhythmics, adrenoceptor antagonists, and tricyclic antidepressants UniProt ID: P10635 Gene: CYP2D6 Protein Sequence: FASTA Gene Sequence: FASTA SNPs: SNPJam Report References: Preissner S, Kroll K, Dunkel M, Senger C, Goldsobel G, Kuzman D, Guenther S, Winnenburg R, Schroeder M, Preissner R: SuperCYP: a comprehensive database on Cytochrome P450 enzymes including a tool for analysis of CYP-drug interactions. Nucleic Acids Res. 2010 Jan;38(Database issue):D237-43. Epub 2009 Nov 24. Pubmed

Enzymes

1. Cytochrome P450 2D6

Actions: substrate

Responsible for the metabolism of many drugs and environmental chemicals that it oxidizes. It is involved in the metabolism of drugs such as antiarrhythmics, adrenoceptor antagonists, and tricyclic antidepressants

UniProt ID: P10635 Link_out

Gene: CYP2D6 Link_out

Protein Sequence: FASTA
Gene Sequence: FASTA
SNPs: SNPJam Report Link_out

References:

Preissner S, Kroll K, Dunkel M, Senger C, Goldsobel G, Kuzman D, Guenther S, Winnenburg R, Schroeder M, Preissner R: SuperCYP: a comprehensive database on Cytochrome P450 enzymes including a tool for analysis of CYP-drug interactions. Nucleic Acids Res. 2010 Jan;38(Database issue):D237-43. Epub 2009 Nov 24. Pubmed

Transporters
1. Organic cation/carnitine transporter 2 Actions: inhibitor Sodium-ion dependent, high affinity carnitine transporter. Involved in the active cellular uptake of carnitine. Transports one sodium ion with one molecule of carnitine. Also transports organic cations such as tetraethylammonium (TEA) without the involvement of sodium. Also Relative uptake activity ratio of carnitine to TEA is 11.3 UniProt ID: O76082 Gene: SLC22A5 Protein Sequence: FASTA Gene Sequence: FASTA SNPs: SNPJam Report References: Ohashi R, Tamai I, Nezu Ji J, Nikaido H, Hashimoto N, Oku A, Sai Y, Shimane M, Tsuji A: Molecular and physiological evidence for multifunctionality of carnitine/organic cation transporter OCTN2. Mol Pharmacol. 2001 Feb;59(2):358-66. Pubmed 2. Solute carrier family 22 member 1 Actions: substrate Translocates a broad array of organic cations with various structures and molecular weights including the model compounds 1-methyl-4-phenylpyridinium (MPP), tetraethylammonium (TEA), N-1-methylnicotinamide (NMN), 4-(4-(dimethylamino)styryl)- N-methylpyridinium (ASP), the endogenous compounds choline, guanidine, histamine, epinephrine, adrenaline, noradrenaline and dopamine, and the drugs quinine, and metformin. The transport of organic cations is inhibited by a broad array of compounds like tetramethylammonium (TMA), cocaine, lidocaine, NMDA receptor antagonists, atropine, prazosin, cimetidine, TEA and NMN, guanidine, cimetidine, choline, procainamide, quinine, tetrabutylammonium, and tetrapentylammonium. Translocates organic cations in an electrogenic and pH-independent manner. Translocates organic cations across the plasma membrane in both directions. Transports the polyamines spermine and spermidine. Transports pramipexole across the basolateral membrane of the proximal tubular epithelial cells. The choline transport is activated by MMTS. Regulated by various intracellular signaling pathways including inhibition by protein kinase A activation, and endogenously activation by the calmodulin complex, the calmodulin- dependent kinase II and LCK tyrosine kinase UniProt ID: O15245 Gene: SLC22A1 Protein Sequence: FASTA Gene Sequence: FASTA SNPs: SNPJam Report References: Busch AE, Quester S, Ulzheimer JC, Gorboulev V, Akhoundova A, Waldegger S, Lang F, Koepsell H: Monoamine neurotransmitter transport mediated by the polyspecific cation transporter rOCT1. FEBS Lett. 1996 Oct 21;395(2-3):153-6. Pubmed

Transporters

1. Organic cation/carnitine transporter 2

Actions: inhibitor

Sodium-ion dependent, high affinity carnitine transporter. Involved in the active cellular uptake of carnitine. Transports one sodium ion with one molecule of carnitine. Also transports organic cations such as tetraethylammonium (TEA) without the involvement of sodium. Also Relative uptake activity ratio of carnitine to TEA is 11.3

UniProt ID: O76082 Link_out

Gene: SLC22A5 Link_out

Protein Sequence: FASTA
Gene Sequence: FASTA
SNPs: SNPJam Report Link_out

References:

Ohashi R, Tamai I, Nezu Ji J, Nikaido H, Hashimoto N, Oku A, Sai Y, Shimane M, Tsuji A: Molecular and physiological evidence for multifunctionality of carnitine/organic cation transporter OCTN2. Mol Pharmacol. 2001 Feb;59(2):358-66. Pubmed

2. Solute carrier family 22 member 1

Actions: substrate

Translocates a broad array of organic cations with various structures and molecular weights including the model compounds 1-methyl-4-phenylpyridinium (MPP), tetraethylammonium (TEA), N-1-methylnicotinamide (NMN), 4-(4-(dimethylamino)styryl)- N-methylpyridinium (ASP), the endogenous compounds choline, guanidine, histamine, epinephrine, adrenaline, noradrenaline and dopamine, and the drugs quinine, and metformin. The transport of organic cations is inhibited by a broad array of compounds like tetramethylammonium (TMA), cocaine, lidocaine, NMDA receptor antagonists, atropine, prazosin, cimetidine, TEA and NMN, guanidine, cimetidine, choline, procainamide, quinine, tetrabutylammonium, and tetrapentylammonium. Translocates organic cations in an electrogenic and pH-independent manner. Translocates organic cations across the plasma membrane in both directions. Transports the polyamines spermine and spermidine. Transports pramipexole across the basolateral membrane of the proximal tubular epithelial cells. The choline transport is activated by MMTS. Regulated by various intracellular signaling pathways including inhibition by protein kinase A activation, and endogenously activation by the calmodulin complex, the calmodulin- dependent kinase II and LCK tyrosine kinase

UniProt ID: O15245 Link_out

Gene: SLC22A1 Link_out

Protein Sequence: FASTA
Gene Sequence: FASTA
SNPs: SNPJam Report Link_out

References:

Busch AE, Quester S, Ulzheimer JC, Gorboulev V, Akhoundova A, Waldegger S, Lang F, Koepsell H: Monoamine neurotransmitter transport mediated by the polyspecific cation transporter rOCT1. FEBS Lett. 1996 Oct 21;395(2-3):153-6. Pubmed

Comments

Drug created on June 13, 2005 07:24 / Updated on February 08, 2013 16:21