Nicotine: A Receptor From The Past Helping To Develop Drugs Of The Future
Monday, November 17, 2008 - 23:35
in Biology & Nature
Researchers have just determined the structure of a bacterial protein similar to the human nicotine receptor, and have published this result in the journal Nature. This is an important step for the molecular modeling of substances able to interact with this receptor and which could help treatment of nicotine addiction.