General
Preferred name
QUINOLINIC ACID
Synonyms
2,3-PYRIDINEDICARBOXYLIC ACID ()
pyridine-2,3-dicarboxylic acid ()
QUIN ()
Quinolinate ()
quinolinic-acid ()
pyridine-2,3-dicarboxylic acid, QUIN ()
P&D ID
PD001385
CAS
89-00-9
Tags
natural product
drug candidate
available
Drug indication
Discovery agent
Drug Status
experimental
Probe control
Probe control not defined
Orthogonal probes
0
No orthogonal probes found
Similar probes
0
No structurally similar probes found
Structure formats
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Description
(extracted from source data)
DESCRIPTION
Neurotoxin which has neuroexcitatory activity; metabolite of trytophan
(LOPAC library)
DESCRIPTION
Potentiator of NMDA recepors; acts at glycine site
(Tocris Bioactive Compound Library)
DESCRIPTION
Endogenous NMDA agonist and transmitter candidate
(Tocriscreen Total)
DESCRIPTION
Quinolinic acid is an endogenous NMDA agonist and transmitter candidate. It may distinguish between NMDA receptor subtypes. By overactivating NMDA receptors, quinolinic acid produces neurotoxicity, which has been implicated in certain neurodegenerative disorders.
(BOC Sciences Bioactive Compounds)
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Compound Sets
17
BOC Sciences Bioactive Compounds
Cayman Chemical Bioactives
CZ-OPENSCREEN Bioactive Library
Drug Repurposing Hub
DrugBank
DrugMAP
DrugMatrix
Enamine BioReference Compounds
EU-OPENSCREEN Bioactive Compound Library
Ki Database
LOPAC library
MedChem Express Bioactive Compound Library
Selleckchem Bioactive Compound Library
TargetMol Bioactive Compound Library
The Spectrum Collection
Tocris Bioactive Compound Library
Tocriscreen Total
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free of charge
External IDs
36
Properties
(calculated by RDKit )
Molecular Weight
167.02
Hydrogen Bond Acceptors
3
Hydrogen Bond Donors
2
Rotatable Bonds
2
Ring Count
1
Aromatic Ring Count
1
cLogP
0.48
TPSA
87.49
Fraction CSP3
0.0
Chiral centers
0.0
Largest ring
6.0
QED
0.67
Structural alerts
0
No structural alerts detected
Custom attributes
(extracted from source data)
Selectivity
NMDA
Pathway
Neuroscience
Membrane Transporter/Ion Channel
Metabolic Enzyme/Protease
Neuronal Signaling
Target
NMDA Receptor
Endogenous Metabolite
iGluR
NMDAR
Primary Target
NMDA Receptors
MOA
NMDAR agonist
Agonist
glutamate receptor agonist
Source data