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===Introduction=== | ===Introduction=== | ||
- COMT responsible for degradation of catchol neurotransmitters including DA | |||
- PD symptoms result from low levels of DA | |||
- inhibiting COMT has potential to treat PD in conjunction with L-DOPA (a DA precursor currently used to treat PD) by increasing the bioavailability and stability of L-DOPA | |||
- 4PCM is a COMT inhibitor being studied to better understand inhibitor interactions with COMT in order to develop better inhibitors | |||
- carbonyl oxygen interacts with Trp143 | |||
===Overall Structure=== | ===Overall Structure=== | ||