Ryanodine

Ryanodine

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CASNo = 15662-33-6
PubChem = 5114
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MeSHName = Ryanodine
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Formula = C25H35NO9
MolarMass = 493.547 g/mol
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Ryanodine is a poisonous alkaloid found in the South American plant "Ryania speciosa" (Flacourtiaceae). It was originally used as an insecticide.

The compound has extremely high affinity to the ryanodine receptor, a group of calcium channels found in skeletal and heart muscle cells. It binds with such high affinity to the receptor that it was used as a label for the first purification of that class of ion channels and gave its name to it.

At nanomolar concentrations, ryanodine locks the receptor in a half-open state, whereas it fully closes them at micromolar concentration. The effect of the nanomolar-level binding is that ryanodine causes release of calcium from calcium stores in the sarcoplasmic reticulum leading to massive muscular contractions.

References

* Bertil Hille, "Ionic Channels of Excitable Membranes", 2nd edition, Sinauer Associates, Sunderland, MA, 01375, ISBN 0-87893-323-9


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