Welcome!
Welcome to the home page of the Molecular Recognition Section.
The section was created officially in 1993 by Dr. Kenneth A.
Jacobson, Section Chief.
Our section
is dedicated to the application of knowledge-based drug design and
discovery. It encompasses pharmacology,
molecular
biology, and medicinal, and
computational
chemistry.
Our main focus is on purinoceptors
(G protein-coupled receptors and ligand-gated ion channels for adenosine, ATP, and other
nucleotides), but we work on other topics as well.
One of our projects is a database of G protein-coupled
receptor (GPCR) related information.
- the Laboratory of Bioorganic Chemistry (LBC),
- the National Institute of
Diabetes, Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK),
- the National Institutes of
Health (NIH).
We also bring you the home page of the Purine Club,
an organization of people involved in various aspects of
purinoceptor research.
Here are two of our favorite links:
The NIH Center for
Molecular Modeling.
Computational Molecular
Biology at NIH.
Additional links may be found here.
If you'd like to know more about our projects, would like to
contribute text, sequences or mutations, please drop us a note at
this address:
kajacobs@helix.nih.gov
National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Diabetes,
Digestive and Kidney Diseases, Laboratory of Bioorganic
Chemistry, Molecular Recognition Section Building 8A, Room
B1A17 Bethesda, Maryland 20892-0810 (301) 496-3939
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