Structural basis for antiepileptic drugs and botulinum neurotoxin recognition of SV2A

Abstract More than one percent of people have epilepsy worldwide. Levetiracetam (LEV) is a successful new-generation antiepileptic drug (AED), and its derivative, brivaracetam (BRV), shows improved efficacy. Synaptic vesicle glycoprotein 2a (SV2A), a putative membrane transporter in the synaptic ves...

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Main Authors: Atsushi Yamagata, Kaori Ito, Takehiro Suzuki, Naoshi Dohmae, Tohru Terada, Mikako Shirouzu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2024-04-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-47322-4