Cg. Alcantar et al., BINDING OF ORGANIC-ANIONS TO A MACROCYCLIC ALKALOID D-TUBOCURARINE, Bioorganic & medicinal chemistry letters, 5(24), 1995, pp. 2993-2998
An alkaloid d-tubocurarine in aqueous solution binds 8-anilino-1-napht
halenesulfonate and anions of substituted benzoic, aliphatic dicarboxy
lic, and N-acetyl-alpha-amino acids. The binding constants vary from c
a. 50 to 3300 M(-1) depending on the anion structure, charge and hydro
phobicity. The binding of N-acetyl-alpha-amino acids is enantiospecifi
c.