RTI-83
RTI-83 -2β-carbomethoxy-3β- is a phenyltropane derivative which represents a rare example of an SDRI or serotonin-dopamine reuptake inhibitor, a drug which inhibits the reuptake of the neurotransmitters serotonin and dopamine, while having little or no effect on the reuptake of the related neurotransmitter noradrenaline. With a binding affinity of 55 nM at DAT and 28.4 nM at SERT but only 4030 nM at NET, RTI-83 has reasonable selectivity for DAT/SERT over NET
However, further research has shown that by extending the ethyl chain even better selectivity can be achieved, with the 4′- analogue having Ki values of 15 nM at DAT and 7.1 nM at SERT, vs 2800 nM at NET. However RTI-436 has an even better selectivity for DAT over NET and RTI-88 has a still better ratio
Such drugs are speculated to be useful as potential antidepressants, but few examples have been reported in the literature as yet. However, while RTI-83 has been used for binding studies to model the monoamine transporter proteins, its pharmacology in vivo has not been studied in detail.
