The ability of a drug to bind to its receptor can be influenced by local chemicals such as guanine nucleotides,ammonium ions,and divalent cations.These local regulators are commonly known as _____.

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Allosteric modulators are local chemicals that influence the binding of a drug to its receptor by binding to a regulatory site on the receptor, rather than the binding site itself. Competitive agonists (A) and noncompetitive agonists (B) bind to the same site as the endogenous ligand or receptor, while partial antagonists (D) bind to the same site as an agonist but do not produce a maximal response. Chelators (E) are compounds that bind to metal ions to form a complex, but they do not directly influence the binding of drugs to receptors.

The Ability of a Drug to Bind to Its Receptor