ML-252 is a potent, selective inhibitor of the Kv7.2 voltage-gated potassium channel, demonstrating an IC50 value of 69 nM in patch clamp assays. It exists as the (S)-enantiomer, which is significantly more effective than both its (R)-enantiomer counterpart and the racemic mixture, with respective IC50 values of 944 nM and 160 nM. ML-252 exhibits high selectivity for Kv7.2 over other potassium channel subtypes and shows minimal activity against more than 68 G protein-coupled receptors, various transporters, L- and N-type calcium channels, K_ATP, and hERG potassium channels. However, it does inhibit the melatonin MT1 receptor by 61% at a 10 µM concentration.
CLE-030 is a KCNQ2 agonist. CLE030 stably binds to the central cavity. Functional analysis, molecular dynamics simulations, and calculations of the potential of mean force revealed that the carbonyl oxygen of CLE030 influences permeant ions in the central cavity to contribute to its activation effects.