The Chemical Entities of Biological Interest (ChEBI) ontology is downloaded weekly from EMBL-EBI at http://www.ebi.ac.uk/chebi/. The data is made available under the Creative Commons License (CC BY 3.0, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/). For more information see: Degtyarenko et al. (2008) ChEBI: a database and ontology for chemical entities of biological interest. Nucleic Acids Res. 36, D344–D350.
A member of the class of phenothiazines that is phenothiazine in which the hydrogen attached to the nitrogen is substituted by a 2-(diethylamino)propyl group. An antimuscarinic, it is used as the hydrochloride for the symptomatic treatment of Parkinson's disease.
profenamine results in decreased activity of BCHE protein profenamine inhibits the reaction [BCHE protein results in increased hydrolysis of acetylthiocholine iodide]; profenamine inhibits the reaction [BCHE protein results in increased hydrolysis of Butyrylthiocholine]; profenamine inhibits the reaction [BCHE protein results in increased hydrolysis of phenyl valerate]