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JK Harrison, DD D'Angelo, DW Zeng and KR Lynch
Department of Pharmacology, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville 22908.
We described previously the molecular characterization of a rat alpha 2B-adrenergic receptor and have shown also that the rat genome contains three closely related alpha 2-adrenergic receptor genes. To characterize the ligand-binding properties of these receptor gene products, we expressed the DNAs encoding these receptors individually in COS-1 cells and studied their binding to a wide variety of typical and atypical adrenergic ligands. The receptors displayed high affinity binding to the radioligand [3H] rauwolscine, with equilibrium dissociation constants ranging from 1.4 to 2.8 nM. Kinetic analysis of the binding of [3H]rauwolscine to membranes from transfected cells was in very good agreement with data obtained from saturation analysis. We examined the ability of a number of agents to compete for the binding of [3H]rauwolscine to the alpha 2-adrenergic receptor-transfected membranes. Whereas one of these receptors displayed a pharmacological profile typical of an alpha 2A-adrenergic receptor, the other two receptors showed similar pharmacological properties characteristic of an alpha 2B-adrenergic receptor. The two alpha 2B-like adrenergic receptors differed, however, in the ratios of Ki values for oxymetazoline and prazosin, as well as the Ki ratio of prazosin and yohimbine. In addition, the two alpha 2B-like adrenergic receptors had a 9-fold difference in affinity for chlorpromazine. The pharmacological characterization of the three rat alpha 2-adrenergic receptor gene products is consistent with the known pharmacology of alpha 2- adrenergic receptors, as documented using tissues and cell lines.
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