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Vol. 55, Issue 6, 1037-1043, June 1999

Molecular Determinants of (+)-Tubocurarine Binding at Recombinant 5-Hydroxytryptamine3A Receptor Subunits

Anthony G. Hope,1 Delia Belelli, Ian D. Mair, Jeremy J. Lambert, and John A. Peters

Department of Pharmacology and Neuroscience, Ninewells Hospital and Medical School, The University of Dundee, Dundee, United Kingdom

The 5-hydroxytryptamine type 3 (5-HT3) receptor is a transmitter-gated ion channel mediating neuronal excitation. The receptor native to neurons, or as a homopentameric assembly of 5-HT3A receptor subunits, displays a species-dependent pharmacology exemplified by a 1800-fold difference in the potency of (+)-tubocurarine [(+)-Tc] as an antagonist of the current response mediated by mouse and human receptor orthologs. Here, we attempt to identify amino acid residues involved in binding (+)-Tc by use of chimeric and mutant 5-HT3A subunits of mouse and human expressed in Xenopus laevis oocytes. Replacement of the entire extracellular N-terminal domain of the mouse 5-HT3A (m5-HT3A) subunit by that of the human ortholog and vice versa exchanged the differential potency of (+)-Tc, demonstrating the ligand binding site to be contained wholly within this region. Mutagenesis of multiple amino acid residues within a putative binding domain that exchanged nonconserved residues between mouse and human receptors shifted the apparent affinity of (+)-Tc in a reciprocal manner. The magnitude of the shift increased with the number of residues (3, 5, or 7) exchanged, with septuple mutations of m5-HT3A and human 5-HT3A subunits producing a 161-fold decrease and 53-fold increase in the apparent affinity of (+)-Tc, respectively. The effect of point mutations was generally modest, the exception being m5-HT3A D206E, which produced a 9-fold decrease in apparent affinity. We conclude that multiple amino acids within a binding loop of human and mouse 5-HT3A subunits influence the potency of (+)-Tc.

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