TABLE 1

Potencies and efficacies of different metal ion chelator complexes on wild-type and His III:05 (His128)-CXCR3

The effect of the chemokines ITAC and IP10, the metal ion chelator complexes, the chelators, and the metal ions were measured by the phosphatidyl inositol turnover experiment in transiently transfected COS-7 cells. n refers to the number of experiments. ± values are S.E.M.



Wild-Type CXCR3

His III:05 (His128)-CXCR3

Log EC50
EC50
n
Emax
Log EC50
EC50
n
Finc
Emax
Emax
nM fmol/105 cells nM -fold fmol / 105 cells %
Endogenous chemokines
    ITAC (CXCL11) -8.8 ± 0.08 1.7 23 544 ± 67 -7.8 ± 0.09 15 16 0.11 215 ± 31 100
    IP10 (CXCL10) -8.0 ± 0.10 11 21 407 ± 46 -6.9 ± 0.22 163 14 0.07 163 ± 32 72
Metal ion chelator complexes
    Cu(II)-Bip -3.0 ± 0.09 973a 19 NE -4.7 ± 0.11 22 18 44 347 ± 32 171
    Zn(II)-Bip -2.9 ± 0.01 1169a 9 NE -4.3 ± 0.08 53 15 22 313 ± 33 153
    Cu(II)-Phen -3.5 ± 0.12 302a 8 NE -5.1 ± 0.04 8.0 10 38 327 ± 60 161
    Zn(II)-Phen -3.2 ± 0.18 595a 6 NE -4.7 ± 0.05 21 8 29 300 ± 53 146
Metal ions
    Cu (II) <-2 >10,000 4 NE <-2 >10,000 6 NE NE
    Zn (II)
<-2
>10,000
4
NE
<-2
>10,000
6

NE
NE
  • Emax, maximum stimulation; Finc, -fold increase in potency for each ligand on His III:05-CXCR3 compared with wild-type CXCR3; Emax (%), average specific efficacy of a given ligand where 100% equals the maximal specific ITAC stimulation on His III:05-CXCR3; Bip, bipyridine; Phen, phenanthrolene; NE, no detectable Emax.

  • a The EC50 was estimated by a nonlinear regression using the sigmoidal dose-response algorithm in GraphPad Prism with a constant Hill coefficient of 1.5 corresponding to the Hill coefficient of the metal ion chelator complexes on His III:05 CXCR3.