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Identification of critical extracellular loop residues involved in alpha 1-adrenergic receptor subtype-selective antagonist binding.

M M Zhao, J Hwa and D M Perez
Molecular Pharmacology November 1996, 50 (5) 1118-1126;
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alpha 1-Adrenergic receptor (AR) subtypes mediate many effects of the sympathetic nervous system. Although structurally similar, the three cloned subtypes (alpha 1a-AR, alpha 1b-AR, and alpha 1d-AR) bind a series of ligands with different relative potencies. This is particularly true for the alpha 1a-AR, which recognizes a number of ligands with 10-100-fold higher affinity than the alpha 1b or alpha 1d subtypes. Because ligands are hypothesized to bind to receptor residues that are located in the transmembrane (TM) spanning domains, subtype differences in ligand recognition are likely the result of differences in the binding properties of nonconserved TM residues. We previously reported on the identification of two TM residues in the alpha 1b-AR that converted the agonist binding profile entirely to that of the alpha 1a-AR when mutated to corresponding alpha 1a-AR residues. We now report on the determinants of antagonist selectivity between these two alpha 1-AR subtypes. Construction of a chimera in which the entire fifth TM and a portion of the putative second extracellular loop of the hamster alpha 1b-AR was replaced with the corresponding region of the rat alpha 1a-AR revealed that the chimera accounted for all of the higher binding affinity (8-29-fold) seen in the alpha 1a-AR for two antagonists, phentolamine and WB4101. Using site-directed mutagenesis, we further analyzed individual point mutations making up this chimera. We found that three adjacent residues, which were located on the extracellular loop of the fifth TM, are fully responsible for this higher antagonist binding affinity in the alpha 1a-AR. These three point mutations (G196Q, V1971, T198N) in the alpha 1b-AR were additive and sufficient in their effects on changing antagonist-binding profiles to that of the alpha 1a-AR. Reversal of these three residues in the alpha 1a-AR to their corresponding residues in the alpha 1b-AR completely reversed the antagonist affinity to wild-type alpha 1b-AR values. To aid in molecular modeling, the use of organic chemicals that mimic key structures of the antagonists were used in competitive ligand-binding studies with the mutated receptors. These results indicated the orientation of both phentolamine and WB4101 in the alpha 1-AR binding pocket. Together, the data indicate that alpha 1-antagonists may bind near the surface of the receptor, much like the peptide hormone receptors, and not deep within the TM regions, where the ligand-binding pocket was first proposed and identified for alpha 1 agonists.

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Identification of critical extracellular loop residues involved in alpha 1-adrenergic receptor subtype-selective antagonist binding.

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Identification of critical extracellular loop residues involved in alpha 1-adrenergic receptor subtype-selective antagonist binding.

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