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Chromaffin Cell Catecholamine Secretion: Bisindolylmaleimide Compounds Exhibit Novel and Potent Antagonist Effects at the Nicotinic Cholinergic Receptor in Pheochromocytoma Cells

Manjula Mahata, Nitish R. Mahapatra, Daniel T. O'Connor and Sushil K. Mahata
Molecular Pharmacology June 2002, 61 (6) 1340-1347; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1124/mol.61.6.1340
Manjula Mahata
Department of Medicine and Center for Molecular Genetics, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California; and San Diego Veterans Affairs Healthcare System, San Diego, California
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Nitish R. Mahapatra
Department of Medicine and Center for Molecular Genetics, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California; and San Diego Veterans Affairs Healthcare System, San Diego, California
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Daniel T. O'Connor
Department of Medicine and Center for Molecular Genetics, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California; and San Diego Veterans Affairs Healthcare System, San Diego, California
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Sushil K. Mahata
Department of Medicine and Center for Molecular Genetics, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California; and San Diego Veterans Affairs Healthcare System, San Diego, California
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Activation of protein kinase C (PKC) stimulates nicotine-induced catecholamine secretion. PKC down-regulation by prolonged pretreatment with phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate diminished nicotine-induced catecholamine secretion only slightly (∼16%), suggesting substantial PKC independence of nicotinic receptor activation. However, we found that bisindolylmaleimide compounds (which are also putative PKC chemical inhibitors) dramatically inhibited nicotine-induced catecholamine secretion (IC50 values of ∼24–37 nM). This inhibition was specific for the nicotinic cholinergic receptor. Catecholamine secretion induced by other nicotinic agonists (such as epibatidine, anatoxin, or cytisine) was also powerfully antagonized by bisindolylmaleimide II (IC50 values of ∼60–90 nM). Even high-dose nicotinic agonists failed to overcome the inhibition by bisindolylmaleimide II, suggesting noncompetitive nicotinic antagonism by this class of compounds. Nicotinic inhibition by bisindolylmaleimide seemed not to be readily reversible. Structure-activity studies of bisindolylmaleimide compounds revealed that bisindolylmaleimides I through III are the most potent nicotinic antagonists at the nicotinic cholinergic receptor in PC-12 cells (IC50 ≤37 nM), whereas bisindolylmaleimide IV and V have far less nicotinic antagonist activity (IC50 >1 μM); the active compounds I through III have cationic tails at an indole nitrogen, whereas the least potent compounds IV and V do not. By contrast, a free NH within the maleimide ring is crucial for PKC inhibition by this class of compounds. We conclude that bisindolylmaleimides I through III are some of the most potent noncompetitive neuronal nicotinic antagonists, indeed the most potent such antagonists we have observed in PC-12 cells. Nicotinic antagonism of these compounds seems to be independent of PKC inhibition.

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Chromaffin Cell Catecholamine Secretion: Bisindolylmaleimide Compounds Exhibit Novel and Potent Antagonist Effects at the Nicotinic Cholinergic Receptor in Pheochromocytoma Cells

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Chromaffin Cell Catecholamine Secretion: Bisindolylmaleimide Compounds Exhibit Novel and Potent Antagonist Effects at the Nicotinic Cholinergic Receptor in Pheochromocytoma Cells

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Molecular Pharmacology June 1, 2002, 61 (6) 1340-1347; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1124/mol.61.6.1340
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