PMID: 9547369May 9, 1998Paper

The agonism and synergistic potentiation of weak partial agonists by triethylamine in alpha 1-adrenergic receptor activation: evidence for a salt bridge as the initiating process

Molecular Pharmacology
J E PorterD M Perez

Abstract

Alpha 1-adrenergic receptor (AR) activation is thought to be initiated by disruption of a constraining interhelical salt bridge (). Disruption of this salt bridge is achieved through a competition for the aspartic acid residue in transmembrane domain three by the protonated amine of the endogenous ligand norepinephrine and a lysine residue in transmembrane domain seven. To further test this hypothesis, we investigated the possibility that a simple amine could mimic an important functional group of the endogenous ligand and break this alpha 1-AR ionic constraint leading to agonism. Triethylamine (TEA) was able to generate concentration-dependent increases of soluble inositol phosphates in COS-1 cells transiently transfected with the hamster alpha 1b-AR and in Rat-1 fibroblasts stably transfected with the human alpha 1a-AR subtype. TEA was also able to synergistically potentiate the second messenger production by weak partial alpha 1-AR agonists and this effect was fully inhibited by the alpha 1-AR antagonist prazosin. However, this synergistic potentiation was not observed for full alpha 1-AR agonists. Instead, TEA caused a parallel rightward shift of the dose-response curve, consistent with the properties of competitive antagon...Continue Reading

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