Selective binding of ligands to beta 1, beta 2 or chimeric beta 1/beta 2-adrenergic receptors involves multiple subsites.
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Marullo, S
RESUMO
The molecular basis of ligand binding selectivity to beta-adrenergic receptor subtypes was investigated by designing chimeric beta 1/beta 2-adrenergic receptors. These molecules consisted of a set of reciprocal constructions, obtained by the exchange between the wild-type receptor genes of one to three unmodified transmembrane regions, together with their extracellular flanking regions. Eight different chimeras were expressed in Escherichia coli and studied with selective beta-adrenergic ligands. The evaluation of the relative effect of each chimeric exchange on ligand binding affinity was based on the analysis of delta G values, calculated from the equilibrium binding constants, as a function of the number of substituted beta 2-adrenergic receptor transmembrane domains. The data showed that the contribution of each exchanged region to subtype selectivity varies with each ligand; moreover, while several regions are critical for the pharmacological selectivity of all ligands, others are involved in the selectivity of only some compounds. The selectivity displayed by beta-adrenergic compounds towards beta 1 or beta 2 receptor subtypes thus results from a particular combination of interactions between each ligand and each of the subsites, variably distributed over the seven transmembrane regions of the receptor; these subsites are presumably defined by the individual structural properties of the ligands.
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