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S. SanMartin F. Andrés-Trelles L. Menendez A. Meana A. Hidalgo A. Baamonde 《Cellular and molecular neurobiology》1996,16(3):427-431
Summary GABAA agonists do not respond to the same degree to allosteric modulators of the GABAA receptor complex such as benzodiazepines. We report there the effects of two steroids (alfaxalone and pregnenolone sulfate) on the inhibition induced by two GABAA agonists, 3-amino propane sulphonic acid (3-APS) and muscimol, on the extracellular evoked potentials obtained in CA1 of mice hippocampi. Alfaxalone (1µM) potentiates the effects of both agonists, although incubation times longer than 15 minutes are required to potentiate the inhibitory effect of muscimol. Lower doses of pregnenolone sulfate at shorter incubation periods are able to inhibit the effects produced by single doses of 3-APS as compared to muscimol (15µM during 5 minvs 30µM during 5 min). Our results confirm the possibility that there might be differences in the interaction between GABAA agonists and modulatory steroids. 相似文献
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Neuropsychopharmacological properties of neuroactive steroids. 总被引:4,自引:0,他引:4
In addition to the well-known genomic effects of steroid molecules via intracellular steroid receptors, certain steroids rapidly alter neuronal excitability through interaction with neurotransmitter-gated ion channels. Several of these steroids accumulate in the brain after local synthesis or after metabolism of adrenal steroids. The 3alpha-hydroxy ring A-reduced pregnane steroids allopregnanolone and tetrahydrodeoxycorticosterone have been thought not to interact with intracellular receptors, but enhance gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA)-mediated chloride currents, whereas pregnenolone sulfate and dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) sulfate display functional antagonistic properties at GABA(A) receptors. We demonstrated that these neuroactive steroids can regulate also gene expression via the progesterone receptor after intracellular oxidation. Thus, in physiological concentrations these neuroactive steroids regulate neuronal function through their concurrent influence on transmitter-gated ion channels and gene expression. When administered in animal studies, memory-enhancing effects have been shown for pregnenolone sulfate and DHEA. The 3alpha-hydroxy ring A-reduced neuroactive steroids predominantly display anxiolytic, anticonvulsant, and hypnotic activities. Sleep studies evaluating the effects of progesterone as a precursor molecule for these neuroactive steroids revealed a sleep electroencephalogram pattern similar to that obtained by the administration of benzodiazepines. These findings extend the concept of a "cross-talk" between membrane and nuclear hormone effects and provide a new role for the therapeutic application of these steroids in neurology and psychiatry. 相似文献
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Maria-Jesus Blanco Daniel La Quinn Coughlin Caitlin A. Newman Andrew M. Griffin Boyd L. Harrison Francesco G. Salituro 《Bioorganic & medicinal chemistry letters》2018,28(2):61-70
Endogenous and synthetic neuroactive steroids (NASs) or neurosteroids are effective modulators of multiple signaling pathways including receptors for the γ-aminobutyric acid A (GABAA) and glutamate, in particular N-methyl-d-aspartate (NMDA). These receptors are the major inhibitory and excitatory neurotransmitters in the central nervous system (CNS), and there is growing evidence suggesting that dysregulation of neurosteroid production plays a role in numerous neurological disorders. The significant unmet medical need for treatment of CNS disorders has increased the interest for these types of compounds. In this review, we highlight recent progress in the clinical development of NAS drug candidates, in addition to preclinical breakthroughs in the identification of novel NASs, mainly for GABAA and NMDA receptor modulation. 相似文献
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Mennerick S Lamberta M Shu HJ Hogins J Wang C Covey DF Eisenman LN Zorumski CF 《Biophysical journal》2008,95(1):176-185
We investigated the electrophysiological signature of neuroactive steroid interactions with the plasma membrane. We found that charged, sulfated neuroactive steroids, those that exhibit noncompetitive antagonism of GABAA receptors, altered capacitive charge movement in response to voltage pulses in cells lacking GABA receptors. Uncharged steroids, some of which are potent enhancers of GABAA receptor activity, produced no alteration in membrane capacitance. We hypothesized that the charge movements might result from physical translocation of the charged steroid through the transmembrane voltage, as has been observed previously with several hydrophobic anions. However, the charge movements and relaxation time constants of capacitive currents did not exhibit the Boltzmann-type voltage dependence predicted by a single barrier model. Further, a fluorescently tagged analog of a sulfated neurosteroid altered membrane capacitance similar to the parent compound but produced no voltage-dependent fluorescence change, a result inconsistent with a strong change in the polar environment of the fluorophore during depolarization. These findings suggest that negatively charged sulfated steroids alter the plasma membrane capacitance without physical movement of the molecule through the electric field. 相似文献
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The distribution of GABAA receptors in the inner plexiform layer of cat retina was studied using monoclonal antibodies against the 2/3 subunits. A dense band of receptor labeling was found in the inner region of the inner plexiform layer where the rod bipolar axons terminate. Three forms of evidence indicate that the GABAA receptor labeling is on the indoleamine-accumulating, GABAergic amacrine cell that is synaptically interconnected with the rod bipolar cell terminal. (1) Electron microscopy showed that the anti-GABAA receptor antibody (62-3G1) labeled profiles that were postsynaptic to rod bipolar axons and made reciprocal synapses. (2) Indoleamine uptake (and the subsequent autofluorescence) combined with GABAA receptor immunohistochemistry showed co-localization of the two markers in half of the receptor-positive amacrine cells. (3) Double labeling demonstrated that half of the receptor-positive somata also contained GABA. These results indicate that a GABAergic amacrine cell interconnected with the rod bipolar cell, most likely the so-called A17 amacrine cell, itself bears GABAA receptors. 相似文献
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Guo-Dong Li David C. Chiara Jonathan B. Cohen Richard W. Olsen 《The Journal of biological chemistry》2009,284(18):11771-11775
Photoaffinity labeling of γ-aminobutyric acid type A
(GABAA)-receptors (GABAAR) with an etomidate analog and
mutational analyses of direct activation of GABAAR by neurosteroids
have each led to the proposal that these structurally distinct general
anesthetics bind to sites in GABAARs in the transmembrane domain at
the interface between the β and α subunits. We tested whether the
two ligand binding sites might overlap by examining whether neuroactive
steroids inhibited etomidate analog photolabeling. We previously identified
(Li, G. D., Chiara, D. C., Sawyer, G. W., Husain, S. S., Olsen, R. W., and
Cohen, J. B. (2006) J. Neurosci. 26, 11599–11605) azietomidate
photolabeling of GABAAR α1Met-236 and βMet-286 (in
αM1 and βM3). Positioning these two photolabeled amino acids in a
single type of binding site at the interface of β and α subunits
(two copies per pentamer) is consistent with a GABAAR homology
model based upon the structure of the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor and
with recent αM1 to βM3 cross-linking data. Biologically active
neurosteroids enhance rather than inhibit azietomidate photolabeling, as
assayed at the level of GABAAR subunits on analytical SDS-PAGE, and
protein microsequencing establishes that the GABAAR-modulating
neurosteroids do not inhibit photolabeling of GABAAR
α1Met-236 or βMet-286 but enhance labeling of α1Met-236. Thus
modulatory steroids do not bind at the same site as etomidate, and neither of
the amino acids identified as neurosteroid activation determinants (Hosie, A.
M., Wilkins, M. E., da Silva, H. M., and Smart, T. G. (2006) Nature
444, 486–489) are located at the subunit interface defined by our
etomidate site model.GABAA3
receptors (GABAAR) are major mediators of brain inhibitory
neurotransmission and participate in most circuits and behavioral pathways
relevant to normal and pathological function
(1). GABAAR are
subject to modulation by endogenous neurosteroids, as well as myriad
clinically important central nervous system drugs including general
anesthetics, benzodiazepines, and possibly ethanol
(1,
2). The mechanism of
GABAAR modulation by these different classes of drugs is of major
interest, including identification of the receptor amino acid residues
involved in binding and action of the drugs.In the absence of high resolution crystal structures of drug-receptor
complexes, the locations of anesthetic binding sites in GABAARs
have been predicted based upon analyses of functional properties of point
mutant receptors, which identified residues in the α and β subunit
M1–M4 transmembrane helices important for modulation by volatile
anesthetics (primarily α subunit) and by intravenous agents, including
etomidate and propofol (β subunit)
(3–5).
Position βM2–15, numbered relative to the N terminus of the helix,
functions as a major determinant of etomidate and propofol potency as GABA
modulators in vitro and in vivo
(6–8).
By contrast, this residue is not implicated for modulation by the
neurosteroids, potent endogenous modulators of GABAAR
(9).Photoaffinity labeling, which allows the identification of residues in
proximity to drug binding sites
(10,
11), has been used to identify
two GABAAR amino acids covalently modified by the etomidate analog
[3H]azietomidate
(12): α1Met-236 within
αM1 and βMet-286 within βM3. Photolabeling of these residues
was inhibited equally by nonradioactive etomidate and enhanced proportionately
by GABA present in the assay, consistent with the presence of these two
residues in a common drug binding pocket that would be located at the
interface between the β and α subunits in the transmembrane domain
(12). Mutational analyses
identify these positions as etomidate and propofol sensitivity determinants
(13–15).A recent mutagenesis study
(16) identified two other
residues in GABAAR αM1 and βM3 as critical for direct
activation by neurosteroids, αThr-236 (rat numbering, corresponding to
α1Thr-237, bovine numbering used here and by Li et al.
(12))4
and βTyr-284. These residues were also proposed to contribute to a
neurosteroid binding pocket in the transmembrane domain at the interface
between β and α subunits, based upon their location in an
alternative GABAAR structural model that positioned those amino
acids, and not α1Met-236 or βMet-286, at the subunit interface. For
GABAARs and other members of the Cys-loop superfamily of
neurotransmitter-gated ion channels, the transmembrane domain of each subunit
is made up of a loose bundle of four α helices (M1–M4), with M2
from each subunit contributing to the lumen of the ion channel and M4
positioned peripherally in greatest contact with lipid, as seen in the
structures of the Torpedo nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (nAChR)
(17) and in distantly related
prokaryote homologs (18).
However, uncertainties in the alignment of GABAAR subunit sequences
relative to those of the nAChR result in alternative GABAAR
homology models (12,
19,
20) that differ in the
location of amino acids in the M3 and M4 membrane-spanning helices and in the
M1 helix in some models (16,
21).If etomidate and neurosteroids both bind at the same β/α
interface in the GABAAR transmembrane domain, the limited space
available for ligand binding suggests that their binding pockets might overlap
and that ligand binding would be mutually exclusive. To address this question,
we photolabeled purified bovine brain GABAAR with
[3H]azietomidate in the presence of different neuroactive steroids
and determined by protein microsequencing whether active neurosteroids
inhibited labeling of α1Met-236 and βMet-286, as expected for
mutually exclusive binding, or resulted in [3H]azietomidate
photolabeling of other amino acids, a possible consequence of allosteric
interactions. Active steroids failed to inhibit labeling and enhanced labeling
of α1Met-236, clearly indicating that the neurosteroid and the etomidate
sites are distinct. Our GABAAR homology model that positions
α1Met-236 and βMet-286 at the β/α interface, but not
that of Hosie et al.
(16), is also consistent with
cysteine substitution cross-linking studies
(20,
22), which define the
proximity relations between amino acids in the αM1, αM2,
αM3, and βM3 helices, and these results support the interpretation
that the two residues photolabeled by [3H]azietomidate are part of
a single subunit interface binding pocket, whereas the steroid sensitivity
determinants identified by mutagenesis neither are at the β/α
subunit interface nor are contributors to a common binding pocket. 相似文献
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Sixteen known 5-HT3 receptor blockers, including clozapine, fully or partially reverse the inhibitory effect of 1 M GABA on [35S]TBPS binding, indicating that they are also GABAA antagonists, some of them selective for subsets of GABAA receptors. The 5-HT3 receptor blocker, ondansetron, has been reported to produce some antipsychotic and anxiolytic effects. However, no antipsychotic effects have been reported for a large number of highly potent 5-HT3 receptor blockers. Like clozapine, ondansetron partially reverses the inhibitory effect of GABA on [35S]TBPS binding. Additivity experiments suggest that ten 5-HT3 receptor blockers tested at low concentrations preferentially block subtypes of GABAA receptors that are among those blocked by clozapine. Wiley and Porter (29) reported that MDL-72222, the most potent GABAA antagonist decribed here, partially generalizes (71%) with clozapine in rats trained to discriminate an interoceptive clozapine stimulus, but only at a dose that severly decreases responding. Tropisetron (ICS-205,930) exhibits both GABA-positive and GABA-negative effects. R-(+)-zacopride is 6-fold more potent than S-(–)-zacopride as a GABAA antagonist. We conclude that the observed antipsychotic and, possibly, anxiolytic effects of some 5-HT3 receptor blockers are due to selective antagonism of certain GABAA receptors, and not to blockade of 5-HT3 receptors. We speculate that the anxiolytic and sedative effects of clozapine and several other antipsychotic drugs may be due to selective blockade of 122 GABAA receptors which are preferentially located on certain types of GABAergic interneurons (probably parvalbumin positive). Blockade of these receptors will increase the inhibitory output of these interneurons. So far, no highly potent GABAA antagonists with clozapine-like selectivity have been identified. Such compounds may exhibit improved clozapine-like antipsychotic activity. 相似文献
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GABA triggers mammalian sperm acrosome reaction (AR). Here, evidence is presented, showing that rat spermatozoa contain GABAA receptors, composed of 5, 1 and 3 subunits. The effects of GABAA receptor agonist and antagonist on the induction of AR in rat spermatozoa were assessed using the chlortetracycline assay. Muscimol, a GABAA receptor agonist, triggered AR; whereas bicuculline, a GABAA receptor antagonist and picrotoxin, a GABAA receptor/Cl– channel blocker, inhibited the ability of GABA or progesterone to induce AR. In conclusion, GABAA receptors appear to mediate the action of progesterone in inducing AR in rat spermatozoa. 相似文献
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Damgaard Inge Nyitrai Gabriella Kovács Ilona Kardos Julianna Schousboe Arne 《Neurochemical research》1999,24(9):1189-1193
Cerebellar granule cells in culture express receptors for GABA belonging to the GABAA and GABAB classes. In order to characterize the ability of the insecticide lindane to interact with these receptors cells were grown in either plain culture media or media containing 150 M THIP as this is known to influence the properties of both GABAA and GABAB receptors. It was found that lindane regardless of the culture condition inhibited evoked (40 mM K+) release of neurotransmitter ([3H]D-aspartate as label for glutamate). In naive cells both GABAA and GABAB receptor active drugs prevented the inhibitory action of lindane but in THIP treated cultures none of the GABAA and GABAB receptor active drugs had any effect on the inhibitory action of lindane. This lack of effect was not due to inability of baclofen itself to inhibit transmitter release. It is concluded that lindane dependent on the state of the GABAA and GABAB receptors is able to indirectly interfere with both GABAA and GABAB receptors. In case of the latter receptors it was shown using [3H]baclofen to label the receptors that lindane could not displace the ligand confirming that lindane is likely to exert its action at a site different from the agonist binding site. 相似文献
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Gamma aminobutyric acid (GABA) is one of the main inhibitory neurotransmitters in the mammalian brain. Its effects are realized via GABAA, GABAB, and GABAC receptors. GABAA is the most abundant type of GABA receptors. It consists of six classes of subunits, , , , , , and . Acute and chronic exposures to ethanol are accompanied by changes in structure and function of GABAA receptors. These changes may be a basis for altered behavior seen in alcoholism. 相似文献