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ArticleThe Journal of biological chemistry2014

Non-equivalent ligand selectivity of agonist sites in (α4β2)2α4 nicotinic acetylcholine receptors: a key determinant of agonist efficacy.

Simone Mazzaferro, Federica Gasparri, Karina New, Constanza Alcaino, Manuel Faundez, Patricio Iturriaga Vasquez, Ranjit Vijayan, Philip C Biggin, Isabel Bermudez

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Article in The Journal of biological chemistry, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 23 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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23 citing papers in PubMed, 37 citations in OpenAlex.

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  8. The fifth subunit of the (α4β2)British journal of pharmacology · 2018
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  11. Stoichiometry of the Heteromeric Nicotinic Receptors of the Renshaw Cell.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2018
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  15. Isoform-specific mechanisms of α3β4*-nicotinic acetylcholine receptor modulation by the prototoxin lynx1.FASEB journal : official publication of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology · 2017
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Simone MazzaferroFrom the Department of Biological and Medical Sciences, Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, Oxford Brookes University, Gipsy Lane, Oxford OX3 0BP, United Kingdom.
Federica GasparriFrom the Department of Biological and Medical Sciences, Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, Oxford Brookes University, Gipsy Lane, Oxford OX3 0BP, United Kingdom.
Karina NewFrom the Department of Biological and Medical Sciences, Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, Oxford Brookes University, Gipsy Lane, Oxford OX3 0BP, United Kingdom.
Constanza AlcainoFrom the Department of Biological and Medical Sciences, Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, Oxford Brookes University, Gipsy Lane, Oxford OX3 0BP, United Kingdom.
Manuel Faundezthe Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Sciences, University of Chile, Santiago, Chile.
Patricio Iturriaga Vasquezthe Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Sciences, University of Chile, Santiago, Chile.
Ranjit VijayanDepartment of Biology, College of Science, United Arab Emirates University, Al Ain, United Arab Emirates, and.
Philip C BigginStructural Bioinformatics and Computational Biochemistry, Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3QU, United Kingdom.
Isabel BermudezFrom the Department of Biological and Medical Sciences, Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, Oxford Brookes University, Gipsy Lane, Oxford OX3 0BP, United Kingdom, ibermudez@brookes.ac.uk.
University of Chile · CLUniversity of Oxford · GB

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The α4β2 nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (nAChR) is the most abundant nAChR type in the brain, and this receptor type exists in alternate (α4β2)2α4 and (α4β2)2β2 forms, which are activated by agonists with strikingly differing efficacies. Recent breakthroughs have identified an additional operational agonist binding site in the (α4β2)2α4 nAChR that is responsible for the signature sensitivity of this receptor to activation by agonists, yet the structural mechanisms determining agonist efficacy at this receptor type are not yet fully understood. In this study, we characterized the ligand selectivity of the individual agonist sites of the (α4β2)2α4 nAChR to determine whether differences in agonist selectivity influence agonist efficacy. Applying the substituted cysteine accessibility method to individual agonist sites in concatenated (α4β2)2α4 receptors, we determined the agonist selectivity of the agonist sites of the (α4β2)2α4 receptor. We show that (a) accessibility of substituted cysteines to covalent modification by methanesulfonate reagent depends on the agonist site at which the modification occurs and (b) that agonists such as sazetidine-A and TC-2559 are excluded from the site at the α4/α4 interface. Given that additional binding to the agonist site in the α4/α4 interface increases acetylcholine efficacy and that agonists excluded from the agonist site at the α4/α4 interface behave as partial agonists, we conclude that the ability to engage all agonist sites in (α4β2)2α4 nAChRs is a key determinant of agonist efficacy. The findings add another level of complexity to the structural mechanisms that govern agonist efficacy in heteromeric nAChRs and related ligand-gated ion channels.

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AnimalsLigandsNicotinic AgonistsReceptors, NicotinicXenopus laevisLigandsNicotinic Agonistsnicotinic receptor alpha4beta2Receptors, NicotinicCys-loop ReceptorElectrophysiologyLigand-binding ProteinNicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor (nAChR)Receptor Structure-Function

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PMID24936069
PMCPMC4118137
OpenAlexW2060826192

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