Direct and differential interaction of beta-arrestins with the intracellular domains of different opioid receptors.

abstract：:Immune-mediated drug hypersensitivity reactions (IDHRs) represent a significant problem due to their unpredictable and severe nature, as well as the lack of understanding of the pathogenesis. Sulfamethoxazole (SMX), a widely used antibiotic, has been used as a model compound to investigate the underlying mechanism of ...

journal_title：Molecular pharmacology

authors： Cheng L,Stewart BJ,You Q,Petersen DR,Ware JA,Piccotti JR,Kawabata TT,Ju C

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study investigates mRNA and protein levels of A3 adenosine receptors in resting (R) and activated (A) human lymphocytes. The receptors were evaluated by the antagonist radioligand [3H]5-N-(4-methoxyphenyl-carbamoyl)amino-8-propyl-2(2furyl)-pyrazolo-[4,3e]-1,2,4-triazolo-[1,5-c]-pyrimidine ([3H]MRE 3008F20)...

journal_title：Molecular pharmacology

authors： Gessi S,Varani K,Merighi S,Cattabriga E,Avitabile A,Gavioli R,Fortini C,Leung E,Mac Lennan S,Borea PA

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although G protein-coupled receptors are often categorized in terms of their primary coupling to a given type of Gα protein subunit, it is now well established that many show promiscuous coupling and activate multiple signaling pathways. Furthermore, some agonists selectively activate signaling pathways by promoting i...

journal_title：Molecular pharmacology

authors： Evans BA,Broxton N,Merlin J,Sato M,Hutchinson DS,Christopoulos A,Summers RJ

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cells of the murine neuroblastoma clone N1E-115 possess muscarinic receptors that influence the intracellular level of cyclic nucleotides. The stimulation of [3H]cyclic GMP levels occurs only with intact cells and has an EC50 near the "low-affinity" agonist equilibrium dissociation constant (KL) determined by radiolig...

journal_title：Molecular pharmacology

authors： McKinney M,Stenstrom S,Richelson E

更新日期：1984-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prolonged ethanol exposure causes central nervous system hyperexcitability that involves a loss of GABAergic inhibition. We previously demonstrated that long-term ethanol exposure enhances the internalization of synaptic GABA(A) receptors composed of alpha1beta2/3gamma2 subunits. However, the mechanisms of ethanol-med...

journal_title：Molecular pharmacology

authors： Kumar S,Suryanarayanan A,Boyd KN,Comerford CE,Lai MA,Ren Q,Morrow AL

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nafazatrom, an antithrombotic and antimetastatic agent containing a pyrazolone functionality, is a reducing substrate for the peroxidase activity of prostaglandin H (PGH) synthase. Nafazatrom inhibits the hydroperoxide-dependent oxidation of phenylbutazone, stimulates the reduction of 15-hydroperoxy-5,8,11,13-eicosate...

journal_title：Molecular pharmacology

authors： Marnett LJ,Siedlik PH,Ochs RC,Pagels WR,Das M,Honn KV,Warnock RH,Tainer BE,Eling TE

更新日期：1984-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine the structural basis for binding subtype selective agonists in the beta-adrenergic receptor (beta AR), we examined the interaction of the mutant beta 2AR and chimeric beta 1/beta 2AR with a selective beta 2AR agonist, TA-2005 (8-hydroxy-5-[(1R)-1-hydroxy-2-[N-[(1R)-2-(p-methoxyphenyl)-1-methyle thy l] am...

journal_title：Molecular pharmacology

authors： Kikkawa H,Isogaya M,Nagao T,Kurose H

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies from our laboratory have provided evidence that multiple states of the phencyclidine (PCP) receptor exist. In addition, several compounds such as PCP and the novel anticonvulsant MK-801 were found to inhibit binding more potently in the presence of Mg2+ and L-glutamate (L-GLU) than when these agents wer...

journal_title：Molecular pharmacology

authors： Sills MA,Loo PS

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lysophosphatidic acid (LPA) and sphingosine-1-phosphate (S1P) are members of the phospholipid growth factor family. A major limitation in the field to date has been a lack of receptor subtype-specific agonists and antagonists. Here, we report that dioctylglycerol pyrophosphate and dioctylphosphatidic acid are selectiv...

journal_title：Molecular pharmacology

authors： Fischer DJ,Nusser N,Virag T,Yokoyama K,Wang Da,Baker DL,Bautista D,Parrill AL,Tigyi G

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:GABAA receptors are predominantly composed of alphabetagamma and alphabetadelta isoforms in the brain. It has been proposed that alphabetagamma receptors mediate phasic inhibition, whereas alphabetadelta receptors mediate tonic inhibition. Propofol (2,6-di-isopropylphenol), a widely used anesthetic drug, exerts its ef...

journal_title：Molecular pharmacology

authors： Feng HJ,Macdonald RL

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The 90-kDa heat shock family (HSP90) of protein and two-component histidine kinases, although quite distinct at the primary amino acid sequence level, share a common structural ATP-binding domain known as the Bergerat fold. The Bergerat fold is important for the ATPase activity and associated chaperone function of HSP...

journal_title：Molecular pharmacology

authors： Besant PG,Lasker MV,Bui CD,Turck CW

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:KARs, new semisynthetic antitumor bis-indole derivatives, were found to be inhibitors of tubulin polymerization with lower toxicity than vinblastine or vincristine, used in chemotherapy. Here, we compare the effect of KARs with those of vinblastine and vincristine on cell viability, cell proliferation, and cell cycle ...

journal_title：Molecular pharmacology

authors： Comín-Anduix B,Agell N,Bachs O,Ovádi J,Cascante M

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aryl hydrocarbon receptor (AHR) is a ligand-activated transcription factor with constitutive activities and those induced by xenobiotic ligands, such as 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (TCDD). One unexplained cellular role for the AHR is its ability to promote cell cycle progression in the absence of exogenous...

journal_title：Molecular pharmacology

authors： Barhoover MA,Hall JM,Greenlee WF,Thomas RS

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The constitutive androstane receptor (CAR) and the pregnane X receptor (PXR) play a major part in the control of drug metabolism and transport. We have previously shown that PXR and CAR expression is controlled by the glucocorticoid receptor (GR) and proposed the existence of a signal transmission cascade GR-(PXR/CAR)...

journal_title：Molecular pharmacology

authors： Duret C,Daujat-Chavanieu M,Pascussi JM,Pichard-Garcia L,Balaguer P,Fabre JM,Vilarem MJ,Maurel P,Gerbal-Chaloin S

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Estrogenic and carcinogenic activity are shown to be separable properties. 2-Fluoroestradiol, a modified estrogen, did not induce renal clear-cell carcinoma in male Syrian hamsters despite its estrogenic potency, which is comparable to that of estradiol. 4-Fluoroestradiol, also a potent estrogen, did induce renal clea...

journal_title：Molecular pharmacology

authors： Liehr JG

更新日期：1983-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The D2 dopamine receptor (D2R) was examined for its ability to mediate nuclear factor-kappaB (NF-kappaB) activation through G proteins. Stimulation of D2R-transfected HeLa cells with its agonist quinpirole induced the expression of a NF-kappaB luciferase reporter and formation of NF-kappaB-DNA complex. This response w...

journal_title：Molecular pharmacology

authors： Yang M,Zhang H,Voyno-Yasenetskaya T,Ye RD

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ethanol (ETOH) can cause apoptotic death of neurons by depleting GSH with an associated increase in oxidative stress. The current study illustrates a means to overcome this ETOH-induced neurotoxicity by enhancing GSH through boosting Nrf2, a transcription factor that controls GSH homeostasis. ETOH treatment caused a s...

journal_title：Molecular pharmacology

authors： Narasimhan M,Mahimainathan L,Rathinam ML,Riar AK,Henderson GI

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The metabotropic glutamate receptor subtype 5 (mGlu5) activates calcium mobilization via binding of glutamate, the major excitatory neurotransmitter in the central nervous system. Allosteric modulation of the receptor has recently emerged as a promising alternative method of regulation to traditional regulation throug...

journal_title：Molecular pharmacology

authors： Rodriguez AL,Nong Y,Sekaran NK,Alagille D,Tamagnan GD,Conn PJ

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We compared the efficiencies with which human alpha 1-adrenergic receptor (AR) subtypes activate inositol phosphate (InsP) formation and increase intracellular Ca2+ in transfected cell lines. Expression of human alpha 1a-, alpha 1b-, and alpha 1d-AR cDNAs under the repressible control of anhydrotetracycline in human e...

journal_title：Molecular pharmacology

authors： Theroux TL,Esbenshade TA,Peavy RD,Minneman KP

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The binding affinities of 16 7-substituted 2,3-dichlorodibenzo-p-dioxins for the 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (TCDD) cytosolic receptor protein from male Wistar rats have been determined. The EC50 value for each compound was estimated by competitive displacement of [3H]TCDD and the data illustrated that the dif...

journal_title：Molecular pharmacology

authors： Denomme MA,Homonoko K,Fujita T,Sawyer T,Safe S

更新日期：1985-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cyclic nucleotide phosphodiesterases (PDEs) from canine trachealis were characterized with respect to their kinetic properties, sensitivity to selective inhibitors, and subcellular distribution. Extracts from whole tissue homogenates were applied to DEAE-Sepharose anion exchange columns and eluted with a linear sodium...

journal_title：Molecular pharmacology

authors： Torphy TJ,Cieslinski LB

更新日期：1990-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Beta-L-dioxolane-cytidine (L-OddC, BCH-4556, Troxacitabine), a novel L-configuration deoxycytidine analog, is under phase III clinical trial for cancer treatment. We showed that human apurinic/apyrimidinic endonuclease (APE-1) has exonuclease activity for preferentially removing L-OddC and other L-configuration nucleo...

journal_title：Molecular pharmacology

authors： Lam W,Park SY,Leung CH,Cheng YC

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dietary lipids and fat-soluble micronutrients are solubilized in mixed micelles and absorbed in the small intestine. Based on an assumption that cholesterol and other fat-soluble molecules share a number of transport mechanisms and the fact that Niemann-Pick C1-like 1 (NPC1L1) is critical for intestinal cholesterol ab...

journal_title：Molecular pharmacology

authors： Narushima K,Takada T,Yamanashi Y,Suzuki H

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relations between the single high affinity binding sites for azapropazone, phenylbutazone, chlorpropamide, sulfathiazole, and iophenoxate and the binding regions of human serum albumin represented by the marker ligands diazepam, phenol red, salicylate, and warfarin were examined by a series of competition experime...

journal_title：Molecular pharmacology

authors： Kragh-Hansen U

更新日期：1988-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Based on their relative affinities for cholecystokinin octapeptide (26-33) (CCK-8), cholecystokinin tetrapeptide (30-33) (CCK-4), desulfated CCK-8, and gastrin, cholecystokinin (CCK) receptors have been classified as CCK-A (alimentary) and CCK-B (brain). Selective nonpeptide antagonists of CCK-A and CCK-B receptors, a...

journal_title：Molecular pharmacology

authors： Lin CW,Shiosaki K,Miller TR,Witte DG,Bianchi BR,Wolfram CA,Kopecka H,Craig R,Wagenaar F,Nadzan AM

更新日期：1991-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have, in the accompanying work, demonstrated the coexistence of M2 and M3 muscarinic receptors in the circular smooth muscle of canine colon. In the present study, the effects of muscarinic receptor stimulation on phosphoinositide turnover and adenylate cyclase activity were examined. In myo-[3H]inositol-labeled ci...

journal_title：Molecular pharmacology

authors： Zhang LB,Buxton IL

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In rat pancreatic zymogen granules (ZG), an ATP-sensitive K(+) conductance and a Cl(-) conductance have been characterized that are inversely regulated by an approximately 65-kDa multidrug resistance P-glycoprotein (mdr1) gene product. In search of a label for purification of this protein, we found that the dihydropyr...

journal_title：Molecular pharmacology

authors： Braun M,Thévenod F

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The two forms of pituitary adenylate cyclase-activating polypeptide, PACAP27 and PACAP38, are two neuropeptide hormones related to the vasoactive intestinal peptide/secretin/ glucagon family of peptides. PACAP receptors that are positively coupled to adenylyl cyclase and phospholipase C have been identified in culture...

journal_title：Molecular pharmacology

authors： Cavallaro S,Copani A,D'Agata V,Musco S,Petralia S,Ventra C,Stivala F,Travali S,Canonico PL

更新日期：1996-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several structurally related series of folate analogs were studied as substrates for mouse liver folylpolyglutamate synthetase (FPGS). A comparison of the kinetics of the interaction of this enzyme with folate analogs that contained the quinazoline ring in place of the pteridine ring with those of the analogous pterid...

journal_title：Molecular pharmacology

authors： Moran RG,Colman PD,Jones TR

更新日期：1989-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reconstitution experiments with purified components reproduce the basic characteristics of receptor/G protein coupling, i.e., GTP-sensitive high affinity agonist binding and receptor-promoted GTP binding. However, the interaction of agonists with the A1 adenosine receptor in rat and bovine but not human brain membrane...

journal_title：Molecular pharmacology

authors： Nanoff C,Mitterauer T,Roka F,Hohenegger M,Freissmuth M

更新日期：1995-11-01 00:00:00