Abstract：
:Muscarinic acetylcholine receptor subtypes m1, m3 and m5 couple strongly to phosphatidylinositol turnover and hence to intracellular Ca2+ concentration via pertussis toxin (PTX) sensitive and insensitive G proteins. The m2 and m4 muscarinic receptor subtypes strongly inhibit adenylyl cyclase production via PTX sensitive G proteins. Additionally, the cardiac M2 receptor is closely coupled to a K+ current (IK.ACh). To characterize this functional diversity more completely, we measured the ACh-induced Ca2+ responses of cells transfected with the muscarinic receptor subtypes m1, m2, m3 and m4. As expected, cells transfected with m1 or m3 receptors exhibited large dose-dependent increases in Ca2+ in response to ACh application. Unexpectedly, cells transfected with m2 or m4 receptors also exhibited increases in Ca2+ in response to agonist application. The m2- or m4-coupled responses were smaller in amplitude, required higher concentrations of agonist and were much more sensitive to PTX treatment when compared to m1- or m3-coupled responses. We discuss this remarkable diversity of function in terms of the receptor subtype's coupling to G proteins.
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Trends Pharmacol Scijournal_title
Trends in pharmacological sciencesauthors
Lechleiter J,Peralta E,Clapham Dsubject
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1989-12-01 00:00:00pages
34-8eissn
0165-6147issn
1873-3735journal_volume
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