H2 histaminic receptors in rat cerebral cortex. 2. Inhibition of [3H]histamine by H2 antagonists
- 1 October 1985
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Chemical Society (ACS) in Biochemistry
- Vol. 24 (22) , 6107-6115
- https://doi.org/10.1021/bi00343a012
Abstract
Sites labeled by [3H]histamine in homogenates of rat cerebral cortex reveal a pharmacological specificity typical of H2 receptors. Fourteen H2 antagonists inhibit the specific binding of the radioligand to the same level; Hill coefficients are near or equal to one for five compounds and markedly lower for nine. The binding patterns of individual antagonists (A) are well described by the empirical expression Y = F1K1/(K1 + [A]) + F2K2/(K2 + [A]), in which F1 and F2 sum to 1; F2 is 0 for those drugs that reveal a Hill coefficient of 1. Concentrations of A that reduce specific binding by 50% (IC50) correlate well (r = 0.991; P < 0.00001) and show good numerical agreement with potencies reported for inhibition of the response to histamine in H2-mediated systems. The correlation is poorer when IC50 is replaced by either K1 (r = 0.973) or K2 (r = 0.921) for those antagonists that reveal both; the antihistaminic activity of the drug thus appears not to be associated preferentially with one or other class of sites. Since F2 varies from 0.16 to 0.60 among those antagonists that discern heterogeneity, the antagonist appears to determine the distribution of sites between the two classes. Moreover, a correlation among antagonists between values of K1 and K2 (r = 0.975; P = 0.00001) suggests that the apparent heterogeneity reflects different conformers within an otherwise homogeneous population. H2 antagonists appear to be noncompetitive with respect to each other and to the radioligand: one antagonist has relatively little effect on the values of K1, K2, and F2 revealed by another; also, estimates of K1 and K2 are independent of the concentration of [3H]histamine between 1.3 and 10 nM, although the radioligand exhibits an apparent dissociation constant of 3.9 nM [Stenberg, G.H., Eppel, J.G., Kandel, M., Kandel, S.I., and Wells, J.W. (1985) Biochemistry (preceding paper in this issue)].This publication has 7 references indexed in Scilit:
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