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MJ Lohse, V Lenschow and U Schwabe
The binding of agonists and antagonists to Ri adenosine receptors of synaptosomal membranes from rat and bovine brain was studied. The effects of guanine nucleotides and temperature were analyzed with the aid of computerized curve fitting. Evidence is presented for two different states of the receptor: one of high and one of low affinity for agonists. Antagonists bind to both states with the same affinity. The two states are characterized by saturation, competition, and kinetic experiments with very similar results. Guanine nucleotides cause transition of the high- to the low-affinity state. The ratio of the KD values for the two affinity states is 90-150 in rat brain but only 10 in bovine brain. The proportions of the two affinity states are the same for all agonists tested; in the absence of exogenous guanine nucleotides, 75% of the total receptor population is in the high- affinity state, whereas in the presence of guanine nucleotides only 5% remain in the high-affinity state. Binding of antagonists to the receptor is enthalpy-driven whereas binding of the agonist (-)-N6- phenylisopropyladenosine to the high-affinity state of the receptor is entropy-driven. Binding of the agonist to the low-affinity state is enthalpy-driven and thus similar to the binding of antagonists. Our data indicate that guanine nucleotides convert the Ri adenosine receptor from a high- to a low-agonist affinity state and that agonist binding shows thermodynamic differences from antagonist binding only when it is to the high-affinity state of the receptor.
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