Estimates of antagonist affinities at P2x purinoceptors in rat vas deferens

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In functional studies pyridoxalphodphate-6-azophenyl-2′,5′-disulphonic acid (iso-PPADS), suramin, GR200282 (4,4′-[carbonylbis(imino-3-benzoylimino)]-bis[5-hydroxy-naphthalene-2,7-disulfonic acid] tetrapotassium salt), cibacron blue, trypan blue and congo red, each produced specific antagonism of the contractile responses of isolated rat vas deferens, induced by α,β-methylene ATP (α,β-meATP), with antagonist pKB estimates of 6..6 ± 0.3, 5.5 ± 0.2, 5.1 ± 0.3, 5.8 ± 0.2, 4.7 ± 0.2 and 4.6 ± 0.2, respectively. In radioligand binding studies, iso-PPADS, suramin, cibacron blue, GR200282, trypan blue and congo red competed for the high affinity [3H]α,β-meATP binding sites in rat vas deferens membranes with pKi estimates of 5.6 ± 0.04, 5.5 ± 0.08, 5.6 ± 0.15, 5.6 ± 0.04, 4.3 ± 0.06 and 4.9 ± 0.10, respectively. Comparison of pKB and pKi estimates revealed a good agreement between the two approaches for estimating mesures of affinity for the putative antagonists, except in the case of iso-PPADS. However, we found that two populations of [3H]α,β-meATP binding sites can be identified by iso-PPADS, 26.4% of these having low affinity (pKi of 4.4 ± 0.2), and 73.6% having high affinity (pKi of 6.5 ± 0.02) for iso-PPADS. The pKi of 6.5 obtained at the high affinity sites identified by iso-PPADS was close to the equivalent pKB value of 6.6 from functional studies. These studies therefore show a good agreement between pKi and pKi estimates for several antagonists, and suggest that the high affinity binding sites labelled with [3H]α,β-meATP in rat vas deferens represents binding to functional P2x purinoceptors.

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