Class Flashcards
Receptor
Regulatory role-interact with drug and initiates drug effects
Inert binding site
Drug binds without changing any function of receptor
Ligand
Binds to receptor
Covalent bond of ligand and receptor
Irreversible
Need to resynthesize
Non covalent ligand receptor binding
Reversible
Most
List types of bonds strongest to weakest (non covalent)
Ionic, hydrogen, hydrophobic interaction, van der waals
What are van der walls
Weak electrostatic interactions involving dipole moments within functional groups
Dose response curve
Drug and its effects
Linear?
Log of dose response curve
Drug dose log x
Y drug effect
Hyperbolic
Concentration effect curve log vs response
Sigmoidal curve
Emax
Max effect
ED50
Dose that produces 50% of its maximal effect
Graded response
How much
Magnitude of response varies continuously
Mean value within a population or subject
Quintal response
Yes or no
Binary response
Is there a response, if so how many
Need predefined response
Examine frequency of a large population
Quantal non cumulative dose response curve
Number or % of individuals responding at a certain dose of a drug and only at that dose
Cumulative quantal dose response curve
Number or % of individuals responding at a certain dose of a drug and at all doses lower than that dose
what kind of graph do you get TI from
Cumulative dose response curve
TI
TD50/ED50
Therapeutic window
Range at which safe and effective
What determines the binding and nteraction of drugs with their receptors
Size shape charge
High affinity
Less drug needed to produce a response
Low affinity
More drug needed to produce a responses
Kd
Parameter describing affinity
Equilibrium dissociation constant
What is the Kd
Drug concentration at which 50% of the drug receptor binding sites are occupied by the drug
Unit of Kd
Molar concentration (micromoles, nanomoles
Low Kd
Higher affinity of a drug for receptor
Higher Kd
Lower affinity of a drug for a receptor
Formula for Kd
L+R LR
Kd=(L)(R)/(LR)
What are L R and LR
Molar concentrations of ligand, receptor, and their complex
__ determine the quantitative relationship between a drug and its effects
Receptors
The magnitude of a drugs effects will be proportional to the degree of its interactions with a __
Receptor
Ec50=Kd or Ec50=Kd
Depending on the outlying of receptor occupancy and a response to a drug
Two graphs
Ok
Agonist have __ activity
Intrinsic
Antagonist do not have __ activity
Intrinsic
Competitive antagonist
Compete with endogenous chemicals or agonist drugs for binding to the receptor
Non competitive antagonists
Receptor inactivation is not surmountable
Irreversible or allow=steric antagonist
Irreversible antagonist
Irreversibly bind to and occlude the agonist site on the receptor by forming covalent bonds
Allosteric antagonists
Bind to a site other than the agonist site to prevent or reduce agonist binding or activation of the receptor
Competitive antagonist
Agonist EC50 increases, Emax does not change
Non competitive antagonism
Agonist Emax decreases
EC50 does not change
Potency
Amount of a drug required to produce a specific pharmacological effect
What drugs tend to be more potent
Higher affinity (lower Kd)
What represents potency
ED50
Lower ED50
More potent
How determine dose
Potency
Efficacy
Maximal pharmacological effect that a drug can produce
What represented efficacy
Emax
The greater the Emax, the more ___ the drug
Efficacious
What is efficacy related to
Total receptors available to bind a drug
What does efficacy determine clinically
Effectiveness
Potency determines __ and efficacy determines ___
Dose
Effectiveness
Potency is related to __ and efficacy is related to ___
Affinity
Total number of receptors available to abind a drug
What is a drug target
Important regulatory proteins in the existing cell signaling pathways
What are the classes of drug targets
Membrane receptors, nuclear receptors, ion channels, transport proteins, enzymes
Protein kinases
Covalently attach phosphate group to an aa residue
-serine threonine kinases
Tyrosine kinases
Phosphorylation
500 in human genome
Response element
Specific DNA region that transcription factors bind to
What do transcription factors have
DNA binding domain
What do transcription factors bind to
Enhancer or promoter regions that are usually adjacent to the coding sequence of the regulated gene
GPCR makes up _% of genome
4
About _% of marketed drugs act on GPCR
30
Ligand for GPCR
Bio genie amines, peptides/proteins, amino acids, lipids, nucleotides
The N terminal (__) domain of GPCR is often __
Glycosylated
The C terminal (__) contains multiple phosphorylation sites (__/__)
Cytosolic
Serine/threonine residues
What do cytoplasmic loops of GPCR contain
G protein binding sites
The 7 transmembranes is ___
Hydrophobic
Phosphorylation of C terminal
Diminished G protein coupling and can promote receptor endocytosis
G protein cycl
- G protein receive ligand to activate
- Promotes release of GDP from G protein
- allowing entry of GTP into nucleotide binding site
- GTP bound state the G protein regulates activity of an effector enzyme or ion channel
- Signal terminated by hydrolysis of GTP
- Return to the basal unstimulated state
Rec
Hormone receptors
PDE
Phosphodiesterase that hydrolyze cAMP
Pase
Phosphatase
S
Protein substrates
So…AC turns ATP to Camp. What happens to Camp
Phosphodiesterase turns it to 5-AMP
Or cAMP+R2C2–> R2cAMP4+2C
What happens to 2C
With ATP turns S to SP to make ADP with Pase
What does SP do
Response
What happens to IP3
Ca enzyme and CaM—>CaM-E which causes response
What does DAG do
Activate PKC
Which with ATP turns S to SP which causes a response and releases ADP
What receptors have intrinsic enzyme activity
RTK
What growth factors bind to RTK
IGF-1, insulin, VEGF, EGF, NGF, PDGF
Most RTK
Single polypeptide chain
Insulin and IGF receptor RTK
2 chains a and b linked by disulfide bond
___ domain shows very little similarity between the members of the family
Ligand-binding
___ __ domain is similar between the members of the family
Tyrosine kinase
How is the EGF receptor activates
- EGF bind and conformation change (monomeric inactive, dimeric active—bound noncovalently)
- Cytoplasmic domains become phosphorylated on specific tyrosin residues
- anzymatic activities are activated , catalyzing phosphorylation of substrate proteins
Turning S into SP with ATP and releasing ADP
JAK
Receptor coupled to cytosolic protein kinases
Transmit the effect of a number of hormones and cytokines (Growth hormones, erythropoietin, leptin, interferons, interleukins 2,20,15)
Describe JAK STAT pathway (family of cytosolic tyrosine kinases (JAK1 to 5, TYK2) that bind to an activated receptor to start signaling cascade
- Activate and JAK(intracellular) are activated (dimerize), resulting in phosphorylation of signal transducers and activation of transcription STAT molecules
- STAT diners then travel to the nucleus where they regulate transcription
Ligand for nuclear receptors
Steroid hormones, thyroid hormones, vit D, vit A, FFA and their products
Steroid receptor families
Androgen receptor Estrogen receptor Progesterone receptors Glucocorticoid receptors Mineralocorticoid receptors
When do we see effects of nuclear receptors
Lag period
And the effects can persist after the agonist concentration has bee reduced to zero
Mechanism of a steroid hormone action
Nuclear receptor polypeptide is depicted as a protein with three distinct domains.
Heat shock protein, hsp90, binds to the receptor in the absence of hormone and prevents folding into he active conformation of the receptor. Binding of a hormone ligand causes dissociation of the hsp90 stabilizer and permits conversion to the active configuration
What do ion channels do
Change the cell membranepotential
Change concentration of ions in cytosolic
Voltage gated channels
About 300 genes code for subunits of coltage gated channels
Conductance is induced by membrane potential changes
Na Ca K channels are targets of drug action
Ligand gated channels
Multimeric channels span the cell membrane and have a binding site for a neurotransmitter inducing the current, and an ion conducting pore
How are voltage gated ion channels controlled
Not by binding a ligand
Controlled by membrane potential
Voltage gated Na channels
A and b subunits
What drugs inhibit voltage gated Na channels
Local anesthetics
Antiarrhythmic drugs
Drugs used for the treatment of epilepsy
Voltage gated ca channel
L type channels are located on cardiac and smooth muscle cells
Blockers and antagonists
Direct gated ion channels
Receptors for neurotransmitters that have an ion conducting pore
Excitatory neurotransmitters
Open cation channels, depolarize the cella nd induce generation of action potential in excitable cells
Examples of excitatory NT
Acetylcholine and glutamate
Inhibitory neurotransmitters
Open anion channel causing inward anion flux and hyperpolarization, prevent generation of action potentials
Examples of inhibitory neurotransmitters
GABA and glycine
Activation of nicotonic acetylcholine receptors
Induces inward Na fluxes and membrane depolarization
What and where are nicotonic acetylcholine receptors
Pentameric receptors with two major locations
- skeletal muscle, responsible for depolarization of skeletal muscle fibers
- neuronal cells
What is a nicotonic acetylcholine receptor
Ligand gated ion channel
The nicotonic acetylcholine receptor is in the ___
Membrane
The extracellular part of the nicotonic acetylcholine receptor has _ subunits. What are they
Five
2a, b, y, and delta
What does the nicotonic acetylcholine receptor do
Opens a central transmembrane ion channel when ACH binds to sites on the extracellular domains of its a subunits
GABA receptors
Anionic channels causing inward Cl influx and hyperpolarization
What does GABA mediate
Synaptic inhibition in CNS via these channels
Structure of GABA receptos
Pentameric structure
What is the GABA receptor a target for
Inhalation general anesthesia drugs
Intravenous general anesthesia drugs
Ethanol
Hypnotic and anti anxiety benzodiazepine drugs
Binding sites on GABA receptor
Binding site and allosteric
Biotransformation
Enzymatically driven process whereby a substance is changed from one chemical to another in an organism
Usually xenobiotics
What compounds are not readily excreted
Lipophilic, unionized, large compounds
What it’s he body’s main method of elimating substances
Biotransformation of xenobiotics into more polar (and sometimes larger ) derivatives
Consequences of Biotransformation
May lead to products still biologically active or more active
L dopa biotransformation
Dopamine
Prodrug into active compound
What is l dopa
Pro drug
Example of active compound becoming an active compound
Diazempam—>oxazepam
Example of inactivation
Acetylsalicylic acid(asprin)-> acetic acid+ salicylate