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Lecture 2: How Drugs Bind to their Targets Flashcards

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What are modes of signal transmission?

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Common mechanisms by which receptors interact with drugs and generate a signal in the cell which causes a biological response

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How can a drug get to intracellular recptors?

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Because the receptor is on the inside of the cell, the drug has to cross the membrane in order to get to the receptor

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What properties must the drugs that target intracellular receptors have?

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They must be lipid soluble (hydrophobic) or have some other transport mechanism in order to cross the cell

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What are examples of drugs that can bind to intracellular receptors?

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Steroid hormones: Glucocorticoids, anabolic steroids etc

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What is the Mode of Action of substances that bind to Intracellular Receptors?

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They bind to the Ligand binding Domain (LBD) of a steroid hormone receptor, leading to the displacement of the Heat Shock Protein (HSP) or other chaperone. This exposes a DNA recognition domain and leads to the activation of transcription target genes

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What is the relative timing of intracellular receptors?

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Its effects typically have slow onset and are long lasting (not rapidly reversible)

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Why is the relative timing of Intracellular receptors slow?

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Because it requires transcription and gene synthesis

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What kind of receptors are G-protein coupled receptors (GPCRs)?

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Transmembrane receptors

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Which side do ligands bind to on G-protein coupled receptors?

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They bind to the extracellular side

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What generally happens once ligands bind to the extracellular side of GPCRs?

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The ligand triggers a conformational change that activates a signaling cascade mediated by intracellular G-proteins

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What are the G-proteins distinct from?

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The receptor

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What does the activation of the receptor do in G proteins?

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Promotes the exchange of GDP for GTP

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What is meant by the G-alpha subunit has GTPase activity?

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It acts like a molecular timer or countdown to terminate the signal and hydrolyzed GTP to inactivate the G-protein complex

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What can active G-proteins do?

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Influence effector proteins that alter cellular activity

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What are the three intracellular G-proteins that a receptor is coupled with?

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  • G-alpha
  • G-beta
  • G-gamma
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What is G-alpha bound to at rest?

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GDP

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What happens once G-alpha binds to GTP?

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It dissociates from the G-protein complex and acts as an effector

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When a receptor is activated what do the G-beta and G-gamma subunits usually stay associated with?

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The membrane

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What can the G-beta and gamma subunits do?

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They can directly activate various downstream effectors like ions channels or recruitment of kinases

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What are the three types of G-alpha subunits?

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  • Gs
  • Gi
  • Gq
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What can the different types of G-alpha do?

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Influence different signalling cascades

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What are the two main targets of the alpha subunit of G proteins?

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Adenylate cyclase (AC) and phospholipase C (PLC)

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What does the Gs type of alpha subunit do?

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Activates Adenylate Cyclase

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What does the Gi type of Alpha subunit do?

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Inhibits Adenylate Cyclase

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What does the Gq type of the G-alpha subunit do?

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It activates Phospholipase C (PLC)

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What is the distinction between the effects of the G-beta and G-gamma subunits versus the G-alpha subunits?

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The G-beta and G-gamma subunits have direct effects on the effector and the G-alpha components have effects of the initial components of the signalling cascade

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How does Gs work? (Explain what happens from Gs dissociation)

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Receptors coupled to Gs trigger increased activity of AC which converts ATP to cyclic AMP (cAMP), which activated cAMP dependant protein kinases like protein kinase A (PKA). PKA which phosphorylates substrates using ATP

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How does Gi work?

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It suppresses the activity of AC which suppresses the production of cAMP

29
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What is the relative timing of G-protein coupled receptors?

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They can happen very quickly

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How does Gq work?

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Receptors coupled to Gq trigger increased activity of PLC, leading to production inositol triphosphate (IP3) and DAG from the breakdown of PIP2. IP3 triggers the release in intracellular Ca2+ stores which can influence other signalling pathways.

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Aside from IP3 what is the other product of PIP2 breakdown by PLC?

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What does DAG from the breakdown of PIP2 do?

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Activation of protein kinase C and target substrates

33
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What activates protein kinase C?

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What is activation of Tyrosine Kinase Receptors TKRs driven by?

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Dimerization of receptors in the presence of a ligand

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What does the dimerization of TKRs in the presence of a ligand do?

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Cause them to autophosphorylate and become activated

36
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What is the difference between G-protein coupled receptors and TKRs?

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TKRs have protein kinases built into them whereas G-protein receptors have multiple steps to activate protein kinases

37
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What is the circulating form of drugs that can bind to intracellular receptors?

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Bound to carrier globulin because of low solubility in plasma

38
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What is the speed of response of intracellular receptors and why?

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Slow because they require DNA binding and activation for target genes

39
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What is the Speed of Response of cell surface receptors and why?

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Fast because of rapid transduction via protein conformational change and intracellular signalling cascades

40
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What is the speed of the the Breakdown or Termination of a cell surface receptor signal and why?

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Fast because a signal can rapidly terminate due to rapid GTPase cycle

41
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What is the speed of the the Breakdown or Termination of a intracellular receptor signal and why?

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Slow because a large fraction of a hormone is bound and there is usually a large reserve and effects of gene expression are slow to reverse

42
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What does the fastest mechanism of signalling in the body depends on?

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Electrical signals generated by ion channel proteins

43
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What do Ion Channels do?

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Allow ions to cross the membrane rapidly leading to changes in membrane voltage

44
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What can different ion channels be controlled by?

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Distinct stimuli like a ligand binding or changes in a membrane voltage

45
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How do voltage gated ion channels respond to changes in voltage of the membrane?

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Amino acids in the transmembrane electric field change position in response to changes in voltage

46
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What do common drugs for psychiatric conditions target?

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Ligand gated channels

47
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What are other common drug targets?

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  • Structural proteins
  • DNA replication machinery (foreign or native)
  • Membrane transport proteins
  • Enzymes
  • Foreign proteins
48
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What does Agonism mean?

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A substance /drug binds to a receptor and influences its activity

49
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What is Agonism usually depicted in?

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A concentration response curve

50
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What is EC50: Effective Concentration 50?

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The concentration of a drug that yields 50% maximal effect

51
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What is Emax?

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The maximal biological effect observed with the drug

52
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What is Efficacy?

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A term that refers to the maximal drug effect (Emax)

53
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What is Potency?

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A term that refers to the concentration dependence (EC50)..

54
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How would you describe a drug that has a high Emax?

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It has a high efficacy

55
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What would be the characteristics of a drug that has a high potency?

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It has a small EC50

56
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What will Potency and Efficacy always refer to?

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Potency refers to drug concentration and Efficacy refers to drug effect

57
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What do drugs with different potency exhibit?

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Difference concentration required for a particular effect

58
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What do drugs with difference efficacy exhibit?

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A difference in the maximal effect that can be achieved

59
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What are Agonists usually categorized by?

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Their efficacy

60
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What are the four types of Agonists?

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  • Full agonist
  • Partial agonist
  • Antagonist
  • Inverse agonist
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What does a Full agonist do?

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Binds to a receptor and generates the maximal observed effect

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What does a Partial Agonist do?

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Binds to a receptor and generates a fraction effect

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What CAN’t Antagonist do?

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Generate a biological effect on their own

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What do Inverse Agonists do?

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Cause suppression of basal activity of a receptor

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