Lecture 5 (Drug Receptor Interactions) Flashcards
When we don’t know the endogenous ligand for a receptor it is called an ______ ________
orphan receptor
binding is _____
specific
There is a ____ binding capacity for receptors
finite
- meaning there are only a limited number of receptors
- it is possible for binding to be matured (all the receptors are occupied)
receptors are ___ specific
tissue
Drugs bind to receptors using the same interactions that drugs form with solvents as discussed in lecture 2 on solubility:
What are these interactions?
- dispersion forces (london forces)
- dipole-dipole bonding
- this one is not as important)
- H-bonding (a special kind of dipole dipole bonding)
- ionic bonding
- ion-dipole bonding
For protein interactions - dispersion forces are referred to as ??
hydrophobic interactions
What is KD?
not the delicious cheesy macaroni treat
dissociation constant bitches
-it tells you what side of the rxn that it favours
either free drug and free receptor OR drug-receptor complex
Units of KD?
mol/L or M
if KD is small = ?
there is more DR (and therefore more biological response)
*also indicates tight binding
1/KD = KA = ?
affinity constant
units of KA ?
L/mol or M^-1
higher the affinity constant = ?
tighter the binding
if KD = 1 microM what does this mean?
1 microM [drug] will produce half maximal receptor binding
KD = ?
[drug] at which you get half maximal binding
[drug] at which 1/2 Rt (total receptors) is bound to drug
efficacy
constant of proportionality which measures the ability of the drug to produce an effect by forming a drug receptor complex
Eobs = alpha [DR]
alpha = efficacy (intrinsic activity)
