Pharmacodynamics II Flashcards
General Receptor Features
- Structural Specificity: there is some degree of specificity for the drug. The part of the receptor that recognizes and “binds” the drug is the __________________.
- Stereospecificity: all activity resides in one ____________ or one of the _______________s will be more potent than the other.
- Saturability: receptors exist in finite numbers and can be saturated by _______ concentrations, or doses, of drugs. Increasing dose _________ the response.
- Pharmacophore, or drug recognition site
- Isomer(s)- example given is SSRI antidepressant Lexapro (escitalopram) which is an isomer of Celexa (citalopram)
Fun fact: lexapro is the S enantiomer, select is the R enantiomer. - High concentrations or doses can saturate receptors. Increasing the dose increases the response.
General Receptor Features Cont.
- Response: there will be some quantitative relationship between the magnitude of response and the total number of receptors. This depends on what three things?
- Subject to Regulation: receptors are dynamic entities whose steady state levels (______) can be affected by pharmacological, physiological, and pathological factors.
- Response:
a) Amount of drug reaching the site of action
b) Drug-Receptor Interaction- coupling efficiency
c) Functional status of the receptor or cell and or/target cell (i.e. desensitization - Bmax= The maximum amount of drug that can bind specifically to the receptors in a membrane
Intracellular Receptors
Where are they found?
What do they bind?
Binding of a compound to a receptor can cause what two things to happen?
These receptors are NOT membrane bound- they exist in the cytosol
They bind biological compounds that are sufficiently lipid soluble to cross the plasma membrane
Drug + Receptor either:
- stimulate intracellular enzyme (i.e. guanylyl cyclase)
- Regulate cellular location of the receptor and alter gene transcription –> GENE ACTIVE RECEPTOR (bind to promoter to stimulate transcription of genes)
Ex: glucocorticoid receptor binding to a glucocortioid drug- the complex goes to the nucleus and can up regulate transcription of anti-inflammatory genes or repress expression of pro-inflammatory genes
Gene Active Receptors (Specific type of intracellular receptor)
Are they long or slow acting?
How long do the effects of an agonist last?
Therapeutic and toxic effects take time and will decrease slowly. Therefore activation of the gene, and its effects, may long ________ the presence of the drug in the body.
Gene active receptors (alter transcription) are slow-acting- there is a lag period of 30 minutes to a few hours, the time required for new protein synthesis.
Effects can last for hours or days after the agonist is no longer required. Due to the slow turnover of enzymes or proteins synthesized in response to receptor activation.
Outlast
Three Types of Plasma Membrane Receptors:
1.
2.
3.
- Ligand-Regulated Transmembrane Enzymes- Including Protein Tyrosine Kinase
- Ligand Gated Channel Receptors
- G-Protein Family or transmembrane enzymes
Ligand Regulated Transmembrane Enzyme Receptors (Including Protein Tyrosine Kinase)
They cross the membrane ______ times and consist of an _____________ binding domain and an ___________ enzymatic domain
Cross the membrane one time
Extracellular binding domain
Intracellular enzymatic domain
Intracellular enzymatic domain may be tyrosine or serine kinases or guanylyl cyclase
Once activated, transmembrane enzyme receptors can phosphorylate ________ or ___________ on various downstream proteins
Autophosphorylation of tyrosine on the receptor’s cytoplasmic side can do what to the duration of receptor activation?
How are transmembrane enzyme receptors down regulated?
Tyrosine or serine
Autophosphorylation can intensify or prolong the duration of receptor activation
Ex: insulin receptor persists long after insulin dissociates from the receptor
Endocytosis of the receptors from he cell surface followed by degradation of the receptor + ligand
Cytokine receptors closely resemble transmembrane enzyme receptors (variation of theme) except they utilize a separate protein tyrosine kinase that binds _______________ to the membrane.
How do they signal?
Non-covalently
Signaling:
- Ligand binds, induces conformational change & receptor dimerization
- Dimerization allows JAKs to be activated & phosphorylate tyrosine residues on the receptor.
- Phosphorylation of tyrosine on the receptor facilitates the binding of STAT proteins(Signal Transducers and Activators of Transcription).
- The bound STATs are then phosphorylated by the JAKs
- Two STATS dimerize & the dimer dissociates, travels to the nucleus & regulates gene transcription.
What endogenous factors bind transmembrane enzyme receptors?
Insulin, growth factors, ANF (atrial naturitic factor)
Ligand Gated Channel Receptors (the Nicotinic Cholinergic Receptor)
Transmit signals by increasing flow of relevant ______ and altering the _________ potential across the membrane.
Ions, electrical
Ligand Gated Channel Receptors (the Nicotinic Cholinergic Receptor)
Describe the structure of the channel.
How does ACh (acetylcholine) open the channel?
Opening of the channel allows for what?
Fast or slow response?
Structure: A pentamer consisting of 4 types of glycoprotein subunits (2 alpha, a beta, a gamma, and a delta) that form a cylindrical structure containing the channel.
ACh opens channel by binding to alpha subunit, which produces a conformational change and transient opening.
Sodium ions go from ECF into the cell when the channel is open.
Fast response! Milliseconds- rapid information transfer; much quicker than other signaling mechanisms that require seconds, minutes or hours to produce their effects.
Acetylcholine, GABA, and excitatory amino acids (glutamate and aspartate) use which kind of receptor?
Ligand Gated Channel Receptors (the Nicotinic Cholinergic Receptor)
G-Protein Family of Transmembrane Receptors
A single polypeptide chain that transverse the plasma membrane ______ times (serpentine receptors)
Amino terminus is found on the __________ side.
Pharmacophore is found on the ___________ side.
7, extracellular, extracellular
G-Protein Family of Transmembrane Receptors
Third intracellular loop (of 7) regulates the ability of the receptor to interact with what?
What AA residue is found on the carboxy terminus of the receptor?
Third intracellular loop interacts with: Specific G proteins
Carboxy terminus of the receptor contains sites (serine residues) that are subject to phosphorylation and regulation of the receptor function
Guanine Nucleotide Regulatory Proteins act as ____________ between G-protein receptors and the second messenger. They have alpha, beta, and gamma subunits and exist together as a trimer.
Intermediates
