ETHANOL DISRUPTION OF CENTRAL MUSCARINIC TRANSMISSION

乙醇干扰中枢毒蕈碱传输

• 批准号: 3111524
• 负责人: Robert S. Aronstam
• 金额: $ 11.84万
• 依托单位: AUGUSTA UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 1988
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1988-04-01 至 1991-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/3111524
• 关键词: G protein; adenylate cyclase; alcoholic beverage consumption; autoradiography; binding proteins; brain; butanols; centrifugation; chemical binding; cyclic AMP; enzyme mechanism; ethanol; gel filtration chromatography; guanine nucleotides; laboratory rat; membrane proteins; muscarinic receptor; neural transmission; phosphatidylinositols; phospholipids; physical chemical interaction; propanols; protein metabolism; proteolysis; receptor sensitivity; scintillation spectrometry; synapses; thin layer chromatography

The aim of the proposed research is to understand how ethanol affects the function of muscarinic acetylcholine receptor complexes in the brain. We have demonstrated that ethanol 1) alters ligand binding to the receptor and 2) disrupts receptor coupling to guanine nucleotide-dependent transducer proteins (G proteins). The latter effect represents a novel mechanism for disruption of synaptic transmission. The hypotheses to be tested are that ethanol interacts with muscarinic-G protein complexes in the brain, thereby affecting 1) ligand binding to the receptor, 2) gaunine nucleotide regulation of receptor binding, 3) receptor regulation of postsynaptic biochemical events, 4) guanine nucleotide binding to receptor-associated G proteins, and/or 5) the GTPase activity of G proteins. Accordingly, the Specific Aims of the proposed research are to determine the effects of ethanol and other short cahin alcohols on muscarinic (and other) receptors and their associated G proteins in rat brain. Receptor processes to be studied are 1) ligand binding, including antagonist binding site density, affinity, kinetics and thermodynamics, and agonist binding propetties (subpopulation distribution and affinities), 2) receptor-G protein coupling, as revealed by guanine nucleotide regulation of agonist binding, 3) muscarinic receptor-mediated inhibition of adenylate cyclase activity and stimulation of phosphatidylinositol breakdown in brain membranes, as an indication functional muscarinic transmission, and 4) the GTPase and (345)GTP binding activities of G protein species isolated from rat brain, to evaluate the possibility of direct alcohol-G protein interactions. This research will increase our understanding of muscarinic receptor organization and function in the brain and provide insight into the molecular bases for ethanol disruption of synaptic transmission.

拟议研究的目的是了解乙醇如何 影响毒蕈碱乙酰胆碱受体的功能 大脑中的复合物。 我们已经证明乙醇 1) 改变配体与受体的结合，2) 破坏受体 与鸟嘌呤核苷酸依赖性转导蛋白（G 蛋白质）。 后一种效应代表了一种新的机制 突触传递的破坏。 待检验的假设 乙醇与毒蕈碱-G 蛋白复合物相互作用 大脑，从而影响 1) 配体与受体的结合，2) 受体结合的鸟嘌呤核苷酸调节，3) 受体 突触后生化事件的调节，4) 鸟嘌呤 与受体相关G蛋白结合的核苷酸，和/或5) G蛋白的GTP酶活性。 因此，拟议研究的具体目标是 确定乙醇和其他短卡因醇对 毒蕈碱（和其他）受体及其相关的 G 蛋白 在大鼠大脑中。 要研究的受体过程是 1) 配体 结合，包括拮抗剂结合位点密度、亲和力、 动力学和热力学，以及激动剂结合特性 （亚群分布和亲和力），2) 受体-G 蛋白 耦合，如激动剂的鸟嘌呤核苷酸调节所揭示的 结合，3) 毒蕈碱受体介导的腺苷酸抑制 环化酶活性和刺激磷脂酰肌醇分解 在脑膜中，作为功能性毒蕈碱的指示 传输，以及 4) GTPase 和 (345)GTP 结合活性 从大鼠脑中分离出的 G 蛋白种类，以评估 酒精-G 蛋白直接相互作用的可能性。 这项研究将增加我们对毒蕈碱的了解 大脑中的受体组织和功能并提供洞察力 进入乙醇破坏突触的分子基础 传播。