Receptor inactive

The most probable mechanism for inverse agonism is the same one operable for positive agonism namely, selective receptor state affinity. However, unlike agonists that have a selectively higher affinity for the receptor active state (to induce G-protein activation and subsequent physiological response) inverse agonists have a selectively higher affinity for the inactive receptor state and thus uncouple already spontaneously coupled [RaG] species in the system. 

The cubic ternary complex model takes into the account the fact that both the active and inactive receptor species must have a finite affinity for G-proteins [26-28], The two receptor species are denoted [Ra] (active state receptor able to activate G-proteins) and [RJ (inactive state receptors). These can form species [R,G] and [RaG] spontaneously, and species [ARiG] and [ARaG] in the presence of ligand. 

In constitutively active receptor systems (where the baseline is elevated due to spontaneous formation of receptor active states, see Chapter 3 for full discussion), unless the antagonist has identical affinities for the inactive receptor state, the spontaneously formed active state, and the spontaneously G-protein coupled state (three different receptor conformations, see discussion in Chapter 1 on receptor conformation) it will alter the relative concentrations of these species—and in so doing alter the baseline response. If the antagonist has higher affinity for the... 

Huang, P., Li, J., Visiers, I., Weinstein, H., and Liu-Chen, L.-Y. (2001) Functional role of a conserved motif in TM6 of the rat m opioid receptor constitutively active and inactive receptors result from substitutions of Thr6.34(279) with Lys and Asp. Biochemistry 40, 13501-13509. 

There is a mutant gene that produces an inactive receptor and patients with this mntant snffer from high levels of LDL-cholesterol in their blood. They have a markedly increased risk of developing atherosclerosis and coronary artery disease. 

The agonist binds to the inactive receptor and thereby causes a change from the resting conformation to the active state. The antagonist binds to the inac-Liillmann, Color Atlas of Pharmacology (... 

Ionically switchable lumophore-spacer-receptor systems can also be outfitted with an additional PET inactive receptor to enhance guest binding, especially when larger organic structures are involved. For instance, GABA is one of the most important neurotransmitters with the GABA receptor being one of the most studied... 

Fig. 6. A multistate model of receptor function with three states. The receptor population consists of an inactive receptor conformation (R) in equilibrium with two (or more) active receptor conformations (R and R ). Each active conformation can differentially activate effector mechanisms, leading to response 1 or response2 in the absence of an agonist. Two isomerization constants (L and M) define the propensity of the receptor to adopt an active conformation in the absence of a ligand. Agonists can differentially stabilize R vs R depending on the value of the equilibrium dissociation constants KA and KA relative to KA. Inverse agonists can also have differential effects on response 1 vs. response2 depending upon the relative values of L and M and of the affinity constants. Additional active states with additional isomerization and affinity constants can be added. Adapted from Leff et al. (86) and Berg et al. (22).

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Ambrosio C, Molinari P, Cotecchia S, Costa T. Catechol-binding serines of p2-adrenergic receptors control the equilibrium between active and inactive receptor states. Mol Pharmacol 2000 57 198-210. 

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