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- Title
Allosteric inhibition of muscle-type nicotinic acetylcholine receptors by a neuromuscular blocking agent pancuronium.
- Authors
Sakata, Souhei; Ono, Fumihito
- Abstract
Muscle relaxants are indispensable for surgical anesthesia. Early studies suggested that a classical non-depolarizing muscle relaxant pancuronium competitively binds to the ligand binding site to block nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (nAChR). Our group recently showed that nAChR which has two distinct subunit combinations are expressed in zebrafish muscles, αβδε and αβδ, for which potencies of pancuronium are different. Taking advantage of the distinct potencies, we generated chimeras between two types of nAChRs and found that the extracellular ACh binding site is not associated with the pancuronium sensitivity. Furthermore, application of either 2 μM or 100 μM ACh in native αβδε or αβδ subunits yielded similar IC50 of pancuronium. These data suggest that pancuronium allosterically inhibits the activity of zebrafish nAChRs.
- Subjects
NICOTINIC acetylcholine receptors; NEUROMUSCULAR blocking agents; CHOLINERGIC receptors; SUGAMMADEX; LIGAND binding (Biochemistry); BINDING sites; GLUTAMATE receptors; MUSCLE relaxants
- Publication
PLoS ONE, 2023, Vol 18, Issue 10, p1
- ISSN
1932-6203
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1371/journal.pone.0292262