Properties of receptors for the Ca2+‐channel blocker verapamil in transverse‐tubule membranes of skeletal muscle
- 1 October 1984
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in European Journal of Biochemistry
- Vol. 144 (2), 211-215
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1432-1033.1984.tb08451.x
Abstract
The verapamil receptor associated with the voltage-dependent Ca channel of rabbit skeletal muscle transverse tubule membranes has the following properties. This receptor is stereospecific and discriminates between the different stereoisomers of verapamil, gallopamil and diltiazem. Inorganic divalent cations inhibit the binding of [3H]verapamil to its receptor in an apparently non-competitive fashion. The rank order of potency is: Ca2+ = Mn2+ > Mg2+ > Sr2+ > Ba2+ .mchgt. Co2+ .mchgt. Ni2+. Ca2+ and Mn2+ have inhibition constants of 0.3 mM. Binding of [3H]verapamil is also sensitive to monovalent cations such as Cs+, K+, Li+ and Na+. The most active of these cations (Cs+ and K+) have inhibition constants in the range of 30 mM. Binding of [3H]verapamil is pH-dependent and reveals the presence on the verapamil receptor of an essential ionizable group with a pKa of 6.5. A low-affinity binding site for verapamil and for some other Ca2+ channel blockers is detected by studies of dissociation kinetics of the [3H]verapamil receptor in the presence of high concentrations of verapamil, gallopamil, bepridil and diltiazem. GTP and nucleoside analogs change the properties of [3H]verapamil binding to verapamil binding sites. High-affinity binding sites seem to be transferred into low-affinity sites. Dissociation constants obtained from inhibition studies of [3H]verapamil binding are in the range of 0.1-0.3 mM for GTP, ATP and Gpp(NH)p.This publication has 23 references indexed in Scilit:
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