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Research ArticleCELLULAR AND MOLECULAR

Quantitative Imaging in Live Human Cells Reveals Intracellular α1-Adrenoceptor Ligand-Binding Sites

Janet F. Mackenzie, Craig J. Daly, John D. Pediani and John C. McGrath
Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics August 2000, 294 (2) 434-443;
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Cellular distribution and binding characteristics of native α1-adrenoceptors (ARs) were determined in a live, single, human smooth muscle cell (SMC) with confocal laser scanning microscopy and a fluorescent ligand, BODIPY-FL prazosin (QAPB). This allowed single-cell competitive ligand binding and showed that 40% of α1-AR-binding sites in native cells are intracellular. QAPB had high affinity and acted as a nonselective, competitive antagonist versus [3H]prazosin at cloned human α1a-, α1b-, and α1d-AR subtypes on membrane preparations and whole cells. RS100329 had 70-fold selectivity for α1a-ARs versus α1b- and α1d-ARs, validating its use to identify this subtype. In similar cells QAPB-associated fluorescence provided quantitative data analogous and comparable to [3H]prazosin binding in whole cells. In human, dissociated, prostatic smooth muscle cells QAPB-associated fluorescence binding exhibited specific high-affinity binding properties (FKD = 0.63 ± 0.02 nM), which was 3- to 4-fold higher compared with recombinant cells (FKD = 2.1–2.3 nM). Internal consistency in the data showed that affinity is greater, in general, in membrane preparations than in cells but also greater in the native prostatic tissues or cells than in equivalent recombinant receptors. Fluorescence revealed binding sites both on the plasmalemmal membrane and on intracellular compartments: at all locations RS100329 inhibited QAPB binding identifying the sites as α1A-ARs. Quantitative three-dimensional mapping of QAPB-associated fluorescence binding in native human cells showed that 40% of high-affinity-binding sites was in intracellular compartments. This provides a potential new site for physiological agonism and makes intracellular access a potential differentiator of drug action.

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  • Send reprint requests to: Dr. J. F. Mackenzie, Autonomic Physiology Unit, Division of Neuroscience & Biomedical Systems, Institute of Biomedical & Life Sciences, West Medical Bldg., University of Glasgow, Glasgow, G12 8QQ, UK. E-mail:j.f.mckenzie{at}bio.gla.ac.uk

  • ↵1 This study was supported by Pfizer, Medical Research Council, and the Prostate Research Campaign, United Kingdom.

  • Abbreviations:
    AR
    adrenoceptor
    SMC
    smooth muscle cell
    QAPB
    BODIPY-FL prazosin
    FKD
    fluorescentKD
    • Received January 4, 2000.
    • Accepted April 18, 2000.
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Quantitative Imaging in Live Human Cells Reveals Intracellular α1-Adrenoceptor Ligand-Binding Sites

Janet F. Mackenzie, Craig J. Daly, John D. Pediani and John C. McGrath
Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics August 1, 2000, 294 (2) 434-443;

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Quantitative Imaging in Live Human Cells Reveals Intracellular α1-Adrenoceptor Ligand-Binding Sites

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