Toxityping rat brain calcium channels with omega-toxins from spider and cone snail venoms
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Toxityping rat brain calcium channels with omega-toxins from spider and cone snail venoms
Abstract
Different types of voltage-sensitive Ca2+ channels in the brain can be defined by specific ligands: L-type Ca2+ channels are uniquely sensitive to dihydropyridines, and N-type Ca2+ channels are selectively blocked by the Conus peptide omega-CTX-GVIA. Cloning data have revealed additional calcium channel types in mammalian brain for which selective ligands would be desirable. We describe binding experiments involving three newer ligands that block dihydropyridine- and omega-CTX-GVIA-resistant Ca channels: omega-Aga-IIIA and omega-Aga-IVA from venom of the spider Agelenopsis aperta and omega-CTX-MVIIC from Conus magus. [125I]omega-Aga-IVA binds with high affinity (IC50 = approximately 50 nM) to receptors in rat brain which may correspond to P-like calcium channels. A second high-affinity site (IC50 = approximately 1 nM) is defined by [125I]omega-CTX-MVIIC, proposed here to be on an "O"-type calcium channel. [125I]omega-Aga-IIIA targets homologous binding sites present on multiple Ca channel types. The IIIA sites overlap with the binding sites for [125I]omega-CTX-GVIA and [125I]omega-CTX-MVIIC. The IIIA sites do not overlap with the site defined by omega-Aga-IVA. Thus toxin ligands may be highly specific for a particular Ca channel (i.e., GVIA for the N-type channel) or exhibit broader specificity (i.e., omega-Aga-IIIA, which appears to bind L-, N-, P-, and O-type Ca2+ channels).
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