Characterization of 5,7‐Dichlorokynurenate‐Insensitive d‐[3H]Serine Binding to Synaptosomal Fraction Isolated from Rat Brain Tissues
Characterization of 5,7‐Dichlorokynurenate‐Insensitive d‐[3H]Serine Binding to Synaptosomal Fraction Isolated from Rat Brain Tissues
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DOI:
10.1046/j.1471-4159.1997.69010399.x
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发表时间:
1997-07
影响因子:
4.7
通讯作者:
M. Matoba;U. Tomita;T. Nishikawa
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作者:
M. Matoba;U. Tomita;T. Nishikawa
Abstract: To explore target sites for endogenous d‐serine that are different from the glycine site of the N‐methyl‐d‐aspartate (NMDA) type glutamate receptor, we have studied the binding of d‐[3H]serine to the synaptosomal P2 fraction prepared from the rat brain and peripheral tissues in the presence of an excess concentration (100 µM) of the glycine site antagonist 5,7‐dichlorokynurenate (DCK). Nonspecific binding was defined in the presence of 1 mM unlabeled d‐serine. Association, dissociation, and saturation experiments indicated that d‐[3H]serine bound rapidly and reversibly to a single population of recognition sites in the cerebellar P2 fraction in the presence of DCK, with a KD of 614 nM and a Bmax of 2.07 pmol/mg of protein. d‐Serine, l‐serine, and glycine produced a total inhibition of the specific DCK‐insensitive d‐[3H]serine binding to the cerebellum with similar Ki values. Strychnine and 7‐chlorokynurenate failed to inhibit the binding at 10 µM. The profiles of displacement of the DCK‐insensitive d‐[3H]serine binding by various amino acids and glutamate and glycine receptor‐related compounds differ from those of any other defined recognition sites. DCK‐insensitive d‐[3H]serine binding was at high levels in the cerebral cortex and cerebellum but very low in the kidney and liver. The present findings indicate that the DCK‐insensitive d‐[3H]serine binding site could be a novel candidate for a target for endogenous d‐serine in mammalian brains.