PMID- 15626750 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20050420 LR - 20131121 IS - 0026-895X (Print) IS - 0026-895X (Linking) VI - 67 IP - 4 DP - 2005 Apr TI - Pharmacological differences between human and guinea pig histamine H1 receptors: Asn84 (2.61) as key residue within an additional binding pocket in the H1 receptor. PG - 1045-52 AB - We tested several histamine H(1) receptor (H(1)R) and antagonists for their differences in agonists binding affinities between human and guinea pig H(1)Rs transiently expressed in African green monkey kidney (COS-7) cells. Especially, the bivalent agonist histaprodifen-histamine dimer (HP-HA) shows a higher affinity for guinea pig than for human H(1)Rs. Based on the structure of HP-HA, we have further identified VUF 4669 [7-(3-(4-(hydroxydiphenylmethyl)piperidin-1-yl)propoxy)-4-oxochroman-2-carboxylic acid] as a guinea pig-preferring H(1)R antagonist, demonstrating that the concept of species selectivity is not limited to agonists. To delineate the molecular mechanisms behind the observed species selectivity, we have created mutant human H(1)Rs in which amino acids were individually replaced by their guinea pig H(1)R counterparts. Residue Asn(84) (2.61) in transmembrane domain (TM) 2 seemed to act as a selectivity switch in the H(1)R. Molecular modeling and site-directed mutagenesis studies suggest that Asn(84) interacts with the conserved Tyr(458) (7.43) in TM7. Our data provide the first evidence that for some H(1)R ligands, the binding pocket is not only limited to TMs 3, 4, 5, and 6 but also comprises an additional pocket formed by TMs 2 and 7. FAU - Bruysters, Martijn AU - Bruysters M AD - Leiden/Amsterdam Center for Drug Research, Faculty of Sciences, Department of Medicinal Chemistry, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, De Boelelaan 1083, 1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands. FAU - Jongejan, Aldo AU - Jongejan A FAU - Gillard, Michel AU - Gillard M FAU - van de Manakker, Frank AU - van de Manakker F FAU - Bakker, Remko A AU - Bakker RA FAU - Chatelain, Pierre AU - Chatelain P FAU - Leurs, Rob AU - Leurs R LA - eng PT - Journal Article DEP - 20041230 PL - United States TA - Mol Pharmacol JT - Molecular pharmacology JID - 0035623 RN - 0 (Histamine Agonists) RN - 0 (Histamine H1 Antagonists) RN - 0 (Receptors, Histamine H1) RN - HPE317O9TL (Pyrilamine) SB - IM MH - Animals MH - Binding Sites MH - COS Cells MH - Guinea Pigs MH - Histamine Agonists/*metabolism MH - Histamine H1 Antagonists/*metabolism MH - Humans MH - Models, Molecular MH - Mutagenesis, Site-Directed MH - Pyrilamine/metabolism MH - Receptors, Histamine H1/chemistry/*metabolism MH - Species Specificity MH - Structure-Activity Relationship EDAT- 2005/01/01 09:00 MHDA- 2005/04/21 09:00 CRDT- 2005/01/01 09:00 PHST- 2005/01/01 09:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2005/04/21 09:00 [medline] PHST- 2005/01/01 09:00 [entrez] AID - mol.104.008847 [pii] AID - 10.1124/mol.104.008847 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Mol Pharmacol. 2005 Apr;67(4):1045-52. doi: 10.1124/mol.104.008847. Epub 2004 Dec 30.