title: Localization of I2-imidazoline binding sites on monoamine oxidases.
abstract: Imidazoline binding sites (IBS) were proposed to be responsible for some of the pharmacological and therapeutic activities of imidazoline and related compounds and have been classified into two subtypes, I1BS and I2BS. Convergent studies attribute a role in central blood pressure regulation to the I1BS. In contrast, the function of I2BS remains unknown. In the present study, by combining biochemical and molecular biology approaches, we show that 1) microsequencing of I2BS purified from rabbit kidney mitochondria allowed the recovery of four peptide sequence stretches displaying up to 85.7% similarity with human, rat, and bovine monoamine oxidases (MAO)-A and -B; 2) I2BS and MAO displayed identical biophysical characteristics as their activities, measured by [3H]idazoxan binding and [14C]tyramine oxidation, respectively, could not be separated using various chromatographic procedures; and 3) heterologous expression of human placenta MAO-A and human liver MAO-B in yeast, inherently devoid of I2BS and MAO activities, led to the coexpression of [3H]idazoxan binding sites displaying ligand-recognition properties typical of I2BS. These results show definitely that I2BS is located on both MAO-A and -B. The fact that I2BS ligands inhibited MAO activity independently of the interaction with the catalytic region suggests that I2BS might be a previously unknown MAO regulatory site.
authors.affiliation: Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM U 388), Institut Louis Bugnard, CHU Rangueil, Toulouse, France.
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Tesson
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Limon-Boulez
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Urban
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Puype
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Vandekerckhove
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Coupry
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Pompon
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Parini
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D001665:Binding Sites; D002417:Cattle; D006801:Humans; D007093:Imidazoles / Q000378:metabolism*; D007668:Kidney / Q000378:metabolism; D008928:Mitochondria / Q000378:metabolism; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D008995:Monoamine Oxidase / Q000378:metabolism*; D008996:Monoamine Oxidase Inhibitors / Q000378:metabolism; D011817:Rabbits; D051381:Rats; D017386:Sequence Homology, Amino Acid
chemical_list: D007093:Imidazoles; D008996:Monoamine Oxidase Inhibitors; D008995:Monoamine Oxidase