title: Constitutive activity of H3 autoreceptors modulates histamine synthesis in rat brain through the cAMP/PKA pathway.
abstract: We previously described that agonist-activated histamine H3 autoreceptors inhibit the stimulation of histamine synthesis mediated by calcium/calmodulin- and cAMP-dependent protein kinases (CaMKII and PKA respectively) in histaminergic nerve endings. In the absence of an agonist H3 receptors show partial constitutive activity, so we hypothesized that suppression of constitutive activity by an inverse agonist could stimulate these transduction pathways. We show here that the H3 inverse agonist thioperamide increases histamine synthesis in rat brain cortical slices independently from the amounts of extracellular histamine. Thioperamide effects were mimicked by the inverse agonists clobenpropit and A-331440, but not by the neutral antagonist VUF-5681. In contrast, coincubation with VUF-5681 suppressed thioperamide effects. The effects of thioperamide were completely blocked by the PKA inhibitor peptide myristoyl-PKI14-22, a peptide that did not block depolarization stimulation of histamine synthesis. In addition, thioperamide effects required depolarization and were impaired by blockade of N-type calcium channels (mediating depolarization), but not by CaMKII inhibition. These results indicate that constitutive activity of H3 receptors in rat brain cortex inhibits the adenylate cyclase/PKA pathway, and perhaps also the opening of N-type voltage sensitive calcium channels, but apparently not CaMKII.
authors.affiliation: Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Neuroscience Institute and Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Bellaterra, Spain.
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Moreno-Delgado
authors.forename: Anna
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Torrent
authors.forename: Jordi
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Gómez-Ramírez
authors.forename: Iwan
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: de Esch
authors.forename: Isaac
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Blanco
authors.forename: Jordi
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Ortiz
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001713:Biphenyl Compounds / Q000494:pharmacology; D001921:Brain / Q000187:drug effects / Q000378:metabolism*; D000242:Cyclic AMP / Q000378:metabolism*; D017868:Cyclic AMP-Dependent Protein Kinases / Q000378:metabolism*; D004305:Dose-Response Relationship, Drug; D004347:Drug Interactions; D004791:Enzyme Inhibitors / Q000494:pharmacology; D006632:Histamine / Q000378:metabolism*; D017442:Histamine Agonists / Q000494:pharmacology; D006633:Histamine Antagonists / Q000494:pharmacology; D007093:Imidazoles / Q000494:pharmacology; D066298:In Vitro Techniques; D008297:Male; D008954:Models, Biological; D009570:Nitriles / Q000494:pharmacology; D010880:Piperidines / Q000494:pharmacology; D011188:Potassium / Q000494:pharmacology; D011759:Pyrrolidines / Q000494:pharmacology; D051381:Rats; D017207:Rats, Sprague-Dawley; D018100:Receptors, Histamine H3 / Q000502:physiology*; D013890:Thiourea / Q000031:analogs & derivatives / Q000494:pharmacology
chemical_list: C493218:4'-(3-(3(R)-(dimethylamino)-pyrrolidin-1-yl)-propoxy)-biphenyl-4-carbonitrile; D001713:Biphenyl Compounds; D004791:Enzyme Inhibitors; D017442:Histamine Agonists; D006633:Histamine Antagonists; D007093:Imidazoles; D009570:Nitriles; D010880:Piperidines; D011759:Pyrrolidines; D018100:Receptors, Histamine H3; D006632:Histamine; D000242:Cyclic AMP; D017868:Cyclic AMP-Dependent Protein Kinases; D013890:Thiourea; C052075:thioperamide; C086108:clobenpropit; D011188:Potassium