Characterization of dual agonists for kinin B1 and B2 receptors and their biased activation of B2 receptors
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Date
2012-08Author
Brovkoyvch, Viktor
Lowry, Jessica L.
Skidgel, Randal A.
Zhang, Xianming
Publisher
ElsevierMetadata
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Kinin B1 and B2 receptors (kB1R and kB2R) play important roles in many physiological and
pathological processes. In some cases, kB1R or kB2R activation can have overlapping or
complementary beneficial effects, thus an activator of both receptors might be advantageous.
We found that replacement of the C-terminal Arg in the natural kB2R activators bradykinin (BK)
or kallidin (KD) with Lys (K9-BK or K10-KD) resulted in agonists that effectively stimulate the
downstream signaling of both the kB1R and kB2R as measured by increased inositol turnover,
intracellular calcium, ERK1/2 phosphorylation, arachidonic acid release and NO production.
However, K9-BK and K10-KD displayed some characteristics of biased agonism for kB2Rs as
indicated by the rapid kinetics of ERK1/2 phosphorylation induced by K9-BK or K10-KD
compared with the prolonged response mediated by BK or KD. In contrast, kinetics of ERK
phosphorylation stimulated by K10-KD activation of the kB1R was as same as that induced by
known kB1R agonist des-Arg10-KD. Furthermore, the endocytosis of kB2Rs mediated by K9-
BK and K10-KD was remarkably less than that induced by BK and KD respectively. K10-KD
stimulated kB1R and kB2R-dependent calcium responses and ERK1/2 phosphorylation in bovine
endothelial cells. In cytokine-treated human endothelial cells, K10-KD stimulated ERK1/2
phosphorylation and a transient peak of NO production that was primarily kB2R-dependent.
K10-KD also stimulated prolonged NO production that was both kB1R and kB2R-dependent.
These data provide the first examples of dual agonists of kB1R and kB2R, and a biased agonist
of kB2R and may provide useful clues for developing dual modulators of kB1Rs and kB2Rs for
potential therapeutic use.
Subject
Kinin B1 receptorkinin B2 receptor
biased agonist
kinin peptides
endocytosis