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Effects of amphipathic drugs onl-[3H]glutamate binding to synaptic membranes and the purified binding protein

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Four amphipathic molecules with known local anesthetic activity, dibucaine, tetracaine, chlorpomazine, and quinacrine, inhibited the binding ofl-[3H]glutamic acid to rat brain synaptic plasma membranes and to the purified glutamate binding protein. Neither haloperidol nor diphenylhydantoin had significant inhibitory effects on the glutamate binding activity of the membranes or of the purified protein. The amphipathic drugs apparently inhibitedl-[3H]glutamate binding to synaptic membranes by a mixed type of inhibition. The inhibitory activity of quinacrine on glutamate binding to the synaptic membranes was greater in a low ionic strength, Ca2+-free buffer medium, than in a physiologic medium (Krebs-Henseleit buffer). Removal of Ca2+ from the Krebs solution enhanced quinacrine's inhibition of glutamate binding. Quinacrine up to 1 mM concentration did not inhibit the high affinity Na+-dependentl-glutamate transport in these membrane preparations. The importance of Ca2+ in the expression of quinacrine's effects on the glutamate binding activity of synaptic membranes and the observed tetracaine and chlorpromazine-induced increases in the transition temperature for the glutamate binding process of these membranes, were indicative of an interaction of the local anesthetics with the lipid environment of the glutamate binding sites.

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    Elias K. Michaelis, Charles D. Magruder, Richard A. Lampe, Noemi Galton, Hsuan H. Chang & Mary L. Michaelis

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Michaelis, E.K., Magruder, C.D., Lampe, R.A. et al. Effects of amphipathic drugs onl-[3H]glutamate binding to synaptic membranes and the purified binding protein. Neurochem Res 9, 29–44 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00967657

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