Valsartan acts as a partially insurmountable antagonist at the human AT1 receptor, characterized by a fast reversible and a tight binding complex with a dissociation half-life of 17 minutes.
Valsartan acts as a partially insurmountable antagonist at the human AT1 receptor, a property related to its relatively slow dissociation kinetics.
The interaction between the AT1 receptor-selective antagonist valsartan, and its human receptor, was investigated by direct radioligand binding as well as by its inhibition of angiotensin II induced inositol phosphate accumulation in CHO cells expressing human recombinant AT1 receptors. Specific binding of 3H-valsartan rapidly reached equilibrium at 37 degrees C. It was saturable and occurred to a homogeneous class of sites with a K(D) of 0.88+/-0.076. It was inhibited by other AT1 receptor antagonists with the same potency order as previously described for the binding of 3H-angiotensin II and 3H-candesartan to human AT1 receptors (i.e. candesartan > or = EXP3174 > valsartan = irbesartan = angiotensin II > losartan). When valsartan and angiotensin II were applied simultaneously to the CHO-AT1 cells. the antagonist caused a rightward shift of the angiotensin II concentration response curve. Hence, valsartan interacts with the AT1 receptor in a manner that is competitive with angiotensin II. Pre-incubation of the cells with 0.5, 5 and 50 nM valsartan caused an additional, concentration-dependent, up to 55% decline of the maximal response. The partial nature of this insurmountable inhibition by valsartan was confirmed by biphasic antagonist concentration-inhibition curves. These data reflect the co-existence of a fast reversible/surmountable as well as a tight binding/insurmountable valsartan receptor complex. In agreement, pre-incubation of the CHO-AT1 cells with 5 and 50 nM valsartan produced a partial inhibition of the angiotensin II induced increase of the free intracellular calcium concentration. 3H-Valsartan dissociated from its receptors with a half-life of 17 min. In functional recovery experiments with valsartan-pre-treated cells, the angiotensin II-mediated response was half-maximally restored within approximately 30 min. These kinetic data suggest that the insurmountable inhibition by valsartan is related to its relatively slow dissociation from the human AT1 receptors.
Verheijen et al. (Sun,) reported a other. Valsartan vs. Angiotensin II was evaluated on Inhibition of angiotensin II induced inositol phosphate accumulation and receptor binding kinetics. Valsartan acts as a partially insurmountable antagonist at the human AT1 receptor, characterized by a fast reversible and a tight binding complex with a dissociation half-life of 17 minutes.
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