On-target and off-target effects of novel orthosteric and allosteric activators of GPR84

Many members of the G protein-coupled receptor family, including examples with clear therapeutic potential, remain poorly characterised. This often reflects limited availability of suitable tool ligands with which to interrogate receptor function. In the case of GPR84, currently a target for the treatment of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, recent times have seen the description of novel orthosteric and allosteric agonists. Using 2-(hexylthiol)pyrimidine-4,6 diol (2-HTP) and di(5,7-difluoro-1H-indole-3-yl)methane (PSB-16671) as exemplars of each class, in cell lines transfected to express either human or mouse GPR84, both ligands acted as effective on-target activators and with high co-operativity in their interactions. This was also the case in lipopolysaccharide-activated model human and mouse immune cell lines. However in mouse bone-marrow-derived neutrophils, where expression of GPR84 is particularly high, the capacity of PSB-16671 but not of 2-HTP to promote G protein activation was predominantly off-target because it was not blocked by an antagonist of GPR84 and was preserved in neutrophils isolated from GPR84 deficient mice. These results illustrate the challenges of attempting to study and define functions of poorly characterised receptors using ligands that have been developed via medicinal chemistry programmes, but where assessed activity has been limited largely to the initially identified target.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2019

Erschienen:

2019

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:9

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Scientific reports - 9(2019), 1 vom: 12. Feb., Seite 1861

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Mancini, Sarah J [VerfasserIn]
Mahmud, Zobaer Al [VerfasserIn]
Jenkins, Laura [VerfasserIn]
Bolognini, Daniele [VerfasserIn]
Newman, Robert [VerfasserIn]
Barnes, Matt [VerfasserIn]
Edye, Michelle E [VerfasserIn]
McMahon, Stephen B [VerfasserIn]
Tobin, Andrew B [VerfasserIn]
Milligan, Graeme [VerfasserIn]

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EC 3.6.1.-
GPR84 protein, human
GTP-Binding Proteins
Gpr84 protein, mouse
Journal Article
Ligands
Lipopolysaccharides
Receptors, G-Protein-Coupled
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

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Date Completed 23.09.2020

Date Revised 09.01.2021

published: Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1038/s41598-019-38539-1

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM293813922