Detailed functional characterization of four nanobodies as positive allosteric modulators of the human Calcium-Sensing receptor.

IF 5.3 2区医学 Q1 PHARMACOLOGY & PHARMACY

Biochemical pharmacology Pub Date : 2024-11-08 DOI:10.1016/j.bcp.2024.116619

Wei Du, Sabrina N Rahman, Eleanor Barker, Hans Bräuner-Osborne, Jesper M Mathiesen, Donald T Ward, Anders A Jensen

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Abstract

The calcium-sensing receptor (CaSR) plays a key role in calcium homeostasis, and small-molecule and peptide positive allosteric modulators (PAMs) of CaSR, so-called calcimimetics, are used in the treatment of hyperparathyroidism and hypocalcemic disorders. In this study, four monovalent nanobodies - representing four distinct nanobody families with CaSR PAM activity - were subjected to elaborate pharmacological profiling at the receptor. While Nb5 displayed negligible PAM activity at CaSR in all assays, Nb4, Nb10 and Nb45 all potently potentiated Ca²⁺-evoked signalling through a myc epitope-tagged CaSR expressed in HEK293 or HEK293T cells in Gα_q and Gα_i1 protein activation assays and in a Ca²⁺/Fluo-4 assay. Nb4 and Nb10 also displayed comparable PAM properties at a stable CaSR-HEK293 cell line in a Ca²⁺/Fura-2 imaging assay, but surprisingly Nb45 was completely inactive at this cell line in both the Ca²⁺/Fura-2 and Ca²⁺/Fluo-4 assays. Investigations into this binary difference in Nb45 activity revealed that the nanobody only possesses modulatory activity at CaSRs tagged N-terminally with various epitopes (myc, HA, Flag-SNAP), whereas it is inactive at the untagged wild-type receptor. In conclusion, overall each of the nanobodies exhibit similar CaSR PAM properties in a range of assays, and thus none of them display pathway bias as modulators. However, of the four nanobodies Nb4 and Nb10 would be applicable as pharmacological tools for the wild-type CaSR, and the complete inactivity of Nb45 at the untagged CaSR serves as an reminder that epitope-tagging of a receptor, even if deemed functionally silent, can have profound implications for ligand discovery efforts.

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四种纳米抗体作为人类钙传感受体正异构调节剂的详细功能表征。

钙传感受体（CaSR）在钙平衡中起着关键作用，CaSR 的小分子和多肽正性异位调节剂（PAMs），即所谓的降钙药，被用于治疗甲状旁腺功能亢进症和低钙血症。在这项研究中，对四种单价纳米抗体（代表具有 CaSR PAM 活性的四个不同纳米抗体家族）在受体上进行了详细的药理学分析。在 Gαq 和 Gαi1 蛋白激活试验以及 Ca2+/Fluo-4 试验中，Nb5 在所有试验中对 CaSR 的 PAM 活性都微乎其微，而 Nb4、Nb10 和 Nb45 都能通过在 HEK293 或 HEK293T 细胞中表达的 myc 表位标记的 CaSR 有效地增强 Ca2+ 诱导的信号传导。在 Ca2+/Fura-2 成像检测中，Nb4 和 Nb10 在稳定的 CaSR-HEK293 细胞系中也显示出相似的 PAM 特性，但令人惊讶的是，在 Ca2+/Fura-2 和 Ca2+/Fluo-4 检测中，Nb45 在该细胞系中完全没有活性。对 Nb45 活性的这种二元差异进行研究后发现，纳米抗体只对 N 端标记了各种表位（myc、HA、Flag-SNAP）的 CaSR 具有调节活性，而对未标记的野生型受体则没有活性。总之，总体而言，每种纳米抗体在一系列检测中都表现出相似的 CaSR PAM 特性，因此它们都没有显示出作为调节剂的途径偏差。然而，在这四种纳米抗体中，Nb4 和 Nb10 可以作为野生型 CaSR 的药理工具，而 Nb45 在未标记的 CaSR 上完全没有活性，这提醒我们，即使认为受体的表位标记在功能上是沉默的，也会对配体的发现工作产生深远的影响。

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Biochemical pharmacology 医学-药学

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10.30

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1.70%

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420

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17 days

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