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Enhancement of homomeric glycine receptor function by long-chain alcohols and anaesthetics.
Mascia MP, Machu TK, Harris RA.
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1. The effects of n-alcohols (ethanol to dodecanol) and anaesthetics on strychnine-sensitive glycine receptors were studied in Xenopus oocytes expressing homomeric alpha 1 or alpha 2 glycine receptor subunits, with the two electrode voltage-clamp recording technique. 2. The glycine-induced chloride conductance of homomeric alpha glycine receptors was potentiated by all the alcohols tested when an EC2 concentration of glycine was used. Homomeric alpha 1 and alpha 2 receptors were potentiated similarly by the n-alcohols, except that low concentrations of ethanol produced greater potentiation with alpha 1, as previously reported. 3. Increasing the n-alcohol carbon number has been shown to increase the potency of the alcohols up to decanol at concentrations corresponding to EC50s for producing loss of righting reflex in tadpoles. However, dodecanol was no more potent than decanol, and only modest potentiation (30-60%) was obtained with dodecanol, in contrast to marked (150-200%) potentiation with the other alcohols. Thus, a "cut-off' occurred at about dodecanol. 4. Propofol, alphaxalone, pentobarbitone, halothane and enflurane, reversibly potentiated the function of homomeric alpha 1 glycine receptors at concentrations which represent approximately twice the EC50 for production of anaesthesia in mammals, but ketamine and etomidate were ineffective. 5. Two novel cyclobutane compounds were tested; the anaesthetic compound (1-chloro-1,2,2-trifluorocyclobutane) from 0.5 to 5 mM potentiated the action of glycine in a concentration-dependent manner; however, the non-anaesthetic analogue (1,2-dichloro-hexfluorocyclobutane) had no effect on glycine receptor function at concentrations (25 to 80 microM) predicted to be anaesthetic, based on the lipid solubility of this compound. 6. These results suggest that the alpha subunits of strychnine-sensitive glycine receptors contain sites of action for n-alcohols, propofol, alphaxalone, pentobarbitone and volatile anaesthetics, but not for ketamine and etomidate. Potentiation of glycine receptor function may contribute to the anaesthetic action of n-alcohols and volatile agents.
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