Usefulness of HeLa cells to evaluate inverse agonistic activity of antihistamines

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• 作者：Hiroyuki Mizuguchi ; Shohei Ono ; Masashi Hattori ; Yohei Sasaki ; Hiroyuki Fukui ; ^{hfukui@tokushima-u.ac.jp}
• 关键词：GAPDH ; glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase ; H1R ; histamine H1 receptor ; IPs ; Inositol phosphates ; PKC¦Ä ; protein kinase C ¦Ä ; PMA ; phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate ; RT-PCR ; reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction ; TCA ; trichloroacetic acid
• 刊名：International Immunopharmacology
• 出版年：2013
• 出版时间：March, 2013
• 年：2013
• 卷：15
• 期：3
• 页码：539-543
• 全文大小：854 K

文摘

Antihistamines are thought to antagonize histamine and prevent it from binding to the histamine H₁ receptor (H1R). However, recent studies indicate that antihistamines are classified into two groups, i.e., inverse agonists and neutral antagonists on the basis of their ability to down-regulate the constitutive activity of H1R. As H1R is an allergy-sensitive gene whose expression influences the severity of allergic symptoms, inverse agonists should more potently alleviate allergic symptoms than neutral antagonists by inhibiting H1R constitutive activity. Therefore, it is important to assess inverse agonistic activity of antihistamines. Here we report a novel assay method using HeLa cells expressing H1R endogenously for evaluation of inverse agonistic activity of antihistamines. Pretreatment with inverse agonists down-regulated H1R gene expression below to its basal level. On the other hand, basal H1R mRNA expression was unchanged by neutral antagonist pretreatment. Both inverse agonists and neutral antagonists suppressed histamine-induced H1R mRNA elevation. Classification of antihistamines on the basis of their suppressive activity of basal H1R gene expression was consistent with that of inositol phosphate accumulation in H1R-overexpressed cells. Our data suggest that the assay method using HeLa cells is more convenient and useful than the existing methods and may contribute to develop new antihistamines with inverse agonistic activity.