RQ-00201894: A motilin receptor agonist causing long-lasting facilitation of human gastric cholinergically-mediated contractions

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• 作者：John Broad^a ; Nobuyuki Takahashi^c ; Masaomi Tajimi^c ; Masaki Sudo^c ; Adam Gó ; ralczyk^b ; Umesh Parampalli^b ; Kesava Mannur^b ; Toshinori Yamamoto^c ; Gareth J. Sanger^a ; ^{g.sanger@qmul.ac.uk" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author}
• 关键词：Motilin ; RQ-00201894 ; Human stomach ; Cholinergic activity ; Gastroparesis
• 刊名：Journal of Pharmacological Sciences
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：February 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：130
• 期：2
• 页码：60-65
• 全文大小：830 K

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The aim was to characterise RQ-00201894, a novel non-macrolide motilin agonist, using human recombinant receptors and then investigate its ability to facilitate cholinergic activity in human stomach. A reporter gene assay assessed motilin receptor function. Selectivity of action was determined using a panel of different receptors, ion channels, transporters and enzymes. Cholinergically-mediated muscle contractions were evoked by electrical field stimulation (EFS) of human gastric antrum. The results showed that RQ-00201894, motilin and erythromycin acted as full motilin receptor agonists (EC₅₀: 0.20, 0.11, 69 nM, respectively). In this function, RQ-00201894 had >90-fold selectivity of action over its ability to activate the human ghrelin receptor (EC₅₀ 19 nM) and greater selectivity over all other receptors/mechanisms tested. In human stomach RQ-00201894 0.1–30 μM concentration-dependently increased EFS-evoked contractions (up to 1209%; pEC₅₀ 6.0). At 0.1–10 μM this activity was usually prolonged. At higher concentrations (3–30 μM) RQ-00201894 also caused a short-lasting muscle contraction, temporally disconnected from the increase in EFS-evoked contractions. RQ-00201894 10 μM did not consistently affect submaximal contractions evoked by carbachol. In conclusion, RQ-00201894 potently and selectively activates the motilin receptor and causes long-lasting facilitation of cholinergic activity in human stomach, an activity thought to correlate with an ability to increase gastric emptying.