GHB receptor

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G protein-coupled receptor 172A
Identifiers
Symbol GPR172A
Entrez 79581
HUGO 30224
OMIM 607882
RefSeq NM_024531
UniProt Q9HAB3
Other data
Locus Chr. 8 q24.3

Gamma-hydroxybutyrate receptor or GHB receptor (GHBR), originally identified as GPR172A, is a G protein-coupled receptor that binds gamma-Hydroxybutyric acid (GHB).

History

The existence of a specific GHB receptor was predicted by observing the action of GHB and related compounds that primarily act on GABAB receptors, but also exhibit a range of effects which were found not to be produced by GABAB activity, and so were suspected of being produced by a novel and at the time unidentified receptor target. Following the discovery of the "orphan" G-protein coupled receptor GPR172A, it was subsequently found to be the GHB receptor whose existence had been previously predicted.[1] The rat GHB receptor was first cloned and characterised in 2003[2] followed by the human receptor in 2007.[3]

Function

The function of the GHB receptor appears to be quite different from that of the GABAB receptor. It shares no sequence homology with GABAB, and selective agonists for the GHB receptor which are not agonists at GABAB, or administration of mixed GHBR/GABAB agonists along with a selective GABAB antagonist, do not produce a sedative effect, instead causing a stimulant effect followed by convulsions at higher doses, thought to be mediated through increased Na+/K+ current and increased release of dopamine and glutamate.[4][5][6][7][8][9]

Selective Ligands

  • (R)-4-[4′-(2-iodobenzyloxy)phenyl]-GHB[10]

Agonists

Antagonists

References

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  4. Cash, C; Gobaille, S; Kemmel, V; Andriamampandry, C; Maitre, M (1999). "γ-hydroxybutyrate receptor function studied by the modulation of nitric oxide synthase activity in rat frontal cortex punches". Biochemical Pharmacology. 58 (11): 1815. doi:10.1016/S0006-2952(99)00265-8. PMID 10571257. 
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  10. Høg S, Wellendorph P, Nielsen B; et al. (2008). "Novel High-Affinity and Selective Biaromatic 4-Substituted gamma-Hydroxybutyric Acid (GHB) Analogues as GHB Ligands: Design, Synthesis, and Binding Studies". J. Med. Chem. 51 (24): 8088–95. doi:10.1021/jm801112u. PMID 19053823. 
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