Shining light on the histamine H2 receptor: Synthesis of carbamoylguanidine-type agonists as a pharmacological tool to study internalization

Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters
2021.0

Abstract

So far, only little is known about the internalization process of the histamine H<sub>2</sub> receptor (H<sub>2</sub>R). One promising approach to study such dynamic processes is the use of agonistic fluorescent ligands. Therefore, a series of carbamoylguanidine-type H<sub>2</sub>R agonists containing various fluorophores, heterocycles, and linkers (28-40) was synthesized. The ligands were pharmacologically characterized in several binding and functional assays. These studies revealed a significantly biased efficacy (E<sub>max</sub>) for some of the compounds, e.g. 32: whereas 32 acted as strong partial (E<sub>max</sub>: 0.77, mini-Gs recruitment) or full agonist (E<sub>max</sub>: 1.04, [<sup>35</sup>S]GTPγS binding) with respect to G protein activation, it was only a weak partial agonist regarding β-arrestin1/2 recruitment (E<sub>max</sub>: 0.09-0.12) and failed to promote H<sub>2</sub>R internalization (confocal microscopy). On the other hand, H<sub>2</sub>R internalization was observed for compounds that exhibited moderate agonistic activity in the β-arrestin1/2 pathways (E<sub>max</sub> ≥ 0.22). The presented differently-biased fluorescent ligands are versatile molecular tools for future H<sub>2</sub>R studies on receptor trafficking and internalization e.g. using fluorescence microscopy.

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