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The Biological Bulletin, Vol 187, Issue 2 185-199, Copyright © 1994 by Marine Biological Laboratory

NEUROBIOLOGY

Characterization and Solubilization of the FMRFamide Receptor of Squid

G. J. Chin, K. Payza, D. A. Price, M. J. Greenberg and K. E. Doble
Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Neurophysiology, NICHD, Bethesda, Maryland 20892

The optic lobe of squid (Loligo pealei) contains FMRFamide receptors that can bind an iodinated FMRFamide analog: [125I]-desaminoTyr-Phe-norLeu-Arg-Phe-amide ([125I]-da YFnLRFa). Radioligand binding assays revealed that squid FMRFamide receptors are specific, saturable, high affinity sites (Kd = 0.15 nM) densely concentrated in optic lobe membranes (Bmax = 237 fmole/mg protein). The receptors appeared to be coupled to Gs because guanine nucleotides inhibit receptor binding and the stimulation of adenylate cyclase by FMRFamide is GTP-dependent. Both the binding and cyclase data showed that FMRFamide, but not FMRF-OH, interacts at FMRFamide receptors; thus the C-terminal Arg-Phe-amide is critical for binding. The high binding affinity of FMRFamide (0.4 nMIC50) was specific for FMRFamide-like peptides. The structure-activity relations of many FMRFamide analogs were defined in detail and were nearly identical for both the membrane-bound and detergent-solubilized receptors. We also found that squid optic lobe contains FMRFamide-like reactivity as measured with both a radioimmunoassay and a radioreceptor assay. Moreover, we have sequenced a fragment of genomic DNA that encodes a FMRFamide precursor. Our findings in sum suggest that FMRFamide is a neurotransmitter in squid optic lobe, and that this tissue is a good source from which to purify FMRFamide receptors.


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