Título : Identificación y caracterización de nuevos moduladores de TRPM8 |
Autor : Foronda García, Marta |
Tutor: Fernández Carvajal, Asia Medina Peris, Alicia |
Editor : Universidad Miguel Hernández |
Departamento: Departamentos de la UMH::Bioquímica y Biología Molecular |
Fecha de publicación: 2021-06-29 |
URI : http://hdl.handle.net/11000/25461 |
Resumen :
El receptor de potencial transitorio subfamilia melastatina número 8 (TRPM8) es un
termocanal polimodal catiónico no selectivo permeable a calcio. Es sensible a temperaturas
suaves y a compuestos refrescantes naturales y sintéticos. Se expresa en varios tejidos del
cuerpo humano, desempeñando impor... Ver más
The transient receptor potential subfamily melastatin number 8 (TRPM8) is a non-selective
calcium-permeable cationic polymodal thermo-channel. It is gated by mild temperatures and
cooling natural or synthetic compounds. It is expressed in different tissues of the human body,
performing important physiological functions. In primary sensory neurons of the
somatosensory pathway, it mediates cold thermo-transduction. Due to the ubiquity of the
channel, a malfunction might trigger various diseases. Although a heterogeneous group of
modulators has been characterized and many of them show promising results in the preclinical
phase, just a few of them reach clinical phases. One possible reason for this failure in clinical
applicability may lie in the fact that there is a lack of translation from the murine model, the
one most used in in vitro tests, to the human. In order to determine possible differences in
the modulators responses between human TRPM8 (hTRPM8) and rat TRPM8 (rTRPM8),
efficacy, potency, selectivity and cytotoxicity of four antagonist compounds (β-lactams) and two agonist compounds (menthol and icillin) were studied in this assay. Fluorometric and cell
viability tests were carried out to assess those properties. Regarding the antagonists, the
obtained results indicate that icillin has a higher affinity for the rTRPM8 channel and menthol
for hTRPM8. Focusing on the antagonists, the 4 tested compounds have higher affinity for
rTRPM8. Compound 3 acts as a partial antagonist of TRPM8 and shows the greatest species
difference in potency, being 16 times more potent for rTRPM8 than for hTRPM8. These
compounds show a slight capacity to activate the TRPV1 channel at high concentrations, being
compound 1 the most potent of them all. Regarding the antagonists toxicity, compound 1 is
not toxic at any of the tested concentrations while compounds 2, 3 and 4 are toxic at all used
concentrations but compound 4 at 1 μM (100% viability). Despite the structural similarities
between rTRPM8 and hTRPM8, the obtained results show that there are differences in efficacy
and potency for both the agonists menthol and icillin, and the 4 studied antagonists. The differences between the two orthologs, in terms of the efficacy and potency of the modulators
studied, support the use of the hTRPM8 model in preclinical studies.
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Palabras clave/Materias: hTRPM8 rTRPM8 canal iónico fluorimetría modulador |
Área de conocimiento : CDU: Ciencias puras y naturales: Biología |
Tipo de documento : info:eu-repo/semantics/masterThesis |
Derechos de acceso: info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
Aparece en las colecciones: TFM-M.U en Biotecnología y Bioingeniería
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