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Guinea pig gallbladder and pancreas possess identical CCK-A receptor subtypes: receptor cloning and expression

A. De Weerth, J. R. Pisegna and S. A. Wank
Digestive Diseases Branch, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892.

Cholecystokinin (CCK) receptors mediate pancreatic acinar secretion and gallbladder contraction. Pharmacological and functional studies in pancreas and gallbladder demonstrate a CCK-A receptor subtype in both tissues. However, some pharmacological studies and affinity cross-linking studies of CCK receptors on pancreatic acini and gallbladder suggest that these two tissues possess two different subtypes of the CCK-A receptor. We cloned these receptors in guinea pig using a cDNA clone of the CCK-A receptor from rat pancreas. The guinea pig gallbladder CCK-A receptor was cloned by hybridization screening of a gallbladder cDNA library using a cDNA probe from the rat CCK-A receptor coding region. The guinea pig pancreas CCK-A receptor cDNA was cloned via the polymerase chain reaction using primers corresponding to the guinea pig gallbladder CCK-A receptor 5'- and 3'-noncoding regions. CCK-A receptor clones from guinea pig pancreas and gallbladder had identical nucleotide sequences, which were 80% homologous to the rat CCK-A receptor cDNA sequence. The deduced amino acid sequence from guinea pig CCK-A receptors was 89% homologous to the rat CCK-A receptor sequence. Dose-inhibition binding studies of transiently expressed receptors by CCK agonists and antagonists exhibited a CCK-A receptor pharmacologically similar to the rat CCK-A receptor. These studies indicate that the CCK-A receptors in guinea pig pancreas and gallbladder are identical and do not support previous proposals that they may represent different receptor subtypes.

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