Patent Abstract:
the present invention relates to the isolation , characterization and pharmacological uses for the human d5 dopamine receptor , the gene corresponding to this receptor , pseudogenes of this receptor gene , a recombinant eukaryotic expression vector capable of expressing the human d5 dopamine receptor in cultures of transformed eukaryotic cells and such cultures of transformed eukaryotic cells that synthesize the human d5 dopamine receptor . the invention relates to the biochemical and physiological characterization of the human d5 dopamine receptor and the development and testing of drugs useful for treating or preventing human disease .

Detailed Description:
the term &# 34 ; d5 - dopamine receptor &# 34 ; as used herein refers to proteins substantially homologous to , and having substantially the same biological activity as , the protein coded for by the nucleotide sequence depicted in fig2 ( i . e ., proteins which display high affinity binding to dopamine ). this definition is intended to encompass natural allelic variations in the d5 - dopamine receptor sequence . cloned genes of the present invention may code for d5 - dopamine receptors of any species of origin , including , mouse , rat , rabbit , cat , and human , but preferably code for receptors of mammalian , most preferably human , origin . the production of proteins such as the d5 - dopamine receptor from cloned genes by genetic engineering is well known . see , e . g ., u . s . pat . no . 4 , 761 , 371 to bell et al . at col . 6 line 3 to col . 9 line 65 . ( the disclosure of all u . s . patent references cited herein is to be incorporated herein by reference .) the discussion which follows is accordingly intended as an overview of this field , and is not intended to reflect the full state of the art . dna which encodes the d5 - dopamine receptor may be obtained , in view of the instant disclosure , by chemical synthesis , by screening reverse transcripts of mrna from appropriate cells or cell line cultures , by screening genomic libraries from appropriate cells , or by combinations of these procedures , as illustrated below . screening of mrna or genomic dna may be carried out with oligonucleotide probes generated from the d5 - dopamine receptor gene sequence information provided herein . probes may be labeled with a detectable group such as a fluorescent group , a radioactive atom or a chemiluminescent group in accordance with know procedures and used in conventional hybridization assays , as described in greater detail in the examples below . in the alternative , d5 - dopamine receptor gene sequences may be obtained by use of the polymerase chain reaction ( pcr ) procedure , with the pcr oligonucleotide primers being produced from the d5 - dopamine receptor gene sequence provided herein . see u . s . pat . nos . 4 , 683 , 195 to mullis et al . and 4 , 683 , 202 to mullis . the d5 - dopamine receptor may be synthesized in host cells transformed with vectors containing dna encoding the d5 - dopamine receptor . a vector is a replicable dna construct . vectors are used herein either to amplify dna encoding the d5 - dopamine receptor and / or to express dna which encodes the d5 - dopamine receptor . an expression vector is a replicable dna construct in which a dna sequence encoding the d5 receptor is operably linked to suitable control sequences capable of effecting the expression of the d5 receptor in a suitable host . the need for such control sequences will vary depending upon the host selected and the transformation method chosen . generally , control sequences include a transcriptional promoter , an optional operator sequence to control transcription , a sequence encoding suitable mrna ribosomal binding sites , and sequences which control the termination of transcription and translation . amplification vectors do not require expression control domains . all that is needed is the ability to replicate in a host , usually conferred by an origin of replication , and a selection gene to facilitate recognition of transformants . vectors useful for practicing the present invention include plasmids , viruses ( including phage ), retroviruses , and integrable dna fragments ( i . e ., fragments integrable into the host genome by homologous recombination ). the vector replicates and functions independently of the host genome , or may , in some instances , integrate into the genome itself . suitable vectors will contain replicon and control sequences which are derived from species compatible with the intended expression host . transformed host cells are cells which have been transformed or transfected with the d5 receptor vectors constructed using recombinant dna techniques . transformed host cells ordinarily express the d5 receptor , but host cells transformed for purposes of cloning or amplifying the d5 receptor dna need not express the d5 receptor . when expressed , the d5 receptor will typically be located in the host cell membrane . dna regions are operably linked when they are functionally related to each other . for example : a promoter is operably linked to a coding sequence if it controls the transcription of the sequence ; a ribosome binding site is operably linked to a coding sequence if it is positioned so as to permit translation . generally , operably linked means contiguous and , in the case of leaders sequences , contiguous and in the same translational reading frame . cultures of cells derived from multicellular organisms are a desirable host for recombinant d5 - dopamine receptor synthesis . in principal , any higher eukaryotic cell culture may be used , whether from vertebrate or invertebrate cell culture . however , mammalian cells are preferred , as illustrated in the examples . propagation of such cells in cell culture has become a routine procedure . see , tissue culture , kruse & amp ; patterson , eds . ( academic press , 1973 ). examples of useful host cell lines are cos - 7 and 293 cell lines . expression vectors for such cells ordinarily include ( if necessary ) an origin of replication , a promoter located upstream from the gene to be expressed , along with a ribosome binding site , rna splice site ( if intron - containing genomic dna is used ), a polyadenylation site , and a transcriptional termination sequence . the transcriptional and translational control sequences in expression vectors to be used in transforming vertebrate cells are often provided by viral sources . for example , commonly used promoters are derived from polyoma , adenovirus 2 , and simian virus 40 ( sv40 ). see , e . g ., u . s . pat . no . 4 , 599 , 308 . the early and late promoters of sv40 are useful because both are obtained easily from the virus as a fragment which also contains the sv40 viral origin of replication . see , fiers et al ., 1978 , nature 273 : 113 . further , the human genomic d5 receptor promoter , control and / or signal sequences , may also be used , provided such control sequences are compatible with the host cell chosen . an origin of replication may be provided either by construction of the vector to include an exogenous origin , such as may be derived from sv40 or other viral source ( e . g ., polyoma , adenovirus , vsv , or mpv ), or may be provided by the host cell chromosomal replication mechanism . if the vector is integrated into the host cell chromosome , the latter may be sufficient . d5 - dopamine receptors made from cloned genes in accordance with the present invention may be used for screening compounds for d5 dopamine receptor activity , or for determining the amount of a dopaminergic drug in a solution ( e . g ., blood plasma or serum ). for example , host cells may be transformed with a vector of the present invention , d5 - dopamine receptors expressed thereby in that host , the cells lysed , and the membranes from those cells used to screen compounds for d5 - dopamine receptor binding activity , as described in further detail in the following examples . competitive binding assays in which such procedures may be carried out are well known , as illustrated by the examples below . by selection of host cells which do not ordinarily express a dopamine receptor , pure preparations of membranes containing d5 receptors can be obtained . further , d5 - dopamine receptor agonist and antagonists can be identified by transforming host cells with vectors of the present invention . membranes obtained from such cells can be used in binding studies wherein the drug binding activity is monitored . such cells must contain d5 protein in the plasma and other cell membranes . procedures for carrying out assays such as these are also described in greater detail in the examples which follow . cloned genes and vectors of the present invention are useful in molecular biology to transform cells which do not ordinarily express the d5 - dopamine receptor to thereafter express this receptor . such cells are useful as intermediates for making cell membrane preparations useful for receptor binding assays , which are in turn useful for drug screening . further , genes and vectors of the present invention are useful in gene therapy , for replacing defective dopamine receptor genes in vivo . for such purposes , retroviral vectors as described in u . s . pat . no . 4 , 650 , 764 to temin and watanabe or u . s . pat . no . 4 , 861 , 719 to miller may be employed . cloned genes of the present invention , or fragments thereof , may also be used in gene therapy carried out homologous recombination or site - directed mutagenesis . see generally smithies et al ., 1985 , nature 317 : 230 - 234 ; thomas and capecchi , 1987 , cell 51 : 503 - 512 ; bertling , 1987 , bioscience reports 7 : 107 - 112 . cloned genes of the present invention , and oligonucleotides derived therefrom , are useful for screening for restriction fragment length polymorphism ( rflp ) associated with dopamine receptor - related genetic disorders . oligonucleotides of the present invention are useful as diagnostic tools for probing d5 - receptor gene expression in tissue samples , including nervous tissue . for example , such tissue can be probed in situ with oligonucleotide probes carrying detectable groups by conventional autoradiography techniques to investigate native gene expression of this receptor or pathological conditions relating thereto . such oligonucleotides can also be useful as diagnostic reagents . further , chromosomes can be probed to investigate the presence or absence of a d5 - dopamine receptor gene , and potential pathological conditions related thereto . the examples which follow are illustrative of specific embodiments of the invention , and various uses thereof . they are set forth for explanatory purposes only , and are not to be taken as limiting the invention . detection of a novel dopamine receptor homologous to the d1 receptor in human dna a novel dopamine receptor gene homologous to the d1 receptor was detected in human genomic dna . high molecular weight human genomic dna was prepared using standard methods as described in sambrook et al ., 1989 , molecular cloning : a laboratory manual ( cold spring harbor laboratory : cold spring harbor , n . y .). 3 μg of such dna were digested with the restriction enzyme ecori ( boehringer mannheim , indianapolis , ind .). digested dna was precipitated and electrophoresed through a 0 . 7 % vertical agarose gel , stained with ethidium bromide , photographed and processed for southern blotting to a nitrocellulose filter ( schleicher and schuell , keene , n . h .). the filter was prehybridized at 37 ° c . for 16 hours in 50 % formamide as described in grandy et al ., 1990 , amer . j . hum . genet . 47 : 828 - 834 , and hybridized with a 32 p - labeled human d1 dopamine receptor gene probe . this probe was labeled with 32 p by nick - translation ( bethesda research laboratories , gaithersburg , md .). the filter was hybridized with the human probe for 24 hrs , then washed at low stringency in 2 × ssc ( 1 × standard titrate saline = 0 . 15m nacl / 0 . 015m na - citrate , ph 7 . 0 ) and 0 . 1 % sd5 at 55 ° c . and exposed to x - ray film ( kodak , rochester , n . y .) for 48 hours with an intensifying screen at - 70 ° c . after development of the autoradiographic film , the filter was washed at high stringency in 0 . 1 × ssc and 0 . 1 % sd5 at 80 ° c . for 45 min and again exposed to x - ray film for 24 hours with an intensifying screen . the results of this experiment are shown in fig1 . under low - stringency conditions of washing , d1 probe hybridization detects a 5 kb cross - hybridizing band in genomic dna that disappears at higher stringencies of washing . these results indicated the existence of an additional human d1 - homologous gene , at least a portion of which resides on a 5 kb ecori genomic dna fragment . screening a human genomic library for a novel human d1 - homologous dopamine receptor gene in order to isolate and characterize the novel human dopamine receptor gene homologous to the d1 receptor detected in human genomic dna as described in example 1 , a partial human genomic library was constructed and screened . high molecular weight human genomic dna was prepared from leukocytes as described in sambrook et al ., ibid ., and 5 μg of this dna were digested with ecori , precipitated and subjected to vertical electrophoresis in a 0 . 7 % agarose gel . the gel was stained with ethidium bromide and the region corresponding to 5 - 6 kb [ relative to the 1 kb ladder ( bethesda research laboratories )] was excised from the gel . dna was extracted from agarose using prep - a - gene ( biorad , richmond , calif . ), precipitated , ligated to ecori - digested lambda gt10 arms ( stratagene , lajolla , calif .) and packaged in vitro using gigapak packaging extracts ( stratagene ). approximately 100 , 000 plaque - forming units from this library were placed on e . coli hfl -/ c600 cells and duplicate filters ( nen research products , boston , mass .) of the resulting phage plaques were lifted . the filters were hybridized with a 32 p - labeled nick - translated 3 - kb genomic ecori / saci fragment which contains the coding region of the human d1 dopamine receptor ( zhou et al ., 1990 , nature 347 : 76 - 809 ) as a probe for d1 - homologous sequences . the hybridized filters were then washed and exposed to x - ray film as described in example 1 . following autoradiography of the hybridized phage plaques , 36 strong signals were observed in duplicate and ten of the corresponding phage were plaque purified . when their dna was digested with ecori each one was found to contain a 5 kb insert . this screening of the 5 kb - enriched human genomic library yielded several positive phage which upon restriction analysis looked very similar . one of these clones , hgri - 6 was further characterized by sequencing . nucleic acid sequences were determined in both orientations by the sanger dideoxy method using sequenase ( us biochemicals , cleveland , ohio ) primed with synthetic oligonucleotides using standard methods . sequence analysis was aided by intelligenetics ( mountain view , calif .) software run on a microvax computer . these results are presented in fig2 . this figure illustrates the nucleic acid sequence of clone hgri - 6 ( seq id no : 3 ) in comparison with the sequence of the human d1 dopamine receptor and two additional clones to be discussed herein . the hgri - 6 clone was found to be 1444 bps in length and 65 % identical to the human d1 receptor gene . however , this gene contained a stop codon in - frame corresponding to residue 152 . the presence of this in - frame stop codon , as well as the lack of typical splice site consensus sequences expected to be found in a functional gene , suggested that this clone was a pseudogene . we termed this pseudogene d5ψ1 . in order to establish whether the human genome contains a functional homologue to hgri - 6 , in vitro amplification of human genomic dna insert sequences were performed on dna prepared from the remaining nine original genomic phage clones using the polymerase chain reaction ( saiki et al ., 1988 , science 239 : 487 - 491 ). the two synthetic primers used for polymerase chain reaction ( pcr ) were based on hgri - 6 sequences located in the receptor &# 39 ; s highly conserved tmds iii and v . pcr was performed in an automated temperature cycling devise ( tempcycler , coy , ann arbor , mich .) using 1 unit of replinase ( nen research products , boston , mass .) on 1 ng of phage template dna with 50 pmol of each synthetic primer . the primer sequences were : amplification was achieved after 25 cycles of denaturation at 95 ° c . for 1 min ; annealing for 2 min at 55 ° c . and extension for 3 min at 72 ° c . the products of the pcr were gel purified , digested with both ecori and bamhi , ligated into appropriately restriction enzyme digested cloning / sequencing vectors m13mp18 and 19 and sequenced with sequenase ( us biochemicals ) as described in example 2 . nucleotide sequence analysis of the pcr products revealed two additional d1 - homologous genomic clones , hgri - 4 and hgri - 8 . the complete nucleotide sequences of these clones were determined as described in example 2 and are shown in fig2 . the nucleic acid sequence of clone hgri - 8 ( seq id no : 5 ) is 98 % identical with clone hgri - 6 . however , clone hgri - 8 was also found to contain an in - frame tga stop codon in place of residue 152 , and so most probably represents a second pseudogene ( termed d5ψ2 ). the other clone , hgri - 4 ( seq id no : 1 ), is 95 % identical to hgri - 6 . clone hgri - 4 has an uninterrupted open reading frame of 1434 bps . of the three genes identified , only hgri - 4 has an open reading frame of extent sufficient to encode a g protein - coupled receptor ( fig2 ). these results indicate that we have isolated a novel human dopamine receptor gene and 2 related pseudogenes . this conclusion was confirmed by nucleic acid sequencing and comparison of the sequence of clone hgri - 4 with the sequences of other dopamine and catecholamine receptor genes ( see example 4 ). our conclusion that we had isolated a novel human dopamine receptor gene and two pseudogenes was confirmed by nucleic acid sequencing and comparison of these sequences to those of other dopamine and catecholamine receptor genes . sequencing was performed as described in example 2 above . the results of these experiments are shown in fig3 . the deduced amino acid sequence of clone hgri - 4 ( seq id no : 2 ) consists of 1434 residues ( relative molecular mass , m r = 52950 ) which are organized into seven putative transmembrane domains ( tmds ) that are from 56 % ( tmd i ) to 96 % ( tmd v ) identical to the corresponding tmds found in the human d1 receptor gene . overall the receptor &# 39 ; s amino acid sequence is 49 % identical to the human d1 receptor . six asparagine ( ash ) residues represent potential n - linked glycosylation sites and the presence of one of them near the n - terminus of the protein ( asn 6 ) is a structural feature shared by all of the cloned dopamine receptors . another potential n - glycosylation site , asn 351 , is located in tmd vii and is also seen in both human and rat d1 receptors . of the remaining four sites , asn 74 and asn 388 are located in the putative extracellular loop between tmds iv and v . the deduced hgri - 4 receptor sequence also contains two cysteine residues ( cys 113 and cys 217 ) which are conserved among dopamine receptors . these are located in the second and third putative extracellular loops and may be involved in the formation of a disulfide bond which could be important for stabilizing the receptor &# 39 ; s tertiary structure . the deduced receptor sequence also contains several potential protein kinase phosphorylation target sites : four for protein kinase a ( kemp & amp ; pearson , 1990 , tibs 1 - 5 : 342346 ) and three for protein kinase c ( graff et al ., 1989 , j . biol . chem . 264 : 11912 - 11919 ). interestingly , five of these consensus sequences are located in the putative third cytoplasmic loop of the molecule . this domain is thought to be important for the coupling of the receptor to g proteins ( o &# 39 ; dowd et al ., 1988 , j . biol . chem . 263 : 15985 - 15992 ) suggesting that these sites may play an important regulatory role . in addition there are several serine and threonine residues in the carboxyl - terminal portion of the hgri - 4 receptor protein which may be phosphorylated by receptor kinase ( bouvier et al ., 1988 , nature 333 : 370 - 373 ). the presence of cys 375 at the molecule &# 39 ; s carboxyl terminus may also permit palmitoylation of this domain of the receptor , providing a point of attachment to the plasma membrane ( see , ovchinnikov et al ., 1988 , febs lett . 230 : 1 - 5 : o &# 39 ; dowd et al ., 1989 , j . biol . chem . 264 : 7564 - 7569 ). our comparison of the deduced amino acid sequence of clone hgri - 4 with the four other known human dopamine receptors is presented in fig3 . this comparison reveals considerable conservation in the putative tmds of all dopamine receptor promins , as expected for receptors which bind the same ligand . overall the seven tmds of hgri - 4 share 82 % identity with the human d1 dopamine receptor . noteworthy among the conserved residues are asp 120 , ser 229 and ser 233 , amino acids found in tmds iii and v of all cloned catecholamine receptors . these residues are thought to coordinate the amino and catechol hydroxyl moieties of catecholamine ligands ( see , dixon et al ., 1987 , nature 326 : 73 - 77 ; strader et al ., 1989 , j . biol . chem . 264 : 13572 - 13578 ). in addition , the lengths of the putative third cytoplasmic loop and carboxyl tail of clone hgri - 4 are similar to their counterparts in the human d1 dopamine receptor . together with the highly conserved tmds , these structural characteristics strongly suggested that this molecule is a new d1 - like dopamine receptor which couples to g proteins . the coding sequences of the human d5 dopamine receptor and each of its pseudogenes were amplified in vitro from their corresponding phage clones and used to synthesize expression cassettes using pcr . pcr was performed on phage hgri - 4 , hgri - 6 and hgri - 8 dna as described above with the following 5 &# 39 ; and 3 &# 39 ; oligonucleotide primers : pcr was performed as described in example 3 . the products of the pcr were gel purified , digested with sall and ligated into the vector pgemblue ( promega biotech , madison , wis .). the ligation products were used to transform e . coli strain xl - 1 cells ( stratagene ) and clones with inserts in the proper orientation were identified , isolated and digested with hindiii and bamhi . the 1 . 56 kb inserts representing each gene were isolated and ligated into the transient expression vector pbc12 bi [ as described in cullen , 1987 , methods enzymol . 152 : 684 - 704 , ( berger and kimmel , eds .) academic press : new york , n . y .]. one of the resulting constructs , pbchgri - 4 , was used to establish the pharmacological profile of binding of agonists and antagonists of the putative receptor encoded by hgri - 4 , transiently expressed after transfection of this construct into cos - 7 cells . whether or not pbchgri - 4 encodes a functional receptor was examined by its ability to stimulate intracellular cyclic adenosine monophosphate ( camp ) accumulation in the human embryonic kidney cell line 293 . the putative pseudogenes , hgri - 6 and hgri - 8 , as well as the human d1 dopamine receptor gene , were also transiently expressed in these cells . a modified calcium phosphate method was used for the transfection of monkey cos - 7 and human 293 cells as described by chen and okayama ( 1987 , molec . cell . biol . 7 : 2745 - 2752 ). these transfectants were used to characterize the pharmacological properties of the d5 dopamine receptor and to confirm the nonfunctional nature of each of its two pseudogenes , as described in example 6 . expression and pharmacological evaluation of dopamine and dopamine - antagonist binding of the d5 dopamine receptor the transfectants generated by the methods of example 5 were used to characterize the pharmacological properties of the d5 dopamine receptor and to confirm the non - functional nature of each of its two pseudogenes . cos - 7 cell transfectants were used for the purification of membranes enriched for d5 dopamine receptor content . these cells were previously shown to lack the ability to bind the d1 receptor - specific antagonist sch23390 ( zhou et al ., 1990 , nature 347 : 76 - 80 ). 293 cell transfectants were used to evaluate the physiological effects of d5 receptor binding with various ligands , particularly the effect on cellular camp levels that reflect activation of the cellular enzyme adenyl cyclase . messenger rna ( mrna ) expression of the d5 - containing construct , each of the putative pseudogene - containing constructs and the d1 receptor gene construct was confirmed by northern hybridization of transfectant mrna as described in sambrook et al ., ibid . cos - 7 and 293 cells were transfected with an expression vector containing the human d5 dopamine receptor gene corresponding to clone hgri - 4 under the control of the rous sarcoma virus - derived long terminal repeat promoter and in the proper orientation for expression ( pbchgri - 4 ). for membrane assays , cos - 7 cells were washed twice with hob buffer ( 15 mm tris hcl , ph 7 . 4 , 2 . 5 mm mgcl 2 , 1 mm edta ) 48 hours post - transection , harvested , homogenized in a contorque homogenizer ( eberbach , ann arbor , mich .) at 4 ° c . in tem buffer ( 25 mm tris hcl , ph 7 . 4 , 67 mm mgcl 2 , 1 mm edta ) and centrifuged at 800 g for 10 min . the supernatant was saved and the pellet was resuspended in tem buffer and centrifugation repeated . the supernatants were pooled and centrifuged at 100 , 000 g for 1 hour . the resulting pellet was resuspended in tem buffer and the protein concentration was determined by a modification of the method of lowry ( markwell et al ., 1978 , anal . biochem . 87 : 206 - 210 ) and stored in small aliquots at - 70 ° c . until use . pharmacological evaluations , including analysis of agonist and antagonist binding assays were performed in duplicate and competition curves in triplicate , with between 8 - 12 and 12 - 18 different drug concentrations for antagonists and agonists , respectively . samples were analyzed in reaction volumes of 500 μl of a buffer containing 50 mm trishcl , ph 7 . 4 , 0 . 9 % nacl , 0 . 025 % ascorbic acid , 0 . 001 % bovine serum albumin and various concentrations of the dopamine agonist [ 3 h ] sch23390 ( specific activity , 69 ci / mmol ; amersham , arlington heights , ill .) for saturation binding experiments . for competition experiments the binding of 0 . 7 - 1 . 0 nm [ 3 h ] sch23390 was inhibited by various concentrations of unlabeled drugs . the binding reactions were initiated by the addition of 5 - 50 μg of transfectant membranes and were performed at 37 ° c . for 1 hour . nonspecific binding was defined in the presence of 5 μm (+)- butaclamol . samples were filtered through glass fiber filters ( schleicher and schuell no . 32 ) and washed three times with 4 ml of ice cold 50 mm trishcl buffer at ph 7 . 4 . radioactivity was counted using a packard 2200 ca tricarb liquid scintillation analyzer . the 50 % inhibitory concentration values ( ic 50 ) calculated from the curves were converted to k i values as described in zhou et at ., 1990 , nature 347 : 76 - 80 . a graphpad computer program was used for data analysis and curve fitting ( as described in zhou et al , ibid .) for camp assays , 293 cells were transfected , stimulated with various drugs and intracellular camp accumulation quantitated as described in zhou et al ., ibid . the results of these experiments are presented in fig5 and table 1 , and a representative northern hybridization experiment is illustrated in fig6 . the extensive sequence conservation observed between the d1 and d5 tmds is reflected in their pharmacological profiles . membranes were prepared from each of the transfected cell populations and analyzed for their ability to bind [ 3 h ] sch23390 . membranes prepared from cells transfected with pbchgri - 4 expressed high levels of saturable [ 3 h ] sch23390 binding upon scatchard analysis with an average dissociation constant ( k d ) of 0 . 35 nm ( n + 7 ) and an average b max of 4 pmol / mg protein ( n = 7 ) ( fig4 a , insert ). these values are similar to those obtained in parallel experiments with the human d1 dopamine receptor . in contrast , membranes prepared from cells transfected with each of the two putative pseudogenes failed to bind [ 3 h ] sch23390 even though their mrna was expressed at levels equivalent to the levels of pbchgri - 4 ( fig6 ). in order to characterize the ligand - binding profile of the receptor encoded by hgri - 4 , [ 3 h ] sch23390 was used in competition experiments with both antagonists and agonists ( fig4 a and table 1 ). the antagonist data was fit best assuming one class of binding site . based on these studies the rank order of antagonist potency was : sch23390 ( 0 . 6 nm )& gt ;(+)- butaclamol ( 9 . 1 nm )& gt ; cis - flupenthixol ( 23 . 6 nm )& gt ; haloperidol ( 156 nm )& gt ; clozapine ( 406 nm )& gt ;& gt ;(-)- butaclamol (& gt ; 10 μm ) this is the same relative rank order of potency as previously observed for the human d1 and the hgri - 4 encoded receptors . the human d1 dopamine receptor has approximately a 5 - fold higher affinity for (+)- butaclamol than does the pbchgri - 4 encoded receptor . when the three agonists were evaluated in competition experiments ( fig4 a ) all three curves had slopes that were less than unity ( 0 . 6 ). based on these results the date were fit assuming the presence of both high and low affinity sites . with average ( n = 3 ) k i &# 39 ; s of 0 . 6 nm and 27 nm , 0 . 52 nm and 469 nm , and 12 . 8 nm and 1806 nm , respectively . in parallel experiments the human d1 receptor also displayed high and low affinity binding sites for dopamine but the average ( n = 2 ) k i values ( 32 nm for the high affinity site and 9109 nm for the low affinity site ) are higher than observed for the d5 dopamine receptor . taken together the pharmacological data strongly suggest that pbchgri - 4 encodes a d1 - like binding site with a higher affinity for dopamine that d1 . whether or not pbchgri - 4 encodes a functional receptor was examined by its ability to stimulate intracellular camp accumulation in the human embryonic kidney cell line 293 . previously we had demonstrated that these cells do not express endogenous dopamine receptors ( zhou et al ., ibid .). the cells that received pbchgri - 4 displayed a concentration - dependent and saturable increase in intracellular camp levels when exposed to dopamine ( fig4 b ). furthermore , this stimulation could be antagonized by 250 nm sch23390 ( fig4 b , inset ). of particular interest is the shape of the dopamine / camp dose - response curve . the data from three independent experiments were best fit by a two site model and two half maximal stimulation concentrations ( ec50 ) for dopamine were calculated ; these were 5 . 0 nm and 275 nm , respectively . in parallel experiments the two putative pseudogenes pbchgri - 6 and pbchgri - 8 were also transfected into 293 cells . the 293 cells transfected with either pbchgri - 6 or pbchgri - 8 showed no significant accumulation of intracellular camp when exposed to agonist ( fig4 b , insert ). these results further support the conclusion that these clones represent d 5 processed pseudogenes . the results of these experiments indicate that we have successfully isolated a novel human d5 dopamine receptor gene having unique pharmacological properties . our results also indicate that this gene is accompanied in the human genome by two related by distinct processed pseudogenes . the extensive sequence conservation between the d1 and d5 tmds is reflected in their pharmacological profiles . both bind [ 3 h ] sch23390 with high affinity ( k d = 0 . 35 nm ) and basically share the same rank order of ligand potency with two notable differences : the human d5 receptor shows a 5 - fold lower affinity for the antagonist ( +) butaclamol and a 10 - fold higher affinity for dopamine . furthermore , the two receptors are distinguishable at the second messenger level : the d5 receptor is able to stimulate adenylyl cyclase at dopamine concentrations which are 30 - fold lower than required by the d1 receptor in the same 293 cell line . the results confirm our isolation of a novel human dopamine receptor gene and 2 related pseudogenes . 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topology : linear ( ii ) molecule type : dna ( genomic )( xi ) sequence description : seq id no : 5 : ccgaattcgccttcgacatc atgtgc26 ( 2 ) information for seq id no : 6 :( i ) sequence characteristics :( a ) length : 25 base pairs ( b ) type : nucleic acid ( c ) strandedness : single ( d ) topology : linear ( ii ) molecule type : dna ( genomic )( xi ) sequence description : seq id no : 6 : ccggatccgtcacgatcat gatggc25 ( 2 ) information for seq id no : 7 :( i ) sequence characteristics :( a ) length : 26 base pairs ( b ) type : nucleic acid ( c ) strandedness : single ( d ) topology : linear ( ii ) molecule type : dna ( genomic )( xi ) sequence description : seq id no : 7 : ccgtcgacgatcgcgca caaaccgac26 ( 2 ) information for seq id no : 8 :( i ) sequence characteristics :( a ) length : 28 base pairs ( b ) type : nucleic acid ( c ) strandedness : single ( d ) topology : linear ( ii ) molecule type : dna ( genomic )( xi ) sequence description : seq id no : 8 : ccgtcgacagtactg gaaaggcatgtat28