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  • Title: gamma-Aminobutyric acid- and benzodiazepine-binding sites in human anterior pituitary tissue.
    Author: Grandison L, Cavagnini F, Schmid R, Invitti SC, Guidotti A.
    Journal: J Clin Endocrinol Metab; 1982 Mar; 54(3):597-601. PubMed ID: 6276430.
    Abstract:
    The existence of a gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) system in human anterior pituitary tissue was examined. Crude membrane fractions prepared from human anterior pituitary tissue bound tritiated GABA. The binding was saturable, and Scatchard analysis indicated a single binding site of high affinity (Kd = 40 nM) and a maximum binding of 1.2 pmol/mg protein. Binding was displaced in a dose-related manner by the GABA agonists muscimol (KI = 1 X 10(-8) M), isoguvacine (KI = 6 X 10(-7) M), THIP (4,5,6,7-tetrahydroisoxazolo-[5,4-c]pyridin-3-ol); KI = 5 X 10(-6) M), and the antagonist (+)bicuculline (KI = 5 X 10(-5) M) but not its inactive stereoisomer (-)bicuculline (KI greater than 10(-3) M). In anterior pituitary tissue, a significant concentration of GABA was found (mean, 2.5 +/- 0.5 nmol/mg protein) but no glutamic acid decarboxylase activity, the enzyme synthesizing GABA, was detected using a highly sensitive assay. In addition, benzodiazepine binding was present. An affinity of approximately 15 nM and a Bmax of approximately 0.75 pmol/mg protein were observed when using [3H]diazepam as the ligand. No saturable clonazepam binding occurred, and only slight GABA stimulation of diazepam binding was observed (mean, 18%; range, 6-38%). The ability of GABA and benzodiazepine to alter PRL secretion in rats suggests that the human pituitary GABA-binding sites described here might also mediate effects on PRL release.
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