Abstract
Binding assays using 2-[ 125I]iodomelatonin revealed high-affinity, guanosine 5′- O-(3-thiotriphosphate) sensitive, melatonin binding sites ( B max 1.1 fmol/mg protein) in the human embryonic kidney cell line HEK293. Competition studies using the selective melatonin receptor antagonist luzindole and RT-PCR techniques identified these sites as human Mel 1a melatonin receptors. Challenge of HEK293 cells with 1 μM melatonin had no effect on forskolin stimulated cyclic AMP levels, whereas in HEK293 cells engineered to stably over-express the human Mel 1a melatonin receptor ( B max>400 fmol/mg protein) melatonin dose-dependently inhibited stimulated cyclic AMP levels (IC 50 7.7 pM). These data may indicate that certain tissues, expressing low levels of G protein-coupled melatonin receptors, do not display melatonin mediated inhibition of cAMP.
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