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J Biol Chem, Vol. 274, Issue 8, 4876-4882, February 19, 1999

Which Form of Dopamine Is the Substrate for the Human Dopamine Transporter: the Cationic or the Uncharged Species?

From the Department of Biomedical and Therapeutic Sciences, University of Illinois College of Medicine, Peoria, Illinois 61656

The question of which is the active form of dopamine for the neuronal dopamine transporter is addressed in HEK-293 cells expressing the human dopamine transporter. The K_m value for [³H]dopamine uptake fell sharply when the pH was increased from 6.0 to 7.4 and then changed less between pH 7.4 and 8.2. The K_I for dopamine in inhibiting the cocaine analog [³H]2-carbomethoxy-3-(4-fluorophenyl)tropane binding displayed an identical pH dependence, suggesting that changes in uptake result from changes in dopamine recognition. Dopamine can exist in the anionic, neutral, cationic, or zwitterionic form, and the contribution of each form was calculated. The contribution of the anion is extremely low (0.1%), and its pH dependence differs radically from that of dopamine binding. The increase in the neutral form upon raising the pH can model the results only when the pK_a1 (equilibrium neutral-charged) is set to a much lower value (6.8) than reported for dopamine in solution (8.86). The sum of cationic and zwitterionic dopamine concentrations remained constant over the entire pH range studied. These forms are the likely transporter substrates with pH-dependent changes occurring in their interaction with the transporter. The binding of dopamine, a hydroxylated phenylethylamine derivative, displays the same pH dependence as guanethidine, a heptamethyleniminoethyl- guanidine derivative fully protonated under our conditions. An ionizable residue in the transporter could be involved that does not interact with or impact the binding of bretylium, a quaternary ammonium phenylmethylamine derivative that is always positively charged and shows only a minor reduction in K_I upon increasing pH.

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