Leukotriene B 4 ((5S,12R)-dihydroxy-6,14-cis-8,10-trans-eicosatetraenoic acid (LTB 4 )) 1 is a metabolite of arachidonic acid and is one of the most potent activators of granulocytes and macrophages (1-3). BLT, the LTB 4 -specific G-protein-coupled receptor (GPCR), is a target for anti-inflammatory drugs, and many BLT antagonists have been developed and are being evaluated. No BLT antagonists are yet approved available for clinical use; their lack of efficacy may be due in part to the presence of the other LTB 4 receptors. We cloned BLT1, a high affinity LTB 4 receptor (4), and BLT2, a low affinity LTB 4 receptor (5), and showed that BLT1 is expressed almost exclusively in peripheral leukocytes, whereas BLT2 is expressed ubiquitously with the highest expression in spleen. The structural similarities of these receptors (45% amino acid identity) and the low homologies of BLTs to other known GPCRs suggest that these BLTs comprise a novel receptor family. BLT1 and BLT2 form a gene cluster both in human and mouse genomes.The human BLT2 open reading frame overlaps the promoter region of BLT1 (6), suggesting the expression of these two LTB 4 receptors is tightly intertwined. Human granulocytes, eosinophils, and mononuclear cells express both BLT1 and BLT2 (7), so the precise pharmacological characterization of these two receptors using native cells is difficult. In this paper, we report the inhibitory effects of various BLT antagonists and eicosanoids on LTB 4 binding using CHO cells stably expressing either human BLT1 or BLT2. We also show that several hydroxyeicosanoids other than LTB 4 bind to and activate BLT2 but not BLT1. These findings provide insights into the possible functions of BLT2 and information helpful for the isolation of the other related GPCRs that recognize eicosanoids. (8) and all of the eicosanoids other than LTB 4 were purchased from Cayman Chemical Co. LTB 4 is a generous gift from Ono Pharmaceutical Co. (Osaka, Japan). LY 255283 (9) and LY 223982 (10) were from Lilly Research Laboratories. CP 105696 (11) and CP 195543 (12) are from Pfizer Inc. ZK 158252 is from Schering AG (Berlin, Germany). [ 3 H]LTB 4 (6956 GBq/mmol) was purchased from PerkinElmer Life Sciences.
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Materials-U75302Cell Culture and Flow Cytometry-CHO cells stably expressing FLAG-tagged human BLT1 (CHO-FLAG-BLT1) or hemagglutinin (HA)-tagged human BLT2 (CHO-HA-BLT2) were established as described previously (5, 13). The cells were cloned by limiting dilution and their expression of the receptors confirmed by staining the cells with antibodies against the epitope added to the amino terminus of the receptors. The cells were fixed with PBS(Ϫ) containing 0.5% (w/v) paraformaldehyde for 5 min on ice and blocked with PBS(Ϫ) containing 2% goat serum (Life Technologies, Inc.). The cells were incubated with 30 g/ml anti-FLAG antibody (clone M5, Eastman Kodak), 10 g/ml anti-HA antibody (clone CA12-5, Roche Molecular Biochemicals), or 30 g/ml control mouse IgG (Santa Cruz Biotechnology) in PBS(Ϫ) containing 2% oat seru...
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