Neuronal nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (nAChRs) are promising drug targets to manage several neurological disorders and nicotine addiction. Growing evidence indicates that positive allosteric modulators (PAMs) of nAChRs improve pharmacological specificity by binding to unique sites present only in a subpopulation of nAChRs. Furthermore, nAChR PAMs such as NS9283 and CMPI have been shown to potentiate responses of (α4)3(β2)2 but not (α4)2(β2)3 nAChR isoforms. This selective potentiation underlines that the α4:α4 interface, which is present only in the (α4)3(β2)2 nAChR, is an important and promising drug target. In this report, we used site-directed mutagenesis to substitute specific amino acid residues and computational analyses to elucidate CMPI,s binding mode at the α4:α4 subunit extracellular interface and identified a unique set of amino acid residues that determined its affinity. We found that amino acid residues α4Gly41, α4Lys64, and α4Thr66 were critical for (α4)3(β2)2 nAChR potentiation by CMPI, but not by NS9283, whereas amino acid substitution at α4H116, a known determinant of NS9283 and of agonist binding at the α4:α4 subunit interface, did not reduce CMPI potentiation. In contrast, substitutions at α4Gln124 and α4Thr126 reduced potentiation by CMPI and NS9283, indicating that their binding sites partially overlap. These results delineate the role of amino acid residues contributing to the α4:α4 subunit extracellular interface in nAChR potentiation. These findings also provide structural information that will facilitate the structure-based design of novel therapeutics that target selectively the (α4)3(β2)2 nAChR.
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