How Carvedilol activates β2-adrenoceptors

Tobias Benkel; Mirjam Zimmermann; Julian Zeiner; Sergi Bravo; Nicole Merten; Victor Jun Yu Lim; Edda Sofie Fabienne Matthees; Julia Drube; Elke Miess-Tanneberg; Daniela Malan; Martyna Szpakowska; Stefania Monteleone; Jak Grimes; Zsombor Koszegi; Yann Lanoiselée; Shannon O’Brien; Nikoleta Pavlaki; Nadine Dobberstein; Asuka Inoue; Viacheslav Nikolaev; Davide Calebiro; Andy Chevigné; Philipp Sasse; Stefan Schulz; Carsten Hoffmann; Peter Kolb; Maria Waldhoer; Katharina Simon; Jesus Gomeza; Evi Kostenis

doi:10.1038/s41467-022-34765-w

How Carvedilol activates β₂-adrenoceptors

Tobias Benkel, Mirjam Zimmermann, Julian Zeiner, Sergi Bravo, Nicole Merten, Victor Jun Yu Lim, Edda Sofie Fabienne Matthees, Julia Drube, Elke Miess-Tanneberg, Daniela Malan, Martyna Szpakowska, Stefania Monteleone, Jak Grimes, Zsombor Koszegi, Yann Lanoiselée, Shannon O’Brien, Nikoleta Pavlaki, Nadine Dobberstein, Asuka Inoue, Viacheslav NikolaevDavide Calebiro, Andy Chevigné, Philipp Sasse, Stefan Schulz, Carsten Hoffmann, Peter Kolb, Maria Waldhoer, Katharina Simon, Jesus Gomeza, Evi Kostenis^*

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Abstract

Carvedilol is among the most effective β-blockers for improving survival after myocardial infarction. Yet the mechanisms by which carvedilol achieves this superior clinical profile are still unclear. Beyond blockade of β₁-adrenoceptors, arrestin-biased signalling via β₂-adrenoceptors is a molecular mechanism proposed to explain the survival benefits. Here, we offer an alternative mechanism to rationalize carvedilol’s cellular signalling. Using primary and immortalized cells genome-edited by CRISPR/Cas9 to lack either G proteins or arrestins; and combining biological, biochemical, and signalling assays with molecular dynamics simulations, we demonstrate that G proteins drive all detectable carvedilol signalling through β₂ARs. Because a clear understanding of how drugs act is imperative to data interpretation in basic and clinical research, to the stratification of clinical trials or to the monitoring of drug effects on the target pathway, the mechanistic insight gained here provides a foundation for the rational development of signalling prototypes that target the β-adrenoceptor system.

Original language	English
Article number	7109
Number of pages	20
Journal	Nature Communications
Volume	13
Issue number	1
Early online date	19 Nov 2022
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-34765-w
Publication status	Published - Dec 2022

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Funding Information:
We thank Ulrike Rick and Kimberly Harisch for excellent assistance. This study was supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) 290847012/FOR2372 to E.K. and Heisenberg professorships KO4095/4-1 and KO4095/5-1 to P.K. T.B. was a member of the DFG-funded Research Training Group RTG1873 (214362475/GRK1873/2). A.C. and M.S. were supported by the Luxembourg National Research Fund (INTER/FWO “Nanokine” grant 15/10358798, INTER/FNRS grants 20/15084569, and PoC “Megakine” 19/14209621), F.R.S-FNRS-Télévie (7.8504.20). D.C. was supported by a Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellowship (212313/Z/18/Z). This article is based upon work from COST Action ERNEST (CA18133), supported by COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology, www.cost.eu ).

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Benkel, T., Zimmermann, M., Zeiner, J., Bravo, S., Merten, N., Lim, V. J. Y., Matthees, E. S. F., Drube, J., Miess-Tanneberg, E., Malan, D., Szpakowska, M., Monteleone, S., Grimes, J., Koszegi, Z., Lanoiselée, Y., O’Brien, S., Pavlaki, N., Dobberstein, N., Inoue, A., ... Kostenis, E. (2022). How Carvedilol activates β₂-adrenoceptors. Nature Communications, 13(1), Article 7109. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-34765-w

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