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Perdomo D, Bubis J. Purification of a Src family tyrosine protein kinase from bovine retinas. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2021; 76:273-283. [PMID: 33125342 DOI: 10.1515/znc-2020-0237] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/15/2020] [Accepted: 10/16/2020] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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Since tyrosine phosphorylation appears to play important functions in photoreceptor cells, we searched here for retinal nonreceptor tyrosine kinases of the Src family. We demonstrated that Src family tyrosine kinases were present in the cytosolic fraction of extracted bovine retinas. A Src family tyrosine kinase with an apparent molecular mass of about 62 kDa was purified to homogeneity from the soluble fraction of dark-adapted bovine retinas after three consecutive purification steps: ω-aminooctyl-agarose hydrophobic chromatography, Cibacron blue 3GA-agarose pseudo-affinity chromatography, and α-casein-agarose affinity chromatography. The purified protein was subjected to N-terminal amino acid sequencing and the sequence Gly-Ile-Ile-Lys-Ser-Glu-Glu was obtained, which displayed homology with the first seven residues of the Src family tyrosine kinase c-Yes from Bos taurus (Gly-Cys-Ile-Lys-Ser-Lys-Glu). Although the cytosolic fraction from dark-adapted retinas contained tyrosine kinases of the Src family capable of phosphorylating the α-subunit of transducin, which is the heterotrimeric G protein involved in phototransduction, the purified tyrosine kinase was not capable of using transducin as a substrate. The cellular role of this retinal Src family member remains to be found.
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- Deisy Perdomo
- Departamento de Biología Celular, Universidad Simón Bolívar, Valle de Sartenejas, Baruta, Caracas, Venezuela
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- Departamento de Biología Celular, Universidad Simón Bolívar, Valle de Sartenejas, Baruta, Caracas, Venezuela
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Kuhnert N, Dairpoosh F, Jaiswal R, Matei M, Deshpande S, Golon A, Nour H, Karaköse H, Hourani N. Hill coefficients of dietary polyphenolic enzyme inhibitiors: can beneficial health effects of dietary polyphenols be explained by allosteric enzyme denaturing? J Chem Biol 2011; 4:109-16. [PMID: 22287993 PMCID: PMC3124628 DOI: 10.1007/s12154-011-0055-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/30/2010] [Accepted: 01/07/2011] [Indexed: 11/28/2022] Open
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Inspired by a recent article by Prinz, suggesting that Hill coefficients, obtained from four parameter logistic fits to dose-response curves, represent a parameter allowing distinction between a general allosteric denaturing process and real single site enzyme inhibition, Hill coefficients of a number of selected dietary polyphenol enzyme inhibitions were compiled from the available literature. From available literature data, it is apparent that the majority of polyphenol enzyme interactions reported lead to enzyme inhibition via allosteric denaturing rather than single site inhibition as judged by their reported Hill coefficients. The results of these searches are presented and their implications discussed leading to the suggestion of a novel hypothesis for polyphenol biological activity termed the insect swarm hypothesis.
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- Nikolai Kuhnert
- School of Engineering and Science, Centre for Nano- and functional materials, Jacobs University Bremen, Campus Ring 8, 28759 Bremen, Germany
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- School of Engineering and Science, Centre for Nano- and functional materials, Jacobs University Bremen, Campus Ring 8, 28759 Bremen, Germany
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- School of Engineering and Science, Centre for Nano- and functional materials, Jacobs University Bremen, Campus Ring 8, 28759 Bremen, Germany
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- School of Engineering and Science, Centre for Nano- and functional materials, Jacobs University Bremen, Campus Ring 8, 28759 Bremen, Germany
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- School of Engineering and Science, Centre for Nano- and functional materials, Jacobs University Bremen, Campus Ring 8, 28759 Bremen, Germany
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- School of Engineering and Science, Centre for Nano- and functional materials, Jacobs University Bremen, Campus Ring 8, 28759 Bremen, Germany
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- School of Engineering and Science, Centre for Nano- and functional materials, Jacobs University Bremen, Campus Ring 8, 28759 Bremen, Germany
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- School of Engineering and Science, Centre for Nano- and functional materials, Jacobs University Bremen, Campus Ring 8, 28759 Bremen, Germany
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- School of Engineering and Science, Centre for Nano- and functional materials, Jacobs University Bremen, Campus Ring 8, 28759 Bremen, Germany
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Following on from impressive economic development and urbanization, China is currently experiencing a high prevalence of metabolic syndrome. Patients with metabolic syndrome suffer from the "The Deadly Quartet" of hyperglycemia, hypertriglyceridemia, hypertension, and central (or upper body) obesity. Current treatment strategies directed towards metabolic syndrome tend to be limited to just one of these four conditions, so developing novel drugs to target multiple metabolic abnormalities could be preferable to current approaches. New insights suggest benefits of natural agents as treatments for metabolic syndrome. Herein, we review the evidence for using nine such agents developed on the basis of traditional medicine or herbal preparations.
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- Xuan Xia
- Department of Endocrinology, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China
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Rozario AO, Turbendian HK, Fogle KJ, Olivier NB, Tibbs GR. Voltage-dependent opening of HCN channels: Facilitation or inhibition by the phytoestrogen, genistein, is determined by the activation status of the cyclic nucleotide gating ring. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOMEMBRANES 2009; 1788:1939-49. [PMID: 19524546 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbamem.2009.06.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/29/2009] [Revised: 05/29/2009] [Accepted: 06/08/2009] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Investigation of the mechanistic bases and physiological importance of cAMP regulation of HCN channels has exploited an arginine to glutamate mutation in the nucleotide-binding fold, an approach critically dependent on the mutation selectively lowering the channel's nucleotide affinity. In apparent conflict with this, in intact Xenopus oocytes, HCN and HCN-RE channels exhibit qualitatively and quantitatively distinct responses to the tyrosine kinase inhibitor, genistein -- the estrogenic isoflavonoid strongly depolarizes the activation mid-point of HCN1-R538E, but not HCN1 channels (+9.8 mV + or - 0.9 versus +2.2 mV + or - 0.6) and hyperpolarizes gating of HCN2 (-4.8 mV + or - 1.0) but depolarizes gating of HCN2-R591E (+13.2 mV + or - 2.1). However, excised patch recording, X-ray crystallography and modeling reveal that this is not due to either a fundamental effect of the mutation on channel gating per se or of genistein acting as a mutation-sensitive partial agonist at the cAMP site. Rather, we find that genistein equivalently moves both HCN and HCN-RE channels closer to the open state (rendering the channels inherently easier to open but at a cost of decreasing the coupling energy of cAMP) and that the anomaly reflects a balance of these energetic effects with the isoform-specific inhibition of activation by the nucleotide gating ring and relief of this by endogenous cAMP. These findings have specific implications with regard to findings based on HCN-RE channels and kinase antagonists and general implications with respect to interpretation of drug effects in mutant channel backgrounds.
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- Anjali O Rozario
- Department of Anesthesiology, Columbia University, New York, NY 10032, USA
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Chae KS, Ko GYP, Dryer SE. Tyrosine phosphorylation of cGMP-gated ion channels is under circadian control in chick retina photoreceptors. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci 2007; 48:901-6. [PMID: 17251493 PMCID: PMC2376765 DOI: 10.1167/iovs.06-0824] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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PURPOSE To investigate the role of tyrosine phosphorylation in circadian regulation of cGMP-gated cation channels (CNGCs) of chicken cone photoreceptors. METHODS Chick retinas were studied on the second day of constant darkness (DD) after several days of entrainment to 12:12 hr light-dark (LD) cycles in vitro. Inside-out patch recordings were made during the subjective day and subjective night to quantify circadian changes in the sensitivity of CNGCs to activation by cGMP after treatment with various tyrosine kinase and tyrosine phosphatase inhibitors. Immunoprecipitation and immunoblot analysis were also used to examine tyrosine phosphorylation of CNGCs and closely associated proteins after separation by conventional and two-dimensional SDS-PAGE. RESULTS Treatment with tyrosine kinase inhibitors caused a significant decrease in K(1/2) for cGMP activation of CNGCs in patches excised from cones during the subjective day, but had no effect on K(1/2) during the subjective night. Conversely, treatment with a tyrosine phosphatase inhibitor caused a significant increase in the K(1/2) of CNGCs in patches excised during the subjective night but had no effect on channel K(1/2) during the subjective day. Broad spectrum serine-threonine phosphatase inhibitors had no effect. An 85-kDa tyrosine polypeptide that coimmunoprecipitated with CNGC alpha-subunits was detectable at higher levels during the subjective day than during the subjective night. CNGC alpha-subunits were not tyrosine phosphorylated as a function of the time of day. CONCLUSIONS Circadian control of cone CNGCs appears to entail elevated daytime tyrosine phosphorylation of an approximately 85-kDa auxiliary protein or another subunit of the CNGCs.
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- Kwon-Seok Chae
- From the School of Life Sciences and Biotechnology, Korea University, Seoul, Korea; the
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- Department of Veterinary Integrative Biosciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas; and the
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- Department of Biology and Biochemistry, University of Houston, Houston, Texas
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Chung BM, Kang HC, Han SY, Heo HS, Lee JJ, Jeon J, Lim JY, Shin I, Hong SH, Cho YS, Kim CG. Jak2 and Tyk2 are necessary for lineage-specific differentiation, but not for the maintenance of self-renewal of mouse embryonic stem cells. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 2006; 351:682-8. [PMID: 17078929 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2006.10.081] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/01/2006] [Accepted: 10/18/2006] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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As the LIF-induced Jak1/STAT3 pathway has been reported to play a crucial role in self-renewal of mESCs, we sought to determine if Jak2, which is also expressed in mESCs, might also be involved in the pathway. By employing an RNAi strategy, we established both Jak2 and Jak2/Tyk2 knockdown mESC clones. Both Jak2 and Jak2/Tyk2 knockdown clones maintained the undifferentiated state as wild-type controls, even in a very low concentration of LIF. However, we observed not only faster onset of differentiation but also differential expression of tissue-specific lineage genes for ectodermal and mesodermal, but not endodermal origins from embryoid bodies generated from both types of knockdown clones compared to the wild-type. Furthermore, the reduced level of Jak2 caused differentiation of mESCs in the presence of LIF when the Wnt pathway was activated by LiCl treatment. Taken together, we demonstrated that Jak2 and Tyk2 are not involved in LIF-induced STAT3 pathway for self-renewal of mESCs, but play a role in early lineage decision of mESCs to various differentiated cell types.
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- Bo Mee Chung
- Department of Life Science, College of Natural Sciences, Hanyang University, Seoul 133-791, Republic of Korea
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Ko GYP, Ko ML, Dryer SE. Circadian regulation of cGMP-gated channels of vertebrate cone photoreceptors: role of cAMP and Ras. J Neurosci 2004; 24:1296-304. [PMID: 14960600 PMCID: PMC2667374 DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.3560-03.2004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/06/2023] Open
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Circadian oscillators in chicken cone photoreceptors regulate the gating properties of cGMP-gated cationic channels (CNGCs) such that they have a higher apparent affinity for cGMP during the subjective night. Here we show that cAMP, acting through protein kinase A (PKA), Ras, and Erk, is part of the circadian output pathway controlling CNGCs. Endogenous and exogenous cAMP cause activation of Erk and Ras, which are more active at night in cones, and increase the apparent affinity of CNGCs for cGMP. The Ras farnesyl transferase inhibitor manumycin-A, and a dominant-negative form of Ras (RasN17) block the circadian rhythms in CNGC gating, as well as the effects of cAMP. A dominant-negative form of the MEK kinase B-Raf also blocks circadian and cAMP modulation of CNGCs. The circadian output pathway modulating CNGC channels is comprised in part of cAMP --> PKA --> Ras --> B-Raf --> MEK --> Erk --> --> CNGCs. cAMP activation of Ras and Erk occur within minutes, whereas modulation of CNGCs requires >1 hr. However, cAMP protagonists do not alter rhythms in cPer2 mRNA, and their effects on CNGCs cannot be attributed to clock phase-shifting.
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- Gladys Y-P Ko
- Department of Biology and Biochemistry and Biological Clocks Program, University of Houston, Houston, Texas 77204-5001, USA
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Cyclic nucleotide-gated (CNG) ion channels were first discovered in rod photoreceptors, where they are responsible for the primary electrical signal of the photoreceptor in response to light. CNG channels are highly specialized membrane proteins that open an ion-permeable pore across the membrane in response to the direct binding of intracellular cyclic nucleotides. CNG channels have been identified in a number of other tissues, including the brain, where their roles are only beginning to be appreciated. Recently, significant progress has been made in understanding the molecular mechanisms underlying their functional specializations. From these studies, a picture is beginning to emerge for how the binding of cyclic nucleotide is transduced into the opening of the pore and how this allosteric transition is modulated by various physiological effectors.
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- Kimberly Matulef
- Department of Molecular and Cellular Physiology, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA.
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Hwang TC, Koeppe RE, Andersen OS. Genistein can modulate channel function by a phosphorylation-independent mechanism: importance of hydrophobic mismatch and bilayer mechanics. Biochemistry 2004; 42:13646-58. [PMID: 14622011 DOI: 10.1021/bi034887y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 119] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Genistein, a generic tyrosine kinase inhibitor, has been used extensively as a tool to investigate the possible regulation of membrane function by tyrosine phosphorylation. Genistein, in micromolar concentrations, alters the function of numerous ion channels and other membrane proteins, but only in few cases has it been demonstrated that the changes in membrane protein (ion channel) function are due to changes in a protein's phosphorylation status. The major common denominator characterizing proteins that are modulated by genistein seems to be that they are imbedded into, and span, the bilayer component of the plasma membrane. We therefore explored whether genistein could alter ion channel function by a bilayer-mediated mechanism and examined genistein's effect on gramicidin A (gA) channels in planar phospholipid bilayers. gA channels form by transmembrane dimerization of two nonconducting subunits, and genistein potentiates gA channel activity by increasing the appearance rate and prolonging the lifetime of bilayer-spanning gA dimers. That is, genistein shifts the equilibrium between nonconducting monomers and conducting dimers in favor of the bilayer-spanning dimers; the changes in channel activity therefore cannot be due to changes in bilayer fluidity. To obtain further insights into the mechanism underlying this modulation of gA channel function, we examined the effects of genistein on channels formed by gA analogues that differ in amino acid sequence. For a given channel length, the effects of genistein on gA dimerization do not depend on the specific sequence, or the chirality, of the channel-forming gA analogues. In contrast, when we change the channel length (by decreasing or increasing the number of amino acid residues in the sequence), or the bilayer thickness (by changing methylene groups in the acyl chains), the magnitude of genistein's effect increases with increasing hydrophobic mismatch between the channel length and the bilayer thickness. These results strongly suggest that genistein alters bilayer mechanical properties, which in turn modulates channel function. This bilayer-mediated mechanism is likely to apply to other pharmacological reagents and membrane proteins.
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- Tzyh-Chang Hwang
- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York 10021, USA.
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Yagi T, Boyden PA. Protein tyrosine kinases and L-type Ca2+ currents in cells that have survived in epicardial border zone of canine infarcted heart. J Cardiovasc Pharmacol 2002; 40:669-77. [PMID: 12409975 DOI: 10.1097/00005344-200211000-00004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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Previously a reduction was shown in the density of the L-type Ca currents in cells that have survived in the epicardial border zone of the 5-day infarcted canine heart (IZ). A hyporesponsiveness of I(CaL) to beta-adrenergic stimulation in IZs versus cells from the noninfarcted heart (NZs) was also shown. To determine the role of protein tyrosine kinase (PTK) activity in this altered adrenergic response as well as in the reduced basal current function in IZs, the effects of genistein and T23, specific inhibitors of PTK, on basal I(CaL) in the absence and presence of isoproterenol (5 nM ) were studied using whole-cell patch-clamp techniques. Genistein reduction of I(CaL) was similar in NZs and IZs and was not mimicked by daidzein, an inactive analogue of genistein. Submaximal isoproterenol produced a small response in both cell types that was potentiated in the presence of genistein. T23 also reduced I(CaL) in both NZs and IZs; however, submaximal isoproterenol was not potentiated in its presence. In sum, basal I(CaL) is sensitive to genistein and T23, suggesting that persistent PTK activity contributes to I(CaL) in both NZs and IZs. With genistein but not with T23, there is an enhanced sensitivity of I(CaL) to isoproterenol in both NZs and IZs but peak I(CaL) is not fully restored in IZs. Thus, dysregulation of PTK activity cannot account for the reduced basal Ca currents or hyporesponsiveness of I(CaL) to isoproterenol in the cells that have survived in the infarcted heart.
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- Takuya Yagi
- Center of Molecular Therapeutics, Department of Pharmacology, Columbia University, New York, New York 10032, USA
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Cyclic nucleotide-gated (CNG) channels are nonselective cation channels first identified in retinal photoreceptors and olfactory sensory neurons (OSNs). They are opened by the direct binding of cyclic nucleotides, cAMP and cGMP. Although their activity shows very little voltage dependence, CNG channels belong to the superfamily of voltage-gated ion channels. Like their cousins the voltage-gated K+ channels, CNG channels form heterotetrameric complexes consisting of two or three different types of subunits. Six different genes encoding CNG channels, four A subunits (A1 to A4) and two B subunits (B1 and B3), give rise to three different channels in rod and cone photoreceptors and in OSNs. Important functional features of these channels, i.e., ligand sensitivity and selectivity, ion permeation, and gating, are determined by the subunit composition of the respective channel complex. The function of CNG channels has been firmly established in retinal photoreceptors and in OSNs. Studies on their presence in other sensory and nonsensory cells have produced mixed results, and their purported roles in neuronal pathfinding or synaptic plasticity are not as well understood as their role in sensory neurons. Similarly, the function of invertebrate homologs found in Caenorhabditis elegans, Drosophila, and Limulus is largely unknown, except for two subunits of C. elegans that play a role in chemosensation. CNG channels are nonselective cation channels that do not discriminate well between alkali ions and even pass divalent cations, in particular Ca2+. Ca2+ entry through CNG channels is important for both excitation and adaptation of sensory cells. CNG channel activity is modulated by Ca2+/calmodulin and by phosphorylation. Other factors may also be involved in channel regulation. Mutations in CNG channel genes give rise to retinal degeneration and color blindness. In particular, mutations in the A and B subunits of the CNG channel expressed in human cones cause various forms of complete and incomplete achromatopsia.
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- U Benjamin Kaupp
- Institut für Biologische Informationsverarbeitung, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Jülich, Germany.
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Kramer RH, Molokanova E. Modulation of cyclic-nucleotide-gated channels and regulation of vertebrate phototransduction. J Exp Biol 2001; 204:2921-31. [PMID: 11551982 DOI: 10.1242/jeb.204.17.2921] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Cyclic-nucleotide-gated (CNG) channels are crucial for sensory transduction in the photoreceptors (rods and cones) of the vertebrate retina. Light triggers a decrease in the cytoplasmic concentration of cyclic GMP in the outer segments of these cells, leading to closure of CNG channels and hyperpolarization of the membrane potential. Hence, CNG channels translate a chemical change in cyclic nucleotide concentration into an electrical signal that can spread through the photoreceptor cell and be transmitted to the rest of the visual system. The sensitivity of phototransduction can be altered by exposing the cells to light, through adaptation processes intrinsic to photoreceptors. Intracellular Ca2+ is a major signal in light adaptation and, in conjunction with Ca2+-binding proteins, one of its targets for modulation is the CNG channel itself. However, other intracellular signals may be involved in the fine-tuning of light sensitivity in response to cues internal to organisms. Several intracellular signals are candidates for mediating changes in cyclic GMP sensitivity including transition metals, such as Ni2+ and Zn2+, and lipid metabolites, such as diacylglycerol. Moreover, CNG channels are associated with protein kinases and phosphatases that catalyze changes in phosphorylation state and allosterically modulate channel activity. Recent studies suggest that the effects of circadian rhythms and retinal transmitters on CNG channels may be mediated by such changes in phosphorylation. The goal of this paper is to review the molecular mechanisms underlying modulation of CNG channels and to relate these forms of modulation to the regulation of light sensitivity.
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- R H Kramer
- Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, 94720, USA.
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