Previous studies have demonstrated a diminution in the bioactivity of the guanine nucleotide-binding regulatory protein that stimulates adenylyl cyclase (Gs) in hearts of the hypertrophic BIO 14.6 Syrian hamster. In this study, we measured functional activity and immunodetectable levels of Gs in a mutant strain of hamsters (BIO 53.58) that develop a dilated cardiomyopathy. Pathological studies ...

UNLABELLED Cardiac dysfunction occurs in infants with prenatal cocaine exposure, and gestational cocaine exposure induces presynaptic and postsynaptic changes in the central monoaminergic receptor pathways. The hypothesis of this study is that prenatal cocaine exposure adversely affects the peripheral adrenergic receptor (betaAR) signaling pathway in the neonatal rat heart. Timed pregnant rats ...

Two synthetic analogues of bovine parathyroid hormone (PTH) with NH2-terminal modifications, PTH-(3-34) and [desamino-Ala-1]PTH-(1-34), were found to lack agonist activity but to demonstrate antagonist properties when tested in the rat renal cortical adenylyl cyclase assay in vitro against the native hormone or against PTH-(1-34), the active synthetic NH2-terminal tetratriacontapeptide. The inh...

Mycobacterial genomes are endowed with many eukaryote-like nucleotide cyclase genes encoding proteins that can synthesize 3',5'-cyclic AMP (cAMP). However, the roles of cAMP and the need for such redundancy in terms of adenylyl cyclase genes remain unknown. We measured cAMP levels in Mycobacterium smegmatis during growth and under various stress conditions and report the first biochemical and f...

OBJECTIVE To determine whether transient hypoxia in neonatal rats has long-lasting effects on inotropic stimulation of the adult heart. METHODS The hearts of adult male Sprague-Dawley rats (89+/-1 (S.E.M.) days, 432+/-5 g) were studied. Half the animals had been subjected to neonatal hypoxia (FiO(2)=0.12, days 1-10) while the others had not. The peak response of left ventricular pressure (LVP...

emia occur, has been available. We have used a method that Regional myocardial ischemia is associated with increased levels of adenosine and norepinephrine, factors that may alter activation of the ,-adrenergic receptor (,6AR)-G protein-adenylyl cyclase pathway in the heart. We have used the ameroid constrictor model to determine whether alterations in myocardial signal transduction through the...

Rat pheochromocytoma (PC12) cells characteristically undergo differentiation when cultured with nerve growth factor (NGF). Here we show that NGF dramatically increased the adenylyl cyclase-activating property of forskolin in PC12 cells. This effect of NGF was well maintained even when NGF was removed after 4 days, even though the morphological features of neuronal differentiation were rapidly l...

Specific forms of synaptic plasticity such as long-term potentiation (LTP) are modulated by or require increases in cAMP. The various adenylyl cyclase isoforms possess unique regulatory properties, and thus cAMP increases in a given cell type or tissue in response to converging signals are subject to the properties of the adenylyl cyclase isoforms expressed. In most tissues, adenylyl cyclase ac...

In !he present studies, we have investigated the modulation of atria1 nalriuretic factor (ANF) receptor of 82 subtype (ANF-RZ) coupled to adenylyl cyclase!cAMP Fignal transduction system by angiotensir 11 (All). C-ANFIm2, I CANFI-z~,IdesfGln’R, Ser’“, Gin=, Leu”, GlyzZ)ANF,-,,-NH21 and A!1 inhibited adenylyl cyclase activity in control vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMC A-10) by about 40% and 3...

The human fungal pathogen Candida albicans switches from a budding yeast form to a polarized hyphal form in response to various external signals. This morphogenetic switching has been implicated in the development of pathogenicity. We have cloned the CaCDC35 gene encoding C. albicans adenylyl cyclase by functional complementation of the conditional growth defect of Saccharomyces cerevisiae cell...