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Volume 16, Number 10,
Issue of May 15, 1996
pp. 3130-3138
Copyright ©1996 Society for Neuroscience
cGMP-Dependent Protein Kinase in Dorsal Root Ganglion:
Relationship with Nitric Oxide Synthase and Nociceptive Neurons
Received Oct. 5, 1995; revised Feb. 12, 1996; accepted Feb. 22, 1996.
Yifang Qian1,
Daniel
S. Chao1,
Daniel R. Santillano1,
Trudy L. Cornwell3,
Angus C. Nairn4,
Paul Greengard4,
Thomas M. Lincoln3, and
David S. Bredt1, 2
1 Department of Physiology and 2 Program in
Biomedical Sciences, University of California San Francisco, San
Francisco, California 94143, 3 Department of Pathology,
University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama 35294, and
4 Department of Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience, The
Rockefeller University, New York, New York 10021
Nitric oxide and cGMP influence plasticity of nociceptive
processing in spinal cord. However, effectors for cGMP have not been
identified in sensory pathways. We now demonstrate that cGMP-dependent
protein kinase I (cGKI) occurs in the DRGs at levels comparable to that
in cerebellum, the richest source of cGKI in the body.
Immunohistochemical studies reveal that cGKI is concentrated in a
subpopulation of small- and medium-diameter DRG neurons that partially
overlap with substance P and calcitonin gene-related polypeptide
containing cells. During development, cGKI expression throughout the
embryo is essentially restricted to sensory neurons and to the spinal
floor and roof plates. Neuronal nitric oxide synthase (nNOS) is
coexpressed with cGKI in sensory neurons during embryonic development
and after peripheral nerve axotomy. The primary target for cGKI in
cerebellum, G-substrate, is not present in developing, mature, or
regenerating sensory neurons, indicating that other proteins serve as
effectors for cGKI in sensory processing. These data establish sensory
neurons as a primary locus for cGMP actions during development and
suggest a role for cGKI in plasticity of nociception.
Key words:
nociceptive;
dorsal root ganglion;
nitric oxide;
development;
substance P;
cGMP
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