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The Journal of Neuroscience, April 1, 1998, 18(7):2342-2349

Nitric Oxide Depresses GABA_A Receptor Function via Coactivation of cGMP-Dependent Kinase and Phosphodiesterase

Eric M. Wexler^{1, 2}, Patric K. Stanton^{2, 3}, and Scott Nawy^{1, 2}

Departments of ¹ Ophthalmology and Visual Science, ² Neuroscience, and ³ Neurology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York 10461

Nitric oxide (NO) is thought to play an essential role in neuronal processing, but the downstream mechanisms of its action remain unclear. We report here that NO analogs reduce GABA-gated currents in cultured retinal amacrine cells via two distinct, but convergent, cGMP-dependent pathways. Either extracellular application of the NO-mimetic S-nitroso-N-acetyl-penicillamine (SNAP) or intracellular perfusion with cGMP depressed GABA currents. This depression was partially blocked by a pseudosubstrate peptide inhibitor of cGMP-dependent protein kinase (PKG), suggesting both PKG-dependent and independent actions of cGMP. cAMP-dependent protein kinase (PKA) is known to enhance retinal GABA responses. 8-Bromoinosine 3',5'-cyclic monophosphate (8Br-cIMP), which activates a type of cGMP-stimulated phosphodiesterase that hydrolyzes cAMP, also significantly reduced GABA currents. 1-Methyl-3-isobutylxanthine (IBMX), a nonspecific phosphodiesterase (PDE) inhibitor, blocked both the action of 8Br-cIMP and the portion of SNAP-induced depression that was not blocked by PKG inhibition. Our results suggest that NO depresses retinal GABA_A receptor function by simultaneously upregulating PKG and downregulating PKA.

Key words: retina; amacrine; culture; nitric oxide; guanylate cyclase; ODQ; SNAP; PKG inhibitory peptide

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