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Query: EC:2.7.11.1 (protein kinase)
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Atrial natriuretic peptide (ANP) binds to a transmembrane receptor having intrinsic guanylyl cyclase activity; this receptor has been designated GC-A. Binding of ANP to GC-A stimulates its catalytic activity, resulting in increased production of the second messenger, cyclic GMP. Here we show that GC-A can be expressed in insect cells using a recombinant baculovirus and that the expressed protein retained its abilities to bind ANP and to function as an ANP-activated guanylyl cyclase. In addition, GC-A produced in insect cells was absolutely dependent on the presence of adenine nucleotides for activation by ANP. Millimolar concentrations of ATP were required for optimal activation. The relative potencies of various nucleotides for activation was adenosine 5'-O-(thiotriphosphate) greater than ATP greater than ADP, adenosine 5'-(beta, gamma-imino)triphosphate greater than ADP beta S. AMP had no effect. These studies suggest that binding of an adenine nucleotide, most likely to the protein kinase-like domain of GC-A, is absolutely required for ANP activation. Regulation of guanylyl cyclase activation by adenine nucleotides represents a novel mechanism for the modulation of signal transduction, possibly analogous in some respects to the role of guanine nucleotides and G proteins in the regulation of adenylyl cyclase activity.
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PMID:Adenine nucleotides are required for activation of rat atrial natriuretic peptide receptor/guanylyl cyclase expressed in a baculovirus system. 167 58

The plasma membrane forms of guanylate cyclase contain a highly conserved catalytic domain, which is also conserved in the soluble form of the enzyme and in mammalian adenylate cyclase. A protein kinase-like domain lies to the amino-terminal side of the catalytic domain and appears to be required for signaling via cGMP; it might also signal, itself, through phosphotransferase activity. This domain is present in the growth factor receptors, but appears not to be a component of other guanylate cyclases or adenylate cyclases. A single transmembrane domain then separates the cyclase catalytic and protein kinase-like domains from the putative ligand-binding domain. At least two plasma membrane forms of gunaylate cyclase (i.e., GC-A and GC-B) have now been identified, and their ligand specificities appear to be distinctly different. The tissue/cellular distribution of this family of receptors is now of potential importance, since specific agonists might differentially regulate physiological processes via the secondary messenger, cGMP, dependent on cellular distribution of the receptors.
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PMID:Guanylate cyclase receptor family. 198 Jul 49

Cyclic GMP (cGMP) signals through protein kinases, ion channels, and possibly other effector systems as a second messenger. Its synthesis is regulated by guanylyl cyclase, whose activity is found in various cellular compartments including the plasma membrane and cytosol. A soluble form of guanylyl cyclase, which occurs as a heterodimer, appears to serve as a receptor for nitric oxide or nitrosothiols, or both. Recent research suggests the presence of multiple subtypes of the soluble form of guanylyl cyclase and tissue-specific expression of the different forms. At least two different forms of the plasma membrane guanylyl cyclase are known to occur in various mammalian tissues. One form, GC-A, is a receptor for atrial natriuretic peptide, and the binding of ligand causes marked increases in cGMP production. The other form, GC-B, is stimulated more effectively by a brain natriuretic peptide than by atrial natriuretic peptide, but its natural ligand remains in question. Both plasma membrane forms of the enzyme contain a single, putative transmembrane domain. The intracellular region of both forms contains a protein kinase-like domain just within the transmembrane domain. The protein kinase-like domain is followed by a cyclase catalytic region near the carboxyl terminus that is homologous to two internally homologous domains found in a bovine brain adenylyl cyclase. The possibility that other guanylyl cyclase receptor subtypes exist is now being explored. If they do, we may subsequently find that a diversity of specific ligands signals through cGMP.
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PMID:The guanylyl cyclase receptor family. 198 20

We isolated cDNAs encoding a 115 kd human atrial natriuretic peptide (alpha ANP) receptor (ANP-A receptor) that possesses guanylate cyclase activity, by low-stringency hybridization with sea urchin Arbacia punctulata membrane guanylate cyclase probes. The human ANP-A receptor has a 32 residue signal sequence followed by a 441 residue extracellular domain homologous to the 60 kd ANP-C receptor. A 21 residue transmembrane domain precedes a 568 residue cytoplasmic domain with homology to the protein kinase family and to a subunit of the soluble guanylate cyclase. COS-7 cells transfected with an ANP-A receptor expression vector displayed specific [125I]alpha ANP binding, and exhibited alpha ANP stimulated cGMP production. These data demonstrate a new paradigm of cellular signal transduction where extracellular ligand binding allosterically regulates cyclic nucleotide second-messenger production by a receptor cytoplasmic catalytic domain.
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PMID:Human atrial natriuretic peptide receptor defines a new paradigm for second messenger signal transduction. 256 67

Deletion mutagenesis was used to identify sequences required for dimerization and enzymatic activity of the intracellular domain of the membrane guanylyl cyclase, GC-A. The intracellular domain of GC-A contains a protein kinase-like domain near its amino terminus, a guanylyl cyclase catalytic domain near its carboxyl terminus, and, between these domains, a region of unknown function predicted to form an amphipathic alpha-helix. Gel filtration analysis of deletion mutants of the GC-A intracellular domain suggested that a 43 amino acid sequence within the interdomain region was both necessary and sufficient for dimerization and was required for guanylyl cyclase catalytic activity. The ability of this sequence to mediate protein dimerization was confirmed in the yeast two-hybrid system, in which its fusion to the lexA DNA-binding domain and to the VP16 transcriptional activation domain led to their dimerization and consequent activation of a lexA-HIS3 gene. Thus, we have identified sequences responsible for dimerization of the intracellular domain of a guanylyl cyclase and shown that they are required for enzyme activity. Modulation of their interaction may be important in guanylyl cyclase activation.
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PMID:Identification of sequences mediating guanylyl cyclase dimerization. 771 74

The effect of isatin on rat brain particulate guanylate cyclase (GC) was investigated. The enzyme was stimulated by atrial natriuretic peptide (ANP), brain natriuretic peptide (BNP) and urodilatin, but not by C-type natriuretic peptide (CNP). Their effects were not additive, pointing to action via the GC-A receptor. Isatin, in dose-dependent manner, abolished this stimulation. The non-hydrolysable ATP analogue, adenylylimidodiphosphate, potentiated the effects of submaximal doses of ANP, BNP and urodilatin on this particulate GC-A, and attenuated or abolished sensitivity to isatin. These results suggest that isatin antagonises the generation of second messenger by GC-A; this sensitivity might be regulated at an ATP binding site, possibly a protein kinase-like domain.
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PMID:Interaction of isatin with type-A natriuretic peptide receptor: possible mechanism. 965 Nov 5

Heat shock protein 90 (hsp90) is a chaperone required for the proper folding and trafficking of many proteins involved in signal transduction. We tested whether hsp90 plays a role as a chaperone for GC-A, the membrane guanylate cyclase that acts as a receptor for atrial natriuretic peptide (ANP). When cultured cells expressing recombinant GC-A were treated with geldanamycin, an inhibitor of hsp90 function, the ANP-stimulated production of cyclic GMP was inhibited. This suggested that hsp90 was required for GC-A processing and/or stability. A physical association between hsp90 and GC-A was demonstrated in coimmunoprecipitation experiments. Treatment with geldanamycin disrupted this association and led to the accumulation of complexes containing GC-A and heat shock protein 70 (hsp70). Protein folding pathways involving hsp70 and hsp90 include several pathway-specific co-chaperones. Complexes between GC-A and hsp90 contained the co-chaperone p50(cdc37), typically found associated with protein kinase.hsp90 heterocomplexes. GC-A immunoprecipitates did not contain detectable amounts of Hop, FKBP51, FKBP52, PP5, or p23, all co-chaperones found in hsp90 complexes with other signaling proteins. The association of hsp90 and p50(cdc37) with GC-A was dependent on the kinase homology domain of this receptor but not on its ANP-binding, transmembrane, or guanylate cyclase domains. The data suggest that GC-A is regulated by hsp90 complexes similar to those involved in the maturation of protein kinases.
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PMID:Regulation of the atrial natriuretic peptide receptor by heat shock protein 90 complexes. 1115 73

The natriuretic peptides (NPs) constitute a family of polypeptide hormones that regulate mammalian blood volume and blood pressure. The ability of the NPs to modulate cardiac hypertrophy and cell proliferation as well is now beginning to be recognized. The NPs interact with three membrane-bound receptors, all of which contain a well-characterized extracellular ligand-binding domain. The R1 subclass of NP receptors (NPR-A and NPR-B) contains a C-terminal guanylyl cyclase domain and is responsible for most of the NPs downstream actions through their ability to generate cGMP. The R2 subclass lacks an obvious catalytic domain and functions primarily as a clearance receptor. This review focuses on the signal transduction pathways initiated by ligand binding and other factors that help to determine signalling specificities, including allosteric factors modulating cGMP generation, receptor desensitization, the activation and function of cGMP-dependent protein kinase (PKG), and identification of potential nuclear or cytoplasmic targets such as the mitogen-activated protein kinase signalling (MAPK) cascade. The inhibition of cardiac growth and hypertrophy may be an important but underappreciated action of the NP signalling system.
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PMID:Natriuretic peptide signalling: molecular and cellular pathways to growth regulation. 1130 39

This study investigated the hypothesis that atrial natriuretic peptide (ANP) responses are mediated by particulate guanylate cyclase in the pulmonary vascular bed of the cat. When tone in the pulmonary vascular bed was raised to a high steady level with the thromboxane mimic U-46619, injections of ANP caused dose-related decreases in lobar arterial pressure. After administration of HS-142-1, an ANP-A- and ANP-B-receptor antagonist, vasodilator responses to ANP were reduced. The nitric oxide (NO) synthase inhibitor N(omega)-nitro-L-arginine methyl ester (L-NAME) enhanced ANP vasodilator responses, suggesting that inhibition of NO modulates ANP responses. L-NAME administration with constant 8-bromo-cGMP infusion attenuated the increased vasodilator response to ANP, suggesting that supersensitivity to ANP occurs upstream to activation of a cGMP-dependent protein kinase. In pulmonary arterial rings, ANP produced concentration-related vasorelaxant responses with and without endothelium. Methylene blue, L-NAME, or N(omega)-monomethyl-L-arginine did not alter ANP vasorelaxant responses. These data show that ANP supersensitivity observed in the intact pulmonary vascular bed is not seen in isolated pulmonary arterial segments, suggesting that it may only occur in resistance vessel elements. These results suggest that ANP responses occur through activation of ANP-A and/or -B receptors in an endothelium-independent manner and are modulated by NO in resistance vessel elements in the pulmonary vascular bed of the cat.
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PMID:L-NAME enhances responses to atrial natriuretic peptide in the pulmonary vascular bed of the cat. 1135 72

To identify neural tumor cell lines that could be used as models to study growth-related natriuretic peptide actions, we determined the effects of these peptides on the proliferation of human and rodent neuroblastoma cell lines. Subnanomolar concentrations of atrial natriuretic peptide (ANP) and type C natriuretic peptide (CNP) stimulated proliferation in all four cell lines. These actions were associated with cGMP elevation and were blocked by a protein kinase G inhibitor. These data imply the involvement of guanylyl cyclase (GC)-coupled natriuretic receptors. However, higher concentrations of ANP and CNP, and low concentrations of des-[Gln(18),Ser(19),Gly(20),Leu(21),Gly(22)]-ANP(4-23)-NH(2) (desANP(4-23)) (analog for NPR-C receptor) exerted antiproliferative actions in three of the cell lines. These effects were insensitive to a protein kinase G inhibitor and to HS-142-1, suggesting that growth-inhibitory actions involved a non-GC receptor. They did not appear to involve cAMP, protein kinase A, protein kinase C, or calcium mobilization but were abolished when constitutive mitogen-activated protein kinase activity was inhibited. Radioligand binding experiments revealed the presence of a uniform class of binding sites in NG108 cells and multiple binding sites in Neuro2a cells. Northern and reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction analyses revealed differential gene expression for NPR-A/B/C in NG108 and Neuro2a cells. The results indicate that natriuretic peptides stimulate neuroblastoma cell proliferation through type NPR-A/B (GC) receptors. Higher concentrations of ANP and CNP exerted a mitogen-activated protein kinase-dependent antiproliferative action mediated by a non-GC receptor that interacts with desANP(4-23) with relatively high affinity.
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PMID:Proliferative actions of natriuretic peptides on neuroblastoma cells. Involvement of guanylyl cyclase and non-guanylyl cyclase pathways. 1155 33


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