Protein kinase A regulates the degradation rate of Rs acetylcholine receptors
- 1 October 1995
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Journal of Cellular Physiology
- Vol. 165 (1) , 30-39
- https://doi.org/10.1002/jcp.1041650105
Abstract
Acetylcholine receptors at the neuromuscular junction of innervated vertebrate muscle (called Rs AChRs) have a stable degradation rate (t1/2∼8–12 days) which accelerates after denervation to a half-life of ∼3 days, but can be restabilized by reinnervation or by cAMP. We examined the mechanism by which cAMP regulates the Rs degradation rate. When dibutyryl cAMP (DB-cAMP) was applied to denervated mouse diaphragms in organ culture, it stabilized the accelerated degradation rate of the Rs. We found that this stabilization is reversible upon removal of the DB-cAMP, is cAMP specific and is mediated by intracellular cAMP. A major observation of this study is that the cAMP-induced stabilization of Rs AChRs is via protein kinase A (PKA), since H89, a PKA inhibitor, blocked the DB-cAMP induced stabilization of Rs, and H85, an analog of H89, which does not inhibit PKA but does inhibit other kinases as efficiently as H89, did not prevent the DB-cAMP-induced stabilization of Rs degradation. These results suggest that the cAMP messenger system via a PKA-dependent pathway could be among the mechanisms whereby the nerve regulates AChR degradation. © 1995 Wiley-Liss Inc.Keywords
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