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Mammalian Expression> | … mammalian cells, and commercially synthesized (GenScript Inc., MA, USA) as previously described36. All the cysteine to alanine mutations in Gαs were made in the constitutively active … | Get A Quote |
Activation of adenylyl cyclases (ACs) by G-protein Gαs catalyzes the production of cyclic adenosine monophosphate (cAMP), a key second messenger that regulates diverse physiological responses. There are 10 AC isoforms present in humans, with AC5 and AC6 proposed to play vital roles in cardiac function. We have previously shown that under hypoxic conditions, AC6 is amenable to post-translational modification by nitrosylation, resulting in decreased AC catalytic activity. Using a computational model of the AC6-Gαs complex, we predicted key nitrosylation-amenable cysteine residues involved in the interaction of AC6 with Gαs and pursued a structure-function analysis of these cysteine residues in both AC6 and Gα... More