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Ca(2+)-modulated ROS-GC1 transduction system in testes and its presence in the spermatogenic cells.

ABSTRACT: ROS-GC1 belongs to the Ca(2+)-modulated sub-family of membrane guanylate cyclases. It primarily exists and is linked with signaling of the sensory neurons - sight, smell, taste, and pinealocytes. Exceptionally, it is also present and is Ca(2+)-modulated in t he non-neuronal cells, the sperm cells in the testes, where S100B protein serves as its Ca(2+) sensor. The present report demonstrates the identification of an additional Ca(2+) sensor of ROS-GC1 in the testes, neurocalcin ?. Through mouse molecular genetic models, it compares and quantifies the relative input of the S100B and neurocalcin ? in regulating the Ca(2+) signaling of ROS-GC1 transduction machinery, and via immunochemistry it demonstrates the co-presence of neurocalcin ? and ROS-GC1 in the spermatogenic cells of the testes. The suggestion is that in more ways than one the Ca(2+)-modulated ROS-GC1 transduction system is linked with the testicular function. This non-neuronal transduction system may represent an illustration of the ROS-GC1 expanding role in the trans-signaling of the neural and non-neural systems.

SUBMITTER: Jankowska A

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4010774 | biostudies-literature | 2014

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Ca(2+)-modulated ROS-GC1 transduction system in testes and its presence in the spermatogenic cells.

Jankowska Anna A Sharma Rameshwar K RK Duda Teresa T

Frontiers in molecular neuroscience 20140429

ROS-GC1 belongs to the Ca(2+)-modulated sub-family of membrane guanylate cyclases. It primarily exists and is linked with signaling of the sensory neurons - sight, smell, taste, and pinealocytes. Exceptionally, it is also present and is Ca(2+)-modulated in t he non-neuronal cells, the sperm cells in the testes, where S100B protein serves as its Ca(2+) sensor. The present report demonstrates the identification of an additional Ca(2+) sensor of ROS-GC1 in the testes, neurocalcin δ. Through mouse m ...[more]

PMID: 24808824

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Ca(2+)-modulated ROS-GC1 transduction system in testes and its presence in the spermatogenic cells.

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Ca(2+)-modulated ROS-GC1 transduction system in testes and its presence in the spermatogenic cells.

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