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PHARMACOLOGY & THERAPEUTICS
Volume 143, Issue 3, Pages 295-304Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.pharmthera.2014.03.008
Keywords
cAMP; Compartmentalization; PKA; PDEs; AKAPs; Signaling
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Funding
- British Heart Foundation [PG/10/75/28537, RG/12/3/29423]
- NSF-NIH CRCNS program (NIH) [R01 AA18060]
- British Heart Foundation Centre of Research Excellence Intermediate Fellowship, Oxford [RE/08/004]
- British Heart Foundation [PG/10/75/28537, RG/12/3/29423] Funding Source: researchfish
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In the complex microcosm of a cell, information security and its faithful transmission are critical for maintaining internal stability. To achieve a coordinated response of all its parts to any stimulus the cell must protect the information received from potentially confounding signals. Physical segregation of the information transmission chain ensures that only the entities able to perform the encoded task have access to the relevant information. The cAMP intracellular signaling pathway is an important system for signal transmission responsible for the ancestral 'flight or fight' response and involved in the control of critical functions including frequency and strength of heart contraction, energy metabolism and gene transcription. It is becoming increasingly apparent that the cAMP signaling pathway uses compartmentalization as a strategy for coordinating the large number of key cellular functions under its control. Spatial confinement allows the formation of cAMP signaling hot spots at discrete subcellular domains in response to specific stimuli, bringing the information in proximity to the relevant effectors and their recipients, thus achieving specificity of action. In this report we discuss how the different constituents of the CAMP pathway are targeted and participate in the formation of cAMP compartmentalized signaling events. We illustrate a few examples of localized CAMP signaling, with a particular focus on the nucleus, the sarcoplasmic reticulum and the mitochondria. Finally, we discuss the therapeutic potential of interventions designed to perturb specific cAMP cascades locally. (C) 2014 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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