期刊
FRONTIERS IN BIOSCIENCE-LANDMARK
卷 16, 期 -, 页码 2008-2051出版社
IMR PRESS
DOI: 10.2741/3837
关键词
Nitric Oxide Synthase; Evolution; Vertebrates; Invertebrates; Protozoa; Plants; Fungi; Nitrites; Cnidaria; Molluscs; Bacteria; Non-Enzymatic Synthesis; Neurons; Nervous Systems; Aplysia; Learning and Memory; Review
资金
- NIH [P50HG002806, RO1NS06076, R21RR025699, R21DA030118]
- NSF [0744649]
- McKnight Brain Research Fooundation
- Direct For Biological Sciences
- Division Of Integrative Organismal Systems [0744649] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
The origin of NO signaling can be traceable back to the origin of life with the large scale of parallel evolution of NO synthases (NOSs). Inducible-like NOSs may be the most basal prototype of all NOSs and that neuronal-like NOS might have evolved several times from this prototype. Other enzymatic and non-enzymatic pathways for NO synthesis have been discovered using reduction of nitrites, an alternative source of NO. Diverse synthetic mechanisms can co-exist within the same cell providing a complex NO-oxygen microenvironment tightly coupled with cellular energetics. The dissection of multiple sources of NO formation is crucial in analysis of complex biological processes such as neuronal integration and learning mechanisms when NO can act as a volume transmitter within memory-forming circuits. In particular, the molecular analysis of learning mechanisms (most notably in insects and gastropod molluscs) opens conceptually different perspectives to understand the logic of recruiting evolutionarily conserved pathways for novel functions. Giant uniquely identified cells from Aplysia and related species precent unuque opportunities for integrative analysis of NO signaling at the single cell level.
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