title: An L-cysteine sulfinic acid-sensitive metabotropic receptor mediates increased cAMP accumulation in hippocampal slices.
abstract: The excitatory amino acid (EAA), L-cysteine sulfinic acid (L-CSA), elicited a dose-dependent increase in cAMP accumulation in adult rat hippocampus that was not blocked by ionotropic glutamate receptor antagonists. Therefore, the possibility was examined that L-CSA activates the (1S,3R)-amino-1,3-cyclopentanedicarboxylic acid (1S,3R-ACPD)-sensitive metabotropic glutamate receptor (mGluR) that increases cAMP by potentiating responses elicited by adenosine or other agonists of receptors coupled to adenylate cyclase via Gs. Like 1S,3R-ACPD, L-CSA induced a cAMP response that was inhibited by the adenosine receptor antagonist, 8-para-sulfyltheophylline, and by adenosine deaminase. In contrast to the 1S,3R-ACPD-induced cAMP response, the L-CSA-induced response was not potentiated by the adenosine uptake inhibitor, dipyridamole. Taken together with the previous finding that L-CSA does not potentiate cAMP responses elicited by agonists of receptors that activate Gs, these data suggest that L-CSA increases cAMP accumulation by activating a metabotropic EAA receptor that is different from the 1S,3R-ACPD-sensitive mGluR associated with potentiation of cAMP responses.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pharmacology, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA.
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Boss
authors.forename: A S
authors.initials: AS
authors.lastname: Boaten
mesh_terms: D000225:Adenine / Q000378:metabolism; D000818:Animals; D000242:Cyclic AMP / Q000378:metabolism*; D003545:Cysteine / Q000031:analogs & derivatives* / Q000494:pharmacology; D004305:Dose-Response Relationship, Drug; D018846:Excitatory Amino Acids / Q000378:metabolism; D006624:Hippocampus / Q000737:chemistry / Q000187:drug effects / Q000378:metabolism*; D008297:Male; D018377:Neurotransmitter Agents / Q000494:pharmacology*; D051381:Rats; D017207:Rats, Sprague-Dawley; D018094:Receptors, Metabotropic Glutamate / Q000037:antagonists & inhibitors* / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D018846:Excitatory Amino Acids; D018377:Neurotransmitter Agents; D018094:Receptors, Metabotropic Glutamate; D000242:Cyclic AMP; D000225:Adenine; D003545:Cysteine; C013461:cysteine sulfinic acid