title: Dimeric tubulin-stimulated adenylyl cyclase activity is augmented after long-term amitriptyline treatment.
abstract: We have investigated altered association of tubulin dimers interacting with G proteins and modulating adenylyl cyclase (AC) as a result of long-term amitriptyline (AMT) treatment. Gpp(NH)p-stimulated, but not basal or manganese-stimulated, AC activity was significantly augmented in cortex membranes prepared from rats chronically treated with AMT. The enhancement of AC activity by Gpp(NH)p-liganded tubulin (tubulin-Gpp(NH)p) was significantly higher in chronically AMT-treated rats than in control rats. Moreover, in cortex membranes from controls, tubulin-Gpp(NH)p prepared from chronically AMT-treated rats was more effective to activate AC activity than tubulin-Gpp(NH)p from controls. Immunoblotting and photoaffinity guanine nucleotide binding procedures showed no significant differences in the amount and the function of G proteins between controls and AMT-treated groups. It is suggested that long-term AMT treatment causes alteration in the functional interaction between tubulin and G protein, and this modification may participate in enhanced coupling of Gs to the catalytic subunit of AC induced by the chronic antidepressant treatment.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neuropsychiatry, School of Medicine, Sapporo Medical University, Japan.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Kamada
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Ozawa
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Saito
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Hatta
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Takahata
mesh_terms: D000262:Adenylyl Cyclases / Q000378:metabolism*; D000639:Amitriptyline / Q000494:pharmacology*; D000818:Animals; D000929:Antidepressive Agents, Tricyclic / Q000494:pharmacology*; D001386:Azides / Q000378:metabolism; D002540:Cerebral Cortex / Q000187:drug effects / Q000201:enzymology*; D019281:Dimerization; D019206:GTP-Binding Protein alpha Subunits, Gi-Go / Q000378:metabolism; D019205:GTP-Binding Protein alpha Subunits, Gs / Q000378:metabolism; D006160:Guanosine Triphosphate / Q000031:analogs & derivatives / Q000378:metabolism; D006165:Guanylyl Imidodiphosphate / Q000378:metabolism / Q000494:pharmacology; D008297:Male; D051381:Rats; D017207:Rats, Sprague-Dawley; D014404:Tubulin / Q000378:metabolism*
chemical_list: D000929:Antidepressive Agents, Tricyclic; D001386:Azides; D014404:Tubulin; D000639:Amitriptyline; D006165:Guanylyl Imidodiphosphate; C031907:GTP gamma-4-azidoanilide; D006160:Guanosine Triphosphate; D019206:GTP-Binding Protein alpha Subunits, Gi-Go; D019205:GTP-Binding Protein alpha Subunits, Gs; D000262:Adenylyl Cyclases