title: Acetylcholine stimulates cyclic ADP-ribose formation via M1 muscarinic receptors in rat superior cervical ganglion.
abstract: The role of cyclic ADP-ribose (cADPR) as the downstream signal of neuronal muscarinic acetylcholine receptors (mAChRs) and the enzyme responsible for its synthesis, ADP-ribosyl cyclase, were examined in the rat superior cervical ganglion (SCG). Application of acetylcholine or other mAChR agonists increased the ADP-ribosyl cyclase activity by about 250-300% in crude membrane fractions from the SCG of 14-day-old rats. This effect was inhibited by atropine or by the M1-mAChR antagonist, pirenzepine, and was mimicked by GTP. These results indicate that the M1 mAChRs couple to the membrane-bound form of ADP-ribosyl cyclase and suggest that cADPR is a second messenger of M1 mAChR signaling in nervous tissue.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biophysical Genetics, Kanazawa University Graduate School of Medicine, Kanazawa 920-8640, Japan.
authors.forename: Jia-Sheng
authors.initials: JS
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Duo
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Jin
authors.forename: Haruhiro
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Higashida
mesh_terms: D000109:Acetylcholine / Q000494:pharmacology*; D000818:Animals; D036563:Cyclic ADP-Ribose / Q000096:biosynthesis*; D005260:Female; D005724:Ganglia / Q000187:drug effects* / Q000378:metabolism; D008297:Male; D051381:Rats; D017208:Rats, Wistar; D043643:Receptor, Muscarinic M1 / Q000378:metabolism*
chemical_list: D043643:Receptor, Muscarinic M1; D036563:Cyclic ADP-Ribose; D000109:Acetylcholine