Application | Comment | Organism |
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medicine | in red blood cells, an intact soluble guanylate cyclaseC/PDE5/PKG-dependent signaling pathway exists, which remains fully responsive to NO and guanylate cyclase stimulators/activators in patients with endothelial dysfunction | Homo sapiens |
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General Information | Comment | Organism |
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physiological function | red blood cells carry a catalytically active alpha1beta1-guanylate cyclase isoform 1, as well as phopshodiesterase PDE5 and protein kinase PKG. Specific cyclase stimulation by NO + BAY 41-2272 increases intracellular cGMP-levels up to 1000fold with concomitant activation of the canonical PKG/VASP-signaling pathway. This response to NO is blunted in subunit alpha1-cyclase knockout red blood cells, but fully preserved in alpha2-guanylate cyclase KO cells | Homo sapiens |