Arrestin times for compartmentalised cAMP signalling and phosphodiesterase-4 enzymes

Curr Opin Cell Biol. 2005 Apr;17(2):129-34. doi: 10.1016/j.ceb.2005.01.003.

Abstract

Various methods reveal that cyclic AMP (cAMP) signalling in cells is compartmentalised. These methods use FRET probes based upon either protein kinase A (PKA) or EPAC, cAMP-gated ion channels, or the selective activation of AKAP-anchored PKA isoforms. The basis of compartmentalisation involves point sources of cAMP generation within sub-domains of the plasma membrane coupled to degradation by spatially segregated, anchored forms of cAMP phosphodiesterases. cAMP-specific phosphodiesterase-4 (PDE4) isoforms play a central role in determining compartmentalisation, as exemplified in cardiac myocytes and T cells. The PKA phosphorylation status of the beta2-adrenoreceptor, and hence its ability to switch its signalling from G(s) to G(i) and thus to activate ERK, is regulated dynamically by the agonist-stimulated recruitment of PDE4 to the receptor in complex with beta-arrestin. The co-receptor CD28 enhances signalling through the T-cell receptor by recruiting a PDE4/beta-arrestin complex, which then attenuates PKA phosphorylation of Csk.

Publication types

  • Review

MeSH terms

  • 3',5'-Cyclic-AMP Phosphodiesterases / metabolism*
  • Animals
  • Arrestins / metabolism*
  • Cell Compartmentation / physiology*
  • Cell Membrane / metabolism
  • Cyclic AMP / metabolism*
  • Cyclic Nucleotide Phosphodiesterases, Type 4
  • Humans
  • Macromolecular Substances / metabolism
  • Receptors, Cell Surface / metabolism
  • Second Messenger Systems / physiology*

Substances

  • Arrestins
  • Macromolecular Substances
  • Receptors, Cell Surface
  • Cyclic AMP
  • 3',5'-Cyclic-AMP Phosphodiesterases
  • Cyclic Nucleotide Phosphodiesterases, Type 4