Neuronal regulation of photo-induced pineal photoreceptor proteins in carp Catla catla

Authors: Seth, Mohua; Maitra, Saumen Kumar

Source: Journal of Neurochemistry, Volume 114, Number 4, August 2010 , pp. 1049-1062(14)

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Abstract:

J. Neurochem. (2010) 114, 1049-1062. Abstract

In the present in vitro study on the pineal in carp Catla catla, specific agonist and antagonists of receptors for different neuronal signals and regulators of intra-cellular Ca⁺⁺ and cAMP were used to gather basic information on the neuronal signal transduction cascade mechanisms in the photo-induced expression of rod-like opsin and α-transducin-like proteins in any fish pineal. Western-blot analysis followed by quantitative analysis of respective immunoblot data for both the proteins revealed that photo-induced expression of each protein was stimulated by cholinergic (both nicotinic and muscarinic) agonists and a dopaminergic antagonist, inhibited by both cholinergic antagonists and a dopaminergic agonist, but not affected by any agonists or antagonists of adrenergic (α₁, α₂ and β₁) receptors. Moreover, expression of each protein was stimulated by voltage gated L type calcium channel blocker, adenylate cyclase inhibitor and phosphodiesterase activator; but suppressed by the activators of both calcium channel and adenylate cyclase, and by phosphodiesterase inhibitor. Collectively, we report for the first time that both cholinergic and dopaminergic signals play an important, though antagonistic, role in the photo-induced expression of photoreceptor proteins in the fish pineal through activation of a signal transduction pathway in which both calcium and cAMP may act as the intracellular messengers.

Keywords: adrenergic; carp; cholinergic; dopaminergic; photoreceptor proteins; pineal

Document Type: Research article

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1471-4159.2010.06830.x

Publication date: 2010-08-01

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