Pituitary adenylyl cyclase-activating polypeptide (PACAP) and its receptor (PAC1-R) in the cochlea: evidence for specific transcript expression of PAC1-R splice variants in rat microdissected cochlear subfractions

Neuroscience
M D Abu-HamdanD G Drescher

Abstract

Pituitary adenylyl cyclase-activating polypeptide (PACAP) is a neuropeptide originally isolated from the hypothalamus, named for its high potency in stimulating adenylyl cyclase in pituitary cells. PACAP acts through the specific receptor PAC1-R to modulate the action of neurotransmitters, and additionally, to regulate cell viability via autocrine/intracrine mechanisms. Evidence has now been obtained that PACAP and multiple splice variants of PAC1-R are expressed in the rat cochlea. mRNA for PACAP precursor protein is found by reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) in microdissected cochlear lateral wall, organ of Corti, and spiral ganglion subfractions. A specific pattern of expression of mRNA for PAC1-R splice variants, which mediate the response to PACAP, has been revealed by RT-PCR and cloning for the cochlear subfractions. Transcript for the short form of PAC1-R is found in all three subfractions. Four additional splice variants -- hop1, hop2, hip, and a novel hop1 splice variant -- are expressed in the lateral wall. For the amino terminus splice region of PAC1-R, a new splice variant has been detected in the organ of Corti, representing a deletion of the first 7 of 21 amino acids detected in the PAC1-R v...Continue Reading

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