The Y99C mutation in guanylyl cyclase-activating protein 1 increases intracellular Ca2+ and causes photoreceptor degeneration in transgenic mice

The Journal of Neuroscience : the Official Journal of the Society for Neuroscience
E V OlshevskayaA M Dizhoor

Abstract

Guanylyl cyclase-activating proteins (GCAPs) are Ca2+-binding proteins that activate guanylyl cyclase when free Ca2+ concentrations in retinal rods and cones fall after illumination and inhibit the cyclase when free Ca2+ reaches its resting level in the dark. Several forms of retinal dystrophy are caused by mutations in GUCA1A, the gene coding for GCAP1. To investigate the cellular mechanisms affected by the diseased state, we created transgenic mice that express GCAP1 with a Tyr99Cys substitution (Y99C GCAP1) found in human patients with a late-onset retinal dystrophy (Payne et al., 1998). Y99C GCAP1 shifted the Ca2+ sensitivity of the guanylyl cyclase in photoreceptors, keeping it partially active at 250 nM free Ca2+, the normal resting Ca2+ concentration in darkness. The enhanced activity of the cyclase in the dark increased cyclic nucleotide-gated channel activity and elevated the rod outer segment Ca2+ concentration in darkness, measured by using fluo-5F and laser spot microscopy. In different lines of transgenic mice the magnitude of this effect rose with the Y99C GCAP1 expression. Surprisingly, there was little change in the rod photoresponse, indicating that dynamic Ca2+-dependent regulation of cGMP synthesis was preser...Continue Reading

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