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J. Biol. Chem., Vol. 262, Issue 16, 7623-7628, 06, 1987

Immunological distinction between calmodulin-sensitive and calmodulin- insensitive adenylate cyclases

GB Rosenberg and DR Storm

Previous studies using calmodulin-Sepharose affinity chromatography have suggested that bovine brain may contain a mixture of calmodulin- sensitive and -insensitive adenylate cyclase activities (Wescott, K. R., La Porte, D. C., and Storm, D. R. (1979) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 82, 3086-3090). In this study, mice were immunized with a purified preparation of the calmodulin-sensitive adenylate cyclase from bovine brain, and a polyclonal antiserum was obtained which was specific to the calmodulin-sensitive form of the enzyme. The antiserum was not inhibitory and precipitated enzyme activity from a homogeneous preparation of the calmodulin-sensitive adenylate cyclase catalytic subunit. Furthermore, the antiserum did not interact with calmodulin- insensitive adenylate cyclase which was resolved from the calmodulin- sensitive form of the enzyme by calmodulin-Sepharose affinity chromatography. Since the only polypeptide specifically precipitated by the antiserum had an Mr of 135,000, which was identical to the Mr of the catalytic subunit of the enzyme, it is concluded that the antiserum interacted directly and specifically with the catalytic subunit of the calmodulin-sensitive isozyme of adenylate cyclase. Detergent- solubilized membranes from several rat tissues were examined for the presence of calmodulin-sensitive adenylate cyclase using anti- calmodulin-sensitive adenylate cyclase antiserum. Approximately 40-60% of the total adenylate cyclase activity of rat brain and kidney were immunoprecipitated by the antiserum, whereas liver and testes contained no detectable calmodulin-sensitive adenylate cyclase. Approximately 15% of the total adenylate cyclase activity in rat heart and lung was the calmodulin-sensitive form. These data indicate that the calmodulin- sensitive and insensitive adenylate cyclases from bovine brain are immunologically distinct and support the proposal that there may be two or more distinct adenylate cyclase isozymes in brain.
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