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Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
October 1988
Department of Pharmacology, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Columbia University, New York, NY 10032.
The role of guanine nucleotide-binding proteins (G proteins) in the cAMP-dependent action of serotonin (5-HT) and the antagonistic action of the neuropeptide Phe-Met-Arg-Phe-NH2 (FMRF-amide), mediated by the lipoxygenase metabolites of arachidonic acid, was investigated in Aplysia sensory neurons. Intracellular injection of guanosine 5'-[gamma-thio]triphosphate (GTP[gamma-S]) mimics the hyperpolarizing action of FMRF-amide due to activation of the S K+ current and alters the transient response to FMRF-amide into an irreversible (or only partially reversible) response. At higher concentrations, GTP[gamma-S] occludes the response to FMRF-amide.
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