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The function of AKAP-dependent protein-protein interactions in the regulation of vasopressin-mediated water reabsorption and cardiac myocyte contractility

Fachliche Zuordnung Pharmakologie
Förderung Förderung von 2007 bis 2015
Projektkennung Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Projektnummer 29078704
 
Erstellungsjahr 2014

Zusammenfassung der Projektergebnisse

A-kinase anchoring proteins (AKAPs) are scaffolding proteins that directly interact with protein kinase A (PKA) and thereby spatially and temporally constrict PKA activity to defined cellular compartments and thus contribute to the specificity of PKA signalling. This local constriction of PKA is crucial for many of PKA‟s functions. The aim of this project was to gain mechanistic insight into the control of cardiac myocyte contractility and arginine-vasopressin (AVP)-mediated water reabsorption in renal principal cells by the analysis of the interactions of AKAPs with PKA and other proteins. A further aim was the identification of inhibitors of AKAP-PKA interactions for use as molecular tools and elucidation of the function of such interactions but also because chemical compounds modulating AKAP functions and altering compartmentalized cellular signalling may pave the way to new concepts for the treatment of diseases with a high medical need such as renal diseases and, in particular, heart failure. A major outcome of the project is the development of terpyridin-based α-helix mimetics for inhibition of AKAP- PKA interactions. These are the first in silico-designed non-peptidic agents for interference with such interactions. The use of our previously identified small molecule, FMP-API-1, which also inhibits AKAP-PKA interactions revealed a negative feedback mechanisms controlling cAMP synthesis in cardiac myocytes. We identified new AKAP18δ interactions and characterised their role in the control of cardiac myocytes contractility; with vacuolar H+-ATPase we identified a protein that controls local PKA signalling in renal principal cells and thereby AVP-mediated water reabsorption, presumably because it functions as an AKAP. We identified GSK3β interacting protein as an AKAP integrating PKA and GSK3β signalling.

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