AUTHOR=Jankowska Anna , Sharma Rameshwar K. , Duda Teresa TITLE=Ca2+-modulated ROS-GC1 transduction system in testes and its presence in the spermatogenic cells JOURNAL=Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience VOLUME=7 YEAR=2014 URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/molecular-neuroscience/articles/10.3389/fnmol.2014.00034 DOI=10.3389/fnmol.2014.00034 ISSN=1662-5099 ABSTRACT=

ROS-GC1 belongs to the Ca2+-modulated sub-family of membrane guanylate cyclases. It primarily exists and is linked with signaling of the sensory neurons – sight, smell, taste, and pinealocytes. Exceptionally, it is also present and is Ca2+-modulated in t he non-neuronal cells, the sperm cells in the testes, where S100B protein serves as its Ca2+ sensor. The present report demonstrates the identification of an additional Ca2+ sensor of ROS-GC1 in the testes, neurocalcin δ. Through mouse molecular genetic models, it compares and quantifies the relative input of the S100B and neurocalcin δ in regulating the Ca2+ signaling of ROS-GC1 transduction machinery, and via immunochemistry it demonstrates the co-presence of neurocalcin δ and ROS-GC1 in the spermatogenic cells of the testes. The suggestion is that in more ways than one the Ca2+-modulated ROS-GC1 transduction system is linked with the testicular function. This non-neuronal transduction system may represent an illustration of the ROS-GC1 expanding role in the trans-signaling of the neural and non-neural systems.