Jeffrey M. Schappi1,2*†
Mark M. Rasenick1,3,2,4*†- 1Departments of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States
- 2Jesse Brown VAMC, Chicago, IL, United States
- 3Department of Psychiatry, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States
- 4Pax Neuroscience, Glenview, IL, United States
The relationship between depression, its etiology and therapy, and the cAMP signaling system have been studies for decades. This review will focus on cAMP, G proteins and adenylyl cyclase and depression or antidepressant action. Both human and animal studies are compared and contrasted. It is concluded that there is some synteny in the findings that cAMP signaling is attenuated in depression and that this is reversed by successful antidepressant therapy. The G protein that activates adenylyl cyclase, Gαs, appears to have diminished access to adenylyl cyclase in depression, and this is rectified by successful antidepressant treatment. Unfortunately, attempts to link specific isoforms of adenylyl cyclase to depression or antidepressant action suffer from discontinuity between human and animal studies.
Introduction
The World Health Organization states that major depressive disorder (MDD) is the most common cause of disability worldwide. The medical and non-medical costs of MDD in the US are now estimated at nearly $300B. The current COVID-19 pandemic is likely to exacerbate this. Treatment of MDD also poses significant obstacles. Despite undergoing multiple treatment regimes, about one-third of patients never achieve remission, and it is this “treatment-resistant” group who are at the greatest risk of suicide. Thus, there remains a pressing need for novel compounds that are effective in this nonresponsive population. New antidepressant drugs are needed, and in order to develop them, greater insight is needed into the biology of depression and antidepressant response. Additionally, diagnosis of depression is both difficult, imprecise, and based on subjective inventories. Both diffusely-targeted therapy and imprecise diagnosis are a result of our failure to understand the molecular and cellular biology of depression. Discovery and verification of cellular hallmarks (biomarkers) for both depression and antidepressant response is a pressing need.
cAMP, BDNF, and depression
No common mechanism has emerged to link the activities of the diverse compounds used in therapy for depression. Although not necessarily linked to therapeutic action, most antidepressants elevate cAMP production and evoke a cascade of events resulting from sustained increase in cAMP (e.g. increased P-CREB and BDNF) (Donati and Rasenick, 2003). Antidepressant treatment also causes a shift in the localization of the heterotrimeric G protein, Gαs, from lipid rafts to more “fluid” membrane regions, facilitating Gαs activation of adenylyl cyclase (AC). Both diminished Gαs-adenylyl cyclase coupling and an increase in the proportion of Gαs in lipid rafts are seen in depression (post-mortem and peripheral tissue) (Donati et al., 2008; Singh et al., 2020; Targum et al., 2022), and this is consistent with the augmentation of cAMP production by antidepressants. There are also compounds, such as ketamine, and, perhaps psychedelics, that appear to exert more rapid effects on depression, acting in hours rather than weeks for traditional antidepressants. Ketamine shows similar, but more rapid, effects on Gαs and cAMP compared to traditional antidepressants (Wray et al., 2018).
Several studies (vide infra) indicate that chronic antidepressant treatment increases physical coupling between Gαs and adenylyl cyclase, resulting in increased cAMP generation. This is consistent with the observation that chronic treatment with antidepressants results in long-term increases in cellular cAMP (Malberg and Blendy, 2005). Consistent with this, depressed subjects show decreased 11C rolipram binding that recovers with successful antidepressant treatment (Fujita et al., 2016). Furthermore, increasing cAMP with inhibitors of phosphodiesterase have showed a promising antidepressant-adjuvant properties in a recent clinical study (Zhao et al., 2003; El-Haggar et al., 2018).
The initial studies showing that CREB knockout blocks the behavioral response to antidepressants date back at least 20 years (Conti et al., 2002) and more recent papers target serotonergic and noradrenergic neurons in achieving this effect (Rafa–Zabłocka et al., 2017). BDNF and TrkB knockout also ablated antidepressant effects in mice (Björkholm and Monteggia, 2016). Both humans and mice with the BDNF val66met allele are more vulnerable to stress-induced anxiety and depression, but this is variable with age and sex (Hwang et al., 2006) (Verhagen et al., 2010). A polymorphism in the regulatory region of the human BDNF gene, which reduces BDNF expression and release, is also associated with depression (Björkholm and Monteggia, 2016).
Activated by phosphorylation, pCREB in combination with coactivator CPB (CREB binding protein) is able to act as a transcription factor at CRE (cAMP response element), promoting transcription of cAMP-regulated genes, particularly BDNF (brain-derived neurotrophic factor) (Blendy, 2006; Dwivedi and Pandey, 2008). Animal models of stress and depression-like behavior have revealed decreased BDNF expression, as well as loss of synaptic plasticity, particularly in the hippocampus (Duman et al., 1999), as well as restoration of BDNF expression with extended antidepressant treatment (Fujimaki et al., 2000; Coppell et al., 2003; Foubert et al., 2004). Likewise, human postmortem samples show decreases in BDNF expression in depression (Dunham et al., 2009; Castrén and Monteggia, 2021), and increases with antidepressant treatment (Chen et al., 2001). BDNF itself may be required for the action of antidepressants (Adachi et al., 2008), including ketamine (Autry et al., 2011). The decreased expression of BDNF in stress models and in depression, and restoration of BDNF expression with antidepressant treatment, could be linked by the cAMP changes in depression, and with antidepressant treatment, noted above.
Antidepressants and cAMP
Monoamine centric antidepressants
The majority of extant antidepressants are targeted at monoamine reuptake and metabolism; particularly, inhibition of these. More recently, drugs targeting melatonergic (agomelatine) (Kennedy and Eisfeld, 2007) and glutamatergic (rapid acting antidepressant ketamine) (Matveychuk et al., 2020) systems have been developed or approved for use in depression. Nonetheless, reuptake inhibitors acting at various combinations of SERT, NET, and DAT (serotonin, norepinephrine, and dopamine reuptake transporters) remain the predominant antidepressant class in clinical use. Reuptake inhibitors have shown, collectively, relevant affinities at numerous sites, including reuptake transporters, their canonical targets, as well as monoamine and cholinergic receptors. Despite 60 + years of research, no clear direct mechanism of action has emerged to link their activities. In the case of serotonin, perhaps the most widely implicated neurotransmitter in depression in lay and scientific press alike, a recent review found no clear association between serotonin and depression and also cited several studies demonstrating decreased serotonin content in human and animal subjects post-antidepressant treatment (Moncrieff et al., 2022).
Sulser and his colleagues suggested that one role of extended treatment with tricyclic antidepressants was desensitization of the β−adrenergic receptor and a generalized dampening of cAMP signaling (Sulser et al., 1984). This was contradicted, in part, by results of Menkes et al., showing augmented cAMP signaling in multiple rat brain regions (but not other tissues) after 3 weeks of antidepressant treatment (including ECS) in rats (Menkes et al., 1983). The apparent controversy was resolved through the use of a cellular model system for antidepressant activity, where the time required for an antidepressant response was 3 days (vs 3 weeks in rats and 8 weeks in humans). In this system, antidepressant exposure desensitized the β-receptor on a much faster timescale (24 h) that required for augmented Gαs-activation of AC (Chen and Rasenick, 1995b).
Model systems for determining antidepressant action
We have tested a variety of cell lines including C6 glioma, PC12 pheochromocytoma, SK-N-SH neuroblastoma, as well as patient stem cell-derived neural and glial cell lines, for G protein-based antidepressant response. All compounds with antidepressant activity elicited translocation of Gαs out of lipid rafts, enhanced Gαs–mediated cAMP generation, and slowed FRAP (fluorescence recovery after photobleaching) of GFP-Gαs. Collectively, antidepressant actions on Gαs and adenylyl cyclase are summarized in Figure 1.
FIGURE 1. Depression and antidepressant effects on Gαs plasma membrane localization. Gαs is normally distributed between non-raft regions of the membrane where it moves freely and promotes neurotransmitter-activated adenylyl cyclase activity and a specialized region of the membrane rich in cholesterol (lipid raft), where the movement/adenylyl cyclase activation of Gαs is impaired. During depression, Gαs is enriched in the lipid raft region and it is anchored there by the structural protein, tubulin (α/β). Antidepressant treatment changes Gαs such that it exits from the raft and moves to the non-raft region where it completes the process of neurotransmitter action by activating the enzyme, adenylyl cyclase. Increased Gαs-mediated adenylyl cyclase activity results in increased generation of cAMP, PKA activation, phosphorylation of CREB, and increases in BDNF transcription and translation. cAMP phosphodiesterase (e.g., PDE4) is another point of regulation for cAMP and inhibition here will also result in increased cAMP activity. Gαs-coupled GPCRs that may be relevant to depression include receptors for corticotropin releasing factor (CRF 1&2), serotonin (5-HT4,6,7), dopamine (D1), and β-adrenergic receptors. Antidepressant treatment also causes some Gαs to be released from the plasma membrane, where it associates with microtubules and modifies their dynamic behavior.
Antidepressants from all functional and chemical classes tested, promoted movement of Gαs out of lipid rafts, and enhanced stimulation of adenylyl cyclase promoting increased cAMP production. Total cellular Gαs content is unchanged; the shift out of lipid rafts represents a redistribution of Gαs. Furthermore, G proteins Gαi, Gαo, and Gαq are unaffected. The redistribution of Gαs out of lipid rafts occurs in a dose- and time-dependent fashion, with maximal effect occurring after approximately 3 days of antidepressant treatment, perhaps mirroring the delayed onset of effects in human subjects (which typically requires several weeks of treatment). Notably, the “rapid acting antidepressant”, ketamine, also produces these effects, and on an accelerated timeline), matching the rapid effects seen in humans.
The above findings have consistently been seen in cells of neural/glial character, either cell lines (such as C6 glioma, PC12 pheochromocytoma, and SK-N-SH neuroblastoma, or induced neural stem cells (Yu et al., 2021), while the effect has not been seen in cell lines of non-neural origin such as HEK293 and COS7. This has also raised the question of why cell lines, which cannot be considered to be “depressed” (though the tissue from which they were generated may be from a depressed subject, as in our patient stem cell-derived lines), nonetheless show an “antidepressant response.” This is a consistent empirical finding in the antidepressant responsive cell lines. Likewise, “normal” rodents respond to antidepressant administration in many behavioral tests. Selected studies reflecting the above findings are presented below.
Chen and Rasenick examined in C6 glioma the effect of chronic tricyclic antidepressant desipramine treatment for 1–5 days at 5 and 10 μM (note: 50 mM was also tested but was deleterious to cells) on membrane cAMP production in response to stimulation with nonhydrolyzable GTP analog Gpp (NH)p (direct G protein activator) or isoproterenol (Chen and Rasenick, 1995b). Membrane cAMP production was significantly enhanced in a dose- and time-dependent fashion. This effect was not seen in membranes treated acutely (at the time of assay) with desipramine. The effect of desipramine treatment on total membrane content (lipid rafts were not considered at this point) of Gαs, Gαi, Gαo, and Gβ was assessed by western blot, and no difference was found, compared to control. A similar contemporaneous study in rats, also by Chen and Rasenick, showed findings consistent with those in C6 glioma (Chen and Rasenick, 1995a). Here, rats treated with tricyclic antidepressants amitriptyline and desipramine were assessed for cortical membrane cAMP production and G protein disposition, as well as Gαs/adenylyl cyclase interaction via co-immunoprecipitation. Also tested were amphetamine (which elevates synaptic norepinephrine and serotonin (Berman et al., 2009), the canonical mechanism of action of most extant antidepressants, but without recognized clinical antidepressant activity) and ECT (electroconvulsive therapy). As in C6 glioma, treatment of rats with antidepressant drugs resulted in enhanced membrane cAMP production in response to Gpp (NH)p or forskolin stimulation, compared to controls. Unlike C6 glioma, no effect was seen with 1-day treatment; 21-day treatment was required, which is more similar to the extended treatment period required for clinical effects in humans. ECT (11 sessions) produced similar effects, and no effect was seen with amphetamine. These findings were consistent with an earlier study in rats, which also found increased cAMP in cortical and hippocampal membranes post chronic, but not acute, antidepressant or ECT treatment (Menkes et al., 1983). Additionally, antidepressant treatment and ECT resulted in increased adenylyl cyclase activity immunoprecipitated with Gαs as measured by assay of the immunoprecipitated complex. Again consistent with the results in C6 glioma, total membrane content of Gαs, Gαi, Gαo (as well as adenylyl cyclase 1and2) were unchanged by antidepressant or ECT treatments.
While the above studies revealed enhancement of cAMP production by antidepressant treatment (and ECT), without change in total G protein content, further studies noted an enhancement by antidepressant treatment upon detergent extractability of Gαs, bringing lipid rafts into this scheme. Toki et al. (Toki et al., 1999) treated C6 glioma for 3 days with antidepressants iprindole, amitriptyline, and fluoxetine, as well as chlorpromazine (antipsychotic drug, structurally similar to tricyclics and without clinical antidepressant activity). Membrane proteins were sequentially extracted with Triton X-100 and Triton X-114, with Triton X-100 acting upon less hydrophobic membrane regions, and Triton X-114 acting upon more hydrophobic regions (Regula et al., 1986) (now considered as nonraft and lipid raft domains) and allowing differential separation of proteins from these membrane domains. While drug treatments again did not affect total Gαs content, Gαs extraction by Triton X-100 was increased, and extraction by Triton X-114 decreased, by all antidepressant treatments, suggesting a change in the membrane environment of Gαs subsequent to antidepressant treatment–in contemporary parlance, a redistribution of Gαs from lipid raft to nonraft membrane fractions. In contrast, Gαi was unaffected and treatment with non-antidepressant chlorpromazine had no effect on Gαs. Cortical membranes from antidepressant-treated rats also showed similar redistribution of Gαs. C6 glioma membranes were additionally fractionated via sucrose density gradient, and consecutive fractions assayed for forskolin-stimulated cAMP production. Membrane fractions from antidepressant-treated cells showing increased Gαs content had significant increases in cAMP production, compared to controls. Collectively, the above studies illustrate a cellular response to chronic antidepressant treatment specifically targeting Gαs, but not other G proteins, with redistribution of Gαs out of lipid rafts into nonraft membrane fractions, and enhanced association with adenylyl cyclase/increased cAMP production.
Creation of a fluorescent GFP-tagged Gαs construct with normal membrane expression and adenylyl cyclase activation (Yu and Rasenick, 2002) and stable C6 GFP-Gαs cell line allowed development of a higher-throughput assay utilizing FRAP (Czysz et al., 2015). Treatment with antidepressants and resulting redistribution of Gαs out of lipid rafts results in slower lateral membrane mobility of Gαs, seen as a slower recovery of GFP-Gαs fluorescence after photobleaching, presumably due to increased interaction between GFP-Gαs and the larger, more slowly moving adenylyl cyclase molecule. Again, treatment with numerous antidepressants from varied classes resulted in significantly slowed GFP-Gαs mobility (i.e., longer half-time of recovery), while psychiatric drugs lacking antidepressant activity did not alter GFP-Gαs mobility. Among notable findings were the contrasting results of currently popular antidepressant escitalopram (S-citalopram) and its clinically inactive stereoisomer R-citalopram. While escitalopram showed the antidepressant-characteristic slowing of GFP-Gαs mobility, R-citalopram had no effect, which is consistent with traditional biochemical assays of the two drugs (Zhang and Rasenick, 2010). Also consistent with past findings were the dose-and time-dependence of antidepressant-induced Gαs redistribution, as well as restriction of this effect to Gαs and not other G protein types.
PDE4 inhibitors
Phosphodiesterases (PDEs) regulate the activity of cyclic nucleotides cAMP and cGMP by catalyzing their degradation into adenosine- and guanosine-5′ monophosphate, respectively. They comprise 11 isoforms, with a growing catalog of subtypes with varied subcellular localization (Delhaye and Bardoni, 2021). They display varying selectivity for cAMP and cGMP, with some targeting both (PDE1,2,3,10,11), some cGMP-selective (PDE5,6,9), and others cAMP-selective (PDE4,7,8) (Azevedo et al., 2014). Inhibitors of cAMP-targeted phosphodiesterases, particularly PDE4, have been investigated as potential antidepressants
Rolipram (ZK 62711) was identified in the 1970s as an inhibitor of phosphodiesterase (and later, as a PDE4-specific inhibitor), elevating cAMP, but not cGMP, concentrations in rat brain tissue homogenates and slices (Schwabe et al., 1976). Early studies of rolipram in rodents as a potential antidepressant examined the drug’s (and other cAMP-selective PDE inhibitors) ability to reverse reserpine-induced hypothermia and hypokinesia (reserpine inhibits vesicular monoamine transporters, depleting synaptic monoamines) and potentiate yohimbine-induced toxicity (Wachtel, 1983). Other rodent studies identified rolipram’s ability to suppress avoidance of foot shock in a rat model of depression (“Flinders sensitive line”) (Overstreet et al., 1989). Zhang et al. examined the behavioral phenotype of heterozygous and homozygous PDE4D-subtype mouse knockouts (Zhang et al., 2002). Both knockouts showed significantly reduced immobility in tail suspension- and forced swim tests, an antidepressant-like effect, with the strongest effect seen in the heterozygous knockouts. The antidepressant effect of rolipram in the forced swim test was significantly blunted in the knockout mice, suggesting subtype PDE4D may be responsible for these effects. Additional PDE4 inhibitors Ro 20–1724, ICI 63,197, and CP 67,593 have also shown antidepressant-like effects in rats (O’Donnell, 1993). Interestingly, this study also examined the effect of forskolin, which broadly activates adenylyl cyclase isoforms, increasing cellular cAMP (Insel and Ostrom, 2003; Pinto et al., 2008), finding it to lack antidepressant activity. This could reflect a requirement for a microdomain-specific enhancement of cAMP, rather than an overall increase in cellular cAMP.
Numerous clinical studies evaluated the antidepressant activity of rolipram in humans, finding it efficacious (Zeller et al., 1984), comparable to tricyclic imipramine (Bertolino et al., 1988), but less effective than tricyclic amitriptyline (Scott et al., 1991). However, clinical use of rolipram has been limited by side effects, particularly nausea and sedation (O’Donnell and Zhang, 2004).
Other antidepressants
More recently, HDAC6 (histone deacetylase) inhibitors have been suggested as a possible new antidepressant class (Jochems et al., 2013). Unlike other HDACs, which are targeted at nuclear histones, HDAC6 acts outside of the nucleus, particularly at Lys40 of α-tubulin in microtubules and inhibiting deacetylation of this residue (Hubbert et al., 2002). Singh et al. compared the effects of HDAC6 inhibitor tubastatin A to traditional antidepressants SSRI escitalopram and tricyclic imipramine in C6 glioma (Singh et al., 2018). While all drugs promoted the typical redistribution of Gαs out of lipid rafts and increased expression of downstream cAMP effectors phospho-CREB and BDNF, only tubastatin A promoted tubulin acetylation. So while the three compounds ultimately converge upon Gαs and Gαs signaling, tubulin acetylation is not a shared mechanism of action. It is also notable that Lys40 is located in the microtubule interior on α-tubulin (Janke and Montagnac, 2017), while Gαs interacts with β-tubulin (Layden et al., 2008), suggesting acetylation does not directly interfere with Gαs binding. Also notable in this regard is the recent finding that postmortem brain from depressed subjects shows decreased acetylation of membrane-associated tubulin (typically associated with lipid rafts) (Singh et al., 2020), compared to controls, as well as increased Gαs localized to lipid rafts (Donati et al., 2008)).
Nasal esketamine (S-ketamine) has recently been approved for depression and, in contrast to traditional antidepressants which take weeks to manifest clinical effects, esketamine (as well as racemic ketamine given intravenously or sub-lingually) has almost immediate effects lasting up to a week (Yavi et al., 2022). While ketamine’s canonical target/mechanism is antagonism of the NMDA glutamate receptor, racemic ketamine metabolite (2R,6R)-hydroxynorketamine has been suggested to possess antidepressant activity in animal models, and that its antidepressant activity, as well as those of ketamine, are independent of NMDAR activity (Zanos et al., 2016). Wray et al. examined the effect of ketamine upon Gαs membrane disposition and signaling of ketamine and (2R,6R)-hydroxynorketamine in C6 glioma or primary astrocytes, as well as the effect of other NMDA antagonists (Wray et al., 2018). A single ketamine treatment produced rapid (within 15 min) translocation of Gαs out of lipid rafts, persisting at least 12 h and returning to baseline within 24 h, as well as enhanced cAMP production compared to control. FRAP assay also showed the characteristic slowing of GFP-Gαs membrane mobility. In contrast, NMDA antagonists memantine, AP5, and MK-801 had no effect on Gαs membrane localization or mobility, suggesting NMDA antagonism is insufficient to explain ketamine’s effects in this system. Likewise, knockdown of NMDA subunit GluN1 (i.e., NR1) did not inhibit ketamine’s potentiation of cAMP production. The ketamine metabolite, (2R, 6R)-hydroxynorketamine also potentiated cAMP production and slowed GFP-Gαs mobility. Together, these results suggest that ketamine shares traditional antidepressants’ effects upon Gαs, though in a highly accelerated fashion, mirroring ketamine’s clinical timeline, and that these effects are NMDA receptor-independent (Wray et al., 2018).
Studies with human tissue
The human data in this area are derived from studies on peripheral tissue, such as various blood cells, from living subjects, studies on postmortem brain tissue from deceased subjects, as well as noninvasive imaging studies on living subjects.
Postmortem studies
In a series of papers, Trevor Young’s group examined changes in cAMP, CREB, and BDNF in postmortem samples from depressed patients. Dowlatshahi et al. found significantly decreased CREB immunoreactivity in temporal cortex samples from nonmedicated depressed subjects, compared to control, while depressed subjects receiving antidepressant treatment were significantly higher than the nonmedicated and did not differ from healthy control subjects (Dowlatshahi et al., 1998). Chen et al. examined postmortem hippocampus from depressed, bipolar, and schizophrenic subjects, comparing BDNF expression in unmedicated and medicated (antidepressant) subjects (Chen et al., 2001). Overall, subjects receiving antidepressants displayed significantly increased BDNF immunoreactivity across several hippocampal regions, compared to subjects not receiving antidepressants. When depressed subjects were considered separately, these hippocampal regions showed increased BDNF expression in the medicated, but did not reach significance. A third related study examined temporal/occipital cortical brain tissue from postmortem mood disorder subjects for G protein content, cAMP production, and CREB expression (Dowlatshahi et al., 1999). While G protein (Gαs and Gαi) content did not differ among controls and depressed and bipolar subjects, forskolin-stimulated cAMP production was decreased in the depressed and bipolar samples, though not reaching significance. CREB expression did not differ among the three groups overall; however suicide subjects did have significant reductions in CREB expression compared to nonsuicide subjects.
Donati et al. examined prefrontal cortex and cerebellum of postmortem suicide subjects and found differences in detergent extractability (Triton X-100/Triton X-114) of Gαs, suggesting altered membrane localization of Gαs in depressed suicide subjects (Donati et al., 2008). Sequential detergent extractions of cellular membranes from both brain regions showed an increased fraction of Gαs localized to lipid raft vs. nonraft membrane, where it is less able to activate adenylyl cyclase (Chen and Rasenick, 1995a), consistent with the above findings in Dowlatshahi (Dowlatshahi et al., 1999).
Blood studies
Alterations in cAMP signaling are perhaps the oldest specific biomarker of depression and response to antidepressant treatment, and these changes are seen in varied cell types. Studies reporting reduced cAMP production in samples from depressed patients extend back to the 1970s. Alterations in platelets in depression have also noted for many years, and due to their short lifespan may serve as a better model, particularly for antidepressant response, than other circulating cells. While red blood cells persist for approximately 120 days (Thiagarajan et al., 2021), and lymphocytes for at least several months (Westera et al., 2013; Jones et al., 2015), platelet lifespan is approximately 7–10 days (Josefsson et al., 2020). Because of this, platelets may be better positioned to reflect any early changes in cellular behavior as a consequence of antidepressant treatment.
An early study on platelets from depressed patients found no significant difference in platelet cAMP production in response to PGE1 and norepinephrine stimulation, compared to controls (Wang et al., 1974). However, subsequent studies have shown decreased cAMP production in platelets from depressed subjects, as well as increased cAMP production in subjects successfully treated with antidepressants. Hines and Tabakoff examined unstimulated and agonist-stimulated (CsF, forskolin, GppNHp) cAMP production in platelets from depressed subjects, finding significantly decreased cAMP production in platelets from depressed subjects (Hines and Tabakoff, 2005). Furthermore, significance increased as subjects with history of various recent drug use (drugs of abuse, analgesics, antidepressants) were excluded from the analysis due to these drugs’ effects on adenylyl cyclase activity. Overall, subjects with the lowest platelet cAMP production had a 2–6X risk of depression compared to subjects with the greatest cAMP production. Likewise, Mooney et al. examined cAMP production in mononuclear leukocytes and platelets from depressed subjects (Mooney et al., 2013). Their results revealed two subgroups of depressed patients whose demographics and medical histories were not substantially different. One depressed group (“DP-1”) showed significant differences in cAMP production compared to controls as well as the other depressed subgroup (“DP-2”), which did not significantly differ from each other: in mononuclear leukocytes, cAMP production in response to fluoride (AlF) stimulation was significantly lower, and the ratio of GTPγS/AlF-stimulated cAMP was significantly higher; for platelets, fluoride, PGE2, and PGD2 stimulation produced significantly lower cAMP, while PGE2/AlF ratio was significantly higher. Gαi activity was assessed in the three groups and did not significantly differ.
More recently, Targum et al. (2022) have examined platelet PGE1-stimulated cAMP from depressed subjects before and after antidepressant treatment, with subjects stratified into “responder” or “nonresponder” groups based on HAMD17 (Hamilton Depression Rating Scale) rating post-treatment (Targum et al., 2022). Consistent with Hines and Tabakoff, and Mooney et al., depressed subjects had lower PGE1-stimulated cAMP production compared to normal controls at the start of treatment. Post-treatment, responders and nonresponders differed significantly, with responders showing increased PGE1-stimulated cAMP relative to basal, compared to pre-treatment values, while this value actually decreased in nonresponders. This is notable because it suggests that restoration of cAMP production is a function of clinical improvement, rather than antidepressant exposure per se, and as such is promising as a marker of successful antidepressant response. Because of the short platelet lifetime/high turnover, these changes may be evidenced in advance of clinical improvement and serve to guide antidepressant selection and drug changes early in treatment.
Imaging
An interesting series of experiments approximating direct visualization of altered brain cAMP content in depressed patients, and patients treated for depression, was done by the groups of Zarate and Innis. These experiments utilized PET detection of 11C-labeled PDE4 inhibitor rolipram as a proxy for cAMP concentration. Briefly, PDE4 isoenzyme PDE4D3 activity is regulated by cAMP as a target of PKA phosphorylation on two serine residues, Ser54 and Ser13, with Ser54 phosphorylation upregulating phosphodiesterase activity. PDE4D3 activated via serine phosphorylation shows both increased sensitivity to rolipram inhibition (MacKenzie et al., 2002) as well as increased affinity for rolipram binding (Hoffmann et al., 1998). Expression of PDE4 isoenzymes is also enhanced by increased cellular cAMP levels (Ye et al., 2002) (Campos-Toimil et al., 2008). Thus, both expression and activity of PDE4 are regulated by cAMP. The PET-detectable binding of 11C-labeled rolipram provided the basis for the following studies. Fujita et al. (Fujita et al., 2012) showed consistent decreases in 11C-rolipram binding across 10 brain regions in unmedicated depressed patients compared to healthy controls, suggesting corresponding decreases in cAMP in these regions, reflected as decreased PDE4 expression or activity. This study was followed by Fujita et al. (Fujita et al., 2016), which examined the effect of antidepressant treatment on 11C-labeled rolipram binding. Again, depressed patients demonstrated decreased labeled rolipram binding in these brain regions compared to controls. After the initial PET scan, the depressed patients were treated for 2 months with SSRI antidepressants citalopram, escitalopram, or sertraline and subjected to a second PET scan. Sertraline treatment produced significant and consistent increases in 11C-labeled rolipram binding in the depressed patients, but the increases in rolipram binding did not correlate with improvement of depressive symptoms. These studies support the theory of cAMP changes in depression and with antidepressant treatment, and provide a technique whereby brain cAMP can be assessed in vivo, but also reflect the uncertainty of cAMP’s specific role in depression pathology and treatment.
Note also advances in cellular imaging related to GPCR signaling and adenylyl cyclase. Irannejad et al. (Irannejad et al., 2013) have used conformation-sensitive nanobodies to identify intracellular activation of Gαs. Senese and Rasenick (Senese and Rasenick, 2021) have used fluorescent cAMP reporters targeted to different cellular and membrane domains to illustrate sustained action of certain antidepressants.
Adenylyl cyclase isoforms and neuropsychiatric disease
Several studies exist for genetic association in humans and genetic manipulation in mice. Few human neurological or psychiatric diseases are associated with mutations in adenylyl cyclase, with only AC5 specifically implicated. Sporadic mutations in ADCY5 result in dyskinesia (Chen D.-H. et al., 2015; Ferrini et al., 2021). Several mutations have been identified; the number of established cases is very small (<500). There is no mechanism linking ADCY5 mutations to the exaggerated muscle movements seen in this disorder. Likewise, AC5 knockout mice display Parkinsonian-type movement disorders (Iwamoto et al., 2003). In contrast, mouse models with AC5 disruption through knockout or small molecule inhibitors show protective cardiovascular or metabolic effects (Okumura et al., 2003, 2007; Zhang et al., 2018) and tend to be “health-promoting,” with increased lifespan and reduced age-related degeneration (Yan et al., 2007) The beneficial cardioprotective effects of AC5 disruption are particularly curious, given the reported predominance of AC5 (and AC6) in cardiomyocytes (Sadana and Dessauer, 2009). Studies on adenylyl cyclase isoforms and depression are summarized in Table 1.
TABLE 1. Animal and human studies of AC and depression.
Depression and adenylyl cyclases regulated by Ca2+
Numerous studies have examined the role of Ca2+-regulated AC isoforms in the context of depression and other mood disorders, both singly and in combination. Rodent models allow genetic experimental manipulation, which is not possible in human subjects. Therefore, the most “direct” studies of AC isoform effect upon behavior have been done in rodents, typically through knockdown studies, though overexpression studies have also been done (as with AC7, vide infra).
Krishnan et al. contrasted the behavioral effects of AC1/8 double knockouts to that of AC5 knockouts (Krishnan et al., 2008). First, the two knockout models displayed differences in locomotor habituation, which developed later in the testing period (>60 min), as well as sex-based differences. While female mice did not show a statistical difference compared to wild type in either knockout model, male AC5 knockouts mice displayed significantly increased locomotion, while male AC1/8 double knockout mice displayed significantly decreased locomotion. Further behavioral tests including elevated plus maze, dark-light, and forced swim tests. Elevated plus maze and dark-light tests showed clear differences between the two knockout models: for both males and females, the AC5 knockout model showed a less anxiety-like phenotype, while the AC1/8 double knockout mice did not differ from wild type. In the forced swim test, AC5 knockout females showed significantly less immobility (i.e., a less “despondent” phenotype), while AC1/8 double knockout males showed a similar effect. Sucrose preference tests showed no significant effect of AC5 knockout, with significantly decreased sucrose preference (“anhedonia”) for AC1/8 double knockout males and females. Finally, social interaction tests showed decreased sociability among the AC5 knockout (males only), while both males and females showed increased sociability in the context of the AC1/8 double knockout. Overall, AC5 knockout mice displayed a less anxiety- or anti-depressive-like behavioral phenotype, while AC1/8 knockout mice displayed a more anxiety- or depressive-like behavioral phenotype, with some curious exceptions as noted above. The authors suggest that the knockouts may have divergent effects on different behaviors, such as sociability. Biochemical analysis of several brain regions was notable for decreased BDNF and TrkB (BDNF receptor) in the amygdala of AC5, but not AC1/8 knockouts, while AC1/8 knockouts showed increased BDNF signaling in the nucleus accumbens, which is also previously reported by the authors in the context of mice in a social defeat paradigm (Krishnan et al., 2007). Others (Govindarajan et al., 2006) have reported divergent effects in a transgenic mouse model overexpressing BDNF in the amygdala and hippocampus. There, mice showed increased anxiety-like behavior in open field and elevated plus tests, while showing an antidepressant-like effect in the forced swim test. Although brain cAMP was not measured in the Krishnan et al. study, simply knocking out adenylyl cyclase isoforms clearly does not lead to depression, which is characterized by decreased cAMP in the brain globally (Fujita et al., 2012, 2016), as illustrated in the divergent behavioral effects seen in the two knockout models, as well as the apparent behavioral inconsistencies noted above. Krishnan et al. (Krishnan et al., 2008) is the first of numerous studies presented herein which illustrate this “contradiction,” perhaps better viewed as the complexity of associating specific genetic variations with specific behavioral phenotypes.
AC3
Numerous studies in rodents as well as humans have implicated AC3 in depression. Chen et al. evaluated in global, forebrain, and forebrain-targeted inducible AC3 knockouts, depressive behavioral phenotypes (Chen X. et al., 2015). Constitutive AC3 knockouts demonstrated a collection of depressive behaviors in behavioral assessments including forced swim, tail suspension, novelty-suppressed feeding/drinking, grooming, 3-chamber sociability, and nest quality. Sleep patterns were disrupted. Total brain and hippocampal volume were reduced, a finding also associated with human depression (Sapolsky, 2001). Reductions in hippocampal neural activity and long-term potentiation were also noted, as were deficits in spatial navigation/learning. Forebrain AC3 knockouts displayed a similar depressive-like phenotype in behavioral tests (though tests of anxiety such as elevated plus maze and 3-chamber sociability did not differ from wild-type) and also shared deficits memory and navigation. To rule out developmental deficits due to AC3 ablation, an inducible AC3 forebrain knockout was also considered. Again, a depression-like behavioral phenotype was observed. Together, their findings implicate AC3 as a factor in depression.
Yang and others ablated, in a mouse model, AC3 in somatostatin- and parvalbumin-expressing interneurons (Yang et al., 2021). Here, deletion of AC3 resulted in a variety of depressive- or anxious-like behaviors, but only through deletion in somatostatin-expressing interneurons. The authors note other studies implicating somatostatin interneurons in depression, including Douillard-Guilloux et al., who showed significantly diminished number of somatostatin interneurons in postmortem amygdala of depressed female subjects (Douillard-Guilloux et al., 2017). The connection to AC3, however, is unclear.
AC3 is highly expressed in olfactory cilia, and loss of AC3 results in anosmia (Wong et al., 2000) (Wang et al., 2006). Depressive (but also anxiolytic) behaviors have been reported (Ahn et al., 2016, 2018) in mouse models of anosmia chemically induced by application of zinc sulfate solution (McBride et al., 2003). Liu et al. examined behavior in mouse AC3 knockouts, olfactory epithelium-targeted AC3 knockouts, and zinc sulfate-induced anosmia mice (Liu et al., 2020). Consistent with other studies of AC3 knockouts, mice displayed increased depressive- and anxious-like behaviors compared to controls. Interestingly, the olfactory epithelium AC3 knockouts displayed similar depressive- and anxiety-like behaviors, while the zinc sulfate anosmic mice displayed primarily depressive behaviors. All three models also showed decreases in dopaminergic and glutaminergic pathways in the hippocampus, with reductions in mRNA or expressed protein for tyrosine hydroxylase, various dopamine receptors, and glutamate receptor subunit GluN2B. Again, it is unclear how AC3 ablation affects the above parameters, or how chemically-induced anosmia results in a similar behavioral and biochemical profile.
In human subjects, Redei et al. have examined blood RNA biomarkers of depression in a depressed population undergoing cognitive behavioral therapy (Redei et al., 2014). ADCY3 expression was found to be significantly decreased in the depressed population compared to nondepressed subjects, and this difference normalized after the completion of the therapy period (although all patients did not achieve full remission). Targum et al. used platelet PGE1 stimulated cAMP production as a blood biomarker of depression as well as antidepressant response, finding significant decreases in depressed subjects compared to healthy controls, as well as increases in platelet cAMP, but only in subjects who achieved remission post-antidepressant treatment (Targum et al., 2022). This is relevant in the context of AC3, because AC3 has been reported as the primary adenylyl cyclase isoform expressed in platelets (Katsel et al., 2009). Still, questions remain regarding the relevance of AC3 for human depression (Rasenick, 2016).
Adenylyl cyclases not regulated by Ca2+
AC4
Reiach and others have compared adenylyl cyclase expression (AC1, AC4, AC5/6) in postmortem brain (temporal cortex) from suicide, bipolar, and nondepressed control subjects via western blot (Reiach et al., 1999). While no difference was seen in bipolar vs normal subjects, the suicide group showed a significant decrease in AC4 immunoreactivity compared to control. Membranes from these tissues were also assayed for basal, forskolin, and GTPγS-stimulated cAMP production. Forskolin-stimulated cAMP relative to basal was significantly decreased in the suicide group compared to controls. This is consistent with others’ findings in depression, but the relevance of cAMP changes attributable to any given isoform to the overall clinical phenotype is unclear. Furthermore, antibodies available for adenylyl cyclase isoforms are of notoriously poor quality, rendering quantitation difficult.
AC7
A role for AC7 in depression, as well as sex-based differences, has been identified through human gene array analysis and studies of genetically altered mice. Hines et al. examined mice overexpressing AC7, as well as heterozygous AC7 knockout mice in forced swim and tail suspension tests (Hines et al., 2006). In forced swim tests, female mice overexpressing AC7 had a longer period of immobility compared to their wild-type counterparts, suggesting a depressive-like phenotype, while female heterozygous knockouts had a shorter period of immobility, suggesting an anti-depressive-like phenotype. In tail suspension tests, female mice overexpressing AC7 displayed longer immobility compared to wild type, with no effect of the heterozygous knockout. However, the performance of male mice in both behavioral tests was unaffected by either genetic manipulation. These results suggest overexpression of AC7 as promoting a depression-like phenotype, with reduced expression promoting the opposite effect, but only in female mice. The same study also examined polymorphisms in ADCY7, specifically a variable tetranucleotide (AACA) repeat, in the 3’ UTR of human populations in relation to depression. In particular, a seven-fold repeat of (AACA) was associated with depression in humans. The study considered separately, “family history of depression” (history of depression in a first degree relative) as well as “familial depression” (depressed subject, plus history of depression in a first-degree relative). The (AACA)7 repeat was significantly associated with family history of depression in females, but not in males, or females and males grouped together. For familial depression, (AACA)7 was significantly associated with depression in females as well as females plus males grouped together, and nearly significant for males alone (p = 0.08). Finally, the authors examined a series of SNPs in ADCY7 and found no association of depression with any particular SNP, but identified a particular haplotype (TG7AT) associated with increased depression risk, and significant in females.
Joeyen-Waldorf et al. examined AC7 expression and polymorphisms in the context of human depression, as well as a SERT knockout mouse depression model (Joeyen-Waldorf et al., 2012). Both postmortem tissue from humans, as well as mouse SERT knockout mice, showed significant changes in expression of a large number of genes, with an increase of AC7 transcript seen in the amygdala in both mice and humans (note, only male humans were tested in this part of the study). The second part of the study assessed threat-related amygdala activity via fMRI in a population of human males plus females, in the context of rs1064448, a G to T SNP in the region of the female depression-associated haplotype identified above in Hines (Hines et al., 2006). Carriers of the T allele showed significant elevation of amygdala reactivity, compared to G homozygotes; no sex difference was observed. Interestingly, the authors note that while the T allele was associated with increased threat-related amygdala reactivity in this study, the G allele is represented in the female depression-associated TG7AT haplotype identified in Hines et al., and suggest that this apparent contradiction may be due to the difficulties in extrapolating clinical phenotypes from genetic polymorphisms, versus the more consistent associations seen between genetics and more “proximate” biological findings, such as the fMRI imaging data obtained in this study. Another possibility is that variety of depression phenotypes seen clinically may be associated with a variety of genetic polymorphisms.
Also notable for both studies is the association of increased AC7 expression with depression. While Joeyen-Waldorf et al. examined only mRNA, Hines et al. additionally examined AC7 protein expression and AC7-specific cAMP production, finding protein and cAMP highest for AC7 overexpression, lowest for heterozygous knockouts, and intermediate for wild-type mice. Given the large number of studies identifying decreased cAMP in brain and other cell types such as platelets in depression, as well as downstream targets of cAMP, it is counterintuitive that increased AC7 expression and cAMP production are associated with depression. Others such as Krishnan et al. have found similar results, with AC1/8 double knockout mice showing a depressive-like phenotype, and AC5 knockouts showing an anti-depressive-like phenotype (Krishnan et al., 2008). Perhaps this apparent contradiction again reflects the complexity of the combined effect of a variety of cyclase isoforms, or regional effects in cyclase isoform regulation. Finally, Price and Brust have reviewed AC7 and neuropsychiatric disorders and this review may be of interest to the reader (Price and Brust, 2019).
AC9
Toyota et al. examined polymorphisms in ACDY9 in a depressed (unipolar and bipolar) population of males and females, compared to non-depressed controls (Toyota et al., 2002). Seven SNPs and one tandem repeat of (TTTA)4 or 5 in the 3’ UTR were identified, with one SNP (2316A>G; Ile772Met) constituting a missense mutation. The tandem repeat and missense mutation were selected for further study due to their potential for altered regulation or function. In both cases, the polymorphism was not associated with depression, compared to controls, and no difference was seen when unipolar and bipolar depression were considered separately or together. The functional consequences of the missense mutation were later examined in Small et al. through expression in HEK293 and the polymorphism demonstrated altered sensitivity to β2 adrenergic stimulation via isoproterenol (Small et al., 2003). While EC50 did not differ between the two variants, isoproterenol was significantly less efficacious in stimulating cAMP production from the Met variant. Significantly diminished efficacy was also observed upon stimulation with fluoride (direct activator of Gαs) as well as Mn2+ (direct activator of adenylyl cyclase).
Conclusion
Consistently inconsistent, is the term best describing the studies described above on depression and adenylyl cyclase. This underscores the difficulty of translating alterations in the activity of a given adenylyl cyclase isoform to the development of a clinically significant phenotype.
While a great deal has been published on adenylyl cyclase and depression, it is difficult to develop a viable framework to house these myriad results. While it does appear that cAMP is lower in depression and that antidepressants increase overall cAMP, there is no evidence linking this to the etiology of depression or mechanism of antidepressant action. While the association between Gαs and adenylyl cyclase seems relevant for depression and antidepressant therapy, the identity of the isoforms involved is yet to be determined. Further complications could be distribution of adenylyl cyclase isoforms in the many types of cells resident in the human brain and the possibility that those isoforms are unequally distributed amongst membrane microdomains (e.g. lipid rafts). Further complicating this is that this differential distribution may differ in mouse and human. Nonetheless, techniques developed with support from the BRAIN Initiative have permitted rapid advances in identifying circuitry in the brains of both mice and humans. Hopefully, a resolution will accompany the development of improved tools (e.g. opto- and chemogenetics and sophisticated fluorescent reporters) for investigation of adenylyl cyclase, its distribution, and its regulation.
Author contributions
JMS and MMR wrote and edited the manuscript.
Funding
This research was supported by the VA Merit BX00149 (MMR). MMR is a VA Research Career Scientist BX004475.
Conflict of interest
MMR is a founder of Pax Neuroscience, Inc. and has a financial interest in that concern.
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Keywords: GPCR, cAMP, lipid rafts, cytoskeleton, depression, antidepressant
Citation: Schappi JM and Rasenick MM (2022) Gαs, adenylyl cyclase, and their relationship to the diagnosis and treatment of depression. Front. Pharmacol. 13:1012778. doi: 10.3389/fphar.2022.1012778
Received: 05 August 2022; Accepted: 31 October 2022;
Published: 18 November 2022.
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Rennolds S. Ostrom, Chapman University, United StatesReviewed by:
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