María Teresa Miras Portugal: a pioneer for vesicular nucleotide storage.

IF 3 4区医学 Q2 NEUROSCIENCES Purinergic Signalling Pub Date : 2024-04-01 Epub Date: 2022-12-16 DOI:10.1007/s11302-022-09912-z

Yoshinori Moriyama, Nao Hasuzawa, Masatoshi Nomura

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Chromaffin granules are secretory granules present in adrenal medulla chromaffin cells. They contain high contents of catecholamines and nucleotides and have been regarded as a model system for the study of vesicular transmitter uptake and release. In 1988, Dr. María Teresa Miras Portugal, when studying catecholamine biosynthesis, detected a novel group of nucleotides, the diadenosine polyphosphates, in the adrenal chromaffin granules. Based on this finding, she unraveled the existence of diadenosine polyphosphate-mediated chemical transmission, leading to a paradigm shift in the field of purinergic signaling. She is also a pioneer in the studies on vesicular nucleotide storage. First, María Teresa and her group characterized nucleotide transport in chromaffin granules and synaptic vesicles using fluorescent nucleotide derivatives such as 1, N6-ethenoadenosine triphosphates. Then, they revealed the presence of a hypothetical vesicular nucleotide transporter with unique properties in terms of substrate specificity. In this article, we will describe her contributions to vesicular nucleotide storage and the foundations she laid for future studies.

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Purinergic Signalling 医学-神经科学

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6.60

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6-12 weeks

期刊介绍： Nucleotides and nucleosides are primitive biological molecules that were utilized early in evolution both as intracellular energy sources and as extracellular signalling molecules. ATP was first identified as a neurotransmitter and later as a co-transmitter with all the established neurotransmitters in both peripheral and central nervous systems. Four subtypes of P1 (adenosine) receptors, 7 subtypes of P2X ion channel receptors and 8 subtypes of P2Y G protein-coupled receptors have currently been identified. Since P2 receptors were first cloned in the early 1990’s, there is clear evidence for the widespread distribution of both P1 and P2 receptor subtypes in neuronal and non-neuronal cells, including glial, immune, bone, muscle, endothelial, epithelial and endocrine cells.