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  • Title: Tonic inhibition of adenylate cyclase in cultured hamster Sertoli cells.
    Author: Davenport CW, Heindel JJ.
    Journal: J Androl; 1987; 8(5):314-8. PubMed ID: 2822641.
    Abstract:
    Sertoli cells cultured from immature hamsters respond to FSH with a dose-related increase in cAMP accumulation. Pertussis toxin acts synergistically with FSH to stimulate cAMP accumulation. This effect of pertussis toxin indicates that Sertoli cell adenylate cyclase is under tonic inhibition due to the activity of the Ni inhibitory transducer. The acetylcholine receptor antagonists atropine or tubocurarine, or the opioid antagonist naltrexone, have no effect on the FSH-induced stimulation of cAMP accumulation, suggesting that neither acetylcholine nor opioids are responsible for the inhibition of Sertoli cell cyclase. While exogenous adenosine is inhibitory, adenosine deaminase augments the ability of FSH to stimulate cAMP accumulation, but not to the level of pertussis toxin. This indicates that the Sertoli cells produce endogenous adenosine that is at least partially responsible for the tonic inhibition of adenylate cyclase. Other possibilities for the tonic inhibition of cyclase include other Sertoli cell products, germ cell products, peritubular cell products or an action of FSH itself through both stimulatory and inhibitory transducers.
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