β-Adrenergic stimulation increases cAMP in cardiac cells to induce PKA-mediated phosphorylation of various proteins regulating heart function, such as the L-type Ca 2+ channels which carry I Ca,L and trigger cardiac ...

Steady-state activation of cardiac β-adrenergic receptors leads to an intracellular compartmentation of cAMP resulting from localized cyclic nucleotide phosphodiesterase (PDE) activity. To evaluate the time course of the ...

Compartmentation of cAMP is thought to generate the specificity of Gs-coupled receptor action in cardiac myocytes, with phosphodiesterases (PDEs) playing a major role in this process by preventing cAMP diffusion. We tested ...