International Journal of Impotence Research

TABLE 1

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Phosphodiesterase 11: a brief review of structure, expression and function

A Makhlouf, A Kshirsagar and C Niederberger

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Table 1. Summary of PDE family characteristics1, 7, 8, 9

PDE
family
Genes
(if multigene)
Substrate Inhibitors, Ki or (IC 50) Regulation Tissue expression
 1PDE1AcAMP>cGMPVinpocetine (14 mu M) (+)Ca2+/CAM1A: Thyroid, testis, brain
 PDE1BcAMP>cGMPZaprinast (6 mu M)(-)PKA, CamKII1B: Brain, lymphocytes
 PDE1CcAMP=cGMPSildenafil (0.35 mu M) 1C: Blood vessels, testis
      
 2 cGMPgreater than or equal tocAMPEHNA (1 mu M) (+)cGMP, PKCBrain, heart, platelets, liver, thymocytes
   Bay 60-7550 (0.047 mu M)(+/-)N-terminal-targeting domain 
      
 3PDE3AcAMP>cGMPCilostamide (0.020 mu M) (+)PKA, PKB3A: Heart, blood vessels
 PDE3B Milrinone (0.150 mu M) (-)cGMP3B: Adipocytes, hepatocytes, lymphocytes
   Zardaverine (0.5–2 mu M)(+/-)N-terminal-targeting domain 
      
 4PDE4AcAMPRolipram (1 mu M) (+)PKA, ERK, phosphatidic acid4A: Lung, immune cells, brain, blood vessels
 PDE4B Roflumilast (0.8 nM)(-)ERK, caspases 
 PDE4C Cilomilast (120 nM)(+/-)N-terminal-targeting domains 
 PDE4D Zardaverine (0.8–4 mu M)  
      
 5 cGMPZaprinast (0.130 mu M) (+)cGMP, PKG, PKASmooth muscle, platelets, Purkinje cells, gastro-intestinal epithelium, pulmonary endothelium
   Sildenafil (0.10 mu M) (-)Caspases 
   Vardenafil (0.001 mu M)   
   Tadalafil (0.010 mu M)   
      
 6PDE6AcGMPZaprinast (0.400 mu M) (+)TransducinRetinal photoreceptors
 PDE6B Dipyridamole (0.125 mu M) (-)cGMP, gamma and delta subunits 
 PDE6C Sildenafil (0.050 mu M)   
   Vardenafil (0.011 mu M)  
   Tadalafil (2 mu M)  
      
 7PDE7AcAMPIBMX (4 mu M) (+/-)PKABrain, lymphocytes, kidney
 PDE7B Dipyridamole (0.6 mu M)   
      
 8PDE8AcAMPDipyridamole (9 mu M) PAS domainThyroid
 PDE8B    
      
 9 cGMPZaprinast (35 mu M) UnknownKidney
      
10 cGMP>cAMPDipyridamole (1 mu M) (-)cAMPTestis, brain
   Zaprinast (22 mu M)  
      
11 cAMP and cGMPZaprinast (12 mu M) UnknownSkeletal muscle, prostate, testis, corpus cavernosum, heart (but see text and Table 3)
   Dipyridamole (0.4 mu M)   

 CAM=calmodulin c; ERK=extracellular signal-regulated protein kinase; PAS=periodic acid-Schiff stain; PDE=phosphodiesterase; PKA=protein kinase A; PKC=protein kinase A; PKG=protein kinase G.

 Only some of the most commonly reported inhibitors for each PDE are listed. Tissue expression is representative of most reports and is not necessarily exhaustive.

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