Figure 1.
PDE activity, specificity, and cyclic nucleotide effector proteins. PDE4, PDE7, and PDE8 selectively degrade cAMP. PDE5, PDE6, and PDE9 selectively degrade cGMP. PDE1, PDE2, PDE3, PDE10, and PDE11 are dual-specificity phosphodiesterases that hydrolyze both cAMP and cGMP. Downstream effectors include PKA, PKG, Epacs, PDEs, CNG channels and Popeye domain-containing proteins. Adapted from Ahmad et al., 2015 [76].