Soluble guanylate cyclases pathway and its reactions occur in smooth muscle and endothelial cells.

Steps of production of cGMP (Figure 1)

  1. In order to become active, a ligand must activate the 7-TM receptor and cause a conformational change
  2. This conformational change causes the alpha subunit to dissociate from the complex

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