“…Several proteins [ 46 , 47 , 48 , 49 , 50 ] contribute to cyclic nucleotide compartmentation, which spatially, temporally, and functionally controls the downstream effects of cyclic nucleotides (extensively studied for cAMP) in the cardiovascular system [ 25 , 51 , 52 , 53 ]. They include (a) GPCRs located in lipid rafts [ 54 , 55 ], at transverse tubules [ 56 ] and in non-caveolar membrane domains [ 57 ]; (b) ACs and GCs [ 58 , 59 ]; (c) Scaffold proteins [ 60 , 61 , 62 ]) such as A-kinase anchoring proteins (AKAPs) [ 52 , 63 , 64 ] and Calveolin-3 [ 54 , 65 , 66 , 67 ]; (d) physical barriers—e.g., mitochondria, cAMP buffering by PKA, cAMP export [ 68 , 69 ] are some of the mechanisms that create locally confined intracellular domains regulating signaling; and (e), the most prominent and extensively studied of all, the PDE-mediated hydrolysis of cyclic nucleotides, which is of high pharmacological and clinical interest [ 64 , 70 , 71 ].…”