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Published on: July 16, 2013
ATP-induced Ca2+ influx is regulated via a pertussis toxin-sensitive mechanism in a PC12 cell clone
E Clementi1, H Scheer, M Raichman
1Department of Pharmacology, CNR Center of Cytopharmacology, University of Milano, Italy.
Abstract:
A PC12 cell clone that responds to ATP with polyphosphoinositide hydrolysis and with a marked, biphasic intracellular free Ca2+ concentration ([Ca2+]i) response (composed by release from intracellular stores accompanied by stimulated influx from the medium), was pretreated with pertussis toxin. In the pretreated cells the responses induced by ATP were differently modified. Polyphosphoinositide hydrolysis and Ca2+ release were moderately inhibited whereas Ca2+ influx was enhanced. Pharmacological experiments revealed the influx enhancement to be sustained by neither voltage-gated nor second messenger-operated Ca2+ channels. Rather, a channel of the receptor-operated type activated by ATP (P2w receptor) appears to work under the negative control of a pertussis toxin-sensitive G protein, acting presumably by direct interaction with the channel in the plane of the plasma membrane.
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