title: Cytoplasmic calcium oscillations: a two pool model.
abstract: Cytosolic calcium oscillations induced by a wide range of agonists, particularly those which stimulate phosphoinositide metabolism, are the result of a periodic release of stored calcium. The formation of inositol 1,4,5 trisphosphate (Ins(1,4,5)P3) seems to play an important role because it can initiate this periodic behaviour when injected or perfused into a variety of cells. A two pool model has been developed to explain how Ins(1,4, 5)P3 sets up these calcium oscillations. It is proposed that Ins(1,4,5)P3 acts through its specific receptor to create a constant influx of primer calcium (Ca2+p) made up of calcium released from the Ins(1,4,5)P3-sensitive pool (ISCS) together with an influx of external calcium. This Ca2+p fails to significantly elevate cytosolic calcium because it is rapidly sequestered by the Ins(1,4,5)P3-insensitive (IICS) stores of calcium distributed throughout the cytosol. Once the latter have filled, they are triggered to release their stored calcium through a process of calcium-induced calcium release to give a typical calcium spike (Ca2+s). In many cells, each Ca2+s begins at a discrete initiation site from which it then spreads through the cell as a wave. The two pool model can account for such waves if it is assumed that calcium released from one IICS diffused across to excite its neighbours thereby setting up a self-propagating wave based on calcium-induced calcium release.
authors.affiliation: Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, UK.
authors.forename: M J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Berridge
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002118:Calcium / Q000502:physiology*; D003593:Cytoplasm / Q000502:physiology; D004075:Diglycerides / Q000502:physiology; D015544:Inositol 1,4,5-Trisphosphate / Q000502:physiology*; D008954:Models, Biological; D010507:Periodicity; D015398:Signal Transduction / Q000502:physiology*
chemical_list: D004075:Diglycerides; D015544:Inositol 1,4,5-Trisphosphate; D002118:Calcium