title: Calcium release modulated by inositol trisphosphate in ruptured fibers from frog skeletal muscle.
abstract: To investigate the effect of inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate on calcium release, we used fiber bundles of frog sartorius muscle mechanically permeabilized by a scratching procedure, and we detected increments in calcium concentration by measuring aqueorin light signals. Submicromolar concentrations of inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate induced fast calcium-release signals, with a half time to peak of 60 ms or less. Similar responses were elicited by caffeine. The calcium-release signal induced by inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate occurred at pCa values of 7 or lower, and the dose-response curve depended on the ionic composition of the incubation solution. Lower inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate concentrations were needed to induce release when incubation solutions of ionic composition expected to depolarize the transverse tubule membrane were used. Inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate was more effective than inositol 1,3,4-trisphosphate, inositol 1,4,5,6-tetrakisphosphate, and inositol 1,4-bisphosphate. The effect of inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate was synergistic with that of caffeine, and was not inhibited by heparin. These results, by showing directly that at resting calcium levels inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate elicited calcium release, are consistent with a role for inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate as a chemical modulator in excitation/contraction coupling in skeletal muscle.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Chile, Santiago.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Rojas
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Jaimovich
mesh_terms: D000331:Aequorin; D000818:Animals; D001001:Anura / Q000378:metabolism*; D002118:Calcium / Q000032:analysis / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000502:physiology; D006493:Heparin / Q000494:pharmacology; D015544:Inositol 1,4,5-Trisphosphate / Q000494:pharmacology*; D009132:Muscles / Q000187:drug effects / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000502:physiology; D013997:Time Factors
chemical_list: D000331:Aequorin; D015544:Inositol 1,4,5-Trisphosphate; D006493:Heparin; D002118:Calcium