title: Sodium ions selectively eliminate the fast component of guanosine cyclic 3',5'-phosphate induced Ca2+ release from bovine rod outer segment disks.
abstract: Guanosine cyclic 3',5'-phosphate (cGMP) induced Ca2+ release from bovine rod outer segment (ROS) disks showed two kinetic components that could be distinguished in three ways: (1) The slow component (half-rise time of about 30 s) was blocked by 1-cis diltiazem [cf. Koch, K. W., & Kaupp, U. B. (1985) J. Biol. Chem. 260, 6788-6800], whereas the fast component (half-rise time of less than 1 s) was not affected by 1-cis diltiazem. (2) The slow component required the presence of alkali cations, whereas the fast component did not. (3) Preincubation with Na+ (50 mM) selectively eliminated the fast component, whereas the slow component was not affected. The action of Na+ appeared to be caused by Na-Ca exchange removing Ca2+ from a pool that can also be accessed by cGMP. The slow component of cGMP-induced Ca2+ release was not affected by Na+ and, hence, appears to reside in disks that do not contain a functional Na-Ca exchanger. The local anesthetic tetracaine blocked both the slow and fast component of cGMP-induced Ca2+ release from bovine ROS disks.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medical Biochemistry, University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
authors.forename: P P
authors.initials: PP
authors.lastname: Schnetkamp
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001150:Arsenazo III; D002118:Calcium / Q000378:metabolism*; D002417:Cattle; D006152:Cyclic GMP / Q000494:pharmacology*; D007700:Kinetics; D010786:Photoreceptor Cells / Q000378:metabolism*; D012374:Rod Cell Outer Segment / Q000187:drug effects / Q000378:metabolism*; D012964:Sodium / Q000378:metabolism / Q000494:pharmacology; D013748:Tetracaine / Q000494:pharmacology
chemical_list: D013748:Tetracaine; D001150:Arsenazo III; D012964:Sodium; D006152:Cyclic GMP; D002118:Calcium