title: A single-pool model for intracellular calcium oscillations and waves in the Xenopus laevis oocyte.
abstract: We construct a minimal model of cytosolic free Ca2+ oscillations based on Ca2+ release via the inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate (IP3) receptor/Ca2+ channel (IP3R) of a single intracellular Ca2+ pool. The model relies on experimental evidence that the cytosolic free calcium concentration ([Ca2+]c) modulates the IP3R in a biphasic manner, with Ca2+ release inhibited by low and high [Ca2+]c and facilitated by intermediate [Ca2+]c, and that channel inactivation occurs on a slower time scale than activation. The model produces [Ca2+]c oscillations at constant [IP3] and reproduces a number of crucial experiments. The two-dimensional spatial model with IP3 dynamics, cytosolic diffusion of IP3 (Dp = 300 microns 2 s-1), and cytosolic diffusion of Ca2+ (Dc = 20 microns 2 s-1) produces circular, planar, and spiral waves of Ca2+ with speeds of 7-15 microns.s-1, which annihilate upon collision. Increasing extracellular [Ca2+] influx increases wave speed and baseline [Ca2+]c. A [Ca2+]c-dependent Ca2+ diffusion coefficient does not alter the qualitative behavior of the model. An important model prediction is that channel inactivation must occur on a slower time scale than activation in order for waves to propagate. The model serves to capture the essential macroscopic mechanisms that are involved in the production of intracellular Ca2+ oscillations and traveling waves in the Xenopus laevis oocyte.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biomathematics, UCLA School of Medicine 90024-1766.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Atri
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Amundson
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Clapham
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Sneyd
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001683:Biological Clocks; D055592:Biophysical Phenomena; D001703:Biophysics; D002118:Calcium / Q000378:metabolism*; D015220:Calcium Channels / Q000378:metabolism; D003600:Cytosol / Q000378:metabolism; D004058:Diffusion; D005260:Female; D015544:Inositol 1,4,5-Trisphosphate / Q000378:metabolism; D053496:Inositol 1,4,5-Trisphosphate Receptors; D007700:Kinetics; D008954:Models, Biological; D009865:Oocytes / Q000378:metabolism*; D010782:Photolysis; D018160:Receptors, Cytoplasmic and Nuclear / Q000378:metabolism; D014982:Xenopus laevis
chemical_list: D015220:Calcium Channels; D053496:Inositol 1,4,5-Trisphosphate Receptors; D018160:Receptors, Cytoplasmic and Nuclear; D015544:Inositol 1,4,5-Trisphosphate; D002118:Calcium