title: Buffer kinetics shape the spatiotemporal patterns of IP3-evoked Ca2+ signals.
abstract: Ca2+ liberation through inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate receptors (IP3Rs) plays a universal role in cell regulation, and specificity of cell signalling is achieved through the spatiotemporal patterning of Ca2+ signals. IP3Rs display Ca2+-induced Ca2+ release (CICR), but are grouped in clusters so that regenerative Ca2+ signals may remain localized to individual clusters, or propagate globally between clusters by successive cycles of Ca2+ diffusion and CICR. We used confocal microscopy and photoreleased IP3 in Xenopus oocytes to study how these properties are modulated by mobile cytosolic Ca2+ buffers. EGTA (a buffer with slow 'on-rate') speeded Ca2+ signals and 'balkanized' Ca2+ waves by dissociating them into local signals. In contrast, BAPTA (a fast buffer with similar affinity) slowed Ca2+ responses and promoted 'globalization' of spatially uniform Ca2+ signals. These actions are likely to arise through differential effects on Ca2+ feedback within and between IP3R clusters, because Ca2+ signals evoked by influx through voltage-gated channels were little affected. We propose that cell-specific expression of Ca2+-binding proteins with distinct kinetics may shape the time course and spatial distribution of IP3-evoked Ca2+ signals for specific physiological roles.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurobiology and Behavior, University of California Irvine, CA 92697-4550, USA. sdargan@uci.edu
authors.forename: Sheila L
authors.initials: SL
authors.lastname: Dargan
authors.forename: Ian
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Parker
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002021:Buffers; D002118:Calcium / Q000502:physiology*; D015220:Calcium Channels / Q000502:physiology*; D020013:Calcium Signaling / Q000187:drug effects / Q000502:physiology*; D003600:Cytosol / Q000502:physiology; D004533:Egtazic Acid / Q000031:analogs & derivatives* / Q000494:pharmacology; D015544:Inositol 1,4,5-Trisphosphate / Q000494:pharmacology*; D053496:Inositol 1,4,5-Trisphosphate Receptors; D007700:Kinetics; D018613:Microscopy, Confocal; D009865:Oocytes / Q000166:cytology / Q000187:drug effects / Q000502:physiology*; D018160:Receptors, Cytoplasmic and Nuclear / Q000502:physiology*; D029867:Xenopus Proteins / Q000502:physiology; D014982:Xenopus laevis
chemical_list: D002021:Buffers; D015220:Calcium Channels; D053496:Inositol 1,4,5-Trisphosphate Receptors; D018160:Receptors, Cytoplasmic and Nuclear; D029867:Xenopus Proteins; D004533:Egtazic Acid; D015544:Inositol 1,4,5-Trisphosphate; C025603:1,2-bis(2-aminophenoxy)ethane-N,N,N',N'-tetraacetic acid; D002118:Calcium