title: Calcium-dependent facilitation and graded deactivation of store-operated calcium entry in fetal skeletal muscle.
abstract: Activation of store-operated Ca(2+) entry (SOCE) into the cytoplasm requires retrograde signaling from the intracellular Ca(2+) release machinery, a process that involves an intimate interaction between protein components on the intracellular and cell surface membranes. The cellular machinery that governs the Ca(2+) movement in muscle cells is developmentally regulated, reflecting maturation of the junctional membrane structure as well as coordinated expression of related Ca(2+) signaling molecules. Here we demonstrate the existence of SOCE in freshly isolated skeletal muscle cells obtained from embryonic days 15 and 16 of the mouse embryo, a critical stage of muscle development. SOCE in the fetal muscle deactivates incrementally with the uptake of Ca(2+) into the sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR). A novel Ca(2+)-dependent facilitation of SOCE is observed in cells transiently exposed to high cytosolic Ca(2+). Our data suggest that cytosolic Ca(2+) can facilitate SOCE whereas SR luminal Ca(2+) can deactivate SOCE in the fetal skeletal muscle. This cooperative mechanism of SOCE regulation by Ca(2+) ions not only enables tight control of SOCE by the SR membrane, but also provides an efficient mechanism of extracellular Ca(2+) entry in response to physiological demand. Such Ca(2+) signaling mechanism would likely contribute to contraction and development of the fetal skeletal muscle.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physiology and Biophysics, The University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Piscataway, USA.
authors.forename: Claude
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Collet
authors.forename: Jianjie
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Ma
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002118:Calcium / Q000378:metabolism*; D020013:Calcium Signaling / Q000502:physiology*; D002462:Cell Membrane / Q000378:metabolism*; D002478:Cells, Cultured; D003593:Cytoplasm / Q000378:metabolism; D005260:Female; D005333:Fetus / Q000378:metabolism*; D051379:Mice; D018482:Muscle, Skeletal / Q000378:metabolism*; D012519:Sarcoplasmic Reticulum / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D002118:Calcium