title: Regulation of intracellular Ca2+ by P2Y1 receptors may depend on the developmental stage of cultured rat striatal neurons.
abstract: Mixed striatal cell cultures containing neurons and glial cells were grown either in neurobasal medium (NBM) or Dulbecco's modified Eagle's medium (DMEM). Whole-cell patch-clamp recordings indicated that, if at all, only a single, low amplitude spike was evoked shortly after starting the injection of a depolarizing current pulse into NBM neurons. In contrast, DMEM neurons fired series of high amplitude action potentials, without apparent spike frequency adaptation. The possible reason for the observed action potential failure in NBM neurons was a low density of Na+ channels per unit of membrane surface area. However, both in NBM and DMEM neurons, ATP did not induce inward current responses via P2X receptor-channels, although GABAA and N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor-channels could be activated by muscimol and NMDA, respectively. Ca2+ imaging experiments by means of the Fura-2 method were utilized to measure intracellular Ca2+ ([Ca2+]i) in neurons and glial cells. NBM, but not DMEM neurons responded to ATP with [Ca2+]i transients; glial cells grown in either culture medium were equally sensitive to ATP. ATP caused an increase of [Ca2+]i by a mechanism only partly dependent on external Ca2+; the residual ATP effect was blocked by cyclopiazonic acid (CPA) and was therefore due to the release of Ca2+ from its intracellular pools. The receptor involved was characterized by P2 receptor antagonists (PPADS, MRS 2179, AR-C69931MX) and was found to belong to the P2Y1 subtype. CPA caused an early [Ca2+]i response due to release from intracellular storage sites, followed by a late [Ca2+]i response due to the influx of this cation from the extracellular space, probably triggered by the opening of store-operated channels (SOCs) in the plasma membrane. It is concluded that in partial analogy with the effect of CPA, ATP releases [Ca2+]i via the Gq/phospholipase C/inositoltrisphosphate (IP3) pathway, thereby opening SOCs. It is hypothesized that this effect of ATP may have an important role for the proliferation and migration of striatal neuronal progenitors.
authors.affiliation: Rudolf-Boehm-Institut für Pharmakologie und Toxikologie, Universität Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany.
authors.forename: Patrizia
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Rubini
authors.forename: Christina
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Pinkwart
authors.forename: Heike
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Franke
authors.forename: Zoltan
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Gerevich
authors.forename: Wolfgang
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Nörenberg
authors.forename: Peter
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Illes
mesh_terms: D000244:Adenosine Diphosphate / Q000494:pharmacology; D000255:Adenosine Triphosphate / Q000494:pharmacology; D000818:Animals; D002118:Calcium / Q000378:metabolism*; D020013:Calcium Signaling; D005110:Extracellular Space; D066298:In Vitro Techniques; D008564:Membrane Potentials; D009457:Neuroglia / Q000378:metabolism; D009474:Neurons / Q000378:metabolism; D018408:Patch-Clamp Techniques; D051381:Rats; D017208:Rats, Wistar; D018048:Receptors, Purinergic P2 / Q000378:metabolism / Q000502:physiology*; D058469:Receptors, Purinergic P2X; D058472:Receptors, Purinergic P2Y1; D014793:Visual Cortex / Q000166:cytology*
chemical_list: C546384:P2ry1 protein, rat; D018048:Receptors, Purinergic P2; D058469:Receptors, Purinergic P2X; D058472:Receptors, Purinergic P2Y1; D000244:Adenosine Diphosphate; D000255:Adenosine Triphosphate; D002118:Calcium