Cooperative and stochastic calcium releases from multiple calcium puff sites generate calcium microdomains in intact Hela cells.
Ca(2+) microdomains or locally restricted Ca(2+) increases in the cell have recently been reported to regulate many essential physiological events. Ca(2+) increases through the inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate (IP(3)) receptor (IP(3)R)/Ca(2+) release channels contribute to the formation of a class of such Ca(2+) microdomains, which were often observed and referred to as Ca(2+) puffs in their isolated states. In this report, we visualized IP(3)-evoked Ca(2+) microdomains in histamine-stimulated intact HeLa cells using a total internal reflection fluorescence microscope, and quantitatively characterized the spatial profile by fitting recorded images to a two-dimensional Gaussian distribution. Ca(2+) concentration profiles were marginally spatially anisotropic, with the size increasing linearly even after the amplitude began to decline. We found the event centroid drifted with an apparent diffusion coefficient of 4.20 ± 0.50 μm(2)/s, which is significantly larger than those estimated for IP(3)Rs. The sites of maximal Ca(2+) increase, rather than initiation or termination sites, were detected repeatedly at the same location. These results indicate that Ca(2+) microdomains in intact HeLa cell are generated from spatially distributed multiple IP(3)R clusters or Ca(2+) puff sites, rather than a single IP(3)R cluster reported in cells loaded with Ca(2+) buffers.
Laboratory for Developmental Neurobiology, RIKEN, Brain Science Institute, 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako, Saitama 351-0198, Japan.
Hideki
H
Nakamura
Hiroko
H
Bannai
Takafumi
T
Inoue
Takayuki
T
Michikawa
Masaki
M
Sano
Katsuhiko
K
Mikoshiba
D002118:Calcium / Q000378:metabolism*; D005454:Fluorescence Polarization; D006367:HeLa Cells; D006801:Humans; D015544:Inositol 1,4,5-Trisphosphate / Q000494:pharmacology; D053496:Inositol 1,4,5-Trisphosphate Receptors / Q000378:metabolism; D015398:Signal Transduction / Q000187:drug effects
D053496:Inositol 1,4,5-Trisphosphate Receptors; D015544:Inositol 1,4,5-Trisphosphate; D002118:Calcium