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Oishi K, Nagamori M, Kashino Y, Sekiguchi H, Sasaki YC, Miyazawa A, Nishino Y. Ligand-Dependent Intramolecular Motion of Native Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors Determined in Living Myotube Cells via Diffracted X-ray Tracking. Int J Mol Sci 2023; 24:12069. [PMID: 37569445 PMCID: PMC10418694 DOI: 10.3390/ijms241512069] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/30/2023] [Revised: 07/20/2023] [Accepted: 07/26/2023] [Indexed: 08/13/2023] Open
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Nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (nAChRs) are ligand-gated ion channels that play an important role in signal transduction at the neuromuscular junction (NMJ). Movement of the nAChR extracellular domain following agonist binding induces conformational changes in the extracellular domain, which in turn affects the transmembrane domain and opens the ion channel. It is known that the surrounding environment, such as the presence of specific lipids and proteins, affects nAChR function. Diffracted X-ray tracking (DXT) facilitates measurement of the intermolecular motions of receptors on the cell membranes of living cells, including all the components involved in receptor function. In this study, the intramolecular motion of the extracellular domain of native nAChR proteins in living myotube cells was analyzed using DXT for the first time. We revealed that the motion of the extracellular domain in the presence of an agonist (e.g., carbamylcholine, CCh) was restricted by an antagonist (i.e., alpha-bungarotoxin, BGT).
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- Koichiro Oishi
- Graduate School of Sciences, University of Hyogo, 3-2-1 Kouto, Kamigori-cho, Ako-gun, Kobe 678-1297, Hyogo, Japan; (K.O.); (Y.K.)
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- Graduate School of Sciences, University of Hyogo, 3-2-1 Kouto, Kamigori-cho, Ako-gun, Kobe 678-1297, Hyogo, Japan; (K.O.); (Y.K.)
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- Graduate School of Sciences, University of Hyogo, 3-2-1 Kouto, Kamigori-cho, Ako-gun, Kobe 678-1297, Hyogo, Japan; (K.O.); (Y.K.)
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- Center for Synchrotron Radiation Research, Japan Synchrotron Radiation Research Institute, 1-1-1 Kouto, Sayo-cho, Sayo-gun, Sayo 679-5198, Hyogo, Japan; (H.S.); (Y.C.S.)
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- Center for Synchrotron Radiation Research, Japan Synchrotron Radiation Research Institute, 1-1-1 Kouto, Sayo-cho, Sayo-gun, Sayo 679-5198, Hyogo, Japan; (H.S.); (Y.C.S.)
- Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo, 5-1-5 Kashiwanoha, Kashiwa 277-8561, Chiba, Japan
- AIST-UTokyo Advanced Operando-Measurement Technology Open Innovation Laboratory, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, 6-2-3 Kashiwanoha, Kashiwa 277-0882, Chiba, Japan
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- Graduate School of Sciences, University of Hyogo, 3-2-1 Kouto, Kamigori-cho, Ako-gun, Kobe 678-1297, Hyogo, Japan; (K.O.); (Y.K.)
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- Graduate School of Sciences, University of Hyogo, 3-2-1 Kouto, Kamigori-cho, Ako-gun, Kobe 678-1297, Hyogo, Japan; (K.O.); (Y.K.)
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Takahashi R, Miyazako H, Tanaka A, Ueno Y, Yamaguchi M. Tough, permeable and biocompatible microfluidic devices formed through the buckling delamination of soft hydrogel films. LAB ON A CHIP 2021; 21:1307-1317. [PMID: 33656028 DOI: 10.1039/d0lc01275k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Microchannels in soft materials play an important role in developing movable, deformable, and biocompatible fluidic systems for applications in various fields. Intensively investigated approaches to create microscale channel architectures use mechanical instability in soft materials, which can provide intricate yet ordered architectures with low cost and high throughput. Here, for microchannel fabrication, we demonstrate the use of swelling-driven buckle delamination of hydrogels, which is a mechanical instability pattern found in compressed film/substrate layer composites. By spatially controlling interfacial bonding between a thin polyacrylamide (PAAm) gel film and glass substrate, swelling-driven compressive stress induces buckle delamination at programmed positions, resulting in the formation of continuous hollow paths as microchannels. Connecting flow tubes with a 3D-printed connecter provides a deformable microfluidic device, enabling pressure-driven flows without leakage from the connecter and rupture of the channels. Furthermore, by stacking less-swellable bulk gels on the device, we obtained a tough, permeable, and biocompatible microfluidic device. Finally, we performed a cell culture on the device and chemical stimulation to cells through the diffusion of molecules from the microchannels. The results of this work shed light on designing pressure sensitive/resistant microfluidic systems based on diverse hydrogels with intricate 3D morphologies and will be useful for applications in the fields of bioanalysis, biomimetics, tissue engineering, and cell biology.
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- Riku Takahashi
- NTT Basic Research Laboratories, Bio-Medical Informatics Research Center, NTT Corporation, 3-1 Morinosato -Wakamiya, Atsugi, Kanagawa 243-0198, Japan.
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Skeletal muscle IP3R1 receptors amplify physiological and pathological synaptic calcium signals. J Neurosci 2011; 31:15269-83. [PMID: 22031873 DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.3766-11.2011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/11/2023] Open
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Ca(2+) release from internal stores is critical for mediating both normal and pathological intracellular Ca(2+) signaling. Recent studies suggest that the inositol 1,4,5-triphosphate (IP(3)) receptor mediates Ca(2+) release from internal stores upon cholinergic activation of the neuromuscular junction (NMJ) in both physiological and pathological conditions. Here, we report that the type I IP(3) receptor (IP(3)R(1))-mediated Ca(2+) release plays a crucial role in synaptic gene expression, development, and neuromuscular transmission, as well as mediating degeneration during excessive cholinergic activation. We found that IP(3)R(1)-mediated Ca(2+) release plays a key role in early development of the NMJ, homeostatic regulation of neuromuscular transmission, and synaptic gene expression. Reducing IP(3)R(1)-mediated Ca(2+) release via siRNA knockdown or IP(3)R blockers in C2C12 cells decreased calpain activity and prevented agonist-induced acetylcholine receptor (AChR) cluster dispersal. In fully developed NMJ in adult muscle, IP(3)R(1) knockdown or blockade effectively increased synaptic strength at presynaptic and postsynaptic sites by increasing both quantal release and expression of AChR subunits and other NMJ-specific genes in a pattern resembling muscle denervation. Moreover, in two mouse models of cholinergic overactivity and NMJ Ca(2+) overload, anti-cholinesterase toxicity and the slow-channel myasthenic syndrome (SCS), IP(3)R(1) knockdown eliminated NMJ Ca(2+) overload, pathological activation of calpain and caspase proteases, and markers of DNA damage at subsynaptic nuclei, and improved both neuromuscular transmission and clinical measures of motor function. Thus, blockade or genetic silencing of muscle IP(3)R(1) may be an effective and well tolerated therapeutic strategy in SCS and other conditions of excitotoxicity or Ca(2+) overload.
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van Hees HWH, Schellekens WJM, Linkels M, Leenders F, Zoll J, Donders R, Dekhuijzen PNR, van der Hoeven JG, Heunks LMA. Plasma from septic shock patients induces loss of muscle protein. CRITICAL CARE : THE OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF THE CRITICAL CARE FORUM 2011; 15:R233. [PMID: 21958504 PMCID: PMC3334781 DOI: 10.1186/cc10475] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/01/2011] [Revised: 08/19/2011] [Accepted: 09/29/2011] [Indexed: 11/13/2022]
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Introduction ICU-acquired muscle weakness commonly occurs in patients with septic shock and is associated with poor outcome. Although atrophy is known to be involved, it is unclear whether ligands in plasma from these patients are responsible for initiating degradation of muscle proteins. The aim of the present study was to investigate if plasma from septic shock patients induces skeletal muscle atrophy and to examine the time course of plasma-induced muscle atrophy during ICU stay. Methods Plasma was derived from septic shock patients within 24 hours after hospital admission (n = 21) and healthy controls (n = 12). From nine patients with septic shock plasma was additionally derived at two, five and seven days after ICU admission. These plasma samples were added to skeletal myotubes, cultured from murine myoblasts. After incubation for 24 hours, myotubes were harvested and analyzed on myosin content, mRNA expression of E3-ligase and Nuclear Factor Kappa B (NFκB) activity. Plasma samples were analyzed on cytokine concentrations. Results Myosin content was approximately 25% lower in myotubes exposed to plasma from septic shock patients than in myotubes exposed to plasma from controls (P < 0.01). Furthermore, patient plasma increased expression of E3-ligases Muscle RING Finger protein-1 (MuRF-1) and Muscle Atrophy F-box protein (MAFbx) (P < 0.01), enhanced NFκB activity (P < 0.05) and elevated levels of ubiquitinated myosin in myotubes. Myosin loss was significantly associated with elevated plasma levels of interleukin (IL)-6 in septic shock patients (P < 0.001). Addition of antiIL-6 to septic shock plasma diminished the loss of myosin in exposed myotubes by approximately 25% (P < 0.05). Patient plasma obtained later during ICU stay did not significantly reduce myosin content compared to controls. Conclusions Plasma from patients with septic shock induces loss of myosin and activates key regulators of proteolysis in skeletal myotubes. IL-6 is an important player in sepsis-induced muscle atrophy in this model. The potential to induce atrophy is strongest in plasma obtained during the early phase of human sepsis.
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- Hieronymus W H van Hees
- Department of Pulmonary Diseases, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, Geert Grooteplein-Zuid 10, 6525 GA, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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Hupkes M, Jonsson MKB, Scheenen WJ, van Rotterdam W, Sotoca AM, van Someren EP, van der Heyden MAG, van Veen TA, van Ravestein-van Os RI, Bauerschmidt S, Piek E, Ypey DL, van Zoelen EJ, Dechering KJ. Epigenetics: DNA demethylation promotes skeletal myotube maturation. FASEB J 2011; 25:3861-72. [PMID: 21795504 DOI: 10.1096/fj.11-186122] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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Mesenchymal progenitor cells can be differentiated in vitro into myotubes that exhibit many characteristic features of primary mammalian skeletal muscle fibers. However, in general, they do not show the functional excitation-contraction coupling or the striated sarcomere arrangement typical of mature myofibers. Epigenetic modifications have been shown to play a key role in regulating the progressional changes in transcription necessary for muscle differentiation. In this study, we demonstrate that treatment of murine C2C12 mesenchymal progenitor cells with 10 μM of the DNA methylation inhibitor 5-azacytidine (5AC) promotes myogenesis, resulting in myotubes with enhanced maturity as compared to untreated myotubes. Specifically, 5AC treatment resulted in the up-regulation of muscle genes at the myoblast stage, while at later stages nearly 50% of the 5AC-treated myotubes displayed a mature, well-defined sarcomere organization, as well as spontaneous contractions that coincided with action potentials and intracellular calcium transients. Both the percentage of striated myotubes and their contractile activity could be inhibited by 20 nM TTX, 10 μM ryanodine, and 100 μM nifedipine, suggesting that action potential-induced calcium transients are responsible for these characteristics. Our data suggest that genomic demethylation induced by 5AC overcomes an epigenetic barrier that prevents untreated C2C12 myotubes from reaching full maturity.
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- Marlinda Hupkes
- Department of Cell and Applied Biology, Faculty of Science, Nijmegen Centre for Molecular Life Sciences, Radboud University Nijmegen, Heyendaalseweg 135, 6525 AJ Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
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Heunks LM, Machiels HA, Dekhuijzen PN, Prakash YS, Sieck GC. Nitric oxide affects sarcoplasmic calcium release in skeletal myotubes. J Appl Physiol (1985) 2001; 91:2117-24. [PMID: 11641352 DOI: 10.1152/jappl.2001.91.5.2117] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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In the present study, we used real-time confocal microscopy to examine the effects of two nitric oxide (NO) donors on acetylcholine (ACh; 10 microM)- and caffeine (10 mM)-induced intracellular calcium concentration ([Ca2+]i) responses in C2C12 mouse skeletal myotubes. We hypothesized that NO reduces [Ca2+]i in activated skeletal myotubes through oxidation of thiols associated with the sarcoplasmic reticulum Ca2+-release channel. Exposure to diethylamine NONOate (DEA-NO) reversibly increased resting [Ca2+]i level and resulted in a dose-dependent reduction in the amplitude of ACh-induced [Ca2+]i responses (25 +/- 7% reduction with 10 microM DEA-NO and 78 +/- 14% reduction with 100 microM DEA-NO). These effects of DEA-NO were partly reversible after subsequent exposure to dithiothreitol (10 mM). Preexposure to DEA-NO (1, 10, and 50 microM) also reduced the amplitude of the caffeine-induced [Ca2+]i response. Similar data were obtained by using the chemically distinct NO donor S-nitroso-N-acetyl-penicillamine (100 microM). These results indicate that NO reduces sarcoplasmic reticulum Ca2+ release in skeletal myotubes, probably by a modification of hyperreactive thiols present on the ryanodine receptor channel.
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- L M Heunks
- Department of Pulmonary Diseases, University Hospital Nijmegen, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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Marutle A, Warpman U, Bogdanovic N, Lannfelt L, Nordberg A. Neuronal nicotinic receptor deficits in Alzheimer patients with the Swedish amyloid precursor protein 670/671 mutation. J Neurochem 1999; 72:1161-9. [PMID: 10037489 DOI: 10.1046/j.1471-4159.2000.0721161.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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The influence of beta-amyloid on cholinergic neurotransmission was studied by measuring alterations in nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (nAChRs) in autopsy brain tissue from subjects carrying the Swedish amyloid precursor protein (APP) 670/671 mutation. Significant reductions in numbers of nAChRs were observed in various cortical regions of the Swedish 670/671 APP mutation family subjects (-73 to -87%) as well as in sporadic Alzheimer's disease (AD) cases (-37 to -57%) using the nicotinic agonists [3H]epibatidine and [3H]nicotine, which bind with high affinity to both alpha3 and alpha4 and to alpha4 nAChR subtypes, respectively. Saturation binding studies with [3H]epibatidine revealed two binding sites in the parietal cortex of AD subjects and controls. A significant decrease in Bmax (-82%) for the high-affinity site was observed in APP 670/671 subjects with no change in K(D) compared with controls (0.018 nM APP 670/671; 0.036 nM control). The highest load of neuronal plaques (NPs) was observed in the parietal cortex of APP 670/671 brains, whereas the number of [3H]nicotine binding sites was less impaired compared with other cortical brain regions. Except for a positive significant correlation between the number of [3H]nicotine binding sites and number of NPs in the parietal cortex, no strict correlation was observed between nAChR deficits and the presence of NPs and neurofibrillary tangles, suggesting that these different processes may be closely related but not strictly dependent on each other.
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- A Marutle
- Department of Clinical Neuroscience and Family Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Huddinge University Hospital, Sweden
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Giovannelli A, Limatola C, Ragozzino D, Mileo AM, Ruggieri A, Ciotti MT, Mercanti D, Santoni A, Eusebi F. CXC chemokines interleukin-8 (IL-8) and growth-related gene product alpha (GROalpha) modulate Purkinje neuron activity in mouse cerebellum. J Neuroimmunol 1998; 92:122-32. [PMID: 9916887 DOI: 10.1016/s0165-5728(98)00192-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 119] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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We give here evidence that Purkinje neurons (PNs) of mouse cerebellar slices studied with patch clamp technique combined with laser confocal microscopy, respond to human IL-8 and GROalpha by (i) a cytosolic Ca2+ transient compatible with inositol (1,4,5) trisphosphate (InsP3) formation; (ii) an enhancement of the neurotransmitter release; and (iii) an impairment of the long-term depression of synaptic strength (LTD). It was also found the expression of IL-8 receptor type 2 in PN and granule cells by immunofluorescence, immunoblotting and RT-PCR analysis. Considered together these findings suggest that IL-8 and GROalpha may play a neuromodulatory role on mouse cerebellum.
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- A Giovannelli
- Dipartimento di Medicina Sperimentale Università di L'Aquila, Rome, Italy
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Luzzi V, Sims CE, Soughayer JS, Allbritton NL. The physiologic concentration of inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate in the oocytes of Xenopus laevis. J Biol Chem 1998; 273:28657-62. [PMID: 9786859 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.273.44.28657] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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To measure the concentration of inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate ([IP3]) in small regions of single Xenopus oocytes, a biological detector cell was combined with capillary electrophoresis. This method is 10, 000 times more sensitive than all existing assays enabling subcellular measurement of [IP3] in Xenopus oocytes. Upon addition of lysophosphatidic acid to an oocyte, [IP3] increased from 40 to 650 nM within 2 min. IP3 concentrations as high as 1.8 microM were measured after activation with lysophosphatidic acid, suggesting that the physiologic concentration of IP3 ranges from the tens of nanomolar to a few micromolar in Xenopus oocytes. Since the IP3 receptor in Xenopus oocytes is nearly identical to the type I receptor of mammalian cells, the range of [IP3] in most mammalian cells is likely to be similar to that in the oocyte. By selecting or engineering the appropriate detector cell, this strategy should be applicable to cyclic adenosine diphosphate ribose and nicotinic acid adenine dinucleotide phosphate, and to the discovery of new Ca2+-releasing second messengers.
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- V Luzzi
- Department of Physiology and Biophysics University of California, Irvine, California 92697-4560, USA
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Fucile S, Matter JM, Erkman L, Ragozzino D, Barabino B, Grassi F, Alemà S, Ballivet M, Eusebi F. The neuronal alpha6 subunit forms functional heteromeric acetylcholine receptors in human transfected cells. Eur J Neurosci 1998; 10:172-8. [PMID: 9753124 DOI: 10.1046/j.1460-9568.1998.00001.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 62] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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We examine some of the biological and physiological properties of the avian alpha6 neuronal nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (nAChR) subunit. We show here that, beginning at embryonic day 5, alpha6 mRNA is abundantly expressed in the developing chick neuroretina, where it coexists with other nicotinic receptor subunit mRNAs such as alpha3, beta2 and beta4. In contrast, alpha6 mRNA is absent from the optic tectum and from the peripheral ganglia. Despite numerous efforts, the alpha6 subunit has long failed the critical test of functional reconstitution. Here we use patch-clamp techniques and confocal laser microscopy to measure ACh-activated currents and nicotine-elicited Ca2+ transients in human BOSC 23 cells transfected with chick alpha6 in combination with other chick nAChR neuronal subunits. Heterologously expressed alpha6 and beta4 subunits form functional heteromeric nAChRs, which are permeable to Ca2+ ions and blocked by the nicotinic antagonist methyllycaconitine (10 microM). Likewise, ACh elicits measurable currents in cells transfected with alpha6 and beta2. Hill analysis of the dose-response curves in cells transfected with alpha3, beta4 and alpha6 cDNAs, suggests the assembly of functional alpha3beta4alpha6 receptor, with an apparent affinity for ACh threefold lower than alpha3beta4. Our results indicate that alpha6-containing nAChRs assemble in heterologous expression systems and are probably present in retinal cells.
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- S Fucile
- Istituto Pasteur-Fondazione Cenci Bolognetti and Dipartimento di Medicina Sperimentale e Patologia, Università di Roma, Italy
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Lorenzon P, Giovannelli A, Ragozzino D, Eusebi F, Ruzzier F. Spontaneous and repetitive calcium transients in C2C12 mouse myotubes during in vitro myogenesis. Eur J Neurosci 1997; 9:800-8. [PMID: 9153587 DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.1997.tb01429.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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Fluorescence videomicroscopy was used to monitor changes in the cytosolic free Ca2+ concentration ([Ca2+]i) in the mouse muscle cell line C2Cl2 during in vitro myogenesis. Three different patterns of changes in [Ca2+]i were observed: (i) [Ca2+]i oscillations; (ii) faster Ca2+ events confined to subcellular regions (localized [Ca2+]i spikes) and (iii) [Ca2+]i spikes detectable in the entire myotube (global [Ca2+]i spikes). [Ca2+]i oscillations and localized [Ca2+]i spikes were detectable following the appearance of caffeine-sensitivity in differentiating C2Cl2 cells. Global [Ca2+]i spikes appeared later in the process of myogenesis in cells exhibiting coupling between voltage-operated Ca2+ channels and ryanodine receptors. In contrast to [Ca2+]i oscillations and localized [Ca2+]i spikes, the global events immediately stopped when cells were perfused either with a Ca2+-free solution, or a solution with TTX, TEA and verapamil. To explore further the mechanism of the global [Ca2+]i spikes, membrane currents and fluorescence signals were measured simultaneously. These experiments revealed that global [Ca2+]i spikes were correlated with an inward current. Moreover, while the depletion of the Ca2+ stores blocked [Ca2+]i oscillations and localized [Ca2+]i spikes, it only reduced the amplitude of global [Ca2+]i spikes. It is suggested that, during the earlier stages of the myogenesis, spontaneous and repetitive [Ca2+]i changes may be based on cytosolic oscillatory mechanisms. The coupling between voltage-operated Ca2+ channels and ryanodine receptors seems to be the prerequisite for the appearance of global [Ca2+]i spikes triggered by a membrane oscillatory mechanism, which characterizes the later phases of the myogenic process.
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- P Lorenzon
- Istituto di Fisiologia, Università di Trieste, Italy
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Ragozzino D, Fucile S, Giovannelli A, Grassi F, Mileo AM, Ballivet M, Alemà S, Eusebi F. Functional properties of neuronal nicotinic acetylcholine receptor channels expressed in transfected human cells. Eur J Neurosci 1997; 9:480-8. [PMID: 9104590 DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.1997.tb01625.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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To study how subunit composition affects the functional properties of neuronal nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (nAChRs), we examined the behaviour of acetylcholine (ACh)-induced single-channel currents in human BOSC 23 cells transiently transfected with various subunit cDNA combinations. For all nAChRs examined (chick and rat alpha 3 beta 4, chick alpha 3 beta 2, alpha 4 beta 2, alpha 7 and alpha 8), expression levels were high enough to allow measurements of acetylcholine-evoked whole-cell currents and nicotine-elicited Ca2+ transients as well as the functional characterization of nAChR channels. Unitary acetylcholine-evoked events of alpha 8 nAChR had a slope conductance of 23 pS, whereas two conductance classes (19-23 and 32-45 pS) were identified for all other nAChR channels. The mean channel open times were significantly longer for homomeric alpha 7 and alpha 8 nAChRs (6-7 ms) than for heteromeric nAChRs (1-3 ms), with the exception of alpha 3 beta 4 nAChRs (8.4 ms for rat, 7 ms for chick). At least two species of heterologously expressed nAChRs (alpha 3 beta 4 and alpha 3 beta 2) exhibited single-channel characteristics similar to those reported for native receptors. The variety of nAChR channel conductance and kinetic properties encountered in human cells transfected with nAChR subunits contributes to the functional diversity of nAChRs in nerve cells.
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- D Ragozzino
- Istituto Pasteur-Fondazione Cenci Bolognetti, Dipartimento di Medicina Sperimentale e Patologia, Università di Roma, Italy
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