Insulin secretion: a high-affinity Ca2+ sensor after all?
Insulin secretion: a high-affinity Ca2+ sensor after all?
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10.1085/jgp.200409206
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2004-12
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Rorsman P
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Barg S;Rorsman P
Insulin is secreted from the ß-cells of the pancreatic islets by Ca2+-dependent exocytosis of large dense core vesicles (LDCVs)(Ämmälä et al., 1993), a process that is triggered by glucose-induced electrical activity (Henquin and Meissner, 1984). In response to a step elevation of glucose, insulin secretion follows a characteristic biphasic time course (Curry et al., 1968): an initial transient first phase of secretion, which is completed within 10–15 min, is followed by a slowly developing and sustained second phase. It has been estimated that the first phase of secretion is due to the rapid release of a total of 40–80 LDCVs per ß-cell, after which secretion proceeds at a rate of five vesicles per ß-cell per minute (Rorsman and Renström, 2003). The Ca2+ channel density in ß-cell plasma membranes is very low, only about one-twentieth of that in chromaffin cells (Barg et al., 2001). Yet, the ß-cell is capable of remarkably high rates of exocytosis. Capacitance measurements have suggested that secretion transiently may proceed at rates as high as 500 LDCV per second (Barg et al., 2001). It therefore has been proposed that the ß-cell exocytosis is efficiently coupled to Ca2+ entry via the assembly of a functional complex consisting of Ca2+ channels and exocytotic proteins (Wiser et al., 1999) so that exocytosis is triggered by the large increases in the cytoplasmic Ca2+ concentration ([Ca2+] i) occurring at the inner mouth of the Ca2+ channels (Fig. 1 A). In accordance with such a scenario, the rates of exocytosis that can be elicited by voltage-clamp depolarizations require elevation of [Ca2+] i by several tens of micromolar, as estimated from experiments using photolytic release of caged Ca2+(Takahashi et al., 1997; Barg et al., 2001). The latter experiments suggested that exocytosis is sigmoidally related to [Ca2+] i with a Kd of 20 μM and a Hill coefficient (n) as high as 5. By contrast, measurements of insulin secretion from permeabilized cells have indicated that insulin secretion is activated already at submicromolar [Ca2+] i (Yaseen et al., 1982; Wollheim et al., 1987; Okazaki et al., 1994) and capacitance increases have also been observed at such low Ca2+ concentrations (Proks et al., 1996). Indeed, the latter type of measurements indicate that exocytosis at Ca2+ concentrations as low as a few hundred nanomolar proceeds at rates 10,000-fold higher than that expected from the Ca2+ dependence quoted above. To date, there has been no explanation of the widely different Ca2+ dependencies of exocytosis indicated by these two experimental paradigms. Two complementary studies appearing in this issue (Yang and Gillis, 2004; Wan et al., 2004) may explain this conundrum. Recently, a small pool of LDCVs, capable of release in response to moderate (low micromolar) elevations of [Ca2+] i was documented in two types of endocrine cells: adrenal chromaffin cells (Yang et al., 2002) and pituitary gonadotropes (Zhu et al., 2002). Exocytosis of these vesicles (termed the highly calcium-sensitive pool [HCSP]) proceeds in parallel with the previously described low-affinity Ca2+-dependent exocytosis. Release of HCSP is rapid (rate constant: 10–100 sJ1) and at [Ca2+] i 10 μM, exocytosis of HCSP is actually faster than the rapid initial components previously described. Whereas this could be indicative of separate pathways, both forms of exocytosis involve SNARE proteins. Importantly, the existence of HCSP is not confined to endocrine cells and it has also been found in the rod photoreceptor synapse, where it was postulated to contribute to the linearity of the responses (Thoreson et al., 2004).Using capacitance measurements, Yang and Gillis (2004) and Wan et al.(2004 …
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