LOCAL CALCIUM TRANSIENTS TRIGGERED BY SINGLE L-TYPE CALCIUM-CHANNEL CURRENTS IN CARDIAC-CELLS
LOCAL CALCIUM TRANSIENTS TRIGGERED BY SINGLE L-TYPE CALCIUM-CHANNEL CURRENTS IN CARDIAC-CELLS
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DOI:
10.1126/science.7754383
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发表时间:
1995-05-19
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影响因子:
56.9
通讯作者:
WIER, WG
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作者:
LOPEZLOPEZ, JR;SHACKLOCK, PS;WIER, WG
Excitation-contraction coupling was studied in mammalian cardiac cells in which the opening probability of L-type calcium (Ca2+) channels was reduced. Confocal microscopy during voltage-clamp depolarization revealed distinct local transients in the concentration of intracellular calcium ions ([Ca2+](i)). When voltage was varied, the latency to occurrence and the relative probability of occurrence of local [Ca2+](i) transients varied as predicted if Ca2+ release from the sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) was linked tightly to Ca2+ flux through L-type Ca2+ channels but not to that through the Na-Ca exchanger or to average [Ca2+](i). Voltage had no effect on the amplitude of local [Ca2+](i) transients. Thus, the most efficacious ''Ca2+ signal'' for activating Ca2+ release from the SR may be a transient microdomain of high [Ca2+](i) beneath an individual, open L-type Ca2+ channel.