Tuning Local Calcium Availability: Cell-Type-Specific Immobile Calcium Buffer Capacity in Hippocampal Neurons
Tuning Local Calcium Availability: Cell-Type-Specific Immobile Calcium Buffer Capacity in Hippocampal Neurons
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DOI:
10.1523/jneurosci.4118-12.2013
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发表时间:
2013-09-04
影响因子:
5.3
通讯作者:
Dietrich, Dirk
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作者:
Matthews, Elizabeth A.;Schoch, Susanne;Dietrich, Dirk
It has remained difficult to ascribe a specific functional role to immobile or fixed intracellular calcium buffers in central neurons because the amount of these buffers is unknown. Here, we explicitly isolated the fixed buffer fraction by prolonged whole-cell patch-clamp dialysis and quantified its buffering capacity in murine hippocampal slices using confocal calcium imaging and the "added-buffer" approach. In dentate granule cells, the calcium binding ratio (kappa) after complete washout of calbindin D-28k (Cb), kappa(fixed), displayed a substantial value of similar to 100. In contrast, in CA1 oriens lacunosum moleculare (OLM) interneurons, which do not contain any known calcium-binding protein(s), kappa(fixed) amounted to only similar to 30. Based on these values, a theoretical analysis of dendritic spread of calcium after local entry showed that fixed buffers, in the absence of mobile species, decrease intracellular calcium mobility 100- and 30-fold in granule cells and OLM cells, respectively, and thereby strongly slow calcium signals. Although the large kappa(fixed) alone strongly delays the spread of calcium in granule cells, this value optimizes the benefits of additionally expressing the mobile calcium binding protein Cb. With such high kappa(fixed), Cb effectively increases the propagation velocity to levels seen in OLM cells and, contrary to expectation, does not affect the peak calcium concentration close to the source but sharpens the spatial and temporal calcium gradients. The data suggest that the amount of fixed buffers determines the temporal availability of calcium for calcium-binding partners and plays a pivotal role in setting the repertoire of cellular calcium signaling regimens.