FREE CALCIUM CHANGES ASSOCIATED WITH HORMONE ACTION IN AMPHIBIAN OOCYTES
FREE CALCIUM CHANGES ASSOCIATED WITH HORMONE ACTION IN AMPHIBIAN OOCYTES
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DOI:
10.1016/0012-1606(80)90329-2
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发表时间:
1980-01-01
影响因子:
2.7
通讯作者:
GUERRIER, P
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作者:
MOREAU, M;VILAIN, JP;GUERRIER, P
Ca2+-sensitive electrodes and the photoproteins obelin and aequorin were used with the oocytes of the anuran Xenopus laevis and the urodeles Ambystoma mexicanum and Pleurodeles waltlii to detect any changes in internal free Ca2+ which might result from progesterone or agonist stimulation. A dramatic Ca2+ surge was recorded: from 0.7 .times. 10-6 M in the unstimulated oocyte to 7 .times. 10-6 M after stimulation but before germinal vesicle breakdown (GVBD). Ca2+ efflux was also measured, but it accounted for less than 0.2% of the internal Ca2+ transient; this efflux did not take place in the absence of external Ca. The Ca2+ surge and maturation in response to progesterone, p-hydroxymethylenesulfonate (PHMPS), or Mn2+ occurred normally even when divalent cations were absent from the external medium. In contrast, external divalent cations were necessary for the induction of meiosis and a Ca2+ transient by the K+ ionophore valinomycin. HCO3- also triggers meiosis and causes Ca2+ release, but the release occurs with quite different kinetics. Incompletely grown or seasonally dormant oocytes as well as 10 mM theophylline- or procaine-treated oocytes neither release Ca2+ nor response to the hormone. Intracellular released Ca2+ is likely to be the major 2nd messenger following hormone stimulation in amphibian oocytes as in starfish.