CALCIUM-DEPENDENT INACTIVATION OF THE DIHYDROPYRIDINE-SENSITIVE CALCIUM CHANNELS IN GH3 CELLS
CALCIUM-DEPENDENT INACTIVATION OF THE DIHYDROPYRIDINE-SENSITIVE CALCIUM CHANNELS IN GH3 CELLS
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DOI:
10.1085/jgp.92.4.531
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发表时间:
1988-10-01
影响因子:
3.8
通讯作者:
ARMSTRONG, DL
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作者:
KALMAN, D;OLAGUE, PH;ARMSTRONG, DL
The inactivation of calcium channels in mammalian pituitary tumor cells (GH3) was studied with patch electrodes under voltage clamp in cell-free membrane patches and in dialzyed cells. The calcium current elicited by depolarization from a holding potential of -40 mV passed predominantly through one class of channels previously shown to be modulated by dihydropyridines and cAMP-dependent phosphorylation (Armstrong and Eckert, 1987). When exogenous calcium buffers were omitted from the pipette solution, the macroscopic calcium current through those channels inactivated with a half time of .apprx. 10 ms to a steady state level 40-75% smaller than the peak. Inactivation was also measured as the reduction in peak current during a test pulse that closely followed a prepulse. Inactivation was largely reduced or eliminated by (a) buffering free calcium in the pipette solution to < 10-8 M; (b) replacing extracellular calcium with barium; (c) increasing the prepulse voltage from + 10 to + 60 mV; or (d) increasing the intracellular concentration of cAMP, either ''directly'' with dibutyryl-cAMP or indirectly by activating adenylate cyclase with forskolin or vasoactive intestinal peptide. Thus, inactivation of the dihydropyridine-sensitive calcium channels in GH3 cells only occurs when membrane depolarization leads to calcium ion entry and intracellular accumulation.