Inositol 1,4,5-Trisphosphate-induced Increase in Ca<sup>2+</sup>-ATPase Activity in the Microsomes of Tracheal Epithelial Cells
Inositol 1,4,5-Trisphosphate-induced Increase in Ca<sup>2+</sup>-ATPase Activity in the Microsomes of Tracheal Epithelial Cells
- Cho, Hyoung-Jin Park, Sung-Shin Kim, Young-Kee
- 대한생리학회
- 대한생리학회지
- 제29권 제2호
- 1995.12
- 269 - 278 (10 pages)
Membrane vesicles were prepared by differential centrifugation from epithelial cells of porcine trachea. Total activity of microsomal ATPases was measured spectrophotometrically by a coupled enzyme assay. The steady-state activity of the enzyme was 329±10 nmol/min mg protein. Thapsigargin, a specific antagonist of intracellular Ca<sup>2+</sup>-ATPase, inhibited about 50% of the activity, leaving 178±18 nmol/min .mg protein (n=6), indicating that the Ca<sup>2+</sup>-ATPase is one of the major microsomal ATPases. The microsomes used in this study appeared to be tight-sealed vesicles since they showed saturation in <Sup>45</sup>Ca<sup>2+</sup> uptake experiments. Inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate InsP<sub>3</sub>, 4 μM, an agonist of InsP_{3}-sensitive Ca<sup>2+</sup> release channel (InsP<sub>3</sub>, receptor), and Ca-ionophore A23187 (10 μM) induced <Sup>45</sup>Ca<sup>2+</sup> releases of 20% and 50% of stored <Sup>45</sup>Ca<sup>2+</sup>, respectively. The addition of (10 μM InsP<sub>3</sub> also increased the microsomal ATPase activity from 282±8 nmol/min mg protein to 334±21 nmol/min . mg protein in the intact vesicles. Similar increase in the activity was observed by making microsomes leaky (uncoupling) using the Ca-ionophore A23187. ;InsP<sub>3</sub>-induced effects were blocked by either thapsigargin or heparin suggesting that: 1) the InsP<sub>3</sub>-induced increase in ATPase activity is mediated by microsomal Ca<sup>2+</sup>-ATPase, and 2) dissipation of Ca<sup>2+</sup> gradient across the microsomal membrane is responsible for the InsP<sub>3</sub>-induced effect. In order to test the dependence of the Ca<sup>2+</sup>-ATPase activity on the activity of InsP<sub>3</sub>-induced the activity of ATPases was monitored in various concentrations of free Ca<sup>2+</sup> using EGTA-Ca<sup>2+</sup> buffers. The Ca<sup>2+</sup>-dependent biphasic change is the well-known character of InsP<sub>3</sub> receptor but not of microsomal Ca<sup>2+</sup>-ATPase in non-excitable cells; however, the activity of microsomal ATPase appeared biphasic and a maxim진 activity of 397±36nmol/min .mg protein was obtained in the solution containing 100 nM free Ca<sup>2+</sup>. Below or above this concentration, the activity of ATPases was lower. These results strongly support a positive correlation of microsomal Ca<sup>2+</sup>-ATPase to the InsP<sub>3</sub> receptors in epithelial microsomes.