Activation of P2Y but not P2X4 nucleotide receptors causes elevation of [Ca2+]i in mammalian osteoclasts

2001 ◽  
Vol 280 (6) ◽  
pp. C1531-C1539 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Frederik Weidema ◽  
S. Jeffrey Dixon ◽  
Stephen M. Sims

Extracellular nucleotides cause elevation of cytosolic free Ca2+ concentration ([Ca2+]i) in osteoclasts, although the sources of Ca2+ are uncertain. Activation of P2Y receptors causes Ca2+ release from stores, whereas P2X receptors are ligand-gated channels that mediate Ca2+ influx in some cell types. To examine the sources of Ca2+, we studied osteoclasts from rat and rabbit using fura 2 fluorescence and patch clamp. Nucleotide-induced rise of [Ca2+]ipersisted on removal of extracellular Ca2+(Ca[Formula: see text]), indicating involvement of stores. Inhibition of phospholipase C (PLC) with U-73122 or inhibition of endoplasmic reticulum Ca2+-ATPase with cyclopiazonic acid or thapsigargin abolished the rise of [Ca2+]i. After store depletion in the absence of Ca[Formula: see text], addition of Ca[Formula: see text] led to a rise of [Ca2+]i consistent with store-operated Ca2+ influx. Store-operated Ca2+ influx was greater at negative potentials and was blocked by La3+. In patch-clamp studies where PLC was blocked, ATP induced inward current indicating activation of P2X4 nucleotide receptors, but with no rise of [Ca2+]i. We conclude that nucleotide-induced elevation of [Ca2+]i in osteoclasts arises primarily through activation of P2Y nucleotide receptors, leading to release of Ca2+ from intracellular stores.

Blood ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 106 (11) ◽  
pp. 1730-1730
Author(s):  
Lara Rossi ◽  
Rossella Manfredini ◽  
Francesco Bertolini ◽  
Davide Ferrari ◽  
Miriam Fogli ◽  
...  

Abstract Regulatory mechanisms governing homing and engraftment of hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) involve a complex interplay between chemokines, cytokines, growth factors and adhesion molecules in the intricate architecture of bone marrow (BM) microenvironment. HSCs express P2Y and P2X receptors for extracellular nucleotides, which activation by ATP and UTP has been recently demonstrated (Lemoli et al. Blood. 2004) to produce potent stimulatory effects on HSCs. Moreover extracellular nucleotides are emerging as key factors of flogosis phenomena and related chemotactic responses of several cell types, such as dendritic cells, monocytes and endothelial cells. In this study we investigated the biologic activity of extracellular ATP and UTP and their capacity to cooperatively promote SDF-1 (stromal cell-derived factor-1)-stimulated cell chemotaxis. Low concentrations of UTP (10uM) significantly improved, in vitro, HSCs migration. Moreover, UTP inhibits CXCR4 down-regulation of migrating CD34+ cells and increased cell adhesion to fibronectin filaments. Furthermore, in vivo competitive repopulation assays showed that preincubation with UTP significantly improved the homing efficiency of human CD34+ HSCs in nonobese diabetic/severe combined immunodeficient mice. Inhibition assays with Pertussis Toxin from B. Pertussis blocked SDF-1- and UTP-dependent chemotactic responses, suggesting that Gαi proteins may provide a converging signal for CXCR4- and P2Y-activated transduction pathways. In addition, gene expression profiling of UTP-treated CD34+ cells and subsequent in vitro inhibition assays with Toxin B from C. Difficile suggest that RhoGTPase Rac2 and his downstream effectors ROCK1 and ROCK2 are involved in the UTP-promoted, SDF-1-dependent HSCs migration. Taken together, our data suggest that UTP may physiologically modulate HSC migration and homing to the BM, in concert with the chemotactic peptide SDF-1, via the activation of converging signaling transduction pathways between CXCR4 and P2Y receptors, involving Gαi proteins and RhoGTPases.


2003 ◽  
Vol 284 (2) ◽  
pp. C571-C581 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fernand-Pierre Gendron ◽  
Joseph T. Neary ◽  
Patty M. Theiss ◽  
Grace Y. Sun ◽  
Fernando A. Gonzalez ◽  
...  

Astrocytes are involved in normal and pathological brain functions, where they become activated and undergo reactive gliosis. Astrocytes have been shown to respond to extracellular nucleotides via the activation of P2 receptors, either G protein-coupled P2Y receptors or P2X receptors that are ligand-gated ion channels. In this study, we have examined the manner in which activation of the P2X7 nucleotide receptor, an extracellular ATP-gated ion channel expressed in astrocytes, can lead to the phosphorylation of ERK1/2. Results showed that the P2X7 receptor agonist 2′,3′- O-(4-benzoyl)benzoyl-ATP induced ERK1/2 phosphorylation in human astrocytoma cells overexpressing the recombinant rat P2X7 receptor (rP2X7-R), a response that was inhibited by the P2X7 receptor antagonist, oxidized ATP. Other results suggest that rP2X7-R-mediated ERK1/2 phosphorylation was linked to the phosphorylation of the proline-rich/Ca2+-activated tyrosine kinase Pyk2, c-Src, phosphatidylinositol 3′-kinase, and protein kinase Cδ activities and was dependent on the presence of extracellular Ca2+. These results support the hypothesis that the P2X7 receptor and its signaling pathways play a role in astrocyte-mediated inflammation and neurodegenerative disease.


2021 ◽  
Vol 135 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Savannah J. West ◽  
Goutham Kodakandla ◽  
Qioachu Wang ◽  
Ritika Tewari ◽  
Michael X. Zhu ◽  
...  

ABSTRACT Store-operated Ca2+ entry is a central component of intracellular Ca2+ signaling pathways. The Ca2+ release-activated channel (CRAC) mediates store-operated Ca2+ entry in many different cell types. The CRAC channel is composed of the plasma membrane (PM)-localized Orai1 channel and endoplasmic reticulum (ER)-localized STIM1 Ca2+ sensor. Upon ER Ca2+ store depletion, Orai1 and STIM1 form complexes at ER–PM junctions, leading to the formation of activated CRAC channels. Although the importance of CRAC channels is well described, the underlying mechanisms that regulate the recruitment of Orai1 to ER–PM junctions are not fully understood. Here, we describe the rapid and transient S-acylation of Orai1. Using biochemical approaches, we show that Orai1 is rapidly S-acylated at cysteine 143 upon ER Ca2+ store depletion. Importantly, S-acylation of cysteine 143 is required for Orai1-mediated Ca2+ entry and recruitment to STIM1 puncta. We conclude that store depletion-induced S-acylation of Orai1 is necessary for recruitment to ER–PM junctions, subsequent binding to STIM1 and channel activation.


2002 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 10-18
Author(s):  
Heiko Lehrmann ◽  
Jörg Thomas ◽  
Sung Joon Kim ◽  
Christoph Jacobi ◽  
Jens Leipziger

ABSTRACT. Extracellular nucleotides regulate renal transport. A luminal P2Y2 receptor in mouse cortical collecting duct (CCD) principal cells has been demonstrated elsewhere. Herein the effects of adenosine triphosphate (ATP) and uridine triphosphate (UTP) on electrogenic Na+ absorption in perfused CCD of mice kept on a low-NaCl diet were investigated. Simultaneously, transepithelial voltage (Vte), transepithelial resistance (Rte), and fura-2 [Ca2+]i fluorescence were measured. Baseline parameters were Vte, −16.5 ± 1.2 mV; Rte, 80.8 ± 7.1 Ω cm2; and equivalent short-circuit current (Isc), −261.0 ± 25.1 μA/cm2 (n = 45). Amiloride (10 μM) almost completely inhibited Isc to −3.9 ± 3.8 μA/cm2 (n = 10). Luminal ATP (100 μM) reduced Vte from −16.5 ± 2.1 to −12.5 ± 1.93 and increased Rte from 113.1 ± 16.2 to 123.8 ± 16.7 Ω cm2, which resulted in a 31.7% inhibition of amiloride-sensitive Isc (n = 12). Similarly, luminal UTP reversibly reduced Vte from −22.0 ± 2.1 to −13.6 ± 2.1 mV and increased Rte from 48.4 ± 5.3 to 59.2 ± 7.1 Ω cm2, which resulted in 49.1% inhibition of Na+ absorption (n = 6). In parallel, luminal ATP and UTP elevated [Ca2+]i in CCD, increasing the fura-2 ratio by 2.7 ± 0.7 and 4.0 ± 1.2, respectively. Basolateral ATP and UTP (100 μM) also inhibited amiloride-sensitive Isc by 21.8 (n = 14) and 20.1% (n = 8), respectively. Inhibition of luminal nucleotide-induced [Ca2+]i increase by Ca2+ store depletion with cyclopiazonic acid (3 μM) did not affect nucleotide-mediated inhibition of Na+ transport (n = 7). No evidence indicated the activation of a luminal Ca2+-activated Cl− conductance, a phenomenon previously shown in M-1 CCD cells (J Physiol 524: 77–99, 2000). In essence, these data indicate that luminal ATP and UTP, most likely via P2Y2 receptors, mediate inhibition of amiloride-sensitive Isc in perfused mouse CCD. This inhibition appears to occurs independently of an increase of cytosolic Ca2+.


Author(s):  
R. W. Yaklich ◽  
E. L. Vigil ◽  
W. P. Wergin

The legume seed coat is the site of sucrose unloading and the metabolism of imported ureides and synthesis of amino acids for the developing embryo. The cell types directly responsible for these functions in the seed coat are not known. We recently described a convex layer of tissue on the inside surface of the soybean (Glycine max L. Merr.) seed coat that was termed “antipit” because it was in direct opposition to the concave pit on the abaxial surface of the cotyledon. Cone cells of the antipit contained numerous hypertrophied Golgi apparatus and laminated rough endoplasmic reticulum common to actively secreting cells. The initial report by Dzikowski (1936) described the morphology of the pit and antipit in G. max and found these structures in only 68 of the 169 seed accessions examined.


2006 ◽  
Vol 190 (2) ◽  
pp. 373-384 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shannon M Gifford ◽  
Fu-Xian Yi ◽  
Ian M Bird

Uterine artery endothelial cells (UAEC) derived from pregnant (P-UAEC) and nonpregnant (NP-UAEC) ewes retain pregnancy-specific differences in cell signaling as well as vasodilator production through passage 4. In particular, when P- and NP-UAEC are stimulated with ATP over a 2.5 min recording period, they exhibit similar initial transient peaks in the intracellular free Ca2+ concentration ([Ca2+]i), but the P-UAEC show a heightened sustained phase. In order to establish whether thiswas due to an altered subclass of purinergic receptor (P2), both the dose dependencyof [Ca2+]i responses to ADP and UTP and the profile of purinergic receptor expression are determined in NP- and P-UAEC. Our findings indicate that while several isoforms of P2X and P2Y receptors are present, it is P2Y2 that is responsible for the ATP-induced initial transient peak in both cell types. We also characterized several key components of the ATP-induced Ca2+ signaling cascade, including the inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate receptor and G-proteins, but could not confirm any pregnancy-specific variation in the protein expression that correlated with pregnancy-specific differences in prolonged Ca2+ signaling. We thus investigated whether such a difference may be inherent to the cell itself rather than specific to the purinergic receptor-signaling pathway. Using thapsigargin (Tg), we were able to demonstrate that the initial Tg-sensitive intracellular pool of Ca2+is nearly identical with the capacity in both cell types, but the P-UAEC is nonetheless capable of greater capacitative Ca2+ entry (CCE) than NP-UAEC. Furthermore, CCE induced by Tg could be dramatically inhibited by 2-aminoethoxydiphenyl borate, suggesting a role for store-operated channels in the ATP-induced [Ca2+]i response. We conclude that changes at the level of capacitative entry mechanisms rather than switching of receptor subtype or coupling to phospholipase C underlies pregnancy adaptation of UAEC at the level of Ca2+signaling.


1991 ◽  
Vol 273 (1) ◽  
pp. 153-160 ◽  
Author(s):  
J F Coquil ◽  
B Berthon ◽  
N Chomiki ◽  
L Combettes ◽  
P Jourdon ◽  
...  

The monohydroxy bile acid taurolithocholate permeabilizes the endoplasmic reticulum to Ca2+ in rat liver cells. To assess whether this action on the endoplasmic reticulum was restricted to this tissue, the effects of bile acid were investigated in two cell types quite unrelated to rat hepatocyte, namely human platelets and neuronal NG108-15 cell line. The results showed that taurolithocholate (3-100 microM) had no effect on free cytosolic [Ca2+] in human platelets and NG108-15 cells. whereas it increased it from 180 to 520 nM in rat hepatocytes. In contrast, in cells permeabilized by saponin, taurolithocholate initiated a profound release of the stored Ca2+ from the internal Ca2+ pools in the three cell types. The bile acid released 90% of the Ca2+ pools, with rate constants of about 5 min-1 and half-maximal effects at 15-30 microM. The results also showed that, in contrast with liver cells, which displayed an influx of [14C]taurolithocholate of 2 nmol/min per mg, human platelets and the neuronal cell line appeared to be resistant to [14C]taurolithocholate uptake. The influx measured in these latter cells was about 100-fold lower than in rat liver cells. Taken together, these data suggest that human platelets and NG108-15 cells do not possess the transport system for concentrating monohydroxy bile acids into cells. However, they show that human platelets and neuronal NG108-15 possess, in common with liver cells, the intracellular system responsible for taurolithocholate-mediated Ca2+ release from internal stores.


2014 ◽  
Vol 111 (6) ◽  
pp. 1369-1382 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ann M. Clemens ◽  
Daniel Johnston

Disruptions of endoplasmic reticulum (ER) Ca2+ homeostasis are heavily linked to neuronal pathology. Depletion of ER Ca2+ stores can result in cellular dysfunction and potentially cell death, although adaptive processes exist to aid in survival. We examined the age and region dependence of one postulated, adaptive response to ER store-depletion (SD), hyperpolarization-activated cation-nonspecific ( h)-channel plasticity in neurons of the dorsal and ventral hippocampus (DHC and VHC, respectively) from adolescent and adult rats. With the use of whole-cell patch-clamp recordings from the soma and dendrites of CA1 pyramidal neurons, we observed a change in h-sensitive measurements in response to SD, induced by treatment with cyclopiazonic acid, a sarcoplasmic reticulum/ER Ca2+-ATPase blocker. We found that whereas DHC and VHC neurons in adolescent animals respond to SD with a perisomatic expression of SD h plasticity, adult animals express SD h plasticity with a dendritic and somatodendritic locus of plasticity in DHC and VHC neurons, respectively. Furthermore, SD h plasticity in adults was dependent on membrane potential and on the activation of L-type voltage-gated Ca2+ channels. These results suggest that cellular responses to the impairment of ER function, or ER stress, are dependent on brain region and age and that the differential expression of SD h plasticity could provide a neural basis for region- and age-dependent disease vulnerabilities.


1999 ◽  
Vol 112 (23) ◽  
pp. 4425-4435 ◽  
Author(s):  
L.N. Naemsch ◽  
A.F. Weidema ◽  
S.M. Sims ◽  
T.M. Underhill ◽  
S.J. Dixon

Extracellular nucleotides act as signaling molecules in numerous tissues. In bone, nucleotides stimulate osteoclast formation and activity; however, the receptors and signaling mechanisms underlying these effects have yet to be identified. To identify specific P2X purinoceptor subtypes in osteoclasts, degenerate oligonucleotide primers were used to PCR-amplify DNA fragments from a rabbit osteoclast cDNA library. A 372-base-pair fragment was obtained that encoded an amino acid sequence with 88% identity to the rat P2X(4) purinoceptor. The presence of P2X(4) mRNA in purified osteoclasts was confirmed by reverse transcription-PCR. Endogenous purinoceptors were functionally characterized in isolated rabbit osteoclasts by patch-clamp recording in whole-cell configuration. At negative membrane potentials, application of ATP or ADP rapidly activated an inward current followed by an outward current. In contrast, UTP or ADPbetaS elicited only an outward current, due to activation of a Ca(2+)-dependent K(+) conductance. The initial inward current was non-selective for cations and inactivated during agonist application. Furthermore, the inward current was insensitive to suramin and Cibacron blue, and was potentiated by Zn(2+). These characteristics are consistent with properties of P2X(4) purinoceptors. Activation of P2X(4) purinoceptors leads to cation influx and depolarization. Nucleotides, released at sites of trauma or inflammation, may act through these receptors on osteoclasts to stimulate bone resorption.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Viorica Liebe Lastun ◽  
Matthew Freeman

In metazoans, the architecture of the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) differs between cell types, and undergoes major changes through the cell cycle and according to physiological needs. Although much is known about how the different ER morphologies are generated and maintained, especially the ER tubules, how context dependent changes in ER shape and distribution are regulated and the factors involved are less characterized. Here, we show that RHBDL4, an ER-resident rhomboid protease, modulates the shape and distribution of the ER, especially under conditions that require rapid changes in the ER sheet distribution, including ER stress. RHBDL4 interacts with CLIMP-63, a protein involved in ER sheet stabilisation, and with the cytoskeleton. Mice lacking RHBDL4 are sensitive to ER stress and develop liver steatosis, a phenotype associated with unresolved ER stress. Our data introduce a new physiological role of RHBDL4 and also imply that this function does not require its enzymatic activity.


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