Abstract
The mechanism of activation of the cardiac calcium release channel/ryanodine
receptor (RyR) by luminal Ca$^2+$ was investigated in native
canine cardiac RyRs incorporated into lipid bilayers in the presence
of 0.01 microM to 2 mM Ca$^2+$ (free) and 3 mM ATP (total) on
the cytosolic (cis) side and 20 microM to 20 mM Ca$^2+$ on the
luminal (trans) side of the channel and with Cs+ as the charge carrier.
Under conditions of low trans Ca$^2+$ (20 microM), increasing
cis Ca$^2+$ from 0.1 to 10 microM caused a gradual increase in
channel open probability (Po). Elevating cis Ca$^2+$ above 100
microM resulted in a gradual decrease in Po. Elevating trans Ca$^2+$
enhanced channel activity (EC50 approximately 2.5 mM at 1 microM
cis Ca$^2+$) primarily by increasing the frequency of channel
openings. The dependency of Po on trans Ca$^2+$ was similar
at negative and positive holding potentials and was not influenced
by high cytosolic concentrations of the fast Ca$^2+$ chelator,
1,2-bis(2-aminophenoxy)ethane-N,N,N, N-tetraacetic acid. Elevated
luminal Ca$^2+$ enhanced the sensitivity of the channel to activating
cytosolic Ca$^2+$, and it essentially reversed the inhibition
of the channel by high cytosolic Ca$^2+$. Potentiation of Po
by increased luminal Ca$^2+$ occurred irrespective of whether
the electrochemical gradient for Ca$^2+$ supported a cytosolic-to-luminal
or a luminal-to-cytosolic flow of Ca$^2+$ through the channel.
These results rule out the possibility that under our experimental
conditions, luminal Ca$^2+$ acts by interacting with the cytosolic
activation site of the channel and suggest that the effects of luminal
Ca$^2+$ are mediated by distinct Ca$^2+$-sensitive site(s)
at the luminal face of the channel or associated protein.
- 9826602
- allosteric
- animals,
- bilayers,
- binding
- biophysics,
- calcium
- calcium,
- channel
- channel,
- cytosol,
- dogs,
- gating,
- gov't,
- in
- ion
- lipid
- membrane
- microsomes,
- myocardium,
- non-u.s.
- p.h.s.,
- potentials,
- receptor
- regulation,
- release
- research
- reticulum,
- ryanodine
- sarcoplasmic
- sites,
- support,
- u.s.
- vitro,
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