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Timescales of IP(3)-evoked Ca(2+) spikes emerge from Ca(2+) puffs only at the cellular level

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Title:Timescales of IP(3)-evoked Ca(2+) spikes emerge from Ca(2+) puffs only at the cellular level
Creators Name:Thurley, K. and Smith, I.F. and Tovey, S.C. and Taylor, C.W. and Parker, I. and Falcke, M.
Abstract:The behavior of biological systems is determined by the properties of their component molecules, but the interactions are usually too complex to understand fully how molecular behavior generates cellular behavior. Ca(2+) signaling by inositol trisphosphate receptors (IP(3)R) offers an opportunity to understand this relationship because the cellular behavior is defined largely by Ca(2+)-mediated interactions between IP(3)R. Ca(2+) released by a cluster of IP(3)R (giving a local Ca(2+) puff) diffuses and ignites the behavior of neighboring clusters (to give repetitive global Ca(2+) spikes). We use total internal reflection fluorescence microscopy of two mammalian cell lines to define the temporal relationships between Ca(2+) puffs (interpuff intervals, IPI) and Ca(2+) spikes (interspike intervals) evoked by flash photolysis of caged IP(3). We find that IPI are much shorter than interspike intervals, that puff activity is stochastic with a recovery time that is much shorter than the refractory period of the cell, and that IPI are not periodic. We conclude that Ca(2+) spikes do not arise from oscillatory dynamics of IP(3)R clusters, but that repetitive Ca(2+) spiking with its longer timescales is an emergent property of the dynamics of the whole cluster array.
Keywords:Calcium, Calcium Signaling, Tumor Cell Line, Cells, Fluorescence Microscopy, HEK293 Cells, Inositol 1,4,5-Trisphosphate, Photolysis, Time Factors
Source:Biophysical Journal
ISSN:0006-3495
Publisher:Cell Press
Volume:101
Number:11
Page Range:2638-2644
Date:7 December 2011
Official Publication:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bpj.2011.10.030
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