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Evidence from studies with hepatocyte suspensions that store-operated Ca2+ inflow requires a pertussis toxin-sensitive trimeric G-protein.


ABSTRACT: The role of heterotrimeric GTP-binding proteins in the process of store-operated Ca2+ inflow in hepatocytes was investigated by testing the ability of pertussis toxin to inhibit thapsigargin- and 2,5-di-tert-butylhydroquinone (DBHQ)-induced bivalent cation inflow. Hepatocytes isolated from rats treated with pertussis toxin for 24 h exhibited markedly inhibited rates of both Ca2+ and Mn2+ inflow when these were stimulated by vasopressin, angiotension II, epidermal growth factor, thapsigargin and DBHQ. Pertussis toxin had little effect on the basal intracellular free Ca2+ concentration ([Ca2+]i), basal rates of Ca2+ and Mn2+ inflow, the abilities of vasopressin, angiotensin II, thapsigargin and DBHQ to induce the release of Ca2+ from intracellular stores, and the maximum value of [Ca2+]i reached following agonist-induced release of Ca2+ from intracellular stores. It is concluded that store-operated Ca2+ inflow in hepatocytes employs a slowly ADP-ribosylated trimeric GTP-binding protein and is the physiological mechanism, or one of the physiological mechanisms, by which vasopressin and angiotensin stimulate plasma membrane Ca2+ inflow in this cell type.

SUBMITTER: Fernando KC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC1137334 | biostudies-other | 1994 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other

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