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AJP - Cell Physiology, Vol 264, Issue 4 C932-C943, Copyright © 1993 by American Physiological Society
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D. C. Batlle, R. Peces, M. S. LaPointe, M. Ye and J. T. Daugirdas
Department of Medicine, Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago, Illinois.
This study examined the mechanisms whereby alterations of intracellular pH (pHi) impact on free cytosolic calcium (Cai2+) in cultured rat aortic vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMC) assayed in the presence of HCO3/CO2. Rapid cell alkalinization, effected by the exposure to NH4Cl or removal of CO2 from the superfusate, produced a rapid increase in Cai2+. The rise in Cai2+ was markedly diminished when sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) Ca2+ stores had been depleted by prior exposure to arginine vasopressin (AVP) in Ca(2+)-free media or when SR release and reuptake of Ca2+ were blocked by the addition of 3,4,5-trimethoxybenzoic acid 8-(diethylamino)octyl ester (TMB-8), but was unaffected by the removal of external Ca2+ or inhibition of Ca2+ entry using NiCl2. Cell acidification also resulted in a rapid increase in Cai2+. This Cai2+ increase was most apparent when pHi was very low (< 6.6) and was unaffected by removal of external Ca2+ or NiCl2 addition. Unlike the effect of cell alkalinization, the increase in Cai2+ associated with cell acidification was not prevented by pretreatment with AVP or TMB-8. We conclude that, in cultured VSMC, acute intracellular alkalinization and, to a lesser extent, acidification result in release of Ca2+ from internal stores. Alkalinization increases Cai2+ by promoting its release from a store which is AVP and TMB-8 sensitive, most likely the SR. Cell acidification increases Cai2+ from an intracellular store(s) that is neither AVP nor TMB-8 sensitive. The increase in Cai2+ produced by cell acidification may be explained on the basis of cell buffering such that, as cytosolic H+ increases, it displaces Cai2+ from internal buffers with similar affinities for Ca2+ and H+.
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