AJP - Cell Physiology, Vol 269, Issue 3 C698-C705, Copyright © 1995 by American Physiological Society

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Measurement of SR free Ca2+ and Mg2+ in permeabilized smooth muscle cells with use of furaptra

T. Sugiyama and W. F. Goldman
Department of Physiology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, USA.

The concentrations of intrasarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) free Ca2+ ([Ca2+]SR) and Mg2+ ([Mg2+]SR) were measured in furaptra-loaded saponin-permeabilized cultured aortic smooth muscle (A7r5) cells. Ca(2+)-independent fluorescence emitted by furaptra trapped within organelles, excited at 346 nm (isosbestic point), decreased with a half time of 30 min. All Ca2+ measurements appeared to be from SR, because the apparent Ca2+ distribution within permeabilized cells was uniform and therefore inconsistent with furaptra loading into mitochondria. Moreover, thapsigargin-induced SR Ca(2+)-adenosinetriphosphatase inhibition caused near-total depletion of Ca2+, and the metabolic poisons oligomycin and rotenone had no effect. Calibration curves relating 370 nm-to-346 nm ratios to [Ca2+] and to [Mg2+] were calculated in situ; dissociation constants for Ca2+ and Mg2+ binding were 49 microM and 6.8 mM, respectively. Resting [Ca2+]SR was 75-130 microM, with a mean of 97.2 +/- 2.2 microM (n = 376), whereas [Mg2+]SR, estimated in the absence of Ca2+, was 1.0 mM. Stimulation with inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate resulted in time-dependent declines in [Ca2+]SR, and pretreatment with guanosine 5'-triphosphate caused a large increase in the rate of inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate-evoked SR Ca2+ release, although guanosine 5'-triphosphate had no effect by itself. These observations indicate that furaptra will be a valuable tool with which to directly study [Ca2+]SR and SR function.

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