AJP - Cell Physiology, Vol 271, Issue 2 C540-C546, Copyright © 1996 by American Physiological Society

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Ca(2+)- and pH-dependent halothane stimulation of Ca2+ release in sarcoplasmic reticulum from frog muscle

M. Beltran, R. Bull, P. Donoso and C. Hidalgo
Departamento de Fisiologia y Biofisica, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile.

The effect of halothane on calcium release kinetics was studied in triad-enriched sarcoplasmic reticulum vesicles from frog skeletal muscle. Release from vesicles passively equilibrated with 3 mM 45CaCl2 was measured in the millisecond time range by use of a fast-filtration system. Halothane (400 microM) increased release rate constants at pH 7.1 and 7.4 as a function of extravesicular pCa. In contrast, halothane at pH 6.8 produced the same stimulation of release from pCa 7.0 to 3.0; no release took place in these conditions in the absence of halothane. Halothane shifted the calcium activation curve at pH 7.1, but not at pH 7.4, to the left and increased channel open probability at pH 7.1 in the cis pCa range of 7.0 to 5.0. These results indicate that cytosolic pCa and pH modulate the stimulatory effects of halothane on calcium release. Furthermore, halothane stimulated release in frog skeletal muscle at low pH and resting calcium concentration, indicating that in frog muscle halothane can override the closing of the release channels produced by these conditions, as it does in malignant hyperthermia-susceptible porcine muscle.

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