AJP - Cell Physiology, Vol 271, Issue 5 C1472-C1479, Copyright © 1996 by American Physiological Society

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Effects of the intraluminal Ca load on the kinetics of 45Ca uptake and efflux in brain microsomes

K. M. Wells and R. F. Abercrombie
Department of Physiology, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia 30322, USA.

Effects of increasing intraluminal Ca ([Ca]i) on the kinetics of rat brain microsomal uptake and efflux are reported here. Isolated rat brain microsomes accumulated 45Ca in an extravesicular free Ca ([Ca]o)- and ATP-dependent manner. Increased microsomal Ca load resulted in a decreased initial rate of 45Ca uptake and an increased tau, time to reach 63% of steady-state accumulation. Isolated rate brain microsomes lost 45Ca in a temperature- and [Ca]i-dependent manner. Whether preloaded with tracer 45Ca and either < or = 0.5 or 25 microM [Ca]o, the time constant of efflux was larger at 4 degrees C as compared with 37 degrees C. Additionally, increased microsomal Ca load resulted in a decreased time constant of 45Ca efflux. This shorter efflux time constant cannot explain the effect of [Ca]i on tau during uptake which was in fact longer for preloaded microsomes. Rather, these data suggest that, as Ca accumulates into unloaded microsomes, a steadily increasing [Ca]i slows unidirectional Ca influx (presumably by inhibiting the endoplasmic reticulum Ca pump) and enhances unidirectional Ca efflux, and that these combined effects ultimately shorten the time needed to achieve steady-state luminal [Ca]i.

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