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MEMBRANE TRANSPORTERS, ION CHANNELS, AND PUMPS

Calcium-dependent regulation of calcium efflux by the cardiac sodium/calcium exchanger

Department of Pharmacology and Physiology, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, New Jersey Medical School, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Newark, New Jersey 07103

Submitted 5 April 2004 ; accepted in final form 12 May 2004

Allosteric regulation by cytosolic Ca²⁺ of Na⁺/Ca²⁺ exchange activity in the Ca²⁺ efflux mode has received little attention because it has been technically difficult to distinguish between the roles of Ca²⁺ as allosteric activator and transport substrate. In this study, we used transfected Chinese hamster ovary cells to compare the Ca²⁺ efflux activities in nontransfected cells and in cells expressing either the wild-type exchanger or a mutant, (241–680), that operates constitutively; i.e., its activity does not require allosteric Ca²⁺ activation. Expression of the wild-type exchanger did not significantly lower the cytosolic Ca²⁺ concentration ([Ca²⁺]_i) compared with nontransfected cells. During Ca²⁺ entry through store-operated Ca²⁺ channels, Ca²⁺ efflux by the wild-type exchanger became evident only after [Ca²⁺]_i approached 100–200 nM. A subsequent decline in [Ca²⁺]_i was observed, suggesting that the activation process was time dependent. In contrast, Ca²⁺ efflux activity was evident under all experimental conditions in cells expressing the constitutive exchanger mutant. After transient exposure to elevated [Ca²⁺]_i, the wild-type exchanger behaved similarly to the constitutive mutant for tens of seconds after [Ca²⁺]_i had returned to resting levels. We conclude that Ca²⁺ efflux activity by the wild-type exchanger is allosterically activated by Ca²⁺, perhaps in a time-dependent manner, and that the activated state is briefly retained after the return of [Ca²⁺]_i to resting levels.

persistent calcium activation; store-operated channels; calcium transient

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