scholarly journals The Discovery, Development, and Demonstration of Three Caged Compounds

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Because the presence of a native plasmalemmal Na+/Ca2+exchange (NCX) activity inXenopus laevisoocytes remains controversial, its possible functional role in these cells is poorly understood. Here, in experiments on control oocytes and oocytes overexpressing a cloned NCX1 cardiac protein, confocal microscopy combined with electrophysiological techniques reveal that these cells express an endogenous NCX protein forming a functional microdomain with inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate receptors (InsP3R) that controls intracellular Ca2+in a restricted subplasmalemmal space. The following data obtained in control denuded oocytes are consistent with this view: (i) reverse transcription-PCR revealed that the oocyte expresses two transcripts for the NCX1 and NCX3 isoforms; (ii) immunofluorescence experiments showed that native NCX1 and InsP3Rs are largely codistributed in discrete areas of the plasma membrane in close apposition to the cortical endoplasmic reticulum shell; (iii) when stimulated by rabbit serum, which elevates intracellular Ca2+mediated by InsP3, voltage-clamped oocytes display a large and transient inward Ca2+-activated chloride current, ICl(Ca), as a result of the Ca2+rise at the inner surface membrane; (iv) this current is significantly enhanced by KB-R7943 and by an extracellular sodium-depleted medium, two maneuvers that prevent “Ca2+extrusion” via NCX; and (v) blocking NCX enhanced the ICl(Ca)elicited by InsP3but not by Ca2+photolysis in oocytes injected with the respective caged compounds. Moreover, overexpression of cardiac NCX1, confirmed by confocal microscopy, has functional consequences for the “Ca2+influx” but not for the serum-elicited “Ca2+efflux” mode of basal exchange activity and does not alter the number of endogenous NCX/InsP3Rs colocalization sites. Our results suggest that native NCX, because of its strategic position, may regulate InsP3-mediated Ca2+signaling during the early phases of oocyte maturation and/or fertilization, and furthermore foreign cardiac protein is excluded from the Ca2+microdomains surrounding the native NCX/InsP3Rs complex in the oocyte.


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Valentin Cepus ◽  
Carola Ulbrich ◽  
Christoph Allin ◽  
Agnes Troullier ◽  
Klaus Gerwert

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