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Background: Transmembrane Ca2+ influx is critical for molecular rhythmicity, metabolic activity, and neuropeptide release in the central clock of the suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN). We previously reported that both the Na+/Ca2+ exchanger (NCX) and mitochondria play a role in regulating intracellular Ca2+ homeostasis in the rat SCN neurons. Here we present evidence to show differential regulation by NCX and mitochondria of nimodipine-sensitive and -insensitive Ca2+ influx.
Methods: Ratiometric Ca2+ imaging was used to measure change in [Ca2+](i) and patch clamp recordings to study spontaneous firing, membrane potential, and voltage-dependent Ca2+ channels in neurons from reduced SCN slice preparations. Immunofluorescent staining was used to determine the distribution pattern of CaV1.2 and CaV1.3 and their colocalization with NCX1.
Results: Ratiometric Ca2+ imaging indicates that nimodipine (2 mu M) blocked most of 20 (mM) K+-induced, but less so of 50 K+-induced, Ca2+ rise. The nimodipine-sensitive 50 K+-induced Ca2+ transient rose more rapidly but decayed similarly with the nimodipine-insensitive component, suggesting both components were extruded by NCX. Immunofluorescent stains showed the expression of both CaV1.2 and CaV13 and their colocalization with NCX1, whereas functional studies suggest that CaV1.2 mediated most of the nimodipine-sensitive Ca2+ rise but had insignificant effect on spontaneous firing. After normalization relative to the Ca2+ free solution, nimodipine reduced similar to 65% of basal Ca2+ influx, and TTX lowered it by similar to 35%, leaving similar to 25% basal Ca2+ influx in the combined presence of TTX and nimodipine. With the mitochondrial uncoupler carbonyl cyanide-p-trifluoromethoxyphenylhydrazone (FCCP) to inhibit mitochondria) Ca2+ uptake, 20 K+-induced Ca2+ transients became larger and slower, both in the absence and presence of nimodipine. FCCP markedly enhanced nimodipine-insensitive, but not nimodipine-sensitive, Ca2+ transients, suggesting that mitochondria preferentially buffer nimodipine-insensitive Ca2+ influx Results from using CaV2 channel blockers further indicate that FCCP enhanced Ca2+ transients mediated by N-, P/Q-, and the blocker cocktail-insensitive Ca2+ channels.
Conclusions: The differential regulation of transmembrane Ca2+ influx by NCX and mitochondria suggests that Ca2+ entry via different sources may be regulated differently to play different roles in SCN physiology.
- 出版日期2018-5-22
- 单位长春大学
