Key result
Increasing cytoplasmic ATP from 0 to 0.5 mM decreased the half-maximal activating calcium concentration of the type 3 InsP3 receptor from 800 to 77 nM without changing maximum open probability.
ATP binding confers distinct gating properties on type 1 and type 3 InsP3R channel isoforms, enabling complex regulation of intracellular calcium signaling.
A family of inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate (InsP3) receptor (InsP3R) Ca2+ release channels plays a central role in Ca2+ signaling in most cells, but functional correlates of isoform diversity are unclear. Patch-clamp electrophysiology of endogenous type 1 (X-InsP3R-1) and recombinant rat type 3 InsP3R (r-InsP3R-3) channels in the outer membrane of isolated Xenopus oocyte nuclei indicated that enhanced affinity and reduced cooperativity of Ca2+ activation sites of the InsP3-liganded type 3 channel distinguished the two isoforms. Because Ca2+ activation of type 1 channel was the target of regulation by cytoplasmic ATP free acid concentration ([ATP](i)), here we studied the effects of [ATP]i on the dependence of r-InsP(3)R-3 gating on cytoplasmic free Ca2+ concentration ([Ca2+]i. As [ATP]i was increased from 0 to 0.5 mM, maximum r-InsP3R-3 channel open probability (Po) remained unchanged, whereas the half-maximal activating [Ca2+]i and activation Hill coefficient both decreased continuously, from 800 to 77 nM and from 1.6 to 1, respectively, and the half-maximal inhibitory [Ca2+]i was reduced from 115 to 39 microM. These effects were largely due to effects of ATP on the mean closed channel duration. Whereas the r-InsP3R-3 had a substantially higher Po than X-InsP3R-1 in activating [Ca2+]i (< 1 microM) and 0.5 mM ATP, the Ca2+ dependencies of channel gating of the two isoforms became remarkably similar in the absence of ATP. Our results suggest that ATP binding is responsible for conferring distinct gating properties on the two InsP3R channel isoforms. Possible molecular models to account for the distinct regulation by ATP of the Ca2+ activation properties of the two channel isoforms and the physiological implications of these results are discussed. Complex regulation by ATP of the types 1 and 3 InsP3R channel activities may enable cells to generate sophisticated patterns of Ca2+ signals with cytoplasmic ATP as one of the second messengers.
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Mak et al. (2001) studied this question. Cytoplasmic ATP concentration vs. Absence of ATP was evaluated on Channel open probability and half-maximal activating [Ca2+]i. Increasing cytoplasmic ATP from 0 to 0.5 mM decreased the half-maximal activating calcium concentration of the type 3 InsP3 receptor from 800 to 77 nM without changing maximum open probability.
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