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JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY-LONDON
Volume 586, Issue 2, Pages 605-626Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2007.143339
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- NEI NIH HHS [P30 EY012576, EY12576, R01 EY004112, EY04112] Funding Source: Medline
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The depletion of ER Ca2+ stores, following the release of Ca2+ during intracellular signalling, triggers the Ca2+ entry across the plasma membrane known as store-operated calcium entry (SOCE). We show here that brief, local [Ca2+](i) increases (motes) in the thin dendrites of cultured retinal amacrine cells derived from chick embryos represent the Ca2+ entry events of SOCE and are initiated by sphingosine-1-phosphate (S1P), a sphingolipid with multiple cellular signalling roles. Externally applied S1P elicits motes but not through a G protein-coupled membrane receptor. The endogenous precursor to S1P, sphingosine, also elicits motes but its action is suppressed by dimethylsphingosine (DMS), an inhibitor of sphingosine phosphorylation. DMS also suppresses motes induced by store depletion and retards the refilling of depleted stores. These effects are reversed by exogenously applied SIP. In these neurons formation of S1P is a step in the SOCE pathway that promotes Ca2+ entry in the form of motes.
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