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PLOS ONE
Volume 7, Issue 2, Pages -Publisher
PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0031905
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- Research Grant Council (RGC) [HKU 784710M, HKU 782709M, HKU 785911M]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC)/RGC from Hong Kong [N_HKU 737/09]
- Leukemia and Lymphoma Society of America
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Intracellular pH (pHi) and Ca2+ regulate essentially all aspects of cellular activities. Their inter-relationship has not been mechanistically explored. In this study, we used bases and acetic acid to manipulate the pHi. We found that transient pHi rise induced by both organic and inorganic bases, but not acidification induced by acid, produced elevation of cytosolic Ca2+. The sources of the Ca2+ increase are from the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) Ca2+ pools as well as from Ca2+ influx. The store-mobilization component of the Ca2+ increase induced by the pHi rise was not sensitive to antagonists for either IP3-receptors or ryanodine receptors, but was due to inhibition of the sarco/endoplasmic reticulum Ca2+-ATPase (SERCA), leading to depletion of the ER Ca2+ store. We further showed that the physiological consequence of depletion of the ER Ca2+ store by pHi rise is the activation of store-operated channels (SOCs) of Orai1 and Stim1, leading to increased Ca2+ influx. Taken together, our results indicate that intracellular alkalinization inhibits SERCA activity, similar to thapsigargin, thereby resulting in Ca2+ leak from ER pools followed by Ca2+ influx via SOCs.
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