Journal
BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOENERGETICS
Volume 1787, Issue 1, Pages 15-24Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbabio.2008.10.003
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Mitochondria; Calcium influx; Sea urchin sperm
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- DGAPA-UNAM [IN210401, IN208802-2, IN225806-3]
- UNAM's IMPULSA [FIRCA RO3 TW 006121]
- Wellcome Trust
- NIH
- CONACyT [34329, 39939-Q]
- Consejo Tecnico de la Investigacion Cientifica, UNAM
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Sea urchin sperm have a single mitochondrion which, aside from its main ATP generating function, may regulate motility, intracellular Ca2+ concentration ([Ca2+](i)) and possibly the acrosome reaction (AR). We have found that acute application of agents that inhibit mitochondrial function via differing mechanisms (CCCP, a proton gradient uncoupler, antimycin, a respiratory chain inhibitor, oligomycin, a mitochondrial ATPase inhibitor and CGP37157, a Na+/Ca2+ exchange inhibitor) increases [Ca2+](i) with at least two differing profiles. These increases depend on the presence of extracellular Ca2+, which indicates they involve Ca2+ uptake and not only mitochondrial Ca2+ release. The plasma membrane permeation pathways activated by the mitochondrial inhibitors are permeable to Mn2+. Store-operated Ca2+ channel (SOC) blockers (Ni2+, SKF96365 and Gd2+) and internal-store ATPase inhibitors (thapsigargin and bisphenol) antagonize Ca2+ influx induced by the mitochondrion regulates Ca2+ entry through SOCs. As neither CCCP nor dicycloexyl carbodiimide (DCCD) another mitochondrial ATPase inhibitor, eliminate the oligomycin induced increase in [Ca2+](i), apparently oligomycin also has an extra mitochondrial target. (C) 2008 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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