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Comparison of Ca2+ sparks produced independently by two ryanodine receptor isoforms (type 1 or type 3)

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BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL
Volume 78, Issue 4, Pages 1777-1785

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CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3495(00)76728-2

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  1. NHLBI NIH HHS [HL47053] Funding Source: Medline
  2. NIAMS NIH HHS [AR 46448] Funding Source: Medline

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The molecular determinants of a Ca2+ spark, those events that determine the sudden opening and closing of a small number of ryanodine receptor (RyR) channels limiting Ca2+ release to a few milliseconds, are unknown. As a first step we investigated which of two RyR isoforms present in mammalian embryonic skeletal muscle, RyR type I(RyR-1) or RyR type 3 (RyR-3) has the ability to generate Ca2+ sparks. Their separate contributions were investigated in intercostal muscle cells of RyR-1 null and RyR-3 null mouse embryos. A comparison of Ca2+ spark parameters of RyR-1 null versus RyR-3 null cells measured at rest with fluo-3 showed that neither the peak fluorescence intensity (Delta F/F-o = 1.25 +/- 0.7 vs. 1.55 +/- 0.6), spatial width at half-max intensity (FWHM = 2.7 +/- 1.2 vs. 2.6 +/- 0.6 mu m), nor the duration at half-max intensity (FTHM = 45 +/- 49 vs. 43 +/- 25 ms) was significantly different. Sensitivity to caffeine (0.1 mM) was remarkably different, with sparks in RyR-1 null myotubes becoming brighter and longer in duration, whereas those in RyR-3 null cells remained unchanged. Controls performed in double RyR-1/RyR-3 null cells obtained by mice breeding showed that sparks were not observed in the absence of both isoforms in >150 cells imaged. In conclusion, 1) RyR-1 and RyR-3 appear to be the only intracellular Ca2+ channels that participate in Ca2+ spark activity in embryonic skeletal muscle; 2) except in their responsiveness to caffeine, both isoforms have the ability to produce Ca2+ sparks with nearly identical properties, so it is rather unlikely that a single RyR isoform, when others are also present, would be responsible for Ca2+ sparks; and 3) because RyR-1 null cells are excitation-contraction (EC) uncoupled and RyR-3 null cells exhibit a normal phenotype, Ca2+ sparks result from the inherent activity of small clusters of RyRs regardless of the participation of these RyRs in EC coupling.

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