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MOLECULAR CELL
Volume 9, Issue 1, Pages 163-173Publisher
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/S1097-2765(01)00438-5
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Redox status changes exert critical impacts on necrotic/apoptotic and normal cellular processes. We report here a widely expressed Call-permeable cation channel, LTRPC2, activated by micromolar levels of H2O2 and agents that produce reactive oxygen/nitrogen species. This sensitivity of LTRPC2 to redox state modifiers was attributable to an agonistic binding of nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (beta-NAD(+)) to the MutT motif. Arachidonic acid and Call were important positive regulators for LTRPC2. Heterologous LTRPC2 expression conferred susceptibility to death on HEK cells. Antisense oligonucleotide experiments revealed physiological involvement of native LTRPC2 in H2O2- and TNFalpha-induced Ca2+ influx and cell death. Thus, LTRPC2 represents an important intrinsic mechanism that mediates Ca2+ and Na+ overload in response to disturbance of redox state in cell death.
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