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ArticleThe Journal of general physiology2008

Calcium-dependent inactivation terminates calcium release in skeletal muscle of amphibians.

Eduardo Ríos, Jingsong Zhou, Gustavo Brum, Bradley S Launikonis, Michael D Stern

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Article in The Journal of general physiology, 2008. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.

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12citing papers in PubMed
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12 citing papers in PubMed, 15 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 4 institutions in 3 countries.

Eduardo RíosSection of Cellular Signaling, Department of Molecular Biophysics and Physiology, Rush University, Chicago, IL 60612, USA.
Jingsong Zhou
Gustavo Brum
Bradley S Launikonis
Michael D Stern
Rush University · USNational Institute on Aging · USThe University of Queensland · AUUniversidad de la República de Uruguay · UY

Funding

Stochastic Simulation Of Excitation-contraction CouplingZIAAG000844 · NIA · NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING · PI STERN, MICHAEL · 2009 to 2025
$8.7M
Skeletal Muscle. Ca Release Control Inside the Sarcoplasmic Reticulum.R01AR049184 · NIAMS · RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER · PI RIOS, EDUARDO · 2003 to 2013
$3.1M
CALCIUM MOVEMENTS IN EXCITATION-CONTRACTION COUPLINGR01AR032808 · NIAMS · RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER · PI RIOS, EDUARDO · 1986 to 2011
$1.6M
NIAMS NIH HHS R01 AR032808NIAMS NIH HHS R01 AR049184
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In skeletal muscle of amphibians, the cell-wide cytosolic release of calcium that enables contraction in response to an action potential appears to be built of Ca2+ sparks. The mechanism that rapidly terminates this release was investigated by studying the termination of Ca2+ release underlying sparks. In groups of thousands of sparks occurring spontaneously in membrane-permeabilized frog muscle cells a complex relationship was found between amplitude a and rise time T, which in sparks corresponds to the active time of the underlying Ca2+ release. This relationship included a range of T where a paradoxically decreased with increasing T. Three different methods were used to estimate Ca2+ release flux in groups of sparks of different T. Using every method, it was found that T and flux were inversely correlated, roughly inversely proportional. A simple model in which release sources were inactivated by cytosolic Ca2+ was able to explain the relationship. The predictive value of the model, evaluated by analyzing the variance of spark amplitude, was found to be high when allowance was made for the out-of-focus error contribution to the total variance. This contribution was estimated using a theory of confocal scanning (Ríos, E., N. Shirokova, W.G. Kirsch, G. Pizarro, M.D. Stern, H. Cheng, and A. González. Biophys. J. 2001. 80:169-183), which was confirmed in the present work by simulated line scanning of simulated sparks. Considering these results and other available evidence it is concluded that Ca2+-dependent inactivation, or CDI, provides the crucial mechanism for termination of sparks and cell-wide Ca2+ release in amphibians. Given the similarities in kinetics of release termination observed in cell-averaged records of amphibian and mammalian muscle, and in spite of differences in activation mechanisms, CDI is likely to play a central role in mammals as well. Trivially, an inverse proportionality between release flux and duration, in sparks or in global release of skeletal muscle, maintains constancy of the amount of released Ca2+.

Indexed as

Calcium SignalingAnimalsCalciumComputer SimulationCytosolDiffusionDown-RegulationFeedback, PhysiologicalIon Channel GatingKineticsMicroscopy, ConfocalModels, BiologicalMuscle Fibers, SkeletalMuscle, SkeletalPredictive Value of TestsRana pipiensCalciumRyanodine Receptor Calcium Release Channel

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PMID18347079
PMCPMC2279174
OpenAlexW2154974121

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