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Persistence at Low Calcium Concentrations
Address correspondence to John P. Reeves, Department of Pharmacology and Physiology, UMDNJ – NJ Medical School, P.O. Box 1709, Newark, NJ 07101-1709. Fax: (973) 972-7950; email: reeves{at}umdnj.edu
The activity of the cardiac Na+/Ca2+ exchanger is stimulated allosterically by Ca2+, but estimates of the half-maximal activating concentration have varied over a wide range. In Chinese hamster ovary cells expressing the cardiac Na+/Ca2+ exchanger, the time course of exchange-mediated Ca2+ influx showed a pronounced lag period followed by an acceleration of Ca2+ uptake. Lag periods were absent in cells expressing an exchanger mutant that was not dependent on regulatory Ca2+ activation. We assumed that the rate of Ca2+ uptake during the acceleration phase reflected the degree of allosteric activation of the exchanger and determined the value of cytosolic Ca2+ ([Ca2+]i) at which the rate of Ca2+ influx was half-maximal (Kh). After correcting for the effects of mitochondrial Ca2+ uptake and fura-2 buffering, Kh values of 
300 nM were obtained. After an increase in [Ca2+]i, the activated state of the exchanger persisted following a subsequent reduction in [Ca2+]i to values <100 nM. Thus, within 30 s after termination of a transient increase in [Ca2+]i, exchange-mediated Ca2+ entry began without a lag period and displayed a linear rate of Ca2+ uptake in most cells; a sigmoidal time course of Ca2+ uptake returned 60–90 s after the transient increase in [Ca2+]i was terminated. Relaxation of the activated state was accelerated by the activity of the endoplasmic reticulum Ca2+ pump, suggesting that local Ca2+ gradients contribute to maintaining exchanger activation after the return of global [Ca2+]i to low values.
Key Words: Chinese hamster ovary cells • fura-2 • digital imaging • mitochondria • SERCA
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