Abstract
In order to evaluate the contribution of pinocytosis to basal (no agonist) and lanthanide-insensitive store-activated Ca2+ inflow in freshly-isolated rat hepatocytes, the uptake of extracellular fluid by pinocytosis was measured at 20°C and used to predict the amount of extracellular Ca2+ taken up by pinocytosis. This was compared with the measured rate of Ca2+ uptake in the basal state, and with the measured lanthanide-insensitive component of divalent cation uptake stimulated by 2,5-di-tert-butylhydroquinone (DBHQ), an inhibitor of the smooth endoplasmic reticulum (Ca2+ + Mg2+)ATP-ase. Fluid uptake by pinocytosis was measured using [14C]sucrose. In hepatocytes incubated at 20°C, DBHQ increased the initial rate of sucrose uptake by about 35%. The data for sucrose uptake were used to calculate the volume of extracellular fluid taken up by pinocytosis which, in turn, was used to predict the amount of extracellular Ca 2+ taken up through pinocytosis in the basal and DBHQ-stimulated states. Rates of divalent cation inflow in the basal state were determined at 20°C by measuring the uptake of 45Ca2+. The degree of stimulation of Ca2+ inflow by DBHQ and the lanthanide-insensitive component of DBHQ-stimulated divalent cation inflow were determined by measuring the rate of Mn2+-induced quenching of intracellular quin-2 in the absence of an agonist, and in the presence of DBHQ or DBHQ plus Gd3+. It was calculated that the process of pinocytosis accounts for at least 15% of Ca2+ uptake in the basal (no agonist) state, and for about 10% of DBHQ-stimulated lanthanide-insensitive Ca2+ uptake. It is concluded that in isolated hepatocytes (i) the release of Ca2+ from intracellular stores stimulates pinocytosis and (ii) the process of pinocytosis can account for a substantial proportion of basal Ca2+ inflow and a small proportion of DBHQ-stimulated lanthanide-insensitive Ca2+ inflow.
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Abbreviations
- RACC:
-
receptor-activated Ca2+ channel
- DBHQ:
-
2,5-di-tert-butylhydroquinone
- [Ca2+]:
-
intracellular free Ca2+ concentration
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Fernando, K.C., Barritt, G.J. Pinocytosis in 2,5-di-tert-butylhydroquinone-stimulated hepatocytes and evaluation of its role in Ca2+ inflow. Mol Cell Biochem 162, 23–29 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00250992
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