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Acta Physiologica 2007; Volume 190, Supplement 655
XXXIV Congress of The Spanish Society for Physiological Sciences
7/3/2007-7/7/2007
Valladolid, Spain
CALCIUM STORE IN THE NUCLEAR ENVELOPE
Abstract number: S28
Gerasimenko1 JV, Maruyama1 Y, Yano1 K, Tepikin1 AV, Petersen1 OH, Gerasimenko1 OV
1MRC Secretory Control Research Group, The Physiological Laboratory, School of Biomedical Science, University of Liverpool, Crown Street, Liverpool, L69 3BX, UK
Nuclear calcium signalling is crucial for important cellular functions including gene expression, protein transport, apoptosis, etc. The Ca2+ store in the nuclear envelope has endoplasmic reticulum (ER) characteristics and is connected with the lumen of the ER. Permeability of nuclear pore complexes (NPCs) to Ca2+ is still a hot point of many discussions. Our data show that NPCs are open most of the time and even after depletion of the Ca2+ store in the nuclear envelope. We also found that all three intracellular messengers NAADP, IP3 and cADPR were equally able to reduce Ca2+ concentration inside the nuclear envelope. Reduction of Ca2+ in the nuclear envelope was associated with a transient rise in the nucleoplasmic Ca2+ concentration in response to all three messengers. Most likely, IP3 and ryanodine receptors located on both inner and outer membrane of the nuclear envelope. We suggest that nuclear envelope contains both ryanodine and IP3 receptors that can be activated separately and independently: the ryanodine receptors by either NAADP or cADPR and the IP3 receptors by IP3.
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Acta Physiologica 2007; Volume 190, Supplement 655 :S28