PMID- 10376809 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 19990812 LR - 20190921 IS - 0898-6568 (Print) IS - 0898-6568 (Linking) VI - 11 IP - 5 DP - 1999 May TI - Intracellular free calcium regulates the onset of the respiratory burst of human neutrophils activated by phorbol myristate acetate. PG - 355-60 AB - Thapsigargin was used to study the regulation of different static calcium level ([Ca2+]i) on the respiratory hurst of human neutrophils stimulated with phorbol myristate acetate (PMA). The result showed that the onset time of the respiratory hurst was obviously reduced by elevation of static [Ca2+]i but is still much longer than that stimulated with N-formylmethionylleucylphenylalanine (fMLP). To find the reason, the onset times of the respiratory burst stimulated with fMLP, 1,2-dioctanoyl-sn-glycerol (DiC8), and PMA were determined at different static [Ca2+]i. It turns out that although DiC8 was unable to induce the respiratory burst at low [Ca2+], the onset time of DiC8-stimulated response at high [Ca2+]i was almost the same as that stimulated with fMLP. The study revealed that the fast onset of the fMLP-stimulated respiratory burst in comparison with PMA-stimulated response is not only due to the transient rise of [Ca2+]i, but is also due to the higher efficiency of diacylglycerol (DAG) in activating protein kinase c (PKC). The determining step in governing the onset of a respiratory burst is the activation of PKC. FAU - Hu, T H AU - Hu TH AD - Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, PR China. FAU - Bei, L AU - Bei L FAU - Qian, Z M AU - Qian ZM FAU - Shen, X AU - Shen X LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't PL - England TA - Cell Signal JT - Cellular signalling JID - 8904683 RN - 0 (Diglycerides) RN - 0 (Enzyme Inhibitors) RN - 0 (Mitogens) RN - 59880-97-6 (N-Formylmethionine Leucyl-Phenylalanine) RN - 67526-95-8 (Thapsigargin) RN - NI40JAQ945 (Tetradecanoylphorbol Acetate) RN - SY7Q814VUP (Calcium) SB - IM MH - Calcium/*metabolism MH - Cells, Cultured MH - Diglycerides/pharmacology MH - Dose-Response Relationship, Drug MH - Enzyme Inhibitors/pharmacology MH - Humans MH - Intracellular Fluid/metabolism MH - Mitogens/*metabolism/pharmacology MH - N-Formylmethionine Leucyl-Phenylalanine/pharmacology MH - Neutrophil Activation MH - Neutrophils/drug effects/*metabolism MH - *Respiratory Burst/drug effects MH - Tetradecanoylphorbol Acetate/*metabolism/pharmacology MH - Thapsigargin/pharmacology EDAT- 1999/06/22 00:00 MHDA- 1999/06/22 00:01 CRDT- 1999/06/22 00:00 PHST- 1999/06/22 00:00 [pubmed] PHST- 1999/06/22 00:01 [medline] PHST- 1999/06/22 00:00 [entrez] AID - S0898-6568(99)00007-8 [pii] AID - 10.1016/s0898-6568(99)00007-8 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Cell Signal. 1999 May;11(5):355-60. doi: 10.1016/s0898-6568(99)00007-8.