PMID- 11113149 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20010621 LR - 20220225 IS - 0021-9258 (Print) IS - 0021-9258 (Linking) VI - 276 IP - 11 DP - 2001 Mar 16 TI - Properties of a native cation channel activated by Ca2+ store depletion in vascular smooth muscle cells. PG - 7782-90 AB - Depletion of intracellular Ca(2+) stores activates capacitative Ca(2+) influx in smooth muscle cells, but the native store-operated channels that mediate such influx remain unidentified. Recently we demonstrated that calcium influx factor produced by yeast and human platelets with depleted Ca(2+) stores activates small conductance cation channels in excised membrane patches from vascular smooth muscle cells (SMC). Here we characterize these channels in intact cells and present evidence that they belong to the class of store-operated channels, which are activated upon passive depletion of Ca(2+) stores. Application of thapsigargin (TG), an inhibitor of sarco-endoplasmic reticulum Ca(2+) ATPase, to individual SMC activated single 3-pS cation channels in cell-attached membrane patches. Channels remained active when inside-out membrane patches were excised from the cells. Excision of membrane patches from resting SMC did not by itself activate the channels. Loading SMC with BAPTA (1,2-bis(2-aminophenoxy)ethane-N,N,N',N'-tetraacetic acid), which slowly depletes Ca(2+) stores without a rise in intracellular Ca(2+), activated the same 3-pS channels in cell-attached membrane patches as well as whole cell nonselective cation currents in SMC. TG- and BAPTA-activated 3-pS channels were cation-selective but poorly discriminated among Ca(2+), Sr(2+), Ba(2+), Na(+), K(+), and Cs(+). Open channel probability did not change at negative membrane potentials but increased significantly at high positive potentials. Activation of 3-pS channels did not depend on intracellular Ca(2+) concentration. Neither TG nor a variety of second messengers (including Ca(2+), InsP3, InsP4, GTPgammaS, cyclic AMP, cyclic GMP, ATP, and ADP) activated 3-pS channels in inside-out membrane patches. Thus, 3-pS nonselective cation channels are present and activated by TG or BAPTA-induced depletion of intracellular Ca(2+) stores in intact SMC. These native store-operated cation channels can account for capacitative Ca(2+) influx in SMC and can play an important role in regulation of vascular tone. FAU - Trepakova, E S AU - Trepakova ES AD - Vascular Biology Unit, Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts 02118, USA. FAU - Gericke, M AU - Gericke M FAU - Hirakawa, Y AU - Hirakawa Y FAU - Weisbrod, R M AU - Weisbrod RM FAU - Cohen, R A AU - Cohen RA FAU - Bolotina, V M AU - Bolotina VM LA - eng GR - HL07224/HL/NHLBI NIH HHS/United States GR - HL54150/HL/NHLBI NIH HHS/United States GR - HL55993/HL/NHLBI NIH HHS/United States PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S. DEP - 20001211 PL - United States TA - J Biol Chem JT - The Journal of biological chemistry JID - 2985121R RN - 0 (Ion Channels) RN - 526U7A2651 (Egtazic Acid) RN - 67526-95-8 (Thapsigargin) RN - K22DDW77C0 (1,2-bis(2-aminophenoxy)ethane-N,N,N',N'-tetraacetic acid) RN - SY7Q814VUP (Calcium) SB - IM MH - Animals MH - Aorta/drug effects/metabolism MH - Calcium/*metabolism MH - Cells, Cultured MH - Dogs MH - Egtazic Acid/analogs & derivatives/pharmacology MH - Ion Channels/*physiology MH - Mice MH - Mice, Inbred C57BL MH - Muscle, Smooth, Vascular/cytology/*metabolism MH - Rabbits MH - Thapsigargin/pharmacology MH - Vasoconstriction/drug effects EDAT- 2000/12/13 00:00 MHDA- 2001/06/22 10:01 CRDT- 2000/12/13 00:00 PHST- 2000/12/13 00:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2001/06/22 10:01 [medline] PHST- 2000/12/13 00:00 [entrez] AID - S0021-9258(19)32116-7 [pii] AID - 10.1074/jbc.M010104200 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - J Biol Chem. 2001 Mar 16;276(11):7782-90. doi: 10.1074/jbc.M010104200. Epub 2000 Dec 11.