PMID- 25275102 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20150602 LR - 20220129 IS - 1559-6095 (Electronic) IS - 1559-6095 (Linking) VI - 2014 IP - 10 DP - 2014 Oct 1 TI - Measurement of luminal pH of acidic stores as a readout for NAADP action. PG - pdb.prot076935 LID - 10.1101/pdb.prot076935 [doi] AB - In addition to mobilizing Ca(2)(+), NAADP plays a role in modulating the luminal pH (pHL) of acidic stores of the endolysosomal system. The effects of NAADP on pHL have been most extensively studied in the sea urchin egg, both in the intact egg and in egg homogenates. Related observations have also been made in mammalian systems (e.g., guinea pig atrial myocytes and pancreatic acinar cells). Although the connection between Ca(2)(+) mobilization and increase in pHL is not understood, pHL can be a useful parameter to measure when studying NAADP-mediated signaling. This protocol describes the fluorescent measurement of pHL of acidic stores. It relies on the use of acridine orange (AO), a standard dye for pHL. AO selectively accumulates to high concentrations in the lumen of organelles as a function of acidity; at these high concentrations it self-quenches. When pHL increases, some AO is lost from the vesicle. As a result, the lower luminal AO concentration relieves the quenching and fluorescence increases in the lumen. CI - (c) 2014 Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press. FAU - Galione, Antony AU - Galione A AD - Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3QT, United Kingdom. FAU - Chuang, Kai-Ting AU - Chuang KT AD - Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3QT, United Kingdom. FAU - Funnell, Tim M AU - Funnell TM AD - Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3QT, United Kingdom. FAU - Davis, Lianne C AU - Davis LC AD - Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3QT, United Kingdom. FAU - Morgan, Anthony J AU - Morgan AJ AD - Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3QT, United Kingdom. FAU - Ruas, Margarida AU - Ruas M AD - Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3QT, United Kingdom. FAU - Parrington, John AU - Parrington J AD - Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3QT, United Kingdom. FAU - Churchill, Grant C AU - Churchill GC AD - Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3QT, United Kingdom. LA - eng GR - 102828/Wellcome Trust/United Kingdom GR - BB/G008523/1/BB_/Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council/United Kingdom PT - Journal Article DEP - 20141001 PL - United States TA - Cold Spring Harb Protoc JT - Cold Spring Harbor protocols JID - 101524530 RN - 0 (Acids) RN - 53-59-8 (NADP) RN - 5502-96-5 (NAADP) SB - IM MH - Acids/*metabolism MH - Animals MH - *Hydrogen-Ion Concentration MH - Male MH - NADP/*analogs & derivatives/metabolism MH - Organelles/*metabolism MH - Sea Urchins MH - Signal Transduction MH - Spermatozoa/metabolism/ultrastructure MH - *Weights and Measures EDAT- 2014/10/03 06:00 MHDA- 2015/06/03 06:00 CRDT- 2014/10/03 06:00 PHST- 2014/10/03 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2014/10/03 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2015/06/03 06:00 [medline] AID - 2014/10/pdb.prot076935 [pii] AID - 10.1101/pdb.prot076935 [doi] PST - epublish SO - Cold Spring Harb Protoc. 2014 Oct 1;2014(10):pdb.prot076935. doi: 10.1101/pdb.prot076935.