Activation of vanilloid receptor 1 by resiniferatoxin mobilizes calcium from inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate-sensitive stores
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- 1 January 2003
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in British Journal of Pharmacology
- Vol. 138 (1), 172-176
- https://doi.org/10.1038/sj.bjp.0705003
Abstract
1 Capsaicin and resiniferatoxin (RTX) stimulate Ca2+ influx by activating vanilloid receptor 1 (VR1), a ligand-gated Ca2+ channel on sensory neurones. We investigated whether VR1 activation could also trigger Ca2+ mobilization from intracellular Ca2+ stores. 2 Human VR1-transfected HEK293 cells (hVR1-HEK293) were loaded with Fluo-3 or a mixture of Fluo-4 and Fura Red and imaged on a fluorometric imaging plate reader (FLIPR) and confocal microscope respectively. 3 In Ca2+ -free media, RTX caused a transient elevation in intracellular free Ca2+ concentration in hVR1-HEK293 cells (pEC(50) 6.45+/-0.05) but not in wild type cells. Capsaicin (100 microM) did not cause Ca2+ mobilization under these conditions. 4 RTX-mediated Ca2+ mobilization was inhibited by the VR1 receptor antagonist capsazepine (pIC(50) 5.84+/-0.04), the Ca2+ pump inhibitor thapsigargin (pIC(50) 7.77+/-0.04), the phospholipase C inhibitor U-73122 (pIC(50) 5.35+/-0.05) and by depletion of inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate-sensitive Ca2+ stores by pretreatment with the acetylcholine-receptor agonist carbachol (20 microM, 2 min). These data suggest that RTX causes Ca2+ mobilization from inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate-sensitive Ca2+ stores in hVR1-HEK293 cells. 5 In the presence of extracellular Ca2+, both capsaicin-mediated and RTX-mediated Ca2+ rises were attenuated by U-73122 (10 microM, 30 min) and thapsigargin (1 microM, 30 min). We conclude that VR1 is able to couple to Ca2+ mobilization by a Ca2+ dependent mechanism, mediated by capsaicin and RTX, and a Ca2+ independent mechanism mediated by RTX alone.Keywords
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