Mitochondrial localization as a determinant of capacitative Ca2+ entry in HeLa cells - PubMed (original) (raw)

Comparative Study

. 2004 Dec;36(6):499-508.

doi: 10.1016/j.ceca.2004.05.003.

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Comparative Study

Mitochondrial localization as a determinant of capacitative Ca2+ entry in HeLa cells

Aniko Varadi et al. Cell Calcium. 2004 Dec.

Abstract

Whether different subsets of mitochondria play distinct roles in shaping intracellular Ca2+ signals is presently unresolved. Here, we determine the role of mitochondria located beneath the plasma membrane in controlling (a) Ca2+ release from the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) and (b) capacitative Ca2+ entry. By over-expression of the dynactin subunit dynamitin, and consequent inhibition of the fission factor, dynamin-related protein (Drp-1), mitochondria were relocalised from the plasma membrane towards the nuclear periphery in HeLa cells. The impact of these changes on free calcium concentration in the cytosol ([Ca2+]c), mitochondria ([Ca2+]m) and ER ([Ca2+]ER) was then monitored with specifically-targeted aequorins. Whilst dynamitin over-expression increased the number of close contacts between the ER and mitochondria by >2.5-fold, assessed using organelle-targeted GFP variants, histamine-induced changes in organellar [Ca2+] were unaffected. By contrast, Ca2+ influx elicited significantly smaller increases in [Ca2+]c and [Ca2+]m in dynamitin-expressing than in control cells. These data suggest that the strategic localisation of a subset of mitochondria beneath the plasma membrane is required for normal Ca2+ influx, but that the transfer of Ca2+ ions between the ER and mitochondria is relatively insensitive to gross changes in the spatial relationship between these two organelles.

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