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Journal of Cell Science, Vol 105, Issue 3 675-684, Copyright © 1993 by Company of Biologists

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F-actin content and spatial distribution in resting and chemoattractant-stimulated human polymorphonuclear leucocytes. Which role for intracellular free calcium?

Y Zaffran, H Lepidi, P Bongrand, JL Mege and C Capo
Laboratoire d'Immunologie, Hopital de Sainte-Marguerite, Marseille, France.

Intracellular free calcium concentration ([Ca2+]i) plays a pivotal role for many responses in polymorphonuclear leucocytes (PMNs) stimulated by chemoattractants such as N-formylmethionyl-leucyl-phenylalanine (fMet-Leu-Phe). The importance of [Ca2+]i in the morphological polarization was investigated by using calcium-manipulated PMNs. We loaded human PMNs with BAPTA/AM to buffer or chelate [Ca2+]i in the presence or the absence of extracellular calcium by using fluo-3/AM as calcium indicator. The shape changes of PMNs were determined by microscopic examination, and membrane ruffling by right-angle light-scatter changes. Actin polymerization and F-actin distribution were recorded by staining PMNs with bodipy-phallacidin and quantified by quantitative fluorescence microscopy. We found that calcium-free incubation of PMNs loaded or not with 50 microM BAPTA/AM did not modify morphological polarization, membrane ruffling, actin assembly and F-actin distribution of PMNs stimulated with fMet-Leu-Phe, suggesting that these responses were probably functionally linked. It should be noted that incubation of PMNs in calcium-free conditions resulted in a radial distribution of F-actin and a moderate polymerization of actin, but not in morphological polarization of PMNs. Moreover, both calcium-sensitive and calcium-insensitive mechanisms of actin polymerization were additive, and inhibitable by 5 micrograms/ml cytochalasin B.
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