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Journal of Cell Science, Vol 107, Issue 8 2107-2115, Copyright © 1994 by Company of Biologists
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C Schlatterer, F Gollnick, E Schmidt, R Meyer and G Knoll
Fakultat fur Biologie, Universitat Konstanz, Germany.
Dictyostelium discoideum cells use cyclic AMP (cAMP) for chemotactic signaling as well as for differentiation. The precise regulation of the cytosolic Ca2+ concentration ([Ca2+]i) seems to play a key role for both processes. We performed single cell measurements of [Ca2+]i in amoebae that were starved in suspension for various times and scrape-loaded with the Ca2+ indicator fura-2. Stimulation of cells with cAMP at the concentration required to induce gene expression (> or = 100 microM) elicited a global transient increase in [Ca2+]i that depended on the presence of external Ca2+. Both vegetative and aggregation-competent cells displayed a rise in [Ca2+]i, with aggregation-competent cells responding more often than vegetative cells. Basal [Ca2+]i in the presence of Ca2+ was high in vegetative cells and declined during development; the cAMP-induced rise in [Ca2+]i was higher and lasted longer in vegetative cells than in aggregative cells. The addition of 2'-deoxy-cAMP, which binds to the cAMP receptor, induced an increase in [Ca2+]i, whereas the membrane-permeant analogue 8-bromo-cAMP that has a low affinity for the receptor but activates cAMP-dependent protein kinase had no effect. This indicates that the change in [Ca2+]i is mediated by the cell surface cAMP receptor. Since HC85 mutant cells, which lack the G alpha 2 subunit of the G-protein that couples the receptor to phospholipase C, also responded to stimulation with cAMP, the Ca2+ influx does not seem to be triggered by the phosphoinositide signaling cascade.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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