A nutrient-regulated cytosolic calcium oscillator in endocrine pancreatic glucagon-secreting cells

We investigated the influence of nutrients on spontaneous cytosolic calcium oscillations in InR1-G9 glucagonoma cells, a model for pancreatic alpha-cells. The oscillations depended on calcium release from stores and on calcium influx, partly through voltage-dependent calcium channels. Oscillations r...

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Published in:Pflügers Archiv 1999-02, Vol.437 (3), p.324-334
Main Authors: Bode, H P, Weber, S, Fehmann, H C, Göke, B
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Alanine
Alanine - pharmacology
Animals
Calcium
Calcium - metabolism
Carbachol - pharmacology
Cells
Cricetinae
Cytosol - metabolism
Energy Metabolism
Glucagon - secretion
Glucagonoma - physiopathology
Glucose - pharmacology
Glutamine - pharmacology
Homeostasis
Islets of Langerhans - metabolism
Membrane Potentials - physiology
Muscarinic Agonists - pharmacology
Pancreatic Neoplasms - physiopathology
Periodicity
Sodium-Potassium-Exchanging ATPase - antagonists & inhibitors
Sodium-Potassium-Exchanging ATPase - metabolism
Tumor Cells, Cultured
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Summary:We investigated the influence of nutrients on spontaneous cytosolic calcium oscillations in InR1-G9 glucagonoma cells, a model for pancreatic alpha-cells. The oscillations depended on calcium release from stores and on calcium influx, partly through voltage-dependent calcium channels. Oscillations required the presence of at least 1 mM glucose, 50 microM alanine, or 50 microM glutamine, but were terminated by higher nutrient concentrations (40 mM glucose, or above 2 mM alanine or glutamine). The effects depended on the metabolism of the nutrients. Glutamine and alanine hyperpolarized the cells. This effect was inhibited (glutamine) or attenuated (alanine) by 1 mM ouabain. Our findings suggest that [Ca2+]i regulation in alpha-cells is dominated by slow oscillations induced by a lack of metabolic energy, resulting in decreased calcium export and storage, as well as increased calcium influx, partly due to depolarization caused by reduced sodium pump activity. These processes, leading to an elevated cytosolic calcium concentration, may mediate oscillations by calcium-induced calcium release from intracellular stores.
ISSN:0031-6768
1432-2013
DOI:10.1007/s004240050786