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J. Biol. Chem., Vol. 261, Issue 16, 7223-7229, Jun, 1986

Inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate and intracellular Ca2+ homeostasis in clonal pituitary cells (GH3). Translocation of Ca2+ into mitochondria from a functionally discrete portion of the nonmitochondrial store

TJ Biden, CB Wollheim and W Schlegel

Ca2+-specific minielectrodes were used to monitor changes in the ambient free Ca2+ concentration [( Ca2+]a) maintained by the intracellular organelles of permeabilized GH3 cells. Mitochondria maintained a [Ca2+]a steady state of around 500 nM and displayed a very high capacity for Ca2+ uptake. A nonmitochondrial pool, tentatively identified as the endoplasmic reticulum (ER), displayed higher affinity for Ca2+ by maintaining a steady state of approximately 170 nM. The capacity of this pool was around 10 nmol/mg cell protein. Inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate (InsP3) released Ca2+ specifically from the ER, with an EC50 of approximately 2 microM, and gave maximal release of around 4 nmol Ca2+/mg of cell protein. Repeated InsR3 additions under conditions allowing for functional mitochondrial transport resulted in successively attenuated peaks, leading eventually to the depletion of the InsP3 sensitive portion of the ER. However, Ca2+ could still be released from the total ER pool with the ATPase inhibitor, vanadate. This InsP3-insensitive store did not reaccumulate InsP3 releasable Ca2+ nor could it directly refill the sensitive pool. However, the attenuation of the InsP3 responses could be overcome by repleting the sensitive pool with exogenous Ca2+ or by inhibiting Ca2+ uptake into the mitochondria. The results suggest: 1) the ER is the major intracellular organelle buffering Ca2+ in nonstimulated GH3 cells; 2) InsP3 releases Ca2+ from only a portion of the ER; 3) the InsP3- sensitive and -insensitive ER pools are functionally distinct; 4) InsP3 addition results in a transfer of Ca2+ from the ER to the mitochondria.
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