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Title: β₃-Adrenergic activation of sequential Ca(2+) release from mitochondria and the endoplasmic reticulum and the subsequent Ca(2+) entry in rodent brown adipocytes. Author: Hayato R, Higure Y, Kuba M, Nagai H, Yamashita H, Kuba K. Journal: Cell Calcium; 2011 Jun; 49(6):400-14. PubMed ID: 21514957. Abstract: We studied how mitochondrial uncoupling by β(3)-adrenergic stimulation elicits Ca(2+) signals in rodent brown adipocytes by fluorometry of Ca(2+) concentrations ([Ca(2+)](i), [Ca(2+)](m) and [Ca(2+)](ER)) in the cytoplasm, mitochondria and the endoplasmic reticulum (ER), respectively, and mitochondrial membrane potential, using fura-2, rhod-5N, cameleon and rhodamine 123. Immunoblotting demonstrated α(1A)- and β(3)-adrenergic receptor and UCP1 in adipocytes, while RT-PCR revealed the mRNA of type 3, 7 and 9 adenylate cyclase, UCP1, UCP2, UCP3 and type 1 and 2 inositoltrisphosphate receptors. Isoproterenol and BRL37344, β-agonist, caused triphasic rises in [Ca(2+)](i) (β-responses) with mitochondrial depolarization in adipocytes. BRL37344 transiently decreased [Ca(2+)](m). β-Responses were blocked by propranolol, β-antagonist, H-89, protein kinase A blocker, and knockout of UCP1 gene. The late phase of β-responses was depressed by a Ca(2+) free, EGTA solution, U73122, a phospholipase C blocker, and thapsigargin, ER-Ca(2+) pump blocker, and by transfecting siRNA for type 2 IP(3)R. Intracellular loading of BAPTA/AM depressed the late phase more strongly than the initial phase. β-Agonists, phenylephrine, α-agonist, and cyclopiazonic acid, ER-Ca(2+) pump blocker, decreased [Ca(2+)](ER). Thus, the mitochondrial uncoupling by β(3)-adrenergic activation causes Ca(2+) release from mitochondria and subsequently from the ER and further evokes plasmalemmal Ca(2+) entries, including the store-operated Ca(2+) entry.[Abstract] [Full Text] [Related] [New Search]