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  • Title: Calcium antagonists High-affinity binding and inhibition of calcium transport in a clonal cell line.
    Author: Toll L.
    Journal: J Biol Chem; 1982 Nov 25; 257(22):13189-92. PubMed ID: 6292179.
    Abstract:
    PC12 cells, a clonal rat pheochromocytoma cell line, possess voltage-dependent calcium channels that bind the high affinity dihydropyridine calcium antagonist [3H]nitrendipine and other calcium channel blockers. The binding is temperature-dependent and saturable, and shows no cooperativity. The calcium antagonists inhibit potassium-induced 45Ca uptake into the cells with approximately the same potencies as those needed to inhibit [3H]nitrendipine binding to cell membranes. The affinity of these compounds for the PC12 cell calcium channel is slightly lower than that reported for binding to brain and heart. Potassium-stimulated 45Ca uptake into PC12 cells is rapid, being half-maximal within 30 s at 20 degrees C. Different classes of calcium antagonists seem to block calcium flux at different sites on the calcium channel. A lower limit of the rate of calcium movement through a single channel is given. PC12 cells seem to be a suitable model system for the study of the pharmacology and biochemistry of the voltage-dependent calcium channel.
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