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  • Title: Differentiation of BC3H1 smooth muscle cells changes the bivalent cation selectivity of the capacitative Ca2+ entry pathway.
    Author: Broad LM, Powis DA, Taylor CW.
    Journal: Biochem J; 1996 Jun 15; 316 ( Pt 3)(Pt 3):759-64. PubMed ID: 8670149.
    Abstract:
    Differentiation of BC3H1 cells leads to expression of a variety of proteins characteristic of smooth muscle and to changes in the behaviour of intracellular Ca2+ stores. Treatment of both differentiated and undifferentiated cells with thapsigargin (2 microM) emptied their intracellular Ca2+ stores, and in the presence of extracellular Ca2+ caused an increase in cytosolic [Ca2+] that rapidly reversed after its removal. The amplitudes of these capacitative Ca2+ entry signals were 101 +/- 8 nM (n = 42) in differentiated cells and 188 +/- 16 nM (n = 35) in undifferentiated cells. Mn2+ entry in thapsigargin-treated cells, measured by recording the quenching of cytosolic fura 2 fluorescence, was 374 +/- 26% (n = 34) and 154 +/- 7% (n = 41) of control rates in differentiated and undifferentiated cells, respectively. Empty stores caused Ba2+ entry to increase to 282 +/- 20% (n = 8) of its basal rate in differentiated cells and to 187 +/- 20% (n = 8) in undifferentiated cells. Rates of Ca2+ extrusion, measured after rapid removal of extracellular Ca2+ from cells in which capacitative Ca2+ entry had been activated, were similar in differentiated (t1/2 = 23 +/- 2 s, n = 7) and undifferentiated (23 +/- 1 s, n = 6) cells. The different relationships between capacitative Ca2+ and Mn2+ signals are not, therefore, a consequence of more active Ca2+ extrusion mechanisms in differentiated cells, nor are they a consequence of different fura 2 loadings in the two cell types. We conclude that during differentiation of BC3Hl cells, the cation selectivity of the capacitative pathway changes, becoming relatively more permeable to Mn2+ and Ba2+. The change may result either from expression of a different capacitative pathway or from modification of the permeation properties of a single pathway.
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