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Calcium-Dependent Facilitation and Graded Deactivation of Store-Operated Calcium Entry in Fetal Skeletal Muscle

Department of Physiology and Biophysics, The University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Piscataway, New Jersey

Correspondence: Address reprint requests to Dr. Jianjie Ma, Tel.: 732-235-4494; Fax: 732-235-4483; E-mail: maj2{at}umdnj.edu.

Activation of store-operated Ca²⁺ entry (SOCE) into the cytoplasm requires retrograde signaling from the intracellular Ca²⁺ release machinery, a process that involves an intimate interaction between protein components on the intracellular and cell surface membranes. The cellular machinery that governs the Ca²⁺ movement in muscle cells is developmentally regulated, reflecting maturation of the junctional membrane structure as well as coordinated expression of related Ca²⁺ signaling molecules. Here we demonstrate the existence of SOCE in freshly isolated skeletal muscle cells obtained from embryonic days 15 and 16 of the mouse embryo, a critical stage of muscle development. SOCE in the fetal muscle deactivates incrementally with the uptake of Ca²⁺ into the sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR). A novel Ca²⁺-dependent facilitation of SOCE is observed in cells transiently exposed to high cytosolic Ca²⁺. Our data suggest that cytosolic Ca²⁺ can facilitate SOCE whereas SR luminal Ca²⁺ can deactivate SOCE in the fetal skeletal muscle. This cooperative mechanism of SOCE regulation by Ca²⁺ ions not only enables tight control of SOCE by the SR membrane, but also provides an efficient mechanism of extracellular Ca²⁺ entry in response to physiological demand. Such Ca²⁺ signaling mechanism would likely contribute to contraction and development of the fetal skeletal muscle.

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