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J. Biol. Chem., Vol. 268, Issue 36, 27076-27083, Dec, 1993

Quantal Ca2+ release from caffeine-sensitive stores in adrenal chromaffin cells

TR Cheek, RB Moreton, MJ Berridge, KA Stauderman, MM Murawsky and MD Bootman
Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom.

In populations of fura-2-loaded chromaffin cells, caffeine caused a concentration-dependent increase in the intracellular Ca2+ concentration ([Ca2+]i), in the presence or absence of external Ca2+ ([Ca2+]o), that was saturable, reversible, and inhibited in a use- dependent fashion by ryanodine. These data confirm that caffeine mobilizes Ca2+ from the ryanodine-sensitive intracellular stores in chromaffin cells. In nominally Ca(2+)-free medium, sustained stimulation of cell populations or single cells with low caffeine concentrations failed to completely empty the caffeine-sensitive stores. In each case, there was a transient [Ca2+]i elevation, but a subsequent challenge with a higher caffeine concentration evoked a further [Ca2+]i rise, indicating that Ca2+ stores within individual cells were heterogeneous in their sensitivities to caffeine and that caffeine-induced Ca2+ release was quantal. The heterogeneous sensitivity was also demonstrated using ryanodine; pretreatment of cell populations with increasing caffeine concentrations with a constant ryanodine concentration, caused a dose-dependent irreversible inhibition of the response to the subsequent addition of a maximal caffeine concentration. We conclude that, within single chromaffin cells, intracellular Ca2+ stores are heterogeneous in their sensitivity to caffeine and the fraction of Ca2+ stores mobilized by caffeine increases in direct proportion to the caffeine concentration.
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