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Vol. 273, Issue 3, 1519-1528, January 16, 1998

Intercellular Calcium Signaling via Gap Junction in Connexin-43-transfected Cells

Toshihiko Toyofuku, Masanori Yabuki, Kinya Otsu, Tsunehiko Kuzuya, Masatsugu Hori, and Michihiko Tada

From the Department of Medicine and Pathophysiology, Osaka University Medical School, Suita, Osaka 565, Japan

In excitable cells, intracellular Ca2+ is released via the ryanodine receptor from the intracellular Ca2+ storing structure, the sarcoplasmic reticulum. To determine whether this released Ca2+ propagates through gap junctions to neighboring cells and thereby constitutes a long range signaling network, we developed a cell system in which cells expressing both connexin-43 and ryanodine receptor are surrounded by cells expressing only connexin-43. When the ryanodine receptor in cells was activated by caffeine, propagation of Ca2+ from these caffeine-responsive cells to neighboring cells was observed with a Ca2+ imaging system using fura-2/AM. Inhibitors of gap junctional communication rapidly and reversibly abolished this propagation of Ca2+. Together with the electrophysiological analysis of transfected cells, the observed intercellular Ca2+ wave was revealed to be due to the reconstituted gap junction of transfected cells.

We next evaluated the functional roles of cysteine residues in the extracellular loops of connexin-43 in gap junctional communication. Mutations of Cys54, Cys187, Cys192, and Cys198 to Ser showed the failure of Ca2+ propagation to neighboring cells in accordance with the electrical uncoupling between transfected cells, whereas mutations of Cys61 and Cys68 to Ser showed the same pattern as the wild type. [14C]Iodoacetamide labeling of free thiols of cysteine residues in mutant connexin-43s showed that two pairs of intramolecular disulfide bonds are formed between Cys54 and Cys192 and between Cys187 and Cys198. These results suggest that intercellular Ca2+ signaling takes place in cultured cells expressing connexin-43, leading to their own synchronization and that the extracellular disulfide bonds of connexin-43 are crucial for this process.

Copyright © 1998 by The American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Inc.
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