Regulation by insulin of a unique neuronal Ca2+ pool and of neuropeptide secretion

Elizabeth A. Jonas, Ronald J. Knox, T. Caitlin M. Smith, Nancy L. Wayne, John A. Connor and Leonard K. Kaczmarek
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Elizabeth A. Jonas: Yale University School of Medicine
Ronald J. Knox: Yale University School of Medicine
T. Caitlin M. Smith: Yale University School of Medicine
Nancy L. Wayne: University of California School of Medicine
John A. Connor: Lovelace Institute
Leonard K. Kaczmarek: Yale University School of Medicine

Nature, 1997, vol. 385, issue 6614, 343-346

Abstract: Abstract The insulin receptor is a tyrosine kinase receptor that is found in mammalian brain1 and at high concentrations in the bag cell neurons of Aplysia2. We show here that insulin causes an acute rise in intracellular Ca2+ concentration ([Ca2+]i) in these neurons and triggers release of neuropeptide. The insulin-sensitive intracellular Ca2+ pool differs pharmacologically from previously described Ca2+ stores that are sensitive to inositol trisphosphate and from mitochondrial Ca2+ stores3–7. Insulin, but not thapsigargin, stimulates Ca2+ release at the distal tips of neurites, the presumed site of neuropeptide secretion8,9. The effects of insulin on intracellular Ca2+ release and neuropeptide secretion occur without triggering spontaneous action potentials. The insulin-sensitive rise in [Ca2+]i moves into the distal tips of neurites after exposure to a cyclic AMP analogue, a treatment that causes a similar translocation of neuronal vesicles10–12. Our data indicate that Ca2+ release from a distinct intracellular pool associated with secretory vesicles may contribute to secretion of neuropeptide in the absence of neuronal discharge.

Date: 1997
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