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Finite element analysis predicts Ca2+ microdomains within tubular-sarcoplasmic reticular junctions of amphibian skeletal muscle.

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Bardsley, Oliver J 
Matthews, Hugh R 
Huang, Christopher L-H 

Abstract

A finite element analysis modelled diffusional generation of steady-state Ca2+ microdomains within skeletal muscle transverse (T)-tubular-sarcoplasmic reticular (SR) junctions, sites of ryanodine receptor (RyR)-mediated SR Ca2+ release. It used established quantifications of sarcomere and T-SR anatomy (radial diameter [Formula: see text]; axial distance [Formula: see text]). Its boundary SR Ca2+ influx densities,[Formula: see text], reflected step impositions of influxes, [Formula: see text] deduced from previously measured Ca2+ signals following muscle fibre depolarization. Predicted steady-state T-SR junctional edge [Ca2+], [Ca2+]edge, matched reported corresponding experimental cytosolic [Ca2+] elevations given diffusional boundary efflux [Formula: see text] established cytosolic Ca2+ diffusion coefficients [Formula: see text] and exit length [Formula: see text]. Dependences of predicted [Ca2+]edge upon [Formula: see text] then matched those of experimental [Ca2+] upon Ca2+ release through their entire test voltage range. The resulting model consistently predicted elevated steady-state T-SR junctional ~ µM-[Ca2+] elevations radially declining from maxima at the T-SR junction centre along the entire axial T-SR distance. These [Ca2+] heterogeneities persisted through 104- and fivefold, variations in D and w around, and fivefold reductions in d below, control values, and through reported resting muscle cytosolic [Ca2+] values, whilst preserving the flux conservation ([Formula: see text] condition, [Formula: see text]. Skeletal muscle thus potentially forms physiologically significant ~ µM-[Ca2+] T-SR microdomains that could regulate cytosolic and membrane signalling molecules including calmodulin and RyR, These findings directly fulfil recent experimental predictions invoking such Ca2+ microdomains in observed regulatory effects upon Na+ channel function, in a mechanism potentially occurring in similar restricted intracellular spaces in other cell types.

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Amphibians, Animals, Biophysics, Calcium, Calcium Signaling, Cytoplasm, Cytosol, Diffusion, Finite Element Analysis, Mice, Microscopy, Electron, Models, Theoretical, Muscle Fibers, Skeletal, Muscle, Skeletal, Protein Domains, Ryanodine Receptor Calcium Release Channel, Sarcoplasmic Reticulum

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2045-2322
2045-2322

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11

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Springer Science and Business Media LLC

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Sponsorship
Medical Research Council (MR/M001288/1)
British Heart Foundation (None)
Wellcome Trust (105727/Z/14/Z)
British Heart Foundation (PG/19/59/34582)
Medical Research Council (MR/M001288/1), Wellcome Trust (105727/Z/14/Z), and British Heart Foundation (PG/14/79/31102, PG/19/59/34582)