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(Hypertension. 1997;29:1337-1343.)
© 1997 American Heart Association, Inc.

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Hypothalamic Hypophyseal Inhibitory Factor (HHIF) Increases Intrasynaptosomal Free Calcium Concentration

Mercedes Ricote; Elena Garcia-Martin; Jose Sancho; ; Carlos Gutierrez-Merino

From the Departamento de Bioquímica y Biología Molecular y Genética, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Extremadura, Badajoz (E.G.-M., C.G.-M.), and Servicio de Endocrinología, Hospital "Ramón y Cajal," Madrid (M.R., J.S.), Spain.

Abstract We have isolated from bovine hypothalamic and pituitary tissues a sodium pump inhibitor that is structurally different from ouabain. By mass spectrometric analysis, this purified factor revealed a single unique molecular ion with an accurate mass of 412.277 and a mass spectra different from that of ouabain. It has been previously shown that this factor inhibits the Ca²⁺,Mg²⁺-ATPase of the plasma membrane of synaptosomes. Because Ca²⁺ plays a major role in cellular excitability, we carried out a systematic study of the effects of this inhibitor on the Ca²⁺ transport processes across the plasma membrane of synaptosomes: We measured ATP-dependent calcium uptake, Na⁺-Ca²⁺ exchange, and passive permeability using ⁴⁵Ca²⁺ and Millipore filtration, chlortetracycline fluorescence, and light-scattering, respectively. This factor inhibits the Na⁺,K⁺-ATPase activity of the synaptosomal plasma membrane vesicles in the same range of concentrations that produced an increase of intrasynaptosomal free calcium, with nearly the same K_0.5 value. In addition, in this concentration range, this factor stimulated 10- to 11-fold the passive flux of Ca²⁺ and 2.5- to 3-fold the Ca²⁺ influx via the Na⁺-Ca²⁺ exchange in these membranes with respect to control values. Measurements of fluorescence anisotropy showed that in this concentration range, the inhibitor did not significantly change the order parameter (fluidity) of these membranes. These results suggest that besides its known inhibition of the sodium pump, this factor could play a role in the control of Ca²⁺ homeostasis by direct modulation of transport systems implicated in the control of intracellular calcium.

Key Words: Na⁺,K⁺-exchanging ATPase • ion exchange • Ca²⁺-transporting ATPase • synaptosomes