Using Total Fluorescence Increase (Signal Mass) to Determine the Ca2+ Current Underlying Localized Ca2+ Events

Journal of General Physiology - Tập 124 Số 3 - Trang 259-272 - 2004
Hui Zou1, Lawrence M. Lifshitz1,2, Richard A. Tuft1,2, Kevin E. Fogarty1,2, Joshua J. Singer1
11Department of Physiology, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA 01655
22Biomedical Imaging Group, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA 01655

Tóm tắt

The feasibility of determining localized Ca2+ influx using only wide-field fluorescence images was explored by imaging (using fluo-3) single channel Ca2+ fluorescence transients (SCCaFTs), due to Ca2+ entry through single openings of Ca2+-permeable ion channels, while recording unitary channel currents. Since the image obtained with wide-field optics is an integration of both in-focus and out-of-focus light, the total fluorescence increase (ΔFtotal or “signal mass”) associated with a SCCaFT can be measured directly from the image by adding together the fluorescence increase due to Ca2+ influx in all of the pixels. The assumptions necessary for obtaining the signal mass from confocal linescan images are not required. Two- and three-dimensional imaging was used to show that ΔFtotal is essentially independent of the position of the channel with respect to the focal plane of the microscope. The relationship between Ca2+ influx and ΔFtotal was obtained using SCCaFTs from plasma membrane caffeine-activated cation channels when Ca2+ was the only charge carrier of the inward current. This relationship was found to be linear, with the value of the slope (or converting factor) affected by the particular imaging system set-up, the experimental conditions, and the properties of the fluorescent indicator, including its binding capacity with respect to other cellular buffers. The converting factor was used to estimate the Ca2+ current passing through caffeine-activated channels in near physiological saline and to estimate the endogenous buffer binding capacity. In addition, it allowed a more accurate estimate of the Ca2+ current underlying Ca2+ sparks resulting from Ca2+ release from intracellular stores via ryanodine receptors in the same preparation.

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Journal of General Physiology

Tập 124 Số 3

259-272

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