Activity-dependent regulation of T-type calcium channels by submembrane calcium ions

  1. Magali Cazade
  2. Isabelle Bidaud
  3. Philippe Lory  Is a corresponding author
  4. Jean Chemin  Is a corresponding author
  1. IGF, CNRS, INSERM, Université de Montpellier, France

Abstract

Voltage-gated Ca2+ channels are involved in numerous physiological functions and various mechanisms finely tune their activity, including the Ca2+ ion itself. This is well exemplified by the Ca2+-dependent inactivation of L-type Ca2+ channels, whose alteration contributes to the dramatic disease Timothy Syndrome. For T-type Ca2+ channels, a long-held view is that they are not regulated by intracellular Ca2+. Here we challenge this notion by using dedicated electrophysiological protocols on both native and expressed T-type Ca2+ channels. We demonstrate that a rise in submembrane Ca2+ induces a large decrease in T-type current amplitude due to an important hyperpolarizing shift in the steady-state inactivation. Activation of most representative Ca2+-permeable ionotropic receptors similarly regulate T-type current properties. Altogether, our data clearly establish that Ca2+ entry exerts a feedback control on T-type channel activity, by modulating the channel availability, a mechanism that critically links cellular properties of T-type Ca2+ channels to their physiological roles.

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  1. Magali Cazade

    IGF, CNRS, INSERM, Université de Montpellier, Montpellier, France
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  2. Isabelle Bidaud

    IGF, CNRS, INSERM, Université de Montpellier, Montpellier, France
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  3. Philippe Lory

    IGF, CNRS, INSERM, Université de Montpellier, Montpellier, France
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    philippe.lory@igf.cnrs.fr
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  4. Jean Chemin

    IGF, CNRS, INSERM, Université de Montpellier, Montpellier, France
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    jean.chemin@igf.cnrs.fr
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Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR-10-BLAN-1601)

  • Philippe Lory

Laboratory of excellence in Ion Channel Science and Therapeutics (LabEx ICST)

  • Philippe Lory

The funders had no role in study design, data collection and interpretation, or the decision to submit the work for publication.

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Animal experimentation: All animal use procedures were done in accordance with the directives of the French Ministry of Agriculture (A 34-172-41).

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© 2017, Cazade et al.

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  1. Magali Cazade
  2. Isabelle Bidaud
  3. Philippe Lory
  4. Jean Chemin
(2017)
Activity-dependent regulation of T-type calcium channels by submembrane calcium ions
eLife 6:e22331.
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.22331

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