Characterization of an intracellular alkaline shift in rat astrocytes triggered by metabotropic glutamate receptors |
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Authors: | BJ Amos M Chesler |
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Affiliation: | Department of Neurosurgery and Department of Physiology and Neuroscience, New York University Medical Center, New York, New York 10016, USA. |
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Abstract: | The modulation of intracellular pH by activation of metabotropic glutamate receptors was investigated in cultured and acutely dissociated rat astrocytes. One minute superfusion of 100 microM (1S,3R)-1-aminocyclopentane-1, 3-dicarboxcylic acid (ACPD) evoked an alkaline shift of 0.13 +/- 0. 013 (mean +/- SE) and 0.16 +/- 0.03 pH units in cultured (cortical or cerebellar) and acutely dissociated cortical astrocytes, respectively. Alkalinizations were elicited by concentrations of ACPD as low as 1 muM. The ACPD response was mimicked by S-3-hydroxyphenylglycine (3-HPG) and by (s)-4-carboxy-3-hydroxyphenylglycine (4C-3HPG) but was not blocked by alpha-methyl-4-carboxyphenylglycine (MCPG) or (RS)-1-aminoindan-1, 5-dicarboxcylic acid (AIDA), features consistent with an mGluR5 receptor-mediated mechanism. The ACPD-evoked alkaline shift was insensitive to amiloride, 4,4'-diisothiocyanostilbene-2, 2'-disulfonic acid (DIDS), and the v-type ATPase inhibitors 7-chloro-4-nitrobenz-2-oxa-1,3-diazol (NBD-Cl), bafilomycin, and concanamycin. The alkaline response persisted in Na+- or Cl--free saline, but was reversibly blocked in bicarbonate-free, N-2-hydroxyethylpiperazine-N'-2-ethanesulfonic acid (HEPES)-buffered solutions. A bicarbonate-dependent and Na+-independent alkaline shift could also be elicited by either 3 mM caffeine or 1 muM ionomycin. These data suggest that a rise in cytosolic Ca2+ activity is instrumental in triggering the alkalinizing mechanism and that this response is independent of the classic depolarization-induced alkalinization mediated by electrogenic sodium-bicarbonate cotransport. |
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