Spontaneous Calcium Signaling of Cartilage Cells: from Spatiotemporal Features to Biophysical Modeling

Overview

Journal FASEB J

Specialties Biology
Physiology

Date 2019 Jan 3

PMID 30601690

Citations 15

Authors

Yilu Zhou

Mengxi Lv

Tong Li

Tiange Zhang

Randall Duncan

Liyun Wang

X Lucas Lu

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Abstract

Intracellular calcium ([Ca]) oscillation is a fundamental signaling response of cartilage cells under mechanical loading or osmotic stress. Chondrocytes are usually considered as nonexcitable cells with no spontaneous [Ca] signaling. This study proved that chondrocytes can exhibit robust spontaneous [Ca] signaling without explicit external stimuli. The intensity of [Ca] peaks from individual chondrocytes maintain a consistent spatiotemporal pattern, acting as a unique "fingerprint" for each cell. Statistical analysis revealed lognormal distributions of the temporal parameters of [Ca] peaks, as well as strong linear correlations between their means and sds. Based on these statistical findings, we hypothesized that the spontaneous [Ca] peaks may result from an autocatalytic process and that [Ca] oscillation is controlled by a threshold-regulating mechanism. To test these 2 mechanisms, we established a multistage biophysical model by assuming the spontaneous [Ca] signaling of chondrocytes as a combination of deterministic and stochastic processes. The theoretical model successfully explained the lognormal distribution of the temporal parameters and the fingerprint feature of [Ca] peaks. In addition, by using antagonists for 10 pathways, we revealed that the initiation of spontaneous [Ca] peaks in chondrocytes requires the presence of extracellular Ca, and that the PLC-inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate pathway, which controls the release of calcium from the endoplasmic reticulum, can affect the initiation of spontaneous [Ca] peaks in chondrocytes. The purinoceptors and transient receptor potential vanilloid 4 channels on the plasma membrane also play key roles in the spontaneous [Ca] signaling of chondrocytes. In contrast, blocking the T-type or L-type voltage-gated calcium channel promoted the spontaneous calcium signaling. This study represents a systematic effort to understand the features and initiation mechanisms of spontaneous [Ca] signaling in chondrocytes, which are critical for chondrocyte mechanobiology.-Zhou, Y., Lv, M., Li, T., Zhang, T., Duncan, R., Wang, L., Lu, X. L. Spontaneous calcium signaling of cartilage cells: from spatiotemporal features to biophysical modeling.

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