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Effect of rise in cAMP levels on Ca2+ influx through voltage-dependent Ca2+ channels in HIT cells. Second-messenger synarchy in beta-cells

AS Rajan, RS Hill and AE Boyd
Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030.

With a glucose-responsive beta-cell line (HIT cells), we tested the hypothesis that the cytosolic free-Ca2+ level ([Ca2+]i) is an intracellular signal through which a rise in cyclic AMP (cAMP) levels is transmitted to potentiate glucose-stimulated insulin secretion. In these cells, glucose stimulates the acute release of insulin without increasing [Ca2+]i or altering cAMP content. Either forskolin or 3-isobutylmethylxanthine (IBMX) potentiated glucose-stimulated insulin secretion and increased cAMP levels. At either a submaximal glucose concentration or maximally stimulatory glucose concentration, both IBMX and forskolin triggered a rapid rise in [Ca2+]i (1.9- and 1.5-fold increase over basal levels, respectively). Similarly, glucagon stimulated a 1.3-fold increase in [Ca2+]i over basal levels. The effect on [Ca2+]i required glucose and was secondary to Ca2+ influx through voltage-dependent Ca2+ channels because it was blocked by either chelation of extracellular Ca2+ with EGTA or by the Ca2+-channel blockers verapamil and nimodipine. Verapamil also inhibited IBMX potentiation of glucose-stimulated insulin secretion and the IBMX-induced rise in [Ca2+]i in a dose-dependent manner with IC50s of 2 x 10(-5) and 4 x 10(-6) M, respectively. We conclude that in the beta-cell, a rise in cAMP levels increases Ca2+ influx through voltage-dependent Ca2+ channels and that this represents a mechanism by which cAMP potentiates glucose-stimulated insulin secretion in beta-cells.
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