Affiliation:
1. Misaki Marine Biological Station, University of Tokyo, Japan.
Abstract
An oocyte of the marine bivalve Mytilus edulis, which is arrested at metaphase I, reinitiates meiosis at fertilization. The fertilized oocyte shows increases in intracellular Ca2+ ([Ca2+]i) comprising three different phases: an initial large [Ca2+]i transient, a subsequent low but sustained [Ca2+]i elevation, and repetitive small [Ca2+]i transients. In this study, we have investigated the sources and mechanisms of the sperm-induced [Ca2+]i increases. Application of methoxyverapamil (D-600), an inhibitor of voltage-dependent Ca2+ influx, suppressed the initial [Ca2+]i transient but did not affect the following two phases of [Ca2+]i changes. Injection of heparin, an antagonist of the inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate (IP3) receptor, inhibited the later two phases without much affecting the initial transient. Combined application of D-600 and heparin almost completely abolished the three phases of the sperm-induced [Ca2+]i changes. Furthermore, Ca2+ influx caused by seawater containing excess K+ was blocked by D-600 but not by heparin, and IP3-induced Ca2+ release caused by photolysis of injected ‘caged’ derivatives of IP3 was blocked by heparin but not by D-600. These results strongly suggest that two types of Ca2+ mobilization systems, the extracellular Ca2+ entry responsible for an initial [Ca2+]i transient and the IP3 receptor-mediated Ca2+ release responsible for the following two phases of [Ca2+]i changes, function at fertilization of Mytilus oocytes.
Publisher
The Company of Biologists
Subject
Developmental Biology,Molecular Biology
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