Emerging insights into the role of calcium ions in osteoclast regulation. |
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Authors: | M Zaidi O A Adebanjo B S Moonga L Sun C L Huang |
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Affiliation: | Center for Skeletal Aging and Osteoporosis, Geriatric Medicine and Extended Care Service, VA Medical Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA. |
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Abstract: | Osteoclasts are exposed to unusually high, millimolar, Ca2+ concentrations and can "sense" changes in their ambient Ca2+ concentration during resorption. This results in a sharp cystolic Ca2+ increase through both Ca2+ release and Ca2+ influx. The rise in cystolic Ca2+ is transduced finally into an inhibition of bone resorption. We have shown that a type 2 ryanodine receptor isoform, expressed uniquely in the osteoblast plasma membrane, functions as a Ca2+ influx channel, and possibly as a Ca2+ sensor. Ryanodine receptors are ordinarily microsomal membrane Ca2+ release channels. They have only recently been shown to be expressed a other sites, including nuclear membranes. At the latter site, ryanodine receptors gate nucleoplasmic Ca2+ influx. Nucleoplasmic Ca2+, in turn, regulates key nuclear processes, including gene expression and apoptosis. Here, we review potential mechanisms underlying the recognition, movement, and actions of Ca2+ in the osteoclast. |
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