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Epidermal Growth Factor Activates Store-Operated Calcium Channels in Human Glomerular Mesangial Cells

Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska.

Correspondence to Dr. Steven C. Sansom, Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Nebraska Medical Center, 984575 Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE 68198-4575. Phone: 402-559-2919; Fax: 402-559-4438. E-mail: ssansom{at}unmc.edu

Abstract. A cellular influx of Ca²⁺ is critical for initiating and maintaining growth in a variety of cell types. Experiments were performed to determine whether epidermal growth factor (EGF), which is known to initiate a proliferative response in mesangial cells, could regulate by intracellular signal transduction the store-operated Ca²⁺ channels (SOC) of human mesangial cells (HMC) in culture. The cell-attached patch configuration was used to monitor the activity of SOC, with 90 mM Ba²⁺ in the pipette and physiologic saline solution in the bath. Under control conditions, the mean NP_o value was 1.06 at a holding potential of -80 mV. When 100 nM EGF was added to the bath, SOC were activated by 53%. The EGF-evoked response was dose-dependent, with a half-maximal activation concentration of 4.8 nM. An inhibitor of tyrosine kinase, i.e., tyrphostin A23 (100 µM), completely abolished EGF-evoked channel activation. EGF combined with the inactive control compound tyrphostin A1 (100 µM) elicited significant (85%) activation of SOC. Calphostin C, an inhibitor of protein kinase C (PKC), did not affect the baseline activity of SOC but abolished the EGF-evoked enhancement of SOC activity. The PKC activator phorbol-12-myristate-13-acetate (PMA) significantly activated SOC. However, the effects of PMA were duplicative rather than additive or potentiating with maximal concentrations (100 nM) of EGF, suggesting that PMA and EGF activate SOC through a common PKC pathway. In addition, downregulation of PKC via incubation of HMC with PMA for 1 to 20 h depressed both basal activity and EGF-induced activation of SOC. It is concluded that EGF stimulates SOC in HMC through an intracellular signaling mechanism involving tyrosine kinase and PKC.

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