Flow Cytometric Analysis of Internal Calcium Mobilization via a B2‐Bradykinin Receptor on a Subclone of PC‐12 Cells
- 1 March 1991
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in Journal of Neurochemistry
- Vol. 56 (3), 983-989
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1471-4159.1991.tb02018.x
Abstract
Single cell Ca2+ mobilization was studied by non-parametric, quantitative flow cytometry using a sort-selected subclone of PC-12 cells. The response of the parent PC-12 population to bradykinin (BK) was very heterogeneous and of a relatively low magnitude. Cells that exhibited maximal Ca2+ mobilization were singly sorted by flow cytometry, cultured, and reanalyzed. In one subclone, referred to as BK1, BK or the B2-BK receptor agonists Lys-BK and Met-Lys-BK (10 pM-1 μM) induced robust Ca2+ transients in 80% of the cells. All three peptides produced the same maximal responses. The B1-BK receptor agonist Des-Arg9-BK (1 nM-1 μM) failed to elicit Ca2+ mobilization in these cells. The responses to BK (10 and 100 nM) were inhibited by preincubation with the B2-receptor antagonists D-Arg0-Hyp3-thienyl5,8-D-Phe7-BK and D-Arg0-Hyp3-D-Phe7 (0.1 nM-10 μM) in a concentration-dependent manner. Des-Arg9-Leu8-BK, a B1-receptor antagonist, failed to block the BK responses at 0.1–10 μM. The agonist/antagonist profile of the BK responses indicated that the B2-BK receptor mediated the Ca2+ response in the BK1 subclone. Thus, flow cytometric analysis of a receptor-mediated Ca2+ response can be employed to select a homogeneously responsive subclone from a heterogeneous, clonal population that can improve the resolution of receptor-mediated second messenger generation at the single cell level.Keywords
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