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Journal of the American College of Nutrition, Vol. 23, No. 6, 742S-744S (2004)
Published by the American College of Nutrition

Investigation of Intracellular Magnesium Mobilization Pathways I Pc12 Cells B Simultaneous Mg-Ca Fluorescent Imaging

Takeshi Kubota, MS, Yutaka Shindo, BT, Kentaro Tokuno, BT, Hirokazu Komatsu, MT, Hiroto Ogawa, PhD, Yoshiichiro Kitamura, PhD, Koji Suzuki, PhD and Kotaro Oka, PhD

School of Fundamental Science and Technology (T.K., Y.K., K.O.)
Department of System Design Engineering (Y.S., K.T., K.S.)
Department of Applied Chemistry (H.K.) Keio University
Department of Biology, Saitama Medical School (H.O.)
Department of Biosciences and Informatics (Y.K., K.O.), Keio University, Yokohama, JAPAN

Address reprint requests to: Kotaro Oka, PhD, 3-14-1 Hiyoshi, Kohoku-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa 223-8522, JAPAN. E-mail: oka{at}bio.keio.ac.jp

Objective and Methods: PC12 cells were loaded with a novel Mg indicator KMG-104 and Ca indicator fura-2, and intracellular Mg was studied in the endoplasmic reticulums (ERs), mitochondria, and Mg-ATP. Under coexistence of the two indicators, fluorescent signals of Mg and Ca can be measured separately. Mg release from the ER was investigated by photolysis of caged compounds.

Results: Transient [Ca] i increase by uncaging of caged Ca or caged IP 3 or bath-application of caffeine (10 mM) induced no [Mg] i increase. These results suggest that there is no mechanism for Mg release from the ER through ryanodine receptors or IP 3 receptors. In order to investigate the possibility of Mg release from Mg-ATP by energy consumption, we depleted ATP by oligomycin, an inhibitor of mitochondrial ATP synthase. Treating with oligomycin (4 µM) for several minutes showed no change of [Mg] i and [Ca] i.

Conclusions: This result shows that Mg-ATP is not a Mg store. Since, when cells were treated by an uncoupler FCCP (3 µM), [Mg] i and [Ca] i increased, we concluded that mitochondria participate in maintenance of intracellular Mg stores.

Key words: intracellular Mg store, FCCP, photolysis, ATP, mitochondria






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