Calmidazolium induces a decrease in nicotine-induced currents and intracellular calcium levels after pulse application of nicotine onto insect neurosecretory cells
2022
Houchat, Jean-Noël | Cartereau, Alison | Taillebois, Emiliane | Thany, Steeve | Laboratoire de Biologie des Ligneux et des Grandes Cultures (LBLGC) ; Université d'Orléans (UO)-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE)
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Show more [+] Less [-]English. Dorsal unpaired median (DUM) neurons, are a class of insect neurosecretory cells, which are involved in the control of several functions, such as excretion and reproduction, or the release of neurohormones. Previous studies demonstrated that they express different nicotinic acetylcholine receptor subtypes, in particular alpha-bun-garotoxin-insensitive receptors, with nAChR1 and nAChR2 subtypes. Here, we demonstrated that pulse application of 1 mM nicotine (300 ms pulse duration) induced inward currents which were reduced under bath application of 15 mu M calmidazolium, a calmodulin inhibitor. Bath application of 0.5 mu M alpha-bungarotoxin had no effect on calmidazolium action, suggesting that it could have an indirect effect through alpha-bungarotoxin-insen-sitive receptors. Indeed, nicotine-evoked currents were reduced by 10 mu M d-tubocurarine, and completely blocked by 5 mu M mecamylamine, which affected nAChR1 and nAChR2 subtypes, respectively. Our results demonstrated that nAChR2 subtypes are involved in the indirect effect of calmidazolium. Moreover, we found that this calmidazolium effect was associated to a strong reduction in intracellular calcium levels after pulse application of 1 mM nicotine. Thus, compared to previous studies on mammalian cells, calmidazolium did not cause an increase in intracellular calcium levels in DUM neurons, suggesting that different calcium mechanisms are involved in the calmidazolium effect.
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