Calcium Influx via the T-Type Calcium Channel Plays a Permissive Role in Proliferation of Mouse Embryonic Hl-1 Cells

Cardiac myocytes express two types of voltage operated calcium currents, a high voltage activated (HVA) L-type, and a low voltage activated (LVA) T-type. Influx of calcium into the cell through the L-type channel is responsible for excitation-contraction coupling in the heart. The T-type calcium current has been associated with growth and differentiation in a number of different cell types. An atrial myocyte cell line (HL-1) that selectively expresses T-type calcium current was employed to show that inhibiting calcium influx through the T-type calcium channel inhibits cellular proliferation. Drug dosage studies demonstrate that the T-type calcium channel responsible for this effect is Cav 3.1. Furthermore, blocking the calcium influx through the T-type calcium channel arrests cells in the G2/M phase of the cell cycle. Interestingly, the proliferative effect of calcium influx through the T-type calcium channel appears to happen in the early G1 phase of the cell cycle.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2015

Author dc:creator

• Janes, Donna Marie

Contributors dc:contributor

• Philip Best

• Biology, Cell

Language dc:language

eng

Identifier

(MiAaPQ)AAI3153331

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/87230