Nature Communications (Apr 2019)

A calcium/cAMP signaling loop at the ORAI1 mouth drives channel inactivation to shape NFAT induction

  • Xuexin Zhang,
  • Trayambak Pathak,
  • Ryan Yoast,
  • Scott Emrich,
  • Ping Xin,
  • Robert M. Nwokonko,
  • Martin Johnson,
  • Shilan Wu,
  • Céline Delierneux,
  • Maxime Gueguinou,
  • Nadine Hempel,
  • James W. Putney,
  • Donald L. Gill,
  • Mohamed Trebak

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-09593-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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ORAI1 constitutes the store-operated Ca2+ release-activated Ca2+ (CRAC) channel, but how this channel is turned off through Ca2+-dependent inactivation (CDI) remained unclear. Here the authors identify a spatially-restricted Ca2+/cAMP signaling crosstalk critical for mediating CDI which in turn regulates cellular Ca2+ signals and NFAT activation.