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SOC and now also SIC: Store‐operated and store‐inhibited channels
Author(s) -
Moreno Claudia,
Vaca Luis
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
iubmb life
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.132
H-Index - 113
eISSN - 1521-6551
pISSN - 1521-6543
DOI - 10.1002/iub.547
Subject(s) - chemistry , voltage dependent calcium channel , calcium , orai1 , n type calcium channel , stim1 , endoplasmic reticulum , microbiology and biotechnology , t type calcium channel , biophysics , r type calcium channel , calcium channel , calcium signaling , biochemistry , biology , organic chemistry
There is a specialized form of calcium influx that involves a close communication between endoplasmic reticulum and the channels at the plasma membrane. In one side store depletion activates channels known as store‐operated channels (SOC), which are responsible of the well‐studied store‐operated calcium entry (SOCE). SOC comprises two different types of channels. Orai, which is exclusively activated by store depletion being the channel responsible of the calcium release‐activated calcium current, and transient receptor potential canonical channel, which in contrast, is activated by store depletion only under specific conditions and carries nonselective cationic currents. On the other hand, it has been recently shown that store depletion also inhibits calcium channels. The first member identified, of what we named as store‐inhibited channels (SIC), is the L‐type voltage‐gated calcium channel. Stores control both SOC and SIC by means of the multifunctional protein STIM1. The identification of SOC and SIC opens a new scenario for the role of store depletion in the modulation of different calcium entry pathways, which may satisfy different cellular processes.© 2011 IUBMB IUBMB Life, 2011.