Pivneva T A, Gimmel'reĭkh N G, Nikolishina E V
Ukr Biokhim Zh (1978). 1988 Jan-Feb;60(1):65-9.
The paper deals with characteristics of relationship between synaptosomal calcium permeability induced by alpha-latrotoxin and cytosolic concentration of ATP. It is shown that reagents decreasing the ATP level in the synaptosomes (monoiodoacetate, papaverine) inactivate the toxin-induced ionic fluxes and, on the contrary, reagents increasing the ATP level in synaptosomes enhance the toxin-induced calcium influx. The treatment of synaptosomes with inhibitors of phosphodiesterase of cAMP and cAMP-dependent protein kinase has no effect on the alpha-latrotoxin-induced calcium influx.