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Adenosine triphosphate (ATP) is a neurotransmitter/neuromodulator in both central and peripheral nervous systems. Particularly in the taste bud, a peripheral taste organ, ATP serves as an afferent neurotransmitter. To examine the mechanism that mediates ATP secretion in taste cells, we elaborated an approach for monitoring ATP in an extracellular medium by employing a biosensor, that is, cells responsive to ATP. Two lines of ATP-sensitive cells, HEK-293 and COS-1, which endogenously express P2Y receptors, were employed. In addition, HEK-293 cells transfected with P2X3 receptors were also used. By most relevant parameters (threshold response, inactivation kinetics of ATP responses, and refractory period), COS-1 cells were more suitable as an ATP sensor than HEK-293 cells, both native and transfected. For the HEK-293 cell-based biosensor, one of pitfalls was that they were highly responsive to mechanical disturbances, e.g., solution flux elicited by application of a chemical stimulus, owing to the expression of mechanosensitive Ca2+-permeable cation channels. In COS-1 cells, ATP-dependent Ca2+ transients were generated mostly due to Ca2+ release, the feature allowing one to control the activity of ATP-releasing cells electrophysiologically and to monitor the ATP secretion by Ca2+ responses of the ATP-biosensor. By using this technique, it was demonstrated that individual taste cells of a mouse released ATP in response to membrane depolarization.
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Original Russian Text © R.A. Romanov, A.A. Khokhlov, M.F. Bystrova, O.A. Rogachevskaja, Yu.E. Yatzenko, S.S. Kolesnikov, 2007, published in Biologicheskie Membrany, 2007, Vol. 24, No. 4, pp. 309–315.
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Romanov, R.A., Khokhlov, A.A., Bystrova, M.F. et al. Monitoring ATP release from individual cells with a biosensor. Biochem. Moscow Suppl. Ser. A 1, 240–245 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1990747807030075
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