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THE PLANT CELL, Vol 7, Issue 9 1473-1483, Copyright © 1995 by American Society of Plant Biologists

RESEARCH ARTICLES

Calcineurin, a Type 2B Protein Phosphatase, Modulates the Ca2+-Permeable Slow Vacuolar Ion Channel of Stomatal Guard Cells

G. J. Allen and D. Sanders
The Plant Laboratory, Department of Biology, University of York, P.O. Box 373, York, YO1 5YW, United Kingdom

The slowly activating vacuolar (SV) channel of plant vacuoles is gated open by cytosolic free Ca2+ and by cytosol-positive potentials. Using vacuoles isolated from broad bean guard cell protoplasts, SV-mediated currents could be measured in the whole-vacuole configuration of a patch clamp as the time-dependent increase in current at cytosol-positive voltages. Time-dependent deactivation of the SV currents when changing from activating to nonactivating voltages (tail currents) was used to calculate the selectivity of the channel to Ca2+ and Cl- with respect to K+. Changing the equilibrium potential for each permeant ion (Ca2+, Cl-, and K+) at least once for individual vacuoles allowed the relative permeabilities (P) of each of these ions to be calculated in a single experiment. The resulting Pca:Pcl:Pk ratio was close to 3:0.1:1. In accord with its characterization as a weakly selective Ca2+ channel, the SV-mediated current density decreased with increasing Ca2+ activity in the vacuole lumen. SV currents were potently modulated by the Ca2+-dependent, calmodulin-stimulated protein phosphatase 2B (calcineurin). At low concentrations ([less than or equal to]0.4 units per mL), calcineurin stimulated SV currents by ~60%, whereas at higher concentrations the phosphatase was inhibitory, reaching ~90% inhibition at 3 units per mL. Bovine calmodulin had no direct effect on SV-mediated currents, although calcineurin stimulated by exogenous calmodulin inhibited SV currents at all concentrations tested with half-maximal inhibition for calcineurin at 0.16 units per mL. The inhibitory effect of calcineurin could be blocked by the pyrethroid deltamethrin, indicating inhibition of SV channels by calcineurin via dephosphorylation. A model is discussed in which vacuolar Ca2+ release through SV channels is subject to both positive feedforward and negative feedback control through cytosolic Ca2+ and dephosphorylation, respectively.


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