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. 1993 Mar;64(3):665–669. doi: 10.1016/S0006-3495(93)81425-5

Receptor-mediated calcium signal playing a nuclear third messenger in the activation of antigen-specific B cells.

T Furuno 1, T Hamano 1, M Nakanishi 1
PMCID: PMC1262378  PMID: 8386012

Abstract

We have studied receptor-mediated calcium signals in antigen-specific B cells (trinitrophenol-specific B cell clone, TP67.21) using a confocal fluorescence microscope with an argon ion laser (488 nm) and a He-Cd laser (325 nm). Confocal fluorescence images of fluo-3 loaded B cells, excited by an argon ion laser, became much brighter and more nonhomogeneous than those before antigen stimulation. Time-dependent fluorescence changes in intensities were abrupt and quite similar to the patterns of the intracellular calcium ion concentration [Ca2+]i observed by a conventional fluorescence microscope using fura-2. From the morphological patterns of the calcium images, the parts of the bright fluorescence seemed to belong to the nucleus in B cells. To confirm the above events we measured the confocal fluorescence images of the nucleus. From the fluorescence images of co-loaded Hoechst 33342 (a DNA-specific fluorescent probe), which excited by a He-Cd laser, the brighter parts of the fluo-3 fluorescence intensities were identified to the nucleus in B cells. This suggested the possibility that the increased intranuclear calcium ions may play a nuclear third messenger in B cells.

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