An update on nuclear calcium signalling

Bootman, Martin D.; Fearnley, Claire; Smyrnias, Ioannis; MacDonald, Fraser and Roderick, H. Llewelyn (2009). An update on nuclear calcium signalling. Journal of Cell Science, 122 pp. 2337–2350.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1242/jcs.028100

Abstract

Over the past 15 years or so, numerous studies have sought to characterise how nuclear calcium (Ca2+) signals are generated and reversed, and to understand how events that occur in the nucleoplasm influence cellular Ca2+ activity, and vice versa. In this Commentary, we describe mechanisms of nuclear Ca2+ signalling and discuss what is known about the origin and physiological significance of nuclear Ca2+ transients. In particular, we focus on the idea that the nucleus has an autonomous Ca2+ signalling system that can generate its own Ca2+ transients that modulate processes such as gene transcription. We also discuss the role of nuclear pores and the nuclear envelope in controlling ion flux into the nucleoplasm.

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