A preparation of sea urchin eggs permeabilized with digitonin (40 microM for 2.5 min) was used to study the kinetic characteristics of the two cellular compartments suspected to play a key role in cellular calcium transfer during fertilization: an ATP-dependent Ca2+ pool (Km = 0.47 microM; Vm = 0.48 nmol/min.mg protein) probably located in the endoplasmic reticulum and a mitochondrial Ca2+ pool (Km = 1.50 microM; Vm = 0.12 nmol/min.mg protein). Fertilization triggered a decrease in the rate of ATP dependent uptake by the non-mitochondrial pool (Km = 0.59 microM; Vm = 0.15 nmol/min.mg protein) while it transiently increased the Ca2+ uptake into mitochondria (2 min post-fertilization: Km = 2.20 microM; Vm = 0.40 nmol/min.mg protein). Microanalysis studies performed on quickly frozen, freeze substituted and embedded eggs showed a transient Ca2+ enrichment of mitochondria soon after fertilization thus suggesting that mitochondria behave as a Ca2+ sink at fertilization. Results are discussed in relation to the role of endoplasmic reticulum and mitochondria in handling free calcium during the early period following sea urchin egg fertilization.
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