Mammalian cells accumulate Ca2؉ into agonist-sensitive acidic organelles, vesicles that possess a vacuolar protonATPase. Acidic Ca 2؉ stores include secretory granules and lysosome-related organelles. Current evidence clearly indicates that acidic Ca 2؉ stores participate in cell signaling and function, including the activation of store-operated Ca 2؉ entry in human platelets upon depletion of the acidic stores, although the mechanism underlying the activation of store-operated Ca 2؉ entry controlled by the acidic stores remains unclear. STIM1 has been presented as the endoplasmic reticulum Ca 2؉ sensor, but its role sensing intraluminal Ca 2؉ concentration in the acidic stores has not been investigated. Here we report that STIM1 and STIM2 are expressed in the lysosome-related organelles and dense granules in human platelets isolated by immunomagnetic sorting. Depletion of the acidic Ca 2؉ stores using the specific vacuolar proton-ATPase inhibitor, bafilomycin A1, enhanced the association between STIM1 and STIM2 as well as between these proteins and the plasma membrane channel Orai1. Depletion of the acidic Ca 2؉ stores also induces time-dependent co-immunoprecipitation of STIM1 with the TRPC proteins hTRPC1 and hTRPC6, as well as between Orai1 and both TRPC proteins. In addition, bafilomycin A1 enhanced the association between STIM2 and SERCA3. These findings demonstrate the location of STIM1 and STIM2 in the acidic Ca 2؉ stores and their association with Ca 2؉ channels and ATPases upon acidic stores discharge.Store-operated calcium entry (SOCE), 4 a Ca 2ϩ influx mechanism regulated by the filling state of the intracellular Ca 2ϩ stores, is a major mechanism for Ca 2ϩ influx in non-excitable cells (1). It has long been known that Ca 2ϩ is stored in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER), which is the best-studied agonistreleasable Ca 2ϩ store; however, a number of studies have revealed that Ca 2ϩ is also dynamically accumulated in a number of acidic organelles (2), including secretory granules, lysosomes and lysosome-related organelles, endosomes, and vesicles of the Golgi complex (2-6). ER Ca 2ϩ store depletion has been reported to be sensed by STIM1 (stromal interaction molecule-1) (7-9). Although STIM1 was originally identified as a surface membrane protein in stromal cells (10) 4 The abbreviations used are: SOCE, store-operated calcium entry; ER, endoplasmic reticulum; HBS, HEPES-buffered saline; hTRPC1 and hTRPC6, human canonical TRP1 and TRP6, respectively; IP 3 , inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate; TBHQ, 2,5-di-(tert-butyl)-1,4-hydroquinone; TG, thapsigargin; SERCA, sarco/endoplasmic reticulum Ca 2ϩ -ATPase; V-ATPase, vacuolar proton-ATPase; NAADP, nicotinic acid adenine dinucleotide phosphate; DTS, dense tubular system; AM, acetoxymethyl ester; BAPTA-AM, 1,2-bis(2-aminophenoxy)ethane-N,N,NЈ,NЈ-tetraacetic acid tetrakis(acetoxymethyl ester); GPN, glycyl-1-phenylalanine 2-naphthylamide; PDI, protein-disulfide isomerase.