“…The sigmoidal nature of plots of R12 as a function of Q2, and of R32 as a function of Q2 or Q3, may reflect complex kinetics (Vinogradov & Scarpa, 1973;Reed & Bygrave, 1975;Ferreira & Lew, 1976;Black et al, 1981;Famulski & Carafoli, 1982;Muallem & Karlish, 1982) for the interaction of Ca2+ with Ca2+ transporters, including the postulated plasma-membrane (Ca2+ + Mg2+)-dependent ATPase (Garnett & Kemp, 1975;Hope-Gill & Nanda, 1979;Lotersztajn et al, 1981;Iwasa et al, 1982;Kraus-Friedmann et al, 1982), the fact that Q2 and Q3 represent total rather than free Ca +, the presence of more than one type of transporter for the transfer of Ca2+ between two given compartments, and/or the possibility that changes in the structure and properties of the plasma membrane are induced at very low (Kolb & Adam, 1976;Loewenstein, 1981) or very high concentrations of extracellular Ca2+.…”