scholarly journals Characterization of Na+-dependent phosphate transport in cardiac sarcolemmal vesicles

1989 ◽  
Vol 264 (7) ◽  
pp. 3904-3908 ◽  
Author(s):  
M G Jack ◽  
W H Huang ◽  
A Askari
1993 ◽  
Vol 175 (1) ◽  
pp. 200-206 ◽  
Author(s):  
H W Van Veen ◽  
T Abee ◽  
G J Kortstee ◽  
W N Konings ◽  
A J Zehnder

1999 ◽  
Vol 338 (1) ◽  
pp. 139-145 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rami I. SABA ◽  
Alex BOLLEN ◽  
André HERCHUELZ

The Na/Ca exchanger is associated with 160, 120 and 70 kDa polypeptides whose nature is poorly understood. We have purified and characterized the Na/Ca exchanger from bovine cardiac sarcolemmal vesicles (SLVs) by using ion-exchange and affinity chromatographies. The Na/Ca exchanger-enriched fraction was reconstituted into asolectin liposomes [lipid to protein ratio 10:1 (w/w)] that showed Na/Ca exchange activity. Under non-reducing conditions, SDS/PAGE showed a single 70 kDa polypeptide, which was further characterized by immunoblots with different antibodies: SWant, raised against the purified exchanger protein; NH2-terminus, residues 1–21; NCX1, residues 393–406; and Exon F, residues 622–644. Immunoblots under reducing conditions with SWant, NH2-terminus and NCX1 showed three bands migrating at 160, 120 and 70 kDa for SLV preparations, whereas Exon F reacted only with the 160 and 120 kDa bands. Under non-reducing conditions, immunoblots with purified reconstituted Na/Ca exchanger showed a single band at 70 kDa reacting with SWant, NH2-terminus and NCX1 but not with Exon F. We conclude that the 70 kDa protein is associated with Na/Ca exchange activity, has the same N-terminal sequence as the cloned bovine cardiac exchanger, and has its length decreased by at least 35% from its C-terminal portion as compared with that of the wild-type exchanger.


1992 ◽  
Vol 281 (3) ◽  
pp. 859-863 ◽  
Author(s):  
R C Nordlie ◽  
H M Scott ◽  
I D Waddell ◽  
R Hume ◽  
A Burchell

The availability of a rare set of human hepatic microsomes in which T2, a pyrophosphate/phosphate transport protein of the glucose-6-phosphatase system, has been shown immunologically to be completely absent, has permitted further characterization of multicomponent glucose-6-phosphatase (EC 3.1.3.9). Pyrophosphatase activity in intact microsomes was found to be totally absent, but was normal in disrupted microsomes. However, Pi did not accumulate within the lumen of the microsomes when glucose 6-phosphate was the substrate. This was not as predicted if there is only one transport protein in the endoplasmic reticulum capable of transporting Pi, produced by glucose-6-phosphatase, out of the lumen. The results suggest that the pyrophosphate/phosphate transport system of human hepatic endoplasmic reticulum must be more complex than previously thought, as it must comprise at least two protein components.


1990 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 661-666 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carl L. Alden ◽  
Janet L. Burns ◽  
Ron D. Parker ◽  
Jan L. Englehart ◽  
Vincent W. Dennis

A chelator, dichloromethane diphosphonate (Cl2MDP), used to treat for malignancy-induced hypercalcemia, has nephrotoxic potential. An acute animal model developed to examine the mechanism was used to further characterize the renal effects. NAG enzymuria appears to be an early premonitor of injury. Ultrastructurally, an increase in size and number of protein-containing phagolysosomal reabsorption droplets in proximal convoluted tubules associated with proteinuria precedes advent of tubular cell necrosis indicating these organelles to be a potential target site for Cl2MDP in the kidney. In vitro studies using rabbit cortical tubules and rat brush border membrane vesicle preparations suggest that the renal toxicity is not due to perturbation of phosphate transport or oxidative metabolism. An operational hypothesis emerges indicating that Cl2MDP may be protein bound affecting carrier protein charge facilitating glomeruler leakage with tubular accumulation via protein transport. Cl2MDP may induce critical cation perturbation at the subcellular level as the mechanism of cell death.


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