scholarly journals Acidocalcisomes in Toxoplasma gondii tachyzoites

1996 ◽  
Vol 313 (2) ◽  
pp. 655-659 ◽  
Author(s):  
Silvia N. J. MORENO ◽  
Li ZHONG
Keyword(s):  
Endoplasmic Reticulum ◽  
Toxoplasma Gondii ◽  
Mammalian Cells ◽  
Specific Inhibitor ◽  
Mitochondrial Atpase ◽  
Bafilomycin A1 ◽  
Atpase Inhibitor ◽  
Extracellular Medium ◽  
Acidic Compartment ◽  
Acidic Organelles

Toxoplasma gondii tachyzoites were loaded with the fluorescent indicator fura 2 to investigate the transport mechanisms involved in maintaining their intracellular Ca2+ homoeostasis. The mitochondrial ATPase inhibitor oligomycin and the endoplasmic-reticulum Ca2+-ATPase inhibitor thapsigargin increased the intracellular Ca2+ concentration ([Ca2+]i), thus indicating the requirement for ATP and the involvement of the endoplasmic reticulum in maintaining intracellular Ca2+ homoeostasis. The effect of thapsigargin was more accentuated in the presence of extracellular Ca2+, clearly showing that, as occurs with other eukaryotic cells, depletion of intracellular Ca2+ pools led to an increase in the uptake of Ca2+ from the extracellular medium. In addition to these results, we found evidence that, in contrast with what occurs in mammalian cells, T. gondii tachyzoites possess a significant amount of Ca2+ stored in an acidic compartment, termed the acidocalcisome, as indicated by: (1) the increase in [Ca2+]i induced by bafilomycin A1 (a specific inhibitor of H+-ATPases), nigericin (a K+/H+ exchanger) or the weak base NH4Cl, in the nominal absence of extracellular Ca2+ to preclude Ca2+ entry; and (2) the effect of ionomycin, a Ca2+-releasing ionophore that cannot take Ca2+ out of acidic organelles and that was more effective after alkalinization of these compartments by addition of bafilomycin A1, nigericin or NH4Cl. Considering the relative importance of the ionomycin-releasable and the ionomycin+NH4Cl-releasable Ca2+ pools, it is apparent that T. gondii tachyzoites contain a significant amount of Ca2+ stored in acidocalcisomes.

scholarly journals Acidocalcisomes and a vacuolar H+-pyrophosphatase in malaria parasites

2000 ◽  
Vol 347 (1) ◽  
pp. 243-253 ◽  
Author(s):  
Norma MARCHESINI ◽  
Shuhong LUO ◽  
Claudia O. RODRIGUES ◽  
Silvia N. J. MORENO ◽  
Roberto DOCAMPO
Keyword(s):  
Dependent Manner ◽  
Bafilomycin A1 ◽  
Atpase Inhibitor ◽  
Acetoxymethyl Ester ◽  
Malaria Parasites ◽  
Subcellular Compartment ◽  
Calcium Indicator ◽  
Thiol Reagent ◽  
Acidic Compartment ◽  
Acidic Organelles

Plasmodium berghei trophozoites were loaded with the fluorescent calcium indicator, fura-2 acetoxymethyl ester, to measure their intracellular Ca2+ concentration ([Ca2+]i). [Ca2+]i was increased in the presence of the sarcoplasmic/endoplasmic reticulum Ca2+-ATPase inhibitor, thapsigargin. Trophozoites also possess a significant amount of Ca2+ stored in an acidic compartment. This was indicated by: (1) the increase in [Ca2+]i induced by bafilomycin A1, nigericin, monensin, or the weak base, NH4Cl, in the nominal absence of extracellular Ca2+, and (2) the effect of ionomycin, which cannot take Ca2+ out of acidic organelles and was more effective after alkalinization of this compartment by addition of bafilomycin A1, nigericin, monensin, or NH4Cl. Inorganic PPi promoted the acidification of a subcellular compartment in cell homogenates of trophozoites. The proton gradient driven by PPi collapsed by addition of the K+/H+ exchanger, nigericin, and eliminated by the PPi analogue, aminomethylenediphosphonate (AMDP). Both PPi hydrolysis and proton transport were dependent upon K+, and Na+ caused partial inhibition of these activities. PPi hydrolysis was sensitive in a dose-dependent manner to AMDP, imidodiphosphate, sodium fluoride, dicyclohexylcarbodi-imide and to the thiol reagent, N-ethylmaleimide. Immunofluorescence microscopy using antibodies raised against conserved peptide sequences of a plant vacuolar pyrophosphatase (V-H+-PPase) suggested that the proton pyrophosphatase is located in intracellular vacuoles and the plasma membrane of trophozoites. AMDP caused an increase in [Ca2+]i in the nominal absence of extracellular Ca2+. Ionomycin was more effective in releasing Ca2+ from this acidic intracellular compartment after treatment of the cells with AMDP. Taken together, these results suggest the presence in malaria parasites of acidocalcisomes with similar characteristics to those described in trypanosomatids and Toxoplasma gondii, and the colocalization of the V-H+-PPase and V-H+-ATPase in these organelles.

scholarly journals Muscarinic acetylcholine receptor activation induces Ca2+ mobilization and Na+/K+-ATPase activity inhibition in eel enterocytes

2002 ◽  
Vol 173 (2) ◽  
pp. 325-334 ◽  
Author(s):  
A Muscella ◽  
S Greco ◽  
MG Elia ◽  
E Jimenez ◽  
C Storelli ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Atpase Activity ◽  
Muscarinic Acetylcholine Receptor ◽  
Specific Inhibitor ◽  
Fold Increase ◽  
Receptor Activation ◽  
Free Medium ◽  
Atpase Inhibitor ◽  
Extracellular Medium ◽  
Calphostin C ◽  
Dose Dependent

The effect of carbachol (Cch) on intracellular calcium concentration ([Ca2+]i) in eel enterocytes was examined using the fluorescent Ca2+ indicator fura-2. Cch caused a biphasic increase in [Ca2+]i, with an initial spike followed by a progressively decreasing level (over 6 min) to the initial, pre-stimulated, level. The effect of Cch was dose-dependent with a 7.5-fold increase in [Ca2+]i over basal level induced by the maximal dose of Cch (100 microM). In Ca2+-free/EGTA buffer the effect of Cch was less pronounced and the [Ca2+]i returned rapidly to basal levels. The increment of [Ca2+]i was dose-dependently attenuated in cells pre-treated with U73122, a specific inhibitor of phospholipase C, suggesting that the Cch-stimulated increment of [Ca2+]i required inositol triphosphate formation. In the presence of extracellular Ca2+, thapsigargin (TG), a specific microsomal Ca2+-ATPase inhibitor, caused a sustained rise in [Ca2+]i whereas in Ca2+-free medium the increase in [Ca2+]i was transient; in both cases, subsequent addition of Cch was without effect. When 2 mM CaCl2 were added to the cells stimulated with TG or with Cch in Ca2+-free medium, a rapid increase in [Ca2+]i was detected, corresponding to the capacitative Ca2+ entry. Thus, both TG and Cch depleted intracellular Ca2+ stores and stimulated influx of extracellular Ca2+ consistent with capacitative Ca2+ entry. K+ depolarization obtained with increasing concentrations of KCl in the extracellular medium induced a dose-related increase in [Ca2+]i which was blocked by 2 microM nifedipine, a non-specific L-type Ca2+ channel blocker. Nifedipine also changed significantly the height of the Ca2+ transient, and the rate of decrement to the pre-stimulated [Ca2+]i level, indicating that Ca2+ entry into enterocytes also occurs through an L-type voltage-dependent calcium channel pathway. We also show that isolated enterocytes stimulated with increasing Cch concentrations (0.1-1000 microM) showed a dose-dependent inhibition of the Na+/K+-ATPase activity. The threshold decrease was at 1 microM Cch; it reached a maximum at 100 microM (50.5% inhibition) and did not decrease further with the use of higher dose. The effect of Cch on Na+/K+-ATPase activity was dependent on both protein kinase C (PKC) and protein phosphatase calcineurin activation since the PKC inhibitor calphostin C abolished Cch effects, while the calcineurin inhibitor FK506 augmented Cch effect. Collectively, these data establish a functional pathway by which Cch can modulate the activity of the Na+/K+-ATPase through a PKC-dependent (calphostin C-sensitive) pathway and a calcineurin-dependent (FK506-sensitive) pathway.

scholarly journals Ca2+ accumulation into acidic organelles mediated by Ca2+- and vacuolar H+-ATPases in human platelets

2005 ◽  
Vol 390 (1) ◽  
pp. 243-252 ◽  
Author(s):  
José J. López ◽  
Cristina Camello-Almaraz ◽  
José A. Pariente ◽  
Ginés M. Salido ◽  
Juan A. Rosado
Keyword(s):  
Endoplasmic Reticulum ◽  
Arginine Vasopressin ◽  
Previous Treatment ◽  
Human Platelets ◽  
Bafilomycin A1 ◽  
Cellular Processes ◽  
Tubular System ◽  
Intracellular Compartments ◽  
Functional Relevance ◽  
Acidic Organelles

Most physiological agonists increase cytosolic free [Ca2+]c (cytosolic free Ca2+ concentration) to regulate a variety of cellular processes. How different stimuli evoke distinct spatiotemporal Ca2+ responses remains unclear, and the presence of separate intracellular Ca2+ stores might be of great functional relevance. Ca2+ accumulation into intracellular compartments mainly depends on the activity of Ca2+- and H+-ATPases. Platelets present two separate Ca2+ stores differentiated by the distinct sensitivity to thapsigargin and TBHQ [2,5-di-(t-butyl)-1,4-hydroquinone]. Although one store has long been identified as the dense tubular system, the nature of the TBHQ-sensitive store remains uncertain. Treatment of platelets with GPN (glycylphenylalanine-2-naphthylamide) impaired Ca2+ release by TBHQ and reduced that evoked by thrombin. In contrast, GPN did not modify Ca2+ mobilization stimulated by ADP or AVP ([arginine]vasopressin). Treatment with nigericin, a proton carrier, and bafilomycin A1, an inhibitor of the vacuolar H+-ATPase, to dissipate the proton gradient into acidic organelles induces a transient increase in [Ca2+]c that was abolished by previous treatment with the SERCA (sarcoplasmic/endoplasmic-reticulum Ca2+-ATPase) 3 inhibitor TBHQ. Depleted acidic stores after nigericin or bafilomycin A1 were refilled by SERCA 3. Thrombin, but not ADP or AVP, reduces the rise in [Ca2+]c evoked by nigericin and bafilomycin A1. Our results indicate that the TBHQ-sensitive store in human platelets is an acidic organelle whose Ca2+ accumulation is regulated by both Ca2+- and vacuolar H+-ATPases.

scholarly journals A trypanosome-soluble factor induces IP3 formation, intracellular Ca2+ mobilization and microfilament rearrangement in host cells.

1995 ◽  
Vol 129 (5) ◽  
pp. 1263-1273 ◽  
Author(s):  
A Rodríguez ◽  
M G Rioult ◽  
A Ora ◽  
N W Andrews
Keyword(s):  
Host Cell ◽  
Mammalian Cells ◽  
Time Course ◽  
Rat Kidney ◽  
Specific Inhibitor ◽  
Direct Consequence ◽  
Host Cells ◽  
Cortical Actin ◽  
Extracellular Medium ◽  
Ca2 Channels

Lysosomes are recruited to the invasion site during host cell entry by Trypanosoma cruzi, an unusual process suggestive of the triggering of signal transduction mechanisms. Previous studies showed that trypomastigotes, but not the noninfective epimastigotes, contain a proteolytically generated trypomastigote factor (PGTF) that induces intracellular free Ca2+ transients in several mammalian cell types. Using confocal time-lapse imaging of normal rat kidney (NRK) fibroblasts loaded with the Ca(2+)-sensitive dye fluo-3, we show that the initial intracellular free Ca(2+) concentration ([Ca2+]i) transient detected a few seconds after exposure to trypomastigote extracts is a result of Ca2+ release from intracellular stores. Removal of Ca2+ from the extracellular medium or inhibition of Ca2+ channels with NiCl2 did not affect the response to PGTF, while depletion of intracellular stores with thapsigargin abolished it. [Ca2+]i transients induced by PGTF were shown to be coupled to the activity of phospholipase C (PLC), since the specific inhibitor U73122 completely blocked the response, while its inactive analogue U73343 had no effect. In addition, polyphosphoinositide hydrolysis and inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate (IP3) were detected upon cell stimulation with PGTF, suggesting the participation of IP3-sensitive intracellular Ca2+ channels. An immediate effect of the signaling induced by PGTF and live trypomastigotes was a rapid and transient reorganization of host cell microfilaments. The redistribution of F-actin appeared to be a direct consequence of increased [Ca2+]i, since thrombin and the Ca2+ ionophore ionomycin produced a similar effect, with a time course that corresponded to the kinetics of the elevation in [Ca2+]i. These observations support the hypothesis that PGTF-induced disassembly of the cortical actin cytoskeleton may play a role in T. cruzi invasion, by facilitating lysosome access to the invasion site. Taken together, our findings suggest that the proteolytically generated trypomastigote factor PGTF is a novel agonist that acts through the PLC/phosphoinositide signaling pathway of mammalian cells.

scholarly journals The inhibition of the sarcoplasmic/endoplasmic reticulum Ca2+-ATPase by macrocyclic lactones and cyclosporin A

2002 ◽  
Vol 366 (1) ◽  
pp. 255-263 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan G. BILMEN ◽  
Laura L. WOOTTON ◽  
Francesco MICHELANGELI
Keyword(s):  
Endoplasmic Reticulum ◽  
Cyclosporin A ◽  
Competitive Inhibition ◽  
Specific Inhibitor ◽  
Macrocyclic Lactones ◽  
Atpase Inhibitor ◽  
Fk 506 ◽  
Beneficial Effects ◽  
Parasitic Worm ◽  
High Concentrations

The pharmacology of macrocyclic lactones is varied, with many beneficial effects in treating disease processes. FK-506, rapamycin and ascomycin have been utilized as immunosuppressant agents. Ivermectin is typically used to treat parasitic worm infections in mammals. Another immunosuppressant, cyclosporin A, is a cyclic oligotide that has similar immunosuppressant properties to those exerted by macrocyclic lactones. Here we report on the inhibition by these compounds of sarcoplasmic/endoplasmic-reticulum Ca2+-ATPase (SERCA) Ca2+ pumps. Ivermectin, cyclosporin A and rapamycin all inhibited the skeletal muscle sarcoplasmic reticulum Ca2+-ATPase (SERCA1). In addition, although ivermectin inhibited brain microsomal endoplasmic reticulum (type 2b) Ca2+-ATPase, cyclosporin A and rapamycin did not. As cyclosporin A also did not inhibit cardiac Ca2+-ATPase activity, this would suggest that it could be an isoform-specific inhibitor. Ivermectin was shown to be the most potent Ca2+-ATPase inhibitor of the macrocyclic lactones (IC50 = 7μM). It appears to show a ‘competitive’ inhibition with respect to high concentrations of ATP by increasing the regulatory binding site Km but without affecting the catalytic site Km. In addition, ivermectin stabilizes the ATPase in an E1 conformational state, and inhibits Ca2+ release from the enzyme during turnover. This would suggest that ivermectin inhibits Ca2+ release from the luminal binding sites of the phosphoenzyme intermediate, a step that is known to be accelerated by high [ATP].

scholarly journals Ca2+ storage in Trypanosoma brucei: the influence of cytoplasmic pH and importance of vacuolar acidity

1995 ◽  
Vol 310 (3) ◽  
pp. 789-794 ◽  
Author(s):  
D A Scott ◽  
S N J Moreno ◽  
R Docampo
Keyword(s):  
Trypanosoma Brucei ◽  
Ph Effect ◽  
Calcium Ionophore ◽  
Free Calcium ◽  
Bafilomycin A1 ◽  
Atpase Inhibitor ◽  
Cytosolic Ph ◽  
Permeabilized Cells ◽  
Intracellular Compartments ◽  
Acidic Compartment

The hypothesis that changes in cytosolic pH effect the release from intracellular compartments of stored calcium in Trypanosoma brucei was addressed by the use of procyclic and bloodstream trypomastigotes of T. brucei loaded with the fluorescent reagents 2′,7′-bis-(2-carboxyethyl)-5(and 6)-carboxyfluorescein (BCECF) to measure intracellular pH (pHi), or fura 2 to measure intracellular free calcium ([Ca2+]i). Experiments were performed in EGTA-containing buffers, so increases in [Ca2+]i reflected release of stored calcium rather than Ca2+ entry. Nigericin reduced pHi and increased [Ca2+]i in loaded cells, whilst propionate reduced pHi, but did not affect [Ca2+]i, and NH4Cl increased both variables, so there appears to be no correlation between pHi and [Ca2+]i. Treatment of the cells with the calcium ionophore ionomycin under similar conditions (nominal absence of extracellular Ca2+) resulted in an increase of [Ca2+]i which was greatly increased by addition of either NH4Cl, nigericin or the vacuolar H(+)-ATPase inhibitor bafilomycin A1. Similar results were obtained when the order of additions was reversed or when digitonin-permeabilized cells were used with the Ca2+ indicator arsenazo III. The results suggest that more Ca2+ is stored in this acidic compartment in procyclic than in bloodstream forms. Taking into account the relative importance of the ionomycin-releasable and the ionomycin-plus-NH4Cl-releasable Ca2+ pools, it is apparent that a significant amount of the Ca2+ stored in T. brucei trypomastigotes is present in the acidic compartment thus identified.

scholarly journals Intrinsic Capacities of Molecular Sensors of the Unfolded Protein Response to Sense Alternate Forms of Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress

2006 ◽  
Vol 17 (7) ◽  
pp. 3095-3107 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jenny B. DuRose ◽  
Arvin B. Tam ◽  
Maho Niwa
Keyword(s):  
Endoplasmic Reticulum ◽  
Er Stress ◽  
Unfolded Protein Response ◽  
Mammalian Cells ◽  
Atpase Inhibitor ◽  
Molecular Sensors ◽  
Unfolded Protein ◽  
Alternate Forms ◽  
The Unfolded Protein Response ◽  
Protein Response

The unfolded protein response (UPR) regulates the protein-folding capacity of the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) according to cellular demand. In mammalian cells, three ER transmembrane components, IRE1, PERK, and ATF6, initiate distinct UPR signaling branches. We show that these UPR components display distinct sensitivities toward different forms of ER stress. ER stress induced by ER Ca2+ release in particular revealed fundamental differences in the properties of UPR signaling branches. Compared with the rapid response of both IRE1 and PERK to ER stress induced by thapsigargin, an ER Ca2+ ATPase inhibitor, the response of ATF6 was markedly delayed. These studies are the first side-by-side comparisons of UPR signaling branch activation and reveal intrinsic features of UPR stress sensor activation in response to alternate forms of ER stress. As such, they provide initial groundwork toward understanding how ER stress sensors can confer different responses and how optimal UPR responses are achieved in physiological settings.

scholarly journals Type II NADH Dehydrogenase Inhibitor 1-Hydroxy-2-Dodecyl- 4(1H)Quinolone Leads to Collapse of Mitochondrial Inner- Membrane Potential and ATP Depletion in Toxoplasma gondii

2009 ◽  
Vol 8 (6) ◽  
pp. 877-887 ◽  
Author(s):  
San San Lin ◽  
Uwe Groß ◽  
Wolfgang Bohne
Keyword(s):  
Membrane Potential ◽  
Toxoplasma Gondii ◽  
Mammalian Cells ◽  
Proton Pumping ◽  
Atp Depletion ◽  
Prolonged Treatment ◽  
Type Ii ◽  
Atpase Inhibitor ◽  
Inner Membrane ◽  
Mitochondrial Inner Membrane

ABSTRACT The apicomplexan parasite Toxoplasma gondii expresses type II NADH dehydrogenases (NDH2s) instead of canonical complex I at the inner mitochondrial membrane. These non-proton-pumping enzymes are considered to be promising drug targets due to their absence in mammalian cells. We recently showed by inhibition kinetics that T. gondii NDH2-I is a target of the quinolone-like compound 1-hydroxy-2-dodecyl-4(1H)quinolone (HDQ), which inhibits T. gondii replication in the nanomolar range. In this study, the cationic fluorescent probes Mitotracker and DiOC6(3) (3,3′-dihexyloxacarbocyanine iodine) were used to monitor the influence of HDQ on the mitochondrial inner membrane potential (ΔΨm) in T. gondii. Real-time imaging revealed that nanomolar HDQ concentrations led to a ΔΨm collapse within minutes, which is followed by severe ATP depletions of 30% after 1 h and 70% after 24 h. ΔΨm depolarization was attenuated when substrates for other dehydrogenases that can donate electrons to ubiquinone were added to digitonin-permeabilized cells or when infected cultures were treated with the Fo-ATPase inhibitor oligomycin. A prolonged treatment with sublethal concentrations of HDQ induced differentiation into bradyzoites. This dormant stage is likely to be less dependent on the ΔΨm, since ΔΨm-positive parasites were found at a significantly lower frequency in alkaline-pH-induced bradyzoites than in tachyzoites. Together, our studies reveal that oxidative phosphorylation is essential for maintaining the ATP level in the fast-growing tachyzoite stage and that HDQ interferes with this pathway by inhibiting the electron transport chain at the level of ubiquinone reduction.

scholarly journals THE INTERACTION BETWEEN TOXOPLASMA GONDII AND MAMMALIAN CELLS

1972 ◽  
Vol 136 (5) ◽  
pp. 1173-1194 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas C. Jones ◽  
James G. Hirsch
Keyword(s):  
Endoplasmic Reticulum ◽  
Electron Microscope ◽  
Acid Phosphatase ◽  
Toxoplasma Gondii ◽  
Mammalian Cells ◽  
Cell Function ◽  
Vacuolar Membrane ◽  
Thorium Dioxide ◽  
Phosphatase Cytochemistry ◽  
Secondary Lysosomes

Electron microscope methods have been used to study delivery of macrophage primary or secondary lysosomal contents to phagocytic vacuoles containing living or dead toxoplasmas. Secondary lysosomes were labeled by culturing the cells in colloidal thorium dioxide (thorotrast) or in ferritin. Acid phosphatase cytochemistry was employed for detection of primary as well as secondary lysosomal constituents. These various lysosomal labels were present in nearly all vacuoles containing toxoplasmas killed with glutaraldehyde, or in vacuoles containing those parasites undergoing degeneration 1 hr after the uptake of living toxoplasmas. In contrast, at times ranging from 1 to 20 hr after infection, no vacuoles containing morphologically normal, apparently viable toxoplasmas were thorotrast or ferritin positive, and only rarely did these vacuoles react for acid phosphatase. In many instances vacuoles containing viable toxoplasmas and no lysosomal markers were situated in the same cell nearby to vacuoles containing degenerating toxoplasmas and lysosomal constituents, thus indicating that the determinants of lysosomal fusion were operating locally in the immediate vicinity of the phagocytic vacuole, and not operating to influence general cell function. Thus, some toxoplasmas are able to prevent the delivery of lysosomal contents, and apparently the phagocytic vacuole provides for these parasites a sheltered microenvironment ideal for their growth. Morphologic evidence indicated that living toxoplasmas altered the phagocytic vacuolar membrane in macrophages, fibroblasts, and HeLa cells. Within minutes after phagocytosis, the vacuole became surrounded by closely apposed strips of endoplasmic reticulum and mitochondria; somewhat later, microvillous protrusions of the membrane into the vacuole were seen. These morphologic features of phagocytic vacuoles containing living toxoplasmas may be of importance in relation to the absence of lysosomal fusion, or they may serve some function in protecting the host cell or in nourishing the parasite.

Metabolic cost of bafilomycin-sensitive H+ pump in intact dog, rabbit, and hamster proximal tubules

1993 ◽  
Vol 264 (4) ◽  
pp. F655-F661
Author(s):  
J. Noel ◽  
P. Vinay ◽  
A. Tejedor ◽  
A. Fleser ◽  
R. Laprade
Keyword(s):  
Brush Border Membrane ◽  
Specific Inhibitor ◽  
Atp Synthesis ◽  
Metabolic Cost ◽  
Proximal Tubules ◽  
Kidney Cortex ◽  
Bafilomycin A1 ◽  
Extracellular Medium ◽  
Atp Turnover ◽  
Membrane Bound

Bafilomycin A1 is a specific inhibitor of the brush-border membrane-bound H(+)-adenosinetriphosphatase (H(+)-ATPase) of the kidney cortex with no effect on the mitochondrial ATP synthetase or on the basolateral Na(+)-K(+)-ATPase activities. Bafilomycin A1 is thus a useful tool to estimate the contribution of the activity of the H(+)-ATPase to the cellular ATP turnover in a suspension of proximal tubules containing largely S1 and S2 segments. In dog proximal tubules incubated under control conditions, we found that 81% of the respiration is directly related to ATP synthesis, i.e., is sensitive to oligomycin (phosphorylative respiration). Of this amount, 29% is inhibited by 5 x 10(-7) M bafilomycin A1 alone and 90-95% by the combination of bafilomycin plus ouabain. These results indicate that the H(+)-ATPase activity is a significant energy-requiring process in dog proximal tubules. If bafilomycin is added after a 5- to 7-min preincubation with 1 mM ouabain, then the bafilomycin-sensitive ATP turnover is larger, reaching 44% of total phosphorylation. This may suggest that the H+ pump is stimulated by the indirect inhibition of the Na+/H+ exchanger produced by the exposure of tubules to ouabain. The contribution of the bafilomycin-sensitive H+ pump to the cell ATP turnover is also increased by acidification of the extracellular medium. In rabbit and hamster proximal tubules, the bafilomycin-sensitive ATP requirement involves only 5 and 10%, respectively, of the total ATP turnover. These results demonstrate that the metabolic cost of proton secretion by the membrane-bound H(+)-ATPase in suspensions of proximal tubules may be considerable but varies significantly from species to species.

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