Roles of ATP and cytoskeleton in the regulation of Na+/H+ exchanger along the nephron luminal membrane
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Abstract
Although in LLC-PK cells ATP depletion has been shown to result in alterations of cytoskeleton actin and an inhibition of Na+/H+ exchanger activity, there is little information concerning the regulation of this exchanger in the distal luminal membrane by ATP and actin filaments. The present study examined the direct effect of ATP and cytochalasin B on the Na+/H+ exchanger activity in the proximal and distal tubule luminal membranes. The presence of 100 microM ATP in the luminal membrane vesicles from rabbit proximal tubules did not influence the Ethyl Isopropyl Amiloride sensitive Na+ uptake by these membranes. In contrast, the same treatment of luminal membranes from distal tubules significantly enhanced the exchanger activity from 0.22 +/- 0.04 to 0.39 +/- 0.08 pM/microg/10 sec (P < 0.02). When ATP was replaced by its nonhydrolysable form, ATPgammas, the effect on the distal luminal membrane was strongly diminished suggesting that the action of the nucleotide implicates a phosphorylation step. Confirming this hypothesis, addition of 300-microM-Rp cAMP, a protein kinase A inhibitor, completely abolished the effect of ATP. In view of the fact that a tight relationship has been described between ATP, the cytoskeleton complex and the exchanger activity, we studied the effect of cytochalasin B on this activity. The presence of 20 microM cytochalasin B in the distal luminal membrane vesicles induced, as observed with ATP, a significant increase in the Na+ uptake. However, the actions of ATP and cytochalasin B were not additive. These results suggest that firstly, ATP and short actin filaments of the cytoskeleton regulate the distal luminal isoform through an intramembranous mechanism and secondly, a phosphorylation mechanism is, at least partially, implicated in the action of ATP. In contrast, the proximal tubule exchanger is regulated through different mechanisms.
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| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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