Abstract:
:The regulation of intracellular pH (pHi) is essential for normal cell function, and controlled changes in pHi may play a central role in cell activation. Sodium-dependent Cl-HCO3 exchange is the dominant mechanism of pHi regulation in the invertebrate cells examined, and also occurs in mammalian cells. The transporter extrudes acid from the cell by exchanging extracellular Na+ and HCO3- (ref. 9) (or a related species) for intracellular Cl- (refs 3, 4). It is blocked by the stilbene derivatives DIDS (4,4'-diisothiocyano-stilbene-2,2'-disulphonate, ref. 10) and SITS (4-acetamido-4'-isothiocyano-stilbene-2,2'-disulphonate, ref. 3), and has a stoichiometry of two intracellular H+ neutralized for each Na+ taken up and each Cl- extruded by the axon. Because the inwardly-directed Na+ concentration gradient is sufficiently large to energize both the HCO3- influx and Cl- efflux, this electroneutral exchanger could be a classic secondary active transporter, thermodynamically independent of ATP hydrolysis. However, at least in the squid axon, the exchanger has an absolute requirement for ATP (ref. 3). Thus, a major unresolved issue is whether this Na-dependent Cl-HCO3 exchanger stoichiometrically hydrolyses ATP (the pump hypothesis), or whether ATP activates the transporter by a mechanism such as phosphorylation or simple binding (the activation hypothesis). We have now explored the role of ATP in pHi regulation by dialysing axons with the ATP analogue ATP-gamma-S. In many systems, ATP-gamma-S is an acceptable substrate for protein kinases, whereas the resulting thiophosphorylated proteins are not as readily hydrolysed by phosphatases as are phosphorylated proteins. Our results rule out the pump hypothesis, and show that the basis of the axon's ATP requirement is the pH-dependent activation (by, for instance, phosphorylation or ATP binding) of the exchanger itself, or of an essential activator.
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Naturejournal_title
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Boron WF,Hogan E,Russell JMdoi
10.1038/332262a0subject
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1988-03-17 00:00:00pages
262-5issue
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0028-0836issn
1476-4687journal_volume
332pub_type
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