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  • Title: Cytosolic pH regulation in mouse macrophages. Characteristics of HCO3(-)-dependent mechanisms.
    Author: Tapper H, Sundler R.
    Journal: Biochem J; 1992 Jan 01; 281 ( Pt 1)(Pt 1):239-44. PubMed ID: 1310007.
    Abstract:
    Mechanisms regulating cytosolic pH (pHi) in adherent resident mouse macrophages have been characterized by use of the pH-sensitive fluorescent probe 2',7'-bis(carboxyethyl)-5(6)-carboxyfluorescein (BCECF). Na+/H+ exchange was activated after an acid load of the macrophage cytosol. However, when Na+/H+ exchange was the only pHi-regulatory mechanism operative, recovery did not proceed beyond a pHi of approx. 6.6. The mechanisms found to be operative at physiological pHi levels were alkalinizing Na(+)-dependent and acidifying Na(+)-independent Cl-/HCO3- exchangers and a H(+)-ATPase further characterized in the accompanying paper [Tapper & Sundler (1992) Biochem. J. 281, 245-250]. Acid extrusion via Na+/Cl-/HCO3- exchange was demonstrated by the dependence on external Na+ and HCO3- and on internal Cl- and by the sensitivity to 4-acetamido-4'-isothiocyanatostilbene-2,2'-disulphonic acid (SITS) and 4,4'-di-isothiocyanatostilbene-2,2'-disulphonic acid (DIDS). By monitoring pHi changes upon Cl- removal and re-addition, the pH-dependence and sensitivity to SITS were found to differ for the alkalinizing and the acidifying Cl-/HCO3- exchangers.
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