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  • Title: Charge movements via the cardiac Na,K-ATPase.
    Author: Gadsby DC, Nakao M, Bahinski A, Nagel G, Suenson M.
    Journal: Acta Physiol Scand Suppl; 1992; 607():111-23. PubMed ID: 1333148.
    Abstract:
    The voltage dependence of transient and steady-state pump currents was examined in guinea pig ventricular myocytes to investigate mechanisms of charge translocation by the Na,K-ATPase. Na/K pump current was determined at approximately 36 degrees C as strophanthidin-sensitive whole-cell current in myocytes voltage clamped and internally dialyzed via wide tipped pipettes containing a pipette perfusion device. External Na ions diminished stationary pump current during forward Na/K cycling in a voltage dependent manner, the inhibition becoming stronger upon hyperpolarization. When Na,K-ATPase activity was restricted to Na translocation steps, stationary pump current was prevented but voltage pulses still elicited large transient pump currents which could be abolished by oligomycin B (> or = 2 micrograms/ml). The transients arose instantaneously on stepping the voltage, and decayed with voltage-dependent approximately single exponential time courses. The decay rates, and their high temperature sensitivity (approximately 200 s-1 at 0 mV at 36 degrees C; approximately 40 s-1 at 20 degrees C), suggest that the charge movements were limited by a conformational change associated with Na deocclusion. Those rates varied asymmetrically with voltage, changing little at positive voltages but increasing roughly exponentially with hyperpolarization (e-fold/approximately 80 mV). Lowering the extracellular [Na] ([Na]o) slowed the relaxation of charge movement at negative potentials but had little effect at positive potentials, and so shifted the rate constant-voltage curve to the left. The implied dependence on [Na]o of the backward rate constant governing pump charge movement accounts satisfactorily for the observed [Na]o sensitivity of stationary outward Na/K pump current, and indicates that the voltage-dependent step somehow involves the release of Na ions to the external medium. However, no strophanthidin-sensitive current was seen, at saturating external [K], when Na,K-ATPase activity was limited to K translocation steps by complete withdrawal of Na ions. But, at very low [Na]o, a weak negative slope appeared in the stationary pump current-voltage relationship at subsaturating, but not at saturating, external [K], indicating an increased apparent affinity for external K at more negative potentials. The results support the existence of a high field access channel through which extracellular Na and K ions must pass before interacting with their binding sites deep within the Na,K-ATPase molecule.
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