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  • Title: Effects of membrane fluidizing agents on renal brush border proton permeability.
    Author: Ives HE, Verkman AS.
    Journal: Am J Physiol; 1985 Dec; 249(6 Pt 2):F933-40. PubMed ID: 4073275.
    Abstract:
    H+ permeability (PH) of brush border membrane vesicles isolated from rabbit renal cortex was measured from the rate of collapse of preformed pH gradients using acridine orange fluorescence quenching. n-Alkanols increased PH from 0.005 to 0.1 cm/s in a dose-dependent manner. At 25 degrees C, PH increased to 0.01 cm/s at [n-alkanol] = 90 mM (butanol), 30 mM (pentanol), 7 mM (hexanol), and 1.8 mM (heptanol). Activation energy (Ea) of PH was 21.6 kcal/mol (5-50 degrees C), which decreased to 18.5 kcal/mol in the presence of either 200 mM butanol or 12 mM hexanol. Membrane fluidity was estimated from diphenylhexatriene anisotropy (r). n-Alkanols decreased r from 0.25 to 0.18 in a dose-dependent manner. At 25 degrees C, r = 0.22 at [n-alkanol] = 200 mM (butanol), 27 mM (pentanol), 9.5 mM (hexanol), and 2 mM (heptanol). The effects of n-alkanols on PH and r correlated well with known n-alkanol lipid-water partition coefficients. Similar increases in PH and decreases in r were observed for nonalkanol lipid anesthetics. The effects of n-alkanols on the Na+-H+ antiporter and on osmotically driven water transport were also studied. At concentrations of n-alkanol that resulted in a 10-fold increase in PH, there was no significant effect on either Na+-H+ exchange or water transport. These results suggest a lipid pathway for brush border H+ diffusion that is distinct from both the Na+-H+ antiporter and the water transport pathway.
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