These tools will no longer be maintained as of December 31, 2024. Archived website can be found here. PubMed4Hh GitHub repository can be found here. Contact NLM Customer Service if you have questions.


Pubmed for Handhelds

PUBMED FOR HANDHELDS

Search MEDLINE/PubMed

  • Title: Apical location and inhibition by arginine vasopressin of K+/H+ antiport of the medullary thick ascending limb of rat kidney.
    Author: Attmane-Elakeb A, Boulanger H, Vernimmen C, Bichara M.
    Journal: J Biol Chem; 1997 Oct 10; 272(41):25668-77. PubMed ID: 9325290.
    Abstract:
    To characterize and localize a K+/H+ antiport mechanism in the renal medullary thick ascending limb (MTAL), membrane vesicles were isolated from a rat MTAL homogenate. K+/H+ antiport (in > out H+ gradient-stimulated 86Rb+ uptake) was abolished by barium and verapamil (apparent Ki of 55 microM) but unaffected by other K+ channel blockers such as quinidine and high amiloride concentrations. SCH 28080, a H+/K+-ATPase blocker, did not affect K+/H+ antiport. K+/H+ antiport activity was correlated positively with the enrichment factor of the membranes in the apical marker enzyme alkaline phosphatase (r = 0.875, p < 0.01) and negatively correlated with the enrichment factor in basolateral Na+/K+-ATPase (r = -0.665, p < 0.05). Moreover, a functional interaction occurred with Na+/H+ exchange (NHE) consistent with colocation of K+/H+ antiport and apical NHE-3, not basolateral NHE-1. K+/H+ antiport was shown by intracellular pH measurements to be inhibited by arginine vasopressin and 8-bromo-cAMP through cAMP-dependent protein kinase (protein kinase A) activation. These results demonstrate the presence of a K+/H+ antiport mechanism, which is inhibited by arginine vasopressin via protein kinase A, in the apical membrane of the MTAL.
    [Abstract] [Full Text] [Related] [New Search]