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  • Title: Electrophysiological characterization of the flounder type II Na+/Pi cotransporter (NaPi-5) expressed in Xenopus laevis oocytes.
    Author: Forster IC, Wagner CA, Busch AE, Lang F, Biber J, Hernando N, Murer H, Werner A.
    Journal: J Membr Biol; 1997 Nov 01; 160(1):9-25. PubMed ID: 9351888.
    Abstract:
    The two electrode voltage clamp technique was used to investigate the steady-state and presteady-state kinetic properties of the type II Na+/Pi cotransporter NaPi-5, cloned from the kidney of winter flounder (Pseudopleuronectes americanus) and expressed in Xenopus laevis oocytes. Steady-state Pi-induced currents had a voltage-independent apparent K(m) for Pi of 0.03 mM and a Hill coefficient of 1.0 at neutral pH, when superfusing with 96 mM Na+. The apparent K(m) for Na+ at 1 mM Pi was strongly voltage dependent (increasing from 32 mM at -70 mV to 77 mM at -30 mV) and the Hill coefficient was between 1 and 2, indicating cooperative binding of more than one Na+ ion. The maximum steady-state current was pH dependent, diminishing by 50% or more for a change from pH 7.8 to pH 6.3. Voltage jumps elicited presteady-state relaxations in the presence of 96 mM Na+ which were suppressed at saturating Pi (1 mM). Relaxations were absent in non-injected oocytes. Charge was balanced for equal positive and negative steps, saturated at extremes of potential and reversed at the holding potential. Fitting the charge transfer to a Boltzmann relationship typically gave a midpoint voltage (V0.5) close to zero and an apparent valency of approximately 0.6. The maximum steady-state transport rate correlated linearly with the maximum Pi-suppressed charge movement, indicating that the relaxations were NaPi-5-specific. The apparent transporter turnover was estimated as 35 sec-1. The voltage dependence of the relaxations was Pi-independent, whereas changes in Na+ shifted V0.5 to -60 mV at 25 mM Na+. Protons suppressed relaxations but contributed to no detectable charge movement in zero external Na+. The voltage dependent presteady-state behavior of NaPi-5 could be described by a 3 state model in which the partial reactions involving reorientation of the unloaded carrier and binding of Na+ contribute to transmembrane charge movement.
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