Euryhaline pufferfish NBCe1 differs from nonmarine species NBCe1 physiology
Euryhaline pufferfish NBCe1 differs from nonmarine species NBCe1 physiology
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DOI:
10.1152/ajpcell.00233.2011
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发表时间:
2012-04-01
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5.5
通讯作者:
Romero, Michael F.
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作者:
Chang, Min-Hwang;Plata, Consuelo;Romero, Michael F.
Chang MH, Plata C, Kurita Y, Kato A, Hirose S, Romero MF. Euryhaline pufferfish NBCe1 differs from nonmarine species NBCe1 physiology. Am J Physiol Cell Physiol 302: C1083-C1095, 2012. First published December 7, 2011; doi:10.1152/ajpcell.00233.2011.-Marine fish drink seawater and eliminate excess salt by active salt transport across gill and gut epithelia. Euryhaline pufferfish (Takifugu obscurus, mefugu) forms a CaCO3 precipitate on the luminal gut surface after transitioning to seawater. NBCe1 (Slc4a4) at the basolateral membrane of intestinal epithelial cell plays a major role in transepithelial intestinal HCO3- secretion and is critical for mefugu acclimation to seawater. We assayed fugu-NBCe1 (fNBCe1) activity in the Xenopus oocyte expression system. Similar to NBCe1 found in other species, fNBCe1 is an electrogenic Na+/HCO3 cotransporter and sensitive to the stilbene inhibitor DIDS. However, our experiments revealed several unique and distinguishable fNBCe1 transport characteristics not found in mammalian or other teleost NBCe1-orthologs: electrogenic Li+/nHCO(3)(-) cotransport; HCO3- independent, DIDS-insensitive transport; and increased basal intracellular Na+ accumulation. fNBCe1 is a voltage-dependent Na+/nHCO(3)(-) cotransporter that rectifies, independently from the extracellular Na+ or HCO3- concentration, around -60 mV. Na+ removal (0Na(+) pre-pulse) is necessary to produce the true HCO3--elicited current. HCO3- addition results in huge outward currents with quick current decay. Kinetic analysis of HCO3- currents reveals that fNBCe1 has a much higher transport capacity (higher maximum current) and lower affinity (higher K-m) than human kidney NBCe1 (hkNBCe1) does in the physiological range (membrane potential = -80 mV; [HCO3-] = 10 mM). In this state, fNBCe1 is in favor of operating as transepithelial HCO3- secretion, opposite of hkNBCe1, from blood to the luminal side. Thus, fugu-NBCe1 represents the first ortholog-based tool to study amino acid substitutions in NBCe1 and how those change ion and voltage dependence.