Absence of the alpha subunit of (Na+, K+)ATPase on luminal cell membranes.
Absence of the alpha subunit of (Na+, K+)ATPase on luminal cell membranes.
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管腔细胞膜上不存在 (Na , K )ATP 酶的 α 亚基。
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发表时间:
1988
影响因子:
3.2
通讯作者:
A. Yamamoto
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作者:
Y. Tashiro;K. Omori;A. Yamamoto
Recently we published two reports in this journal on quantitative immunoelectron microscopic localization of (Na+,K+)ATPasC in rat exocrine pancreatic cells (1) and rat parotid gland (2). The antibody used in those studies was against holo(NatK )ATPase which had been purified from rat kidney by the procedure ofTakemura et al. (3), as described by Akayama et al. (4). Results of immunoblot analyses showed that the antibody bound selectively to the a and 3 subunits and that it markedly inhibited (Na ,K ) ATPase activity (4). (Na+,K+)ATPase was localized in rat exocnine pancreatic cells and parotid gland by use ofthe antibody and the post-embedding protein A-gold technique. In acinar and duct cells ofexocrine pancreatic cells, gold partides bound to both the luminal and the basolateral surface membranes, but with higher particle density on the luminal surface (1). In the acinar cells ofparotid gland, a small but significant number ofgold particles were detected on the luminal plasma membranes, whereas in duct cells gold particles bound exclusively to the basolatenal membranes (2). These results appeared to us to be consistent with the previous finding from our laboratory that an appreciable amount of(Na+,K+)ATPase is present on the luminal (bile canalicular) surface membrane in canine hepatocytes (3). Recently, the results of this last report have been criticiied by Sztul et al. (5). According to them, a monocbonal antibody specific for the endodomain of the a subunit localized this subunit exclusively on the basolateral surfaces of hepatocytes, and no labeling of the canalicular plasma membrane was detected. Their Western blots that used a polyclonal antibody against the (NatK )ATPase a subunit showed that the basolateral domain of a hepatocyte has essentially all the cell’s estimated (NaF,K+)ATPase catalytic activity. They suggested that either our polycbonal antibodies produced against hobo(Na+,K+)ATPase recognized proteins such as Ca2 or Mg2 ATPase that may share certain antigenic determinants with (Na ,K ) ATPase or that our original (Na’,K )ATPase preparation contained a highly antigenic contaminating protein. We have re-run our previous experiments using antibody monospecific against the a subunit of rat kidney (Na+,K+)ATPase. Rat hobo(Na ,K ) ATPase, purified as described elsewhere (4), was separated into its a and l subunits by preparative sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel dcctrophoresis (SDS-PAGE), after which the subunits were transferred dcctrophoretically to a nitrocellubose sheet. After incubation with the antibody, the band corresponding to the a subunit was cut out, and the antibody bound to the a subunit was eluted from it and used for immunoelectron microscopic determination of localization of the a subunit. Our results are summarized as follows (Table 1). There was no labeling ofthe luminal surface membranes ofrat hepatocytes, exocrine pancreatic acinar cells, or parotid gland acinar cells with gold particles, whereas the particle densities on the basolateral surface membranes ofthese cells were similar to those reported previously (1,2,3). These results indicate that there is no detectable amount of the a subunit of (Na+,K+)ATPase on the luminal surface membranes of these cells. Therefore, our proposal that an appreciable amount of(Na+,K )ATPase is present on the luminal surfaces of rat exocrine pancreatic acinar cells (1) and on those of parotid gland acinar cells (2) is not supported experimentally. It is not yet clear why the luminal surface membranes were stained with gold particles when anti-hobo(Na ,K )ATPase antibody was used. One possibility is that our original (Na ,K )ATPase preparation, although highly purified as judged by SDS-PAGE, may have contained a small but highly antigenic contaminating protein, as suggested by Sztul et al. (5). Another