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Immunolocalization of Na,K-ATPase in blowfly photoreceptor cells

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The Na,K-ATPase (sodium pump) plays a central role in the physiology of arthropod photoreceptors as it re-establishes gradients for Na+ and K+ after light stimulation. We have mapped the distribution of the Na,K-ATPase in the photoreceptors of the blowfly (Calliphora erythrocephala) by immunofluorescent and immunogold cytochemistry, and demonstrate that the distribution pattern is more complex than previously presumed. High levels of sodium pumps have been detected consistently in all photoreceptors R1-8 on the nonreceptive surface, but no sodium pumps are found on the microvillar rhabdomere. Within the nonreceptive surface of the cells R1-6, however, the sodium pumps are confined to sites juxtaposed to neighboring photoreceptor or glial cells; no sodium pumps have been detected on the parts of the nonreceptive surface exposed to the intra-ommatidial space. In R7 and R8, the sodium pumps are found over the entire nonreceptive surface. The cytoskeletal protein spectrin colocalizes with the sodium pumps suggesting that linkage of the pump molecules to the spectrin-based submembrane cytoskeleton contributes to the maintenance of the complex pattern of pump distribution.

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  1. Institut für Zoologie, Universität Regensburg, Universitätsstrasse 31, D-93040, Regensburg, Germany

    Otto Baumann & Birgit Lautenschläger

  2. Department of Medical Biochemistry, The Ohio State University, 43210, Columbus, OH, USA

    Kunio Takeyasu

  3. Biotechnology Center, The Ohio State University, 43210, Columbus, OH, USA

    Kunio Takeyasu

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Baumann, O., Lautenschläger, B. & Takeyasu, K. Immunolocalization of Na,K-ATPase in blowfly photoreceptor cells. Cell Tissue Res 275, 225–234 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00319420

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