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These experiments examined effects of several ligands on the K+ p-nitrophenylphosphatase activity of the (Na+,K+)-ATPase in membranes of a rat brain cortex synaptosomal preparation. K+-independent hydrolysis of this substrate by the synaptosomal preparation was studied in parallel; the rate of hydrolysis in the absence of K+ was approximately 75% less than that observed when K+ was included in the incubation medium. The response to the H+ concentrations was different: K+-independent activity showed a pH optimum around 6.5–7.0, while the K+-dependent activity was relatively low at this pH range. Ouabain (0.1 mM) inhibited K+-dependent activity 50%; a concentration 10 times higher did not produce any appreciable effect on the K+-independent activity. Na+ did not affect K+-independent activity at all, while the same ligand concentration inhibited sharply the K+-dependent activity; this inhibition was not competitive with the substrate,p-nitrophenyl phosphate. K+-dependent activity was stimulated by Mg2+ with low affinity (millimolar range), and 3 mM Mg2+ produced a slight stimulation of the activity in absence of K+, which could be interpreted as Mg2+ occupying the K+ sites. Ca2+ had no appreciable effect on the activity in the absence of K+. However, in the presence of K+ a sharp inhibition was found with all Ca2+ concentrations studied. ATP (0.5 mM) did not affect the K+-independent activity, but this nucleotide behaved as a competitive inhibitor top-nitrophenylphosphate. Pi inhibited activity in the presence of K+, competively to the substrate, so it could be considered as the second product of the reaction sequence.
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Abbreviations
- p-NPP:
-
p-nitrophenylphosphate
- p-NPPase:
-
rho-nitrophenylphosphatase activity
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Marichal, M.G., Del Castillo, A.R., Vasallo, P.M. et al. Characterization of K+-dependent and K+-independentp-nitrophenylphosphatase activity of synaptosomes. Neurochem Res 18, 751–758 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00966769
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