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Basal lateral membrane vesicles were isolated from rat intestinal epithelial cells. The sodium potassium triphosphatase (Na/K-ATPase) of these plasma membranes has been characterized by (1) the molecular weight of the phosphorylated intermediate, (2) the sensitivity of the phosphorylated intermediate to hydroxylamine, (3) its ouabain binding constants, and (4) its susceptibility to digestion by pronase. The phosphorylated intermediate was shown by SDS polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis to be a protein of 100,000 Daltons apparent mol wt. Its extensive hydrolysis in hydroxylamine demonstrated that it was an acyl phosphate. The isolated basal lateral membranes bound ouabain with a dissociation constant,K m (1.5×10−5 m), similar to the inhibitory constantK I (3×10−5 m), measured for ouabain inhibition of the Na/K-ATPase activity. The association rate constant measured for ouabain binding at 22°C was 1.3×103 m −1 sec−1 and is similar to the association rate constants reported for other tissues and species. The high dissociation rate constant, 3.6×10−2 sec−1, is consistent with the insensitivity of the rat to ouabain. Digestion of the intact cells by pronase yielded basal lateral membranes in which the Na/K-ATPase had been unaffected. The phosphorylated intermediate ran as a sharp band at 100,000 Daltons on electrophoresis, and the ouabain dissociation constant appeared to be unchanged. In these membranes, protein stains of polyacrylamide gels revealed digestion of the major high mol wt proteins including the major protein at 100,000 Daltons. This suggests that the Na/K-ATPase represent a minor component, less than 1%, of the basal lateral membrane protein. From these characteristics of the phosphorylated intermediate and the ouabain binding constants, we conclude that the Na/K-ATPase of the basal lateral membranes of rat intestinal epithelial cells is similar to that found in other tissues and species. Estimates of the number of pump sites and the turnover number predict rates of Na transport that are consistent with observed values.
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This paper is dedicated to the memory of Professor David H. Smyth, FRS, who died on September 10, 1979.
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Harms, V., Wright, E.M. Some characteristics of Na/K-ATPase from rat intestinal basal lateral membranes. J. Membrain Biol. 53, 119–128 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01870580
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