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Active H+ transport in the turtle urinary bladder is mediated by an ATPase. Although the source of ATP is usually mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation, it is possible because of intracellular compartmentalization or cellular heterogeneity that one metabolic pathway exclusively provides ATP to the pump. To examine this we performed several types of experiments. In one, the coupling between the rate of transport and the rate of oxidation of14C-labeled substrates was studied. We found that there was coupling between H+ transport and glucose, butyrate, oleate, and β-OH-butyrate oxidation. In another set of experiments we depleted turtle bladders of their endogenous substrates and tested the effect of a number of substrates on the rate of transport. We found that glucose, pyruvate, lactate, actetate, butyrate and β-OH butyrate all stimulated H+ transport. In a third set of experiments we found no coupling between H+ transport and lactate production. Finally, we found that reduction of H+ transport by mucosal acidification resulted in an increase in epithelial cell ATP concentrations and a decrease in ADP levels.
These results suggest that the H+ pump receives its ATP from carbohydrate and fatty acid oxidation. The changes in ATP and ADP levels provide an initial explanation for the coupling of H+ transport to the rate of cellular oxidative metabolism.
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Kelly, S., Dixon, T.E. & Al-Awqati, Q. Metabolic pathways coupled to H+ transport in turtle urinary bladder. J. Membrain Biol. 54, 237–243 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01870240
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