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Kenneth E. White^*, Frank A. Gesek^*, Teresa Nesbitt^,,||||, Marc K. Drezner^,,||||, and Peter A. Friedman^*

From the ^* Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, New Hampshire 03755; and Department of Medicine, Department of Cell Biology, and ^|||| Sarah W. Stedman Nutrition Center, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina 27710

Plasma membrane Ca²⁺-ATPase (PMCA) and the Na⁺/Ca²⁺ exchanger participate in regulating cell function by maintaining proper intracellular Ca²⁺ concentrations ([Ca²⁺]_i). In renal epithelial cells these proteins have been additionally implicated in cellular calcium absorption. The purpose of the present studies was to determine the Ca²⁺ extrusion mechanisms in cells derived from the proximal tubule. Homology-based RT-PCR was used to amplify PMCA transcripts from RNA isolated from mouse cell lines originating from the S₁, S₂, and S₃ proximal tubule segments. S₁, S₂, and S₃ cells exhibited only PMCA1 and PMCA4 products. PCR product identity was confirmed by sequence analysis. Northern analysis of proximal tubule cell RNAs revealed appropriate transcripts of 7.5 and 5.5 kb for PMCA1 and 8.5 and 7.5 kb for PMCA4, but were negative for PMCA2 and PMCA3. Western analysis with a monoclonal antibody to PMCA showed that all proximal cell lines expressed a reacting plasma membrane protein of 140 kD, the reported PMCA molecular mass. Na⁺/Ca²⁺ exchanger (NCX1) mRNA expression, analyzed by RT-PCR, protein expression by Western analysis, and functional exchange activity were uniformly absent from all proximal tubule cell lines. These observations support the idea that immortalized cells derived from the proximal tubule express PMCA1 and PMCA4, which may serve as the primary mechanism of cellular Ca²⁺ efflux.

Key Words: calcium transport • kidney • PMCA • Na/Ca exchange • Ca-ATPase

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