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Extracellular Protons Regulate the Extracellular Cation Selectivity of the Sodium Pump

Mark A. Milanick and Krista L. Arnett

Department of Physiology, School of Medicine, and Dalton Cardiovascular Research Center, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211

Address correspondence to Mark Milanick, Dalton Cardiovascular Research Center, 134 Research Park Road, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211. Fax: (573) 884-4232; E-mail: milanickm{at}missouri.edu

The effects of 0.3–10 nM extracellular protons (pH 9.5–8.0) on ouabain-sensitive rubidium influx were determined in 4,4'-diisocyanostilbene-2, 2'-disulfonate (DIDS)-treated human and rat erythrocytes. This treatment clamps the intracellular H. We found that rubidium binds much better to the protonated pump than the unprotonated pump; 13-fold better in rat and 34-fold better in human erythrocytes. This clearly shows that protons are not competing with rubidium in this proton concentration range. Bretylium and tetrapropylammonium also bind much better to the protonated pump than the unprotonated pump in human erythrocytes and in this sense they are potassium-like ions. In contrast, guanidinium and sodium bind about equally well to protonated and unprotonated pump in human red cells. In rat red cells, protons actually make sodium bind less well (about sevenfold). Thus, protons have substantially different effects on the binding of rubidium and sodium. The effect of protons on ouabain binding in rat red cells was intermediate between the effects of protons on rubidium binding and on sodium binding. Remarkably, all four cationic inhibitors (bretylium, guanidinium, sodium, and tetrapropylammonium) had similar apparent inhibitory constants for the unprotonated pump (5–10 mM). The K_d for proton binding to the human pump, with the empty transport site facing extracellularly is 13 nM, whereas the extracellular transport site loaded with sodium is 9.5 nM, and with rubidium is 0.38 nM. In rat red cells there is also a substantial difference in the K_d for proton binding to the sodium-loaded pump (14.5 nM) and the rubidium-loaded pump (0.158 nM). These data suggest that important rearrangements occur at the extracellular pump surface as the pump moves between conformations in which the outward facing transport site has sodium bound, is empty, or has rubidium bound and that guanidinium is sodium-like and bretylium and tetrapropylammonium are rubidium-like.

Key Words: pH clamp • tetrapropylammonium • ion transport • Na(+)-K(+)-exchanging ATPase • red blood cells

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