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The Journal of General Physiology, Vol 92, 489-507, Copyright © 1988 by The Rockefeller University Press
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D Restrepo, DJ Kozody, LJ Spinelli and PA Knauf
Department of Biophysics, University of Rochester School of Medicine, New York 14642.
By measuring the membrane potential using the influx of the lipophilic cation tetraphenylphosphonium and intracellular pH using 2,7-biscarboxy- ethyl-5(6)-carboxyfluorescein and the distribution of the weak acid 5,5- dimethyl-2,4-oxazolidinedione, we have determined that intracellular pH is 0.9-1.1 pH units above electrochemical equilibrium in undifferentiated HL60 cells, indicating that these cells actively extrude proton equivalents. The Na/H exchanger is not the system responsible for keeping the pH above the electrochemical equilibrium, since adding inhibitors of this transport system (dimethylamiloride and ethylisopropylamiloride) or removing the extracellular sodium has no effect on intracellular pH. In contrast, the addition of the Cl/HCO3 exchange inhibitors H2 4,4'-diisothiocyanostilbene-2,2'-disulfonate (DIDS) or pentachlorophenol (PCP) causes a drop in intracellular pH, and the removal of extracellular chloride in the presence of bicarbonate leads to a large intracellular alkalinization, which indicates a role for the anion exchanger in pH homeostasis in these cells. In addition, we find that the intracellular chloride concentration is about one order of magnitude above electrochemical equilibrium. We conclude that an H2DIDS and PCP inhibitable system, probably the Cl/HCO3 exchanger, is at least partially responsible for keeping intracellular pH above electrochemical equilibrium in HL60 cells under resting conditions. We also find no change in intracellular pH when cells differentiate along the granulocytic pathway (having been induced by the addition of dimethylsulfoxide or of retinoic acid), which indicates that changes in intracellular pH are not causally related to cell differentiation.
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