Urinary acidification in turtle bladder is due to a reversible proton-translocating ATPase.

AUTOR(ES)

Dixon, T E

RESUMO

Adverse proton electrochemical gradients (delta muH) applied across the turtle urinary bladder decrease active H+ transport in this epithelium. A delta muH of 180 mV abolishes both transport and its tightly coupled metabolic reaction. Larger gradients should, in theory, reverse the direction of H+ transport and the metabolic reaction leading to synthesis of ATP if the pump is an ATPase, or cause an increase in the oxidized state of a redox pair if it is a redox pump. To distinguish between these two possibilities, we measured ATP levels in epithelial cells that were poisoned to inhibit cellular mechanisms of ATP synthesis. At delta muH of 120 mV or less no ATP synthesis was found. At delta muH of greater than 120 mV there was a linear increase in ATP synthesis. Dinitrophenol, a H+ carrier, prevented synthesis at delta muH of 310 mV. Dicyclohexylcarbodiimide, an inhibitor of H+ transport that works at the cell surface, prevented ATP synthesis at delta muH of 310 mV. These results demonstrate that a reversible proton-translocating ATPase in the mucosal border of the bladder is the H+ pump responsible for urinary acidification.

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