AJP - Renal Physiology, Vol 265, Issue 5 693-F697, Copyright © 1993 by American Physiological Society

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Na(+)-K(+)-ATPase that redistributes to apical membrane during ATP depletion remains functional

B. A. Molitoris
Department of Medicine, University of Colorado, School of Medicine, Denver.

We have previously demonstrated using immunocytochemical, histochemical, and biochemical techniques that ischemia in vivo and ATP depletion in vitro result in dissociation of Na(+)-K(+)-adenosinetriphosphatase (ATPase) from the actin cytoskeleton and redistribution to the apical domain in renal proximal tubule cells. To directly evaluate whether apical Na(+)-K(+)-ATPase retained Na+ pumping activity, a rapidly reversible model of cellular ATP depletion in confluent LLC-PK1 cells grown on semipermeable membranes was utilized. Tight-junction integrity, monitored by electrical resistance, was lost during ATP depletion and reestablished during 2 h of ATP repletion. Total cellular Na(+)-K(+)-ATPase activity and total surface membrane [3H]ouabain binding remained constant, but specific apical [3H]ouabain binding increased (7 vs. 26 fmol/filter, P < 0.01). Apical [3H]ouabain binding returned to baseline during 5 h of ATP repletion. Apically applied ouabain was then used to selectively inhibit apical Na(+)-K(+)-ATPase. It had no effect on apical-to-basolateral Na+ flux under physiological conditions (1.3 +/- 0.61 vs. 1.27 +/- 0.46 meq.filter-1.30 min-1), but it increased the apical-to-basolateral flux in ATP-depleted and then repleted monolayers (0.39 +/- 0.12 vs. 0.83 +/- 0.27 meq.filter-1.30 min-1, P < 0.01), implying that apical Na(+)-K(+)-ATPase retained Na+ pumping activity. Together, these data imply that ATP depletion induces loss of surface membrane polarity resulting in redistribution of functional proteins to the alternate domain.

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