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Am J Physiol Renal Physiol 271: F401-F407, 1996;
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AJP - Renal Physiology, Vol 271, Issue 2 401-F407, Copyright © 1996 by American Physiological Society

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Mechanism of H(+)-coupled formate transport in rabbit renal microvillus membranes

A. M. Saleh, H. Rudnick and P. S. Aronson
Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, USA.

It has been proposed that a major fraction of Cl- absorption in the mammalian proximal tubule occurs by Cl-/formate exchange across the apical membrane with recycling of formate by nonionic diffusion. The purpose of this study was to characterize the mechanism of formate recycling in rabbit renal microvillus membrane vesicles. Formate uptake was stimulated by an inside-alkaline pH gradient. When external pH (pH alpha) was varied at constant internal pH (pHi), the initial rate of formate uptake was less than predicted for nonionic diffusion of formic acid at constant formic acid permeability. When pHi was varied at constant pHi, the initial rate of formate uptake exhibited cooperative and saturable kinetics with respect to pHi, in contrast to the pHi independence predicted for nonionic diffusion. pH gradient-stimulated [14C]formate uptake was stimulated by internal formate, indicating formate/formate exchange. pH gradient-stimulated formate influx was sensitive to inhibition by 1 mM 4,4'-diisothiocyanostilbene-2, 2'-disulfonic acid but not by furosemide or hydroxycinnamate. We conclude that pH gradient-stimulated formate uptake takes place by a carrier-mediated process of H(+)-formate cotransport, OH-/formate exchange, or facilitated formic acid diffusion, rather than solely by passive nonionic diffusion through the lipid bilayer.


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