Calcium absorption by fish intestine: The involvement of ATP-and sodium-dependent calcium extrusion mechanisms |
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Authors: | Gert Flik Theo J. M. Schoenmakers Jack A. Groot Carel H. van Os Sjoerd E. Wendelaar Bonga |
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Affiliation: | (1) Department of Animal Physiology, Faculty of Science, University of Nijmegen, 6525 ED Nijmegen, The Netherlands;(2) Department of Animal Physiology, University of Amsterdam, 1098 SM Amsterdam, The Netherlands;(3) Department of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Nijmegen, 6500 HB Nijmegen, The Netherlands |
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Abstract: | Summary Measurements of unidirectional calcium fluxes in stripped intestinal epithelium of the tilapia,Oreochromis mossambicus, in the presence of ouabain or in the absence of sodium indicated that calcium absorption via the fish intestine is sodium dependent. Active Ca2+ transport mechanisms in the enterocyte plasma membrane were analyzed. The maximum capacity of the ATP-dependent Ca2+ pump (Vm:0.63 nmol·min–1 mg–1,Km: 27nm Ca2+) is calculated to be 2.17 nmol·min–1·mg–1, correcting for 29% inside-out oriented vesicles in the membrane preparation. The maximum capacity of the Na+/Ca2+ exchanger with high affinity for Ca2+ (Vm:7.2 nmol·min–1·mg–1,Km: 181nm Ca2+) is calculated to be 13.6 nmol·min–1·mg–1, correcting for 53% resealed vesicles and assuming symmetrical behavior of the Na+/Ca2+ exchanger. The high affinity for Ca2+ and the sixfold higher capacity of the exchanger compared to the ATPase suggest strongly that the Na+/Ca2+ exchanger will contribute substantially to Ca2+ extrusion in the fish enterocyte. Further evidence for an important contribution of Na+/Ca2+ exchange to Ca2+ extrusion was obtained from studies in which the simultaneous operation of ATP-and Na+-gradient-driven Ca2+ pumps in inside-out vesicles was evaluated. The fish enterocyte appears to present a model for a Ca2+ transporting cell, in which Na+/Ca2+ exchange activity with high affinity for Ca2+ extrudes Ca2+ from the cell. |
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Keywords: | (Na++K+)-ATPase (Ca2++Mg2+)-ATPase Na+/Ca2+ exchange enterocyte plasma membrane teleost fish tilapia bepridil |
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