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Studies on lithium transport across the red cell membrane
Authors:Bernhard F Becker  Jochen Duhm
Institution:(1) Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Washington University School of Medicine, 63110 St. Louis, Missouri;(2) Department of Physiology & Biophysics, State University of New York, 11794 Stony Brook, New York;(3) Present address: Department of Physiology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, 660 West Redwood Street, 21201 Baltimore, Maryland
Abstract:Summary Binding of3H-saxitoxin to Na+ channels was studied in subcellular fractions prepared from rat brain homogenates. Saxitoxin binding to synaptosomes was saturable with an apparent dissociation constant of about 1nm; about 1 pmol/mg protein was bound at saturating saxitoxin concentrations. A linear, nonsaturable component of saxitoxin binding accounted for less than 3% of the total binding at 30nm. Saxitoxin binding to synaptosomes was unaffected by depolarization with elevated K+ concentrations, or by activation of the Na+ channels with batrachotoxin plus a purified polypeptide toxin from the scorpionLeiurus quinquestriatus. A procedure is described for preparing a membrane fraction that contains 70–80% of the total saxitoxin binding activity of the crude homogenate. The specific activity of this fraction was about 4 to 6 pmol/mg protein. About 60–70% of the saxitoxin binding sites were solubilized by incubating these membranes with the nonionic detergent Triton X-100; the detergent-solubilized binding sites eluted at a position corresponding to a mol wt of about 700,000 on gel filtration chromatography. Both membrane-bound and solubilized saxitoxin binding were assayed by a new cation exchange column method. The binding of saxitoxin to both membrane-bound and detergent-solubilized binding sites was saturable with an apparent dissociation constant of about 2nm. Dissociation of the saxitoxin-receptor complex followed a single exponential decay with a rate constant at 0° of 0.1 min–1 for membrane bound and 0.2 min–1 for detergent-solubilized binding sites. The measured association rate constant was 6×108 m –1 min–1 at 0° for membrane-bound saxitoxin binding sites.
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