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. 1989 Apr 15;259(2):377–383. doi: 10.1042/bj2590377

Characteristics of tetraethylammonium transport in rabbit renal plasma-membrane vesicles.

J S Jung 1, Y K Kim 1, S H Lee 1
PMCID: PMC1138521  PMID: 2541690

Abstract

Transport of [14C]tetraethylammonium (TEA), an organic cation, was studied in brush-border (BBMV) and basolateral (BLMV) membrane vesicles isolated from rabbit kidney cortex. In BBMV, the presence of an outwardly directed H+ gradient induced a marked stimulation of TEA uptake against its concentration gradient (overshoot phenomenon), whereas a valinomycin-induced inside-negative potential had no effect on TEA uptake. In BLMV, TEA uptake was significantly stimulated by the presence of an outwardly directed H+ gradient and by an inside-negative potential, but the effect of H+ gradient was absent when the vesicles were chemically 'voltage clamped'. In BBMV, internal H+ stimulated TEA uptake in a non-competitive manner by binding at a site with apparent pKa of 6.87. External H+ inhibited TEA uptake through a direct interaction with the putative H+/organic-cation exchanger at a site with apparent pKa of 6.78. Changing external pH while maintaining the pH gradient constant produced a result similar to that obtained by changing external pH alone. Increasing external H+ showed a mixed-type inhibition of TEA uptake. These results suggest that in the rabbit TEA transport across the basolateral membranes is driven by an inside-negative potential and that transport across the brush-border membrane is driven by a H+ gradient via an electroneutral H+/TEA antiport system.

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