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. 1976 Oct 1;68(4):405–420. doi: 10.1085/jgp.68.4.405

Strophanthidin-sensitive sodium fluxes in metabolically poisoned frog skeletal muscle

PMCID: PMC2228438  PMID: 1086888

Abstract

Strophanthidin-sensitive and insensitive unidirectional fluxes of Na were measured in fog sartorius muscles whose internal Na levels were elevated by overnight storage in the cold. ATP levels were lowered, and ADP levels raised, by metabolic poisoning with either 2,4- dinitrofluorobenzene or iodoacetamide. Strophanthidin-sensitive Na efflux and influx both increased after poisoning, while strophanthidin- insensitives fluxes did not. The increase in efflux did not require the presence of external K but was greatly attenuated when Li replaced Na as the major external cation. Membrane potential was not markedly altered by 2,4-dinitrofluorobenzene. These observations indicate that the sodium pump of frog skeletal muscle resembles that of squid giant axon and human erythrocyte in its ability to catalyze Na-Na exchange to an extent determined by intracellular ATP/ADP levels.

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