Mechanism for regulating cell surface distribution of Na+,K(+)-ATPase in polarized epithelial cells - PubMed (original) (raw)

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. 1991 Nov 8;254(5033):847-50.

doi: 10.1126/science.1658934.

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Mechanism for regulating cell surface distribution of Na+,K(+)-ATPase in polarized epithelial cells

R W Hammerton et al. Science. 1991.

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Restriction of sodium, potassium adenosine triphosphatase (Na+,K(+)-ATPase) to either the apical or basal-lateral membrane domain of polarized epithelial cells is fundamental to vectorial ion and solute transport in many tissues and organs. A restricted membrane distribution of Na+,K(+)-ATPase in Madin-Darby canine kidney (MDCK) epithelial cells was found experimentally to be generated by preferential retention of active enzyme in the basal-lateral membrane domain and selective inactivation and loss from the apical membrane domain, rather than by vectorial targeting of newly synthesized protein from the Golgi complex to the basal-lateral membrane domain. These results show how different distributions of the same subunits of Na+,K(+)-ATPase may be generated in normal polarized epithelial and in disease states.

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