Anharmonic interactions in beryllium oxide.
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Regulation of the renal Na(+)-H+ exchanger by calcium calmodulin-dependent multifunctional protein kinase II.
Prior studies indicate that cAMP-dependent protein kinase (PKA) and calcium calmodulin-dependent multifunctional protein kinase II (CaM-KII) inhibit Na(+)-H+ exchanger as assayed in octyl glucoside solubilized rabbit renal brush border membrane proteins reconstituted into artificial lipid vesicles. An anion exchange chromatography fraction of these proteins which elutes between 0.2 and 0.4 M NaCl (Fraction B), however, fails to demonstrate regulation of the transporter by PKA. The present studies examine regulation of the Na(+)-H+ exchanger by CaM-KII using Fraction B proteins. As compared to the initial total protein extract, Fraction B demonstrated increased Na(+)-H+ exchange activity. CaM-KII inhibited the Na(+)-H+ exchanger in Fraction B by 38.2 +/- 10.6% in an ATP and calmodulin-dependent manner. The results of the present studies suggest that CaM-KII-mediated inhibition of the Na(+)-H+ exchanger involves the phosphorylation of different polypeptides than those mediating the inhibition of this transporter by PKA.
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Identification of a putative Na(+)-H+ exchanger regulatory cofactor in rabbit renal BBM.
Previous in vitro studies with detergent-solubilized rabbit renal brush-border membrane (BBM) proteins have suggested that adenosine 3',5'-cyclic monophosphate (cAMP)-dependent protein kinase A (PKA)-mediated inhibition of the Na(+)-H+ exchanger requires the presence of 42-kDa cofactor that is distinct from the exchanger itself. We sought to determine whether there was a protein in native rabbit renal BBM vesicles that has characteristics similar to that of the 42-kDa cofactor. Incubation of native BBM vesicle proteins with a hypotonic phosphorylation solution containing purified catalytic subunit of PKA resulted in phosphorylation of a number of BBM proteins, including a protein with an apparent molecular weight that was similar but not identical to that of the 42-kDa cofactor obtained from anion-exchange column chromatography of n-octyl glucoside-extracted BBM proteins. The identity between the BBM vesicle protein and the 42-kDa cofactor was established by phosphopeptide maps and radioiodinated peptide maps. These results indicate that native BBM vesicles contain a number of proteins that are phosphorylated by PKA when the PKA and ATP are present inside the vesicle space. One of these proteins appears to be identical to the 42-kDa protein that, as previously suggested by in vitro studies, acts as a regulatory cofactor mediating the inhibitory effect of PKA on the renal Na(+)-H+ exchanger.
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