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Conductive sodium pathway with low affinity to amiloride in LLC-PK1 cells and other epithelia.

Electrical potential driven 22Na+ fluxes were measured in membrane vesicles prepared from a number of cultured and naturally occurring epithelia. In all preparations a rheogenic pathway blocked by 200 microM (but not by 1.5 microM) amiloride was noted. This transporter was characterized in membranes prepared from cultured LLC-PK1 cells. In this preparation more than 50% of the rheogenic 22Na+ uptake was blocked by amiloride (IC50 approximately 30 microM), phenamil (IC50 approximately 66 microM), or ethylisopropylamiloride (IC50 approximately 5 microM). This amiloride-sensitive flux was not seen if the vesicles were partially depolarized by external Na+ or K+. It could not be driven by a pH gradient, did not require the presence of Ca2+, sugars, or amino acids, and showed little dependence on temperature (25 versus 0 degrees C). The data suggest the existence of an epithelial amiloride-blockable Na+ transporter different from the previously characterized Na+ channel, Na+/H+ and Na+/Ca2+ exchangers, and the Na+-hexose co-transporter. In rat kidney cortex membranes prepared by Mn2+ precipitation, this transporter is primarily located in the brush-border fraction.[1]

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  1. Conductive sodium pathway with low affinity to amiloride in LLC-PK1 cells and other epithelia. Moran, A., Asher, C., Cragoe, E.J., Garty, H. J. Biol. Chem. (1988) [Pubmed]
 
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