AJP - Cell Physiology, Vol 267, Issue 2 C375-C384, Copyright © 1994 by American Physiological Society

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Characterization of the proteins of the intestinal Na(+)-K(+)-2Cl- cotransporter

W. Suvitayavat, P. B. Dunham, M. Haas and M. C. Rao
Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Illinois at Chicago 60612.

Absorptive intestinal epithelia, such as that of the winter flounder, absorb salt via a bumetanide-sensitive Na(+)-K(+)-2Cl- cotransport mechanism on the brush-border membrane (BBM). The present study demonstrates the first molecular characterization of the intestinal Na(+)-K(+)-2Cl- cotransporter and its unique regulation. The photoaffinity bumetanide analogue, 4-[3H]benzoyl-5-sulfamoyl-3- (3-thenyloxy)benzoic acid, specifically labeled three groups of proteins in flounder intestinal microsomal membranes (MM): a approximately 180-kDa peptide, prominently labeled, and diffuse bands at approximately 110-70 and 50 kDa, less intensely labeled. Subcellular fractionation revealed a single prominently labeled protein of approximately 170 kDa in BBM but not in basolateral membranes (BLM) and little or no labeling of proteins of approximately 110-70 or 50 kDa. Polyclonal antiserum raised against the Ehrlich ascites cell cotransporter identified a 180-kDa peptide in MM and a 175-kDa peptide (pI approximately 5.4) in BBM but none in BLM or in the cytosol of flounder intestine. As predicted from the regulation of cotransport in this tissue, phosphorylation of this protein is increased by guanosine 3',5'-cyclic monophosphate (cGMP)-dependent but not by adenosine 3',5'-cyclic monophosphate-dependent protein kinase. In addition, phosphorylation of the protein is not increased by protein kinase C or Ca2+/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase but is increased by the phosphatase inhibitor calyculin A. Finally, calyculin A preserves the inhibitory effect of cGMP on ion transport, even in the absence of the nucleotide, suggesting that phosphorylation-dephosphorylation mechanisms are crucial in cotransporter regulation. Thus the flounder intestinal cotransporter is a approximately 175-kDa BBM protein that can be regulated by phosphorylation.

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