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MEMBRANE TRANSPORTERS, ION CHANNELS, AND PUMPS

Lanthanum is transported by the sodium/calcium exchanger and regulates its activity

Department of Pharmacology and Physiology, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey-New Jersey Medical School, Newark, New Jersey 07103

Submitted 28 April 2003 ; accepted in final form 27 May 2003

La³⁺ uptake was measured in fura 2-loaded Chinese hamster ovary cells expressing the bovine cardiac Na⁺/Ca²⁺ exchanger (NCX1.1). La³⁺ was taken up by the cells after an initial lag phase of 50-60 s and achieved a steady state within 5-6 min. Neonatal cardiac myocytes accumulated La³⁺ in a similar manner. La³⁺ uptake was due to the activity of the exchanger, because no uptake was seen in nontransfected cells or in transfected cells that had been treated with gramicidin to remove cytosolic Na⁺. The low rate of La³⁺ uptake during the lag period resulted from insufficient cytosolic Ca²⁺ to activate the exchanger at its regulatory sites, as shown by the following observations. La³⁺ uptake occurred without a lag period in cells expressing a mutant of NCX1.1 that does not exhibit regulatory activation by cytosolic Ca²⁺. The rate of La³⁺ uptake by wild-type cells was increased, and the lag phase was reduced or eliminated, when the cytosolic Ca²⁺ concentration was increased before initiating La³⁺ uptake. La³⁺ could substitute for Ca²⁺ at very low concentrations to activate exchange activity. Thus preloading cells expressing NCX1.1 with a small quantity of La³⁺ increased the rate of exchange-mediated Ca²⁺ influx by 20-fold; in contrast, cytosolic La³⁺ partially inhibited Ca²⁺ uptake by the regulation-deficient mutant. With an estimated K_D of 30 pM for the binding of La³⁺ to fura 2, we conclude that cytosolic La³⁺ activates exchange activity at picomolar concentrations. We speculatively suggest that endogenous trace metals might activate exchange activity under physiological conditions.

fura 2; NCX1.1; myocyte

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