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MEMBRANE TRANSPORTERS, ION CHANNELS, AND PUMPS

pH of TGN and recycling endosomes of H⁺/K⁺-ATPase-transfected HEK-293 cells: implications for pH regulation in the secretory pathway

¹Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720-3200; ²Molecular Genetics Research Center, Toyama Medical and Pharmaceutical University, Toyama City, Toyama 930-0194, Japan; and ³Graduate Group in Bioengineering, University of California, Berkeley, Calilfornia 94720-1762

Submitted 9 January 2003 ; accepted in final form 13 March 2003

The influences of the gastric H⁺/K⁺ pump on organelle pH during trafficking to and from the plasma membrane were investigated using HEK-293 cells stably expressing the - and -subunits of human H⁺/K⁺-ATPase (H⁺/K⁺-, cells). The pH values of trans-Golgi network (pH_TGN) and recycling endosomes (pH_RE) were measured by transfecting H⁺/K⁺-, cells with the pH-sensitive GFP pHluorin fused to targeting sequences of either TGN38 or synaptobrevin, respectively. Immunofluorescence showed that H⁺/K⁺-ATPase was present in the plasma membrane, TGN, and RE. The pH_TGN was similar in both H⁺/K⁺-, cells (pH_TGN 6.36) and vector-transfected ("mock") cells (pH_TGN 6.34); pH_RE was also similar in H⁺/K⁺-, (pH_RE 6.40) and mock cells (pH_RE 6.37). SCH28080 (inhibits H⁺/K⁺-ATPase) caused TGN to alkalinize by 0.12 pH units; subsequent addition of bafilomycin (inhibits H⁺ v-ATPase) caused TGN to alkalinize from pH 6.4 up to a new steady-state pH_TGN of 7.0–7.5, close to pH_cytosol. Similar results were observed in RE. Thus H⁺/K⁺-ATPases that trafficked to the plasma membrane were active but had small effects to acidify the TGN and RE compared with H⁺ v-ATPase. Mathematical modeling predicted a large number of H⁺ v-ATPases (8,000) active in the TGN to balance a large, passive H⁺ leak (with P_H 10^–3 cm/s) via unidentified pathways out of the TGN. We propose that in the presence of this effective, though inefficient, buffer system in the Golgi and TGN, H⁺/K⁺-ATPases (estimated to be 4,000 active in the TGN) and other transporters have little effect on luminal pH as they traffic to the plasma membrane.

pHluorin; H⁺ v-ATPase; trans-Golgi network; organelle pH; H⁺ permeability

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