title: Band-3 mediated uptake of beryllofluoride complexes by human erythrocytes.
abstract: Beryllium forms several multivalent fluoride complexes in aqueous solution; the relative concentration of each is governed by the relative concentrations of the constituent ions and pH. In 9Be NMR spectra the 9Be (spin = 3/2) and 19F (spin = 1/2) spin coupling gave rise to an overlapping resonance triplet, quartet, and quintet of BeF2, BeF3-, and BeF4(2-), respectively. The low frequency shift of the quartet (0.31 ppm) and the quintet (0.62 ppm) from the triplet correlated with an increase in the number of 19F-ions in each complex. 19F NMR spectra of the complexes showed that the spin-coupled quartet of each complex was progressively shifted to higher frequency with an increase in the number of F- ions in the complex. Using 9Be and 19F NMR, the multiple equilibrium mixture of complexes was found to shift substantially to favor the BeF3- and BeF4(2-) with a relative increase of NaF concentration. The association constants for BeF2, BeF3-, and BeF4(2-) at 25 degrees C were determined directly from the peak intensities of the spectra, and by a numerical fitting procedure for multiple spectra, and were 0.51 +/- 0.17 mM-2, 0.26 +/- 0.03 mM-1, and 1.0 x 10(-2) +/- 0.1 x 10(-2) mM-1, respectively. 19F NMR spectra of human erythrocytes to which Be2+ and F- were added showed separate resonances from the intracellular populations of the complexes and these were shifted to higher frequency from their extracellular counterparts.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
authors.affiliation: Department of Biochemistry, University of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
authors.forename: A S
authors.initials: AS
authors.lastname: Xu
authors.forename: M B
authors.initials: MB
authors.lastname: Morris
authors.forename: P W
authors.initials: PW
authors.lastname: Kuchel
mesh_terms: D001457:Anion Exchange Protein 1, Erythrocyte / Q000378:metabolism*; D001692:Biological Transport; D004912:Erythrocytes / Q000378:metabolism*; D006801:Humans; D007700:Kinetics; D009682:Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy; D008433:Mathematics; D008962:Models, Theoretical
chemical_list: D001457:Anion Exchange Protein 1, Erythrocyte