title: Calcium transport in basolateral plasma membranes from kidney cortex of Milan hypertensive rats.
abstract: Ca2+ transport was investigated in basolateral plasma membranes (BLM) isolated from kidney cortex of the Milan strain of genetically hypertensive rats (MHS) and their normotensive controls (MNS) during a pre-hypertensive stage (age 3-4 weeks). It was found that the Vmax of ATP-dependent Ca2+ transport (in the presence of calmodulin) was about 16% lower in MHS than in control rats. In membranes from MNS rats which had been isolated in the presence of EGTA, the ATP-dependent Ca2+ transport showed a hyperbolic Ca2+ concentration dependence, a high Km (Ca2+) and a low Vmax; upon addition of exogenous calmodulin, the kinetics became sigmoidal, the Km (Ca2+) was decreased and the Vmax was increased. In membranes from MHS rats, the Ca2+ concentration dependence of ATP-driven Ca2+ transport was sigmoidal and the Ca2+ affinity was high in the absence of added calmodulin. Addition of exogenous calmodulin to these membranes resulted in an increase in Vmax, but no change in other kinetic parameters. Low-affinity hyperbolic kinetics of Ca2+ transport could only be obtained in MHS rats if the membranes were extracted with hypotonic EDTA and hypertonic KCl. These data suggest that the plasma membrane Ca2+-ATPase, which catalyses the ATP-dependent Ca2+ transport, exists in BLM of pre-hypertensive MHS rats predominantly in an activated, high-affinity form.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Physiology, University of Zürich, Switzerland.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Gmaj
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Bianchi
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Murer
mesh_terms: D000255:Adenosine Triphosphate / Q000494:pharmacology; D000375:Aging / Q000378:metabolism; D000818:Animals; D001693:Biological Transport, Active / Q000187:drug effects; D002118:Calcium / Q000378:metabolism*; D000252:Calcium-Transporting ATPases / Q000378:metabolism; D002147:Calmodulin / Q000494:pharmacology; D002462:Cell Membrane / Q000378:metabolism; D002499:Centrifugation, Density Gradient; D004492:Edetic Acid / Q000494:pharmacology; D006973:Hypertension / Q000378:metabolism*; D007672:Kidney Cortex / Q000378:metabolism*; D007700:Kinetics; D008297:Male; D008871:Microvilli / Q000201:enzymology; D011189:Potassium Chloride / Q000494:pharmacology; D051381:Rats; D011918:Rats, Inbred SHR; D012964:Sodium / Q000378:metabolism / Q000494:pharmacology; D000254:Sodium-Potassium-Exchanging ATPase / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D002147:Calmodulin; D011189:Potassium Chloride; D000255:Adenosine Triphosphate; D004492:Edetic Acid; D012964:Sodium; D000252:Calcium-Transporting ATPases; D000254:Sodium-Potassium-Exchanging ATPase; D002118:Calcium