title: Partial purification and properties of a plasma ouabain-like inhibitor of Na+, K+-ATPase in patients with essential hypertension.
abstract: Plasma levels of an ouabain-like inhibitor of Na+,K+-ATPase were higher in patients with essential hypertension compared with normal levels. The ouabain-like inhibitor was correlated significantly with blood pressure and was increased by a high-salt diet. The substance was partially purified by high performance liquid chromatography which revealed lipid-like properties, but the elution time was different from that of free unsaturated fatty acid on silica-gel high performance liquid chromatography. Its molecular weight was 600 or less, as estimated by high performance liquid chromatography with an HSG-15H column. The ouabain-like substance inhibited Na+, K+-ATPase in competition with KCl and showed positive ouabain-like immunoreactivity, whereas lysophosphatidylcholine was a non-competitive inhibitor. The ouabain-like substance was unstable at room temperature and decomposed to smaller molecular compounds which did not inhibit Na+, K+-ATPase. The inhibitory fraction gave a positive thiobarbituric acid reaction test. The mobility of the ouabain-like inhibitor on silica-gel thin-layer chromatography was different from that of prostaglandins and arachidonic acid. These results indicate that the plasma ouabain-like inhibitor of patients with essential hypertension is a lipid which is different from free fatty acid or lysophosphatidylcholine, and may be an unstable peroxide.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine and Geriatrics, Osaka University Medical School, Japan.
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Masugi
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Ogihara
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Sakaguchi
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Tomii
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Hasegawa
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Azuma
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Kumahara
mesh_terms: D002298:Cardenolides; D004077:Digoxin; D006801:Humans; D006973:Hypertension / Q000097:blood*; D007118:Immunoassay; D012503:Saponins; D000254:Sodium-Potassium-Exchanging ATPase / Q000037:antagonists & inhibitors* / Q000302:isolation & purification
chemical_list: D002298:Cardenolides; D012503:Saponins; C034504:digoxin-like factors; D004077:Digoxin; D000254:Sodium-Potassium-Exchanging ATPase