title: Transport functions of the liver. Lack of correlation between hepatocellular ouabain uptake and binding to (Na+ + K+)-ATPase.
abstract: Ouabain uptake was studied on isolated rat hepatocytes. Hepatocellular uptake of the glycoside is saturable (Km = 348 mumol/l, Vmax = 1.4 nmol/mg cell protein per min), energy dependent and accumulative. Concentrative ouabain uptake is not present on permeable hepatocytes, Ehrlich ascites tumor cells and AS-30D ascites hepatoma cells. There is no correlation between ouabain binding to rat liver (Na+ + K+)ATPase and ouabain uptake into isolated rat hepatocytes. While ouabain uptake is competitively inhibited by cevadine, binding to (Na+ + K+)-ATPase is not affected by the alkaloid. Although the affinities of digitoxin and ouabain to (Na+ + K+)-ATPase are similar, digitoxin is 10000-times more potent in inhibiting [3H]ouabain uptake as compared to ouabain. That binding to (Na+ + K+)-ATPase appears to be no precondition for ouabain uptake was also found in experiments with plasmamembranes derived from Ehrlich ascites tumor cells and AS-30D hepatoma cells. While tumor cell (Na+ + K+)-ATPase is ouabain sensitive, the intact cells are transport deficient. Hepatic ouabain uptake might be related to bile acid transport. Several inhibitors of the bile acid uptake system also inhibit ouabain uptake.
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Petzinger
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Fischer
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000838:Anions; D001693:Biological Transport, Active; D001921:Brain / Q000201:enzymology; D002286:Carcinoma, Ehrlich Tumor / Q000378:metabolism; D002417:Cattle; D002462:Cell Membrane / Q000378:metabolism; D066298:In Vitro Techniques; D007700:Kinetics; D008099:Liver / Q000187:drug effects / Q000378:metabolism*; D008114:Liver Neoplasms, Experimental / Q000378:metabolism; D051379:Mice; D010042:Ouabain / Q000378:metabolism*; D011485:Protein Binding; D051381:Rats; D011919:Rats, Inbred Strains; D000254:Sodium-Potassium-Exchanging ATPase / Q000378:metabolism*; D014702:Veratrine / Q000494:pharmacology
chemical_list: D000838:Anions; D010042:Ouabain; D000254:Sodium-Potassium-Exchanging ATPase; D014702:Veratrine