title: An efficient method for the isolation and separation of basolateral-membrane and luminal-membrane vesicles from rabbit kidney cortex.
abstract: A procedure for isolation and separation of purified luminal-membrane and basolateral-membrane vesicles from adult and newborn rabbit renal cortex by using Ca2+/Mg2+ precipitation, differential centrifugation and a self-orienting Percoll-gradient centrifugation is described. The purity of the membrane-vesicle suspensions was examined by electron microscopy and by measuring the activity of several marker enzymes. The activity of Na+ + K+-stimulated ATPase in the fraction mainly containing adult rabbit basolateral-membrane vesicles was enriched 16-fold, and the activity of alkaline phosphatase in the fraction mainly containing luminal-membrane vesicles was increased 13-fold, compared with the homogenate. Similar results were obtained with kidneys from newborn rabbits. Uptake studies, with a rapid filtration technique and the spectrophotometric method described in an accompanying paper [Kragh-Hansen, Jørgensen & Sheikh (1982) Biochem. J. 208, 359-368], showed that both adult and newborn rabbit luminal-membrane vesicles, in contrast with the basolateral-membrane preparations, possess an Na+-dependent electrogenic transport system for L-proline. Adult rabbit luminal-membrane vesicles take up citrate and L-malate by Na+-dependent electrogenic processes, whereas adult rabbit basolateral membrane vesicles do not exhibit electrogenic uptake of citrate. By contrast, these vesicles show Na+-dependent electrogenic uptake of L-malate.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002458:Cell Fractionation / Q000379:methods*; D002462:Cell Membrane / Q000201:enzymology / Q000378:metabolism / Q000648:ultrastructure; D002951:Citrates / Q000378:metabolism; D019343:Citric Acid; D066298:In Vitro Techniques; D007672:Kidney Cortex / Q000201:enzymology / Q000378:metabolism / Q000648:ultrastructure*; D008293:Malates / Q000378:metabolism; D008854:Microscopy, Electron; D011392:Proline / Q000378:metabolism; D011817:Rabbits
chemical_list: D002951:Citrates; D008293:Malates; D019343:Citric Acid; C030298:malic acid; D011392:Proline