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Okadaic acid, calyculin A, and PDBu caused four- to fivefold increases in phosphorylation of Na+-K+-ATPase alpha-subunit and inhibited its activity in rat renal proximal tubules.
The state of phosphorylation and activity of proximal tubular Na+-K+-ATPase are determined by the balance between the activities of protein kinases and phosphatases.
These modulators alter rat tubular Na+-K+-ATPase via kinase-phosphatase balance; leaves open human relevance and clinical translation.
Several indirect lines of evidence suggest that protein kinases and phosphatases modulate the activity of renal Na+-K+-ATPase. The aim of this study was to examine whether such regulation may occur via modulation of the state of phosphorylation of Na+-K+-ATPase. Slices from rat renal cortex were prelabeled with [32P]orthophosphate and incubated with the inhibitors of protein phosphatase (PP)-1 and PP-2A, okadaic acid (OA) and calyculin A (CL-A), respectively, the protein kinase C (PKC) activator, phorbol 12,13-dibutyrate (PDBu), or the PP-2B inhibitor, FK-506. Phosphorylation of Na+-K+-ATPase alpha-subunit was evaluated by measuring the amount of [32P]phosphate incorporation into the immunoprecipitated protein. Incubation with either OA, CL-A, or PDBu caused four- to fivefold increases in the amount of [32P]phosphate incorporation into immunoprecipitated Na+-K+-ATPase alpha-subunit. OA and PDBu had a synergistic effect on the state of phosphorylation of Na+-K+-ATPase alpha-subunit. FK-506 did not affect Na+-K+-ATPase phosphorylation, neither alone nor in the presence of PDBu. Each of the drugs, OA, CL-A, and PDBu, inhibited the activity of Na+-K+-ATPase in microdissected proximal tubules. PDBu potentiated OA-induced inhibition of Na+-K+-ATPase activity. Inhibition of Na+-K+-ATPase required a lower dose of CL-A than of OA. On the basis of the inhibitory constant values of CL-A and OA for PP-1 and PP-2A, it is concluded that the tubular effect is mainly due to inhibition of PP-1. The PP-1 activity in rat renal cortex was approximately 1.5 nmol Pi. mg protein-1. min-1. Using a monoclonal anti-alpha antibody that fails to recognize the subunit when Ser23 is phosphorylated by PKC, we demonstrated that the dose response of PDBu inhibition of Na+-K+-ATPase correlated with the dose response of phosphorylation of the enzyme. The results suggest that the state of phosphorylation and activity of proximal tubular Na+-K+-ATPase are determined by the balance between the activities of protein kinases and phosphatases.
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Li et al. (1998) studied this question. Okadaic acid, calyculin A, and PDBu was evaluated on Phosphorylation and activity of Na+-K+-ATPase alpha-subunit. Okadaic acid, calyculin A, and PDBu caused four- to fivefold increases in phosphorylation of Na+-K+-ATPase alpha-subunit and inhibited its activity in rat renal proximal tubules.
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