Lysine 480 is an essential residue in the putative ATP site of lamb kidney (Na,K)-ATPase. Identification of the pyridoxal 5'-diphospho-5'-adenosine and pyridoxal phosphate reactive residue.

Pyridoxal 5'-diphospho-5'-adenosine (AP2PL) inhibits lamb kidney (Na,K)-ATPase and that inhibition and covalent modification is blocked by the presence of ATP. After trypsin digestion of the labeled, purified alpha subunit and subsequent peptide mapping of the fluorescently labeled peptides by means of high performance liquid chromatography, the main labeled peptide was further purified and analyzed by amino acid composition analysis and peptide sequencing. The obtained peptide had the sequence Ile470-Val-Glu-Ile-Pro-Phe-Asn-Ser-Thr-Asn-Lys480-Tyr-Gln-Le u-Ser-Ile-His- Lys487. Lysine 480 is the residue modified by AP2PL in the absence, but not in the presence of ATP. The beta subunit is not differentially labeled by AP2PL in the presence or absence of ATP. Interestingly, the same results were obtained using pyridoxal phosphate as the labeling and inactivation reagent, indicating that the specificity of labeling by these reagents is not due to the presence of the adenosine moiety, but instead that the initial recognition of nucleotides by the ATP-binding site of (Na,K)-ATPase may be due to recognition of the phosphate moiety. The amino acid sequence surrounding this lysine residue labeled by both reagents is highly conserved in (Na,K)-ATPase and the related (H,K)-ATPase sequences thus far obtained, which may signify a functional importance for this region of the putative ATP-binding site in these transport proteins.