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Abstract
Transport of [3H]tetraethylammonium (NEt4+), an organic cation, has been studied by using apical-membrane vesicles isolated from cultured kidney epithelial cell line LLC-PK1. The uptake of NEt4+ by apical-membrane vesicles was osmotically sensitive, time-dependent and saturable. The presence of an H+ gradient ([H+]i greater than [H+]o) induced a marked stimulation of NEt4+ uptake against its concentration gradient (overshoot phenomenon), and this concentrative uptake was inhibited by HgCl2. These results suggest that apical membranes isolated from the LLC-PK1 cells retain the transport characteristics of NEt4+ similar to those observed in renal brush-border membranes.Entities:
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Year: 1985 PMID: 2986603 PMCID: PMC1144826 DOI: 10.1042/bj2270199
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Biochem J ISSN: 0264-6021 Impact factor: 3.857