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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.

SUBMITTER: Sheikh MI

PROVIDER: S-EPMC1153973 | biostudies-other | 1982 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other

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