Energy transfer via cell‐to‐cell junctions

FEBS Letters

Potapova, T.V.²  Boitzova, L.Ju.²  Aslanidi, K.B.¹ 

[1] Institute of Biological Physics, Acad. Sci. USSR, Pushchino, Moscow Region 142292, USSR;A.N. Belozersky Laboratory of Molecular Biology and Bioorganic Chemistry, Moscow State University, Moscow 119899 USSR

关键词: Membrane potential;    Intercellular junction;    Ouabain;    Energy transmission;   

DOI  :  10.1016/0014-5793(90)80156-D

学科分类：生物化学/生物物理

来源: John Wiley & Sons Ltd.

【 摘 要 】

Animal cell cooperation has been studied in a mixed cell culture. Membrane potentials of human embryonic cells and hamster BHK-21 cells were recorded by intracellular microelectrodes. The Na⁺/K⁺-ATPase inhibitor ouabain (1 × 10⁻⁶ M; 2 h) caused strong depolarisation of the human cells in pure culture. The same treatment reduced only slightly the membrane potential in the hamster cells in pure or mixed cultures, as well as in the human cells in mixed culture. The above data can be explained by effective ion fluxes through heterotypic gap junctions in mixed culture. Thus, in the presence of ouabain the Na⁺/K⁺-ATPase of hamster cells creates transmembrane differences of the electrochemical potential of ions not only in the hamster cells, but in the human cells as well.

【 授权许可】

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