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J. Gen. Physiol.
© The Rockefeller University Press
0022-1295/97/05/555/16 $2.00
Volume 109, Number 5, May 1997 555-570

The Effect of Ionic Strength and Specific Anions on Substrate Binding and Hydrolytic Activities of Na,K-ATPase

Jens G. Nørby and Mikael Esmann

From the Department of Biophysics, University of Aarhus, DK-8000 Aarhus C, Denmark

The physiological ligands for Na,K-ATPase (the Na,K-pump) are ions, and electrostatic forces, that could be revealed by their ionic strength dependence, are therefore expected to be important for their reaction with the enzyme. We found that the affinities for ADP3-, eosin2-, p-nitrophenylphosphate, and Vmax for Na,K-ATPase and K+-activated p-nitrophenylphosphatase activity, were all decreased by increasing salt concentration and by specific anions. Equilibrium binding of ADP was measured at 0-0.5 M of NaCl, Na2SO4, and NaNO3 and in 0.1 M Na-acetate, NaSCN, and NaClO4. The apparent affinity for ADP decreased up to 30 times. At equal ionic strength, I, the ranking of the salt effect was NaCl approx  Na2SO4 approx  Na-acetate < NaNO3 < NaSCN < NaClO4. We treated the influence of NaCl and Na2SO4 on Kdiss for E·ADP as a "pure" ionic strength effect. It is quantitatively simulated by a model where the binding site and ADP are point charges, and where their activity coefficients are related to I by the limiting law of Debye and Hückel. The estimated net charge at the binding site of the enzyme was about +1. Eosin binding followed the same model. The NO3- effect was compatible with competitive binding of NO3- and ADP in addition to the general I-effect. Kdiss for E·NO3 was ~32 mM. Analysis of Vmax/Km for Na,K-ATPase and K+-p-nitrophenylphosphatase activity shows that electrostatic forces are important for the binding of p-nitrophenylphosphate but not for the catalytic effect of ATP on the low affinity site. The net charge at the p-nitrophenylphosphate-binding site was also about +1. The results reported here indicate that the reversible interactions between ions and Na,K-ATPase can be grouped according to either simple Debye-Hückel behavior or to specific anion or cation interactions with the enzyme.

Key words: Debye-Hückel theory;  eosin binding;  K+-phosphatase activity;  protein electrostatics;  nucleotide binding


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