1. Volume 75, Issue 3, Pages 1340-1353 (September 1998)
Kinetics of Na+-Dependent Conformational Changes of Rabbit Kidney Na+,K+-ATPase 
Ronald J. Clarke, David J. Kane, Hans-Jürgen Apell, Milena Roudna, Ernst Bamberg 
Biophysical Journal 
Volume 75, Issue 3, Pages (September 1998)
DOI: /S (98)
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2. Figure 1
Stopped-flow fluorescence transients of 5-IAF-labeled Na+,K+-ATPase membrane fragments from rabbit kidney. Na+,K+-ATPase was rapidly mixed with an equal volume of MgATP (0.5mM, after mixing). Each solution was in a buffer containing 130mMNaCl, 30mM imidazole, 5mMMgCl2, and 1mM EDTA; pH 7.4, T=24°C. The solid lines represent fits to a biexponential time function. (A) RH421 (75nM, after mixing) was added to the Na+,K+-ATPase (11μg/ml or 0.075μM, after mixing) suspension. The fluorescence of membrane-bound RH421 was measured using an excitation wavelength of 577nm at emission wavelengths≥665nm (RG665 glass cutoff filter). The calculated reciprocal relaxation times were 164 (± 9) s−1 (88% of the total amplitude) and 32 (± 6) s−1 (12%). (B) The fluoresence of 5-IAF covalently bound to the protein (50μg/ml or 0.34μM, after mixing) was measured using an excitation wavelength of 435nm at emission wavelengths≥530nm (OG530 glass cutoff filter). The calculated reciprocal relaxation times were 149 (± 7) s−1 (81% of the total amplitude) and 14 (± 2) s−1 (19%).
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3. Figure 2
Stopped-flow fluorescence transients of native Na+,K+-ATPase membrane fragments from rabbit kidney noncovalently labeled with RH421 (75nM, after mixing). Na+,K+-ATPase (10μg/ml or 0.068mM, after mixing) was rapidly mixed with an equal volume of Na2ATP (25μM, after mixing). Each solution was in a buffer containing 130mM NaCl, 30mM imidazole, 5mM MgCl2, and 1mM EDTA; pH 7.4, T=24°C. The fluorescence of membrane-bound RH421 was measured using an excitation wavelength of 577nm at emission wavelengths≥665nm (RG665 glass cutoff filter). The solid lines represent fits to a sum (either one or two) of exponential time functions. (a) In the absence of NPE-caged ATP. The calculated reciprocal relaxation times were 137 (± 3) s−1 (93% of the total amplitude) and 17 (± 4) s−1 (7%). (b) Before mixing with ATP, the enzyme was equilibrated with NPE-caged ATP (125μM, after mixing). The calculated reciprocal relaxation time was 37 (± 1) s−1.
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4. Figure 3
Dependence of the reciprocal relaxation time, 1/τ, of the fast phase of the RH421 fluorescence change on the concentration of Na2ATP (after mixing) for stopped-flow experiments in which Na+,K+-ATPase was rapidly mixed with Na2ATP in a nominally K+-free buffer medium. [Na+,K+-ATPase]=11μg/ml (≡ 0.075μM), [NaCl]=130mM, [RH421]=75nM, [imidazole]=30mM, [MgCl2]=5mM, [EDTA]=1mM, λex=577nm, λem≥665nm; pH 7.4, T=24°C. The solid line represents a nonlinear least-squares fit of the data to Eq. 1.
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5. Figure 4
Reaction scheme describing the Na+ and ATP binding steps of the Na+,K+-ATPase and its subsequent phosphorylation and conformational change.
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6. Figure 5
Dependence of the reciprocal relaxation time, 1/τ, of the fast phase of the RH421 fluorescence change on the concentration of Na+ ions for stopped-flow experiments in which Na+,K+-ATPase was rapidly mixed with MgATP in a nominally K+-free buffer medium. [Na+,K+-ATPase]=11μg/ml (≡ 0.075μM), [MgATP]=0.5mM, [RH421]=75nM, [imidazole]=30mM, [MgCl2]=5mM, [EDTA]=1mM; pH 7.4, T=24°C. The total ionic strength was maintained at a constant value at NaCl concentrations below 130mM by replacing NaCl in the solution by choline chloride, so that the total concentration of choline plus Na+ ions was always 130mM. The excitation and emission wavelengths were as in Fig. 3. The solid line represents a nonlinear least-squares fit of the data to Eq. 3. The sum of the squares of the residuals between the experimental and calculated values of 1/τ were 897s−2 (Eq. 2) and 709s−2 (Eq. 3, solid line). For comparison, a fit of the data to a model involving three identical Na+ binding sites yielded a value for the sum of the squares of the residuals of 3173s−2.
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7. Figure 6
Dependence of the reciprocal relaxation time, 1/τ, of the RH421 fluorescence change on the concentration of Na2ATP (after mixing) for stopped-flow experiments in which Na+,K+-ATPase in a solution containing 25mM histidine and 0.1mM EDTA was rapidly mixed with the same histidine/EDTA solution containing 130mM NaCl. [Na+,K+-ATPase]=10μg/ml (≡ 0.068μM), [RH421]=75nM; pH 7.4, T=24°C. The excitation and emission wavelengths were as in Fig. 3. The solid line represents a nonlinear least-squares fit of the data to Eq. 5.
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8. Figure 7
Computer simulation (solid line), based on the reaction model (6), of an RH421 stopped-flow kinetic transient for an experiment in which Na+,K+-ATPase membrane fragments are mixed with ATP. The values of the rates and rate constants chosen were ka=200s−1, v1=1000s−1, v−1=1000s−1, kb=5s−1, and k−b=30s−1. The total fluorescence intensity is assumed to arise solely from dye associated with enzyme in the E2P and E2 forms. The relative fluorescence intensities of dye associated with each of these forms are assumed to be equal. For comparison, a computer simulation (dotted line) is shown in which the final dephosphorylation/rephosphorylation step of reaction model (6) has been omitted. In this case a pure single exponential curve is obtained.
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