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Ontogeny of gastric H(+)-K(+)-ATPase in suckling rabbits

J. M. Crothers Jr, W. W. Reenstra and J. G. Forte
Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, University of California, Berkeley 94720.

Gastric mucosal homogenates were prepared from resting and stimulated stomachs of rabbits, age 3-57 days postnatal, and fractionated by differential centrifugation. Total H(+)-K(+)-adenosinetriphosphatase (ATPase) (assayed as K(+)-dependent ouabain-insensitive hydrolysis of p-nitrophenyl phosphate) was low in the first 3 wk but rapidly accumulated between days 20 and 43. Specific activity rose eightfold from day 3 to a typically adult level of 2 mumol.mg-1.h-1 by day 43. The microsomal fraction (P3) was subfractionated on sucrose gradients (20, 27, and 33% steps or 10-40% continuous gradient). H(+)-K(+)-ATPase from P3 of resting stomachs was distributed bimodally on the continuous gradients, with activity mainly in the denser peak (or on the 33% sucrose step) before day 20, but accumulating mainly in the lighter peak (or in the lighter step-gradient fractions) after day 20. Throughout the age range tested, in vivo stimulation with histamine just before removal of the stomach caused a loss of most H(+)-K(+)-ATPase from P3 and an increase in H(+)-K(+)-ATPase in a lower-speed fraction P1. Thus, even in the 1st postnatal wk, when H(+)-K(+)-ATPase is low, most of the enzyme occurs in cells with histamine H2 receptors and all the intracellular mechanisms for fusion of oxyntic cell tubulovesicles (enriched in P3) with the apical membrane (enriched in P1). These studies delineate a 3-wk period of sharply accelerated synthesis of H(+)-K(+)-ATPase before weaning. Age-related changes in distribution of H(+)-K(+)-ATPase among microsomal density subfractions suggest maturational changes either in the intracellular partitioning of the enzyme or in properties of the membranes containing the enzyme.

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