AJP - Renal Physiology, Vol 253, Issue 2 213-F221, Copyright © 1987 by American Physiological Society

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Immunochemical characterization of a band 3-like anion exchanger in collecting duct of human kidney

S. Wagner, R. Vogel, R. Lietzke, R. Koob and D. Drenckhahn

Poly- and monoclonal antibodies have been prepared against the cytoplasmic domain (43 kDa) and the 17-, 20-, and 35-kDa fragments of the membrane-spanning domain of the human erythrocyte anion exchanger, band 3. The antibodies were used to localize and further characterize analogues of band 3 in the human kidney. We report here that the basolateral membrane of intercalated cells of the connecting tubules and collecting ducts contains an analogue of band 3 that appears to be highly homologous to the erythrocyte anion exchanger. This band 3-like protein is probably important for reabsorption of bicarbonate in the collecting duct system and thus for acidification of the forming urine. The band 3-like protein of the intercalated cells contain immunoreactive sites of both the cytoplasmic domain and the three major fragments of the membrane-spanning domain of erythrocyte band 3. Although no immunological differences were detected between the membrane-spanning domains of band 3 in erythrocytes and intercalated cells, there are at least three sites along the cytoplasmic domain of kidney band 3 that differ from erythrocyte band 3 in either amino acid composition or posttranslational modifications. The main kidney analogue of band 3 that contains epitopes of the cytoplasmic domain as well as the 17- and 35-kDa membrane-spanning domain of erythroid band 3 is a polypeptide with an apparent molecular mass of 100-110 kDa. Further immunoreactive polypeptides at approximately 180, approximately 140, approximately 38, approximately 25-30 kDa that were detected at lower stringency and higher sensitivity of the immunoblotting procedure may be members of a multigene family that encodes a series of related proteins.

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