Abstract

Rat small intestinal brush-border membrane (BBM) vesicles were solubilized to test for the presence of an intravesicular H+-ATPase. Several detergents that in rat renal BBM vesicles revealed a bafilomycin-sensitive H+-ATPase failed to expose a similar ATPase in small intestinal vesicles. Antibodies against the 31-kDa and 70-kDa H+-ATPase subunits labelled respective antigens in the BBM of renal proximal tubules, but not in the BBM of enterocytes. The results demonstrate that a bafilomycin-sensitive, vacuolar-type H+-ATPase is absent from the BBM of enterocytes and, hence, cannot contribute to H+ secretion.

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