Abstract
Cystine and lysine bind to isolated rat renal brush-border vesicles. Three methods to determine the extent of amino acid binding to the membranes have been compared, one relying on the osmotic reactivity of the vesicle, a second by trichloroacetic acid precipitation of membrane-bound material and a third by initial rate analysis. For cystine, all methods yield comparable results at early time points, indicating the trichloroacetic acid method is a simple and valuable tool for binding estimation under initial-rate or near initial-rate conditions. For lysine, initial rate analysis and osmotic perturbation are the methods of choice since lysine co-precipitates with trichloroacetic acid.
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