In humans and terrestrial vertebrates, the kidney controls systemic pH in part by absorbing filtered bicarbonate in the proximal tubule via an electrogenic Na+/HCO3- cotransporter (NBCe1/SLC4A4). Recently, human genetics revealed that NBCe1 is the major renal contributor to this process. Homozygous point mutations in NBCe1 cause proximal renal tubular acidosis (pRTA), glaucoma, and cataracts (I...

The inner stripe of the outer medullary collecting tubule is a major distal nephron segment in urinary acidification. To examine the mechanism of basolateral membrane H+/OH-/HCO3- transport in this segment, cell pH was measured microfluorometrically in the inner stripe of the rabbit outer medullary collecting tubule perfused in vitro using the pH-sensitive fluorescent dye, (2',7')-bis(carboxyet...

The electrometric [Delta]pH method and an in vitro radioisotopic HCO3- dehydration assay were used to demonstrate the presence of true extracellular carbonic anhydrase (CA) activity in the blood of the Pacific spiny dogfish Squalus acanthias. An extracorporeal circulation and stopflow technique were then used to characterise the acid­base disequilibrium in the arterial (postbranchial) blood...

WEN CHEN, WEIXING HE, AND TINGXIU ZHONG Affiliation: Department of Mechanical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200030, P. R. China Affiliation: Department of Electrical Engineering, Jiangsu University of Science & Technology, Zhenjiang, Jiangsu 212013, P. R. China. Corresponding author: Wen Chen (PhD), Mail address: P. O. Box 9601BB, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 2...

# The two authors contributed equally to this work *Address correspondence and reprint requests to: Jing-Yuan Fang, MD, PhD or Jie Hong, PhD, GI Division, Shanghai Jiao-Tong University School of Medicine Renji Hospital, Shanghai Institution of Digestive Disease; Key Laboratory of Gastroenterology & Hepatology, Ministry of Health (Shanghai Jiao-Tong University); State Key Laboratory of Oncogene ...

The course of intracellular pH (pHi) was followed in superfused (36 degrees C) single glomus (type I) cells of the freshly dissociated adult rat carotid body. The cells had been loaded with the pH-sensitive fluorescent dye 2',7'-(2-carboxyethyl)-5 (and -6)-carboxyfluorescein. The high K(+)-nigericin method was used for calibration. The pHi of the glomus cell at pHo 7.40, without CO2, was 7.23 +...

Specimens of the euryhaline elasmobranch, Dasyatis sabina were acclimated to seawater and fresh water, and exposed to normocapnic (air) and hypercapnic (1% CO2 in air) environmental water. Blood pH, PCO2, and [HCO3-], as well as whole-animal net-acid excretion, were measured for up to 24 h of hypercapnia. In a separate experimental series, urine was collected from freshwater acclimated stingray...

The rates of inorganic carbon accumulation and carbon fixation in light by the unicellular cyanobacterim Coccohloris peniocystis have been determined. Cells incubated in the light in medium containing H14CO3- were rapidly separated from the medium by centrifugation through silicone oil into a strongly basic terminating solution. Samples of these inactivated cells were assayed to determine total...

Carbonic anhydrases (CA) catalyze the reversible conversion of CO2 to HCO3-. Some bicarbonate transporters bind CA, forming a complex called a transport metabolon, to maximize the coupled catalytic/transport flux. SLC26A6, a plasma membrane Cl-/HCO3- exchanger with a suggested role in pancreatic HCO3- secretion, was found to bind the cytoplasmic enzyme CAII. Mutation of the identified CAII bind...

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