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Baker PF, Connelly CM. Some properties of the external activation site of the sodium pump in crab nerve. J Physiol. 1966;185(2):270-97doi: 10.1113/jphysiol.1966.sp007987.
Baker, P. F., & Connelly, C. M. (1966). Some properties of the external activation site of the sodium pump in crab nerve. The Journal of physiology, 185(2), 270-97. https://doi.org/10.1113/jphysiol.1966.sp007987
Baker, P F, and Connelly, C M. "Some properties of the external activation site of the sodium pump in crab nerve." The Journal of physiology vol. 185,2 (1966): 270-97. doi: https://doi.org/10.1113/jphysiol.1966.sp007987
Baker PF, Connelly CM. Some properties of the external activation site of the sodium pump in crab nerve. J Physiol. 1966 Jul;185(2):270-97. doi: 10.1113/jphysiol.1966.sp007987. PMID: 16992223; PMCID: PMC1395814.
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J Physiol. 1966 Jul;185(2):270-97. doi: 10.1113/jphysiol.1966.sp007987.

Some properties of the external activation site of the sodium pump in crab nerve.

The Journal of physiology

P F Baker, C M Connelly

PMID: 16992223 PMCID: PMC1395814 DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.1966.sp007987

Abstract

1. Methods are described for using the changes in respiration of intact Libinia nerve to follow the rate of energy utilization by the sodium pump in this tissue.2. Short tetani in 10 K(Na)ASW (artificial sea water in which Na is the major cation and the potassium concentration is 10 mM) increased the oxygen uptake which then declined exponentially. From the net influx of Na during the tetanus and the associated oxygen uptake, values between 1.9 and 3.4 were calculated for the Na: approximately P ratio. After longer tetani, the recovery curve was S-shaped.3. The pump was activated by potassium ions in the external medium and this activation was competitively inhibited by external sodium ions. The data are consistent with a Michaelis constant (K(m)) for external potassium of 1 mM and an inhibitor constant (K(i)) for external sodium of 60 mM.4. In activating the pump, K could be replaced by Tl(+), Rb, NH(4) and Cs ions; but, of the monovalent ions tested, sodium seemed to be unique in its inhibitory action.5. In sea waters containing 460 mM-Na, ouabain behaved like a mixed inhibitor of the pump, reducing both the maximum velocity and the apparent affinity for external potassium. At a given ouabain concentration, reducing the sodium content of the medium was without effect on the maximum rate of pumping; but the apparent affinity for potassium increased more steeply than in a ouabain-free solution.6. The rate of energy utilization associated with pumping was unaffected by inclusion of quite high concentrations of sulphydryl-blocking agents in the external medium.

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