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Journal of Experimental Biology, Vol 196, Issue 1 443-456, Copyright © 1994 by Company of Biologists

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Molecular physiology of the Na+/H+ antiporter in Escherichia coli

E Padan and S Schuldiner
Department of Molecular and Microbial Ecology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.

All living cells maintain an inwardly directed Na+ gradient and a constant intracellular pH. Na+/H+ antiporters have been assigned an essential role in these homeostatic mechanisms in all cells. In Escherichia coli, two Na+/H+ antiporter genes, nhaA and nhaB, have been cloned. Deletion of either one or both showed that NhaA is essential for adaptation to high salinity, for growth at alkaline pH in the presence of Na+ and for challenging Li+ toxicity. NhaB confers tolerance to low levels of Na+ and becomes essential when the activity of NhaA limits growth. The adaptive response to Na+ is mediated by the positive regulator nhaR, which transduces the signal (intracellular Na+) to expression of the nhaA gene. We have identified Glu-134 of NhaR as part of the 'Na+ sensor' of NhaA. In agreement with the role of NhaA in pH homeostasis, its Na(+)-dependent expression is enhanced at alkaline pH. Reconstitution of pure NhaA and NhaB in proteoliposomes demonstrates that, whereas both are electrogenic (the H+/Na+ stoichiometry of NhaA is 2), only NhaA is pH-dependent, increasing its activity 1000-fold between pH 7 and 8.5. Mutating all the histidines of NhaA shows that His-226 is part of the 'pH sensor' of NhaA.


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