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Journal of Experimental Biology, Vol 204, Issue 1 25-37, Copyright © 2001 by Company of Biologists
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D Weihrauch, A Ziegler, D Siebers and DW Towle
Department of Biology, Lake Forest College, Lake Forest, IL 60045, USA.
The vacuolar-type H(+)-ATPase (V-ATPase) has been implicated in osmoregulatory ion uptake across external epithelia of a growing variety of species adapted to life in fresh water. In the present study, we investigated whether the V-ATPase may also function in a euryhaline species that tolerates brackish water (8 salinity) but not fresh water, the shore crab Carcinus maenas. cDNA coding for the regulatory B-subunit of the V-ATPase was amplified and sequenced from C. maenas gills and partially sequenced from four other crab species. Two isoforms differing in the 3'-untranslated region were found in C. maenas. In this species, the abundance of B-subunit mRNA was greater in the respiratory anterior gills than the ion-transporting posterior gills and was not increased by acclimation to dilute salinity. Immunocytochemical analysis showed that the B-subunit protein is not targeted to the apical membrane but is distributed throughout the cytoplasmic compartment. Physiological studies of isolated perfused gills indicated that the V-ATPase inhibitor bafilomycin had no effect on transepithelial potential difference. Thus, in contrast to the freshwater-tolerant Chinese crab Eriocheir sinensis, in which the V-ATPase appears to play an important osmoregulatory role, the V-ATPase in C. maenas probably functions in acidification of intracellular organelles but not in transbranchial NaCl uptake.
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