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The Journal of Experimental Biology 204, 3703-3716 (2001)
© 2001 The Company of Biologists Limited

Characterization of the Drosophila melanogaster alkali-metal/proton exchanger (NHE) gene family

Maria E. Giannakou and Julian A. T. Dow^*

Division of Molecular Genetics, Institute of Biomedical and Life Sciences, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G11 6NU, UK

*Author for correspondence (e-mail: j.a.t.dow{at}bio.gla.ac.uk)

Accepted August 6, 2001

The NHE family of Na⁺/H⁺ exchangers is believed to play an essential role in animals, but may play an additional, specialised epithelial role in insects. The pharmacological sensitivity of the Drosophila melanogaster Malpighian tubule to a range of amiloride derivatives was shown to be consistent with an effect on an exchanger, rather than a Na⁺ channel. Consistent with this, no degenerin/epithelial Na⁺ channel (ENaC) genes could be detected in Malpighian tubules by reverse transcriptase/polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR). Using a low-stringency homology searching, three members of the NHE family were identified in the genomic sequence of Drosophila melanogaster, although only two genes were represented as expressed sequence tags. All three genes (DmNHE1 at cytological position 21B1, DmNHE2 at 39B1 and DmNHE3 at 27A1) were found by RT-PCR to be widely expressed, and one (DmNHE2) was shown to have multiple transcripts. The putative translations of the three genes mark them as distantly related members of the family, inviting the possibility that they may serve distinct roles in insects.

Key words: V-ATPase, epithelial transport, Malpighian tubule, Na⁺/H⁺ exchanger, Drosophila melanogaster.

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