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Ecto-calcium-dependent ATPase activity of mammalian taste bud cells

MA Barry

Department of BioStructure and Function, School of Dental Medicine and Neuroscience Program, University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington 06030-3705.

Histochemistry was utilized to characterize Ca-ATPases associated with lingual taste buds in the golden hamster. Taste buds showed elevated staining for magnesium- or calcium-dependent ATPase (Ca-ATPase) relative to the surrounding epithelium. At low calcium concentrations (0.1-0.5 mM), intracellular staining predominated. Most of the studies were conducted at calcium concentrations of > or = 10 mM, in which most of the staining was localized to the external face of plasma membranes of taste bud cells (including receptor and basal cells) located in the core of fungiform taste buds, or the entire vallate or foliate taste buds. The peripheral fungiform taste bud cells stained much less intensely, but the peripheral cells adjacent to the core showed intermediate levels. GTP and ITP were just as effective substrates as ATP. Millimolar concentrations of magnesium were as effective as calcium. Inhibitors of intracellular ATPases, including quercetin, sodium azide, and 2,4-dinitrophenol, had no effect on the staining. Therefore, the Ca-ATPase staining of plasma membranes at mM concentrations of calcium is thought to correspond to one or more ecto- Ca-ATPase activities with unknown functions. Roles related to increased energy requirements or to the possible function of ATP as a neurotransmitter or -modulator are proposed.

Volume 40, Issue 12, pp. 1919-1928, 12/01/1992
Copyright © 1992 by The Histochemical Society


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