High-affinity ouabain receptors: primary membrane sensors for ionizing radiation

A. I. Dvoretsky, A. M. Shainskaya and S. N. Ayrapetyan ()
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A. I. Dvoretsky: Oles Honchar Dnepropetrovsk National University
A. M. Shainskaya: Weizmann Institute in Rehovot
S. N. Ayrapetyan: UNESCO Chair-Life Sciences International Postgraduate Educational Center

Environment Systems and Decisions, 2012, vol. 32, issue 2, 242-248

Abstract: Abstract Although the high sensitivity of the Na/K pump in cell membrane to ionizing radiation is well known in literature, the individual role of different isoforms of pump in determination of its radio-sensitivity is not clear yet. This is the subject of the present investigation. Using isotope, electro-physiological and enzymological methods, the effect of γ-ionizing radiation on cell membrane voltage-current characteristics, acetylcholine-induced membrane current, 22Na+ and 45Ca2+ exchange between cells and bathing solution, Na+K+-ATPase activity, dose-dependent ouabain binding with cell membrane, intracellular cAMP and membrane phosphorylation in snail neurons were studied. The changes in neurons as a result of 30-min γ-radiation exposure of snails to 5.16 Ci/kg at the end of the first 30 min of post-radiation period were as follows: the increase in membrane ionic conductance reversed the ouabain sensitivity of acetylcholine-induced currents, stimulation of 22Na+ and 45Ca2+ uptakes, inhibition of Na/K pump, activation Na/Ca exchange in reversed mode, increase in ouabain binding with high-affinity α3 and decrease with α2 middle-affinity receptors, decrease in intracellular cAMP content and membrane dephosphorylation. On the basis of the obtained data, it is suggested that both α3 and α2 catalytic subunits of Na++K+-ATPase serve primary membrane sensors through the activation of which the biological effect of γ-radiation on neurons is realized. The IR has activation effects on α3-dependent Na+/Ca2+ exchange in forward and its inactivation on α2-dependent reverse modes.

Keywords: γ-radiation; Neuron; Na/K pump; Na+/Ca2+ exchange; Isoform; Receptor (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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