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Research Article| Volume 76, ISSUE 2, P231-239, August 1970

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Influence of erythrocyte membrane adenosine triphosphatase on the metabolism of hemolysates

  • Harold S. Zarkowsky
    Affiliations
    From the Hematology Division of the Department of Medicine, Children's Hospital Medical Center, Boston, Mass., USA

    From the Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School Boston, Mass., USA
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  • David G. Nathan
    Correspondence
    Reprint requests: Dr. David G. Nathan, Division of Research Hematology, Children's Hospital Medical Center, 300 Longwood Ave., Boston, Mass. 02115 (Building A, fourth floor).
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    Affiliations
    From the Hematology Division of the Department of Medicine, Children's Hospital Medical Center, Boston, Mass., USA

    From the Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School Boston, Mass., USA
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  • Author Footnotes
    ∗ Dr. Nathan is the recipient of United States Public Health Service Research Career Development Award K3 AM 35361.
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      Abstract

      When erythrocyte membranes are incubated with hemolysates in the presence of adenosine triphosphate (ATP), they release adenosine diphosphate (ADP). This effect is ouabain sensitive and is attributable to membrane adenosine triphosphatase (ATPase). The released ADP stimulates lactate production from fructose diphosphate, and this effect persists in the hemolysate after the hemolysate is cleared of membranes. Membranes have no effect on lactate production from glucose in hemolysates, presumably because the utilization of this substrate creates ADP. The data suggest that the membrane cation pump is linked to hemolysate glycolysis through the production of ADP by ATPase and that the ADP produced by membrane ATPase contributes to the requirements for ADP in the cytosome.
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