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Effect of acute serum depletion on Na + ‐K + homeostasis in cultured human skin fibroblasts
Author(s) -
Hopp L.,
Kuriyama S.,
Kino M.,
Aviv A.
Publication year - 1987
Publication title -
journal of cellular physiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.529
H-Index - 174
eISSN - 1097-4652
pISSN - 0021-9541
DOI - 10.1002/jcp.1041310304
Subject(s) - ouabain , fetal bovine serum , chemistry , washout , intracellular , sodium , microbiology and biotechnology , in vitro , biochemistry , medicine , biology , organic chemistry
In order to elucidate changes in cell transport behavior of cultured human skin fibroblasts in response to acute serum depletion, we performed uptake and washout of 22 Na + and 86 Rb + as well as measurements of the intracellular Na + and K + levels in the presence and absence of ouabain. Pronounced and lasting increase in cellular Na + and decrease in K + were observed after removal of fetal bovine serum (FBS) from the medium. The sum of the Na + and K + contents (nEq/10 5 cells) was lower in FBS‐free medium (mean ± SD; 17.3 ± 2.2) than in FBS‐containing medium (26.2 ± 3.8; P < .02). Simultaneously, a decrease in cellular water volume was detected in the FBS‐free medium. The cation uptake and washout data suggest that FBS removal primarily renders the cells more permeable to Na + and K + with a secondary stimulation of the ouabain‐sensitive Na + extrusion mechanism. FBS at a concentration of 0.2% prevented approximately 50% of the maximal increase in the 86 Rb + washout rate constant associated with FBS depletion. Ouabain (2 μM) produced an increase in the 86 Rb + washout rate constant. This effect was substantially larger in cells subjected to medium without FBS (from 0.0303 to 0.2500 min −1 ) than in fibroblasts incubated in medium with FBS (from 0.0107 to 0.0487 min −1 ). The cellular K + content was drastically reduced by ouabain to a level not different in medium with or without FBS (33.9 ± 4.5 to 1.75 ± 0.38 and 16.7 ± 1.4 to 1.4 ± 0.13 nEq/10 5 cells, respectively). The 22 Na + washout data exhibited a three‐exponential pattern. Analytical solutions of the washout data by means of two models (serial and parallel) with three compartments showed that FBS depletion resulted in increase of the size of all three compartments. It is concluded that in cultured human skin fibroblasts, FBS is essential to the maintenance of a normal Na + and K + homeoatasis. The removal of FBS results in dramatic permutation of this homeostasis that develops within minutes and lasts for hours.