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A Ca²⁺/H⁺ Antiport System Driven by the Proton Electrochemical Gradient of a Tonoplast H⁺-ATPase from Oat Roots ¹

Department of Botany, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742

Two types of ATP-dependent calcium (Ca²⁺) transport systems were detected in sealed microsomal vesicles from oat roots. Approximately 80% of the total Ca²⁺ uptake was associated with vesicles of 1.11 grams per cubic centimeter and was insensitive to vanadate or azide, but inhibited by NO₃^–. The remaining 20% was vanadate-sensitive and mostly associated with the endoplasmic reticulum, as the transport activity comigrated with an endoplasmic reticulum marker (antimycin A-insensitive NADH cytochrome c reductase), which was shifted from 1.11 to 1.20 grams per cubic centimeter by Mg²⁺.

Like the tonoplast H⁺-ATPase activity, vanadate-insensitive Ca²⁺ accumulation was stimulated by 20 millimolar Cl^– and inhibited by 10 micromolar 4,4'-diisothiocyano-2,2'-stilbene disulfonic acid or 50 micromolar N,N'-dicyclohexylcarbodiimide. This Ca²⁺ transport system had an apparent K_m for Mg-ATP of 0.24 millimolar similar to the tonoplast ATPase. The vanadate-insensitive Ca²⁺ transport was abolished by compounds that eliminated a pH gradient and Ca²⁺ dissipated a pH gradient (acid inside) generated by the tonoplast-type H⁺-ATPase. These results provide compelling evidence that a pH gradient generated by the H⁺-ATPase drives Ca²⁺ accumulation into right-side-out tonoplast vesicles via a Ca²⁺/H⁺ antiport. This transport system was saturable with respect to Ca²⁺ (K_m apparent = 14 micromolar). The Ca²⁺/H⁺ antiport operated independently of the H⁺-ATPase since an artifically imposed pH gradient (acid inside) could also drive Ca²⁺ accumulation. Ca²⁺ transport by this system may be one major way in which vacuoles function in Ca²⁺ homeostasis in the cytoplasm of plant cells.

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