No evidence for a role in signal-transduction of Na+/K+-ATPase interaction with putative endogenous ouabain

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A cascade of events (signal-transduction), mainly seen in rat cardiac myocytes and renal cells, is thought to occur after ouabain interaction with a minor fraction of Na+/K+-ATPase. A higher intracellular Na+ concentration followed sodium pump inhibition by ouabain with a subsequent gradual increase or oscillations in intracellular Ca2+ concentration. Whether this increase in intracellular Ca2+ concentration is part of the cascade, a result of the cascade or a totally independent phenomenon are conflicting interpretations that are discussed. At best, however, the cascade is initiated by ouabain concentrations several orders of magnitude higher than the measured plasma concentrations of putative endogenous ouabain. The experimentally high ouabain concentration may be critical for another reason. Most tissues contain various isoforms of the catalytic α-peptide of Na+/K+-ATPase with an individual sublocalization and, in rats, with different ouabain-sensitivity. The almost ouabain-insensitive α1-isoform of Na+/K+-ATPase is essentially unaffected by the high ouabain concentration, whereas ouabain-sensitive α-isoforms, possibly confined to membrane structures near cytosolic microdomains and Na+/Ca2+ exchangers, may be totally blocked. Classifying endogenous ouabain as a physiological inducer of the signaling system on this background seems hazardous.

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Hansen, O. (2003). No evidence for a role in signal-transduction of Na+/K+-ATPase interaction with putative endogenous ouabain. European Journal of Biochemistry, 270(9), 1916–1919. https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1432-1033.2003.03554.x

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