PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - MASARU KUREBE TI - Interaction of Dibucaine and Calcium Ion on a Calcium Pump Reconstituted from Defined Components of Intestinal Brush Border DP - 1978 Jan 01 TA - Molecular Pharmacology PG - 138--144 VI - 14 IP - 1 4099 - http://molpharm.aspetjournals.org/content/14/1/138.short 4100 - http://molpharm.aspetjournals.org/content/14/1/138.full SO - Mol Pharmacol1978 Jan 01; 14 AB - The uptake of Ca++ by reconstituted proteoliposomes involves an ATP-independent as well as an ATP-dependent process. In the presence of 0.7 mM ATP, 1 mM dibucaine inhibited Ca++ uptake and (Mg++ + Ca++)-ATPase activity, but 0.2 mM dibucaine stimulated both. The latter reduced the velocity of ATP-independent Ca++ uptake at low Ca++ concentrations, but increased it at a high concentration (0.15 mM of Ca++. ATP-dependent Ca++ uptake was facilitated by 0.2 mM dibucaine only in the presence of a high concentration of Ca++. Kinetic analyses of the data obtained with the lower dose of dibucaine suggest that this compound competes with Ca++ for binding sites on the outer surface of membranes and that its interaction with Ca++ induces a conformational change of membranes accompanied by an increase in the passive permeability of Ca++ and activation of the ATP-mediated Ca++ pump.