Bicarbonate abolishes intracellular alkalinization in mitogen-stimulated 3T3 cells

Journal of Cellular Physiology
B S SzwergoldJ J Freed

Abstract

An increase in intracellular pH (pHi) following mitogenic stimulation has been reported in a variety of mammalian cells (W. Moolenaar, Annu. Rev. Physiol., 48:363-376, 1986; E. Rozengurt, Science, 234:161-166, 1986). This increase is currently believed to constitute a "permissive" signal in the process of cell activation (A.E. Lagarde and J.M. Pouyssegur, Cancer Biochem. Biophys. 9:1-14, 1986). Since the majority of studies of this phenomenon have been conducted in the nonphysiological milieu of bicarbonate-free solutions, we have undertaken a study of the effects of bicarbonate and CO2 on mitogen-induced intracellular alkalinization in NIH 3T3 cells. Using nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy and novel 31P NMR pH indicators (2-amino-phosphono-carboxylic acids) we found that mitogen induces an increase in pHi of 0.16 units only in cells bathed in medium containing low concentrations of bicarbonate (less than 1 mM) and not in cells bathed in medium containing physiological levels of bicarbonate (10-30 mM). In addition to abolishing the mitogen-induced alkalinization, bicarbonate stabilizes pHi at 7.25 units as the external pH (pHe) is varied from 7.0 to 7.6. In contrast, in a bicarbonate-free medium pHi increases from 6...Continue Reading

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