- exchange activities of zebrafish NHE 3 b expressed in Xenopus oocytes

Na/H and Na/NH4-exchange activities of zebrafish NHE3b expressed in Xenopus oocytes 1 2 Yusuke Ito, Akira Kato, Taku Hirata, Shigehisa Hirose, and Michael F. Romero 3 4 Department of Biological Sciences, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama, Japan; and 5 Department of Physiology and Biomedical Engineering, Nephrology & Hypertension and O’Brien 6 Urology Research Center, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, Minnesota 7 8 Running head: FUNCTIONAL CHARACTERIZATION OF ZEBRAFISH NHE3B 9 10 Kew Words: Na/H exchange, Na/NH4 exchange, NHE3, zebrafish, Xenopus oocyte 11 electrophysiology, ammonium, intracellular pH 12 13 Contact information: 14 15 Michael F. Romero, PhD 16 Physiology and Biomedical Engineering, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, 200 First St. SW, 17 Rochester, MN 55905. Tel.: +1-507-2848127; E-mail: romero.michael@mayo.edu 18 19 * Y. Ito and A. Kato contributed equally to this work. 20 21 22 Articles in PresS. Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol (January 8, 2014). doi:10.1152/ajpregu.00363.2013