Erythrosin 5′‐isothiocyanate labels Cys549 as part of the low‐affinity ATP binding site of Na+/K+‐ATPase1

Abstract
The high-affinity E1ATP site of Na+/K+-ATPase labeled with fluorescein 5′-isothiocyanate and its E2ATP site labeled with erythrosin 5′-isothiocyanate (ErITC), as was shown recently [Linnertz et al. (1998) J. Biol. Chem. 273, 28813–28821], reside on separate and adjacent catalytic α subunits. This paper provides evidence that specific labeling of the E2ATP binding site with ErITC resulted in a modification of the Cys549 residue in the tryptic fragment with the sequence Val545-Leu-Gly-Phe-Cys549-His550. Hence, Cys549 is part of or close to the low-affinity E2ATP binding site of Na+/K+-ATPase.