“…Thus, it increases the rate of dephosphorylation of the P-E 2 form of Ca-ATPase (Shigekawa and Pearl, 1976;Chaloub and de Meis, 1980) and accelerates both the Ca 21 binding and dissociation in the absence of ATP (Moutin and Dupont, 1991;Orlowski and Champeil, 1991;Lee et al, 1995), suggesting that it increases the rate of the E 2 -E 1 transition. Moreover, it has been proposed that Ca-ATPase catalyzes passive transport of K 1 when the protein is switched to its E 2 conformational state (Moutin and Dupont, 1991;de Jesus et al, 1995). Lee et al (1995) interpreted the effect of K 1 on the binding of Ca 21 to Ca-ATPase by proposing the binding of K 1 to a ''gating'' site, in competition with Mg 21 and H 1 , where it affects the affinity of the calcium pump for Ca 21 ; they also postulated the binding of K 1 to the inner Ca 21 binding site, but not to the outer one.…”