scholarly journals Localization of d-myoinositol 1:2-cyclic phosphate 2-phosphohydrolase in rat kidney

1972 ◽  
Vol 130 (1) ◽  
pp. 229-238 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. Clarke ◽  
R. M. C. Dawson

1. On subcellular fractionation of rat kidney homogenates by differential and density-gradient centrifugation, the bulk of the inositol 1:2-cyclic phosphate 2-phosphohydrolase activity remains with the alkaline phosphatase activity, suggesting localization in the brush borders of the proximal tubules. 2. Histochemical studies with a medium containing inositol 1:2-cyclic phosphate and Escherichia coli phosphomonoesterase show Gomori staining around the brush borders of the proximal tubules in the outer cortex only. 3. Serial sections across the kidney from cortex perimeter to papilla suggest that the inositol 1:2-cyclic phosphate 2-phosphohydrolase has a limited distribution along the proximal tubule of the nephron, probably being limited to the pars convoluta, whereas the alkaline phosphatase extends along the pars recta.

1973 ◽  
Vol 134 (1) ◽  
pp. 59-67 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. M. C. Dawson ◽  
N. G. Clarke

1. The ability to hydrolyse various phosphodiesterase substrates was examined in subcellular fractions of rat kidney and in serial slices of the kidneys of mouse, rat, guinea pig and ox cut from the cortex perimeter inwards. 2. d-Inositol 1:2-cyclic phosphate 2-phosphohydrolase could be clearly distinguished from phosphodiesterases which hydrolyse 2′:3′- and 3′:5′-cyclic AMP and p-nitrophenyl thymidine 5′-phosphate (phosphodiesterase I). The hydrolysis of sn-glycero-3-phosphorylcholine showed a distribution identical with that of particle-bound d-inositol 1:2-cyclic phosphate 2-phosphodiesterase, but there was a 30-fold difference in the ratio of enzyme activities between the rat and guinea pig. 3. In rat and mouse kidney, d-inositol 1:2-cyclic phosphate 2-phosphohydrolase is virtually all membrane bound and in the outer cortex, whereas in guinea-pig kidney the enzyme is almost entirely soluble and located throughout the kidney tissue. Some properties of the soluble enzyme are described. 4. Distribution and histochemical studies indicated that in the rat and mouse, phosphodiesterase I is associated with the brush borders of the straight portion (pars recta) of the proximal tubule, whereas inositol 1:2-cyclic phosphate 2-phosphohydrolase and probably glycerylphosphorylcholine diesterase are associated with the brush borders of the convoluted part of the tubule (pars convoluta).


1975 ◽  
Vol 150 (3) ◽  
pp. 537-551 ◽  
Author(s):  
P H Cooper ◽  
J N Hawthorne

Tthe properties of diphosphoinositide and triphosphoinositide phosphatases from rat kidney homogenate were studied in an assay system in which non-specific phosphatase activity was eliminated. The enzymes were not completely metal-ion dependent and were activated by Mg2+. The detergent sodium deoxycholate, Triton X-100 and Cutscum inhibited the reaction; cetyltrimethylammonium bromide only activated when added with the subtrates and in the presence Mg2+. Both enzymes had a pH optimum of 7.5. Ca2+ and Li+ both activated triphosphoinositide phosphatase, but Ca2+ inhibited and L+ had little effect on diphosphoinositide phosphatase. Cyclic AMP had no effect on either enzyme. The enzymes were three times more active in kidney cortex than in the medulla. On subcellular fractionation of kidney-cortex homogenates by differential and density-gradient centrifugation, the distribution of the enzymes resembled that of thiamin pyrophosphatase (assayed in the absence of ATP), suggesting localization in the Golgi complex. However, the distribution differed from that of the liver Golgimarker galactosyltransferase. Activities of both diphosphoinositide and triphosphoinositide phosphatases and thiamin pyrophosphatase were low in purified brush-border fragments. Further experiments indicate that at least part of the phosphatase activity is soluble.


1989 ◽  
Vol 257 (4) ◽  
pp. C637-C645 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. B. Hensley ◽  
M. E. Bradley ◽  
A. K. Mircheff

Parathyroid hormone (PTH) is believed to inhibit bicarbonate reabsorption by inhibiting Na-H antiport activity in proximal tubular brush-border membranes. The sequence of events triggered by PTH was investigated in a crude preparation of proximal tubules obtained by mechanical disruption and filtration through nylon mesh filters. Tubule samples were subjected to analytical subcellular fractionation after 2-, 5-, and 30-min treatments with 1 IU/ml PTH. These PTH-treatment intervals caused 54, 63, and 68% decreases in the Na-H antiport activity of a population of brush-border membrane vesicles that was resolved from a PTH-unresponsive brush-border population by density-gradient centrifugation. The rapid loss of Na-H antiport activity from the responsive population was accompanied by a transient increase in the Na-H antiport activity of a region of the density gradient, designated density window III, which was shown to contain two distinct membrane populations; these populations were both enriched in acid phosphatase activity, and one of them was also an important locus of galactosyltransferase activity. The increase in the Na-H antiport activity of window III accounted for 52% of the activity lost from the PTH-responsive population after 2 min, and for 43% of the activity lost after 5 min, but it was completely abolished after 25 more minutes in the presence of PTH. These observations suggest that PTH triggers a rapid translocation of Na-H antiporters from the microvillus membrane to a distinct membrane domain, where they are subsequently inactivated.


1977 ◽  
Vol 162 (2) ◽  
pp. 241-245 ◽  
Author(s):  
R M C Dawson ◽  
N Hemington

1. A phosphodiesterase, active at an alkaline pH, is present in the outer cortex of rat kidney and hydrolyses glycerylphosphorylinositol into glycerol and phosphorylinositol. Some inositol cyclic phosphate can also be formed indicating that the enzyme can act as a cyclizing phosphotransferase. 2. The enzyme is stimulated by Ca2+(2-3mM) whereas Mg2+ is inhibitory. 3. The activity is markedly stimulated by low concentrations of thiol reagents (1-2mM) such as cysteine or dithiothreitol. 4. The properties of the enzyme have been compared with glycerylphosphinicocholine diesterase (EC 3.1.4.2), which is also present in the isolated enzyme complex, and it is concluded that the enzymes have separate identities.


1975 ◽  
Vol 66 (3) ◽  
pp. 586-608 ◽  
Author(s):  
S A Ernst

A cytochemical method for the light and electron microscope localization of the K- and Mg-dependent phosphatase component of the Na-K-ATPase complex was applied to rat kidney cortex, utilizing p-nitrophenylphosphate (NPP) as substrate. Localization of K-N-ATPase activity in kidneys fixed by perfusion with 1% paraformaldehyde -0.25% glutaraldehyde demonstrated that distal tubules are the major cortical site for this sodium transport enzyme. Cortical collecting tubules were moderately reactive, whereas activity in proximal tubules was resolved only after short fixation times and long incubations. In all cases, K-NPPase activity was restricted to the cytoplasmic side of the basolateral plasma membranes, which are characterized in these neplron segments by elaborate folding of the cell surface. Although the rat K-NPPase appeared almost completely insensitive to ouabain with this cytochemical medium, parallel studies with the more glycoside-sensitive rabbit kidney indicated that K-NPPase activity in these nephron segments is sensitive to this inhibitor. In addition to K-NPPase, nonspecific alkaline phosphatase also hydrolyzed NPP. The latter could be differentiated cytochemically from the specific phosphatase, since alkaline phosphatase was K-independent, insensitive to ouabain, and specifically inhibited by cysteine. Unlike K-NPPPase, alkaline phosphatase was localized primarily to the extracellular side of the microvillar border of proximal tubules. A small amount of cysteine-sensitive activity was resolved along peritubular surfaces of proximal tubules. Distal tubules were unreactive. In comparative studies, Mg-ATPase activity was localized along the extracellular side of the luminal and basolateral surfaces of proximal and distal tubules and the basolateral membranes of collecting tubules.


2003 ◽  
Vol 285 (2) ◽  
pp. F230-F240 ◽  
Author(s):  
Flavia A. Wald ◽  
Yolanda Figueroa ◽  
Andrea S. Oriolo ◽  
Pedro J. I. Salas

We have previously shown that microtubule-organizing centers (MTOCs) attach to the apical network of intermediate filaments (IFs) in epithelial cells in culture and in epithelia in vivo. Because that attachment is important for the architecture of microtubules (MTs) in epithelia, we analyzed whether chemical anoxia in LLC-PK1 and CACO-2 cells or unilateral ischemia-reperfusion in rat kidney (performed under fluorane anesthesia) had an effect on the binding and distribution of MTOCs. In culture, we found that chemical anoxia induces MTOC detachment from IFs by morphological and biochemical criteria. In reperfused rat proximal tubules, noncentrosomal MTOCs were fully detached from the cytoskeleton and scattered throughout the cytoplasm at 3 days after reperfusion, when brush borders were mostly reassembled. At that time, MTs were also fully reassembled but, as expected, lacked their normal apicobasal orientation. Two apical membrane markers expressed in S2 and S3 segments were depolarized at the same stage. At 8 days after reperfusion, membrane polarity, MTOCs, and MTs were back to normal. Na+-K+-ATPase was also found redistributed, not to the apical domain but rather to an intracellular compartment, as described by others (Alejandro VS, Nelson W, Huie P, Sibley RK, Dafoe D, Kuo P, Scandling JD Jr., and Myers BD. Kidney Int 48: 1308–1315, 1995). The prolonged depolarization of the apical membrane may have implications in the pathophysiology of acute renal failure.


2014 ◽  
Vol 307 (4) ◽  
pp. F388-F395 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ying Liu ◽  
Zhanjun Jia ◽  
Ying Sun ◽  
Li Zhou ◽  
Maicy Downton ◽  
...  

Cyclooxygenase 2 (COX-2) has an established role in postnatal kidney development. 15-Hydroxyprostaglandin dehydrogenase (15-PGDH) is recently identified as an endogenous inhibitor of COX-2, limiting the production of COX-2-derived prostanoids in several pathological conditions. The present study was undertaken to examine the regulation of renal 15-PGDH expression during postnatal kidney development in rats compared with COX-2. qRT-PCR and immunoblotting demonstrated that 15-PGDH mRNA and protein in the kidney were present in neonates, peaked in the second postnatal week, and then declined sharply to very low level in adulthood. Immunostaining demonstrated that at the second postnatal week, renal 15-PGDH protein was predominantly found in the proximal tubules stained positive for Na/H exchanger 3 and brush borders (periodic acid-Schiff), whereas COX-2 protein was restricted to macular densa and adjacent thick ascending limbs. Interestingly, in the fourth postnatal week, 15-PGDH protein was redistributed to thick ascending limbs stained positive for the Na-K-2Cl cotransporter. After 6 wk of age, 15-PGDH protein was found in the granules in subsets of the proximal tubules. Overall, these results support a possibility that 15-PGDH may regulate postnatal kidney development through interaction with COX-2.


1978 ◽  
Vol 55 (2) ◽  
pp. 157-165
Author(s):  
R. M. Batt ◽  
T. J. Peters

1. Enterocytes, isolated from the proximal jejunum and distal ileum of the rat, were homogenized and their organelles separated by isopycnic centrifugation on continuous sucrose density gradients. The distributions of marker enzymes for the principal organelles, RNA and protein were determined in the sucrose gradients and related to the activities per enterocyte. 2. In the jejunum the modal equilibrium densities of the various organelles were: brush borders (1.20), lysosomes (1.20), peroxisomes (1.19), mitochondria (1.17) and basal-lateral membranes (1.13). These values were not significantly different in the ileum. The activities of brush-border enzymes, soluble and mitochondrial malate dehydrogenase, soluble and membrane-associated lactate dehydrogenase and particulate protein content, however, were greater in the jejunal than the ileal enterocytes. 3. Detergent exposed latent alkaline phosphatase activity in jejunal enterocytes and indicated that this enzyme is present not only in the brush border but also in the basal-lateral membrane and soluble fractions of the cell. 4. Isolated jejunal brush-border preparations showed latent activities of both alkaline phosphatase and γ-glutamyltransferase whereas the activities of α-glucosidase and leucyl-β-naphthylamidase were not affected by detergent. Mechanical disruption of these preparations suggested the presence of two forms of alkaline phosphatase in the brush border and provides a technique to assess membrane fragility.


Author(s):  
S.K. Aggarwal

The proposed primary mechanism of action of the anticancer drug cisplatin (Cis-DDP) is through its interaction with DNA, mostly through DNA intrastrand cross-links or DNA interstrand cross-links. DNA repair mechanisms can circumvent this arrest thus permitting replication and transcription to proceed. Various membrane transport enzymes have also been demonstrated to be effected by cisplatin. Glycoprotein alkaline phosphatase was looked at in the proximal tubule cells before and after cisplatin both in vivo and in vitro for its inactivation or its removal from the membrane using light and electron microscopy.Outbred male Swiss Webster (Crl: (WI) BR) rats weighing 150-250g were given ip injections of cisplatin (7mg/kg). Animals were killed on day 3 and day 5. Thick slices (20-50.um) of kidney tissue from treated and untreated animals were fixed in 1% buffered glutaraldehyde and 1% formaldehyde (0.05 M cacodylate buffer, pH 7.3) for 30 min at 4°C. Alkaline phosphatase activity and carbohydrates were demonstrated according to methods described earlier.


1974 ◽  
Vol 141 (1) ◽  
pp. 93-101 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. R. V. Nayudu ◽  
Fraser B. Hercus

Polyacrylamide-gel electrophoresis and Bio-Gel P-300 molecular-sieve chromatography of mouse duodenal alkaline phosphatase demonstrates its molecular heterogeneity, which, in a kinetic sense, is manifest also in the differential relative velocities of the heterogeneous forms of the enzyme with two substrates, phenylphosphate and β-glycerophosphate. Different treatments that eliminate most of the electrophoretic and chromatographic variability of the enzyme also decrease the velocities with both substrates so that the molar ratio of hydrolysis of one substrate relative to the other is also altered to a low but stable value. Concomitant with these changes, lipids and peptides are dissociated from the enzyme. The lipids are tentatively identified as a sterol and phospholipids. The peptides have an average composition of four to six amino acids and appear to be strongly electropositive. The conditions of dissociation suggest that their binding to the enzyme is non-covalent and predominantly based on hydrophobic and ionic bonding. The concept of lipid and peptide association would suggest prima facie differential molecular weights as a factor in the observed electrophoretic and chromatographic heterogeneity. However, the molecular forms of the enzyme with differences in elution volume equivalent to more than one-half the void volume of the Bio-Gel P-300 column, or even enzyme fractions dissociated from the lipids and peptides compared with undissociated portions, do not show any differences in sedimentation on sucrose-density-gradient centrifugation. This may be because the alterations in molecular weight owing to binding of small molecules are too small to be detected by this method. Alternatively, since lipids are involved, the binding may alter the partial specific volume in such a way that the buoyant density is not significantly altered.


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