scholarly journals Type I collagen gel induces Madin-Darby canine kidney cells to become fusiform in shape and lose apical-basal polarity.

1989 ◽  
Vol 108 (3) ◽  
pp. 903-919 ◽  
Author(s):  
A Zuk ◽  
K S Matlin ◽  
E D Hay

In the embryo, epithelia give rise to mesenchyme at specific times and places. Recently, it has been reported (Greenburg, G., and E. D. Hay. 1986. Dev. Biol. 115:363-379; Greenberg, G., and E. D. Hay. 1988. Development (Camb.). 102:605-622) that definitive epithelia can give rise to fibroblast-like cells when suspended within type I collagen gels. We wanted to know whether Madin-Darby canine kidney (MDCK) cells, an epithelial line, can form mesenchyme under similar conditions. Small explants of MDCK cells on basement membrane were suspended within or placed on top of extracellular matrix gels. MDCK cells on basement membrane gel are tall, columnar in shape, and ultrastructurally resemble epithelia transporting fluid and ions. MDCK explants cultured on type I collagen gel give rise to isolated fusiform-shaped cells that migrate over the gel surface. The fusiform cells extend pseudopodia and filopodia, lose cell membrane specializations, and develop an actin cortex around the entire cell. Unlike true mesenchymal cells, which express vimentin and type I collagen, fusiform cells produce both keratin and vimentin, continue to express laminin, and do not turn on type I collagen. Fusiform cells are not apically-basally polarized, but show mesenchymal cell polarity. Influenza hemagglutinin and virus budding localize to the front end or entire cell surface. Na,K-ATPase occurs intracellularly and also symmetrically distributes on the cell surface. Fodrin becomes diffusely distributed along the plasma membrane, ZO-1 cannot be detected, and desmoplakins distribute randomly in the cytoplasm. The loss of epithelial polarity and acquisition of mesenchymal cell polarity and shape by fusiform MDCK cells on type I collagen gel was previously unsuspected. The phenomenon may offer new opportunities for studying cytoplasmic and nuclear mechanisms regulating cell shape and polarity.

1996 ◽  
Vol 109 (7) ◽  
pp. 1875-1889 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Zuk ◽  
K.S. Matlin

A number of epithelia form tubulocysts in vitro when overlaid with type I collagen gel. Because collagen receptors are generally believed to be expressed on the basolateral domain, the mechanism by which collagen elicits this morphogenetic response from the apical surface is unclear. To investigate the role of beta 1 integrins, the major receptor family for collagen, in this process, we overlaid polarized monolayers of MDCK II cells grown on permeable supports with type I collagen gel and correlated integrin polarity with the polarity of other apical and basolateral membrane markers during tubulocyst formation. Polarized monolayers of one clone of MDCK II cells, referred to as Heidelberg MDCK, initially respond to collagen overlay by stratifying; within 48 hours, lumena develop between the cell layers giving rise to tubulocysts. Tight junctions remain intact during tubulocyst formation because transepithelial electrical resistance does not significantly change. Major alterations are observed, however, in the expression and localization of apical and basolateral membrane markers. beta 1 integrins are necessary for tubulocyst morphogenesis because a function-blocking antibody administered to the apical pole of the cells completely inhibits the formation of these structures. To determine how apical-cell collagen interactions elicit tubulocyst formation, we examined whether beta 1 integrins are mobilized to apical plasma membranes in response to collagen overlay. We found that in the absence of collagen, polarized monolayers of Heidelberg MDCK cells endogenously express on apical plasma membranes a small pool of the beta 1 family, including alpha 2 beta 1 and alpha 3 beta 1. Collagen overlay does not mobilize additional beta 1 integrins to apical domains. If beta 1 integrins are not already apically expressed, as in the C6 MDCK cell line (Schoenenberger et al. (1994) J. Cell Biol. 107, 527–541), beta 1 integrins are not directed apically and tubulocysts do not develop in response to collagen. Thus, interaction of beta 1 integrin pre-existing on apical plasma membranes of polarized epithelia with type I collagen gel is the mechanism by which apical application of collagen elicits the formation of tubulocysts. Depolarized integrins on apical plasma membranes of polarized epithelia may be relevant to the pathogenesis of disease and injury.


2006 ◽  
Vol 291 (1) ◽  
pp. F122-F128 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth A. Potter ◽  
Gavin Stewart ◽  
Craig P. Smith

In this study, we engineered a Madin-Darby canine kidney (MDCK) type I cell line to stably express the mouse urea transporter UT-A2. Monolayers of MDCK-mUT-A2 cells had a basal phloretin-inhibitable urea permeability of 8.4 × 10−6 ± 0.3 cm/s. Treatment of MDCK-mUT-A2 monolayers with AVP led to a rapid dose-dependent increase in trans-monolayer phloretin-inhibitable urea flux. The temporal pattern of response was markedly different from that observed for MDCK cells expressing rat UT-A1. Exposure of MDCK-mUT-A2 cells to either 10 μM forskolin or 250 μM 8-bromo cAMP also increased urea flux rate. Inclusion of the PKA inhibitor H89 (10 μM) had no effect on the forskolin-stimulated increase in urea flux across MDCK-mUT-A2 monolayers. Treatment with either 10 μM CPA or 1 mM ATP also caused an increase in UT-A2-mediated urea flux, although these responses where transient compared with those induced by AVP or elevated cAMP. Taken together, these results show for the first time that UT-A2 is acutely sensitive to AVP, cAMP, or increased intracellular calcium.


2015 ◽  
Vol 20 (5) ◽  
pp. 486-493 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. Muthuraman ◽  
P. C. Nagajyothi ◽  
M. Chandrasekaran ◽  
G. Enkhtaivan ◽  
B. Venkitasamy ◽  
...  

1996 ◽  
Vol 74 (2) ◽  
pp. 283-287 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. Randall ◽  
M. Lever ◽  
B. A. Peddie ◽  
S. T. Chambers

Intracellular accumulation of different betaines was compared in osmotically stressed Madin Darby canine kidney (MDCK) cells to model the betaine accumulation specificity of the mammalian inner medulla and to show how this accumulation differed from that of bacteria. All betaines accumulated less than glycine betaine. Arsenobetaine (the arsenic analogue of glycine betaine) accumulated to 12% of the glycine betaine levels and the sulphur analogue dimethylthetin accumulated to >80%. Most substituted glycine betaine analogues accumulated to 2–5% of intracellular glycine betaine concentrations, however, serine betaine accumulated to <0.5% of glycine betaine levels. Inhibition studies to distinguish the betaine ports were performed by the addition of proline. Butyrobetaine and carnitine accumulation was not proline sensitive, whereas that of omer betaines was. As with glycine betaine, the accumulation of propionobetaine and dimethylthetin was proline sensitive and osmoregulated. Pyridinium betaine was accumulated by both proline-sensitive and -insensitive systems, with a small increase under osmotic stress. High concentrations (10 times that of glycine betaine) of the dietary betaines proline betaine and trigonelline inhibited total betaine accumulation. Because α-substituted betaines are accumulated by bacteria and not by MDCK cells, these betaines may be the basis for design of antimicrobial agents.Key words: MDCK cells, betaine accumulation, osmolytes, betaine analogues.


1990 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 255-258 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. L. Strohmaier ◽  
K. -H. Bichler ◽  
P. Deetjen ◽  
S. Kleinknecht ◽  
M. Pedro ◽  
...  

2010 ◽  
Vol 21 (21) ◽  
pp. 3654-3668 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jose V. Moyano ◽  
Patricia G. Greciano ◽  
Mary M. Buschmann ◽  
Manuel Koch ◽  
Karl S. Matlin

Laminin (LM)-332 is an extracellular matrix protein that plays a structural role in normal tissues and is also important in facilitating recovery of epithelia from injury. We have shown that expression of LM-332 is up-regulated during renal epithelial regeneration after ischemic injury, but the molecular signals that control expression are unknown. Here, we demonstrate that in Madin-Darby canine kidney (MDCK) epithelial cells LM-332 expression occurs only in subconfluent cultures and is turned-off after a polarized epithelium has formed. Addition of active transforming growth factor (TGF)-β1 to confluent MDCK monolayers is sufficient to induce transcription of the LM α3 gene and LM-332 protein expression via the TGF-β type I receptor (TβR-I) and the Smad2–Smad4 complex. Significantly, we show that expression of LM-332 in MDCK cells is an autocrine response to endogenous TGF-β1 secretion and activation mediated by integrin αVβ3 because neutralizing antibodies block LM-332 production in subconfluent cells. In confluent cells, latent TGF-β1 is secreted apically, whereas TβR-I and integrin αVβ3 are localized basolaterally. Disruption of the epithelial barrier by mechanical injury activates TGF-β1, leading to LM-332 expression. Together, our data suggest a novel mechanism for triggering the production of LM-332 after epithelial injury.


1994 ◽  
Vol 5 (10) ◽  
pp. 1093-1103 ◽  
Author(s):  
A K Rajasekaran ◽  
J S Humphrey ◽  
M Wagner ◽  
G Miesenböck ◽  
A Le Bivic ◽  
...  

Sorting of newly synthesized plasma membrane proteins to the apical or basolateral surface domains of polarized cells is currently thought to take place within the trans-Golgi network (TGN). To explore the relationship between protein localization to the TGN and sorting to the plasma membrane in polarized epithelial cells, we have expressed constructs encoding the TGN marker, TGN38, in Madin-Darby canine kidney (MDCK) cells. We report that TGN38 is predominantly localized to the TGN of these cells and recycles via the basolateral membrane. Analyses of the distribution of Tac-TGN38 chimeric proteins in MDCK cells suggest that the cytoplasmic domain of TGN38 has information leading to both TGN localization and cycling through the basolateral surface. Mutations of the cytoplasmic domain that disrupt TGN localization also lead to nonpolarized delivery of the chimeric proteins to both surface domains. These results demonstrate an apparent equivalence of basolateral and TGN localization determinants and support an evolutionary relationship between TGN and plasma membrane sorting processes.


1987 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 1326-1337
Author(s):  
S L Warren ◽  
W J Nelson

Madin-Darby canine kidney (MDCK) cells form polarized, multicellular epithelial structures in vitro. Low-level expression of pp60v-src in MDCK cells elicits plasticity in these multicellular structures. Plasticity was revealed by the displacement of cells from mechanically stressed regions of the epithelial monolayers; however, the two-dimensional relationship between the cells in the remainder of the monolayer was maintained. Electron microscopy of multicellular structures revealed abnormal separation of the lateral membranes of adjacent cells and selective uncoupling of the junctional complex; the zonula adherens was disrupted, but the zonula occludens and desmosomes were retained. Significantly, this result was not accompanied by transformation of the cells, as judged by the absence of anchorage-independent growth potential. These results demonstrate a nonmitogenic biological activity of pp60v-src which is experimentally dissociable from transformation. This morphoregulatory action on higher-order epithelial structures may reflect a function of related cellular tyrosine kinases.


1999 ◽  
Vol 145 (1) ◽  
pp. 141-151 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rosa Puertollano ◽  
Fernando Martín-Belmonte ◽  
Jaime Millán ◽  
María del Carmen de Marco ◽  
Juan P. Albar ◽  
...  

The MAL (MAL/VIP17) proteolipid is a nonglycosylated integral membrane protein expressed in a restricted pattern of cell types, including T lymphocytes, myelin-forming cells, and polarized epithelial cells. Transport of the influenza virus hemagglutinin (HA) to the apical surface of epithelial Madin-Darby canine kidney (MDCK) cells appears to be mediated by a pathway involving glycolipid- and cholesterol- enriched membranes (GEMs). In MDCK cells, MAL has been proposed previously as being an element of the protein machinery for the GEM-dependent apical transport pathway. Using an antisense oligonucleotide-based strategy and a newly generated monoclonal antibody to canine MAL, herein we have approached the effect of MAL depletion on HA transport in MDCK cells. We have found that MAL depletion diminishes the presence of HA in GEMs, reduces the rate of HA transport to the cell surface, inhibits the delivery of HA to the apical surface, and produces partial missorting of HA to the basolateral membrane. These effects were corrected by ectopic expression of MAL in MDCK cells whose endogenous MAL protein was depleted. Our results indicate that MAL is necessary for both normal apical transport and accurate sorting of HA.


1987 ◽  
Vol 105 (4) ◽  
pp. 1623-1635 ◽  
Author(s):  
G van Meer ◽  
E H Stelzer ◽  
R W Wijnaendts-van-Resandt ◽  
K Simons

To study the intracellular transport of newly synthesized sphingolipids in epithelial cells we have used a fluorescent ceramide analog, N-6[7-nitro-2,1,3-benzoxadiazol-4-yl] aminocaproyl sphingosine (C6-NBD-ceramide; Lipsky, N. G., and R. E. Pagano, 1983, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 80:2608-2612) as a probe. This ceramide was readily taken up by filter-grown Madin-Darby canine kidney (MDCK) cells from liposomes at 0 degrees C. After penetration into the cell, the fluorescent probe accumulated in the Golgi area at temperatures between 0 and 20 degrees C. Chemical analysis showed that C6-NBD-ceramide was being converted into C6-NBD-sphingomyelin and C6-NBD-glucosyl-ceramide. An analysis of the fluorescence pattern after 1 h at 20 degrees C by means of a confocal scanning laser fluorescence microscope revealed that the fluorescent marker most likely concentrated in the Golgi complex itself. Little fluorescence was observed at the plasma membrane. Raising the temperature to 37 degrees C for 1 h resulted in intense plasma membrane staining and a loss of fluorescence from the Golgi complex. Addition of BSA to the apical medium cleared the fluorescence from the apical but not from the basolateral plasma membrane domain. The basolateral fluorescence could be depleted only by adding BSA to the basal side of a monolayer of MDCK cells grown on polycarbonate filters. We conclude that the fluorescent sphingomyelin and glucosylceramide were delivered from the Golgi complex to the plasma membrane where they accumulated in the external leaflet of the membrane bilayer. The results also demonstrated that the fatty acyl labeled lipids were unable to pass the tight junctions in either direction. Quantitation of the amount of NBD-lipids delivered to the apical and the basolateral plasma membranes during incubation for 1 h at 37 degrees C showed that the C6-NBD-glucosylceramide was two- to fourfold enriched on the apical as compared to the basolateral side, while C6-NBD-sphingomyelin was about equally distributed. Since the surface area of the apical plasma membrane is much smaller than that of the basolateral membrane, both lipids achieved a higher concentration on the apical surface. Altogether, our results suggest that the NBD-lipids are sorted in MDCK cells in a way similar to their natural counterparts.


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