Fate of antidiuretic hormone water channel proteins after retrieval from apical membrane

1993 ◽  
Vol 265 (3) ◽  
pp. C822-C833 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. L. Zeidel ◽  
T. G. Hammond ◽  
J. B. Wade ◽  
J. Tucker ◽  
H. W. Harris

In toad bladder granular cells, antidiuretic hormone (ADH) stimulates insertion of vesicles containing water channels (WCV), markedly increasing apical membrane osmotic water permeability (Pf). After withdrawal of ADH stimulation, WCV are removed from the apical membrane and fluid-phase markers endocytosed from the apical solution appear predominantly in endosomes at 10-15 min and multivesicular bodies at 30-60 min. Although the luminal contents of this endocytic pathway have been well characterized, the fate of membrane proteins, including functional ADH water channels in these vesicles remains unclear. Using electron microscopic, flow cytometric, and stopped-flow fluorescence measurements and characterization of labeled vesicle proteins, we examined the fate of membrane proteins contained within WCV. The protein complements of endosomes harvested after 10, 30, and 60 min of ADH withdrawal were similar. Selective covalent labeling of apical proteins during ADH stimulation followed by ADH reversal for 30 or 60 min showed that apical proteins colocalize with fluid-phase marker-labeled endosomes at all times, and most apically labeled protein bands present in the 10-min fraction were also present in the 30- and 60-min endosome fractions. Endosomes at 10 and 30 min but not at 60 min contained functional water channels revealed by high Pf and proton permeability, low activation energy of Pf, and sensitivity of Pf to mercurial reagents. We conclude that a portion of apically exposed membrane proteins, including candidate water channel proteins, travel together with fluid-phase markers from 10-min endosomes into later endosomal compartments. Functional water channels may be inactivated or some essential protein component selectively sorted away between 30 and 60 min after ADH withdrawal.

1991 ◽  
Vol 1 (9) ◽  
pp. 1114-1122
Author(s):  
H W Harris

Antidiuretic hormone (ADH) dramatically increases the water permeability of toad urinary bladder by insertion of unique highly selective water channels into the apical membranes of granular cells. Before ADH stimulation, water channels are stored in high concentrations in the limiting membranes of large cytoplasmic vesicles called aggrephores. ADH stimulation causes aggrephore fusion with the granular cell apical membrane and increases water permeability. Transepithelial osmotic water flow causes a rapid attenuation of the ADH-elicited increase in water permeability through a process called flux inhibition. Flux inhibition is due to retrieval of ADH water channels by apical membrane endocytosis. When phosphoproteins of intact bladders are labeled with (32P)orthophosphate, the 32P content of 34-, 28-, and 17-kDa proteins is increased by ADH stimulation. When flux inhibition occurs, the 32P-labelling of a 15.5-kDa protein is reduced to approximately one half its original value (Konieczkowski M, Rudolph SA, J Pharmacol Exp Ther 1985;234:515). These observations have been confirmed, and these studies have been extended, by using a combination of subcellular fractionation and membrane protein chemistry techniques. All four of these phosphoproteins are present in membrane fractions of granular cells. Analysis of membrane proteins by a combination of Triton X-114 partitioning and an alkaline stripping technique reveals that the 28- and 17-kDa species are integral membrane proteins of unknown function. In contrast, the 32P-labeled 15.5-kDa protein is a peripheral membrane protein. It is attached to the cytoplasmic (outer) surface of highly water-permeable vesicles retrieved during flux inhibition.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)


1991 ◽  
Vol 261 (1) ◽  
pp. C143-C153 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. W. Harris ◽  
M. L. Zeidel ◽  
C. Hosselet

Antidiuretic hormone (ADH) stimulation of toad bladder granular cells rapidly increases the osmotic water permeability (Pf) of their apical membranes by insertion of highly selective water channels. Before ADH stimulation, these water channels are stored in large cytoplasmic vesicles called aggrephores. ADH causes aggrephores to fuse with the apical membrane. Termination of ADH stimulation results in prompt endocytosis of water channel-containing membranes via retrieval of these specialized regions of apical membrane. Protein components of the ADH water channel contained within these retrieved vesicles would be expected to be integral membrane protein(s) that span the vesicle's lipid bilayer to create narrow aqueous channels. Our previous work has identified proteins of 55 (actually a 55/53-kDa doublet), 17, 15, and 7 kDa as candidate ADH water channel components. We now have investigated these candidate ADH water channel proteins in purified retrieved vesicles. These vesicles do not contain a functional proton pump as assayed by Western blots of purified vesicle protein probed with anti-H(+)-ATPase antisera. Approximately 60% of vesicle protein is accounted for by three protein bands of 55, 53, and 46 kDa. Smaller contributions to vesicle protein are made by the 17- and 15-kDa proteins. Triton X-114-partitioning analysis shows that the 55, 53, 46, and 17 kDa are integral membrane proteins. Vectorial labeling analysis with two membrane-impermeant reagents shows that the 55-, 53-, and 46-kDa protein species span the lipid bilayer of these vesicles. Thus the 55-, 53-, and 46-kDa proteins possess characteristics expected for ADH water channel components. These data show that the 55- and 53- and perhaps the 46-, 17-, and 15-kDa proteins are likely components of aqueous transmembrane pores that constitute ADH water channels contained within these vesicles.


1992 ◽  
Vol 263 (1) ◽  
pp. F163-F170 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. W. Harris ◽  
B. Botelho ◽  
M. L. Zeidel ◽  
K. Strange

Antidiuretic hormone (ADH) increases the osmotic water permeability (Pf) of the toad urinary bladder by insertion of water channels into the apical cell membrane. Transepithelial water flow (Jv) reduces Pf by inducing endocytosis of apical water channels despite continuous ADH stimulation. This phenomenon is termed flux inhibition. We wished to determine whether cytoplasmic dilution or transcellular Jv causes flux inhibition because both have been proposed previously as a primary regulatory mechanism for this process. Apical membrane endocytosis was quantified by monitoring the uptake of the fluid phase marker fluorescein isothiocyanate dextran (FITC-dextran). FITC-dextran fluorescence was monitored in Triton X-100 extracts of epithelial cells as the ratio of total tissue fluorescence compared with background fluorescence. The background was defined as cellular autofluorescence and nonspecific tissue staining due to the presence of small amounts of free fluorescein contaminating the FITC-dextran. FITC-dextran uptake measured under symmetric isotonic (220 mosmol/kgH2O) conditions in either the absence (1.0 +/- 0.4 SD; n = 14) or presence (1.3 +/- 0.3; n = 4) of ADH was not statistically different from that of background. In contrast, flux inhibition induced by a 180 mosmol/kgH2O apical-to-basolateral osmotic gradient increased FITC-dextran uptake to 3.4 +/- 1.3 (n = 7). FITC-dextran uptake was identical in bladders exposed to symmetric hypotonic (150 mosmol/kgH2O) solutions during ADH (3.6 +/- 0.9; n = 6) or adenosine 3',5'-cyclic monophosphate (3.1 +/- 0.4 fold; n = 3) stimulation.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)


1994 ◽  
Vol 267 (1) ◽  
pp. C32-C38 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. A. Coleman ◽  
J. B. Wade

In the toad urinary bladder, the reversal of antidiuretic hormone (ADH) stimulation results in the endocytosis of apical membrane water channels, along with any fluid-phase marker present in the mucosal bathing solution. We have loaded vesicles with horseradish peroxidase (HRP), then restimulated the bladders and measured the reappearance of endocytosed HRP in the mucosal bath. HRP-loaded bladders that were restimulated showed HRP release that peaked sharply within 15 min after restimulation. Varying the interval between loading and restimulation did not vary HRP release significantly. Restimulation with forskolin gave HRP release values similar to ADH. The amount of HRP released correlated with the magnitude of water permeability induced. The demonstration that fluid-phase markers can be recycled from endosomes to the apical surface in a hormone-dependent fashion indicates that endocytosed membrane, containing water channels, is able to rapidly recycle back to the surface in response to hormone restimulation. In addition, marker release declined progressively with repeated restimulation, totaling < 30% of the retrieved amount. This result indicates that a relatively large proportion of the retrieved marker reaches a nonrecycling compartment.


1995 ◽  
Vol 269 (2) ◽  
pp. C424-C434 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Boom ◽  
B. Flamion ◽  
M. Abramow ◽  
R. Beauwens

In the toad urinary bladder, antidiuretic hormone (ADH)-mediated changes in water permeability depend on exocytic insertion and endocytic retrieval of water channels into and from the apical membrane, respectively. Because GTP-binding proteins (G proteins) are well-recognized regulators of vesicular trafficking throughout the cell, we tested the hypothesis that drugs interfering with G protein would modify the hydrosmotic response to ADH and the ADH-regulated formation of endosomes, as assessed by luminal incorporation of a fluid-phase marker [fluorescein isothiocyanate (FITC)-dextran, 70 kDa]. Mastoparan (4 microM) and compound 48/80 (poly-p-methoxyphenylethylmethylamine; 50 micrograms/ml), added to the luminal side of the toad urinary bladder, as well as AlF3 added to the serosal side (400 microM), inhibited ADH- and 8-bromoadenosine 3',5'-cyclic monophosphate-induced transepithelial water flow by > 50% and simultaneously enhanced cellular incorporation of FITC-dextran by > 200%. The pattern of FITC-dextran uptake observed using fluorescence microscopy both in scraped cells and in the intact bladder was granular, suggesting fluid-phase endocytosis. Mastoparan and AlF3, which are both probes of G proteins, increased FITC-dextran uptake only in the presence of ADH and a transepithelial osmotic gradient, i.e., under conditions where water channel-carrying endosomes presumably cycle. Therefore, we suggest that the ADH-dependent cycling of water channels could be controlled by one or more G proteins associated with the apical membrane and/or the water channel-carrying vesicles.


1990 ◽  
Vol 258 (2) ◽  
pp. F237-F243
Author(s):  
H. W. Harris ◽  
J. S. Handler ◽  
R. Blumenthal

Antidiuretic hormone (ADH) stimulation of the toad urinary bladder causes intracellular vesicles called aggrephores to fuse with the apical plasma membrane of granular cells. Aggrephore membranes contain particle aggregates. Particle aggregates are believed to be water channels that cause large increases in the water permeability (PF) of the granular cell apical membrane. Removal of ADH causes the retrieval of particle aggregate-containing apical membrane via endocytosis and a decline in PF. We have previously shown that fluid phase markers are sequestered in these particle aggregate-containing vesicles during retrieval of the apical membrane and that these vesicles can be recovered in cell homogenates. We have now loaded these vesicles with the self-quenching fluorophore carboxyfluorescein (CF) to measure and compare their PF with that of CF-loaded resealed human erythrocyte ghosts. The membranes of these retrieved vesicles have a very high water permeability. The minimum PF of 99% of these vesicles is 4.5 X 10(-2) cm/s. This PF is comparable with that of erythrocyte ghosts (5.4 X 10(-2) cm/s) measured under identical conditions. We conclude that these vesicles are highly permeable to water, and this is consistent with their postulated function of retrieving water channels that have been inserted into the apical membrane in response to ADH.


2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (41) ◽  
pp. 22711-22721 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yong Liu ◽  
Harish Vashisth

Peptide appended pillar[5]arene (PAP) is an artificial water channel resembling biological water channel proteins, which has shown a significant potential for designing bioinspired water purification systems.


1994 ◽  
Vol 267 (1) ◽  
pp. F106-F113
Author(s):  
F. Emma ◽  
H. W. Harris ◽  
K. Strange

It is well established that water channels (WC) are removed from the apical membrane of vasopressin-sensitive epithelia by endocytosis. The processing and the ultimate fate of endocytosed WC is, however, incompletely understood. In many cells, endosome acidification plays an important role in the processing and sorting of endocytosed proteins. Endosome acidification in the toad urinary bladder was therefore examined in vivo by fluorescence ratio video microscopy after induction of endocytosis by vasopressin removal and transepithelial water flow in the presence of the pH-sensitive fluid phase marker 2',7'-bis(2-carboxyethyl)-5(6)-carboxyfluorescein-dextran. Fifteen minutes after induction of endocytosis, the majority of endosomes had a neutral or slightly acidic pH. The number of acidic endosomes increased progressively with time. Two hours after endocytosis began, 98% of the endosomes had a pH < 6.0. Bafilomycin completely blocked endosome acidification, indicating that H+ transport is mediated by a vacuolar H(+)-adenosinetriphosphatase. Bafilomycin had no effect on transepithelial water flow in bladders repetitively stimulated by vasopressin. These findings, as well as the work of other investigators, suggest that if WC recycling occurs, it is not dependent on acidification of the endosomal compartment. Acidification of vasopressin-induced endosomes most likely represents a terminal event in the endocytic pathway.


1992 ◽  
Vol 263 (4) ◽  
pp. C908-C912 ◽  
Author(s):  
Y. Gao ◽  
N. Franki ◽  
F. Macaluso ◽  
R. M. Hays

Studies with the confocal microscope have shown that arginine vasopressin (AVP) depolymerizes F-actin in the apical region of the toad bladder granular cell. However, the resolution of the fluorescence microscope is not great enough to reveal the exact pattern of depolymerization or the relative extent to which microvillar and subapical membrane actin pools contribute to overall depolymerization. We have developed an electron microscopic immunogold method that shows a significant decrease in immunogold labeling of actin in the region just below the apical membrane, with the decrease most pronounced in regions adjacent to the microvilli. There was no significant change of immunogold labeling within the microvilli themselves. Our studies show a reorganization of the actin cytoskeleton in the region of the granular cell, where water channel-carrying vesicles are positioned and fuse in response to AVP.


1987 ◽  
Vol 105 (2) ◽  
pp. 679-689 ◽  
Author(s):  
K Sandvig ◽  
S Olsnes ◽  
O W Petersen ◽  
B van Deurs

Acidification of the cytosol of a number of different cell lines strongly reduced the endocytic uptake of transferrin and epidermal growth factor. The number of transferrin binding sites at the cell surface was increased in acidified cells. Electron microscopic studies showed that the number of coated pits at the cell surface was not reduced in cells with acidified cytosol. Experiments with transferrin-horseradish peroxidase conjugates and a monoclonal anti-transferrin receptor antibody demonstrated that transferrin receptors were present in approximately 75% of the coated pits both in control cells and in cells with acidified cytosol. The data therefore indicate that the reason for the reduced endocytic uptake of transferrin at internal pH less than 6.5 is an inhibition of the pinching off of coated vesicles. In contrast, acidification of the cytosol had only little effect on the uptake of ricin and the fluid phase marker lucifer yellow. Ricin endocytosed by cells with acidified cytosol exhibited full toxic effect on the cells. Although the pathway of this uptake in acidified cells remains uncertain, some coated pits may still be involved. However, the data are also consistent with the possibility that an alternative endocytic pathway involving smooth (uncoated) pits exists.


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