ADH-induced recycling of fluid-phase marker from endosomes to the mucosal surface in toad bladder

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.

1986 ◽  
Vol 251 (2) ◽  
pp. C274-C284 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. W. Harris ◽  
J. B. Wade ◽  
J. S. Handler

Antidiuretic hormone (ADH) stimulation of toad urinary bladder causes fusion of intracellular vesicles called aggrephores with the apical plasma membrane of granular cells. Aggrephores contain intramembrane particle aggregates whose appearance in the apical membrane is believed to produce a large increase in its water permeability. ADH removal (ADH washout) is thought to cause the retrieval of aggrephores into granular cell cytoplasm. We studied granular cell uptake of dextran and horseradish peroxidase conjugated with fluorescein, rhodamine, or both during ADH washout. Granular cell uptake of fluorescent dextran was dependent on prior exposure to ADH, a linear function of dextran concentration, and increased by a transepithelial osmotic gradient. Immediately after removal of ADH, granular cell fluorescence was finely dispersed and located near the apical surface. Subsequently, it coalesced into larger bodies. This change was most apparent when a single bladder was subjected to two cycles of ADH stimulation and removal using a dextran containing a different fluorophore for each cycle. The ultrastructural correlate for these fluorescent patterns was identified using rhodamine-labeled horseradish peroxidase. Electron microscopy showed that after detachment from the apical membrane, label was initially in tubular-shaped vesicles near the apical surface. Later, these vesicles clustered near multivesicular bodies and transferred their label to these structures. These tubular vesicles closely resemble the morphology of aggrephores visualized by freeze-fracture electron microscopy. We conclude that these fluorescent compounds can be used as markers for the luminal contents of membrane retrieved during ADH washout and allow detailed study of its intracellular processing.


1984 ◽  
Vol 246 (4) ◽  
pp. F501-F508
Author(s):  
L. G. Palmer ◽  
N. Speez

To test the hypothesis that antidiuretic hormone- (ADH) dependent water permeability is associated with changes in apical membrane area, hormone-dependent water flow and capacitance changes were measured in the toad urinary bladder under a number of different conditions. Dose-response relationships for water flow (Jv) and capacitance increases (delta C) were similar from 1 to 20 mU/ml ADH. At higher concentrations, Jv reached a plateau, while delta C decreased. The decrease in delta C was prevented by elimination of the osmotic gradient across the tissue. Serosal hydrazine (10 mM) increased Jv sevenfold and delta C threefold in the presence of 1 mU/ml ADH. Mucosal NH4Cl, at constant mucosal pH, increased Jv by 50-100%, but did not significantly change delta C. In the absence of an osmotic gradient, mucosal NH+4 increased delta C by 50%. NH4Cl had no effect on hydroosmotic response to 8-bromo-adenosine 3',5'-cyclic monophosphate (cAMP). Mucosal CO2 (9%) decreased Jv by greater than 90%, and delta C by 60% with 20 mU/ml ADH. Mucosal CO2 also inhibited the hydroosmotic response to 8-bromo-cAMP. Removal of serosal Na diminished cAMP-dependent Jv and delta C. The results confirmed the close relationship between ADH-dependent water permeability and membrane capacitance. They indicate, however, that under some circumstances membrane may be retrieved from the apical surface without affecting water permeability.


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)


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.


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)


1986 ◽  
Vol 251 (3) ◽  
pp. C380-C386 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. B. Wade ◽  
C. McCusker ◽  
R. A. Coleman

Addition of phorbol myristate acetate (PMA) to the mucosal bathing solution induces exocytosis of the granules found in the apical cytoplasm of toad urinary bladder epithelial cells. Because mucosal application of PMA also increases epithelial water permeability in the complete absence of vasopressin, these observations have suggested that granules might have a role in mediating the permeability response to vasopressin. From electron microscopic immunolocalization studies we have identified a 70-kDa protein as a component of the apical surface glycocalyx that is stored in the granules. Using antibodies to this protein in a competitive immunoassay, we found that addition of PMA to the mucosal side results in more than a fourfold increase in antigen release into the mucosal bath. The amount of antigen detectable on the mucosal surface of the cells was doubled by mucosal PMA exposure. Serosal application of PMA or addition of the inactive analogue phorbol didecanoate to either surface failed to produce significant antigen release. These results are consistent with electron microscopic studies showing exocytosis of granules only with mucosal exposure to PMA. However, immunoassay of granule antigen after vasopressin stimulation of water permeability failed to show a detectable change in granule exocytosis. We conclude that granule exocytosis does not play an important role in mediating vasopressin-induced changes in permeability.


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.


1996 ◽  
Vol 270 (5) ◽  
pp. F880-F885 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. Ford ◽  
G. Amodeo ◽  
C. Capurro ◽  
C. Ibarra ◽  
R. Dorr ◽  
...  

The ovarian oocytes from Bufo arenarum (BAO) but not those from Xenopus laevis (XLO) would have water channels (WC). We now report that the injection of the mRNA from BAO into the oocytes from XLO increased their water osmotic permeability (Pi) (reduced by 0.3 mM HgCl2 and reversed by 5 mM beta-mercaptoethanol). A 30-min challenge with progesterone induced, 18 h later, a reduction of the mercury-sensitive fraction of Pf in the BAO (but not in XLO). The mRNA from BAO pretreated with progesterone lost its capacity to induce WC in the XLO, but the hormone did not affect the expression of the WC in XLO previously injected with the mRNA from BAO. Pf was also measured in urinary bladders of BAO. Eighteen hours after a challenge with progesterone, a reduction in the hydrosmotic response to oxytocin was observed. Finally, the mRNA from the urinary bladder of BAO was injected into XLO. An increase in Pf was observed. This was not the case if, before the mRNA extraction, the bladders were treated with progesterone. We conclude that the BAO WC share progesterone sensitivity with the oxytocin-regulated water channel present in the toad urinary bladder.


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.


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