scholarly journals Syntaxin specificity of aquaporins in the inner medullary collecting duct

2009 ◽  
Vol 297 (2) ◽  
pp. F292-F300 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abinash C. Mistry ◽  
Rickta Mallick ◽  
Janet D. Klein ◽  
Thomas Weimbs ◽  
Jeff M. Sands ◽  
...  

Proper targeting of the aquaporin-2 (AQP2) water channel to the collecting duct apical plasma membrane is critical for the urine concentrating mechanism and body water homeostasis. However, the trafficking mechanisms that recruit AQP2 to the plasma membrane are still unclear. Snapin is emerging as an important mediator in the initial interaction of trafficked proteins with target soluble N-ethylmaleimide-sensitive factor attachment protein (SNAP) receptor (t-SNARE) proteins, and this interaction is functionally important for AQP2 regulation. We show that in AQP2-Madin-Darby canine kidney cells subjected to adenoviral-mediated expression of both snapin and syntaxins, the association of AQP2 with both syntaxin-3 and syntaxin-4 is highly enhanced by the presence of snapin. In pull-down studies, snapin detected AQP2, syntaxin-3, syntaxin-4, and SNAP23 from the inner medullary collecting duct. AQP2 transport activity, as probed by AQP2's urea permeability, was greatly enhanced in oocytes that were coinjected with cRNAs of SNARE components (snapin+syntaxin-3+SNAP23) over those injected with AQP2 cRNA alone. It was not enhanced when syntaxin-3 was replaced by syntaxin-4 (snapin+syntaxin-4+SNAP23). On the other hand, the latter combination significantly enhanced the transport activity of the related AQP3 water channel while the presence of syntaxin-3 did not. This AQP-syntaxin interaction agrees with the polarity of these proteins' expression in the inner medullary collecting duct epithelium. Thus our findings suggest a selectivity of interactions between different aquaporin and syntaxin isoforms, and thus in the regulation of AQP2 and AQP3 activities in the plasma membrane. Snapin plays an important role as a linker between the water channel and the t-SNARE complex, leading to the fusion event, and the pairing with specific t-SNAREs is essential for the specificity of membrane recognition and fusion.

2008 ◽  
Vol 295 (6) ◽  
pp. F1799-F1806 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aaron N. Sachs ◽  
Trairak Pisitkun ◽  
Jason D. Hoffert ◽  
Ming-Jiun Yu ◽  
Mark A. Knepper

We carried out LC-MS/MS-based proteomic profiling of differential centrifugation fractions from rat inner medullary collecting duct (IMCD): 1) to provide baseline knowledge of the IMCD proteome and 2) to evaluate the utility of differential centrifugation in assessing trafficking of the water channel aquaporin-2 (AQP2). IMCD suspensions were freshly prepared from rat kidneys using standard methods. Homogenized samples were subjected to sequential centrifugations at 1,000, 4,000, 17,000, and 200,000 g. These samples, as well as the final supernatant, were subjected to LC-MS/MS analysis. Preliminary immunoblotting confirmed that the ratio of AQP2 in the 17,000- g fraction to the 200,000- g fraction underwent an increase in response to the vasopressin analog dDAVP, largely due to a reduction in the 200,000- g fraction. Immunoblotting for the major phosphorylated forms of AQP2 revealed that phosphorylated AQP2 was present in both the 17,000- and 200,000- g fractions. LC-MS/MS analysis showed that markers of “intracellular vesicles,” chiefly endosomal markers, were present in both the 17,000- and the 200,000- g fractions. In contrast, plasma membrane proteins were predominantly present in the 4,000- and 17,000- g fractions. Proteins associated with several multiprotein complexes (e.g., actin-related protein 2/3 complex and proteasome complex) were virtually exclusively present in the 200,000- g fraction. Overall, we identified 656 proteins, including 189 not previously present in the IMCD database. The data show that both the 17,000- and 200,000- g fractions are highly heterogeneous and cannot be equated with “plasma membrane” and “intracellular vesicle” fractions, respectively, leading us to propose an alternative approach for use of differential centrifugation to assess vesicular trafficking to the plasma membrane.


2018 ◽  
Vol 314 (1) ◽  
pp. C99-C117 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chung-Lin Chou ◽  
Gloria Hwang ◽  
Daniel J. Hageman ◽  
Lichy Han ◽  
Prashasti Agrawal ◽  
...  

The urea channel UT-A1 and the water channel aquaporin-2 (AQP2) mediate vasopressin-regulated transport in the renal inner medullary collecting duct (IMCD). To identify the proteins that interact with UT-A1 and AQP2 in native rat IMCD cells, we carried out chemical cross-linking followed by detergent solubilization, immunoprecipitation, and LC-MS/MS analysis of the immunoprecipitated material. The analyses revealed 133 UT-A1-interacting proteins and 139 AQP2-interacting proteins, each identified in multiple replicates. Fifty-three proteins that were present in both the UT-A1 and the AQP2 interactomes can be considered as mediators of housekeeping interactions, likely common to all plasma membrane proteins. Among proteins unique to the UT-A1 list were those involved in posttranslational modifications: phosphorylation (protein kinases Cdc42bpb, Phkb, Camk2d, and Mtor), ubiquitylation/deubiquitylation (Uba1, Usp9x), and neddylation (Nae1 and Uba3). Among the proteins unique to the AQP2 list were several Rab proteins (Rab1a, Rab2a, Rab5b, Rab5c, Rab7a, Rab11a, Rab11b, Rab14, Rab17) involved in membrane trafficking. UT-A1 was found to interact with UT-A3, although quantitative proteomics revealed that most UT-A1 molecules in the cell are not bound to UT-A3. In vitro incubation of UT-A1 peptides with the protein kinases identified in the UT-A1 interactome revealed that all except Mtor were capable of phosphorylating known sites in UT-A1. Overall, the UT-A1 and AQP2 interactomes provide a snapshot of a dynamic process in which UT-A1 and AQP2 are produced in the rough endoplasmic reticulum, processed through the Golgi apparatus, delivered to endosomes that move into and out of the plasma membrane, and are regulated in the plasma membrane.


1997 ◽  
Vol 273 (5) ◽  
pp. F718-F730 ◽  
Author(s):  
Béatrice Mandon ◽  
Søren Nielsen ◽  
Bellamkonda K. Kishore ◽  
Mark A. Knepper

Previously, we demonstrated that a putative vesicle-targeting protein, syntaxin-4, is expressed in renal collecting duct principal cells and is localized to the apical plasma membrane, suggesting a role in targeting aquaporin-2-containing vesicles to the apical plasma membrane. To investigate whether other syntaxin isoforms are present in the renal collecting duct, we determined the intrarenal localization of syntaxin-2 and -3. Reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) experiments using total RNA extracted from kidney and various organs revealed that both syntaxin-2 and -3 are expressed in kidney cortex and medulla. RT-PCR experiments using microdissected tubules and vascular structures from the kidney revealed that syntaxin-3 mRNA, but not syntaxin-2, is expressed in collecting duct cells. Syntaxin-3 mRNA was also relatively abundant in the thick ascending limb of Henle’s loop and in vasa recta. Syntaxin-2 mRNA was found chiefly in glomeruli. To investigate the localization of syntaxin-3 protein, a peptide-derived polyclonal antibody was raised in rabbits. In immunoblotting experiments, this antibody labeled a 37-kDa protein in inner medulla that was most abundant in plasma membrane-enriched subcellular fractions. Immunoperoxidase labeling of thin cryosections combined with immunogold electron microscopy showed that, in contrast to the labeling seen for syntaxin-4, syntaxin-3 labeling in medullary collecting duct was predominantly in the basolateral plasma membrane of intercalated cells. These results suggest the possibility that syntaxin-3 may be involved in selective targeting of acid-base transporters and/or in basolateral membrane remodeling in response to systemic acid-base perturbations.


2001 ◽  
Vol 280 (4) ◽  
pp. C775-C781 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abhijit Banerjee ◽  
Guangmu Li ◽  
Edward A. Alexander ◽  
John H. Schwartz

The trafficking of H+-ATPase vesicles to the apical membrane of inner medullary collecting duct (IMCD) cells utilizes a mechanism similar to that described in neurosecretory cells involving soluble N-ethylmaleimide-sensitive factor attachment protein target receptor (SNARE) proteins. Regulated exocytosis of these vesicles is associated with the formation of SNARE complexes. Clostridial neurotoxins that specifically cleave the target (t-) SNARE, syntaxin-1, or the vesicle SNARE, vesicle-associated membrane protein-2, reduce SNARE complex formation, H+-ATPase translocation to the apical membrane, and inhibit H+ secretion. The purpose of these experiments was to characterize the physiological role of a second t-SNARE, soluble N-ethylmaleimide-sensitive factor attachment protein (SNAP)-23, a homologue of the neuronal SNAP-25, in regulated exocytosis of H+-ATPase vesicles. Our experiments document that 25–50 nM botulinum toxin (Bot) A or E cleaves rat SNAP-23 and thereby reduces immunodetectable and35S-labeled SNAP-23 by >60% within 60 min. Addition of 25 nM BotE to IMCD homogenates reduces the amount of the 20 S-like SNARE complex that can be immunoprecipitated from the homogenate. Treatment of intact IMCD monolayers with BotE reduces the amount of H+-ATPase translocated to the apical membrane by 52 ± 2% of control and reduces the rate of H+ secretion by 77 ± 3% after acute cell acidification. We conclude that SNAP-23 is a substrate for botulinum toxin proteolysis and has a critical role in the regulation of H+-ATPase exocytosis and H+ secretion in these renal epithelial cells.


2020 ◽  
Vol 318 (4) ◽  
pp. F956-F970 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wei-Ling Wang ◽  
Shih-Han Su ◽  
Kit Yee Wong ◽  
Chan-Wei Yang ◽  
Chin-Fu Liu ◽  
...  

Aquaporin-2 (AQP2) is a vasopressin-regulated water channel protein responsible for osmotic water reabsorption by kidney collecting ducts. In response to vasopressin, AQP2 traffics from intracellular vesicles to the apical plasma membrane of collecting duct principal cells, where it increases water permeability and, hence, water reabsorption. Despite continuing efforts, gaps remain in our knowledge of vasopressin-regulated AQP2 trafficking. Here, we studied the functions of two retromer complex proteins, small GTPase Rab7 and vacuolar protein sorting 35 (Vps35), in vasopressin-induced AQP2 trafficking in a collecting duct cell model (mpkCCD cells). We showed that upon vasopressin removal, apical AQP2 returned to Rab5-positive early endosomes before joining Rab11-positive recycling endosomes. In response to vasopressin, Rab11-associated AQP2 trafficked to the apical plasma membrane before Rab5-associated AQP2 did so. Rab7 knockdown resulted in AQP2 accumulation in early endosomes and impaired vasopressin-induced apical AQP2 trafficking. In response to vasopressin, Rab7 transiently colocalized with Rab5, indicative of a role of Rab7 in AQP2 sorting in early endosomes before trafficking to the apical membrane. Rab7-mediated apical AQP2 trafficking in response to vasopressin required GTPase activity. When Vps35 was knocked down, AQP2 accumulated in recycling endosomes under vehicle conditions and did not traffic to the apical plasma membrane in response to vasopressin. We conclude that Rab7 and Vps35 participate in AQP2 sorting in early endosomes under vehicle conditions and apical membrane trafficking in response to vasopressin.


2004 ◽  
Vol 287 (5) ◽  
pp. C1366-C1374 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julie A. Nicoletta ◽  
Jonathan J. Ross ◽  
Guangmu Li ◽  
Qingzhang Cheng ◽  
Jonathon Schwartz ◽  
...  

Exocytic insertion of H+-ATPase into the apical membrane of inner medullary collecting duct (IMCD) cells is dependent on a soluble N-ethylmaleimide-sensitive factor (NSF) attachment protein target receptor (SNARE) complex. In this study we determined the role of Munc-18 in regulation of IMCD cell exocytosis of H+-ATPase. We compared the effect of acute cell acidification (the stimulus for IMCD exocytosis) on the interaction of syntaxin 1A with Munc-18-2 and the 31-kDa subunit of H+-ATPase. Immunoprecipitation revealed that cell acidification decreased green fluorescent protein (GFP)-syntaxin 1A and Munc-18-2 interaction by 49 ± 7% and increased the interaction between GFP-syntaxin 1A and H+-ATPase by 170 ± 23%. Apical membrane Munc-18-2 decreased by 27.5 ± 4.6% and H+-ATPase increased by 246 ± 22%, whereas GP-135, an apical membrane marker, did not increase. Pretreatment of IMCD cells with a PKC inhibitor (GO-6983) diminished the previously described changes in Munc-18-2-syntaxin 1A interaction and redistribution of H+-ATPase. In a pull-down assay of H+-ATPase by glutathione S-transferase (GST)-syntaxin 1A bound to beads, preincubation of beads with an approximately twofold excess of His-Munc-18-2 decreased H+-ATPase pulled down by 64 ± 16%. IMCD cells that overexpress Munc-18-2 had a reduced rate of proton transport compared with control cells. We conclude that Munc-18-2 must dissociate from the syntaxin 1A protein for the exocytosis of H+-ATPase to occur. This dissociation leads to a conformational change in syntaxin 1A, allowing it to interact with H+-ATPase, synaptosome-associated protein (SNAP)-23, and vesicle-associated membrane protein (VAMP), forming the SNARE complex that leads to the docking and fusion of H+-ATPase vesicles.


1990 ◽  
Vol 259 (3) ◽  
pp. F393-F401 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. A. Knepper ◽  
R. A. Star

The terminal part of the inner medullary collecting duct (terminal IMCD) is unique among collecting duct segments in part because its permeability to urea is regulated by vasopressin. The urea permeability can rise to extremely high levels (greater than 100 x 10(-5) cm/s) in response to vasopressin. Recent studies in isolated perfused IMCD segments have established that the rapid movement of urea across the tubule epithelium occurs via a specialized urea transporter, presumably an intrinsic membrane protein, present in both the apical and basolateral membranes. This urea transporter has properties similar to those of the urea transporters in mammalian erythrocytes and in toad urinary bladder, namely, inhibition by phloretin, inhibition by urea analogues, saturation kinetics in equilibrium-exchange experiments, and regulation by vasopressin. The urea transport pathway is distinct from and independent of the vasopressin-regulated water channel. The increase in transepithelial urea transport in response to vasopressin is mediated by adenosine 3',5'-cyclic monophosphate and is associated with an increase in the urea permeability of the apical membrane. However, little is known about the physical events associated with the activation or insertion of urea transporters in the apical membrane. Because of the importance of this transporter to the urinary concentrating mechanism, efforts toward understanding its molecular structure and the molecular basis of its regulation appear to be justified.


2018 ◽  
Vol 50 (9) ◽  
pp. 669-679 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kelly A. Hyndman ◽  
Chin-Rang Yang ◽  
Hyun Jun Jung ◽  
Ezigbobiara N. Umejiego ◽  
Chung-Ling Chou ◽  
...  

Phosphorylation and lysine (K)-acetylation are dynamic posttranslational modifications of proteins. Previous proteomic studies have identified over 170,000 phosphorylation sites and 15,000 K-acetylation sites in mammals. We recently reported that the inner medullary collecting duct (IMCD), which functions in the regulation of water-reabsorption, via the actions of vasopressin, expresses many of the enzymes that can modulated K-acetylation. The purpose of this study was to determine the K-acetylated or phosphorylated proteins expressed in IMCD cells. Second we questioned whether vasopressin V2 receptor activation significantly affects the IMCD acetylome or phosphoproteome? K-acetylated or serine-, threonine-, or tyrosine-phosphorylated peptides were identified from native rat IMCDs by proteomic analysis with four different enzymes (trypsin, chymotrypsin, ASP-N, or Glu-C) to generate a high-resolution proteome. K-acetylation was identified in 431 unique proteins, and 64% of the K-acetylated sites were novel. The acetylated proteins were expressed in all compartments of the cell and were enriched in pathways including glycolysis and vasopressin-regulated water reabsorption. In the vasopressin-regulated water reabsorption pathway, eight proteins were acetylated, including the novel identification of the basolateral water channel, AQP3, acetylated at K282; 215 proteins were phosphorylated in this IMCD cohort, including AQP2 peptides that were phosphorylated at four serines: 256, 261, 264, and 269. Acute dDAVP did not significantly affect the IMCD acetylome; however, it did significantly affect previously known vasopressin-regulated phosphorylation sites. In conclusion, presence of K-acetylated proteins involved in metabolism, ion, and water transport in the IMCD points to multiple roles of K-acetylation beyond its canonical role in transcriptional regulation.


1989 ◽  
Vol 256 (1) ◽  
pp. F1-F12 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Brown

The plasma membrane composition of virtually all eucaryotic cells is established, maintained, and modified by the process of membrane recycling. Specific plasma membrane components are inserted by exocytosis of transport vesicles, and are removed by endocytosis of segments of the membrane in which particular proteins are concentrated. In the kidney collecting duct, vasopressin induces the cycling of vesicles that are thought to carry water channels to and from the apical plasma membrane of principal cells, thus modulating the water permeability of this membrane. In the intercalated cells of the collecting duct, hydrogen ion secretion is controlled by the recycling of vesicles carrying proton pumps to and from the plasma membrane. In both cell types, "coated" carrier vesicles are involved, but whereas clathrin-coated vesicles participate in water channel recycling, the vesicles in intercalated cells are coated with the cytoplasmic domains of proton pumps. Following a brief outline of membrane recycling in general, this review summarizes previous data on membrane recycling in the collecting duct and related transporting epithelia and discusses some selected points relating to the role of membrane recycling and cell-specific function in the collecting duct.


2001 ◽  
Vol 280 (6) ◽  
pp. F1093-F1106 ◽  
Author(s):  
Henrik Hager ◽  
Tae-Hwan Kwon ◽  
Anna K. Vinnikova ◽  
Shyama Masilamani ◽  
Heddwen L. Brooks ◽  
...  

Epithelial sodium channel (ENaC) subunit (α, β, and γ) mRNA and protein have been localized to the principal cells of the connecting tubule (CNT), cortical collecting duct (CCD), and outer medullary collecting duct (OMCD) in rat kidney. However, the subcellular localization of ENaC subunits in the principal cells of these cells is undefined. The cellular and subcellular localization of ENaC subunits in rat kidney was therefore examined. Immunocytochemistry demonstrated the presence of all three subunits in principal cells of the CNT, CCD, OMCD, and IMCD. In cortex and outer medulla, confocal microscopy demonstrated a difference in the subcellular localization of subunits. α-ENaC was localized mainly in a zone in the apical domains, whereas β- and γ-ENaC were found throughout the cytoplasm. Immunoelectron microscopy confirmed the presence of ENaC subunits in both the apical plasma membrane and intracellular vesicles. In contrast to the labeling pattern seen in cortex, α-ENaC labeling in IMCD cells was distributed throughout the cytoplasm. In the urothelium covering pelvis, ureters, and bladder, immunoperoxidase and confocal microscopy revealed differences the presence of all ENaC subunits. As seen in CCD, α-ENaC was present in a narrow zone near the apical plasma membrane, whereas β- and γ-ENaC were dispersed throughout the cytoplasm. In conclusion, all three subunits of ENaC are expressed throughout the collecting duct (CD), including the IMCD as well as in the urothelium. The intracellular vesicular pool in CD principal cells suggests ENaC trafficking as a potential mechanism for the regulation of Na+ reabsorption.


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