Novel Schering and ouabain-insensitive potassium-dependent proton secretion in the mouse cortical collecting duct

2002 ◽  
Vol 282 (1) ◽  
pp. F133-F143 ◽  
Author(s):  
Snezana Petrovic ◽  
Zachary Spicer ◽  
Tracey Greeley ◽  
Gary E Shull ◽  
Manoocher Soleimani

The intercalated (IC) cells of the cortical collecting duct (CCD) are important to acid-base homeostasis by secreting acid and reabsorbing bicarbonate. Acid secretion is mediated predominantly by apical membrane Schering (SCH-28080)-sensitive H+-K+- ATPase (HKA) and bafilomycin-sensitive H+-ATPase. The SCH-28080-sensitive HKA is believed to be the gastric HKA (HKAg). Here we examined apical membrane potassium-dependent proton secretion in IC cells of wild-type HKAg (+/+) and HKAg knockout (−/−) mice to determine relative contribution of HKAg to luminal proton secretion. The results demonstrated that HKAg (−/−) and wild-type mice had comparable rates of potassium-dependent proton secretion, with HKAg (−/−) mice having 100% of K+-dependent H+ secretion vs. wild-type mice. Potassium-dependent proton secretion was resistant to ouabain and SCH-28080 in HKAg knockout mice but was sensitive to SCH-28080 in wild-type animals. Northern hybridizations did not demonstrate any upregulation of colonic HKA in HKAg knockout mice. These data indicate the presence of a previously unrecognized K+-dependent SCH-28080 and ouabain-insensitive proton secretory mechanism in the cortical collecting tubule that may play an important role in acid-base homeostasis.

1984 ◽  
Vol 246 (2) ◽  
pp. F111-F123 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Marver

The kidney contains three classes of corticosteroid-binding proteins receptors. They include a mineralocorticoid-specific (Type I), a glucocorticoid-specific (Type II), and a corticosterone-specific (Type III) site. The Type I and Type III sites roughly parallel each other along the nephron, with maximal binding occurring in the late distal convoluted or connecting segment and the cortical and medullary collecting ducts. Type II sites occur throughout the nephron, with maximal concentrations appearing in the proximal tubule and the late distal convoluted-cortical collecting duct region. The function of the Type I sites in the connecting segment is unclear since chronic mineralocorticoid therapy does not influence the potential difference in this segment as it does in the cortical collecting tubule. Furthermore, the specific role of Type II versus Type III sites in the distal nephron is unknown. Finally, the possible influence of sodium on both latent and steroid-induced renal cortical and medullary Na-K-ATPase is discussed.


1980 ◽  
Vol 238 (5) ◽  
pp. F358-F362
Author(s):  
R. A. Peraino ◽  
W. N. Suki

Renal handling of phosphate occurs in the proximal convoluted tubule. Absorption of this anion also occurs in the pars recta and distal convoluted tubule, the latter a structurally and functionally diverse segment. The purpose of the present investigation was to examine phosphate transport by the cortical collecting duct of the rabbit. Segments of cortical collecting tubule, beyond the last cortical branch, were isolated and perfused in vitro with an artificial solution simulating plasma as the perfusing and bathing medium. The perfusion solution contained either 3 or 25 mM bicarbonate. Net phosphate transport was measured using 32P as the radionuclide tracer, with identical specific activity in perfusing and bathing solutions. A net absorptive flux for phosphate was demonstrated, amounting to 2-3% of the delivered load. In addition, this absorptive flux was linearly related to perfusion rate and, thus, delivered load, but independent of the lumen bicarbonate concentration or pH.


1998 ◽  
Vol 275 (1) ◽  
pp. F94-F102 ◽  
Author(s):  
Randi B. Silver ◽  
Han Choe ◽  
Gustavo Frindt

Extracellular K+-dependent H+ extrusion after an acute acid load, an index of H/K exchange, was monitored in intercalated cells (ICs) from rat cortical collecting tubule (CCT) using ratiometric fluorescence imaging of the intracellular pH (pHi) indicator, 2′,7′-bis(2-carboxyethyl)-5(6)-carboxyfluorescein (BCECF). The hypothesis tested was that 12- to 14-day NaCl deprivation increases H-K-ATPase in rat ICs. The rate of H/K exchange in the low-NaCl ICs was double that of controls. In control ICs, H/K exchange was inhibited by Sch-28080 (10 μM). In the low-NaCl ICs, it was partially blocked by Sch-28080 or ouabain (1 mM). Simultaneous addition of both inhibitors abolished K-dependent pHirecovery. The induced H/K exchange observed with NaCl restriction was not due to elevated plasma aldosterone as evidenced by experiments on ICs from rats implanted with osmotic minipumps administering aldosterone such that plasma levels were comparable to those of NaCl-deficient rats. The results suggest that NaCl deficiency induces two isoforms of H-K-ATPase in ICs and that this effect is not mediated by elevated plasma aldosterone.


1990 ◽  
Vol 258 (2) ◽  
pp. F297-F304 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Sabatini ◽  
M. E. Laski ◽  
N. A. Kurtzman

The present study was designed to quantitate the amount and to map the localization of N-ethylmaleimide (NEM)-sensitive adenosinetriphosphatase (ATPase) activity in microdissected segments of the rat nephron. After complete nephron mapping the effect of chronic metabolic acidosis and alkalosis on enzyme activity was determined. In control animals the highest enzyme activity was found in the early proximal convoluted tubule of juxtamedullary nephrons; superficial early proximal tubule as well as medullary and cortical thick ascending limbs and collecting ducts also contained substantial activity. Enzyme activity in the papillary collecting duct before entry into the ducts of Bellini was 329 +/- 93 pmol.mm-1.h-1 (n = 8); after entry, however, enzyme activity was approximately one-fourth that value (60 +/- 9 pmol.mm-1.h-1, n = 8, P less than 0.01). No NEM-sensitive ATPase activity was found in the thin limbs of the loop of Henle. Enzyme activity increased in both the medullary and cortical thick ascending limbs as well as in the cortical collecting tubule in response to NH4Cl-induced chronic metabolic acidosis; in the cortical collecting duct, metabolic acidosis increased maximum activity (Vmax) but did not change Michaelis-Menten constant (Km). In the proximal convoluted tubule, enzyme activity decreased with metabolic acidosis. Bicarbonate loading had no effect on enzyme activity except in the most distal portion of the collecting duct where it was stimulated. These results show that NEM-sensitive ATPase activity exists throughout much of the rat nephron. These data suggest that both the cortical collecting tubule and thick ascending limb are regulatory sites of distal urinary acidification during acid loading.


2005 ◽  
Vol 289 (6) ◽  
pp. F1281-F1290 ◽  
Author(s):  
Régine Chambrey ◽  
Dominique Goossens ◽  
Soline Bourgeois ◽  
Nicolas Picard ◽  
May Bloch-Faure ◽  
...  

NH4+ transport by the distal nephron and NH4+ detoxification by the liver are critical for achieving regulation of acid-base balance and to avoid hyperammonemic hepatic encephalopathy, respectively. Therefore, it has been proposed that rhesus type B glycoprotein (Rhbg), a member of the Mep/Amt/Rh NH3 channel superfamily, may be involved in some forms of distal tubular acidosis and congenital hyperammonemia. We have tested this hypothesis by inactivating the RHbg gene in the mouse by insertional mutagenesis. Histochemical studies analyses confirmed that RHbg knockout (KO) mice did not express Rhbg protein. Under basal conditions, the KO mice did not exhibit encephalopathy and survived well. They did not exhibit hallmarks of distal tubular acidosis because neither acid-base status, serum potassium concentration, nor bone mineral density was altered by RHbg disruption. They did not have hyperammonemia or disturbed hepatic NH3 metabolism. Moreover, the KO mice adapted to a chronic acid-loading challenge by increasing urinary NH4+ excretion as well as their wild-type controls. Finally, transepithelial NH3 diffusive permeability, or NH3 and NH4+ entry across the basolateral membrane of cortical collecting duct cells, measured by in vitro microperfusion of collecting duct from KO and wild-type mice, was identical with no apparent effect of the absence of Rhbg protein. We conclude that Rhbg is not a critical determinant of NH4+ excretion by the kidney and of NH4+ detoxification by the liver in vivo.


2012 ◽  
Vol 302 (6) ◽  
pp. F674-F678 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chih-Jen Cheng ◽  
German Lozano ◽  
Michel Baum

Prenatal insults have been shown to lead to elevated blood pressure in offspring when they are studied as adults. Prenatal administration of dexamethasone and dietary protein deprivation have demonstrated that there is an increase in transporter abundance for a number of nephron segments but not the subunits of the epithelial sodium channel (ENaC) in the cortical collecting duct. Recent studies have shown that aldosterone is elevated in offspring of protein-deprived mothers when studied as adults, but the physiological importance of the increase in serum aldosterone is unknown. As an indirect measure of ENaC activity, we compared the natriuretic response to benzamil in offspring of mothers who ate a low-protein diet (6%) with those who ate a normal diet (20%) for the last half of pregnancy. The natriuretic response to benzamil was greater in the 6% group (821.1 ± 161.0 μmol/24 h) compared with the 20% group (279.1 ± 137.0 μmol/24 h), consistent with greater ENaC activity in vivo ( P < 0.05). In this study, we also directly studied cortical collecting tubule function from adult rats using in vitro microperfusion. There was no difference in basal or vasopressin-stimulated osmotic water permeability. However, while cortical collecting ducts of adult offspring whose mothers ate a 20% protein diet had no sodium transport (−1.9 ± 3.1 pmol·mm−1·min−1), the offspring of rats that ate a 6% protein diet during the last half of pregnancy had a net sodium flux of 10.7 ± 2.6 pmol·mm−1·min−1 ( P = 0.01) in tubules perfused in vitro. Sodium transport was measured using ion-selective electrodes, a novel technique allowing measurement of sodium in nanoliter quantities of fluid. Thus we directly demonstrate that there is prenatal programming of cortical collecting duct sodium transport.


2017 ◽  
Vol 312 (1) ◽  
pp. F65-F76 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lei Yang ◽  
Gustavo Frindt ◽  
Florian Lang ◽  
Dietmar Kuhl ◽  
Volker Vallon ◽  
...  

We examined renal Na and K transporters in mice with deletions in the gene encoding the aldosterone-induced protein SGK1. The knockout mice were hyperkalemic, and had altered expression of the subunits of the epithelial Na channel (ENaC). The kidneys showed decreased expression of the cleaved forms of the γENaC subunit, and the fully glycosylated form of the βENaC subunits when animals were fed a high-K diet. Knockout animals treated with exogenous aldosterone also had reduced subunit processing and diminished surface expression of βENaC and γENaC. Expression of the three upstream Na transporters NHE3, NKCC2, and NCC was reduced in both wild-type and knockout mice in response to K loading. The activity of ENaC measured as whole cell amiloride-sensitive current ( INa) in principal cells of the cortical collecting duct (CCD) was minimal under control conditions but was increased by a high-K diet to a similar extent in knockout and wild-type animals. INa in the connecting tubule also increased similarly in the two genotypes in response to exogenous aldosterone administration. The activities of both ROMK channels in principal cells and BK channels in intercalated cells of the CCD were unaffected by the deletion of SGK1. Acute treatment of animals with amiloride produced similar increases in Na excretion and decreases in K excretion in the two genotypes. The absence of changes in ENaC activity suggests compensation for decreased surface expression. Altered K balance in animals lacking SGK1 may reflect defects in ENaC-independent K excretion.


2012 ◽  
Vol 302 (10) ◽  
pp. C1436-C1451 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dragos Olteanu ◽  
Xiaofen Liu ◽  
Wen Liu ◽  
Venus C. Roper ◽  
Neeraj Sharma ◽  
...  

Pathophysiological anomalies in autosomal dominant and recessive forms of polycystic kidney disease (PKD) may derive from impaired function/formation of the apical central monocilium of ductal epithelia such as that seen in the Oak Ridge polycystic kidney or orpk ( Ift88Tg737Rpw) mouse and its immortalized cell models for the renal collecting duct. According to a previous study, Na/H exchanger (NHE) activity may contribute to hyperabsorptive Na+movement in cilium-deficient (“mutant”) cortical collecting duct principal cell monolayers derived from the orpk mice compared with cilium-competent (“rescued”) monolayers. To examine NHE activity, we measured intracellular pH (pHi) by fluorescence imaging with the pH-sensitive dye BCECF, and used a custom-designed perfusion chamber to control the apical and basolateral solutions independently. Both mutant and rescued monolayers exhibited basolateral Na+-dependent acid-base transporter activity in the nominal absence of CO2/HCO3−. However, only the mutant cells displayed appreciable apical Na+-induced pHirecoveries from NH4+prepulse-induced acid loads. Similar results were obtained with isolated, perfused collecting ducts from orpk vs. wild-type mice. The pHidependence of basolateral cariporide/HOE-694-sensitive NHE activity under our experimental conditions was similar in both mutant and rescued cells, and 3.5- to 4.5-fold greater than apical HOE-sensitive NHE activity in the mutant cells (pHi6.23–6.68). Increased apical NHE activity correlated with increased apical NHE1 expression in the mutant cells, and increased apical localization in collecting ducts of kidney sections from orpk vs. control mice. A kidney-specific conditional cilium-knockout mouse produced a more acidic urine compared with wild-type littermates and became alkalotic by 28 days of age. This study provides the first description of altered NHE activity, and an associated acid-base anomaly in any form of PKD.


1996 ◽  
Vol 107 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-45 ◽  
Author(s):  
L G Palmer ◽  
G Frindt

The gating kinetics of apical membrane Na channels in the rat cortical collecting tubule were assessed in cell-attached and inside-out excised patches from split-open tubules using the patch-clamp technique. In patches containing a single channel the open probability (Po) was variable, ranging from 0.05 to 0.9. The average Po was 0.5. However, the individual values were not distributed normally, but were mainly &lt; or = 0.25 or &gt; or = 0.75. Mean open times and mean closed times were correlated directly and inversely, respectively, with Po. In patches where a sufficient number of events could be recorded, two time constants were required to describe the open-time and closed-time distributions. In most patches in which basal Po was &lt; 0.3 the channels could be activated by hyperpolarization of the apical membrane. In five such patches containing a single channel hyperpolarization by 40 mV increased Po by 10-fold, from 0.055 +/- 0.023 to 0.58 +/- 0.07. This change reflected an increase in the mean open time of the channels from 52 +/- 17 to 494 +/- 175 ms and a decrease in the mean closed time from 1,940 +/- 350 to 336 +/- 100 ms. These responses, however, could not be described by a simple voltage dependence of the opening and closing rates. In many cases significant delays in both the activation by hyperpolarization and deactivation by depolarization were observed. These delays ranged from several seconds to several tens of seconds. Similar effects of voltage were seen in cell-attached and excised patches, arguing against a voltage-dependent chemical modification of the channel, such as a phosphorylation. Rather, the channels appeared to switch between gating modes. These switches could be spontaneous but were strongly influenced by changes in membrane voltage. Voltage dependence of channel gating was also observed under whole-cell clamp conditions. To see if mechanical perturbations could also influence channel kinetics or gating mode, negative pressures of 10-60 mm Hg were applied to the patch pipette. In most cases (15 out of 22), this maneuver had no significant effect on channel behavior. In 6 out of 22 patches, however, there was a rapid and reversible increase in Po when the pressure was applied. In one patch, there was a reversible decrease. While no consistent effects of pressure could be documented, membrane deformation could contribute to the variation in Po under some conditions.


1985 ◽  
Vol 248 (6) ◽  
pp. F858-F868 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. C. Sansom ◽  
R. G. O'Neil

The effects of mineralocorticoid (DOCA) treatment of rabbits on the Na+ and K+ transport properties of the cortical collecting duct apical cell membrane were assessed using microelectrode techniques. Applying standard cable techniques and equivalent circuit analysis to the isolated perfused tubule, the apical cell membrane K+ and Na+ currents and conductances could be estimated from the selective effects of the K+ channel blocker Ba2+ and the Na+ channel blocker amiloride on the apical membrane; amiloride treatment was observed also to decrease the tight junction conductance by an average of 10%. After 1 day of DOCA treatment, the Na+ conductance and current (Na+ influx) of the apical cell membrane doubled and remained elevated with prolonged treatment for up to 2 wk. The apical cell membrane K+ conductance was not influenced after 1 day, although the K+ current (K+ secretion) increased significantly due to an increased driving force for K+ exit. After 4 days or more of DOCA treatment the K+ conductance doubled, resulting in a further modest stimulation in K+ secretion. After 2 wk of DOCA treatment the tight junction conductance decreased by near 30%, resulting in an additional hyperpolarization of the transepithelial voltage, thereby favoring K+ secretion. It is concluded that the acute effect (within 1 day) of mineralocorticoids on Na+ and K+ transport is an increase in the apical membrane Na+ conductance followed by delayed chronic alterations in the apical membrane K+ conductance and tight junction conductance, thereby resulting in a sustained increased capacity of the tubule to reabsorb Na+ and secrete K+.


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