Differential activities of H+extrusion systems in MDCK cells due to extracellular osmolality and pH

1997 ◽  
Vol 273 (4) ◽  
pp. F499-F506 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elisabeth Feifel ◽  
Markus Krall ◽  
John P. Geibel ◽  
Walter Pfaller

The aim of the present study was to obtain detailed information on MDCK cell proton secretion characteristics under various growth conditions. Confluent monolayers cultured on glass coverslips were adapted over 48 h to media with different osmolality and pH (200 mosmol/kgH2O, pH 7.4; 300 mosmol/kgH2O, pH 7.4; and 600 mosmol/kgH2O, pH 6.8) corresponding to the luminal fluid composition of the collecting duct segments found in the in renal cortex, the outer stripe of outer medulla and inner medulla. Proton fluxes were determined from the recovery of intracellular pH following an acid load induced by an NH4Cl pulse times the corresponding intrinsic buffering power (βi). The intracellular buffering power was found to change only with culture medium osmolality but not with culture medium pH. In addition to an amiloride and Hoe-694-sensitive Na+/H+exchange, Madin-Darby canine kidney (MDCK) cells possess a Sch-28080-sensitive, K+-dependent H+ extrusion mechanism that is increased upon adaptation of monolayers to hyperosmotic-acidic culture conditions. A significant contribution of the bafilomycin A1-sensitive vacuolar H+-ATPase could be found only in cells adapted to hyposmotic culture conditions. Exposure of MDCK cells to 10−5 or 10−7 M aldosterone for either 1 or 18 h did not alter the H+ extrusion characteristics significantly. The results obtained show that different extracellular osmolality and pH induce different MDCK phenotypes with respect to their H+-secreting systems.

1990 ◽  
Vol 259 (4) ◽  
pp. F628-F635 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. R. Hays ◽  
R. J. Alpern

To examine mechanisms of H+ extrusion in the inner stripe of outer medullary collecting duct (OMCDIS), cell pH (pHi) was measured microfluorometrically in in vitro perfused tubules by use of 2',7'-bis(carboxyethyl)-5(6)-carboxyfluorescein. In total absence of luminal and peritubular Na+, pHi recovery from an acid load (NH3/NH+4 pulse) occurred at an initial rate of 0.13 +/- 0.02 pH units/min, whereas in the presence of 135 mM peritubular Na+, pHi recovered at 1.40 +/- 0.28 pH units/min. Na(+)-dependent pHi recovery was completely inhibited by 1.0 mM peritubular amiloride. Luminal Na+ (135 mM) addition had no effect on pHi recovery. Na(+)-independent pHi recovery from acid load was manifest by a triphasic response: 1) initial slow alkalinization; 2) slow cell acidification; and 3) a final phase that exhibited gradually increasing rates of alkalinization, returning pHi above the initial control level (pre-NH3/NH+4 pulse). Luminal N-ethylmaleimide (NEM, 500 microM), an H(+)-ATPase inhibitor, significantly inhibited initial rate of pHi recovery and total pHi recovery; whereas 500 microM peritubular NEM had no effect on initial rate of pHi recovery. Luminal SCH 28080 (100 microM), an H(+)-K(+)-ATPase inhibitor, had no effect on initial rate of pHi recovery or total pHi recovery. Thus rabbit OMCDIS possesses both an apical membrane NEM-sensitive, SCH 28080-insensitive, Na(+)-independent H+ extrusion mechanism (likely a simple H(+)-translocating ATPase) and a basolateral membrane amiloride-sensitive Na(+)-H+ antiporter.


1990 ◽  
Vol 259 (6) ◽  
pp. F902-F909 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Kuwahara ◽  
S. Sasaki ◽  
F. Marumo

To clarify mechanisms of intracellular pH (pHi) regulation in outer stripe of outer medullary collecting duct (OMCDOS), isolated perfused OMCDOS of the rabbit were loaded with 2',7'-bis(carboxyethyl)-5(6)-carboxyfluorescein (BCECF), and single cell pHi was monitored by an image processing system. Initial pHi recovery rates (dpHi/dt, pH unit/s x 10(3)) after intracellular acid load made by NH4Cl prepulse were determined. In the absence of exogenous CO2-HCO3-, dpHi/dt was 12.3 +/- 0.9 (means +/- SE) in principal cells (PC), and 11.5 +/- 1.0 in intercalated cells (IC). In PC, total ambient Na+ removal halted pHi recovery (dpHi/dt = 0.6 +/- 0.5), and pHi recovered when Na+ was added to the basolateral (dpHi/dt = 14.7 +/- 0.8) but not to the luminal (dpHi/dt = 0.9 +/- 0.5) solutions. This bath Na+ effect was amiloride inhibitable. In IC, pHi recovered (dpHi/dt = 6.4 +/- 0.3) in the absence of ambient Na+. This pHi recovery was significantly reduced by luminal 0.5 mM N-ethylmaleimide (NEM) or 0.5 mM N,N'-dicyclohexylcarbodiimide (DCCD). Basolateral NEM or DCCD had no significant effect. Basolateral addition of Na+ significantly accelerated the pHi recovery. These data suggest the presence of basolateral Na(+)-H+ exchange in both PC and IC, and luminal NEM- and DCCD-sensitive H+ pump in IC of rabbit OMCDOS.


1999 ◽  
Vol 67 (2) ◽  
pp. 914-920 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amy J. Vallis ◽  
Timothy L. Yahr ◽  
Joseph T. Barbieri ◽  
Dara W. Frank

ABSTRACT This study was initiated to characterize the regulation and secretion of ExoS by Pseudomonas aeruginosa during contact with eukaryotic cells. The production of ExoS was monitored by a sensitive ADP-ribosyltransferase activity assay, and specific activities were calculated for supernatant and cell-associated fractions. Time course analysis indicated that ExoS was produced after a lag period, suggesting that induction of the regulon is necessary for the expression of detectable amounts of enzyme activity. Under tissue culture growth conditions, ExoS was induced when P. aeruginosa was in contact with Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cells or after growth in tissue culture medium with serum. The serum induction of ExoS appeared to result in generalized type III secretion, while induction by contact with CHO cells appeared to result in polarized type III secretion. Mutants in the type III secretory system that express a null phenotype for ExoS production in bacteriological medium produced but did not secrete the enzyme when P. aeruginosa was grown under inducing conditions in tissue culture medium. These results suggest that both induction and secretion of ExoS may differ when the bacteria are exposed to different growth environments. The putative type III translocation proteins and secretion apparatus of P. aeruginosa were required for translocation of bacterial factors that mediate changes in CHO cell morphology during infection.


2012 ◽  
Vol 2012 ◽  
pp. 1-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Júlia Santos ◽  
Cecília Leão ◽  
Maria João Sousa

The manipulation of nutrient-signaling pathways in yeast has uncovered the impact of environmental growth conditions in longevity. Studies using calorie restriction show that reducing glucose concentration of the culture media is sufficient to increase replicative and chronological lifespan (CLS). Other components of the culture media and factors such as the products of fermentation have also been implicated in the regulation of CLS. Acidification of the culture media mainly due to acetic acid and other organic acids production negatively impacts CLS. Ethanol is another fermentative metabolite capable of inducing CLS reduction in aged cells by yet unknown mechanisms. Recently, ammonium was reported to induce cell death associated with shortening of CLS. This effect is correlated to the concentration ofNH4+added to the culture medium and is particularly evident in cells starved for auxotrophy-complementing amino acids. Studies on the nutrient-signaling pathways regulating yeast aging had a significant impact on aging-related research, providing key insights into mechanisms that modulate aging and establishing the yeast as a powerful system to extend knowledge on longevity regulation in multicellular organisms.


2000 ◽  
Vol 279 (1) ◽  
pp. F195-F202 ◽  
Author(s):  
Randi B. Silver ◽  
Sylvie Breton ◽  
Dennis Brown

Intercalated cells (ICs) from kidney collecting ducts contain proton-transporting ATPases (H+-ATPases) whose plasma membrane expression is regulated under a variety of conditions. It has been shown that net proton secretion occurs in the distal nephron from chronically K+-depleted rats and that upregulation of tubular H+- ATPase is involved in this process. However, regulation of this protein at the level of individual cells has not so far been examined. In the present study, H+-ATPase activity was determined in individually identified ICs from control and chronically K+-depleted rats (9–14 days on a low-K+ diet) by monitoring K+- and Na+-independent H+ extrusion rates after an acute acid load. Split-open rat cortical collecting tubules were loaded with the intracellular pH (pHi) indicator 2′,7′-bis(2-carboxyethyl)-5(6)-carboxyfluorescein, and pHiwas determined by using ratiometric fluorescence imaging. The rate of pHi recovery in ICs in response to an acute acid load, a measure of plasma membrane H+-ATPase activity, was increased after K+ depletion to almost three times that of controls. Furthermore, the lag time before the start of pHirecovery after the cells were maximally acidified fell from 93.5 ± 13.7 s in controls to 24.5 ± 2.1 s in K+-depleted rats. In all ICs tested, Na+- and K+-independent pHi recovery was abolished in the presence of bafilomycin (100 nM), an inhibitor of the H+-ATPase. Analysis of the cell-to-cell variability in the rate of pHi recovery reveals a change in the distribution of membrane-bound proton pumps in the IC population of cortical collecting duct from K+-depleted rats. Immunocytochemical analysis of collecting ducts from control and K+-depleted rats showed that K+-depletion increased the number of ICs with tight apical H+ATPase staining and decreased the number of cells with diffuse or basolateral H+-ATPase staining. Taken together, these data indicate that chronic K+ depletion induces a marked increase in plasma membrane H+ATPase activity in individual ICs.


2019 ◽  
Vol 317 (4) ◽  
pp. F890-F905 ◽  
Author(s):  
Autumn N. Harris ◽  
Hyun-Wook Lee ◽  
Lijuan Fang ◽  
Jill W. Verlander ◽  
I. David Weiner

Renal ammonia excretion is a critical component of acid-base homeostasis, and changes in ammonia excretion are the predominant component of increased net acid excretion in response to metabolic acidosis. We recently reported substantial sex-dependent differences in basal ammonia metabolism that correlate with sex-dependent differences in renal structure and expression of key proteins involved in ammonia metabolism. The purpose of the present study was to investigate the effect of sex on the renal ammonia response to an exogenous acid load. We studied 4-mo-old C57BL/6 mice. Ammonia excretion, which was less in male mice under basal conditions, increased in response to acid loading to a greater extent in male mice, such that maximal ammonia excretion did not differ between the sexes. Fundamental structural sex differences in the nonacid-loaded kidney persisted after acid loading, with less cortical proximal tubule volume density in the female kidney than in the male kidney, whereas collecting duct volume density was greater in the female kidney. To further investigate sex-dependent differences in the response to acid loading, we examined the expression of proteins involved in ammonia metabolism. The change in expression of phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase and Rh family B glycoprotein with acid loading was greater in male mice than in female mice, whereas Na+-K+-2Cl– cotransporter and inner stripe of the outer medulla intercalated cell Rh family C glycoprotein expression were significantly greater in female mice than in male mice. There was no significant sex difference in glutamine synthetase, Na+/H+ exchanger isoform 3, or electrogenic Na+-bicarbonate cotransporter 1 variant A protein expression in response to acid loading. We conclude that substantial sex-dependent differences in the renal ammonia response to acid loading enable a similar maximum ammonia excretion response.


2002 ◽  
Vol 283 (6) ◽  
pp. F1313-F1325 ◽  
Author(s):  
Weidong Wang ◽  
Chunling Li ◽  
Tae-Hwan Kwon ◽  
Mark A. Knepper ◽  
Jørgen Frøkiær ◽  
...  

The purpose of this study was to evaluate whether hypercalcemia is associated with downregulation of renal aquaporins (AQPs), including AQP1, AQP2, phosphorylated AQP2 (p-AQP2), AQP3, and AQP4, and if this is the case, to test whether cAMP-phosphodiesterase (PDE) inhibitor treatment can prevent AQP downregulation and prevent the development of polyuria. Vitamin D-induced hypercalcemia in rats was associated with increased urine output and reduced urine osmolality, consistent with previous findings (Levi M, Peterson L, and Berl T. Kidney Int 23: 489–497, 1983). Semiquantitative immunoblotting revealed a significant reduction in the abundance of inner medullary AQP2 (52 ± 6% of control levels), consistent with previous studies, and of AQP2, which is phosphorylated at the PKA phosphorylation consensus site serine 256 (p-AQP2; 36 ± 8%). Moreover, AQP3 abundance was also significantly decreased (45 ± 7 and 61 ± 6% of control levels in inner medulla and whole kidney, respectively). Consistent with this, immunohistochemistry demonstrated reduced AQP3 immunolabeling along the entire collecting duct. AQP4 expression was not reduced. Surprisingly, total kidney AQP1 abundance was also reduced (60 ± 6%). AQP1 expression was reduced in the cortex and outer stripe of the outer medulla (48 ± 7%; i.e., in proximal tubules). In contrast, AQP1 levels were not changed in the inner stripe of the outer medulla or in the inner medulla (i.e., descending thin limbs and vasa recta). Treatment with the cAMP-PDE inhibitors rolipram and milrinone in combination (inhibiting PDE IV and PDE III isoenzymes) at day 2 and onward completely prevented the hypercalcemia-induced downregulation of AQP2 and AQP3 (but not AQP1) and completely prevented the development of polyuria. In conclusion, AQP3, AQP2, and p-AQP2 are downregulated and are likely to play critical roles in the development of polyuria associated with vitamin D-induced hypercalcemia. Moreover, PDE inhibitor treatment significantly prevented the reduced expression of collecting duct AQPs and prevented the development of polyuria.


2011 ◽  
Vol 175-176 ◽  
pp. 192-196 ◽  
Author(s):  
Li Li Feng ◽  
Jian Fei Zhang ◽  
Hui Luo ◽  
Zheng Li ◽  
Hong Jie Zhang

The paper concentrated on the optimization of the recombinant strain BL21 (DE3)-PE7-Nit. The component of culture medium and the culture conditions were optimized. The optimized medium was: yeast extract 10 g/l, L-glutamate sodium 8 g/l, MgSO4.7H2O 0.7 g/l, Isopropyl-β-D-thiogalactopyranoside 0.3 mmol/L, potassium hydrogen phosphate 0.5 g / L, phosphate Potassium 0.5 g / L and the culture condition was: initial pH 7.0, inoculum 2%. The result showed that the activity of nitrilase prepared with these conditions increased by 130.37 % through optimization.


2014 ◽  
Vol 52 (9) ◽  
pp. 3259-3263 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer L. Cadnum ◽  
Kelly N. Hurless ◽  
Abhishek Deshpande ◽  
Michelle M. Nerandzic ◽  
Sirisha Kundrapu ◽  
...  

1998 ◽  
Vol 275 (1) ◽  
pp. F143-F153 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. B. Zimmerhackl ◽  
F. Momm ◽  
G. Wiegele ◽  
M. Brandis

Cadmium toxicity to renal cells was investigated in Madin-Darby canine kidney (MDCK) and LLC-PK1cells as models of the distal tubule/collecting duct and proximal tubule, respectively. Cells were grown on two-compartment filters and exposed to 0.1–50 μM Cd2+. In MDCK cells, Cd2+was more toxic from the basolateral than from the apical side and dependent on the extracellular Ca2+concentration. Toxicity was evident within 24 h, as shown by a decrease in transepithelial resistance (TER), reduced proliferation (bromodeoxyuridine incorporation), reduction in ATP concentration, and morphological changes. On confocal microscopy, E-cadherin and α-catenin staining patterns indicated interference with the cadherin-catenin complex. LLC-PK1cells showed a similar toxicity pattern, which was evident at lower Cd2+concentrations. An increase of E-cadherin and α-catenin molecules in the Triton X-100-insoluble fraction was detectable at high Cd2+concentrations in LLC-PK1cells but not in MDCK cells. Lactate dehydrogenase release indicated membrane leakage in LLC-PK1cells. Rhodamine-phalloidin staining, a probe for F-actin filaments, demonstrated alterations of the actin cytoskeleton in both cell lines. In conclusion, cadmium caused ATP depletion and interfered with the cadherin-catenin complex and probably the tight junctions changing renal cell morphology and function.


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