NHE3 activity and trafficking depend on the state of actin organization in proximal tubule

2001 ◽  
Vol 280 (2) ◽  
pp. F283-F290 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Chalumeau ◽  
D. Du Cheyron ◽  
N. Defontaine ◽  
O. Kellermann ◽  
M. Paillard ◽  
...  

The present study was addressed to define the contribution of cytoskeleton elements in the kidney proximal tubule Na+/H+ exchanger 3 (NHE3) activity under basal conditions. We used luminal membrane vesicles (LMV) isolated from suspensions of rat cortical tubules pretreated with either colchicine (Colch) or cytochalasin D (Cyto D). Colch pretreatment of suspensions (200 μM for 60 min) moderately decreased LMV NHE3 activity. Cyto D pretreatment (1 μM for 60 min) elicited an increase in LMV NHE3 transport activity but did not increase Na-glucose cotransport activity. Cyto D pretreatment of suspensions did not change the apparent affinity of NHE3 for internal H+. In contrast, after Cyto D pretreatment of the suspensions, NHE3 protein abundance was increased in LMV and remained unchanged in cortical cell homogenates. The effect of Cyto D on NHE3 was further assessed with cultures of murine cortical cells. The amount of surface biotinylated NHE3 increased on Cyto D treatment, whereas NHE3 protein abundance was unchanged in cell homogenates. In conclusion, under basal conditions NHE3 activity depends on the state of actin organization possibly involved in trafficking processes between luminal membrane and intracellular compartment.

1995 ◽  
Vol 105 (5) ◽  
pp. 617-641 ◽  
Author(s):  
A M Weinstein

The luminal membrane antiporter of the proximal tubule has been represented using the kinetic formulation of E. Heinz (1978. Mechanics and Engergetics of Biological Transport. Springer-Verlag, Berlin) with the assumption of equilibrium binding and 1:1 stoichiometry. Competitive binding and transport of NH+4 is included within this model. Ion affinities and permeation velocities were selected in a least-squares fit to the kinetic parameters determined experimentally in renal membrane vesicles (Aronson, P.S., M.A. Suhm, and J. Nee. 1983. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 258:6767-6771). The modifier role of internal H+ to enhance transport beyond the expected kinetics (Aronson, P.S., J. Nee, and M. A. Suhm. 1982. Nature. 299:161-163) is represented as a velocity effect of H+ binding to a single site. This kinetic formulation of the Na+/H+ antiporter was incorporated within a model of the rat proximal tubule (Weinstein, A. M. 1994. American Journal of Physiology. 267:F237-F248) as a replacement for the representation by linear nonequilibrium thermodynamics (NET). The membrane density of the antiporter was selected to yield agreement with the rate of tubular Na+ reabsorption. Simulation of 0.5 cm of tubule predicts that the activity of the Na+/H+ antiporter is the most important force for active secretion of ammonia. Model calculations of metabolic acid-base disturbances are performed and comparison is made among antiporter representations (kinetic model, kinetic model without internal modifier, and NET formulation). It is found that the ability to sharply turn off Na+/H+ exchange in cellular alkalosis substantially eliminates the cell volume increase associated with high HCO3- conditions. In the tubule model, diminished Na+/H+ exchange in alkalosis blunts the axial decrease in luminal HCO3- and thus diminishes paracellular reabsorption of Cl-. In this way, the kinetics of the Na+/H+ antiporter could act to enhance distal delivery of Na+, Cl-, and HCO3- in acute metabolic alkalosis.


1991 ◽  
Vol 260 (1) ◽  
pp. R186-R191 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. Van Der Goot ◽  
B. Corman

In the rabbit nephron, the luminal membrane surface area of the proximal convoluted tubule (PCT) is more than twice that of the proximal straight tubule (PST). What seemed to be an increase in histological specialization in solute and water transport is curiously reflected by a lower transepithelial water permeability per unit of apical membrane area in PCT than in PST. To evaluate what change in luminal membrane water permeability corresponds to this morphological difference, the osmotic permeabilities (Pf) of brush-border membrane vesicles isolated from PCT and PST of rabbit kidney were compared. D-Glucose uptake rates indicated proper separation of two populations of vesicles. Vesicle size measured by quasi-elastic light scattering was 123 +/- 7 nm and 125 +/- 6 nm for vesicles isolated from PCT and PST, respectively. Pf obtained by stop-flow light scattering techniques was of 106 +/- 6 microns/s in PCT vesicles and 191 +/- 7 microns/s in PST vesicles (T = 26 degrees C). In the presence of the sulfhydryl reagent HgCl2, the water permeabilities of both types of membrane dropped to comparable values. These data, which show an 80% increase in apical water permeability along the length of the proximal tubule, suggest that the number of proteic water channels per unit of membrane area is greater in PST than in PCT.


1989 ◽  
Vol 984 (2) ◽  
pp. 231-237 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hans Røigaard-Petersen ◽  
Christian Jacobsen ◽  
Henrik Jessen ◽  
Steen Mollerup ◽  
M. Iqbal Sheikh

1987 ◽  
Vol 253 (1) ◽  
pp. F15-F20 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. Roigaard-Petersen ◽  
C. Jacobsen ◽  
M. Iqbal Sheikh

The mechanism of renal transport of L-proline by luminal-membrane vesicles isolated from proximal convoluted tubules of rabbit kidney was studied. It was found that H+ gradient (extravesicular greater than intravesicular) can drive the transport of L-proline into the vesicles both in the presence and absence of Na+. The stimulation of L-proline uptake by a pH gradient was additive with that produced by Na+. Saturation kinetic experiments revealed that pH gradient, in addition to Na+, increased the maximal uptake of L-proline by twofold. This is the first demonstration of H+-L-proline cotransport across luminal membrane of rabbit kidney proximal convoluted tubule. The physiological importance of this system is briefly discussed.


1986 ◽  
Vol 250 (3) ◽  
pp. C506-C516 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. Ronco ◽  
M. Geniteau ◽  
P. Poujeol ◽  
C. Melcion ◽  
P. Verroust ◽  
...  

The immunological heterogeneity of the rabbit nephron was investigated using monoclonal antibodies. Seventeen antibodies have been produced by fusion of NS1 myeloma cells with spleen cells from BALB/c mice immunized with unfractionated rabbit renal cortical cell preparations. Sixteen antibodies reacted with proximal tubular cells: 11 with the brush border and 5 with basolateral membrane or intracytoplasmic components. Only one of the latter was specific for constituents of the proximal tubule. One antibody reacted with the cortical collecting tubule. Eight of the anti-brush-border antibodies were further characterized by immunoprecipitation of detergent-solubilized radiolabeled brush-border membrane vesicles. Seven proteins with subunits ranging in molecular weight from 90,000 to greater than 340,000 were identified. Systematic survey showed that one of these proteins with a subunit molecular weight of 115,000 exhibited leucine aminopeptidase activity. Selected monoclonal antibodies bound to Sepharose 4B immunoadsorbents were used to deplete solubilized brush-border membrane vesicles of a given antigen and to identify leucine aminopeptidase. Furthermore, the obtention of specific antibodies directed against the proximal tubule allowed us to set up a simple method for renal cell separation: isolated renal cortical cells could be depleted by 80% in proximal cells by passage over columns of Sepharose 6MB covalently linked with three different monoclonal anti-brush-border antibodies, thus leading to cell suspensions considerably enriched in tubule cells originating from the more distal segments of the nephron.


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