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Lee TC, Ho IC, Lu WJ, Huang JD. Enhanced Expression of Multidrug resistance-associated Protein 2 and Reduced Expression of Aquaglyceroporin 3 in an Arsenic-resistant Human Cell Line. J Biol Chem 2006; 281:18401-7. [PMID: 16672223 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m601266200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 60] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Arsenic-resistant cells (R15), derived from a human lung adenocarcinoma cell line (CL3), were 10-fold more resistant to sodium arsenite (As(III)). Because R15 cells accumulated less arsenic than parental CL3 cells, this arsenic resistance may be due to higher efflux and/or lower uptake of As(III). We therefore compared expression of the multidrug resistance-associated proteins MRP1, MRP2, and MRP3 in these two cell lines. MRP2 expression was 5-fold higher in R15 cells than in CL3 cells, whereas MRP1 and MRP3 expression levels were similar. Furthermore, verapamil and cyclosporin A, inhibitors of multidrug resistance transporters, significantly reduced the efflux of arsenic from R15. Thus, increased arsenic extrusion by MRP2 may contribute to arsenic resistance in R15 cells. We also examined the expression of several aquaglyceroporins (AQPs), which mediate As(III) uptake by cells. Little AQP7 or AQP9 mRNA was detected by reverse transcription-PCR in either cell line, whereas AQP3 mRNA expression was 2-fold lower in R15 cells than in CL3 cells. When AQP3 expression in CL3 cells was knocked down by RNA interference, CL3 cells accumulated less arsenic and became more resistant to As(III). Conversely, overexpression of AQP3 in human embryonic kidney 293T cells increased arsenic accumulation, and the cells were more susceptible to As(III) than 293T cells transfected with vector alone. These results suggest that AQP3 is involved in As(III) accumulation. Taken together, our results suggest that enhanced expression of MRP2 and lower expression of AQP3 are responsible for lower arsenic accumulation in arsenic-resistant R15 cells.
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- Te-Chang Lee
- Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taipei 11529, Taiwan.
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The identification of members of the aquaporin family as the primary water channels of cell membranes has been followed up by an intense effort to determine how these channels work. Specifically, investigators have sought to learn why these channels are selective for water and how they exclude proton trafficking. Molecular-dynamics studies using elegant, extremely detailed computer models based on accurate crystallographic maps of the channels show the basis for the selectivity of the channel. Channel size, the location of hydrophobic amino-acid side chains, and specific interactions of water dipoles with a charged residue near the most constricted point of the channel indicate that water molecules travel in single file through the center of the channel, and that the orientation of water molecules is manipulated to prevent the formation of a water wire spanning the channel. Finally, the number of water molecules calculated to be aligned in single file in the channel constriction fits predictions based on classic studies of the osmotic permeability: diffusive permeability ratios in water-permeable membranes.
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- Melvin E Laski
- Department of Internal Medicine and Physiology, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Lubbock, TX 79430, USA.
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Goren O, Adorján I, Kálmán M. Heterogeneous occurrence of aquaporin-4 in the ependyma and in the circumventricular organs in rat and chicken. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2006; 211:155-72. [PMID: 16416308 DOI: 10.1007/s00429-005-0067-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 11/21/2005] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Aquaporins are selective water channel proteins critical in volume homeostasis. In the CNS AQP4 predominates, localized mainly in the glia limitans, the perivascular endfeet and ependyma. The present immunofluorescent study reveals the distribution of aquaporin-4 in the circumventricular organs in rat and chicken brains. The ventricular ependyma (especially in the third one), the subfornical organ, the area postrema, the rat pineal body (in part), and the vascular organ of lamina terminalis were marked by intense immunopositivity. Several areas, however, proved to be immunonegative: the central canal, the subcommissural organ, the ependymal zone of the median eminence in rat but its whole thickness in chicken, the subtrochlear organ, and the paraventricular organ. The immunostaining of the lateral septal and subseptal organs were similar to their environment. Results on developing rats suggested that the aquaporin-4 immunonegativity is a secondary phenomenon. Surveying other structural and functional features, no clear explanation of the heterogeneous occurrence of aquaporin-4 was found. The absence of aquaporin-4 seems to correlate with some features of the "ependymal organs" (thickened, pseudostratified ependyma, presence of blood-brain barrier) and with the avoidance of GFAP. On the other hand, the organs rich in aquaporin-4 have features of the "hypendymal organs" (glial and vascular plexus but no blood-brain barrier). There are organs, however, which do not fit into either group completely, i.e. the lateral septal and subseptal organs. Presence of tight junctions coincides with the absence of aquaporin-4 in the ependyma of spinal cord, the subcommissural organ and the ependyma of median eminence.
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- Oded Goren
- Department of Anatomy, Histology and Embryology, Semmelweis University of Medicine, Tuzoltó 58, 1094 Budapest, Hungary
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Kaufmann N, Mathai JC, Hill WG, Dow JAT, Zeidel ML, Brodsky JL. Developmental expression and biophysical characterization of aDrosophila melanogasteraquaporin. Am J Physiol Cell Physiol 2005; 289:C397-407. [PMID: 15800049 DOI: 10.1152/ajpcell.00612.2004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 97] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Aquaporins (AQPs) accelerate the movement of water and other solutes across biological membranes, yet the molecular mechanisms of each AQP's transport function and the diverse physiological roles played by AQP family members are still being defined. We therefore have characterized an AQP in a model organism, Drosophila melanogaster, which is amenable to genetic manipulation and developmental analysis. To study the mechanism of Drosophila Malpighian tubule (MT)-facilitated water transport, we identified seven putative AQPs in the Drosophila genome and found that one of these, previously named DRIP, has the greatest sequence similarity to those vertebrate AQPs that exhibit the highest rates of water transport. In situ mRNA analyses showed that DRIP is expressed in both embryonic and adult MTs, as well as in other tissues in which fluid transport is essential. In addition, the pattern of DRIP expression was dynamic. To define DRIP-mediated water transport, the protein was expressed in Xenopus oocytes and in yeast secretory vesicles, and we found that significantly elevated rates of water transport correlated with DRIP expression. Moreover, the activation energy required for water transport in DRIP-expressing secretory vesicles was 4.9 kcal/mol. This low value is characteristic of AQP-mediated water transport, whereas the value in control vesicles was 16.4 kcal/mol. In contrast, glycerol, urea, ammonia, and proton transport were unaffected by DRIP expression, suggesting that DRIP is a highly selective water-specific channel. This result is consistent with the homology between DRIP and mammalian water-specific AQPs. Together, these data establish Drosophila as a new model system with which to investigate AQP function.
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- Nancy Kaufmann
- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA
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Schenk AD, Werten PJL, Scheuring S, de Groot BL, Müller SA, Stahlberg H, Philippsen A, Engel A. The 4.5Å Structure of Human AQP2. J Mol Biol 2005; 350:278-89. [PMID: 15922355 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2005.04.030] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/24/2004] [Revised: 04/02/2005] [Accepted: 04/15/2005] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Located in the principal cells of the collecting duct, aquaporin-2 (AQP2) is responsible for the regulated water reabsorption in the kidney and is indispensable for the maintenance of body water balance. Disregulation or malfunctioning of AQP2 can lead to severe diseases such as nephrogenic diabetes insipidus, congestive heart failure, liver cirrhosis and pre-eclampsia. Here we present the crystallization of recombinantly expressed human AQP2 into two-dimensional protein-lipid arrays and their structural characterization by atomic force microscopy and electron crystallography. These crystals are double-layered sheets that have a diameter of up to 30 microm, diffract to 3 A(-1) and are stacked by contacts between their cytosolic surfaces. The structure determined to 4.5 A resolution in the plane of the membrane reveals the typical aquaporin fold but also a particular structure between the stacked layers that is likely to be related to the cytosolic N and C termini.
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- Andreas D Schenk
- M. E. Müller Institute for Microscopy, Biozentrum, University of Basel, Klingelbergstrasse 70, 4056 Basel, Switzerland.
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Wilson NS, Villadangos JA. Regulation of Antigen Presentation and Cross-Presentation in the Dendritic Cell Network: Facts, Hypothesis, and Immunological Implications. Adv Immunol 2005; 86:241-305. [PMID: 15705424 DOI: 10.1016/s0065-2776(04)86007-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 121] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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Dendritic cells (DCs) are central to the maintenance of immunological tolerance and the initiation and control of immunity. The antigen-presenting properties of DCs enable them to present a sample of self and foreign proteins, contained within an organism at any given time, to the T-cell repertoire. DCs achieve this communication with T cells by displaying antigenic peptides bound to MHC I and MHC II molecules. Here we review the studies carried out over the past 15 years to characterize these antigen presentation mechanisms, emphasizing their significance in relation to DC function in vivo. The life cycles of different DC populations found in vivo are described. Furthermore, we provide a critical assessment of the studies that examine the mechanisms controlling DC MHC class II antigen presentation, which have often reached contradictory conclusions. Finally, we review findings pertaining to the biological mechanisms that enable DCs to present exogenous antigens on their MHC class I molecules, a process known as cross-presentation. Throughout, we highlight what we consider to be major knowledge gaps in the field and speculate on possible directions for future research.
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- Nicholas S Wilson
- Immunology Division and The Cooperative Research Center for Vaccine Technology, The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Parkville, Victoria 3050, Australia
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Wallace IS, Roberts DM. Homology modeling of representative subfamilies of Arabidopsis major intrinsic proteins. Classification based on the aromatic/arginine selectivity filter. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 2004; 135:1059-68. [PMID: 15181215 PMCID: PMC514140 DOI: 10.1104/pp.103.033415] [Citation(s) in RCA: 159] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/03/2003] [Revised: 11/24/2003] [Accepted: 12/02/2003] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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Major intrinsic proteins (MIPs) are a family of membrane channels that facilitate the bidirectional transport of water and small uncharged solutes such as glycerol. The 35 full-length members of the MIP family in Arabidopsis are segregated into four structurally homologous subfamilies: plasma membrane intrinsic proteins (PIPs), tonoplast intrinsic proteins (TIPs), nodulin 26-like intrinsic membrane proteins (NIPs), and small basic intrinsic proteins (SIPs). Computational methods were used to construct structural models of the putative pore regions of various plant MIPs based on homology modeling with the atomic resolution crystal structures of mammalian aquaporin 1 and the bacterial glycerol permease GlpF. Based on comparisons of the narrow selectivity filter regions (the aromatic/Arg [ar/R] filter), the members of the four phylogenetic subfamilies of Arabidopsis MIPs can be classified into eight groups. PIPs possess a uniform ar/R signature characteristic of high water transport aquaporins, whereas TIPs are highly diverse with three separate conserved ar/R regions. NIPs possess two separate conserved ar/R regions, one that is similar to the archetype, soybean (Glycine max) nodulin 26, and another that is characteristic of Arabidopsis NIP6;1. The SIP subfamily possesses two ar/R subgroups, characteristic of either SIP1 or SIP2. Both SIP ar/R residues are divergent from all other MIPs in plants and other kingdoms. Overall, these findings suggest that higher plant MIPs have a common fold but show distinct differences in proposed pore apertures, potential to form hydrogen bonds with transported molecules, and amphiphilicity that likely results in divergent transport selectivities.
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- Ian S Wallace
- Department of Biochemistry, Cellular, and Molecular Biology and Center of Excellence in Structural Biology, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996, USA
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Talbot NC, Garrett WM, Caperna TJ. Analysis of the expression of aquaporin-1 and aquaporin-9 in pig liver tissue: comparison with rat liver tissue. Cells Tissues Organs 2004; 174:117-28. [PMID: 12835575 DOI: 10.1159/000071152] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 02/12/2003] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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Aquaporins (AQPs) are cellular proteins involved with the movement of water across cell membranes and are fundamentally important to the fluid transport in the bile ducts and ductules of the liver. An immunohistochemical analysis of AQP-1 and AQP-9 was undertaken to describe their expression in fetal and adult pig liver, while immunoreagents specific to some other AQPs were screened for their efficacy on pig liver tissues. Anti-AQP-1 antibody reacted with the bile duct of the portal space and the bile ductules at the periphery of the liver lobules. Histological identification of bile ductules was confirmed by positive reactivity with anti-cytokeratin-7 and antilaminin immunostaining. Anti-AQP-1 signals were also pronounced in the endothelium of the portal space blood vessels and peripheral distributing venules. Antibody to AQP-9 reacted strongly with small ductules peripheral to the liver lobules, but only weakly with the bile ducts of the portal space. Anti-AQP-adipose antibody bound to the smooth muscle cells of the arteries in the portal space and sporadically with certain binucleated cells in the liver lobule. Antibodies to AQP-3, AQP-4, AQP-7, and AQP-8 were nonreactive with any of the tissues of the adult pig liver. For comparative purposes, immunohistochemical analysis of rat liver tissue was done with the anti-AQP-1 and AQP-9 antibodies. Anti-AQP-1 reacted weakly with the rat liver's bile ducts, but robustly with the endothelium of the liver's veins and arteries. It also reacted strongly with the central vein of the rat liver lobules, and, because the staining was continuous with hepatic sinusoids, it appeared that the reactivity was specific to the endothelial cells. Anti-AQP-9 antibodies reacted with rat hepatocytes and was not associated with the canaliculi, as judged by concurrent phalloidin staining of actin. The results indicate that specific AQPs are expressed in the tissues of the pig liver and that AQP-9 expression is distinct from its expression in the rat liver.
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- Neil C Talbot
- Gene Evaluation and Mapping Laboratory, Beltsville Agricultural Research Center, Beltsville, MD 20705, USA.
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Beitz E, Pavlovic-Djuranovic S, Yasui M, Agre P, Schultz JE. Molecular dissection of water and glycerol permeability of the aquaglyceroporin from Plasmodium falciparum by mutational analysis. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2004; 101:1153-8. [PMID: 14734807 PMCID: PMC337022 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0307295101] [Citation(s) in RCA: 90] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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The selectivity of aquaporins for water and solutes is determined by pore diameter. Paradoxically, the wider pores of glycerol facilitators restrict water passage by an unknown mechanism. Earlier we characterized an aquaglyceroporin from Plasmodium falciparum with high permeability for both glycerol and water. We use point mutations to demonstrate that amino acids directly lining the pore are not responsible for the excellent water permeability of the Plasmodium aquaglyceroporin but affect permeability of pentitols. Within a conserved WET triad in the extracellular C-loop we identified a Plasmodium aquaglyceroporin-specific glutamate (E125) located in proximity to a conserved arginine (R196) at the pore mouth. Mutation of E125 to serine largely abolished water permeability. Concomitantly, the activation energy for water permeation was increased by 4 kcal/mol. Mutation of the adjacent tryptophan to cysteine led to irreversible inhibition of water passage by Hg(2+). This unequivocally proves the proximity of the couple W124/E125 close to the pore mouth. We conclude that in the Plasmodium aquaglyceroporin the electrostatic environment at the extracellular pore entry regulates water permeability.
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- Eric Beitz
- Department of Pharmaceutical Biochemistry, University of Tübingen, Morgenstelle 8, D-72076 Tübingen, Germany.
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Kobayashi H, Yanagita T, Yokoo H, Wada A. Molecular Mechanisms and Drug Development in Aquaporin Water Channel Diseases: Aquaporins in the Brain. J Pharmacol Sci 2004; 96:264-70. [PMID: 15557735 DOI: 10.1254/jphs.fmj04004x5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022] Open
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Water homeostasis of the brain is essential for its neuronal activity. Changes in water content in the intra- and extra-cellular space affect ionic concentrations and therefore modify neuronal activity. Aquaporin (AQP) water channels may have a central role in keeping water homeostasis in the brain. Among AQP subtypes cloned in mammalian, only AQP1, AQP4, and AQP9 were identified in the brain. Changes in AQP expression may be correlated with edema formation of the brain. In this review, we describe the physiological function of AQPs and the regulatory mechanism of their expression in the brain.
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- Hideyuki Kobayashi
- Department of Pharmacology, Miyazaki Medical College, University of Miyazaki, Kiyotake, Japan.
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Pavlovic-Djuranovic S, Schultz JE, Beitz E. A single aquaporin gene encodes a water/glycerol/urea facilitator inToxoplasma gondiiwith similarity to plant tonoplast intrinsic proteins1. FEBS Lett 2003; 555:500-4. [PMID: 14675763 DOI: 10.1016/s0014-5793(03)01313-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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We describe a single aquaporin gene in Toxoplasma gondii which, surprisingly, has only 28% sequence similarity to the aquaglyceroporin of another apicomplexan parasite, Plasmodium falciparum. Sequence comparisons showed 47% similarity to water-specific plant aquaporins and the conservation of typical pore-forming residues. We established that the Toxoplasma aquaporin protein is a bifunctional membrane pore with intermediate water and high glycerol permeability. Furthermore, we identified hydroxyurea, an antineoplastic agent with inhibitory effects on parasite proliferation, as a permeant of this channel.
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Diabetes insipidus is a heterogeneous condition characterized by polyuria and polydipsia caused by a lack of secretion of vasopressin, its physiological suppression following excessive water intake, or kidney resistance to its action. In many patients, it is caused by the destruction or degeneration of the neurons that originate in the supraoptic and paraventricular nuclei of the hypothalamus. Known causes of these lesions include: germinoma or craniopharyngioma; Langerhans cell histiocytosis and sarcoidosis of the central nervous system; local inflammatory, autoimmune or vascular diseases; trauma following surgery or accident; and, rarely, genetic defects in vasopressin biosynthesis inherited as autosomal dominant or X-linked recessive traits. Thirty to fifty percent of cases are considered idiopathic. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) allows identification of the posterior pituitary hyperintensity and of hypothalamic-pituitary abnormalities. Thickening of the pituitary stalk is the second most common finding on MRI scans in several local inflammatory pathologies and autoimmune diseases or germinoma, but it is not specific to any single subtype. A progressive increase in the size of the anterior pituitary gland should alert physicians to the possibility that a germinoma is present, whereas a decrease can suggest the presence of an inflammatory or autoimmune process. Most children with acquired central diabetes insipidus and a thickened pituitary stalk have anterior pituitary hormone deficiencies during follow-up. Biopsy of enlarged pituitary stalk should be reserved for patients with a hypothalamic-pituitary mass and progressive thickening of the pituitary stalk, since spontaneous recovery may occur.
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- Mohamad Maghnie
- Department of Paediatrics, IRCCS Policlinico S Matteo, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy.
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Stroud RM, Savage D, Miercke LJW, Lee JK, Khademi S, Harries W. Selectivity and conductance among the glycerol and water conducting aquaporin family of channels. FEBS Lett 2003; 555:79-84. [PMID: 14630323 DOI: 10.1016/s0014-5793(03)01195-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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The atomic structures of a transmembrane water plus glycerol conducting channel (GlpF), and now of aquaporin Z (AqpZ) from the same species, Escherichia coli, bring the total to three atomic resolution structures in the aquaporin (AQP) family. Members of the AQP family each assemble as tetramers of four channels. Common helical axes support a wider channel in the glycerol plus water channel paradigm, GlpF. Water molecules form a single hydrogen bonded file throughout the 28 A long channel in AqpZ. The basis for absolute exclusion of proton or hydronium ion conductance through the line of water is explored using simulations.
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- Robert M Stroud
- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94143-2240, USA.
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Stroud RM, Nollert P, Miercke L. The glycerol facilitator GlpF its aquaporin family of channels, and their selectivity. ADVANCES IN PROTEIN CHEMISTRY 2003; 63:291-316. [PMID: 12629974 DOI: 10.1016/s0065-3233(03)63011-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/17/2023]
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- Robert M Stroud
- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, California 94143, USA
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In diabetes insipidus, the amount of water ingested and the quantity and concentration of urine produced needs to be carefully regulated if fluid volume and osmolality are to be maintained within the normal range. One of the principal mechanisms controlling urine output is vasopressin which is released from the posterior pituitary gland and enhances water reabsorption from the renal collecting duct. In diabetes insipidus, the excessive production of dilute urine, and the causes of this clinical picture can be divided into three main groups: the first is primary polydipsia where the amount of fluid ingested is inappropriately large; the second group is cranial diabetes insipidus where the production of vasopressin is abnormally low; and, the third group is nephrogenic diabetes insipidus where the kidney response to vasopressin is impaired. The history and examination may suggest an underlying explanation for diabetes insipidus but a range of baseline and more extensive investigations may be required before a diagnosis can be reached. These investigations are not without risk, and the results need to be interpreted carefully because children do not always segregate neatly into a particular diagnostic category on the basis of one test alone. Children with cranial diabetes insipidus typically respond to arginine vasopressin or its manufactured analogue, desmopressin, with an increase in urine osmolality and an associated reduction in urine output. Such children usually require neuroimaging to look for evidence of evolving CNS pathology, such as an intracranial tumour. Vasopressin "replacement" with desmopressin is the treatment of choice in patients with cranial diabetes insipidus although extreme caution is required when treating babies or small children because of the danger of fluid overload. Abnormal production of other pituitary hormones in children with CNS disease can also influence fluid balance. Nephrogenic diabetes insipidus can be due to abnormal electrolyte concentrations, therefore these should be measured as part of the initial assessment. In a small number of children the defect is a primary abnormality of the vasopressin receptor or one of the water channel proteins (aquaporins) involved in water transport. The treatment of these patients is difficult and typically involves therapy with a diuretic such as chlorothiazide, as well as indomethacin. These agents enhance urine osmolality by their effect on circulating volume and renal solute and water handling. The fluid intake of most young children with primary polydipsia can be safely reduced to a more appropriate level.
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- Tim Cheetham
- Department of Child Health, Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle Upon Tyne NE1 4LP, UK.
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Gu S, Ripp SL, Prough RA, Geoghegan TE. Dehydroepiandrosterone affects the expression of multiple genes in rat liver including 11 beta-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase type 1: a cDNA array analysis. Mol Pharmacol 2003; 63:722-31. [PMID: 12606783 DOI: 10.1124/mol.63.3.722] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) is a C-19 adrenal steroid precursor to the gonadal steroids. In humans, circulating levels of DHEA, as its sulfated conjugate, are high at puberty and throughout early adulthood but decline with age. Dietary supplementation to maintain high levels of DHEA purportedly has beneficial effects on cognitive memory, the immune system, and fat and carbohydrate metabolism. In rodents, DHEA is a peroxisome proliferator that induces genes for the classical peroxisomal and microsomal enzymes associated with this response. These effects are mediated through activation of peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor alpha (PPAR alpha). However, DHEA can affect the expression of genes independently of PPAR alpha, including the gene for the major inducible drug and xenobiotic metabolizing enzyme, cytochrome P450 3A23. To elucidate the biochemistry associated with DHEA treatment, we employed a cDNA gene expression array using liver RNA from rats treated with DHEA or the classic peroxisome proliferator nafenopin. Principal components analysis identified 30 to 35 genes whose expression was affected by DHEA and/or nafenopin. Some were genes previously identified as PPAR-responsive genes. Changes in expression of several affected genes were verified by quantitative reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction. These included aquaporin 3, which was induced by DHEA and to a lesser extent nafenopin, nuclear tyrosine phosphatase, which was induced by both agents, and 11 beta-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase 1, which was decreased by treatment with DHEA in a dose-dependent fashion. Regulation of 11 beta-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase 1 expression is important since the enzyme is believed to amplify local glucocorticoid signaling, and its repression may cause some of the metabolic effects associated with DHEA.
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- Shi Gu
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, the University of Louisville, School of Medicine, Louisville, Kentucky 40292, USA
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Karlsson M, Fotiadis D, Sjövall S, Johansson I, Hedfalk K, Engel A, Kjellbom P. Reconstitution of water channel function of an aquaporin overexpressed and purified from Pichia pastoris. FEBS Lett 2003; 537:68-72. [PMID: 12606033 DOI: 10.1016/s0014-5793(03)00082-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 75] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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The aquaporin PM28A is one of the major integral proteins in spinach leaf plasma membranes. Phosphorylation/dephosphorylation of Ser274 at the C-terminus and of Ser115 in the first cytoplasmic loop has been shown to regulate the water channel activity of PM28A when expressed in Xenopus oocytes. To understand the mechanisms of the phosphorylation-mediated gating of the channel the structure of PM28A is required. In a first step we have used the methylotrophic yeast Pichia pastoris for expression of the pm28a gene. The expressed protein has a molecular mass of 32462 Da as determined by matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization-mass spectrometry, forms tetramers as revealed by electron microscopy and is functionally active when reconstituted in proteoliposomes. PM28A was efficiently solubilized from urea- and alkali-stripped Pichia membranes by octyl-beta-D-thioglucopyranoside resulting in a final yield of 25 mg of purified protein per liter of cell culture.
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- Maria Karlsson
- Department of Plant Biochemistry, Lund University, Box 124, Sweden.
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Sleator RD, Gahan CGM, Hill C. A postgenomic appraisal of osmotolerance in Listeria monocytogenes. Appl Environ Microbiol 2003; 69:1-9. [PMID: 12513970 PMCID: PMC152475 DOI: 10.1128/aem.69.1.1-9.2003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 103] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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- Roy D Sleator
- Department of Microbiology and National Food Biotechnology Centre, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland
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Kuriyama H, Shimomura I, Kishida K, Kondo H, Furuyama N, Nishizawa H, Maeda N, Matsuda M, Nagaretani H, Kihara S, Nakamura T, Tochino Y, Funahashi T, Matsuzawa Y. Coordinated regulation of fat-specific and liver-specific glycerol channels, aquaporin adipose and aquaporin 9. Diabetes 2002; 51:2915-21. [PMID: 12351427 DOI: 10.2337/diabetes.51.10.2915] [Citation(s) in RCA: 180] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022]
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Plasma glycerol is a major substrate for hepatic gluconeogenesis. Aquaporin adipose (AQPap/7), an adipose-specific glycerol channel, provides fat-derived glycerol into plasma. In the present study, we cloned the coding and promoter regions of mouse aquaporin 9 (AQP9), a liver-specific glycerol channel. Fasting and refeeding of mice increased and decreased hepatic AQP9 mRNA levels, respectively. Insulin deficiency induced by streptozotocin resulted in increased hepatic AQP9 mRNA. These changes in hepatic AQP9 mRNA were accompanied by those of hepatic gluconeogenic mRNAs and plasma glycerol levels. In cultured hepatocytes, insulin downregulated AQP9 mRNA. The AQP9 promoter contained the negative insulin response element TGTTTTC at -496/-502, similar to the promoter of the AQPap/7 gene. In contrast, in insulin-resistant db+/db+ mice, AQPap/7 mRNA in fat and AQP9 mRNA in liver were increased, despite hyperinsulinemia, with high plasma glycerol and glucose levels. Glycerol infusion in the db+/db+ mice augmented hepatic glucose output. Our results indicate that coordinated regulations of fat-specific AQPap/7 and liver-specific AQP9 should be crucial to determine glucose metabolism in physiology and insulin resistance.
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- Hiroshi Kuriyama
- Department of Internal Medicine and Molecular Science, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University, Japan
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Spencer RH, Rees DC. The alpha-helix and the organization and gating of channels. ANNUAL REVIEW OF BIOPHYSICS AND BIOMOLECULAR STRUCTURE 2002; 31:207-33. [PMID: 11988468 DOI: 10.1146/annurev.biophys.31.082901.134329] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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The structures of an increasing number of channels and other alpha-helical membrane proteins have been determined recently, including the KcsA potassium channel, the MscL mechanosensitive channel, and the AQP1 and GlpF members of the aquaporin family. In this chapter, the orientation and packing characteristics of bilayer-spanning helices are surveyed in integral membrane proteins. In the case of channels, alpha-helices create the sealed barrier that separates the hydrocarbon region of the bilayer from the permeation pathway for solutes. The helices surrounding the permeation pathway tend to be rather steeply tilted relative to the membrane normal and are consistently arranged in a right-handed bundle. The helical framework further provides a supporting scaffold for nonmembrane-spanning structures associated with channel selectivity. Although structural details remain scarce, the conformational changes associated with gating transitions between closed and open states of channels are reviewed, emphasizing the potential roles of helix-helix interactions in this process.
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- Robert H Spencer
- Department of Pharmacology, Merck Research Laboratories, West Point, PA 19486.
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For almost a century it was generally assumed that the lipid phases of all biological membranes are freely permeable to gases. However, recent observations challenge this dogma. The apical membranes of epithelial cells exposed to hostile environments, such as gastric glands, have no demonstrable permeability to the gases CO2 and NH3. Additionally, the water channel protein aquaporin 1 (AQP1), expressed at high levels in erythrocytes, can increase membrane CO2 permeability when expressed in Xenopus oocytes. Similarly, nodulin-26, which is closely related to AQP1, can act as a conduit for NH3. A key question is whether aquaporins, which are abundant in virtually every tissue that transports O2 and CO2 at high levels, ever play a physiologically significant role in the transport of small volatile molecules. Preliminary data are consistent with the hypothesis that AQP1 enhances the reabsorption of HCO3- by the renal proximal tubule by increasing the CO2 permeability of the apical membrane. Other preliminary data on Xenopus oocytes heterologously expressing the electrogenic Na+-HCO3- cotransporter (NBC), AQP1 and carbonic anhydrases are consistent with the hypothesis that the macroscopic cotransport of Na+ plus two HCO3- occurs as NBC transports Na+ plus CO3(2-) and AQP1 transports CO2 and H2O. Although data - obtained on AQP1 reconstituted into liposomes or on materials from AQP1 knockout mice - appear inconsistent with the model that AQP1 mediates substantial CO2 transport in certain preparations, the existence of unstirred layers or perfusion-limited conditions may have masked the contribution of AQP1 to CO2 permeability.
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- Gordon J Cooper
- Department of Cellular and Molecular Physiology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06520-8026, USA
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The ability to adapt to altered availability of free water is a fundamental property of living cells. The principles underlying osmoadaptation are well conserved. The yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae is an excellent model system with which to study the molecular biology and physiology of osmoadaptation. Upon a shift to high osmolarity, yeast cells rapidly stimulate a mitogen-activated protein (MAP) kinase cascade, the high-osmolarity glycerol (HOG) pathway, which orchestrates part of the transcriptional response. The dynamic operation of the HOG pathway has been well studied, and similar osmosensing pathways exist in other eukaryotes. Protein kinase A, which seems to mediate a response to diverse stress conditions, is also involved in the transcriptional response program. Expression changes after a shift to high osmolarity aim at adjusting metabolism and the production of cellular protectants. Accumulation of the osmolyte glycerol, which is also controlled by altering transmembrane glycerol transport, is of central importance. Upon a shift from high to low osmolarity, yeast cells stimulate a different MAP kinase cascade, the cell integrity pathway. The transcriptional program upon hypo-osmotic shock seems to aim at adjusting cell surface properties. Rapid export of glycerol is an important event in adaptation to low osmolarity. Osmoadaptation, adjustment of cell surface properties, and the control of cell morphogenesis, growth, and proliferation are highly coordinated processes. The Skn7p response regulator may be involved in coordinating these events. An integrated understanding of osmoadaptation requires not only knowledge of the function of many uncharacterized genes but also further insight into the time line of events, their interdependence, their dynamics, and their spatial organization as well as the importance of subtle effects.
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- Stefan Hohmann
- Department of Cell and Molecular Biology/Microbiology, Göteborg University, S-405 30 Göteborg, Sweden.
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Sleator RD, Hill C. Bacterial osmoadaptation: the role of osmolytes in bacterial stress and virulence. FEMS Microbiol Rev 2002; 26:49-71. [PMID: 12007642 DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6976.2002.tb00598.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 480] [Impact Index Per Article: 21.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
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Two general strategies exist for the growth and survival of prokaryotes in environments of elevated osmolarity. The 'salt in cytoplasm' approach, which requires extensive structural modifications, is restricted mainly to members of the Halobacteriaceae. All other species have convergently evolved to cope with environments of elevated osmolarity by the accumulation of a restricted range of low molecular mass molecules, termed compatible solutes owing to their compatibility with cellular processes at high internal concentrations. Herein we review the molecular mechanisms governing the accumulation of these compounds, both in Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria, focusing specifically on the regulation of their transport/synthesis systems and the ability of these systems to sense and respond to changes in the osmolarity of the extracellular environment. Finally, we examine the current knowledge on the role of these osmostress responsive systems in contributing to the virulence potential of a number of pathogenic bacteria.
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- Roy D Sleator
- Department of Microbiology and National Food Biotechnology Centre, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland
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Tyerman SD, Niemietz CM, Bramley H. Plant aquaporins: multifunctional water and solute channels with expanding roles. PLANT, CELL & ENVIRONMENT 2002; 25:173-194. [PMID: 11841662 DOI: 10.1046/j.0016-8025.2001.00791.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 293] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
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There is strong evidence that aquaporins are central components in plant water relations. Plant species possess more aquaporin genes than species from other kingdoms. According to sequence similarities, four major groups have been identified, which can be further divided into subgroups that may correspond to localization and transport selectivity. They may be involved in compatible solute distribution, gas-transfer (CO2, NH3) as well as in micronutrient uptake (boric acid). Recent advances in determining the structure of some aquaporins gives further details on the mechanism of selectivity. Gating behaviour of aquaporins is poorly understood but evidence is mounting that phosphorylation, pH, pCa and osmotic gradients can affect water channel activity. Aquaporins are enriched in zones of fast cell division and expansion, or in areas where water flow or solute flux density would be expected to be high. This includes biotrophic interfaces between plants and parasites, between plants and symbiotic bacteria or fungi, and between germinating pollen and stigma. On a cellular level aquaporin clusters have been identified in some membranes. There is also a possibility that aquaporins in the endoplasmic reticulum may function in symplasmic transport if water can flow from cell to cell via the desmotubules in plasmodesmata. Functional characterization of aquaporins in the native membrane has raised doubt about the conclusiveness of expression patterns alone and need to be conducted in parallel. The challenge will be to elucidate gating on a molecular level and cellular level and to tie those findings into plant water relations on a macroscopic scale where various flow pathways need to be considered.
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- S. D. Tyerman
- School of Biological Sciences, Flinders University Adelaide, GPO Box 2100, Adelaide SA 5001, Australia
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Freeze-substitution is a physicochemical process in which biological specimens are immobilized and stabilized for microscopy. Water frozen within cells is replaced by organic solvents at subzero temperatures. Freeze-substitution is widely used for ultrastructural and immunocytochemical analyses of cells by transmission and scanning electron microscopy. Less well recognized is its superiority over conventional chemical fixation in preserving labile and rare tissue antigens for immunocytochemistry by light microscopy. In the postgenome era, the focus of molecular genetics will shift from analyzing DNA sequence structure to elucidating the function of gene networks, the intercellular effects of polygenetic diseases, and the conformational rearrangements of proteins in situ. Novel strategies will be needed to integrate knowledge of chemical structures of normal and abnormal macromolecules with the physiology and developmental biology of cells and tissues from whole organisms. This review summarizes the progress and future prospects of freeze-substitution for such explorations.
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- R Shiurba
- Misato Inc., Satte-shi, Saitama, Japan
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Quigley F, Rosenberg JM, Shachar-Hill Y, Bohnert HJ. From genome to function: the Arabidopsis aquaporins. Genome Biol 2002; 3:RESEARCH0001. [PMID: 11806824 PMCID: PMC150448 DOI: 10.1186/gb-2001-3-1-research0001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 145] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/21/2001] [Revised: 09/03/2001] [Accepted: 10/08/2001] [Indexed: 11/28/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND In the post-genomic era newly sequenced genomes can be used to deduce organismal functions from our knowledge of other systems. Here we apply this approach to analyzing the aquaporin gene family in Arabidopsis thaliana. The aquaporins are intrinsic membrane proteins that have been characterized as facilitators of water flux. Originally termed major intrinsic proteins (MIPs), they are now also known as water channels, glycerol facilitators and aqua-glyceroporins, yet recent data suggest that they facilitate the movement of other low-molecular-weight metabolites as well. RESULTS The Arabidopsis genome contains 38 sequences with homology to aquaporin in four subfamilies, termed PIP, TIP, NIP and SIP. We have analyzed aquaporin family structure and expression using the A. thaliana genome sequence, and introduce a new NMR approach for the purpose of analyzing water movement in plant roots in vivo. CONCLUSIONS Our preliminary data indicate a strongly transcellular component for the flux of water in roots.
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- Francoise Quigley
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA.
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Madrid R, LeMaout S, Barrault MB, Janvier K, Benichou S, Mérot J. Polarized trafficking and surface expression of the AQP4 water channel are coordinated by serial and regulated interactions with different clathrin-adaptor complexes. EMBO J 2001; 20:7008-21. [PMID: 11742978 PMCID: PMC125333 DOI: 10.1093/emboj/20.24.7008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 131] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Aquaporin 4 (AQP4) is the predominant water channel in the brain. It is targeted to specific membrane domains of astrocytes and plays a crucial role in cerebral water balance in response to brain edema formation. AQP4 is also specifically expressed in the basolateral membranes of epithelial cells. However, the molecular mechanisms involved in its polarized targeting and membrane trafficking remain largely unknown. Here, we show that two independent C-terminal signals determine AQP4 basolateral membrane targeting in epithelial MDCK cells. One signal involves a tyrosine-based motif; the other is encoded by a di-leucine-like motif. We found that the tyrosine-based basolateral sorting signal also determines AQP4 clathrin-dependent endocytosis through direct interaction with the mu subunit of AP2 adaptor complex. Once endocytosed, a regulated switch in mu subunit interaction changes AP2 adaptor association to AP3. We found that the stress-induced kinase casein kinase (CK)II phosphorylates the Ser276 immediately preceding the tyrosine motif, increasing AQP4-mu 3A interaction and enhancing AQP4-lysosomal targeting and degradation. AQP4 phosphorylation by CKII may thus provide a mechanism that regulates AQP4 cell surface expression.
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- Service de Biologie Cellulaire, Département de Biologie Cellulaire et Moléculaire, CEA/Saclay, F-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, Cedex,
Institut Cochin de Génétique Moléculaire, INSERM U529, F-75014 Paris and INSERM U533, Faculté de Médecine, F-44093 Nantes, France Corresponding author e-mail: R.Madrid and S.Le Maout contributed equally to this work
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- Service de Biologie Cellulaire, Département de Biologie Cellulaire et Moléculaire, CEA/Saclay, F-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, Cedex,
Institut Cochin de Génétique Moléculaire, INSERM U529, F-75014 Paris and INSERM U533, Faculté de Médecine, F-44093 Nantes, France Corresponding author e-mail: R.Madrid and S.Le Maout contributed equally to this work
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- Service de Biologie Cellulaire, Département de Biologie Cellulaire et Moléculaire, CEA/Saclay, F-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, Cedex,
Institut Cochin de Génétique Moléculaire, INSERM U529, F-75014 Paris and INSERM U533, Faculté de Médecine, F-44093 Nantes, France Corresponding author e-mail: R.Madrid and S.Le Maout contributed equally to this work
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de Groot BL, Grubmüller H. Water permeation across biological membranes: mechanism and dynamics of aquaporin-1 and GlpF. Science 2001; 294:2353-7. [PMID: 11743202 DOI: 10.1126/science.1066115] [Citation(s) in RCA: 201] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/02/2022]
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"Real time" molecular dynamics simulations of water permeation through human aquaporin-1 (AQP1) and the bacterial glycerol facilitator GlpF are presented. We obtained time-resolved, atomic-resolution models of the permeation mechanism across these highly selective membrane channels. Both proteins act as two-stage filters: Conserved fingerprint [asparagine-proline-alanine (NPA)] motifs form a selectivity-determining region; a second (aromatic/arginine) region is proposed to function as a proton filter. Hydrophobic regions near the NPA motifs are rate-limiting water barriers. In AQP1, a fine-tuned water dipole rotation during passage is essential for water selectivity. In GlpF, a glycerol-mediated "induced fit" gating motion is proposed to generate selectivity for glycerol over water.
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- B L de Groot
- Theoretical Molecular Biophysics Group, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Am Fassberg 11, 37077 Göttingen, Germany
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Kishida K, Shimomura I, Kondo H, Kuriyama H, Makino Y, Nishizawa H, Maeda N, Matsuda M, Ouchi N, Kihara S, Kurachi Y, Funahashi T, Matsuzawa Y. Genomic structure and insulin-mediated repression of the aquaporin adipose (AQPap), adipose-specific glycerol channel. J Biol Chem 2001; 276:36251-60. [PMID: 11457862 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m106040200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 97] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Aquaporin adipose (AQPap) is a putative glycerol channel in adipocytes (Kishida, K., Kuriyama, H., Funahashi, T., Shimomura, I., Kihara, S., Ouchi, N., Nishida, M., Nishizawa, H., Matsuda, M., Takahashi, M., Hotta, K., Nakamura, T., Yamashita, S., Tochino, Y., and Matsuzawa, Y. (2000) J. Biol. Chem. 275, 20896-20902). In the current study, we examined the genomic structure of the mouse AQPap gene and its regulation by insulin. The mouse AQPap gene spanned 12 kilobase pairs in chromosome 4 and consisted of 8 exons and 7 introns. The first two exons, designated exon 1 and exon 1', are alternatively spliced to common exon 2, and thus the AQPap gene possessed two potential promoters. The exon 1-derived transcript is dominant in both adipose tissues and adipocytes on the basis of RNase protection assay and promoter analysis. The mRNA increased after fasting and decreased with refeeding. Insulin deficiency generated by streptozotocin enhanced the mRNA in adipose tissue. Insulin down-regulated AQPap mRNA in 3T3-L1 adipocytes. The AQPap promoter contained heptanucleotide sequences, TGTTTTT at -443/-437, similar to the insulin-response element identified previously in the promoters of insulin-repressed genes. Deletion and single base pair substitution analysis of the promoter revealed that these sequences were required for insulin-mediated repression of AQPap gene transcription. The phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase pathway was involved in this inhibition. We conclude that insulin represses the transcription of AQPap gene via insulin response element in its promoter. Sustained up-regulation of AQPap mRNA in adipose tissue in the insulin-resistant condition may disturb glucose homeostasis by increasing plasma glycerol.
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MESH Headings
- 3T3 Cells
- Adipocytes/metabolism
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Animals
- Aquaporins/chemistry
- Aquaporins/genetics
- Base Sequence
- Blotting, Northern
- Blotting, Southern
- Cattle
- Chromosome Mapping
- DNA, Complementary/metabolism
- Diabetes Mellitus, Experimental
- Dose-Response Relationship, Drug
- Down-Regulation
- Exons
- Gene Deletion
- Gene Expression Regulation
- Glycerol/metabolism
- Insulin/metabolism
- Insulin/pharmacology
- Introns
- Luciferases/metabolism
- Male
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred C57BL
- Mice, Inbred ICR
- Models, Genetic
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Phosphatidylinositol 3-Kinases/metabolism
- Point Mutation
- Promoter Regions, Genetic
- RNA, Messenger/metabolism
- Radiation Hybrid Mapping
- Tissue Distribution
- Transfection
- Up-Regulation
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- K Kishida
- Department of Internal Medicine and Molecular Science, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University, 2-2 Yamadaoka, Suita 565-0871, Japan
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Damiano A, Zotta E, Goldstein J, Reisin I, Ibarra C. Water channel proteins AQP3 and AQP9 are present in syncytiotrophoblast of human term placenta. Placenta 2001; 22:776-81. [PMID: 11597198 DOI: 10.1053/plac.2001.0717] [Citation(s) in RCA: 85] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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The syncytiotrophoblast of human term placenta (HST) is a continuous, multinucleated structure with minimal tight junctions, which results from the fusion of the underlying cytotrophoblast cells. Consequently, the transport of metabolites, ions and water from mother to fetus could take place primarily via transcellular routes. Transcellular water flux may be facilitated by aquaporins, membrane proteins functioning as water channels that are widely expressed in cells and tissues. Here, we report the presence of AQP3 and AQP9 in the apical membranes of HST using RT-PCR, immunoblotting and immunohistochemistry. Since AQP3 is not only a water channels, but also permits the rapid passage of both urea and glycerol, while AQP9 also mediates the passage of carbamides, polyols, purines, and pyrimidines, we have speculated that these proteins could be involved in the transport of water and solutes from mother to fetus.
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- A Damiano
- Laboratorio de Canales Iónicos, Departamento de Fisicoquímica y Química Analítica, Facultad de Farmacia y Bioquímica, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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Leung JW, Liu YL, Lau GC, Chan RC, Lai AC, Ling TK, Cheng AF. Bacteriologic analyses of bile and brown pigment stones in patients with acute cholangitis. Gastrointest Endosc 2001; 54:340-5. [PMID: 11522975 DOI: 10.1067/mge.2001.117547] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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BACKGROUND Bacteria play an important role in the formation of brown pigment stones through adherence and biofilm formation. Scanning electron microscopy of cross sections of these stones reveals a laminated appearance and various bacteria in the different layers. Our postulation was that different bacteria might be involved at different stages of stone formation. METHODS By using standard bacteriologic cultures, the composition, morphology, and antibiotic sensitivity patterns of bacteria isolated from paired stone were compared with bile samples from 70 patients with acute cholangitis. A further comparison was made between bacteria isolated from the periphery and center of 3 randomly selected brown pigment stones. RESULTS Ninety-one percent of bile and 99% of stone samples yielded positive cultures, with a total of 151 and 149 bacteria isolated from bile and stones, respectively. In 22 patients (33%), the bacteria isolated from the paired bile and stone samples were totally different. The mean percentage similarity of bacteria isolated from bile and stones was 39% (range 0%-100%). Of the 59 pairs of similar bacteria isolated, the antibiotic sensitivity patterns were different in 24 (41%) cases. Of the 3 brown stones studied, either different bacterial species or the same bacteria but different strains with different antibiotic sensitivities were isolated from the center and periphery of the stones. CONCLUSIONS Bacteria present in the different layers of brown pigment stones may represent the bacterial flora in bile at different times. Simple bile culture may not identify bacteria trapped inside the stone.
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- J W Leung
- Division of Gastroenterology and C. W. Law Bioflim Research Laboratory, University of California, Davis Medical Center, Sacramento, California 95817, USA
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A refined structure of the human water channel aquaporin-1 is presented. The model rests on the high resolution X-ray structure of the homologous bacterial glycerol transporter GlpF, electron crystallographic data at 3.8 A resolution and a multiple sequence alignment of the aquaporin superfamily. The crystallographic R and free R values (36.7% and 37.8%) for the refined structure are significantly lower than for previous models. Improved geometry and enhanced stability in molecular dynamics simulations demonstrate a significant improvement of the aquaporin-1 structure. Comparison with previous aquaporin-1 models shows significant differences, not only in the loop regions, but also in the core of the water channel.
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- B L de Groot
- Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Theoretical Molecular Biophysics Group, Göttingen, Germany
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Murata K, Mitsuoka K, Hirai T, Walz T, Agre P, Heymann JB, Engel A, Fujiyoshi Y. Molecular basis of water selectivity on aquaporin-1. Kidney Int 2001. [DOI: 10.1046/j.1523-1755.2001.00821-5.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Duchesne L, Deschamps S, Pellerin I, Lagree V, Froger A, Thomas D, Bron P, Delamarche C, Hubert JF. Oligomerization of water and solute channels of the major intrinsic protein (MIP) family. Kidney Int 2001; 60:422-6. [PMID: 11473620 DOI: 10.1046/j.1523-1755.2001.060002422.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Water and small solute fluxes through cell membranes are ensured in many tissues by selective pores that belong to the major intrinsic protein family (MIP). This family includes the water channels or aquaporins (AQP) and the neutral solute facilitators such as the glycerol facilitator (GlpF). We have compared the characteristics of representatives of each subfamily. Following solubilization in the nondenaturing detergents n-octyl-glucoside (OG) and Triton X-100 (T-X100), AQPs remain in their native homotetrameric state, while GlpF always behaves as a monomer. Solute facilitators are fully solubilized by the detergent N-lauroyl sarcosine (NLS), while AQPs are not. Analyses of mutants and chimeras demonstrate a close correlation between the water transport function and the resistance to NLS solubilization. Thus, AQPs and solute facilitators exhibit different behaviors in mild detergents; this could reflect differences in quaternary organization within the membranes. We propose that the oligomerization state or the strength of self-association is part of the mechanisms used by MIP proteins to ensure solute selectivity.
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- L Duchesne
- Université de Rennes 1, UMR CNRS 6026, Campus de Beaulieu, Rennes, Bretagne, France
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Mitra AK. Three-Dimensional Organization of the aquaporin water channel: what can structure tell us about function? VITAMINS AND HORMONES 2001; 62:133-66. [PMID: 11345897 DOI: 10.1016/s0083-6729(01)62003-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/20/2023]
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- A K Mitra
- Department of Cell Biology, Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California 92037, USA
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Huang Y, Tracy R, Walsberg GE, Makkinje A, Fang P, Brown D, Van Hoek AN. Absence of aquaporin-4 water channels from kidneys of the desert rodent Dipodomys merriami merriami. Am J Physiol Renal Physiol 2001; 280:F794-802. [PMID: 11292621 DOI: 10.1152/ajprenal.2001.280.5.f794] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Recently, we found that aquaporin-4 (AQP4) is expressed in the S3 segment of renal proximal tubules of mice but not in rat proximal tubules. Because mice have relatively larger papillae than rats, it was proposed that the renal distribution of AQP4 in various species could be related to their maximum urinary concentrating ability. Therefore, kidneys and other tissues of Merriam's desert kangaroo rat, Dipodomys merriami merriami, which produce extremely concentrated urine (up to 5,000 mosmol/kgH(2)O), were examined for AQP4 expression and localization. Contrary to our expectation, AQP4 immunostaining was undetectable in any region of the kidney, and the absence of AQP4 protein was confirmed by Western blotting. By freeze fracture electron microscopy, orthogonal arrays of intramembraneous particles (OAPs) were not detectable in plasma membranes of principal cells and proximal tubules. However, AQP4 protein was readily detectable in gastric parietal and brain astroglial cells. Northern blotting failed to detect AQP4 mRNA in kangaroo rat kidneys, whereas both in situ hybridization and RT-PCR experiments did reveal AQP4 mRNA in collecting ducts and proximal tubules of the S3 segment. These results suggest that renal expression of AQP4 in the kangaroo rat kidney is regulated at the transcriptional or translational level, and the absence of AQP4 may be critical for the extreme urinary concentration that occurs in this species.
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- Y Huang
- Renal Unit and Program in Membrane Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston 02114, USA
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Ivanov S, Liao SY, Ivanova A, Danilkovitch-Miagkova A, Tarasova N, Weirich G, Merrill MJ, Proescholdt MA, Oldfield EH, Lee J, Zavada J, Waheed A, Sly W, Lerman MI, Stanbridge EJ. Expression of hypoxia-inducible cell-surface transmembrane carbonic anhydrases in human cancer. THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PATHOLOGY 2001; 158:905-19. [PMID: 11238039 PMCID: PMC1850340 DOI: 10.1016/s0002-9440(10)64038-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 491] [Impact Index Per Article: 21.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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An acidic extracellular pH is a fundamental property of the malignant phenotype. In von Hippel-Lindau (VHL)-defective tumors the cell surface transmembrane carbonic anhydrase (CA) CA9 and CA12 genes are overexpressed because of the absence of pVHL. We hypothesized that these enzymes might be involved in maintaining the extracellular acidic pH in tumors, thereby providing a conducive environment for tumor growth and spread. Using Northern blot analysis and immunostaining with specific antibodies we analyzed the expression of CA9 and CA12 genes and their products in a large sample of cancer cell lines, fresh and archival tumor specimens, and normal human tissues. Expression was also analyzed in cultured cells under hypoxic conditions. Expression of CA IX and CA XII in normal adult tissues was detected only in highly specialized cells and for most tissues their expression did not overlap. Analysis of RNA samples isolated from 87 cancer cell lines and 18 tumors revealed high-to-moderate levels of expression of CA9 and CA12 in multiple cancers. Immunohistochemistry revealed high-to-moderate expression of these enzymes in various normal tissues and multiple common epithelial tumor types. The immunostaining was seen predominantly on the cell surface membrane. The expression of both genes was markedly induced under hypoxic conditions in tumors and cultured tumor cells. We conclude that the cell surface trans-membrane carbonic anhydrases CA IX and CA XII are overexpressed in many tumors suggesting that this is a common feature of cancer cells that may be required for tumor progression. These enzymes may contribute to the tumor microenvironment by maintaining extracellular acidic pH and helping cancer cells grow and metastasize. Our studies show an important causal link between hypoxia, extracellular acidification, and induction or enhanced expression of these enzymes in human tumors.
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- College of Medicine, University of California at Irvine, Irvine, California; the St. Louis University School of Medicine,**
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- National Cancer Institute, Frederick Cancer Research and Development Center, Frederick, Maryland; the Surgical Neurology Branch,¶
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- National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland; the Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics,‡
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- National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland; the Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics,‡
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- National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland; the Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics,‡
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- the Intramural Research Support Program,†
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- St. Louis, Missouri; and the Academy of Sciences,∥
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- St. Louis, Missouri; and the Academy of Sciences,∥
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- College of Medicine, University of California at Irvine, Irvine, California; the St. Louis University School of Medicine,**
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Fotiadis D, Jenö P, Mini T, Wirtz S, Müller SA, Fraysse L, Kjellbom P, Engel A. Structural characterization of two aquaporins isolated from native spinach leaf plasma membranes. J Biol Chem 2001; 276:1707-14. [PMID: 11050104 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m009383200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Two members of the aquaporin family, PM28A and a new one, PM28C, were isolated and shown to be the major constituents of spinach leaf plasma membranes. These two isoforms were identified and characterized by matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization-mass spectrometry. Edman degradation yielded the amino acid sequence of two domains belonging to the new isoform. PM28B, a previously described isoform, was not found in our preparations. Scanning transmission electron microscopy mass analysis revealed both PM28 isoforms to be tetrameric. Two types of particles, a larger and a smaller one, were found by transmission electron microscopy of negatively stained solubilized proteins and by atomic force microscopy of PM28 two-dimensional crystals. The ratio of larger to smaller particles observed by transmission electron microscopy and single particle analysis correlated with the ratio of PM28A to PM28C determined by matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization-mass spectrometry. The absence of PM28B and the ratio of PM28A to PM28C indicate that these plasma membrane intrinsic proteins are differentially expressed in spinach leaves. These findings suggest that differential expression of the various aquaporin isoforms may regulate the water flux across the plasma membrane, in addition to the known mechanism of regulation by phosphorylation.
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- D Fotiadis
- M. E. Müller-Institute for Microscopy, Biozentrum of the University of Basel, CH-4056 Basel, Switzerland
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Santoni V, Gerbeau P, Javot H, Maurel C. The high diversity of aquaporins reveals novel facets of plant membrane functions. CURRENT OPINION IN PLANT BIOLOGY 2000; 3:476-481. [PMID: 11074378 DOI: 10.1016/s1369-5266(00)00116-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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The past year has brought significant advances in the characterisation in plants of a large class of water-channel proteins called aquaporins. The capacity of some of these proteins to transport small non-electrolytes in addition to water, together with their broad range of sub-cellular localisations, provides new clues to explain the great diversity of aquaporins in plants. Recent studies on water transport in roots illustrate how the variety of aquaporin functions at the tissue level is being uncovered.
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- V Santoni
- Biochimie et Physiologie Moléculaire des Plantes, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA), Centre Nationale de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Montpellier, France.
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Stahlberg H, Braun T, de Groot B, Philippsen A, Borgnia MJ, Agre P, Kühlbrandt W, Engel A. The 6.9-A structure of GlpF: a basis for homology modeling of the glycerol channel from Escherichia coli. J Struct Biol 2000; 132:133-41. [PMID: 11162735 DOI: 10.1006/jsbi.2000.4317] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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The three-dimensional structure of GlpF, the glycerol facilitator of Escherichia coli, was determined by cryo-electron microscopy. The 6.9-A density map calculated from images of two-dimensional crystals shows the GlpF helices to be similar to those of AQP1, the erythrocyte water channel. While the helix arrangement of GlpF does not reflect the larger pore diameter as seen in the projection map, additional peripheral densities observed in GlpF are compatible with the 31 additional residues in loops C and E, which accordingly do not interfere with the inner channel construction. Therefore, the atomic structure of AQP1 was used as a basis for homology modeling of the GlpF channel, which is predicted to be free of bends, wider, and more vertically oriented than the AQP1 channel. Furthermore, the residues facing the GlpF channel exhibit an amphiphilic nature, being hydrophobic on one side and hydrophilic on the other side. This property may partially explain the contradiction of glycerol diffusion but limited water permeation capacity.
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- H Stahlberg
- M. E. Müller Institute for Microscopy, Biozentrum, University of Basel, Klingelbergstrasse 70, CH-4056 Basel, Switzerland
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Fu D, Libson A, Miercke LJ, Weitzman C, Nollert P, Krucinski J, Stroud RM. Structure of a glycerol-conducting channel and the basis for its selectivity. Science 2000; 290:481-6. [PMID: 11039922 DOI: 10.1126/science.290.5491.481] [Citation(s) in RCA: 814] [Impact Index Per Article: 33.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/02/2022]
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Membrane channel proteins of the aquaporin family are highly selective for permeation of specific small molecules, with absolute exclusion of ions and charged solutes and without dissipation of the electrochemical potential across the cell membrane. We report the crystal structure of the Escherichia coli glycerol facilitator (GlpF) with its primary permeant substrate glycerol at 2.2 angstrom resolution. Glycerol molecules line up in an amphipathic channel in single file. In the narrow selectivity filter of the channel the glycerol alkyl backbone is wedged against a hydrophobic corner, and successive hydroxyl groups form hydrogen bonds with a pair of acceptor, and donor atoms. Two conserved aspartic acid-proline-alanine motifs form a key interface between two gene-duplicated segments that each encode three-and-one-half membrane-spanning helices around the channel. This structure elucidates the mechanism of selective permeability for linear carbohydrates and suggests how ions and water are excluded.
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- D Fu
- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94143-0448, USA
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Sveshnikova N, Grimm R, Soll J, Schleiff E. Topology studies of the chloroplast protein import channel Toc75. Biol Chem 2000; 381:687-93. [PMID: 11030426 DOI: 10.1515/bc.2000.089] [Citation(s) in RCA: 59] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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A major goal in understanding protein transport across membranes is the investigation of the structure and regulation of the translocon subunits. We analysed Toc75, a pore-forming subunit of the translocon of the outer envelope of chloroplasts. Toc75 was overexpressed and reconstituted into liposomes. Immunoprecipitation of liposome-reconstituted Toc75 indicates an N(in)-C(in) orientation of Toc75. Limited proteolytic digestion of Toc75 present in outer envelope vesicles with specific proteases combined with amino acid sequencing was used to study the topology of Toc75. Finally, computer modelling based on known protein structures indicates that Toc75 traverses the outer envelope with 16 amphiphilic beta sheets and the topology model is presented.
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The membrane pathway of the rapid fluxes of water by which microorganisms adapt promptly to abrupt changes in environmental osmolality have begun to be understood since the discovery of the Escherichia coli aquaporin-Z water channel, AqpZ. As in animals and plants, aquaporins are variously represented among microorganisms, in which 31 homologous genes have already been identified in eubacteria, Archaea, fungi and protozoa. The AqpZ channel is selectively permeable to water, although other functions are not excluded. Consistent with a conservation over the course of evolution, AqpZ and AQP1, a human counterpart, share similar structures. The aqpZ gene is growth phase and osmotically regulated. AqpZ has a role in both the short- and the long-term osmoregulatory response and is required by rapidly growing cells. AqpZ-like proteins seem to be necessary for the virulence expressed by some pathogenic bacteria. Microbial aquaporins are also likely to be involved in spore formation and/or germination. Additional roles may still be unknown. The use of AqpZ as a model system will continue to provide insight into the understanding of the importance of aquaporins.
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- G Calamita
- Dipartimento di Fisiologia Generale e Ambientale, Università degli Studi di Bari, via Amendola, 165/A, 70126 Bari, Italy.
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