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Gilmore ES, Stutts MJ, Milgram SL. SRC family kinases mediate epithelial Na+ channel inhibition by endothelin. J Biol Chem 2001; 276:42610-7. [PMID: 11560932 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m106919200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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The epithelial Na(+) channel (ENaC) is implicated in the pathogenesis of salt-sensitive hypertension. Recent evidence from animal models suggests that the vasoactive peptide, endothelin (ET-1), may be an important negative regulator of ENaC in vivo. We investigated the signaling pathway involved in endothelin-mediated ENaC inhibition. Experiments were performed in NIH 3T3 cells stably expressing genes for the three (alpha, beta, and gamma) ENaC subunits. In whole cell patch clamp experiments, we found that ET-1 treatment induced a dose-dependent decrease in amiloride-sensitive currents. Using receptor-specific antagonists, we determined that the effects of ET-1 were attributed to activation of the ET(B) receptor. Moreover, the inhibitory effect of ET-1 on ENaC could be completely blocked when cells were pretreated with the selective Src family kinase inhibitor, PP2. Further studies revealed that basal Src family kinase activity strongly regulates ENaC whole cell currents and single channel gating. These results suggest that Src family kinases lie in a signaling pathway activated by ET-1 and are components of a novel negative regulatory cascade resulting in ENaC inhibition.
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- E S Gilmore
- Cystic Fibrosis/Pulmonary Research and Treatment Center and Department of Cell and Molecular Physiology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599, USA
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Bens M, Duong Van Huyen JP, Cluzeaud F, Teulon J, Vandewalle A. CFTR disruption impairs cAMP-dependent Cl(-) secretion in primary cultures of mouse cortical collecting ducts. Am J Physiol Renal Physiol 2001; 281:F434-42. [PMID: 11502593 DOI: 10.1152/ajprenal.2001.281.3.f434] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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The role of the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) in the renal cortical collecting duct (CCD) has not yet been fully elucidated. Here, we investigated the effects of deamino-8-D-arginine vasopressin (dDAVP) and isoproterenol (ISO) on NaCl transport in primary cultured CCDs microdissected from normal [CFTR(+/+)] and CFTR-knockout [CFTR(-/-)] mice. dDAVP stimulated the benzamyl amiloride (BAm)-sensitive transport of Na(+) assessed by the short-circuit current (I(sc)) method in both CFTR(+/+) and CFTR(-/-) CCDs to a very similar degree. Apical addition of 5-nitro-2-(3-phenylpropylamino)-benzoate (NPPB) or glibenclamide partially inhibited the rise in I(sc) induced by dDAVP and ISO in BAm-treated CFTR(+/+) CCDs, whereas dDAVP, ISO, and NPPB did not alter I(sc) in BAm-treated CFTR(-/-) CCDs. dDAVP stimulated the apical-to-basal flux and, to a lesser extent, the basal-to-apical flux of (36)Cl(-) in CFTR(+/+) CCDs. dDAVP also increased the apical-to-basal (36)Cl(-) flux in CFTR(-/-) CCDs but not the basal-to-apical (36)Cl(-) flux. These results demonstrate that CFTR mediates the cAMP-stimulated component of secreted Cl(-) in mouse CCD.
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- M Bens
- Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, Unité 478, Faculté de Médecine Xavier Bichat, 75870 Paris, France
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Krouse ME. Is cystic fibrosis lung disease caused by abnormal ion composition or abnormal volume? J Gen Physiol 2001; 118:219-22. [PMID: 11479348 PMCID: PMC2233826 DOI: 10.1085/jgp.118.2.219] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023] Open
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- M E Krouse
- Cystic Fibrosis Research Laboratory, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-2310, USA
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Blaug S, Hybiske K, Cohn J, Firestone GL, Machen TE, Miller SS. ENaC- and CFTR-dependent ion and fluid transport in mammary epithelia. Am J Physiol Cell Physiol 2001; 281:C633-48. [PMID: 11443063 DOI: 10.1152/ajpcell.2001.281.2.c633] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [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]
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Mammary epithelial 31EG4 cells (MEC) were grown as monolayers on filters to analyze the apical membrane mechanisms that help mediate ion and fluid transport across the epithelium. RT-PCR showed the presence of cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) and epithelial Na(+) channel (ENaC) message, and immunomicroscopy showed apical membrane staining for both proteins. CFTR was also localized to the apical membrane of native human mammary duct epithelium. In control conditions, mean values of transepithelial potential (apical-side negative) and resistance (R(T)) are -5.9 mV and 829 Omega x cm(2), respectively. The apical membrane potential (V(A)) is -40.7 mV, and the mean ratio of apical to basolateral membrane resistance (R(A)/R(B)) is 2.8. Apical amiloride hyperpolarized V(A) by 19.7 mV and tripled R(A)/R(B). A cAMP-elevating cocktail depolarized V(A) by 17.6 mV, decreased R(A)/R(B) by 60%, increased short-circuit current by 6 microA/cm(2), decreased R(T) by 155 Omega x cm(2), and largely eliminated responses to amiloride. Whole cell patch-clamp measurements demonstrated amiloride-inhibited Na(+) currents [linear current-voltage (I-V) relation] and forskolin-stimulated Cl(-) currents (linear I-V relation). A capacitance probe method showed that in the control state, MEC monolayers either absorbed or secreted fluid (2--4 microl x cm(-2) x h(-1)). Fluid secretion was stimulated either by activating CFTR (cAMP) or blocking ENaC (amiloride). These data plus equivalent circuit analysis showed that 1) fluid absorption across MEC is mediated by Na(+) transport via apical membrane ENaC, and fluid secretion is mediated, in part, by Cl(-) transport via apical CFTR; 2) in both cases, appropriate counterions move through tight junctions to maintain electroneutrality; and 3) interactions among CFTR, ENaC, and tight junctions allow MEC to either absorb or secrete fluid and, in situ, may help control luminal [Na(+)] and [Cl(-)].
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- S Blaug
- Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720-3200, USA
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Gentzsch M, Riordan JR. Localization of sequences within the C-terminal domain of the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator which impact maturation and stability. J Biol Chem 2001; 276:1291-8. [PMID: 11022033 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m003672200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Some disease-associated truncations within the 100-residue domain C-terminal of the second nucleotide-binding domain destabilize the mature protein (Haardt, M., Benharouga, M., Lechardeur, D., Kartner, N., and Lukacs, G. L. (1999) J. Biol. Chem. 274, 21873-21877). We now have identified three short oligopeptide regions in the C-terminal domain which impact cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) maturation and stability in different ways. A highly conserved hydrophobic patch (region I) formed by residues 1413-1416 (FLVI) was found to be crucial for the stability of the mature protein. Nascent chain stability was severely decreased by shortening the protein by 81 amino acids (1400X). This accelerated degradation was sensitive to proteasome inhibitors but not influenced by brefeldin A, indicating that it occurred at the endoplasmic reticulum. The five residues at positions 1400 to 1404 (region II) normally maintain nascent CFTR stability in a positional rather than a sequence-specific manner. A third modulating region (III) constituted by residues 1390 to 1394 destabilizes the protein. Hence the nascent form regains stability on further truncation back to residues 1390 or 1380, permitting some degree of maturation and a low level of cyclic AMP-stimulated chloride channel activity at the cell surface. Thus while not absolutely essential, the C-terminal domain strongly modulates the biogenesis and maturation of CFTR.
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- M Gentzsch
- Mayo Foundation, S. C. Johnson Medical Research Center, Mayo Clinic Scottsdale, Scottsdale, Arizona 85259, USA
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Basal Nucleotide Levels, Release, and Metabolism in Normal and Cystic Fibrosis Airways. Mol Med 2000. [DOI: 10.1007/bf03401831] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/28/2022] Open
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Alvarez de la Rosa D, Canessa CM, Fyfe GK, Zhang P. Structure and regulation of amiloride-sensitive sodium channels. Annu Rev Physiol 2000; 62:573-94. [PMID: 10845103 DOI: 10.1146/annurev.physiol.62.1.573] [Citation(s) in RCA: 246] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Amiloride-sensitive Na+ channels constitute a new class of proteins known as the ENaC-Deg family of ion channels. All members in this family share a common protein structure but differ in their ion selectivity, their affinity for the blocker amiloride, and in their gating mechanisms. These channels are expressed in many tissues of invertebrate and vertebrate organisms where they serve diverse functions varying from Na+ absorption across epithelia to being the receptors for neurotransmitters in the nervous system. Here, we review progress made during the last years in the characterization, regulation, and cloning of new amiloride-sensitive Na+ channels.
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- D Alvarez de la Rosa
- Department of Cellular and Molecular Physiology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut 06520-8026, USA
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Chan LN, Wang XF, Tsang LL, Liu CQ, Chan HC. Suppression of CFTR-mediated Cl(-) secretion by enhanced expression of epithelial Na(+) channels in mouse endometrial epithelium. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 2000; 276:40-4. [PMID: 11006079 DOI: 10.1006/bbrc.2000.3426] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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The present study investigated the effect of enhanced expression of epithelial Na(+) channels (ENaC) on the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR)-mediated Cl(-) secretion in the mouse endometrium using the short-circuit current technique. The amiloride sensitivity of the basal current of the cultured endometrial epithelia was found to vary with the magnitude of the basal current, the higher the basal current the greater its sensitivity to amiloride, indicating possible elevation of ENaC expression. However, the magnitude of the forskolin-induced Isc, previously demonstrated to be mediated by CFTR, decreased as the amiloride sensitivity of the basal current increased, suggesting a possible inhibitory effect of elevated expression of ENaC on CFTR-mediated Cl(-) secretion. The Matrigel concentration for culturing the endometrial epithelia was found to affect the amiloride sensitivity of the basal current as well as the forskolin-induced Isc in opposite directions. However, competitive RT-PCR demonstrated that the expression of both ENaC and CFTR was enhanced in Matrigel-treated culture, suggesting that the reduced forskolin-induced Isc with enhanced amiloride sensitivity was not due to a reduction in CFTR expression, but rather suppression of CFTR function by enhanced ENaC expression. In addition to the previously demonstrated inhibition of ENaC by activation of CFTR, the present results reveal possible regulation of CFTR by ENaC. The interaction between the two may be one of the underlying mechanisms for balancing Na(+) absorption and Cl(-) secretion across epithelia.
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- L N Chan
- Epithelial Cell Biology Research Center, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong
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Ji HL, Chalfant ML, Jovov B, Lockhart JP, Parker SB, Fuller CM, Stanton BA, Benos DJ. The cytosolic termini of the beta- and gamma-ENaC subunits are involved in the functional interactions between cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator and epithelial sodium channel. J Biol Chem 2000; 275:27947-56. [PMID: 10821834 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m002848200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 90] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Epithelial sodium channel (ENaC) and cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) are co-localized in the apical membrane of many epithelia. These channels are essential for electrolyte and water secretion and/or reabsorption. In cystic fibrosis airway epithelia, a hyperactivated epithelial Na(+) conductance operates in parallel with defective Cl(-) secretion. Several groups have shown that CFTR down-regulates ENaC activity, but the mechanisms and the regulation of CFTR by ENaC are unknown. To test the hypothesis that ENaC and CFTR regulate each other, and to identify the region(s) of ENaC involved in the interaction between CFTR and ENaC, rENaC and its mutants were co-expressed with CFTR in Xenopus oocytes. Whole cell macroscopic sodium currents revealed that wild type (wt) alphabetagamma-rENaC-induced Na(+) current was inhibited by co-expression of CFTR, and further inhibited when CFTR was activated with a cAMP-raising mixture (CKT). Conversely, alphabetagamma-rENaC stimulated CFTR-mediated Cl(-) currents up to approximately 6-fold. Deletion mutations in the intracellular tails of the three rENaC subunits suggested that the carboxyl terminus of the beta subunit was required both for the down-regulation of ENaC by activated CFTR and the up-regulation of CFTR by ENaC. However, both the carboxyl terminus of the beta subunit and the amino terminus of the gamma subunit were essential for the down-regulation of rENaC by unstimulated CFTR. Interestingly, down-regulation of rENaC by activated CFTR was Cl(-)-dependent, while stimulation of CFTR by rENaC was not dependent on either cytoplasmic Na(+) or a depolarized membrane potential. In summary, there appear to be at least two different sites in ENaC involved in the intermolecular interaction between CFTR and ENaC.
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- H L Ji
- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama 35294-0005, USA
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The epithelial sodium channel (ENaC) plays a key role in the regulation of fluid absorption in the kidney, lung, colon and exocrine glands, and in the regulation of blood pressure. Abnormal functioning of ENaC is associated with several human diseases, including pseudohypoaldosteronism type I, Liddle's syndrome, pulmonary edema, and cystic fibrosis. ENaC is regulated by several hormones, ions and accessory proteins. This review focuses on the regulation of ENaC by recently described accessory proteins, mainly Nedd4, syntaxin 1A, CFTR, sgk, K-Ras2A and Cap-1.
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- D Rotin
- The Hospital for Sick Children, and Biochemistry Department, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
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Schreiber R, Pavenstädt H, Greger R, Kunzelmann K. Aquaporin 3 cloned from Xenopus laevis is regulated by the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator. FEBS Lett 2000; 475:291-5. [PMID: 10869574 DOI: 10.1016/s0014-5793(00)01689-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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The cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) is essential for epithelial electrolyte transport and has been shown to be a regulator of epithelial Na(+), K(+), and Cl(-) channels. CFTR also enhances osmotic water permeability when activated by cAMP. This was detected initially in Xenopus oocytes and is also present in human airway epithelial cells, however, the mechanisms remain obscure. Here, we show that CFTR activates aquaporin 3 expressed endogenously and exogenously in oocytes of Xenopus laevis. The interaction requires stimulation of wild type CFTR by cAMP and an intact first nucleotide binding domain as demonstrated for other CFTR-protein interactions.
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- R Schreiber
- Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, University of Queensland, St. Lucia, Brisbane, Australia
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Hallows KR, Raghuram V, Kemp BE, Witters LA, Foskett JK. Inhibition of cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator by novel interaction with the metabolic sensor AMP-activated protein kinase. J Clin Invest 2000; 105:1711-21. [PMID: 10862786 PMCID: PMC378514 DOI: 10.1172/jci9622] [Citation(s) in RCA: 183] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/15/2000] [Accepted: 05/02/2000] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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The cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) is an ATP-gated Cl(-) channel that regulates other epithelial transport proteins by uncharacterized mechanisms. We employed a yeast two-hybrid screen using the COOH-terminal 70 residues of CFTR to identify proteins that might be involved in such interactions. The alpha1 (catalytic) subunit of AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK) was identified as a dominant and novel interacting protein. The interaction is mediated by residues 1420-1457 in CFTR and by the COOH-terminal regulatory domain of alpha1-AMPK. Mutations of two protein trafficking motifs within the 38-amino acid region in CFTR each disrupted the interaction. GST-fusion protein pull-down assays in vitro and in transfected cells confirmed the CFTR-alpha1-AMPK interaction and also identified alpha2-AMPK as an interactor with CFTR. AMPK is coexpressed in CFTR-expressing cell lines and shares an apical distribution with CFTR in rat nasal epithelium. AMPK phosphorylated full-length CFTR in vitro, and AMPK coexpression with CFTR in Xenopus oocytes inhibited cAMP-activated CFTR whole-cell Cl(-) conductance by approximately 35-50%. Because AMPK is a metabolic sensor in cells and responds to changes in cellular ATP, regulation of CFTR by AMPK may be important in inhibiting CFTR under conditions of metabolic stress, thereby linking transepithelial transport to cell metabolic state.
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- K R Hallows
- Renal-Electrolyte and Hypertension Division, Department of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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Jiang Q, Li J, Dubroff R, Ahn YJ, Foskett JK, Engelhardt J, Kleyman TR. Epithelial sodium channels regulate cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator chloride channels in Xenopus oocytes. J Biol Chem 2000; 275:13266-74. [PMID: 10788432 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.275.18.13266] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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The cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR), in addition to its well defined Cl(-) channel properties, regulates other ion channels. CFTR inhibits epithelial Na(+) channel (ENaC) currents in many epithelial and nonepithelial cells. Because modulation of net NaCl reabsorption has important implications in extracellular fluid volume homeostasis and airway fluid volume and composition, we investigated whether this regulation was reciprocal by examining whether ENaC regulates CFTR. Co-expression of human (h) CFTR and mouse (m) alphabetagammaENaC in Xenopus oocytes resulted in a significant, 3.7-fold increase in whole-cell hCFTR Cl(-) conductance compared with oocytes expressing hCFTR alone. The forskolin/3-isobutyl-1-methylxanthine-stimulated whole-cell conductance in hCFTR-mENaC co-injected oocytes was amiloride-insensitive, indicating an inhibition of mENaC following hCFTR activation, and it was blocked by DPC (diphenylamine-2-carboxylic acid) and was DIDS (4, 4'-diisothiocyanatostilbene-2,2'-disulfonic acid)-insensitive. Enhanced hCFTR Cl(-) conductance was also observed when either the alpha- or beta-subunit of mENaC was co-expressed with hCFTR, but this was not seen when CFTR was co-expressed with the gamma-subunit of mENaC. Single Cl(-) channel analyses showed that both CFTR Cl(-) channel open probability and the number of CFTR Cl(-) channels detected per patch increased when hCFTR was co-expressed with alphabetagammamENaC. We conclude that in addition to acting as a regulator of ENaC, CFTR activity is regulated by ENaC.
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- Q Jiang
- Departments of Medicine and Physiology, University of Pennsylvania and Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6144, USA
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Berdiev BK, Shlyonsky VG, Karlson KH, Stanton BA, Ismailov II. Gating of amiloride-sensitive Na(+) channels: subunit-subunit interactions and inhibition by the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator. Biophys J 2000; 78:1881-94. [PMID: 10733968 PMCID: PMC1300782 DOI: 10.1016/s0006-3495(00)76737-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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In search of the structural basis for gating of amiloride-sensitive Na(+) channels, kinetic properties of single homo and heterooligomeric ENaCs formed by the subunits with individual truncated cytoplasmic domains were studied in a cell-free planar lipid bilayer reconstitution system. Our results identify the N-terminus of the alpha-subunit as a major determinant of kinetic behavior of both homooligomeric and heterooligomeric ENaCs, although the carboxy-terminal domains of beta- and gamma-ENaC subunits play important role(s) in modulation of the kinetics of heterooligomeric channels. We also found that the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) inhibits amiloride-sensitive channels, at least in part, by modulating their gating. Comparison of these data suggests that the modulatory effects of the beta- and gamma-ENaC subunits, and of the CFTR, may involve the same, or closely related, mechanism(s); namely, "locking" the heterooligomeric channels in their closed state. These mechanisms, however, do not completely override the gating mechanism of the alpha-channel.
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- B K Berdiev
- Department of Physiology and Biophysics and Gregory Fleming James Cystic Fibrosis Research Center, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama 35294-0005, USA
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Snyder PM. Liddle's syndrome mutations disrupt cAMP-mediated translocation of the epithelial Na(+) channel to the cell surface. J Clin Invest 2000; 105:45-53. [PMID: 10619860 PMCID: PMC382584 DOI: 10.1172/jci7869] [Citation(s) in RCA: 120] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023] Open
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The epithelial Na(+) channel (ENaC) plays a critical role in Na(+) absorption, and mutations in this channel cause diseases of Na(+) homeostasis, including a genetic form of hypertension (Liddle's syndrome). To investigate cAMP-mediated stimulation of ENaC, alpha, beta, and gammaENaC were coexpressed in Fischer rat thyroid epithelia to generate apical Na(+) channels and transepithelial Na(+) current. cAMP agonists stimulated Na(+) current by 70%. Following covalent modification of cysteines introduced into ENaC, cAMP increased the rate of appearance of unmodified channels at the cell surface. In addition, cAMP increased the fluorescent labeling of ENaC at the apical cell surface. Inhibition of vesicle trafficking by incubating epithelia at 15 degrees C prevented the cAMP-mediated stimulation of ENaC. These results suggest that cAMP stimulates Na(+) absorption in part by increasing translocation of ENaC to the cell surface. Stimulation of ENaC by cAMP was dependent on a sequence (PPPXY) in the COOH terminus of each subunit. This sequence is the target for mutations that cause Liddle's syndrome, suggesting that cAMP-mediated translocation of ENaC to the cell surface is defective in this genetic form of hypertension.
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- P M Snyder
- 200K Eckstein Medical Research Building, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Iowa College of Medicine, Iowa City, Iowa 52242, USA.
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Schwiehert EM, Rozmahel R. Chapter 6 The cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator in the gastrointestinal system. CURRENT TOPICS IN MEMBRANES 2000. [DOI: 10.1016/s1063-5823(00)50008-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Schaedel C, Marthinsen L, Kristoffersson AC, Kornfält R, Nilsson KO, Orlenius B, Holmberg L. Lung symptoms in pseudohypoaldosteronism type 1 are associated with deficiency of the alpha-subunit of the epithelial sodium channel. J Pediatr 1999; 135:739-45. [PMID: 10586178 DOI: 10.1016/s0022-3476(99)70094-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 74] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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OBJECTIVE To study patients with autosomal recessive pseudohypoaldosteronism type 1 and to relate pulmonary disease to gene mutations of the epithelial sodium channel (ENaC). STUDY DESIGN Clinical and laboratory data were collected from 4 Swedish patients with pseudohypoaldosteronism type 1. The genes for ENaC and cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator were analyzed for mutations with methods including DNA sequencing. RESULTS Three novel mutations were found in the alpha-gene of ENaC, 2 frameshifts (1449delC and 729delA) and 1 missense mutation resulting in the substitution of leucine for serine 562 in the alpha-chain (S562L). The 1449delC mutation was found in all patients in either homozygous or heterozygous form and seems to be the predominant cause of pseudohypoaldosteronism in Sweden. The allele coding for S562L also contained a transition converting tryptophan 493 to arginine (W493R), which seems to be a rare polymorphism. All patients had pulmonary symptoms to various degrees. The bacterial findings resembled, to some extent, those in cystic fibrosis, but development of chronic lung disease and progressive decline in lung function were not observed. CONCLUSIONS Genetic deficiencies of the alpha subunit of the ENaC are associated with prominent lung symptoms, which are, however, clearly different from those in cystic fibrosis.
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- C Schaedel
- Department of Pediatrics, University Hospital in Lund, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
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Reddy MM, Light MJ, Quinton PM. Activation of the epithelial Na+ channel (ENaC) requires CFTR Cl- channel function. Nature 1999; 402:301-4. [PMID: 10580502 DOI: 10.1038/46297] [Citation(s) in RCA: 190] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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It is increasingly being recognized that cells coordinate the activity of separate ion channels that allow electrolytes into the cell. However, a perplexing problem in channel regulation has arisen in the fatal genetic disease cystic fibrosis, which results from the loss of a specific Cl- channel (the CFTR channel) in epithelial cell membranes. Although this defect clearly inhibits the absorption of Na+ in sweat glands, it is widely accepted that Na+ absorption is abnormally elevated in defective airways in cystic fibrosis. The only frequently cited explanation for this hypertransport is that the activity of an epithelial Na+ channel (ENaC) is inversely related to the activity of the CFTR Cl- channel. However, we report here that, in freshly isolated normal sweat ducts, ENaC activity is dependent on, and increases with, CFTR activity. Surprisingly, we also find that the primary defect in Cl- permeability in cystic fibrosis is accompanied secondarily by a Na+ conductance in this tissue that cannot be activated. Thus, reduced salt absorption in cystic fibrosis is due not only to poor Cl- conductance but also to poor Na+ conductance.
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- M M Reddy
- Department of Pediatrics, University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine, La Jolla 92093-0831, USA
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Vankeerberghen A, Lin W, Jaspers M, Cuppens H, Nilius B, Cassiman JJ. Functional characterization of the CFTR R domain using CFTR/MDR1 hybrid and deletion constructs. Biochemistry 1999; 38:14988-98. [PMID: 10555981 DOI: 10.1021/bi991520d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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To improve our insight into the structure and function of the CFTR R domain, deletion and hybrid constructs in which different parts of the R domain were deleted or replaced by the MDR1 linker domain, and vice versa, were made. Replacement of the linker domain by the R domain did not result in a decrease and replacement of the CFTR R domain by the linker domain did not result in an increase of maturation efficiency, when compared to the respective wild-type proteins. This indicates that the R domain is not responsible for the high degree of degradation observed for CFTR translation products in the ER, but rather the overall structure or sequences located outside the R domain. Replacing the C-terminal part of the R domain (amino acids 780-830) by the MDR1 linker domain resulted in the appearance of PKA-dependent whole cell chloride currents which were not significantly different from wild-type CFTR currents. This might indicate that the PKA sites present in the linker domain are functional and that not the exact sequence of the C-terminal part of the R domain is important, but rather the presence of PKA sites and the length. Moreover, when this hybrid construct was PKC-stimulated, chloride currents were activated. Although these PKC-induced currents were lower than the PKA-induced ones, this again indicates that the linker domain is functional in this hybrid construct. Taken together, these results suggest that the MDR1 linker domain can substitute for part of the regulatory domain of the CFTR protein.
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- A Vankeerberghen
- Center for Human Genetics and Laboratory of Physiology, University of Leuven, Gasthuisberg O&N6, Herestraat 49, B-3000 Leuven, Belgium.
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Mall M, Bleich M, Kuehr J, Brandis M, Greger R, Kunzelmann K. CFTR-mediated inhibition of epithelial Na+ conductance in human colon is defective in cystic fibrosis. THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY 1999; 277:G709-16. [PMID: 10484398 DOI: 10.1152/ajpgi.1999.277.3.g709] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/13/2023]
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Cystic fibrosis (CF) patients show characteristic defects in epithelial ion transport, such as failure in cAMP-dependent Cl- secretion. Because the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) also functions as a downregulator of epithelial Na+ channels (ENaC), enhanced Na+ conductance was found in the airways of CF patients. Here, we examined whether enhanced epithelial Na+ conductance is also present in the colonic epithelium of CF patients and examined the underlying mechanisms. Thus transepithelial voltages were measured, and equivalent short-circuit currents (I(sc-eq)) were determined by means of a novel type of Ussing chamber. Non-CF tissues demonstrated cAMP-dependent Cl- secretion that was absent in biopsies of CF patients. Correspondingly, Isc-eq was inhibited in non-CF but not in CF epithelia when synthesis of endogenous prostaglandins was blocked by indomethacin. In the presence of indomethacin, a larger portion of amiloride-sensitive Isc-eq was detected in CF tissues, suggesting enhanced ENaC conductance in colonic mucosa of CF patients. Increase of intracellular cAMP by forskolin and IBMX inhibited amiloride-sensitive ENaC currents in non-CF tissues but not in CF biopsies. Therefore, enhanced epithelial Na+ conductance is present in the CF colon and is probably due to missing downregulation by CFTR.
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- M Mall
- University Children's Hospital, Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg, 79106 Freiburg, Germany.
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To the surprise of many, studies of molecular mechanisms of touch transduction and analyses of epithelial Na+ transport have converged to define a new class of ion channel subunits. Based on the names of the first two identified subfamilies, the Caenorhabditis elegans degenerins and the vertebrate epithelial amiloride-sensitive Na+ channel, this ion channel class is called the DEG/ENaC superfamily. Members of the DEG/ENaC superfamily have been found in nematodes, flies, snails, and vertebrates. Family members share common topology, such that they span the membrane twice and have intracellular N- and C-termini; a large extracellular loop includes a conserved cysteine-rich region. DEG/ENaC channels have been implicated a broad spectrum of cellular functions, including mechanosensation, proprioception, pain sensation, gametogenesis, and epithelial Na+ transport. These channels exhibit diverse gating properties, ranging from near constitutive opening to rapid inactivation. We discuss working understanding of DEG/ENaC functions, channel properties, structure/activity correlations and possible evolutionary relationship to other channel classes.
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- I Mano
- Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Rutgers, State University of New Jersey, Piscataway 08854, USA
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Chanson M, Scerri I, Suter S. Defective regulation of gap junctional coupling in cystic fibrosis pancreatic duct cells. J Clin Invest 1999; 103:1677-84. [PMID: 10377174 PMCID: PMC408381 DOI: 10.1172/jci5645] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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The cystic fibrosis (CF) gene encodes a cAMP-gated Cl- channel (cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator [CFTR]) that mediates fluid transport across the luminal surfaces of a variety of epithelial cells. We have previously shown that gap junctional communication and Cl- secretion were concurrently regulated by cAMP in cells expressing CFTR. To determine whether intercellular communication and CFTR-dependent secretion are related, we have compared gap junctional coupling in a human pancreatic cell line harboring the DeltaF508 mutation in CFTR and in the same cell line in which the defect was corrected by transfection with wild-type CFTR. Both cell lines expressed connexin45 (Cx45), as evidenced by RT-PCR, immunocytochemistry, and dual patch-clamp recording. Exposure to agents that elevate intracellular cAMP or specifically activate protein kinase A evoked Cl- currents and markedly increased junctional conductance of CFTR-expressing pairs, but not in the parental cells. The latter effect, which was caused by an increase in single-channel activity but not in unitary conductance of Cx45 channels, was not prevented by exposing CFTR-expressing cells to a Cl- channel blocker. We conclude that expression of functional CFTR restored the cAMP-dependent regulation of junctional conductance in CF cells. Direct intercellular communication coordinates multicellular activity in tissues that are major targets of CF manifestations. Consequently, defective regulation of gap junction channels may contribute to the altered functions of tissues affected in CF.
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- M Chanson
- Laboratory of Clinical Investigation III, Department of Pediatrics, University of Geneva, Switzerland.
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Hopf A, Schreiber R, Mall M, Greger R, Kunzelmann K. Cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator inhibits epithelial Na+ channels carrying Liddle's syndrome mutations. J Biol Chem 1999; 274:13894-9. [PMID: 10318798 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.274.20.13894] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Epithelial Na+ channels (ENaC) are inhibited by the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) upon activation by protein kinase A. It is, however, still unclear how CFTR regulates the activity of ENaC. In the present study we examined whether CFTR interacts with ENaC by interfering with the Nedd4- and ubiquitin-mediated endocytosis of ENaC. Various C-terminal mutations were introduced into the three alpha-, beta-, and gamma-subunits of the rat epithelial Na+ channel, thereby eliminating PY motifs, which are important binding domains for the ubiquitin ligase Nedd4. When expressed in Xenopus oocytes, most of the ENaC stop (alpha-H647X, beta-P565X, gamma-S608X) or point (alpha-P671A, beta-Y618A, gamma-P(624-626)A) mutations induced enhanced Na+ currents when compared with wild type alpha,beta,gamma-rENaC. However, ENaC currents formed by either of the mutant alpha-, beta-, or gamma-subunits were inhibited during activation of CFTR by forskolin (10 micromol/l) and 3-isobutyl-1-methylxanthine (1 mmol/l). Antibodies to dynamin or ubiquitin enhanced alpha,beta,gamma-rENaC whole cell Na+ conductance but did not interfere with inhibition of ENaC by CFTR. Another mutant, beta-T592M,T593A-ENaC, also showed enhanced Na+ currents, which were down-regulated by CFTR. Moreover, activation of ENaC by extracellular proteases and xCAP1 does not disturb CFTR-dependent inhibition of ENaC. We conclude that regulation of ENaC by CFTR is distal to other regulatory limbs and does not involve Nedd4-dependent ubiquitination.
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- A Hopf
- Physiologisches Institut, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Hermann-Herder-Strasse 7, 79104 Freiburg, Germany
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Schreiber R, Hopf A, Mall M, Greger R, Kunzelmann K. The first-nucleotide binding domain of the cystic-fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator is important for inhibition of the epithelial Na+ channel. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1999; 96:5310-5. [PMID: 10220462 PMCID: PMC21860 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.96.9.5310] [Citation(s) in RCA: 68] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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The cystic-fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) functions as a cAMP-regulated Cl- channel and as a regulator of other membrane conductances. cAMP-dependent activation of CFTR inhibits epithelial Na+ channels (ENaC). The specificity of interaction between CFTR and ENaC was examined by coexpression of ENaC and ATP-binding cassette (ABC) proteins other than CFTR. In addition, we identified domains within CFTR that are of particular importance for the inhibition of ENaC. To that end, two-electrode voltage-clamp experiments were performed on Xenopus oocytes coexpressing ENaC together with CFTR, the multidrug resistance protein MDR1, the sulfonyl urea receptor SUR1, or the cadmium permease YCF1. Except for CFTR, none of the other ABC proteins were able to inhibit ENaC. Several truncated versions of CFTR were examined for their inhibitory effects on ENaC. In fact, it is shown that C-terminal truncated CFTR is able to inhibit ENaC on activation by intracellular cAMP. Moreover, the data also show that an intact first-nucleotide binding domain (NBF-1) is important for inhibition of ENaC. We conclude that NBF-1 of CFTR contains a CFTR-specific regulatory site that down-regulates ENaC. It is speculated that this regulatory site also is needed for CFTR-mediated interactions with other membrane proteins and that it is not present in NBF-1 of other ABC proteins.
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- R Schreiber
- Physiologisches Institut, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Hermann-Herder-Strasse 7, 79104 Freiburg, Germany
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Schreiber R, Nitschke R, Greger R, Kunzelmann K. The cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator activates aquaporin 3 in airway epithelial cells. J Biol Chem 1999; 274:11811-6. [PMID: 10206998 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.274.17.11811] [Citation(s) in RCA: 83] [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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Enhanced osmotic water permeability has been observed in Xenopus oocytes expressing cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) protein. Subsequent studies have shown that CFTR activates an endogenous water permeability in oocytes, but that CFTR itself is not the water channel. Here, we show CFTR-dependent activation of endogenous water permeability in normal but not in cystic fibrosis human airway epithelial cells. Cell volume was measured by novel confocal x-z laser scanning microscopy. Glycerol uptake and antisense studies suggest CFTR-dependent regulation of aquaporin 3 (AQP3) water channels in airway epithelial cells. Regulatory interaction was confirmed by coexpression of CFTR and AQP3 cloned from human airways in Xenopus oocytes and of CFTR and rat AQP3 in Chinese hamster ovary cells. These findings indicate that CFTR is a regulator of AQP3 in airway epithelial cells.
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- R Schreiber
- Physiologisches Institut, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Hermann-Herder-Strasse 7, 79104 Freiburg, Germany
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Kunzelmann K. The cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator and its function in epithelial transport. Rev Physiol Biochem Pharmacol 1999; 137:1-70. [PMID: 10207304 DOI: 10.1007/3-540-65362-7_4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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CF is a well characterized disease affecting a variety of epithelial tissues. Impaired function of the cAMP activated CFTR Cl- channel appears to be the basic defect detectable in epithelial and non-epithelial cells derived from CF patients. Apart from cAMP-dependent Cl- channels also Ca2+ and volume activated Cl- currents may be changed in the presence of CFTR mutations. This is supported by recent additional findings showing that different intracellular messengers converge on the CFTR Cl- channel. Analysis of the ion transport in CF airways and intestinal epithelium identified additional defects in Na+ transport. It became clear recently that mutations of CFTR may also affect the activity of other membrane conductances including epithelial Na+ channels, KvLQT-1 K+ channels and aquaporins (Fig. 7). Several additional, initially unexpected effects of CFTR on cellular functions, such as exocytosis, mucin secretion and regulation of the intracellular pH were reported during the past. Taken together, these results clearly indicate that CFTR not only acts as a cAMP regulated Cl- channel, but may fulfill several other cellular functions, particularly by regulating other membrane conductances. Failure in CFTR dependent regulation of these membrane conductances is likely to contribute to the defects observed in CF. Currently, no general concept is available that can explain how CFTR controls this variety of cellular functions. Further studies will have to verify whether direct protein interaction, specific effects on membrane turnover, changes of the intracellular ion concentration or additional proteins are involved in these regulatory loops. At the end of this review one cannot share the provocative and reassuring title "CFTR!" of a review written a few years ago [114]. Today one might rather finish with the statement "CFTR?".
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- K Kunzelmann
- Physiologisches Institut, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Germany
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- J J Wine
- Cystic Fibrosis Research Laboratory, Stanford University, Room 450, Bldg. 420, Main Quad, Stanford, California 94305-2130, USA.
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Control of CTFR Channel Gating by Phosphorylation and Nucleotide Hydrolysis. Physiol. Rev. 79, Suppl.: S77-S107, 1999. - The cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) Cl- channel is the protein product of the gene defective in cystic fibrosis, the most common lethal genetic disease among Caucasians. Unlike any other known ion channel, CFTR belongs to the ATP-binding cassette superfamily of transporters and, like all other family members, CFTR includes two cytoplasmic nucleotide-binding domains (NBDs), both of which bind and hydrolyze ATP. It appears that in a single open-close gating cycle, an individual CFTR channel hydrolyzes one ATP molecule at the NH2-terminal NBD to open the channel, and then binds and hydrolyzes a second ATP molecule at the COOH-terminal NBD to close the channel. This complex coordinated behavior of the two NBDs is orchestrated by multiple protein kinase A-dependent phosphorylation events, at least some of which occur within the third large cytoplasmic domain, called the regulatory domain. Two or more kinds of protein phosphatases selectively dephosphorylate distinct sites. Under appropriately controlled conditions of progressive phosphorylation or dephosphorylation, three functionally different phosphoforms of a single CFTR channel can be distinguished on the basis of channel opening and closing kinetics. Recording single CFTR channel currents affords an unprecedented opportunity to reproducibly examine, and manipulate, individual ATP hydrolysis cycles in a single molecule, in its natural environment, in real time.
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- D C Gadsby
- Laboratory of Cardiac/Membrane Physiology, and Laboratory of Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience, The Rockefeller University, New York, New York, USA
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Cuthbert AW, Hickman ME, MacVinish LJ. Formal analysis of electrogenic sodium, potassium, chloride and bicarbonate transport in mouse colon epithelium. Br J Pharmacol 1999; 126:358-64. [PMID: 10051156 PMCID: PMC1565794 DOI: 10.1038/sj.bjp.0702290] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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1. The mammalian colonic epithelium carries out a number of different transporting activities simultaneously, of which more than one is increased following activation with a single agonist. These separate activities can be quantified by solving a set of equations describing these activities, provided some of the dependent variables can be eliminated. Using variations in the experimental conditions, blocking drugs and comparing wild type tissues with those from transgenic animals this has been achieved for electrogenic ion transporting activity of the mouse colon. 2. Basal activity and that following activation with forskolin was measured by short circuit current in isolated mouse colonic epithelia from normal and cystic fibrosis (CF) mice. 3. Using amiloride it is shown that CF colons show increased electrogenic sodium absorption compared to wild type tissues. CF mice had elevated plasma aldosterone, which may be responsible for part or all of the increased sodium absorbtion in CF colons. 4. The derived values for electrogenic chloride secretion and for electrogenic potassium secretion were increased by 13 and 3 fold respectively by forskolin, compared to basal state values for these processes. 5. The loop diuretic, frusemide, completely inhibited electrogenic potassium secretion, but apparently only partially inhibited electrogenic chloride secretion. However, use of bicarbonate-free solutions and acetazolamide reduced the frusemide-resistant current, suggesting that electrogenic bicarbonate secretion accounts for the frusemide-resistant current. 6. It is argued that the use of tissues from transgenic animals is an important adjunct to pharmacological analysis, especially where effects in tissues result in the activation of more than one sort of response.
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- A W Cuthbert
- Department of Pharmacology, University of Cambridge
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Fuller C, Ismailov I, Berdiev B, Shlyonsky V, Benos D. Chapter 1 Mapping Structure/Function Relations in αbENaC. CURRENT TOPICS IN MEMBRANES 1999. [DOI: 10.1016/s0070-2161(08)60949-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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Role of CFTR in Airway Disease. Physiol. Rev. 79, Suppl.: S215-S255, 1999. - Cystic fibrosis (CF) is caused by mutations in the gene encoding the CF transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR), which accounts for the cAMP-regulated chloride conductance of airway epithelial cells. Lung disease is the chief cause of morbidity and mortality in CF patients. This review focuses on mechanisms whereby the deletion or impairment of CFTR chloride channel function produces lung disease. It examines the major themes of the channel hypothesis of CF, which involve impaired regulation of airway surface fluid volume or composition. Available evidence indicates that the effect of CFTR deletion alters physiological functions of both surface and submucosal gland epithelia. At the airway surface, deletion of CFTR causes hyperabsorption of sodium chloride and a reduction in the periciliary salt and water content, which impairs mucociliary clearance. In submucosal glands, loss of CFTR-mediated salt and water secretion compromises the clearance of mucins and a variety of defense substances onto the airway surface. Impaired mucociliary clearance, together with CFTR-related changes in the airway surface microenvironment, leads to a progressive cycle of infection, inflammation, and declining lung function. Here, we provide the details of this pathophysiological cascade in the hope that its understanding will promote the development of new therapies for CF.
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- J M Pilewski
- Departments of Medicine and of Cell Biology and Physiology, University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
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Schwiebert EM, Benos DJ, Egan ME, Stutts MJ, Guggino WB. CFTR is a conductance regulator as well as a chloride channel. Physiol Rev 1999; 79:S145-66. [PMID: 9922379 DOI: 10.1152/physrev.1999.79.1.s145] [Citation(s) in RCA: 334] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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CFTR Is a Conductance Regulator as well as a Chloride Channel. Physiol. Rev. 79, Suppl.: S145-S166, 1999. - Cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) is a member of the ATP-binding cassette (ABC) transporter gene family. Although CFTR has the structure of a transporter that transports substrates across the membrane in a nonconductive manner, CFTR also has the intrinsic ability to conduct Cl- at much higher rates, a function unique to CFTR among this family of ABC transporters. Because Cl- transport was shown to be lost in cystic fibrosis (CF) epithelia long before the cloning of the CF gene and CFTR, CFTR Cl- channel function was considered to be paramount. Another equally valid perspective of CFTR, however, derives from its membership in a family of transporters that transports a multitude of different substances from chemotherapeutic drugs, to amino acids, to glutathione conjugates, to small peptides in a nonconductive manner. Moreover, at least two members of this ABC transporter family (mdr-1, SUR) can regulate other ion channels in the membrane. More simply, ABC transporters can regulate somehow the function of other cellular proteins or cellular functions. This review focuses on a plethora of studies showing that CFTR also regulates other ion channel proteins. It is the hope of the authors that the reader will take with him or her the message that CFTR is a conductance regulator as well as a Cl- channel.
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- E M Schwiebert
- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Gregory Fleming James CF Research Center, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, USA
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Saxena A, Hanukoglu I, Strautnieks SS, Thompson RJ, Gardiner RM, Hanukoglu A. Gene structure of the human amiloride-sensitive epithelial sodium channel beta subunit. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 1998; 252:208-13. [PMID: 9813171 DOI: 10.1006/bbrc.1998.9625] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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ENaC functions in the transport of sodium ions across epithelial cells and consequently regulates blood volume and pressure. ENaC complex includes at least three different subunits, alpha, beta, and gamma, which are developmentally regulated and differentially controlled by aldosterone. In this study, we determined the exon-intron organization of the beta ENaC subunit by sequencing genomic DNA from three subjects from three different ethnic groups. The results showed that the coding region of the human betaENaC gene (SCNN1B) extends from exon 2 to exon 13. No polymorphism was observed in the examined subjects, indicating strict conservation of the coding region sequence. The introns of beta subunit gene are located at exactly the same positions as in the alpha and gamma subunits, although these proteins share only 26-32% sequence identity. These results thus elucidate the gene structure of the beta subunit and indicate that exon-intron architecture of the three genes encoding the three subunits of ENaC have remained highly conserved despite the divergence of their sequences.
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- A Saxena
- E. Katzir Biotechnology Program, The Research Institute, College of Judea and Samaria, Ariel 44837, Israel
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Jiang Q, Mak D, Devidas S, Schwiebert EM, Bragin A, Zhang Y, Skach WR, Guggino WB, Foskett JK, Engelhardt JF. Cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator-associated ATP release is controlled by a chloride sensor. J Cell Biol 1998; 143:645-57. [PMID: 9813087 PMCID: PMC2148142 DOI: 10.1083/jcb.143.3.645] [Citation(s) in RCA: 93] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/16/1998] [Revised: 09/04/1998] [Indexed: 01/06/2023] Open
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The cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) is a chloride channel that is defective in cystic fibrosis, and has also been closely associated with ATP permeability in cells. Using a Xenopus oocyte cRNA expression system, we have evaluated the molecular mechanisms that control CFTR-modulated ATP release. CFTR-modulated ATP release was dependent on both cAMP activation and a gradient change in the extracellular chloride concentration. Activation of ATP release occurred within a narrow concentration range of external Cl- that was similar to that reported in airway surface fluid. Mutagenesis of CFTR demonstrated that Cl- conductance and ATP release regulatory properties could be dissociated to different regions of the CFTR protein. Despite the lack of a need for Cl- conductance through CFTR to modulate ATP release, alterations in channel pore residues R347 and R334 caused changes in the relative ability of different halides to activate ATP efflux (wtCFTR, Cl >> Br; R347P, Cl >> Br; R347E, Br >> Cl; R334W, Cl = Br). We hypothesize that residues R347 and R334 may contribute a Cl- binding site within the CFTR channel pore that is necessary for activation of ATP efflux in response to increases of extracellular Cl-. In summary, these findings suggest a novel chloride sensor mechanism by which CFTR is capable of responding to changes in the extracellular chloride concentration by modulating the activity of an unidentified ATP efflux pathway. This pathway may play an important role in maintaining fluid and electrolyte balance in the airway through purinergic regulation of epithelial cells. Insight into these molecular mechanisms enhances our understanding of pathogenesis in the cystic fibrosis lung.
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- Q Jiang
- Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa 52242-1109, USA
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Vankeerberghen A, Wei L, Jaspers M, Cassiman JJ, Nilius B, Cuppens H. Characterization of 19 disease-associated missense mutations in the regulatory domain of the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator. Hum Mol Genet 1998; 7:1761-9. [PMID: 9736778 DOI: 10.1093/hmg/7.11.1761] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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In order to gain a better insight into the structure and function of the regulatory domain (RD) of the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) protein, 19 RD missense mutations that had been identified in patients were functionally characterized. Nine of these (I601F, L610S, A613T, D614G, I618T, L619S, H620P, G628R and L633P) resulted in aberrant processing. No or a very small number of functional CFTR proteins will therefore appear at the cell membrane in cells expressing these mutants. These mutations were clustered in the N-terminal part of the RD, suggesting that this subdomain has a folding pattern that is very sensitive to amino acid changes. Mutations that caused no aberrant processing were further characterized at the electrophysiological level. First, they were studied at the whole cell level in Xenopus laevis oocytes. Mutants that induced a whole cell current that was significantly different from wild-type CFTR were subsequently analysed at the single channel level in COS1 cells transiently expressing the different mutant and wild-type proteins. Three mutant chloride channels, G622D, R792G and E822K CFTR, were characterized by significantly lower intrinsic chloride channel activities compared with wild-type CFTR. Two mutations, H620Q and A800G, resulted in increased intrinsic chloride transport activities. Finally, T665S and E826K CFTR had single channel properties not significantly different from wild-type CFTR.
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- A Vankeerberghen
- Centre for Human Genetics and Department of Physiology, University of Leuven, B-3000 Leuven, Belgium
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Short DB, Trotter KW, Reczek D, Kreda SM, Bretscher A, Boucher RC, Stutts MJ, Milgram SL. An apical PDZ protein anchors the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator to the cytoskeleton. J Biol Chem 1998; 273:19797-801. [PMID: 9677412 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.273.31.19797] [Citation(s) in RCA: 358] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023] Open
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The function of the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) as a Cl- channel in the apical membrane of epithelial cells is extensively documented. However, less is known about the molecular determinants of CFTR residence in the apical membrane, basal regulation of its Cl- channel activity, and its reported effects on the function of other transporters. These aspects of CFTR function likely require specific interactions between CFTR and unknown proteins in the apical compartment of epithelial cells. Here we report that CFTR interacts with the recently discovered protein, EBP50 (ERM-binding phosphoprotein 50). EBP50 is concentrated at the apical membrane in human airway epithelial cells, in vivo, and CFTR and EBP50 associate in in vitro binding assays. The CFTR-EBP50 interaction requires the COOH-terminal DTRL sequence of CFTR and utilizes either PDZ1 or PDZ2 of EBP50, although binding to PDZ1 is of greater affinity. Through formation of a complex, the interaction between CFTR and EBP50 may influence the stability and/or regulation of CFTR Cl- channel function in the cell membrane and provides a potential mechanism through which CFTR can affect the activity of other apical membrane proteins.
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- D B Short
- Department of Physiology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599, USA
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Hall RA, Ostedgaard LS, Premont RT, Blitzer JT, Rahman N, Welsh MJ, Lefkowitz RJ. A C-terminal motif found in the beta2-adrenergic receptor, P2Y1 receptor and cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator determines binding to the Na+/H+ exchanger regulatory factor family of PDZ proteins. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1998; 95:8496-501. [PMID: 9671706 PMCID: PMC21104 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.95.15.8496] [Citation(s) in RCA: 329] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 05/26/1998] [Indexed: 02/08/2023] Open
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The Na+/H+ exchanger regulatory factor (NHERF) binds to the tail of the beta2-adrenergic receptor and plays a role in adrenergic regulation of Na+/H+ exchange. NHERF contains two PDZ domains, the first of which is required for its interaction with the beta2 receptor. Mutagenesis studies of the beta2 receptor tail revealed that the optimal C-terminal motif for binding to the first PDZ domain of NHERF is D-S/T-x-L, a motif distinct from those recognized by other PDZ domains. The first PDZ domain of NHERF-2, a protein that is 52% identical to NHERF and also known as E3KARP, SIP-1, and TKA-1, exhibits binding preferences very similar to those of the first PDZ domain of NHERF. The delineation of the preferred binding motif for the first PDZ domain of the NHERF family of proteins allows for predictions for other proteins that may interact with NHERF or NHERF-2. For example, as would be predicted from the beta2 receptor tail mutagenesis studies, NHERF binds to the tail of the purinergic P2Y1 receptor, a seven-transmembrane receptor with an intracellular C-terminal tail ending in D-T-S-L. NHERF also binds to the tail of the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator, which ends in D-T-R-L. Because the preferred binding motif of the first PDZ domain of the NHERF family of proteins is found at the C termini of a variety of intracellular proteins, NHERF and NHERF-2 may be multifunctional adaptor proteins involved in many previously unsuspected aspects of intracellular signaling.
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- R A Hall
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Departments of Medicine and Biochemistry, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710, USA
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Mall M, Bleich M, Greger R, Schreiber R, Kunzelmann K. The amiloride-inhibitable Na+ conductance is reduced by the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator in normal but not in cystic fibrosis airways. J Clin Invest 1998; 102:15-21. [PMID: 9649552 PMCID: PMC509060 DOI: 10.1172/jci2729] [Citation(s) in RCA: 165] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
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Cystic fibrosis (CF) airway cells, besides their well-known defect in cAMP-dependent Cl- conductance, are characterized by an enhanced Na+ conductance. In this study we have examined the Na+ conductance in human respiratory tract by measuring transepithelial voltage and resistance (Vte, Rte) and by assessing membrane voltages (Vm) of freshly isolated airway epithelial cells from CF and non-CF patients. Basal amiloride inhibitable (10 micromol/liter) equivalent short circuit current (Isc = Vte/Rte) was significantly increased in CF compared with non-CF tissues. After stimulation by forskolin (10 micromol/liter) a significant depolarization of Vm corresponding to the cAMP-dependent activation of a Cl- conductance was observed in non-CF but not in CF airway cells. In non-CF tissue but not in CF tissue the effects of amiloride and N-methyl-D-glucamine on Vm were attenuated in the presence of forskolin. Also the amiloride-inhibitable Isc was significantly reduced by forskolin (1 micromol/liter) and isobutylmethylxanthine (IBMX; 100 micromol/liter) only in non-CF tissue. We conclude that cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator acts as a downregulator of epithelial Na+ channels in human airways. This downregulation of epithelial Na+ channels is absent in CF airways, leading to hyperabsorption and to the characteristic increase in mucus viscosity.
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- M Mall
- Physiologisches Institut, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, 79104 Freiburg, Germany
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Ishikawa T, Marunaka Y, Rotin D. Electrophysiological characterization of the rat epithelial Na+ channel (rENaC) expressed in MDCK cells. Effects of Na+ and Ca2+. J Gen Physiol 1998; 111:825-46. [PMID: 9607939 PMCID: PMC2217156 DOI: 10.1085/jgp.111.6.825] [Citation(s) in RCA: 115] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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The epithelial Na+ channel (ENaC), composed of three subunits (alpha, beta, and gamma), is expressed in several epithelia and plays a critical role in salt and water balance and in the regulation of blood pressure. Little is known, however, about the electrophysiological properties of this cloned channel when expressed in epithelial cells. Using whole-cell and single channel current recording techniques, we have now characterized the rat alpha beta gamma ENaC (rENaC) stably transfected and expressed in Madin-Darby canine kidney (MDCK) cells. Under whole-cell patch-clamp configuration, the alpha beta gamma rENaC-expressing MDCK cells exhibited greater whole cell Na+ current at -143 mV (-1,466.2 +/- 297.5 pA) than did untransfected cells (-47.6 +/- 10.7 pA). This conductance was completely and reversibly inhibited by 10 microM amiloride, with a Ki of 20 nM at a membrane potential of -103 mV; the amiloride inhibition was slightly voltage dependent. Amiloride-sensitive whole-cell current of MDCK cells expressing alpha beta or alpha gamma subunits alone was -115.2 +/- 41.4 pA and -52.1 +/- 24.5 pA at -143 mV, respectively, similar to the whole-cell Na+ current of untransfected cells. Relaxation analysis of the amiloride-sensitive current after voltage steps suggested that the channels were activated by membrane hyperpolarization. Ion selectivity sequence of the Na+ conductance was Li+ > Na+ >> K+ = N-methyl-D-glucamine+ (NMDG+). Using excised outside-out patches, amiloride-sensitive single channel conductance, likely responsible for the macroscopic Na+ channel current, was found to be approximately 5 and 8 pS when Na+ and Li+ were used as a charge carrier, respectively. K+ conductance through the channel was undetectable. The channel activity, defined as a product of the number of active channel (n) and open probability (Po), was increased by membrane hyperpolarization. Both whole-cell Na+ current and conductance were saturated with increased extracellular Na+ concentrations, which likely resulted from saturation of the single channel conductance. The channel activity (nPo) was significantly decreased when cytosolic Na+ concentration was increased from 0 to 50 mM in inside-out patches. Whole-cell Na+ conductance (with Li+ as a charge carrier) was inhibited by the addition of ionomycin (microM) and Ca2+ (1 mM) to the bath. Dialysis of the cells with a pipette solution containing 1 microM Ca2+ caused a biphasic inhibition, with time constants of 1.7 +/- 0.3 min (n = 3) and 128.4 +/- 33.4 min (n = 3). An increase in cytosolic Ca2+ concentration from <1 nM to 1 microM was accompanied by a decrease in channel activity. Increasing cytosolic Ca2+ to 10 microM exhibited a pronounced inhibitory effect. Single channel conductance, however, was unchanged by increasing free Ca2+ concentrations from <1 nM to 10 microM. Collectively, these results provide the first characterization of rENaC heterologously expressed in a mammalian epithelial cell line, and provide evidence for channel regulation by cytosolic Na+ and Ca2+.
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- T Ishikawa
- Hospital for Sick Children, Division of Respiratory Research, Toronto, Ontario M5G 1X8, Canada
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Briel M, Greger R, Kunzelmann K. Cl- transport by cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) contributes to the inhibition of epithelial Na+ channels (ENaCs) in Xenopus oocytes co-expressing CFTR and ENaC. J Physiol 1998; 508 ( Pt 3):825-36. [PMID: 9518736 PMCID: PMC2230925 DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-7793.1998.825bp.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 93] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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1. Epithelial Na+ channels (ENaCs) are inhibited by the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) when CFTR is activated by protein kinase A. Since cAMP-dependent activation of CFTR Cl- conductance is defective in cystic fibrosis (CF), ENaC currents are not inhibited by CFTR. This could explain the enhanced Na+ conductance found in CF. In the present study, we examined possible mechanisms of interaction between CFTR and ENaC co-expressed in Xenopus oocytes. 2. The magnitude of CFTR Cl- currents activated by 3-isobutyl-1-methylxanthine (IBMX) in oocytes co-expressing either wild-type or mutant CFTR and ENaC determined the degree of downregulation of ENaC currents. 3. The ability of CFTR to inhibit ENaC currents was significantly reduced either when extracellular Cl- was replaced by poorly conductive anions, e.g. SCN- or gluconate, or when CFTR was inhibited by diphenylamine-carboxylate (DPC, 1 mmol l-1). 4. Downregulation of ENaC was more pronounced at positive when compared with negative clamp voltages. This suggests that outward currents, i.e. influx of Cl- through activated CFTR most effectively downregulated ENaC. 5. Activation of endogenous Ca2+-activated Cl- currents by 1 micromol l-1 ionomycin did not inhibit ENaC current. This suggests that inhibition of ENaC mediated by Cl- currents may be specific to CFTR. 6. The present findings indicate that downregulation of ENaC by CFTR is correlated to the ability of CFTR to conduct Cl-. The data have implications for how epithelia switch from NaCl absorption to NaCl secretion when CFTR is activated by secretagogues.
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- M Briel
- Physiologisches Institut, Albert-Ludwigs-Universitat Freiburg, Hermann-Herder-Strasse 7, 79104 Freiburg, Germany
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Chloride channels are widely expressed and play important roles in cell volume regulation, transepithelial transport, intracellular pH regulation, and membrane excitability. Most chloride channels have yet to be identified at a molecular level. The ClC gene family and the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) are distinct chloride channels expressed in many cell types, and mutations in their genes are the cause of several diseases including myotonias, cystic fibrosis, and kidney stones. Because of their molecular definition and roles in disease, these channels have been studied intensively over the past several years. The focus of this review is on recent studies that have provided new insights into the mechanisms governing the opening and closing, i.e. gating, of the ClC and CFTR chloride channels.
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- J K Foskett
- Department of Physiology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia 19104-6100, USA.
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Sugita M, Yue Y, Foskett JK. CFTR Cl- channel and CFTR-associated ATP channel: distinct pores regulated by common gates. EMBO J 1998; 17:898-908. [PMID: 9463368 PMCID: PMC1170439 DOI: 10.1093/emboj/17.4.898] [Citation(s) in RCA: 113] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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The cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) is a chloride channel that is regulated by phosphorylation of the R domain and ATP hydrolysis at two nucleotide-binding domains (NBDs). It is controversial whether CFTR conducts ATP or whether CFTR might be closely associated with a separate ATP conductance. To characterize ATP channels associated with CFTR, we analyzed Cl- and ATP single channel-currents in excised inside-out membrane patches from MDCK epithelial cells transiently expressing CFTR. With 100 mM ATP in the pipette and 140 mM Cl- in the bath, ATP channels were associated with CFTR Cl- channels in two-thirds of patches that included CFTR. CFTR Cl- channels and CFTR-associated ATP channels had slope conductances of 7.4 pS and 5.2 pS, respectively, and had distinct reversal potentials and sensitivities to channel blockers. CFTR-associated ATP channels exhibited slow gating kinetics that depended on the presence of protein kinase A and cytoplasmic ATP, similar to CFTR Cl- channels. Gating kinetics of the ATP channels as well as the CFTR Cl- channels were similarly affected by non-hydrolyzable ATP analogues and mutations in the CFTR R domain and NBDs. Our results indicate that phosphorylation- and nucleotide-hydrolysis-dependent gating of CFTR is directly involved in gating of an associated ATP channel. However, the permeation pathways for Cl- and ATP are distinct and the ATP conduction pathway is not obligatorily associated with the expression of CFTR.
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- M Sugita
- Institute for Human Gene Therapy, School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia 19104-6100, USA
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Wigley WC, Vijayakumar S, Jones JD, Slaughter C, Thomas PJ. Transmembrane domain of cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator: design, characterization, and secondary structure of synthetic peptides m1-m6. Biochemistry 1998; 37:844-53. [PMID: 9454574 DOI: 10.1021/bi972293n] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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Mutations in the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) give rise to cystic fibrosis (CF), the most common genetic disease in the Caucasian population. CFTR is organized into five putative domains, including two that are predicted to be transmembrane and consist of six membrane-spanning segments each. CFTR mediates regulated anion transport across the apical membrane of epithelial cells. The pore through which CFTR transports its solutes is thought to be formed by some combination of the amino-terminal membrane-spanning segments. Although these sequences are predicted to be alpha-helical in secondary structure, to date, no direct structural evidence has been presented testing this hypothesis. Here, we present the biophysical characterization of six peptides (m1-m6) representing the predicted amino-terminal membrane-spanning domain of CFTR. The peptides can be incorporated into liposomes and are soluble in SDS micelles and trifluoroethanol (TFE). FTIR and CD spectroscopy indicate all six peptides adopt a stable, predominantly alpha-helical secondary structure in these environments. In contrast, peptide m6 undergoes a shift from alpha-helix to beta-sheet when dissolved in 20% methanol. Additionally, the peptides show an increase in beta-sheet in TFE, a known inducer of alpha-helices, relative to that seen in the nativelike environments. These results have implications for the folding of this complex membrane protein and suggest that the possible functional role of m6 is manifested through a shift in secondary structure.
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- W C Wigley
- Department of Physiology, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas 75235-9040, USA
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Rückes C, Blank U, Möller K, Rieboldt J, Lindemann H, Münker G, Clauss W, Weber WM. Amiloride-sensitive Na+ channels in human nasal epithelium are different from classical epithelial Na+ channels. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 1997; 237:488-91. [PMID: 9299389 DOI: 10.1006/bbrc.1997.7106] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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We characterized Na+ absorption in confluent monolayers of primary cultured epithelia derived from human nasal cystic fibrosis (CF) and non-CF epithelium in modified Ussing chambers. Amiloride-sensitive Na+ channels in cells obtained from CF as well as from non-CF patients showed properties different from all previously described epithelial Na+ channels (ENaC). DPC, a potent Cl- channel blocker, which has never been described to block ENaC, inhibited a considerable portion of the amiloride-sensitive Na+ absorption. In contrast to classical ENaC, cAMP induced no activation of amiloride-sensitive short-circuit current. Aldosterone failed to induce any functional stimulation of Na+ absorption in vitro when applied to the cell culture medium prior to measurements. Together with the reportedly reversible inhibition by phenamil we propose that Na+ absorption in human nasal epithelia is either regulated differently or is mediated by a yet still unknown member of the ENaC superfamily.
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- C Rückes
- CF Working Group Giessen, Justus-Liebig-University, Germany
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Taki T, Rokukawa C, Kasama T, Kon K, Ando S, Abe T, Handa S. Human meconium gangliosides. Characterization of a novel I-type ganglioside with the NeuAc alpha 2-6Gal structure. J Biol Chem 1992. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(19)49771-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022] Open
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