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Caron TJ, Scott KE, Sinha N, Muthupalani S, Baqai M, Ang LH, Li Y, Turner JR, Fox JG, Hagen SJ. Claudin-18 Loss Alters Transcellular Chloride Flux but not Tight Junction Ion Selectivity in Gastric Epithelial Cells. Cell Mol Gastroenterol Hepatol 2020; 11:783-801. [PMID: 33069918 PMCID: PMC7847960 DOI: 10.1016/j.jcmgh.2020.10.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/12/2020] [Revised: 10/12/2020] [Accepted: 10/13/2020] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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BACKGROUND & AIMS Tight junctions form a barrier to the paracellular passage of luminal antigens. Although most tight junction proteins reside within the apical tight junction complex, claudin-18 localizes mainly to the basolateral membrane where its contribution to paracellular ion transport is undefined. Claudin-18 loss in mice results in gastric neoplasia development and tumorigenesis that may or may not be due to tight junction dysfunction. The aim here was to investigate paracellular permeability defects in stomach mucosa from claudin-18 knockout (Cldn18-KO) mice. METHODS Stomach tissue from wild-type, heterozygous, or Cldn18-KO mice were stripped of the external muscle layer and mounted in Ussing chambers. Transepithelial resistance, dextran 4 kDa flux, and potential difference (PD) were calculated from the chambered tissues after identifying differences in tissue histopathology that were used to normalize these measurements. Marker expression for claudins and ion transporters were investigated by transcriptomic and immunostaining analysis. RESULTS No paracellular permeability defects were evident in stomach mucosa from Cldn18-KO mice. RNAseq identified changes in 4 claudins from Cldn18-KO mice, particularly the up-regulation of claudin-2. Although claudin-2 localized to tight junctions in cells at the base of gastric glands, its presence did not contribute overall to mucosal permeability. Stomach tissue from Cldn18-KO mice also had no PD versus a lumen-negative PD in tissues from wild-type mice. This difference resulted from changes in transcellular Cl- permeability with the down-regulation of Cl- loading and Cl- secreting anion transporters. CONCLUSIONS Our findings suggest that Cldn18-KO has no effect on tight junction permeability in the stomach from adult mice but rather affects anion permeability. The phenotype in these mice may thus be secondary to transcellular anion transporter expression/function in the absence of claudin-18.
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- Tyler J Caron
- Department of Surgery/Division of General Surgery, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts; Division of Comparative Medicine, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts; Department of Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts
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- Department of Surgery/Division of General Surgery, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts; Division of Comparative Medicine, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts; Department of Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts
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- Department of Surgery/Division of General Surgery, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Division of Comparative Medicine, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts
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- Department of Surgery/Division of General Surgery, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts; Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Department of Surgery/Division of General Surgery, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts; Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Department of Surgery/Division of General Surgery, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts; Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts; Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Division of Comparative Medicine, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts; Department of Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts
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- Department of Surgery/Division of General Surgery, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts; Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
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Rieder G, Tessier AJ, Qiao XT, Madison B, Gumucio DL, Merchant JL. Helicobacter-induced intestinal metaplasia in the stomach correlates with Elk-1 and serum response factor induction of villin. J Biol Chem 2004; 280:4906-12. [PMID: 15576363 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m413399200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/13/2023] Open
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Chronic Helicobacter pylori infection results in serious sequelae, including atrophy, intestinal metaplasia, and gastric cancer. Intestinal metaplasia in the stomach is defined by the presence of intestine-like cells expressing enterocyte-specific markers, such as villin. In this study, we demonstrate that villin is expressed in intestine-like cells that develop after chronic infection with H. pylori in both human stomach and in a mouse model. Transfection studies were used to identify specific regions of the villin promoter that are inducible by exposure of the cells to H. pylori. We demonstrated that induction of the villin promoter by H. pylori in a human gastric adenocarcinoma cell line (AGS) required activation of the Erk pathway. Elk-1 and the serum response factor (SRF) are downstream transcriptional targets of the Erk pathway. We observed inducible binding of Elk-1 and the SRF after 3 and 24 h of treatment with H. pylori, suggesting that the bacteria alone are sufficient to initiate a cascade of signaling events responsible for villin expression. Thus, H. pylori induction of villin in the stomach correlates with activation and cooperative binding of Elk-1 and the SRF to the proximal promoter of villin.
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- Gabriele Rieder
- Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-0682, USA
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Hagen SJ, Morrison SW, Law CS, Yang DX. Restitution of the bullfrog gastric mucosa is dependent on a DIDS-inhibitable pathway not related to HCO3- ion transport. Am J Physiol Gastrointest Liver Physiol 2004; 286:G596-605. [PMID: 14604862 DOI: 10.1152/ajpgi.00390.2002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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This study was conducted to determine the contribution of ion transport to restitution after injury in the gastric mucosa. For this, intact sheets of stomach from the bullfrog, Rana catesbeiana, were mounted in Ussing chambers. Restitution was evaluated in the presence or absence of ion transport inhibitors amiloride, DIDS, and bumetanide to block Na(+)/H(+) exchange, Cl(-)/HCO(3)(-) exchange and Na(+)/HCO(3)(-) co-transport, and Na(+)-K(+)-2Cl(-) cotransport, respectively. Ion substitution experiments with Na(+)-free, Cl(-)-free, and HCO(3)(-)-free solutions were also performed. Injury to the mucosa was produced with 1 M NaCl, and restitution was evaluated by recovery of transepithelial resistance (TER), mannitol flux, and morphology. Amiloride, bumetanide, Cl(-)-free, or HCO(3)(-)-free solutions did not affect restitution. In Na(+)-free solutions, recovery of TER and mannitol flux did not occur because surface cells did not attach to the underlying basement membrane. In contrast, all aspects of restitution were inhibited by DIDS, a compound that inhibits Na(+)-dependent HCO(3)(-) transport. Because HCO(3)(-)-free solutions did not inhibit restitution, it was concluded that DIDS must block a yet undefined pathway not involved in HCO(3)(-) ion transport but essential for cell migration after injury and restitution in the gastric mucosa.
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- Susan J Hagen
- Department of Surgery, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA 02215, USA.
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Abdul-Ghaffar Al-Shaibani TA, Hagen SJ. Regulation of acid secretion and paracellular permeability by F-actin in the bullfrog, Rana catesbeiana. Am J Physiol Gastrointest Liver Physiol 2002; 282:G519-26. [PMID: 11842002 DOI: 10.1152/ajpgi.00393.2001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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Many studies have implicated F-actin in the regulation of gastric acid secretion using cytochalasin D (CD) to disrupt apical actin filaments in oxyntic cells. However, it is known that CD also affects mucosal permeability by disrupting tight junction structure. Here we investigated the contribution of F-actin to mucosal permeability and acid secretion in the stomach using CD. Stomachs were mounted in Ussing chambers and acid secretion (stimulated or inhibited), transepithelial resistance (TER), mannitol flux, bicarbonate transport, and dual mannitol/sodium fluxes were determined with or without CD. H(+) back diffusion was predicted from its diffusion coefficient. Incubation with CD resulted in a significant reduction in stimulated acid secretion. TER was unchanged in stimulated tissues but significantly reduced in inhibited tissues. Mannitol flux, bicarbonate transport, and H(+)-back diffusion increased significantly with CD. However, the rates of bicarbonate and H(+) flux were not large enough to account for the inhibition of acid secretion. These findings demonstrate that actin filaments regulate paracellular permeability and play an essential role in the regulation of acid secretion in the stomach.
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Cheng AM, Morrison SW, Yang DX, Hagen SJ. Energy dependence of restitution in the gastric mucosa. Am J Physiol Cell Physiol 2001; 281:C430-8. [PMID: 11443042 DOI: 10.1152/ajpcell.2001.281.2.c430] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Rapid epithelial repair (restitution) after injury is required to maintain barrier function of the gastrointestinal mucosa and skin and is thought to be a highly ATP-dependent process that would be inhibited under hypoxic conditions. However, little is known about the metabolic pathways required for restitution. Thus, this study was undertaken to evaluate, in vitro, the role of oxidative respiration and glycolysis in restitution after injury. To this end, restitution of the bullfrog gastric mucosa was evaluated under the following conditions: 1) blockade of mitochondrial respiration; 2) blockade of glycolysis; or 3) absence of glucose. The extent of mucosal repair after injury was evaluated by electrophysiology and morphology. Cell migration, repolarization, and the formation of tight junctions after injury occurred during blockade of mitochondrial respiration, whereas the recovery of mucosal barrier function did not. In contrast, glycolytic inhibition completely blocked all aspects of restitution by inhibiting the migration of surface epithelial cells. Restitution occurred in tissues incubated with glucose-free solutions, suggesting that cells contain sufficient glucose (glycogen) to drive glycolysis for many hours. Our results demonstrate that the glycolytic pathway is essential for restitution after injury in the bullfrog gastric mucosa and that all but complete repair of barrier function occurs in the absence of mitochondrial respiration.
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- A M Cheng
- Department of Surgery, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA
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Hagen SJ, Wu H, Morrison SW. NH(4)Cl inhibition of acid secretion: possible involvement of an apical K(+) channel in bullfrog oxyntic cells. Am J Physiol Gastrointest Liver Physiol 2000; 279:G400-10. [PMID: 10915650 DOI: 10.1152/ajpgi.2000.279.2.g400] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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This study was undertaken to determine the mechanism by which ammonium chloride (NH(4)Cl) inhibits stimulated acid secretion in the bullfrog gastric mucosa. To this end, four possible pathways of inhibition were studied: 1) blockade of basolateral K(+) channel, 2) blockade of ion transport activity, 3) neutralization of secreted H(+) in the luminal solution, or 4) ATP depletion. Addition of nutrient 10 mM NH(4)Cl (calculated NH(3) concentration = 92.5 microM and NH(4)(+) concentration = 9.91 mM) inhibited acid secretion within 30 min. Inhibition of acid secretion did not occur by blockade of basolateral K(+) channel activity or ion transport activity or by neutralization of the luminal solution. Although ATP depletion occurred in the presence of NH(4)Cl, the magnitude of ATP depletion in 30 min was not sufficient to inhibit stimulated acid secretion. By comparing the effect of NH(4)Cl on the resistance of inhibited or stimulated tissues, we demonstrate that NH(4)Cl acts specifically on stimulated tissues. We propose that NH(4)Cl blocks activity of an apical K(+) channel present in stimulated oxyntic cells. Our data suggest that the activity of this channel is important for the regulation of acid secretion in bullfrog oxyntic cells.
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- S J Hagen
- Department of Surgery, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA.
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Dabiké M, Koenig CS. Development of the actin and the cytokeratin cytoskeletons of parietal cells during differentiation of the rat gastric mucosa. THE ANATOMICAL RECORD 1999; 255:342-52. [PMID: 10411401 DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-0185(19990701)255:3<342::aid-ar10>3.0.co;2-o] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Available evidence strongly suggests that microfilaments and cytokeratin intermediate filaments (IF) play a role in the reorganization of the luminal pole required for the secretion of acid by parietal cells. To correlate the organization of both cytoskeletal systems with the differentiation of the secretory membranes of parietal cells, the distribution of F-actin and cytokeratin was studied during the ontogenic development of the rat. Primitive parietal cells were detected with parietal cells autoantibodies and ultrastructurally by transmission electron microscopy (TEM). The distribution of IF and of F-actin in differentiating parietal cells was determined using anticytokeratin antibodies and FITC-phalloidin, respectively. Development of both cytoskeletal systems was followed by TEM. Ultrastructurally, parietal cells are identified from day 19 on, by the presence of an incipient canaliculus, which later enlarges and fills with microvilli. No intracellular tubulovesicular system is observed. Using parietal cells autoantibodies these cells are detected from day 20 on. Immunocytochemistry and TEM demonstrate that parietal cells possess organized cytokeratin and actin cytoskeletons, which develop further as differentiation proceeds. At birth, parietal cells show an ultrastructure and a distribution of IF and microfilaments similar to that of differentiated cells. In newly born rats, the F-actin cytoskeleton redistributes after suckling. This reorganization results from an enlargement of the canalicular lumen, filled with microvilli rich in actin. Thus, functional maturation of parietal cells is paralleled by the development of organized IF and F-actin cytoskeletons associated to the secretory surface.
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- M Dabiké
- Departamento de Biología Celular y Molecular, Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago.
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Yin Y, DeWolf WC, Morgentaler A. p53 is associated with the nuclear envelope in mouse testis. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 1997; 235:689-94. [PMID: 9207221 DOI: 10.1006/bbrc.1997.6867] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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p53 has been postulated to play a role in meiosis as well as in the regulation of germ cell numbers by apoptosis. This study investigated the subcellular localization of p53 in the testis, including conditions known to induce germ cell apoptosis. Western blot analysis showed that p53 was enriched in the nuclear envelope fraction, and confocal microscopy confirmed that p53 was associated with the nuclear envelope of germ cells. Exposure of the testis to heat stress induced translocation of p53 into the nucleus. Nuclear envelope binding provides an optimal site for rapid entry of p53 into the nucleus, where it may act as a DNA-binding protein to induce apoptosis or cell cycle arrest in response to appropriate stimuli. The nuclear envelope sequestration of p53 also provides a framework to understand how mitosis and meiosis in the testis may proceed despite high intracellular concentration of p53.
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- Y Yin
- Division of Urology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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