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Dastoor P, Muiler C, Garrison A, Egan M, Carlos Dos Reis D, Santos A, Ameen NA. Localization and function of humanized F508del-CFTR in mouse intestine following activation of serum glucocorticoid kinase 1 and Trikafta. Eur J Pharmacol 2024; 978:176771. [PMID: 38925289 DOI: 10.1016/j.ejphar.2024.176771] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/04/2024] [Revised: 06/21/2024] [Accepted: 06/23/2024] [Indexed: 06/28/2024]
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The CFTR modulator Trikafta has markedly improved lung disease for Cystic Fibrosis (CF) patients carrying the common delta F508 (F508del-CFTR) CFTR mutation. F508del-CFTR results in an apical trafficking defect and loss of function in CFTR-expressing epithelial cells. However, Trikafta has not resulted in improved gastrointestinal function in CF patients. A humanized mouse model of F508del-CFTR was recently generated to evaluate CFTR modulators and other compounds to treat human F508del-CFTR CF intestinal disease. Short-term (4 h) treatment of rats with Dexamethasone (Dex) potently activates serum glucocorticoid kinase 1 (SGK1) and increases CFTR apical traffic and ion transport in the native intestine. This study examined CFTR localization and ion transport in intestinal segments from humanized F508del-CFTR mice following treatment with Dex in the presence/absence of Trikafta. Dex treatment improved apical CFTR localization and function but was inconsistent along intestinal segments. Combined treatment with Dex and Trikafta was superior to Dex alone but inconsistently improved CFTR localization and function. These data suggest further optimization of humanized CF mouse models will be necessary to test the efficacy of compounds to treat human CF intestinal disease.
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- Parinaz Dastoor
- Department of Pediatrics/Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA.
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- Department of Pediatrics/Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA
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- Department of Pediatric Pulmonary Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA
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- Department of Pediatric Pulmonary Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA; Department of Molecular Physiology, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics/Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA.
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- Department of Genetics, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics/Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA; Department of Molecular Physiology, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA.
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Zagoren E, Dias N, Smith ZD, Ameen NA, Sumigray K. A second wave of Notch signaling diversifies the intestinal secretory lineage. BIORXIV : THE PREPRINT SERVER FOR BIOLOGY 2024:2024.07.15.603542. [PMID: 39071399 PMCID: PMC11275776 DOI: 10.1101/2024.07.15.603542] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 07/30/2024]
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The small intestine is well known for the function of its nutrient-absorbing enterocytes; yet equally critical for the maintenance of homeostasis is a diverse set of secretory cells, all of which are presumed to differentiate from the same intestinal stem cell. Despite major roles in intestinal function and health, understanding how the full spectrum of secretory cell types arises remains a longstanding challenge, largely due to their comparative rarity. Here, we investigate the fate specification of a rare and distinct population of small intestinal epithelial cells found in rats and humans but not mice: C FTR Hi gh E xpressers (CHEs). We use pseudotime trajectory analysis of single-cell RNA-seq data from rat intestinal jejunum to provide evidence that CHEs are specified along the secretory lineage and appear to employ a second wave of Notch-based signal transduction to distinguish these cells from other secretory cell types. We further validate the general order of transcription factors that direct these cells from unspecified progenitors within the crypt and experimentally demonstrate that Notch signaling is necessary to induce CHE fate both in vivo and in vitro . Our results suggest a model in which Notch is reactivated along the secretory lineage to specify the CHE population: a rare secretory cell type with putative functions in localized coordination of luminal pH and direct relevance to cystic fibrosis pathophysiology.
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Coatti GC, Vaghela N, Gillurkar P, Leir SH, Harris A. A promoter-dependent upstream activator augments CFTR expression in diverse epithelial cell types. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA. GENE REGULATORY MECHANISMS 2024; 1867:195031. [PMID: 38679287 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbagrm.2024.195031] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/14/2024] [Revised: 04/22/2024] [Accepted: 04/23/2024] [Indexed: 05/01/2024]
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The cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) gene encodes an anion-selective channel found in epithelial cell membranes. Mutations in CFTR cause cystic fibrosis (CF), an inherited disorder that impairs epithelial function in multiple organs. Most men with CF are infertile due to loss of intact genital ducts. Here we investigated a novel epididymis-selective cis-regulatory element (CRE), located within a peak of open chromatin at -9.5 kb 5' to the CFTR gene promoter. Activation of the -9.5 kb CRE alone by CRISPRa had no impact on CFTR gene expression. However, CRISPRa co-activation of the -9.5 kb CRE and the CFTR gene promoter in epididymis cells significantly augmented CFTR mRNA and protein expression when compared to promoter activation alone. This increase was accompanied by enhanced chromatin accessibility at both sites. Furthermore, the combined CRISPRa strategy activated CFTR expression in other epithelial cells that lack open chromatin at the -9.5 kb site and in which the locus is normally inactive. However, the -9.5 kb CRE does not function as a classical enhancer of the CFTR promoter in transient reporter gene assays. These data provide a novel mechanism for activating/augmenting CFTR expression, which may have therapeutic utility for mutations that perturb CFTR transcription.
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- Giuliana C Coatti
- Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA
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- Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA
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- Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA
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- Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA
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- Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA.
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Angyal D, Groeneweg TA, Leung A, Desain M, Dulla K, de Jonge HR, Bijvelds MJC. Pro-inflammatory cytokines stimulate CFTR-dependent anion secretion in pancreatic ductal epithelium. Cell Mol Biol Lett 2024; 29:18. [PMID: 38262945 PMCID: PMC10807165 DOI: 10.1186/s11658-024-00537-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/24/2023] [Accepted: 01/17/2024] [Indexed: 01/25/2024] Open
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BACKGROUND Loss of CFTR-dependent anion and fluid secretion in the ducts of the exocrine pancreas is thought to contribute to the development of pancreatitis, but little is known about the impact of inflammation on ductal CFTR function. Here we used adult stem cell-derived cell cultures (organoids) obtained from porcine pancreas to evaluate the effects of pro-inflammatory cytokines on CFTR function. METHODS Organoids were cultured from porcine pancreas and used to prepare ductal epithelial monolayers. Monolayers were characterized by immunocytochemistry. Epithelial bicarbonate and chloride secretion, and the effect of IL-1β, IL-6, IFN-γ, and TNF-α on CFTR function was assessed by electrophysiology. RESULTS Immunolocalization of ductal markers, including CFTR, keratin 7, and zonula occludens 1, demonstrated that organoid-derived cells formed a highly polarized epithelium. Stimulation by secretin or VIP triggered CFTR-dependent anion secretion across epithelial monolayers, whereas purinergic receptor stimulation by UTP, elicited CFTR-independent anion secretion. Most of the anion secretory response was attributable to bicarbonate transport. The combination of IL-1β, IL-6, IFN-γ, and TNF-α markedly enhanced CFTR expression and anion secretion across ductal epithelial monolayers, whereas these cytokines had little effect when tested separately. Although TNF-α triggered apoptotic signaling, epithelial barrier function was not significantly affected by cytokine exposure. CONCLUSIONS Pro-inflammatory cytokines enhance CFTR-dependent anion secretion across pancreatic ductal epithelium. We propose that up-regulation of CFTR in the early stages of the inflammatory response, may serve to promote the removal of pathogenic stimuli from the ductal tree, and limit tissue injury.
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- Dora Angyal
- Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Erasmus MC University Medical Center, PO Box 2040, 3000CA, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Erasmus MC University Medical Center, PO Box 2040, 3000CA, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Erasmus MC University Medical Center, PO Box 2040, 3000CA, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Erasmus MC University Medical Center, PO Box 2040, 3000CA, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma GmbH & Co. KG, Binger Strasse 173, 55216, Ingelheim Am Rhein, Germany
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- Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Erasmus MC University Medical Center, PO Box 2040, 3000CA, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Erasmus MC University Medical Center, PO Box 2040, 3000CA, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
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Reyes EA, Castillo-Azofeifa D, Rispal J, Wald T, Zwick RK, Palikuqi B, Mujukian A, Rabizadeh S, Gupta AR, Gardner JM, Boffelli D, Gartner ZJ, Klein OD. Epithelial TNF controls cell differentiation and CFTR activity to maintain intestinal mucin homeostasis. J Clin Invest 2023; 133:e163591. [PMID: 37643009 PMCID: PMC10575728 DOI: 10.1172/jci163591] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/14/2022] [Accepted: 08/22/2023] [Indexed: 08/31/2023] Open
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The gastrointestinal tract relies on the production, maturation, and transit of mucin to protect against pathogens and to lubricate the epithelial lining. Although the molecular and cellular mechanisms that regulate mucin production and movement are beginning to be understood, the upstream epithelial signals that contribute to mucin regulation remain unclear. Here, we report that the inflammatory cytokine tumor necrosis factor (TNF), generated by the epithelium, contributes to mucin homeostasis by regulating both cell differentiation and cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) activity. We used genetic mouse models and noninflamed samples from patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) undergoing anti-TNF therapy to assess the effect of in vivo perturbation of TNF. We found that inhibition of epithelial TNF promotes the differentiation of secretory progenitor cells into mucus-producing goblet cells. Furthermore, TNF treatment and CFTR inhibition in intestinal organoids demonstrated that TNF promotes ion transport and luminal flow via CFTR. The absence of TNF led to slower gut transit times, which we propose results from increased mucus accumulation coupled with decreased luminal fluid pumping. These findings point to a TNF/CFTR signaling axis in the adult intestine and identify epithelial cell-derived TNF as an upstream regulator of mucin homeostasis.
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- Efren A. Reyes
- Department of Orofacial Sciences and Program in Craniofacial Biology, and
- Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry and TETRAD Program, UCSF, San Francisco, California, USA
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- Department of Orofacial Sciences and Program in Craniofacial Biology, and
- Department of Regenerative Medicine, Genentech, Inc., South San Francisco, California, USA
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- Department of Orofacial Sciences and Program in Craniofacial Biology, and
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- Department of Orofacial Sciences and Program in Craniofacial Biology, and
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- Department of Orofacial Sciences and Program in Craniofacial Biology, and
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- Department of Orofacial Sciences and Program in Craniofacial Biology, and
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- F. Widjaja Foundation Inflammatory Bowel and Immunobiology Research Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, USA
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- F. Widjaja Foundation Inflammatory Bowel and Immunobiology Research Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, USA
- Department of Pediatrics, Cedars-Sinai Guerin Children’s, Los Angeles, California, USA
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- Department of Surgery, and
- Diabetes Center, UCSF, San Francisco, California, USA
- Chan-Zuckerberg Biohub, San Francisco, California, USA
- The Center for Cellular Construction, San Francisco, California, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, Cedars-Sinai Guerin Children’s, Los Angeles, California, USA
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry and TETRAD Program, UCSF, San Francisco, California, USA
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- Department of Orofacial Sciences and Program in Craniofacial Biology, and
- Department of Pediatrics, Cedars-Sinai Guerin Children’s, Los Angeles, California, USA
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Carlos dos Reis D, Dastoor P, Santos AK, Sumigray K, Ameen NA. CFTR high expresser cells in cystic fibrosis and intestinal diseases. Heliyon 2023; 9:e14568. [PMID: 36967909 PMCID: PMC10031467 DOI: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e14568] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/28/2022] [Revised: 03/02/2023] [Accepted: 03/09/2023] [Indexed: 03/16/2023] Open
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Cystic Fibrosis Transmembrane Conductance Regulator (CFTR), the Cl-/HCO3 - channel implicated in Cystic Fibrosis, is critical to the pathophysiology of many gastrointestinal diseases. Defects in CFTR lead to intestinal dysfunction, malabsorption, obstruction, infection, inflammation, and cancer that increases morbidity and reduces quality of life. This review will focus on CFTR in the intestine and the implications of the subpopulation of CFTR High Expresser Cells (CHEs) in Cystic Fibrosis (CF), intestinal physiology and pathophysiology of intestinal diseases.
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- Diego Carlos dos Reis
- Department of Pediatrics/Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Yale School of Medicine, CT, 06510, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics/Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Yale School of Medicine, CT, 06510, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics/Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Yale School of Medicine, CT, 06510, USA
- Department of Genetics, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, 06510, USA
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- Department of Genetics, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, 06510, USA
- Yale Stem Cell Center, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, 06510, USA
- Yale Cancer Center, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, 06510, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics/Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Yale School of Medicine, CT, 06510, USA
- Department of Cellular and Molecular Physiology, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT06510, USA
- Corresponding author. Department of Pediatrics/Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Yale School of Medicine, CT, 06510, USA.
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Ahsan MK, dos Reis DC, Barbieri A, Sumigray KD, Nottoli T, Salas PJ, Ameen NA. Loss of Serum Glucocorticoid-Inducible Kinase 1 SGK1 Worsens Malabsorption and Diarrhea in Microvillus Inclusion Disease (MVID). J Clin Med 2022; 11:jcm11144179. [PMID: 35887942 PMCID: PMC9319011 DOI: 10.3390/jcm11144179] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/21/2022] [Revised: 07/12/2022] [Accepted: 07/14/2022] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Microvillus inclusion disease (MVID), a lethal congenital diarrheal disease, results from loss of function mutations in the apical actin motor myosin VB (MYO5B). How loss of MYO5B leads to both malabsorption and fluid secretion is not well understood. Serum glucocorticoid-inducible kinase 1 (SGK1) regulates intestinal carbohydrate and ion transporters including cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR). We hypothesized that loss of SGK1 could reduce CFTR fluid secretion and MVID diarrhea. Using CRISPR-Cas9 approaches, we generated R26CreER;MYO5Bf/f conditional single knockout (cMYO5BKO) and R26CreER;MYO5Bf/f;SGK1f/f double knockout (cSGK1/MYO5B-DKO) mice. Tamoxifen-treated cMYO5BKO mice resulted in characteristic features of human MVID including severe diarrhea, microvillus inclusions (MIs) in enterocytes, defective apical traffic, and depolarization of transporters. However, apical CFTR distribution was preserved in crypts and depolarized in villus enterocytes, and CFTR high expresser (CHE) cells were observed. cMYO5BKO mice displayed increased phosphorylation of SGK1, PDK1, and the PDK1 target PKCι in the intestine. Surprisingly, tamoxifen-treated cSGK1/MYO5B-DKO mice displayed more severe diarrhea than cMYO5BKO, with preservation of apical CFTR and CHE cells, greater fecal glucose and reduced SGLT1 and GLUT2 in the intestine. We conclude that loss of SGK1 worsens carbohydrate malabsorption and diarrhea in MVID.
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- Md Kaimul Ahsan
- Department of Pediatrics, Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06510, USA; (M.K.A.); (D.C.d.R.)
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- Department of Pediatrics, Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06510, USA; (M.K.A.); (D.C.d.R.)
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- Department of Pathology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06510, USA;
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- Department of Genetics, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06510, USA;
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- Genome Editing Center, Comparative Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06510, USA;
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- Department of Cell Biology, Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami, FL 33146, USA;
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- Department of Pediatrics, Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06510, USA; (M.K.A.); (D.C.d.R.)
- Department of Cellular and Molecular Physiology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06510, USA
- Correspondence:
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James KR, Elmentaite R, Teichmann SA, Hold GL. Redefining intestinal immunity with single-cell transcriptomics. Mucosal Immunol 2022; 15:531-541. [PMID: 34848830 PMCID: PMC8630196 DOI: 10.1038/s41385-021-00470-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/15/2021] [Revised: 10/27/2021] [Accepted: 11/03/2021] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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The intestinal immune system represents the largest collection of immune cells in the body and is continually exposed to antigens from food and the microbiota. Here we discuss the contribution of single-cell transcriptomics in shaping our understanding of this complex system. We consider the impact on resolving early intestine development, engagement with the neighbouring microbiota, diversity of intestinal immune cells, compartmentalisation within the intestines and interactions with non-immune cells. Finally, we offer a perspective on open questions about gut immunity that evolving single-cell technologies are well placed to address.
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- Kylie Renee James
- grid.415306.50000 0000 9983 6924Garvan-Weizmann Centre for Cellular Genomics, Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Sydney, NSW 2010 Australia ,grid.1005.40000 0004 4902 0432School of Medical Sciences, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW 2006 Australia
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- grid.10306.340000 0004 0606 5382Wellcome Sanger Institute, Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, CB10 1SA UK
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- grid.10306.340000 0004 0606 5382Wellcome Sanger Institute, Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, CB10 1SA UK ,grid.5335.00000000121885934Theory of Condensed Matter Group, Cavendish Laboratory/Department of Physics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, NSW CB3 0HE UK
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- grid.1005.40000 0004 4902 0432University of New South Wales Microbiome Research Centre, Sydney, NSW 2217 Australia
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Harris A. Human molecular genetics and the long road to treating cystic fibrosis. Hum Mol Genet 2021; 30:R264-R273. [PMID: 34245257 DOI: 10.1093/hmg/ddab191] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/24/2021] [Revised: 07/04/2021] [Accepted: 07/06/2021] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
Abstract
The causative gene in cystic fibrosis was identified in 1989, three years before the publication of the first issue of Human Molecular Genetics. CFTR was among the first genes underlying a common inherited disorder to be cloned, and hence its subsequent utilization towards a cure for CF provides a roadmap for other monogenic diseases. Over the past 30 years the advances that built upon knowledge of the gene and the CFTR protein to develop effective therapeutics have been remarkable, and yet the setbacks have also been challenging. Technological progress in other fields has often circumvented the barriers. This review focuses on key aspects of CF diagnostics and current approaches to develop new therapies for all CFTR mutations. It also highlights the major research advances that underpinned progress towards treatments, and considers the remaining obstacles.
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- Ann Harris
- Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, 44106, USA
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Wen J, Mercado GP, Volland A, Doden HL, Lickwar CR, Crooks T, Kakiyama G, Kelly C, Cocchiaro JL, Ridlon JM, Rawls JF. Fxr signaling and microbial metabolism of bile salts in the zebrafish intestine. SCIENCE ADVANCES 2021; 7:eabg1371. [PMID: 34301599 PMCID: PMC8302129 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abg1371] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/13/2020] [Accepted: 06/07/2021] [Indexed: 05/02/2023]
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Bile salt synthesis, secretion into the intestinal lumen, and resorption in the ileum occur in all vertebrate classes. In mammals, bile salt composition is determined by host and microbial enzymes, affecting signaling through the bile salt-binding transcription factor farnesoid X receptor (Fxr). However, these processes in other vertebrate classes remain poorly understood. We show that key components of hepatic bile salt synthesis and ileal transport pathways are conserved and under control of Fxr in zebrafish. Zebrafish bile salts consist primarily of a C27 bile alcohol and a C24 bile acid that undergo multiple microbial modifications including bile acid deconjugation that augments Fxr activity. Using single-cell RNA sequencing, we provide a cellular atlas of the zebrafish intestinal epithelium and uncover roles for Fxr in transcriptional and differentiation programs in ileal and other cell types. These results establish zebrafish as a nonmammalian vertebrate model for studying bile salt metabolism and Fxr signaling.
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- Jia Wen
- Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Duke Microbiome Center, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, USA
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- Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Duke Microbiome Center, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, USA
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- Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA
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- Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA
- Department of Animal Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA
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- Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Duke Microbiome Center, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, USA
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- Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA
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- Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, USA
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- Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Duke Microbiome Center, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, USA
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- Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Duke Microbiome Center, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, USA
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- Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA.
- Department of Animal Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA
- Division of Nutritional Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA
- Cancer Center of Illinois, Urbana, IL, USA
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- Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Duke Microbiome Center, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, USA.
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Busslinger GA, Weusten BLA, Bogte A, Begthel H, Brosens LAA, Clevers H. Human gastrointestinal epithelia of the esophagus, stomach, and duodenum resolved at single-cell resolution. Cell Rep 2021; 34:108819. [PMID: 33691112 DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2021.108819] [Citation(s) in RCA: 137] [Impact Index Per Article: 45.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/08/2020] [Revised: 12/23/2020] [Accepted: 02/10/2021] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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The upper gastrointestinal tract, consisting of the esophagus, stomach, and duodenum, controls food transport, digestion, nutrient uptake, and hormone production. By single-cell analysis of healthy epithelia of these human organs, we molecularly define their distinct cell types. We identify a quiescent COL17A1high KRT15high stem/progenitor cell population in the most basal cell layer of the esophagus and detect substantial gene expression differences between identical cell types of the human and mouse stomach. Selective expression of BEST4, CFTR, guanylin, and uroguanylin identifies a rare duodenal cell type, referred to as BCHE cell, which likely mediates high-volume fluid secretion because of continual activation of the CFTR channel by guanylin/uroguanylin-mediated autocrine signaling. Serotonin-producing enterochromaffin cells in the antral stomach significantly differ in gene expression from duodenal enterochromaffin cells. We, furthermore, discover that the histamine-producing enterochromaffin-like cells in the oxyntic stomach express the luteinizing hormone, yet another member of the enteroendocrine hormone family.
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- Georg A Busslinger
- Hubrecht Institute and Oncode Institute, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW), Utrecht, the Netherlands; Princess Maxima Center for Pediatric Oncology, Utrecht, the Netherlands
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- Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, UMC Utrecht, University of Utrecht, Utrecht, the Netherlands
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- Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, UMC Utrecht, University of Utrecht, Utrecht, the Netherlands
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- Hubrecht Institute and Oncode Institute, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW), Utrecht, the Netherlands
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- Department of Pathology, UMC Utrecht, University of Utrecht, Utrecht, the Netherlands
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- Hubrecht Institute and Oncode Institute, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW), Utrecht, the Netherlands; Princess Maxima Center for Pediatric Oncology, Utrecht, the Netherlands.
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Amiri M, Seidler UE, Nikolovska K. The Role of pH i in Intestinal Epithelial Proliferation-Transport Mechanisms, Regulatory Pathways, and Consequences. Front Cell Dev Biol 2021; 9:618135. [PMID: 33553180 PMCID: PMC7862550 DOI: 10.3389/fcell.2021.618135] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/16/2020] [Accepted: 01/04/2021] [Indexed: 01/07/2023] Open
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During the maturation of intestinal epithelial cells along the crypt/surface axis, a multitude of acid/base transporters are differentially expressed in their apical and basolateral membranes, enabling processes of electrolyte, macromolecule, nutrient, acid/base and fluid secretion, and absorption. An intracellular pH (pHi)-gradient is generated along the epithelial crypt/surface axis, either as a consequence of the sum of the ion transport activities or as a distinctly regulated entity. While the role of pHi on proliferation, migration, and tumorigenesis has been explored in cancer cells for some time, emerging evidence suggests an important role of the pHi in the intestinal stem cells (ISCs) proliferative rate under physiological conditions. The present review highlights the current state of knowledge about the potential regulatory role of pHi on intestinal proliferation and differentiation.
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Leir SH, Yin S, Kerschner JL, Cosme W, Harris A. An atlas of human proximal epididymis reveals cell-specific functions and distinct roles for CFTR. Life Sci Alliance 2020; 3:e202000744. [PMID: 32855272 PMCID: PMC7471510 DOI: 10.26508/lsa.202000744] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/17/2020] [Revised: 08/13/2020] [Accepted: 08/13/2020] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
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Spermatozoa released from the testis are unable to fertilize an egg without a coordinated process of maturation in the lumen of the epididymis. Relatively little is known about the molecular events that integrate this critical progression along the male genital ducts in man. Here, we use single cell RNA-sequencing to construct an atlas of the human proximal epididymis. We find that the CFTR, which is pivotal in normal epididymis fluid transport, is most abundant in surface epithelial cells in the efferent ducts and in rare clear cells in the caput epididymis, suggesting region-specific functional properties. We reveal transcriptional signatures for multiple cell clusters, which identify the individual roles of principal, apical, narrow, basal, clear, halo, and stromal cells in the epididymis. A marked cell type-specific distribution of function is seen along the duct with local specialization of individual cell types integrating processes of sperm maturation.
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- Shih-Hsing Leir
- Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, and Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, Cleveland, OH, USA
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- Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, and Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, Cleveland, OH, USA
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- Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, and Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, Cleveland, OH, USA
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- Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, and Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, Cleveland, OH, USA
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- Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, and Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, Cleveland, OH, USA
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Rao MC. Physiology of Electrolyte Transport in the Gut: Implications for Disease. Compr Physiol 2019; 9:947-1023. [PMID: 31187895 DOI: 10.1002/cphy.c180011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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We now have an increased understanding of the genetics, cell biology, and physiology of electrolyte transport processes in the mammalian intestine, due to the availability of sophisticated methodologies ranging from genome wide association studies to CRISPR-CAS technology, stem cell-derived organoids, 3D microscopy, electron cryomicroscopy, single cell RNA sequencing, transgenic methodologies, and tools to manipulate cellular processes at a molecular level. This knowledge has simultaneously underscored the complexity of biological systems and the interdependence of multiple regulatory systems. In addition to the plethora of mammalian neurohumoral factors and their cross talk, advances in pyrosequencing and metagenomic analyses have highlighted the relevance of the microbiome to intestinal regulation. This article provides an overview of our current understanding of electrolyte transport processes in the small and large intestine, their regulation in health and how dysregulation at multiple levels can result in disease. Intestinal electrolyte transport is a balance of ion secretory and ion absorptive processes, all exquisitely dependent on the basolateral Na+ /K+ ATPase; when this balance goes awry, it can result in diarrhea or in constipation. The key transporters involved in secretion are the apical membrane Cl- channels and the basolateral Na+ -K+ -2Cl- cotransporter, NKCC1 and K+ channels. Absorption chiefly involves apical membrane Na+ /H+ exchangers and Cl- /HCO3 - exchangers in the small intestine and proximal colon and Na+ channels in the distal colon. Key examples of our current understanding of infectious, inflammatory, and genetic diarrheal diseases and of constipation are provided. © 2019 American Physiological Society. Compr Physiol 9:947-1023, 2019.
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- Mrinalini C Rao
- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA
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Swahn H, Harris A. Cell-Selective Regulation of CFTR Gene Expression: Relevance to Gene Editing Therapeutics. Genes (Basel) 2019; 10:E235. [PMID: 30893953 PMCID: PMC6471542 DOI: 10.3390/genes10030235] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/25/2018] [Revised: 02/26/2019] [Accepted: 02/27/2019] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
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The cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) gene is an attractive target for gene editing approaches, which may yield novel therapeutic approaches for genetic diseases such as cystic fibrosis (CF). However, for gene editing to be effective, aspects of the three-dimensional (3D) structure and cis-regulatory elements governing the dynamic expression of CFTR need to be considered. In this review, we focus on the higher order chromatin organization required for normal CFTR locus function, together with the complex mechanisms controlling expression of the gene in different cell types impaired by CF pathology. Across all cells, the CFTR locus is organized into an invariant topologically associated domain (TAD) established by the architectural proteins CCCTC-binding factor (CTCF) and cohesin complex. Additional insulator elements within the TAD also recruit these factors. Although the CFTR promoter is required for basal levels of expression, cis-regulatory elements (CREs) in intergenic and intronic regions are crucial for cell-specific and temporal coordination of CFTR transcription. These CREs are recruited to the promoter through chromatin looping mechanisms and enhance cell-type-specific expression. These features of the CFTR locus should be considered when designing gene-editing approaches, since failure to recognize their importance may disrupt gene expression and reduce the efficacy of therapies.
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- Hannah Swahn
- Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44067, USA.
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- Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44067, USA.
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Seidler U, Nikolovska K. Slc26 Family of Anion Transporters in the Gastrointestinal Tract: Expression, Function, Regulation, and Role in Disease. Compr Physiol 2019; 9:839-872. [DOI: 10.1002/cphy.c180027] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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Dey I, Bradbury NA. Physiology of the Gut: Experimental Models for Investigating Intestinal Fluid and Electrolyte Transport. CURRENT TOPICS IN MEMBRANES 2018; 81:337-381. [PMID: 30243437 DOI: 10.1016/bs.ctm.2018.08.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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Once thought to be exclusively an absorptive tissue, the intestine is now recognized as an important secretory tissue, playing a key role in body ion and fluid homeostasis. Given the intestine's role in fluid homeostasis, it is not surprising that important clinical pathologies arise from imbalances in fluid absorption and secretion. Perhaps the most important examples of this can be seen in enterotoxigenic secretory diarrheas with extreme fluid secretion, and Cystic Fibrosis with little or no fluid secretion. A mechanistic understanding of the cellular pathways regulating ion and fluid transport has been obtained from a variety of approaches and model systems. These have ranged from the intact intestine to a single intestinal epithelial cell type. Although for many years a reductionist approach has held sway for investigating intestinal transport, the growing realization that physiologic processes should really be examined within a physiological context has seen a marked increase in studies using models that are essentially mini-intestines in a dish. The aim of this chapter is to provide a historical context for our understanding of intestinal ion and fluid transport, and to highlight the model systems that have been used to acquire this knowledge.
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- Isha Dey
- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Chicago Medical School, North Chicago, IL, United States
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Chicago Medical School, North Chicago, IL, United States
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Kravtsov DV, Ahsan MK, Kumari V, van Ijzendoorn SCD, Reyes-Mugica M, Kumar A, Gujral T, Dudeja PK, Ameen NA. Identification of intestinal ion transport defects in microvillus inclusion disease. Am J Physiol Gastrointest Liver Physiol 2016; 311:G142-55. [PMID: 27229121 PMCID: PMC4967175 DOI: 10.1152/ajpgi.00041.2016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/28/2016] [Accepted: 05/08/2016] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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Loss of function mutations in the actin motor myosin Vb (Myo5b) lead to microvillus inclusion disease (MVID) and death in newborns and children. MVID results in secretory diarrhea, brush border (BB) defects, villus atrophy, and microvillus inclusions (MVIs) in enterocytes. How loss of Myo5b results in increased stool loss of chloride (Cl(-)) and sodium (Na(+)) is unknown. The present study used Myo5b loss-of-function human MVID intestine, polarized intestinal cell models of secretory crypt (T84) and villus resembling (CaCo2BBe, C2BBe) enterocytes lacking Myo5b in conjunction with immunofluorescence confocal stimulated emission depletion (gSTED) imaging, immunohistochemical staining, transmission electron microscopy, shRNA silencing, immunoblots, and electrophysiological approaches to examine the distribution, expression, and function of the major BB ion transporters NHE3 (Na(+)), CFTR (Cl(-)), and SLC26A3 (DRA) (Cl(-)/HCO3 (-)) that control intestinal fluid transport. We hypothesized that enterocyte maturation defects lead villus atrophy with immature secretory cryptlike enterocytes in the MVID epithelium. We investigated the role of Myo5b in enterocyte maturation. NHE3 and DRA localization and function were markedly reduced on the BB membrane of human MVID enterocytes and Myo5bKD C2BBe cells, while CFTR localization was preserved. Forskolin-stimulated CFTR ion transport in Myo5bKD T84 cells resembled that of control. Loss of Myo5b led to YAP1 nuclear retention, retarded enterocyte maturation, and a cryptlike phenotype. We conclude that preservation of functional CFTR in immature enterocytes, reduced functional expression of NHE3, and DRA contribute to Cl(-) and Na(+) stool loss in MVID diarrhea.
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- Dmitri V. Kravtsov
- 1Department of Pediatrics/Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut;
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- 1Department of Pediatrics/Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut;
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- 1Department of Pediatrics/Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut;
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- 2Department of Cell Biology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands;
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- 4Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Medicine, University of Illinois and Jesse Brown Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois; and
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- 4Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Medicine, University of Illinois and Jesse Brown Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois; and
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- 4Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Medicine, University of Illinois and Jesse Brown Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois; and
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- 1Department of Pediatrics/Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut; ,5Department of Cellular and Molecular Physiology, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut
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Navis A, Bagnat M. Loss of cftr function leads to pancreatic destruction in larval zebrafish. Dev Biol 2015; 399:237-48. [PMID: 25592226 DOI: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2014.12.034] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/13/2014] [Revised: 12/29/2014] [Accepted: 12/30/2014] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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The development and function of many internal organs requires precisely regulated fluid secretion. A key regulator of vertebrate fluid secretion is an anion channel, the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR). Loss of CFTR function leads to defects in fluid transport and cystic fibrosis (CF), a complex disease characterized by a loss of fluid secretion and mucus buildup in many organs including the lungs, liver, and pancreas. Several animal models including mouse, ferret and pig have been generated to investigate the pathophysiology of CF. However, these models have limited accessibility to early processes in the development of CF and are not amenable for forward genetic or chemical screens. Here, we show that Cftr is expressed and localized to the apical membrane of the zebrafish pancreatic duct and that loss of cftr function leads to destruction of the exocrine pancreas and a cystic fibrosis phenotype that mirrors human disease. Our analyses reveal that the cftr mutant pancreas initially develops normally, then rapidly loses pancreatic tissue during larval life, reflecting pancreatic disease in CF. Altogether, we demonstrate that the cftr mutant zebrafish is a powerful new model for pancreatitis and pancreatic destruction in CF. This accessible model will allow more detailed investigation into the mechanisms that drive CF of the pancreas and facilitate development of new therapies to treat the disease.
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- Adam Navis
- Department of Cell Biology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, United States
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- Department of Cell Biology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, United States.
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Digestive system dysfunction in cystic fibrosis: challenges for nutrition therapy. Dig Liver Dis 2014; 46:865-74. [PMID: 25053610 DOI: 10.1016/j.dld.2014.06.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/17/2014] [Revised: 06/10/2014] [Accepted: 06/28/2014] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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Cystic fibrosis can affect food digestion and nutrient absorption. The underlying mutation of the cystic fibrosis trans-membrane regulator gene depletes functional cystic fibrosis trans-membrane regulator on the surface of epithelial cells lining the digestive tract and associated organs, where Cl(-) secretion and subsequently secretion of water and other ions are impaired. This alters pH and dehydrates secretions that precipitate and obstruct the lumen, causing inflammation and the eventual degradation of the pancreas, liver, gallbladder and intestine. Associated conditions include exocrine pancreatic insufficiency, impaired bicarbonate and bile acid secretion and aberrant mucus formation, commonly leading to maldigestion and malabsorption, particularly of fat and fat-soluble vitamins. Pancreatic enzyme replacement therapy is used to address this insufficiency. The susceptibility of pancreatic lipase to acidic and enzymatic inactivation and decreased bile availability often impedes its efficacy. Brush border digestive enzyme activity and intestinal uptake of certain disaccharides and amino acids await clarification. Other complications that may contribute to maldigestion/malabsorption include small intestine bacterial overgrowth, enteric circular muscle dysfunction, abnormal intestinal mucus, and intestinal inflammation. However, there is some evidence that gastric digestive enzymes, colonic microflora, correction of fatty acid abnormalities using dietary n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acid supplementation and emerging intestinal biomarkers can complement nutrition management in cystic fibrosis.
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Alcolado NG, Conrad DJ, Poroca D, Li M, Alshafie W, Chappe FG, Pelis RM, Anini Y, Xu Z, Hamidi S, Said SI, Chappe VM. Cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator dysfunction in VIP knockout mice. Am J Physiol Cell Physiol 2014; 307:C195-207. [PMID: 24898584 DOI: 10.1152/ajpcell.00293.2013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Vasoactive intestinal peptide (VIP), a neuropeptide, controls multiple functions in exocrine tissues, including inflammation, and relaxation of airway and vascular smooth muscles, and regulates CFTR-dependent secretion, which contributes to mucus hydration and local innate defense of the lung. We had previously reported that VIP stimulates the VPAC1 receptor, PKCϵ signaling cascade, and increases CFTR stability and function at the apical membrane of airway epithelial cells by reducing its internalization rate. Moreover, prolonged VIP stimulation corrects the molecular defects associated with F508del, the most common CFTR mutation responsible for the genetic disease cystic fibrosis. In the present study, we have examined the impact of the absence of VIP on CFTR maturation, cellular localization, and function in vivo using VIP knockout mice. We have conducted pathological assessments and detected signs of lung and intestinal disease. Immunodetection methods have shown that the absence of VIP results in CFTR intracellular retention despite normal expression and maturation levels. A subsequent loss of CFTR-dependent chloride current was measured in functional assays with Ussing chamber analysis of the small intestine ex vivo, creating a cystic fibrosis-like condition. Interestingly, intraperitoneal administration of VIP corrected tissue abnormalities, close to the wild-type phenotype, as well as associated defects in the vital CFTR protein. The results show in vivo a primary role for VIP chronic exposure in CFTR membrane stability and function and confirm in vitro data.
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- Nicole G Alcolado
- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
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- Department of Pharmacology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada; Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada; and
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- Department of Pathology, Dalhousie University and QE II Health Sciences Centre, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
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- Department of Medicine and Pulmonary Critical Care, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York
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- Department of Medicine and Pulmonary Critical Care, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada;
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Song P, Du Y, Song W, Liu X, Hong L, Li H, Xie H, Zhou L, Tuo B, Zheng S. Bile deficiency induces changes in intestinal Cl(-) and HCO3 (-) secretions in mice. Acta Physiol (Oxf) 2014; 211:421-33. [PMID: 24731192 DOI: 10.1111/apha.12301] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/22/2013] [Revised: 08/28/2013] [Accepted: 04/10/2014] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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AIMS Biliary tract obstruction is a common clinical lesion. However, the effect of biliary tract obstruction on intestinal secretion is poorly understood. In this study, we made an investigation on intestinal HCO3 (-) and Cl(-) secretions in an experimental model of murine biliary duct ligation. METHODS Murine intestinal mucosal HCO3 (-) and Cl(-) secretions were examined in vitro in Ussing chambers by pH-stat and short-circuit current (Isc ) techniques. The mRNA and protein expressions of the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) and the Na(+) -K(+) -2Cl(-) cotransporter (NKCC1) were analysed by real-time PCR, western blot and immunohistochemistry. RESULTS Basal Cl(-) secretion and forskolin-stimulated duodenal and jejunal mucosal HCO3 (-) and Cl(-) secretions in mice with common biliary duct ligation were markedly elevated, compared with controls (P < 0.05 and P < 0.01). Further experiments showed that basal Cl(-) secretion and forskolin-stimulated duodenal and jejunal mucosal HCO3 (-) and Cl(-) secretions in mice with external bile drainage were also markedly elevated. CFTRinh -172 inhibited forskolin-stimulated HCO3 (-) and Cl(-) secretions. The mRNA and protein expression levels of CFTR and NKCC1 in the intestinal mucosa with both biliary duct ligation and external bile drainage were markedly higher than those in controls (P < 0.001). Bile acid administration restored the changes in function and expression of CFTR and NKCC1 in the intestinal mucosa. CONCLUSION Bile deficiency in the intestine up-regulates the expressions of intestinal mucosal CFTR and NKCC1 and enhances intestinal mucosal HCO3 (-) and Cl(-) secretion capacity, which contributes to the understanding of intestinal physiological function for patients with biliary duct obstruction.
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- P. Song
- Key Laboratory of Combined Multi-organ Transplantation; Ministry of Public Health; First Affiliated Hospital; School of Medicine; Zhejiang University; Hangzhou 310003 China
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- Key Laboratory of Combined Multi-organ Transplantation; Ministry of Public Health; First Affiliated Hospital; School of Medicine; Zhejiang University; Hangzhou 310003 China
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- Key Laboratory of Combined Multi-organ Transplantation; Ministry of Public Health; First Affiliated Hospital; School of Medicine; Zhejiang University; Hangzhou 310003 China
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- Department of Surgery; First Affiliated Hospital; School of Medicine; Zhejiang University; Hangzhou 310003 China
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- Key Laboratory of Combined Multi-organ Transplantation; Ministry of Public Health; First Affiliated Hospital; School of Medicine; Zhejiang University; Hangzhou 310003 China
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- Key Laboratory of Combined Multi-organ Transplantation; Ministry of Public Health; First Affiliated Hospital; School of Medicine; Zhejiang University; Hangzhou 310003 China
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- Key Laboratory of Combined Multi-organ Transplantation; Ministry of Public Health; First Affiliated Hospital; School of Medicine; Zhejiang University; Hangzhou 310003 China
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- Key Laboratory of Combined Multi-organ Transplantation; Ministry of Public Health; First Affiliated Hospital; School of Medicine; Zhejiang University; Hangzhou 310003 China
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- Department of Gastroenterology; Affiliated Hospital of Zunyi Medical College; Zunyi 563003 China
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- Key Laboratory of Combined Multi-organ Transplantation; Ministry of Public Health; First Affiliated Hospital; School of Medicine; Zhejiang University; Hangzhou 310003 China
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Jakab RL, Collaco AM, Ameen NA. Characterization of CFTR High Expresser cells in the intestine. Am J Physiol Gastrointest Liver Physiol 2013; 305:G453-65. [PMID: 23868408 PMCID: PMC3761243 DOI: 10.1152/ajpgi.00094.2013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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The CFTR High Expresser (CHE) cells express eightfold higher levels of the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) Cl(-) channel compared with neighboring enterocytes and were first identified by our laboratory (Ameen et al., Gastroenterology 108: 1016, 1995). We used double-label immunofluorescence microscopy to further study these enigmatic epithelial cells in rat intestine in vivo or ex vivo. CHE cells were found in duodenum, most frequent in proximal jejunum, and absent in ileum and colon. CFTR abundance increased in CHE cells along the crypt-villus axis. The basolateral Na(+)K(+)Cl(-) cotransporter NKCC1, a key transporter involved in Cl(-) secretion, was detected at similar levels in CHE cells and neighboring enterocytes at steady state. Microvilli appeared shorter in CHE cells, with low levels of Myosin 1a, a villus enterocyte-specific motor that retains sucrase/isomaltase in the brush-border membrane (BBM). CHE cells lacked alkaline phosphatase and absorptive villus enterocyte BBM proteins, including Na(+)H(+) exchanger NHE3, Cl(-)/HCO3(-) exchanger SLC26A6 (putative anion exchanger 1), and sucrase/isomaltase. High levels of the vacuolar-ATPase proton pump were observed in the apical domain of CHE cells. Levels of the NHE regulatory factor NHERF1, Na-K-ATPase, and Syntaxin 3 were similar to that of neighboring enterocytes. cAMP or acetylcholine stimulation robustly increased apical CFTR and basolateral NKCC1 disproportionately in CHE cells relative to neighboring enterocytes. These data strongly argue for a specialized role of CHE cells in Cl(-)-mediated "high-volume" fluid secretion on the villi of the proximal small intestine.
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- Robert L. Jakab
- Departments of 1Pediatrics/Gastroenterology and Hepatology, and
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- Departments of 1Pediatrics/Gastroenterology and Hepatology, and
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- Departments of 1Pediatrics/Gastroenterology and Hepatology, and ,2Cellular and Molecular Physiology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut
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Frizzell RA, Hanrahan JW. Physiology of epithelial chloride and fluid secretion. Cold Spring Harb Perspect Med 2013; 2:a009563. [PMID: 22675668 DOI: 10.1101/cshperspect.a009563] [Citation(s) in RCA: 154] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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Epithelial salt and water secretion serves a variety of functions in different organ systems, such as the airways, intestines, pancreas, and salivary glands. In cystic fibrosis (CF), the volume and/or composition of secreted luminal fluids are compromised owing to mutations in the gene encoding CFTR, the apical membrane anion channel that is responsible for salt secretion in response to cAMP/PKA stimulation. This article examines CFTR and related cellular transport processes that underlie epithelial anion and fluid secretion, their regulation, and how these processes are altered in CF disease to account for organ-specific secretory phenotypes.
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- Raymond A Frizzell
- Department of Cell Biology and Physiology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.
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Jakab RL, Collaco AM, Ameen NA. Cell-specific effects of luminal acid, bicarbonate, cAMP, and carbachol on transporter trafficking in the intestine. Am J Physiol Gastrointest Liver Physiol 2012; 303:G937-50. [PMID: 22936272 PMCID: PMC3469693 DOI: 10.1152/ajpgi.00452.2011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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Changes in intestinal luminal pH affect mucosal ion transport. The aim of this study was to compare how luminal pH and specific second messengers modulate the membrane traffic of four major ion transporters (CFTR, NHE3, NKCC1, and NBCe1) in rat small intestine. Ligated duodenal, jejunal, and ileal segments were infused with acidic or alkaline saline, 8-Br-cAMP, or the calcium agonist carbachol in vivo for 20 min. Compared with untreated intestine, lumen pH was reduced after cAMP or carbachol and increased following HCO(3)(-)-saline. Following HCl-saline, lumen pH was restored to control pH levels. All four secretory stimuli resulted in brush-border membrane (BBM) recruitment of CFTR in crypts and villi. In villus enterocytes, CFTR recruitment was coincident with internalization of BBM NHE3 and basolateral membrane recruitment of the bicarbonate transporter NBCe1. Both cAMP and carbachol recruited NKCC1 to the basolateral membrane of enterocytes, while luminal acid or HCO(3)(-) retained NKCC1 in intracellular vesicles. Luminal acid resulted in robust recruitment of CFTR and NBCe1 to their respective enterocyte membrane domains in the upper third of the villi; luminal HCO(3)(-) induced similar membrane changes lower in the villi. These findings indicate that each stimulus promotes a specific transporter trafficking response along the crypt-villus axis. This is the first demonstration that physiologically relevant secretory stimuli exert their actions in villus enterocytes by membrane recruitment of CFTR and NBCe1 in tandem with NHE3 internalization.
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- Robert L. Jakab
- 1Departments of Pediatrics/Gastroenterology and Hepatology, and
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- 1Departments of Pediatrics/Gastroenterology and Hepatology, and
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- 1Departments of Pediatrics/Gastroenterology and Hepatology, and ,2Cellular and Molecular Physiology Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut
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Fan S, Harfoot N, Bartolo RC, Butt AG. CFTR is restricted to a small population of high expresser cells that provide a forskolin-sensitive transepithelial Cl- conductance in the proximal colon of the possum, Trichosurus vulpecula. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2012; 215:1218-30. [PMID: 22399668 DOI: 10.1242/jeb.061176] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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The cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) is central to anion secretion in both the possum and eutherian small intestine. Here, we investigated its role in the possum proximal colon, which has novel transport properties compared with the eutherian proximal colon. Despite considerable CFTR expression, high doses of the CFTR activator forskolin (EC(50)≈10 μmol l(-1)) were required for a modest, CFTR-dependent increase in short-circuit current (I(sc)) in the proximal colon. Presumably, this is because CFTR is restricted to the apical membrane of a small population of CFTR high expresser (CHE) cells in the surface and upper crypt epithelium. Furthermore, although the forskolin-stimulated I(sc) was dependent on serosal Na(+), Cl(-) and HCO(3)(-), consistent with anion secretion, inhibition of the basolateral Na-K-2Cl(-) (NKCC1) or Na-HCO(3) (pNBCe1) cotransporters did not prevent it. Therefore, although NKCC1 and pNBCe1 are expressed in the colonic epithelium they do not appear to be expressed in CHE cells. At low doses (IC(50)≈1 μmol l(-1)), forskolin also decreased the transepithelial conductance (G(T)) of the colon through inhibition of a 4,4'-diisothiocyano-2,2'-stilbenedisulphonic acid-sensitive anion conductance in the basolateral membrane of the CHE cells. This conductance is arranged in series with CFTR in the CHE cells and, therefore, the CHE cells provide a transepithelial Cl(-) conductance for passive Cl(-) absorption across the epithelium. Inhibition of the basolateral Cl(-) conductance of the CHE cells by forskolin will inhibit Na(+) absorption by restricting the movement of its counter-ion Cl(-), assisting in the conversion of the tissue from an absorptive to a secretory state.
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- Shujun Fan
- Department of Physiology, School of Medical Sciences, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
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Liu J, Walker NM, Cook MT, Ootani A, Clarke LL. Functional Cftr in crypt epithelium of organotypic enteroid cultures from murine small intestine. Am J Physiol Cell Physiol 2012; 302:C1492-503. [PMID: 22403785 DOI: 10.1152/ajpcell.00392.2011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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Physiological studies of intact crypt epithelium have been limited by problems of accessibility in vivo and dedifferentiation in standard primary culture. Investigations of murine intestinal stem cells have recently yielded a primary intestinal culture in three-dimensional gel suspension that recapitulates crypt structure and epithelial differentiation (Sato T, Vries RG, Snippert HJ, van de Wetering M, Barker N, Stange DE, Van Es JH, Abo A, Kujala P, Peters PJ, Clevers H. Nature 459: 262-265, 2009). We investigated the utility of murine intestinal crypt cultures (termed "enteroids") for physiological studies of crypt epithelium by focusing on the transport activity of the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator Cftr. Enteroids had multiple crypts with well-differentiated goblet and Paneth cells that degranulated on exposure to the muscarinic agonist carbachol. Modified growth medium provided a crypt proliferation rate, as measured by 5-ethynyl-2'-deoxyuridine labeling, which was similar to proliferation in vivo. Immunoblots demonstrated equivalent Cftr expression in comparisons of freshly isolated crypts with primary and passage 1 enteroids. Apparent enteroid differences in mRNA expression of other transporters were primarily associated with villous epithelial contamination of freshly isolated crypts. Microelectrode analysis revealed cAMP-stimulated membrane depolarization in enteroid epithelium from wild-type (WT) but not Cftr knockout (KO) mice. Morphological and microfluorimetric studies, respectively, demonstrated Cftr-dependent cell shrinkage and lower intracellular pH in WT enteroid epithelium in contrast to Cftr KO epithelium or WT epithelium treated with Cftr inhibitor 172. We conclude that crypt epithelium of murine enteroids exhibit Cftr expression and activity that recapitulates crypt epithelium in vivo. Enteroids provide a primary culture model that is suitable for physiological studies of regenerating crypt epithelium.
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- Jinghua Liu
- Dalton Cardiovascular Research Center, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211, USA
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Gill M, Bartolo RC, Demmers K, Harfoot N, Fan S, Butt G. The distribution and expression of CFTR restricts electrogenic anion secretion to the ileum of the brushtail possum, Trichosurus vulpecula. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2011; 214:1943-54. [PMID: 21562182 DOI: 10.1242/jeb.053371] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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In eutherian mammals, fluid secretion is essential for intestinal function. This is driven by electrogenic Cl(-) secretion, which involves a NaK2Cl cotransporter (NKCC1) in the enterocyte basolateral membrane and the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) in the apical membrane. However, in the possum ileum, NKCC1 expression is low and secretagogues stimulate electrogenic HCO(3)(-) secretion driven by a basolateral NaHCO(3) cotransporter (pNBCe1). Here we investigated whether electrogenic anion secretion occurs in possum duodenum and jejunum and determined the role of CFTR in possum intestinal anion secretion. Prostaglandin E(2) (PGE(2)) and forskolin stimulated a large increase in ileal short-circuit current (I(sc)), consistent with electrogenic HCO(3)(-) secretion, but had little effect on the duodenal and jejunal I(sc). Furthermore, 5-nitro-2-(3-phenylpropylamino)benzoic acid (NPPB) and N-(2-naphthalenyl)-[(3,5-dibromo-2,4-dihydroxyphenyl)methylene]glycine hydrazide (GlyH101) inhibited cloned possum CFTR in cultured cells and the PGE(2)-stimulated ileal I(sc), implicating CFTR in ileal HCO(3)(-) secretion. Consistent with this, CFTR is expressed in the apical membrane of ileal crypt and lower villous cells, which also express pNBCe1 in the basolateral membrane. In contrast, duodenal and jejunal CFTR expression is low relative to the ileum. Jejunal pNBCe1 expression is also low, whereas duodenal and ileal pNBCe1 expression are comparable. All regions have low NKCC1 expression. These results indicate that cAMP-dependent electrogenic Cl(-) secretion does not occur in the possum small intestine because of the absence of CFTR and NKCC1. Furthermore, CFTR functions as the apical anion conductance associated with HCO(3)(-) secretion and its distribution limits electrogenic HCO(3)(-) secretion to the ileum.
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- Mike Gill
- Department of Physiology, School of Medical Sciences, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
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Jakab RL, Collaco AM, Ameen NA. Physiological relevance of cell-specific distribution patterns of CFTR, NKCC1, NBCe1, and NHE3 along the crypt-villus axis in the intestine. Am J Physiol Gastrointest Liver Physiol 2011; 300:G82-98. [PMID: 21030607 PMCID: PMC3025502 DOI: 10.1152/ajpgi.00245.2010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 99] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/26/2010] [Accepted: 10/27/2010] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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We examined the cell-specific subcellular expression patterns for sodium- and potassium-coupled chloride (NaK2Cl) cotransporter 1 (NKCC1), Na(+) bicarbonate cotransporter (NBCe1), cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR), and Na(+)/H(+) exchanger 3 (NHE3) to understand the functional plasticity and synchronization of ion transport functions along the crypt-villus axis and its relevance to intestinal disease. In the unstimulated intestine, all small intestinal villus enterocytes coexpressed apical CFTR and NHE3, basolateral NBCe1, and mostly intracellular NKCC1. All (crypt and villus) goblet cells strongly expressed basolateral NKCC1 (at approximately three-fold higher levels than villus enterocytes), but no CFTR, NBCe1, or NHE3. Lower crypt cells coexpressed apical CFTR and basolateral NKCC1, but no NHE3 or NBCe1 (except NBCe1-expressing proximal colonic crypts). CFTR, NBCe1, and NKCC1 colocalized with markers of early and recycling endosomes, implicating endocytic recycling in cell-specific anion transport. Brunner's glands of the proximal duodenum coexpressed high levels of apical/subapical CFTR and basolateral NKCC1, but very low levels of NBCe1, consistent with secretion of Cl(-)-enriched fluid into the crypt. The cholinergic agonist carbachol rapidly (within 10 min) reduced cell volume along the entire crypt/villus axis and promoted NHE3 internalization into early endosomes. In contrast, carbachol induced membrane recruitment of NKCC1 and CFTR in all crypt and villus enterocytes, NKCC1 in all goblet cells, and NBCe1 in all villus enterocytes. These observations support regulated vesicle traffic in Cl(-) secretion by goblet cells and Cl(-) and HCO(3)(-) secretion by villus enterocytes during the transient phase of cholinergic stimulation. Overall, the carbachol-induced membrane trafficking profile of the four ion transporters supports functional plasticity of the small intestinal villus epithelium that enables it to conduct both absorptive and secretory functions.
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- Robert L Jakab
- Department of Pediatrics/Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, USA
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Toxin mediated diarrhea in the 21 century: the pathophysiology of intestinal ion transport in the course of ETEC, V. cholerae and rotavirus infection. Toxins (Basel) 2010; 2:2132-57. [PMID: 22069677 PMCID: PMC3153279 DOI: 10.3390/toxins2082132] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/23/2010] [Accepted: 08/09/2010] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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An estimated 4 billion episodes of diarrhea occur each year. As a result, 2–3 million children and 0.5–1 million adults succumb to the consequences of this major healthcare concern. The majority of these deaths can be attributed to toxin mediated diarrhea by infectious agents, such as E. coli, V. cholerae or Rotavirus. Our understanding of the pathophysiological processes underlying these infectious diseases has notably improved over the last years. This review will focus on the cellular mechanism of action of the most common enterotoxins and the latest specific therapeutic approaches that have been developed to contain their lethal effects.
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Tuo B, Wen G, Zhang Y, Liu X, Wang X, Liu X, Dong H. Involvement of phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase in cAMP- and cGMP-induced duodenal epithelial CFTR activation in mice. Am J Physiol Cell Physiol 2009; 297:C503-15. [PMID: 19535511 DOI: 10.1152/ajpcell.00460.2008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Although phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase (PI3K) is essential for several cellular signal transductions, its role in the regulation of cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) activity in intestinal epithelial cells is poorly understood. Therefore, the possible involvement of PI3K in the regulation of cAMP- and cGMP-induced duodenal epithelial CFTR activation was investigated in the present study. Forskolin and 8-bromoguanosine 3',5'-cyclic monophosphate (8-Br-cGMP) markedly stimulated duodenal mucosal HCO(3)(-) secretion and short-circuit current (I(sc)) in CFTR wild-type mice, which was significantly inhibited by CFTR(inh)-172, a highly potent and specific CFTR inhibitor. Forskolin and 8-Br-cGMP failed to stimulate duodenal HCO(3)(-) secretion and I(sc) in CFTR knockout mice. Moreover, forskolin- and 8-Br-cGMP-stimulated duodenal HCO(3)(-) secretion and I(sc) were significantly reduced by wortmannin and LY294002, two selective PI3K inhibitors that are structurally and mechanistically different. Forskolin and 8-Br-cGMP induced CFTR phosphorylation and shifted CFTR proteins to the plasma membrane of duodenal epithelial cells, which were inhibited by wortmannin and LY294002. Forskolin and 8-Br-cGMP not only increased the activity of PI3K but also induced the phosphorylation of Akt, a signaling molecule downstream of PI3K, which were again inhibited by wortmannin and LY294002. Together, our results obtained from functional, biochemical, and morphological studies demonstrate that PI3K pathway plays an important role in the regulation of cAMP- and cGMP-induced duodenal epithelial CFTR channel activity and intracellular trafficking.
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- Biguang Tuo
- Dept. of Gastroenterology, Affiliated Hospital of Zunyi Medical College, Dalian Road 149, Zunyi 563003, China.
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Silvis MR, Bertrand CA, Ameen N, Golin-Bisello F, Butterworth MB, Frizzell RA, Bradbury NA. Rab11b regulates the apical recycling of the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator in polarized intestinal epithelial cells. Mol Biol Cell 2009; 20:2337-50. [PMID: 19244346 DOI: 10.1091/mbc.e08-01-0084] [Citation(s) in RCA: 104] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022] Open
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The cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR), a cAMP/PKA-activated anion channel, undergoes efficient apical recycling in polarized epithelia. The regulatory mechanisms underlying CFTR recycling are understood poorly, yet this process is required for proper channel copy number at the apical membrane, and it is defective in the common CFTR mutant, DeltaF508. Herein, we investigated the function of Rab11 isoforms in regulating CFTR trafficking in T84 cells, a colonic epithelial line that expresses CFTR endogenously. Western blotting of immunoisolated Rab11a or Rab11b vesicles revealed localization of endogenous CFTR within both compartments. CFTR function assays performed on T84 cells expressing the Rab11a or Rab11b GDP-locked S25N mutants demonstrated that only the Rab11b mutant inhibited 80% of the cAMP-activated halide efflux and that only the constitutively active Rab11b-Q70L increased the rate constant for stimulated halide efflux. Similarly, RNAi knockdown of Rab11b, but not Rab11a, reduced by 50% the CFTR-mediated anion conductance response. In polarized T84 monolayers, adenoviral expression of Rab11b-S25N resulted in a 70% inhibition of forskolin-stimulated transepithelial anion secretion and a 50% decrease in apical membrane CFTR as assessed by cell surface biotinylation. Biotin protection assays revealed a robust inhibition of CFTR recycling in polarized T84 cells expressing Rab11b-S25N, demonstrating the selective requirement for the Rab11b isoform. This is the first report detailing apical CFTR recycling in a native expression system and to demonstrate that Rab11b regulates apical recycling in polarized epithelial cells.
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- Mark R Silvis
- Department of Cell Biology and Physiology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, PA 15261, USA
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In polarized epithelial cells such as those that line the inner ear, kidney and gut, myosin VI has been localized to the intermicrovillar domains where it is proposed to regulate clathrin-dependent endocytosis; however, a direct role for myosin VI in apical endocytosis has not been shown. We examined the apical membrane distribution and endocytosis of cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) in myosin VI-deficient Snell's Waltzer Myo6((sv/sv)) mice. Confocal microscopy and cell-surface biotinylation confirmed that surface levels of CFTR in the intestine of Myo6((sv/sv)) mice were markedly higher, and CFTR internalization from the apical plasma membrane was reduced compared with heterozygous controls. Consistent with a defect in CFTR endocytosis and accumulation at the cell surface, exaggerated CFTR-mediated fluid secretion was observed in Myo6((sv/sv)) mice following treatment of isolated jejunum with the cyclic GMP-activated heat stable enterotoxin. These data establish that myosin VI modulates apical endocytosis and may be an important physiological modulator of CFTR function and CFTR-associated secretory diarrhea in the gut.
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- Nadia Ameen
- Department of Pediatrics, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, USA.
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Ameen N, Silvis M, Bradbury NA. Endocytic trafficking of CFTR in health and disease. J Cyst Fibros 2007; 6:1-14. [PMID: 17098482 PMCID: PMC1964799 DOI: 10.1016/j.jcf.2006.09.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 83] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/25/2006] [Revised: 09/19/2006] [Accepted: 09/21/2006] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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The cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) is a Cl-selective anion channel expressed in epithelial tissues. Mutations in CFTR lead to the genetic disease cystic fibrosis (CF). Within each epithelial cell, CFTR interacts with a large number of transient macromolecular complexes, many of which are involved in the trafficking and targeting of CFTR. Understanding how these complexes regulate the trafficking and fate of CFTR, provides a singular insight not only into the patho-physiology of cystic fibrosis, but also provides potential drug targets to help cure this debilitating disease.
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- Nadia Ameen
- Department of Paediatrics, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
- Department of Cell Biology and Physiology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
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- Department of Cell Biology and Physiology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
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Lamprecht G, Seidler U. The emerging role of PDZ adapter proteins for regulation of intestinal ion transport. Am J Physiol Gastrointest Liver Physiol 2006; 291:G766-77. [PMID: 16798722 DOI: 10.1152/ajpgi.00135.2006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 109] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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In the gastrointestinal tract, CFTR, in conjunction with one or several members of the SLC26 anion exchanger family, mediates electrogenic Cl- and HCO3- secretion. Na+/H+ exchanger isoform NHE3, on the other hand, coupled to one or several of the SLC26 isoforms, mediates electroneutral NaCl absorption. The agonist-induced activation of anion secretion and inhibition of salt absorption causes secretory diarrhea. Current dogma sees the formation of a multiprotein complex of transport proteins, postsynaptic density-95/discs large/zonula occludens-1 (PDZ) adapter proteins, anchoring proteins, the cytoskeleton, and the involved protein kinases as one crucial step in the regulation of these transport processes. Data obtained in heterologous expression studies suggest an important role of these PDZ adapter proteins in trafficking, endocytic recycling, and membrane retention of the respective transmembrane proteins. This article reviews recent advances in our understanding of the role of the PDZ adapter proteins NHERF, E3KARP, PDZK1, IKEPP (NHERF-1 to NHERF-4), CAL, and Shank-2 that bind to CFTR, NHE3, and the intestinal SLC26 members in the regulation of intestinal fluid transport. Current concepts are mostly derived from heterologous expression studies and studies on their role in organ physiology are still in infancy. Recently, however, PDZ adapter protein-deficient mice and organ-specific cell lines have become available, and the first results suggest a more cell-type and possibly signal-specific role of these adapter proteins. This opens the potential for drug development targeted to PDZ domain interactions, which is, in theory, one of the most efficient antidiarrheal strategies.
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- G Lamprecht
- First Medical Department, University of Tuebingen, Germany
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Velsor LW, Kariya C, Kachadourian R, Day BJ. Mitochondrial oxidative stress in the lungs of cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator protein mutant mice. Am J Respir Cell Mol Biol 2006; 35:579-86. [PMID: 16763223 PMCID: PMC2643276 DOI: 10.1165/rcmb.2005-0473oc] [Citation(s) in RCA: 73] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
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Cystic fibrosis is a fatal genetic disorder involving dysfunction of the cystic fibrosis transmembrane regulator protein (CFTR) resulting in progressive respiratory failure. Previous studies indicate that CFTR regulates cellular glutathione (GSH) transport and that dysfunctional CFTR is associated with chronic pulmonary oxidative stress. The cause and the source of this oxidative stress remain unknown. The current study examines the role of the mitochondria in CFTR-mediated pulmonary oxidative stress. Mitochondrial GSH levels and markers of DNA and protein oxidation were assessed in the lung mitochondria from CFTR-knockout mice. In addition, in vitro models using human CFTR-sufficient and -deficient lung epithelial cells were also employed. Mitochondrial GSH levels were found to be decreased up to 85% in CFTR-knockout mice, and 43% in human lung epithelial cells deficient in CFTR. A concomitant 29% increase in the oxidation of mitochondrial DNA, and a 30% loss of aconitase activity confirmed the existence of a mitochondrial oxidative stress. Flow cytometry revealed significantly elevated levels of cellular reactive oxygen species (ROS) in CFTR-deficient human lung cells. These studies suggest that dysfunctional CFTR leads to an increase in the level of ROS and mitochondrial oxidative stress. This oxidative stress, however, appears to be a consequence of lower mitochondrial GSH levels and not increased oxidation of GSH. Further studies are needed to determine how CFTR deficiency contributes to mitochondrial oxidative stress and the role this plays in CFTR-mediated lung pathophysiology.
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- Leonard W Velsor
- Department of Medicine, National Jewish Medical and Research Center, University of Colorado Health Science Center, Denver, Colorado, USA
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Ogata T. Bicarbonate secretion by rat bile duct brush cells indicated by immunohistochemical localization of CFTR, anion exchanger AE2, Na+/HCO3 -cotransporter, carbonic anhydrase II, Na+/H+ exchangers NHE1 and NHE3, H+/K+-ATPase, and Na+/K+-ATPase. Med Mol Morphol 2006; 39:44-8. [PMID: 16575514 DOI: 10.1007/s00795-006-0312-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/05/2005] [Accepted: 01/18/2006] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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The function of brush cells (BCs) is unknown. In a previous study, the rat common bile duct was examined by ultrastructural cytochemical methods for localizing HCO(3) (-), Cl(-), and Na(+) ions. All ion precipitates increased in or on BCs after secretin or meal stimulation, and it was proposed that BCs may secrete NaHCO(3). In this study, immunohistochemical localization of proteins known to be important in HCO(3) (-) secretion was investigated in the rat common bile duct. Immunoreactivity of proteins involved in Cl(-)/HCO(3) (-) exchange reaction, cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) and Cl(-)/HCO(3) (-) exchanger (AE2), was found on the microvilli (MV) and along the basolateral membrane (BLM) of BCs. The proteins involved in HCO(3) (-) production, Na(+)/HCO(3) (-) cotransporter (NBC), was found along the BLM but was absent on the MV, whereas carbonic anhydrase II (CA II) was observed on the MV and along the BLM. Of proteins responsible for the extrusion of H(+), Na(+)/H(+) exchanger 1 (NHE1) was localized along the BLM whereas Na(+)/H(+) exchanger 3 (NHE3) was found on the MV and BLM. Activity of H(+)/K(+)-ATPase was found along the BLM and on the MV, and Na(+)/K(+)-ATPase was localized along the BLM. The immunoreactivity of most of these proteins was absent or weak in principal cells. These results strongly suggest that BCs are a significant source of HCO(3) (-) secretion.
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- Takuro Ogata
- Department of Surgery and Physiology, Kochi Medical School, Kohasu, Nankoku, Japan.
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van Barneveld A, Stanke F, Ballmann M, Naim HY, Tümmler B. Ex vivo biochemical analysis of CFTR in human rectal biopsies. Biochim Biophys Acta Mol Basis Dis 2006; 1762:393-7. [PMID: 16504487 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbadis.2006.01.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/30/2005] [Revised: 01/19/2006] [Accepted: 01/20/2006] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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This report describes the first biosynthetic analysis of the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) in freshly excised human rectal biopsies. Expression of functional CFTR was assessed by intestinal current measurement (ICM) prior to biosynthetic studies. Several structural features of CFTR are found to be comparable to those established in CFTR-expressing cell lines. Interestingly, maturation of CFTR increases substantially in tissue incubated at 26 degrees C. Our data provide a solid basis for future studies on the characterisation of CFTR in pathological cases.
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- Andrea van Barneveld
- Klinische Forschergruppe, OE 6711, Medizinische Hochschule Hannover, Carl-Neuberg-Str. 1, D-30623 Hannover, Germany.
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Bruscia EM, Price JE, Cheng EC, Weiner S, Caputo C, Ferreira EC, Egan ME, Krause DS. Assessment of cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) activity in CFTR-null mice after bone marrow transplantation. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2006; 103:2965-70. [PMID: 16481627 PMCID: PMC1413802 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0510758103] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Several studies have demonstrated that bone marrow (BM)-derived cells give rise to rare epithelial cells in the gastrointestinal (GI) and respiratory tracts after BM transplantation into myeloablated recipients. We investigate whether, after transplantation of cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR)-positive BM-derived cells, BM-derived GI and airway epithelial cells can provide CFTR activity in the GI tract and nasal epithelium of recipient cystic fibrosis mice. CFTR-/- mice were transplanted with wild-type BM after receiving different doses of irradiation, and CFTR activity was assessed in vivo in individual mice over time by using rectal and nasal potential difference analyses and in vitro by Ussing chamber analysis. The data suggest that rare BM-derived epithelial cells in the GI and nasal epithelium detected in CFTR-/- transplanted mice provide a modest level of CFTR-dependent chloride secretion. Detection of CFTR mRNA and protein in tissues of transplanted CFTR-/- mice supports these data.
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- Pediatrics, and
- Cellular and Molecular Physiology, Yale University School of Medicine, 330 Cedar Street, New Haven, CT 06520
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- Departments of *Laboratory Medicine
- To whom correspondence should be addressed at:
Yale University School of Medicine, Department of Laboratory Medicine, 333 Cedar Street, P.O. Box 208035, New Haven, CT 06520.
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Golin-Bisello F, Bradbury N, Ameen N. STa and cGMP stimulate CFTR translocation to the surface of villus enterocytes in rat jejunum and is regulated by protein kinase G. Am J Physiol Cell Physiol 2005; 289:C708-16. [PMID: 15872007 DOI: 10.1152/ajpcell.00544.2004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 86] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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The cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) is critical to cAMP- and cGMP-activated intestinal anion secretion and the pathogenesis of secretory diarrhea. Enterotoxins released by Vibrio cholerae (cholera toxin) and Escherichia coli (heat stable enterotoxin, or STa) activate intracellular cAMP and cGMP and signal CFTR on the apical plasma membrane of small intestinal enterocytes to elicit chloride and fluid secretion. cAMP activates PKA, whereas cGMP signals a cGMP-dependent protein kinase (cGKII) to phosphorylate CFTR in the intestine. In the jejunum, cAMP also regulates CFTR and fluid secretion by insertion of CFTR from subapical vesicles to the surface of enterocytes. It is unknown whether cGMP signaling or phosphorylation regulates the insertion of CFTR associated vesicles from the cytoplasm to the surface of enterocytes. We used STa, cell-permeant cGMP, and cAMP agonists in conjunction with PKG and PKA inhibitors, respectively, in rat jejunum to examine whether 1) cGMP and cGK II regulate the translocation of CFTR to the apical membrane and its relevance to fluid secretion, and 2) PKA regulates cAMP-dependent translocation of CFTR because this intestinal segment is a primary target for toxigenic diarrhea. STa and cGMP induced a greater than fourfold increase in surface CFTR in enterocytes in association with fluid secretion that was inhibited by PKG inhibitors. cAMP agonists induced a translocation of CFTR to the cell surface of enterocytes that was prevented by PKA inhibitors. We conclude that cAMP and cGMP-dependent phosphorylation regulates fluid secretion and CFTR trafficking to the surface of enterocytes in rat jejunum.
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- Franca Golin-Bisello
- Dept. of Pediatrics, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, USA
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Allen A, Flemström G. Gastroduodenal mucus bicarbonate barrier: protection against acid and pepsin. Am J Physiol Cell Physiol 2005; 288:C1-19. [PMID: 15591243 DOI: 10.1152/ajpcell.00102.2004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 378] [Impact Index Per Article: 19.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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Secretion of bicarbonate into the adherent layer of mucus gel creates a pH gradient with a near-neutral pH at the epithelial surfaces in stomach and duodenum, providing the first line of mucosal protection against luminal acid. The continuous adherent mucus layer is also a barrier to luminal pepsin, thereby protecting the underlying mucosa from proteolytic digestion. In this article we review the present state of the gastroduodenal mucus bicarbonate barrier two decades after the first supporting experimental evidence appeared. The primary function of the adherent mucus gel layer is a structural one to create a stable, unstirred layer to support surface neutralization of acid and act as a protective physical barrier against luminal pepsin. Therefore, the emphasis on mucus in this review is on the form and role of the adherent mucus gel layer. The primary function of the mucosal bicarbonate secretion is to neutralize acid diffusing into the mucus gel layer and to be quantitatively sufficient to maintain a near-neutral pH at the mucus-mucosal surface interface. The emphasis on mucosal bicarbonate in this review is on the mechanisms and control of its secretion and the establishment of a surface pH gradient. Evidence suggests that under normal physiological conditions, the mucus bicarbonate barrier is sufficient for protection of the gastric mucosa against acid and pepsin and is even more so for the duodenum.
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- Adrian Allen
- Physiological Sciences, Medical School, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom
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Basavappa S, Vulapalli SR, Zhang H, Yule D, Coon S, Sundaram U. Chloride channels in the small intestinal cell line IEC-18. J Cell Physiol 2005; 202:21-31. [PMID: 15389550 DOI: 10.1002/jcp.20085] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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Small intestinal crypt cells play a critical role in modulating Cl- secretion during digestion. The types of Cl- channels mediating Cl- secretion in the small intestine was investigated using the intestinal epithelial cell line, IEC-18, which was derived from rat small intestine crypt cells. In initial radioisotope efflux studies, exposure to forskolin, ionomycin or a decrease in extracellular osmolarity significantly increased 36Cl efflux as compared to control cells. Whole cell patch clamp techniques were subsequently used to examine in more detail the swelling-, Ca2+-, and cAMP-activated Cl- conductance. Decreasing the extracellular osmolarity from 290 to 200 mOsm activated a large outwardly rectifying Cl- current that was voltage-independent and had an anion selectivity of I- > Cl-. Increasing cytosolic Ca2+ by ionomycin activated whole cell Cl- currents, which were also outwardly rectifying but were voltage-dependent. The increase in intracellular Ca2+ levels with ionomycin was confirmed with fura-2 loaded IEC-18 cells. A third type of whole cell Cl- current was observed after increases in intracellular cAMP induced by forskolin. These cAMP-activated Cl- currents have properties consistent with cystic fibrosis transmembrane regulator (CFTR) Cl- channels, as the currents were blocked by glibenclamide or NPPB but insensitive to DIDS. In addition, the current-voltage relationship was linear and had an anion selectivity of Cl- > I-. Confocal immunofluorescence studies and Western blots with two different anti-CFTR antibodies confirmed the expression of CFTR. These results suggest that small intestinal crypt cells express multiple types of Cl- channels, which may all contribute to net Cl- secretion.
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- Srisaila Basavappa
- Digestive Diseases Unit, Department of Medicine, University of Rochester School of Medicine Rochester, New York 14642, USA.
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Hirokawa M, Takeuchi T, Chu S, Akiba Y, Wu V, Guth PH, Engel E, Montrose MH, Kaunitz JD. Cystic fibrosis gene mutation reduces epithelial cell acidification and injury in acid-perfused mouse duodenum. Gastroenterology 2004; 127:1162-73. [PMID: 15480994 DOI: 10.1053/j.gastro.2004.06.057] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/02/2022]
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BACKGROUND & AIMS Dysfunction of the cystic fibrosis transmembrane regulator (CFTR) is associated with diminished duodenal HCO3- secretion, despite a reported lack of clinical duodenal ulceration in affected subjects. We hypothesized that duodenal epithelial cells expressing a mutant CFTR have enhanced resistance to acid-induced injury. To test this hypothesis, we measured duodenal epithelial cell intracellular pH (pHi), injury, and acid back-diffusion in response to a luminal acid challenge in transgenic mice. METHODS A murine colony was established for the CFTR DeltaF508 (DeltaF) mutation. Epithelial cell pH i was measured by microscopy with a trapped, fluorescent pH-sensitive dye in living C57BL/6 and DeltaF/DeltaF, +/DeltaF, and +/+ mice. In vivo confocal microscopy confirmed the localization of the dye in the cytoplasm of the epithelial cells. Epithelial injury was measured fluorometrically using propidium iodide. Duodenal epithelial bicarbonate secretion and proton permeability were measured by back-titration. Bicarbonate secretion and acid back-diffusion were measured in a perfused duodenal loop. RESULTS Basal and post-acid exposure bicarbonate secretion were reduced in DeltaF/DeltaF mice, although acid back-diffusion was similar to controls. Epithelial pHi of CFTR DeltaF/DeltaF mice during luminal acid exposure was significantly higher than pHi in +/DeltaF, +/+, or C57BL/6 mice. Acid-related epithelial injury was markedly less in DeltaF/DeltaF mice in comparison with the other groups. CONCLUSIONS Increased cellular buffering power of the epithelial cells of DeltaF/DeltaF mice likely protects against acidification and injury during acid exposure. We speculate that this protective mechanism partially underlies the perceived relative lack of peptic ulceration in patients affected by cystic fibrosis.
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- Masahiko Hirokawa
- Greater Los Angeles Veterans Affairs Healthcare System, California 90073, USA
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Ramirez C, Gebert A. Vimentin-positive cells in the epithelium of rabbit ileal villi represent cup cells but not M-cells. J Histochem Cytochem 2003; 51:1533-44. [PMID: 14566025 PMCID: PMC3957562 DOI: 10.1177/002215540305101113] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/13/2023] Open
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Membranous (M)-cells are specialized epithelial cells of the Peyer's patch domes that transport antigens from the intestinal lumen to the lymphoid tissue. Vimentin is a reliable marker for M-cells in rabbits. Using immunohistochemistry (IHC), a subpopulation of epithelial cells has recently been identified in ordinary rabbit ileal villi, which are vimentin-positive and share morphological characteristics with the M-cells of the domes. To test the hypothesis that these cells represent M-cells outside the organized lymphoid tissue, lectin labeling and tracer uptake experiments were performed. Lectins specific for N-acetyl-glucosamine oligomers selectively bound to the vimentin-positive villous cells but not to M-cells in the domes. Microbeads instilled into the ileal lumen were taken up by M-cells within 45 min but not by the vimentin-positive cells in the villi. Lectin-gold labeling on ultrathin sections revealed that the lectin binding sites were located in the brush border and in vesicles in the apical cytoplasm. The vimentin/lectin-positive cells shared ultrastructural characteristics with the so-called "cup cells." We conclude (a) that the vimentin-positive cells in ordinary villi represent cup cells but not M-cells, (b) that they are readily detectable by (GlucNAc)(N)-specific lectins, and (c) that they do not transcytose experimental tracers. Although the specific function of cup cells is still obscure, they most probably represent a cell type distinct from M-cells of the domes with respect to both function and expression of the two new markers.
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- Institute of Anatomy, University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany (CR,AG)
- Correspondence to: Prof. Dr. A. Gebert, Inst. of Anatomy, University of Lübeck, 23538 Lübeck, Germany. E-mail:
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Dalby-Payne JR, O'Loughlin EV, Gunning P. Polarization of specific tropomyosin isoforms in gastrointestinal epithelial cells and their impact on CFTR at the apical surface. Mol Biol Cell 2003; 14:4365-75. [PMID: 12960432 PMCID: PMC266757 DOI: 10.1091/mbc.e03-03-0169] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022] Open
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Microfilaments have been reported to be polarized in a number of cell types based both on function and isoform composition. There is evidence that microfilaments are involved in the movement of vesicles and the polarized delivery of proteins to specialized membrane domains. We have investigated the composition of actin microfilaments in gastrointestinal epithelial cells and their role in the delivery of the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) into the apical membrane using cultured T84 cells as a model. We identified a specific population of microfilaments containing the tropomyosin (Tm) isoforms Tm5a and/or Tm5b, which are polarized in T84 cell monolayers. Polarization of this microfilament population occurs very rapidly in response to cell-cell and cell-substratum contact and is not inhibited by jasplakinolide, suggesting this involves the movement of intact filaments. Colocalization of Tm5a and/or Tm5b and CFTR was observed in long-term cultures. A reduction in Tm5a and Tm5b expression, induced using antisense oligonucleotides, resulted in an increase in both CFTR surface expression and chloride efflux in response to cAMP stimulation. We conclude that Tm isoforms Tm5a and/or Tm5b mark an apical population of microfilaments that can regulate the insertion and/or retention of CFTR into the plasma membrane.
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Gawenis LR, Franklin CL, Simpson JE, Palmer BA, Walker NM, Wiggins TM, Clarke LL. cAMP inhibition of murine intestinal Na/H exchange requires CFTR-mediated cell shrinkage of villus epithelium. Gastroenterology 2003; 125:1148-63. [PMID: 14517798 DOI: 10.1016/s0016-5085(03)01212-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/02/2022]
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BACKGROUND AND AIMS Unlike the intestine of normal subjects, small-intestinal epithelia of cystic fibrosis patients and cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator protein-null (CFTR(-)) mice do not respond to stimulation of intracellular cyclic adenosine monophosphate with inhibition of electroneutral NaCl absorption. Because CFTR-mediated anion secretion has been associated with changes in crypt cell volume, we hypothesized that CFTR-mediated cell volume reduction in villus epithelium is required for intracellular cyclic adenosine monophosphate inhibition of Na(+)/H(+) exchanger (primarily Na(+)/H(+) exchanger 3) activity in the proximal small intestine. METHODS Transepithelial (22)Na flux across the jejuna of CFTR(+), CFTR(-), the basolateral membrane Na(+)/K(+)/2Cl(-) co-transporter protein NKCC1(+), and NKCC1(-) mice were correlated with changes in epithelial cell volume of the midvillus region. RESULTS Stimulation of intracellular cyclic adenosine monophosphate resulted in cessation of Na(+)/H(+) exchanger-mediated Na(+) absorption (J(ms)(NHE)) in CFTR(+) jejunum but had no effect on J(ms)(NHE) across CFTR(-) jejunum. Cell volume indices indicated an approximately 30% volume reduction of villus epithelial cells in CFTR(+) jejunum but no changes in CFTR(-) epithelium after intracellular cyclic adenosine monophosphate stimulation. In contrast, cell shrinkage induced by hypertonic medium inhibited J(ms)(NHE) in both CFTR(+) and CFTR(-) mice. Bumetanide treatment to inhibit Cl(-) secretion by blockade of the Na(+)/K(+)/2Cl(-) co-transporter, NKCC1, of stimulated CFTR(+) jejunum prevented maximal volume reduction of villus epithelium and recovered approximately 40% of J(ms)(NHE). Likewise, J(ms)(NHE) and cell volume were unaffected by intracellular cyclic adenosine monophosphate stimulation in NKCC1(-) jejuna. CONCLUSIONS These findings show a previously unrecognized role of functional CFTR expressed in villus epithelium: regulation of Na(+)/H(+) exchanger 3-mediated Na(+) absorption by alteration of epithelial cell volume.
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- Lara R Gawenis
- Dalton Cardiovascular Research Center, Research Park, University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, Missouri 65211, USA
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Doucet L, Mendes F, Montier T, Delépine P, Penque D, Férec C, Amaral MD. Applicability of different antibodies for the immunohistochemical localization of CFTR in respiratory and intestinal tissues of human and murine origin. J Histochem Cytochem 2003; 51:1191-9. [PMID: 12923244 DOI: 10.1177/002215540305100909] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Cystic fibrosis (CF) is caused by mutations in the gene encoding the CF transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) protein, which has a major role as a chloride (Cl(-)) channel. Although perhaps all functions of CFTR are still not fully characterized, localization studies are necessary to understand the consequences of the more than 1000 mutations thus far identified. Our aim was to determine the histological localization of CFTR on respiratory and colon epithelia of human and murine origin with a panel of several antibodies produced against different CFTR epitopes, using an indirect immunofluorescence method. Our results on human tissues confirm the apical localization of CFTR in ciliated cells of the respiratory mucosa and show that in colon tissue CFTR is observed in both apical and basolateral membranes of epithelial cells from colon crypts. However, poor tissue preservation of colon biopsies after immunohistochemistry (IHC) raises doubts about the latter localization. Contrary to human, mouse colon epithelium (not biopsed) presents good tissue preservation and evidences many cylindrical surface cells with high apical expression of CFTR. For the antibodies' sensitivity, we demonstrate that MATG1061, 24-1, M3A7, and MPCT-1 give good results, allowing the histological localization of CFTR protein of both human and murine origin.
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- Laurent Doucet
- Departement d'Anatomie Pathologique, CHU Brest, Brest, France
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Russo MA, Hogenauer C, Coates SW, Santa Ana CA, Porter JL, Rosenblatt RL, Emmett M, Fordtran JS. Abnormal passive chloride absorption in cystic fibrosis jejunum functionally opposes the classic chloride secretory defect. J Clin Invest 2003; 112:118-25. [PMID: 12840066 PMCID: PMC162286 DOI: 10.1172/jci17667] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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Due to genetic defects in apical membrane chloride channels, the cystic fibrosis (CF) intestine does not secrete chloride normally. Depressed chloride secretion leaves CF intestinal absorptive processes unopposed, which results in net fluid hyperabsorption, dehydration of intestinal contents, and a propensity to inspissated intestinal obstruction. This theory is based primarily on in vitro studies of jejunal mucosa. To determine if CF patients actually hyperabsorb fluid in vivo, we measured electrolyte and water absorption during steady-state perfusion of the jejunum. As expected, chloride secretion was abnormally low in CF, but surprisingly, there was no net hyperabsorption of sodium or water during perfusion of a balanced electrolyte solution. This suggested that fluid absorption processes are reduced in CF jejunum, and further studies revealed that this was due to a marked depression of passive chloride absorption. Although Na+-glucose cotransport was normal in the CF jejunum, absence of passive chloride absorption completely blocked glucose-stimulated net sodium absorption and reduced glucose-stimulated water absorption 66%. This chloride absorptive abnormality acts in physiological opposition to the classic chloride secretory defect in the CF intestine. By increasing the fluidity of intraluminal contents, absence of passive chloride absorption may reduce the incidence and severity of intestinal disease in patients with CF.
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- Michael Field
- Department of Medicine, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, New York, USA.
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