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Vitzthum C, Clauss WG, Fronius M. Mechanosensitive activation of CFTR by increased cell volume and hydrostatic pressure but not shear stress. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOMEMBRANES 2015; 1848:2942-51. [PMID: 26357939 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbamem.2015.09.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/28/2015] [Revised: 09/03/2015] [Accepted: 09/05/2015] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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The cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) is a Cl(-) channel that is essential for electrolyte and fluid homeostasis. Preliminary evidence indicates that CFTR is a mechanosensitive channel. In lung epithelia, CFTR is exposed to different mechanical forces such as shear stress (Ss) and membrane distention. The present study questioned whether Ss and/or stretch influence CFTR activity (wild type, ∆F508, G551D). Human CFTR (hCFTR) was heterologously expressed in Xenopus oocytes and the response to the mechanical stimulus and forskolin/IBMX (FI) was measured by two-electrode voltage-clamp experiments. Ss had no influence on hCFTR activity. Injection of an intracellular analogous solution to increase cell volume alone did not affect hCFTR activity. However, hCFTR activity was augmented by injection after pre-stimulation with FI. The response to injection was similar in channels carrying the common mutations ∆F508 and G551D compared to wild type hCFTR. Stretch-induced CFTR activation was further assessed in Ussing chamber measurements using Xenopus lung preparations. Under control conditions increased hydrostatic pressure (HP) decreased the measured ion current including activation of a Cl(-) secretion that was unmasked by the CFTR inhibitor GlyH-101. These data demonstrate activation of CFTR in vitro and in a native pulmonary epithelium in response to mechanical stress. Mechanosensitive regulation of CFTR is highly relevant for pulmonary physiology that relies on ion transport processes facilitated by pulmonary epithelial cells.
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- Constanze Vitzthum
- Institute of Animal Physiology, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, Giessen, Germany
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- Institute of Animal Physiology, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, Giessen, Germany
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- Department of Physiology, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand.
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Agné AM, Baldin JP, Benjamin AR, Orogo-Wenn MC, Wichmann L, Olson KR, Walters DV, Althaus M. Hydrogen sulfide decreases β-adrenergic agonist-stimulated lung liquid clearance by inhibiting ENaC-mediated transepithelial sodium absorption. Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol 2015; 308:R636-49. [PMID: 25632025 DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.00489.2014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/01/2014] [Accepted: 01/19/2015] [Indexed: 01/11/2023]
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In pulmonary epithelia, β-adrenergic agonists regulate the membrane abundance of the epithelial sodium channel (ENaC) and, thereby, control the rate of transepithelial electrolyte absorption. This is a crucial regulatory mechanism for lung liquid clearance at birth and thereafter. This study investigated the influence of the gaseous signaling molecule hydrogen sulfide (H2S) on β-adrenergic agonist-regulated pulmonary sodium and liquid absorption. Application of the H2S-liberating molecule Na2S (50 μM) to the alveolar compartment of rat lungs in situ decreased baseline liquid absorption and abrogated the stimulation of liquid absorption by the β-adrenergic agonist terbutaline. There was no additional effect of Na2S over that of the ENaC inhibitor amiloride. In electrophysiological Ussing chamber experiments with native lung epithelia (Xenopus laevis), Na2S inhibited the stimulation of amiloride-sensitive current by terbutaline. β-adrenergic agonists generally increase ENaC abundance by cAMP formation and activation of PKA. Activation of this pathway by forskolin and 3-isobutyl-1-methylxanthine increased amiloride-sensitive currents in H441 pulmonary epithelial cells. This effect was inhibited by Na2S in a dose-dependent manner (5-50 μM). Na2S had no effect on cellular ATP concentration, cAMP formation, and activation of PKA. By contrast, Na2S prevented the cAMP-induced increase in ENaC activity in the apical membrane of H441 cells. H441 cells expressed the H2S-generating enzymes cystathionine-β-synthase, cystathionine-γ-lyase, and 3-mercaptopyruvate sulfurtransferase, and they produced H2S amounts within the employed concentration range. These data demonstrate that H2S prevents the stimulation of ENaC by cAMP/PKA and, thereby, inhibits the proabsorptive effect of β-adrenergic agonists on lung liquid clearance.
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- Alisa M Agné
- Institute of Animal Physiology, Department of Molecular Cell Physiology, Justus-Liebig University, Giessen, Germany
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- Institute of Animal Physiology, Department of Molecular Cell Physiology, Justus-Liebig University, Giessen, Germany
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- Division of Clinical Sciences, St. George's University of London, London, United Kingdom
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- Division of Clinical Sciences, St. George's University of London, London, United Kingdom
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- Institute of Animal Physiology, Department of Molecular Cell Physiology, Justus-Liebig University, Giessen, Germany
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- Department of Physiology, Indiana University School of Medicine-South Bend, South Bend, Indiana; and
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- Division of Clinical Sciences, St. George's University of London, London, United Kingdom
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- Institute of Animal Physiology, Department of Molecular Cell Physiology, Justus-Liebig University, Giessen, Germany;
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Richter K, Kiefer KP, Grzesik BA, Clauss WG, Fronius M. Hydrostatic pressure activates ATP-sensitive K+ channels in lung epithelium by ATP release through pannexin and connexin hemichannels. FASEB J 2013; 28:45-55. [PMID: 24048216 DOI: 10.1096/fj.13-229252] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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Lungs of air-breathing vertebrates are constantly exposed to mechanical forces and therefore are suitable for investigation of mechanotransduction processes in nonexcitable cells and tissues. Freshly dissected Xenopus laevis lungs were used for transepithelial short-circuit current (ISC) recordings and were exposed to increased hydrostatic pressure (HP; 5 cm fluid column, modified Ussing chamber). I(SC) values obtained under HP (I(5cm)) were normalized to values before HP (I(0cm)) application (I(5cm)/I(0cm)). Under control conditions, HP decreased I(SC) (I(5cm)/I(0cm)=0.84; n=68; P<0.0001). This effect was reversible and repeatable ≥30 times. Preincubation with ATP-sensitive K(+) channel (K(ATP)) inhibitors (HMR1098 and glibenclamide) prevented the decrease in I(SC) (I(5cm)/I(0cm): HMR1098=1.19, P<0.0001; glibenclamide=1.11, P<0.0001). Similar effects were observed with hemichannel inhibitors (I(5cm)/I(0cm): meclofenamic acid=1.09, P<0.0001; probenecid=1.0, P<0.0001). The HP effect was accompanied by release of ATP (P<0.05), determined by luciferin-luciferase luminescence in perfusion solution from the luminal side of an Ussing chamber. ATP release was abrogated by both meclofenamic acid and probenecid. RT-PCR experiments revealed the expression of pannexin and connexin hemichannels and KATP subunit transcripts in X. laevis lung. These data show an activation of KATP in pulmonary epithelial cells in response to HP that is induced by ATP release through mechanosensitive pannexin and connexin hemichannels. These findings represent a novel mechanism of mechanotransduction in nonexcitable cells.
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- Katrin Richter
- 2Institute of Animal Physiology, Justus Liebig University, Giessen, Heinrich Buff Ring 26, D-35392 Giessen, Germany.
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Wildman SS, Kang ESK, King BF. ENaC, renal sodium excretion and extracellular ATP. Purinergic Signal 2009; 5:481-9. [PMID: 19306075 PMCID: PMC2776138 DOI: 10.1007/s11302-009-9150-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/19/2007] [Accepted: 03/15/2008] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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Sodium balance determines the extracellular fluid volume and sets arterial blood pressure (BP). Chronically raised BP (hypertension) represents a major health risk in Western societies. The relationship between BP and renal sodium excretion (the pressure/natriuresis relationship) represents the key element in defining the BP homeostatic set point. The renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system (RAAS) makes major adjustments to the rates of renal sodium secretion, but this system works slowly over a period of hours to days. More rapid adjustments can be made by the sympathetic nervous system, although the kidney can function well without sympathetic nerves. Attention has now focussed on regulatory mechanisms within the kidney, including extracellular nucleotides and the P2 receptor system. Here, we discuss how extracellular ATP can control renal sodium excretion by altering the activity of epithelial sodium channels (ENaC) present in the apical membrane of principal cells. There remains considerable controversy over the molecular targets for released ATP, although the P2Y(2) receptor has received much attention. We review the available data and reflect on our own findings in which ATP-activated P2Y and P2X receptors make adjustments to ENaC activity and therefore sodium excretion.
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- Scott Sp Wildman
- Department of Veterinary Basic Sciences, Royal Veterinary College, Royal College Street, London, NW1 0TU, UK,
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Yang C, Su L, Wang Y, Liu L. UTP regulation of ion transport in alveolar epithelial cells involves distinct mechanisms. Am J Physiol Lung Cell Mol Physiol 2009; 297:L439-54. [PMID: 19542245 DOI: 10.1152/ajplung.90268.2008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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UTP is known to regulate alveolar fluid clearance. However, the relative contribution of alveolar type I cells and type II cells to this process is unknown. In this study, we investigated the effects of UTP on ion transport in type I-like cell (AEC I) and type II-like cell (AEC II) monolayers. Luminal treatment of cell monolayers with UTP increased short-circuit current (I(sc)) of AEC II but decreased I(sc) of AEC I. The Cl(-) channel blockers NPPB and DIDS inhibited the UTP-induced changes in I(sc) (DeltaIsc) in both types of cells. Amiloride, an inhibitor of epithelial Na(+) channels (ENaC), abolished the UTP-induced DeltaI(sc) in AEC I, but not in AEC II. The general blocker of K(+) channels, BaCl(2), eliminated the UTP-induced DeltaI(sc) in AEC II, but not in AEC I. The intermediate conductance (IK(Ca)) blocker, clofilium, also blocked the UTP effect in AEC II. The signal transduction pathways mediated by UTP were the same in AEC I and AEC II. Furthermore, UTP increased Cl(-) secretion in AEC II and Cl(-) absorption in AEC I. Our results suggest that UTP induces opposite changes in I(sc) in AEC I and AEC II, likely due to the reversed Cl(-) flux and different contributions of ENaC and IK(Ca). Our results further imply a new concept that type II cells contribute to UTP-induced fluid secretion and type I cells contribute to UTP-induced fluid absorption in alveoli.
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- Chuanxiu Yang
- Lundberg-Kienlen Lung Biology and Toxicology Laboratory, Department of Physiological Sciences, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma 74078, USA
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Purines appear to be the most primitive and widespread chemical messengers in the animal and plant kingdoms. The evidence for purinergic signalling in plants, invertebrates and lower vertebrates is reviewed. Much is based on pharmacological studies, but important recent studies have utilized the techniques of molecular biology and receptors have been cloned and characterized in primitive invertebrates, including the social amoeba Dictyostelium and the platyhelminth Schistosoma, as well as the green algae Ostreococcus, which resemble P2X receptors identified in mammals. This suggests that contrary to earlier speculations, P2X ion channel receptors appeared early in evolution, while G protein-coupled P1 and P2Y receptors were introduced either at the same time or perhaps even later. The absence of gene coding for P2X receptors in some animal groups [e.g. in some insects, roundworms (Caenorhabditis elegans) and the plant Arabidopsis] in contrast to the potent pharmacological actions of nucleotides in the same species, suggests that novel receptors are still to be discovered.
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- G Burnstock
- Autonomic Neuroscience Centre, Royal Free and University College Medical School, London, UK.
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Impact of mechanical stress on ion transport in native lung epithelium (Xenopus laevis): short-term activation of Na+, Cl (-) and K+ channels. Pflugers Arch 2008; 456:1109-20. [PMID: 18581136 DOI: 10.1007/s00424-008-0486-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/06/2007] [Revised: 01/31/2008] [Accepted: 02/27/2008] [Indexed: 01/11/2023]
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Epithelia, in general, and the lung epithelium, in particular, are exposed to mechanical forces, but little is known about their impact on pulmonary ion transport. In our present study, we employed transepithelial ion transport measurements on Xenopus lung preparations using custom-built Ussing chambers. Tissues were exposed to mechanical stress by increasing the water column (5 cm) at one side of the tissues. Apical exposure to hydrostatic pressure significantly decreased the short circuit current (I (SC): 24 +/- 1%, n = 152), slightly decreased the transepithelial resistance (R (T): 7 +/- 2%, n = 152), but increased the apical membrane capacitance (C (M): 16 +/- 6%, n = 9). The pressure-induced effect was sensitive to Na+ (amiloride), Cl(-) (DIDS, NFA, NPPB) and K+ channel blockers (Ba2+), glibenclamide). Further on, it was accompanied by increased extracellular ATP levels. The results show that mechanical stress leads to an activation of Na+, Cl(-), and K+ conductances in a native pulmonary epithelium resulting in a net decrease of ion absorption. This could be of considerable interest, since an altered ion transport may contribute to pathophysiological conditions, e.g., the formation of pulmonary edema during artificial ventilation.
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Sommer D, Bogdan R, Berger J, Peters DM, Morty RE, Clauss WG, Fronius M. CFTR-dependent Cl- secretion in Xenopus laevis lung epithelium. Respir Physiol Neurobiol 2007; 158:97-106. [PMID: 17490919 DOI: 10.1016/j.resp.2007.03.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/29/2006] [Revised: 03/09/2007] [Accepted: 03/26/2007] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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In our present study we used preparations from Xenopus laevis lungs to perform electrophysiological Ussing chamber measurements, unidirectional flux measurements, and employed molecular approaches to elucidate the presence and function of a cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) homolog in this tissue. Application of different CFTR blockers (NPPB (5-nitro-2-(3-phenylpropylamino)benzoic acid), niflumic acid (NFA), glibenclamide, lonidamine, CFTR(inh)-172) to the apical side of the tissues was able to significantly decrease the measured short circuit current (I(SC)) indicating a Cl(-) secretion due to luminal located CFTR channels. This was further supported by a net (36)Cl(-) secretion determined by radioactive tracer flux experiments. Further, Xenopus pulmonary epithelia responded to apical chlorzoxazone exposure - a CFTR activator - and this activated current was inhibited by CFTR(inh)-172. We performed reverse transcription-PCR (RT-PCR) and Western blot analysis and with both approaches we found characteristic signals indicating the presence of a CFTR homolog in Xenopus lung. In addition, we were able to detect CFTR in apical membranes of Xenopus lung slices with immunohistological techniques. We conclude that Xenopus lung epithelium exhibits functional CFTR channels and that this tissue represents a valuable model for the investigation of ion transport properties in pulmonary epithelia.
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- Dagmar Sommer
- Institute of Animal Physiology, Justus-Liebig University of Giessen, Wartweg 95, 35392 Giessen, Germany
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