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Stauber T, Wartosch L, Vishnolia S, Schulz A, Kornak U. CLCN7, a gene shared by autosomal recessive and autosomal dominant osteopetrosis. Bone 2023; 168:116639. [PMID: 36513280 DOI: 10.1016/j.bone.2022.116639] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/31/2022] [Revised: 11/27/2022] [Accepted: 11/30/2022] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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After the discovery of abundant v-ATPase complexes in the osteoclast ruffled membrane it was obvious that in parallel a negative counter-ion needs to be transported across this membrane to allow for efficient transport of protons into the resorption lacuna. While different candidate proteins were discussed the osteopetrosis phenotype of Clcn7 knockout mice suggested that the chloride/proton-exchanger ClC-7 might be responsible for transporting the negative charge. In the following, individuals with autosomal recessive osteopetrosis (ARO) were found to carry biallelic CLCN7 pathogenic variants. Shortly thereafter, heterozygous pathogenic variants were identified as the exclusive cause of autosomal dominant osteopetrosis type 2 (ADO2). Since in most cell types other than osteoclasts ClC-7 resides in late endosomes and lysosomes, it took some time until the electrophysiological properties of ClC-7 were elucidated. Whereas most missense variants lead to reduced chloride currents, several variants with accelerated kinetics have been identified. Evidence for folding problems is also known for several missense variants. Paradoxically, a heterozygous activating variant in ClC-7 was described to cause lysosomal alteration, pigmentation defects, and intellectual disability without osteopetrosis. The counter-intuitive 2 Cl-/H+ exchange function of ClC-7 was shown to be physiologically important for intravesicular ion homeostasis. The lysosomal function of ClC-7 is also the reason why individuals with CLCN7-ARO can develop a storage disorder and neurodegeneration, a feature that is variable and difficult to predict. Furthermore, the low penetrance of heterozygous pathogenic CLCN7 variants and the clinical variability of ADO2 are incompletely understood. We aim to give an overview not only of the current knowledge about ClC-7 and its related pathologies, but also of the scientists and clinicians that paved the way for these discoveries.
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- Tobias Stauber
- Institute for Molecular Medicine, MSH Medical School Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
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- Department of Meiosis, Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences, Göttingen, Germany
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- Institute of Human Genetics, University Medical Center Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
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- Department of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, University Medical Center Ulm, Ulm, Germany
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- Institute of Human Genetics, University Medical Center Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany.
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Skeletal involvement is a frequent and troublesome complication in advanced cancers. In the process of tumor cells homing to the skeleton to form bone metastases (BM), different mechanisms allow tumor cells to interact with cells of the bone microenvironment and seed in the bone tissue. Among these, tumor acidosis has been directly associated with tumor invasion and aggressiveness in several types of cancer although it has been less explored in the context of BM. In bone, the association of local acidosis and cancer invasiveness is even more important for tumor expansion since the extracellular matrix is formed by both organic and hard inorganic matrices and bone cells are used to sense protons and adapt or react to a low pH to maintain tissue homeostasis. In the BM microenvironment, increased concentration of protons may derive not only from glycolytic tumor cells but also from tumor-induced osteoclasts, the bone-resorbing cells, and may influence the progression or symptoms of BM in many different ways, by directly enhancing cancer cell motility and aggressiveness, or by modulating the functions of bone cells versus a pro-tumorigenic phenotype, or by inducing bone pain. In this review, we will describe and discuss the cause of acidosis in BM, its role in BM microenvironment, and which are the final effectors that may be targeted to treat metastatic patients.
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- Sofia Avnet
- Orthopaedic Pathophysiology and Regenerative Unit, IRCCS Istituto Ortopedico Rizzoli, Bologna, Italy.
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- Orthopaedic Pathophysiology and Regenerative Unit, IRCCS Istituto Ortopedico Rizzoli, Bologna, Italy
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- Orthopaedic Pathophysiology and Regenerative Unit, IRCCS Istituto Ortopedico Rizzoli, Bologna, Italy
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- Orthopaedic Pathophysiology and Regenerative Unit, IRCCS Istituto Ortopedico Rizzoli, Bologna, Italy
- Department of Biomedical and Neuromotor Sciences, University of Bologna, 40123, Bologna, Italy
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Cooperative electrogenic proton transport pathways in the plasma membrane of the proton-secreting osteoclast. Pflugers Arch 2018; 470:851-866. [PMID: 29550927 DOI: 10.1007/s00424-018-2137-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/27/2017] [Revised: 02/13/2018] [Accepted: 03/06/2018] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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A proton is a ubiquitous signaling ion. Many transmembrane H+ transport pathways either maintain pH homeostasis or generate acidic compartments. The osteoclast is a bone-resorbing cell, which degrades bone tissues by secreting protons and lysosomal enzymes into the resorption pit. The plasma membrane facing bone tissue (ruffled border), generated partly by fusion of lysosomes, may mimic H+ flux mechanisms regulating acidic vesicles. We identified three electrogenic H+-fluxes in osteoclast plasma membranes-a vacuolar H+-ATPase (V-ATPase), a voltage-gated proton channel (Hv channel) and an acid-inducible H+-leak-whose electrophysiological profiles and regulation mechanisms differed. V-ATPase and Hv channel, both may have intracellular reservoirs, but the recruitment/internalization is regulated independently. V-ATPase mediates active H+ efflux, acidifying the resorption pit, while acid-inducible H+ leak, activated at an extracellular pH < 5.5, diminishes pit acidification, possibly to protect bone from excess degradation. The two-way H+ flux mechanisms in opposite directions may have advantages in fine regulation of pit pH. Hv channel mediates passive H+ efflux. Although its working ranges are limited, the amount of H+ extrusion is 100 times larger than those of the V-ATPase and may support reactive oxygen species production during osteoclastogenesis. Extracellular Ca2+, H+ and inorganic phosphate, which accumulate in the resorption pit, will either stimulate or inhibit these H+ fluxes. Skeletal integration is disrupted by too much or too less of bone resorption. Diversities in plasma membrane H+ flux pathways, which may co-operate or compete, are essential to adjust osteoclast functions in variable conditions.
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Friard J, Tauc M, Cougnon M, Compan V, Duranton C, Rubera I. Comparative Effects of Chloride Channel Inhibitors on LRRC8/VRAC-Mediated Chloride Conductance. Front Pharmacol 2017; 8:328. [PMID: 28620305 PMCID: PMC5449500 DOI: 10.3389/fphar.2017.00328] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/31/2017] [Accepted: 05/16/2017] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
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Chloride channels play an essential role in a variety of physiological functions and in human diseases. Historically, the field of chloride channels has long been neglected owing to the lack of powerful selective pharmacological agents that are needed to overcome the technical challenge of characterizing the molecular identities of these channels. Recently, members of the LRRC8 family have been shown to be essential for generating the volume-regulated anion channel (VRAC) current, a chloride conductance that governs the regulatory volume decrease (RVD) process. The inhibitory effects of six commonly used chloride channel inhibitors on VRAC/LRRC8-mediated chloride transport were tested in wild-type HEK-293 cells expressing LRRC8 proteins and devoid of other types of chloride channels (CFTR and ANO1/2). We explored the effectiveness of the inhibitors using the patch-clamp whole-cell approach and fluorescence-based quantification of cellular volume changes during hypotonic challenge. Both DCPIB and NFA inhibited VRAC current in a whole-cell configuration, with IC50 values of 5 ± 1 μM and 55 ± 2 μM, respectively. Surprisingly, GlyH-101 and PPQ-102, two CFTR inhibitors, also inhibited VRAC conductance at concentrations in the range of their current use, with IC50 values of 10 ± 1 μM and 20 ± 1 μM, respectively. T16Ainh-A01, a so-called specific inhibitor of calcium-activated Cl- conductance, blocked the chloride current triggered by hypo-osmotic challenge, with an IC50 of 6 ± 1 μM. Moreover, RVD following hypotonic challenge was dramatically reduced by these inhibitors. CFTRinh-172 was the only inhibitor that had almost no effect on VRAC/LRRC8-mediated chloride conductance. All inhibitors tested except CFTRinh-172 inhibited VRAC/LRRC8-mediated chloride conductance and cellular volume changes during hypotonic challenge. These results shed light on the apparent lack of chloride channel inhibitors specificity and raise the question of how these inhibitors actually block chloride conductances.
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- Jonas Friard
- LP2M CNRS-UMR7370, LabEx ICST, Medical Faculty, Université Côte d'AzurNice, France
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- LP2M CNRS-UMR7370, LabEx ICST, Medical Faculty, Université Côte d'AzurNice, France
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- LP2M CNRS-UMR7370, LabEx ICST, Medical Faculty, Université Côte d'AzurNice, France
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- Institut de Génomique Fonctionnelle, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, Université de MontpellierMontpellier, France
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- LP2M CNRS-UMR7370, LabEx ICST, Medical Faculty, Université Côte d'AzurNice, France
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- LP2M CNRS-UMR7370, LabEx ICST, Medical Faculty, Université Côte d'AzurNice, France
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Fu ZJ, Zhong XZ, Ma WH, Zhang WD, Shi CY. Lipophilic but not hydrophilic statin functionally inhibit volume-activated chloride channels by inhibiting NADPH oxidase in monocytes. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 2016; 481:117-124. [PMID: 27818195 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2016.11.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/19/2016] [Accepted: 11/02/2016] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Volume-activated Cl- channels (VACCs) can be activated by hypotonic solutions and have been identified in many cell types. Here, we investigated the effects of different statins on VACCs in monocytes. Whole-cell patch clamp recordings demonstrated that a hypotonic solution induced 5-nitro-2- (3-phenylpropylamino) benzoic acid (NPPB)- and 4,4'-diisothiocyanatostilbene-2, 2'-disulfonic acid (DIDS)-sensitive VACC currents in human peripheral monocytes and RAW 264.7 cells. The VACC currents were inhibited by the lipophilic statin (simvastatin) but not by the hydrophilic simvastatin acid and pravastatin. A low-molecular-weight superoxide anion scavenger (tiron, 1 mM) and inhibitor of NADPH oxidase (DPI 10 μM) was able to abolish the VACC currents. A hypotonic solution increased the reactive oxygen species (ROS) detected by the fluorescence of dichlorodihydrofluorescein (DCF), which was abolished by tiron and DPI. NPPB, DIDS, and simvastatin but not pravastatin decreased the fluorescence of DCF. Simvastatin could not further decrease VACC currents when pretreated with tiron or DPI, whereas exogenous H2O2 (100 μM), increased the VACC currents and overcame the blockade of VACC currents by simvastatin. Functionally, hypotonic solution increased the TNF-α mRNA expression, which could be decreased by tiron, DPI, NPPB, DIDS and simvastatin but not pravastatin. However, simvastatin could not decrease the TNF-α expression further when pretreatment with tiron, DPI, NPPB or DIDS. We conclude that lipophilic (simvastatin) rather than hydrophilic statin inhibit VACCs and decrease hyposmolality induced inflammation in monocytes by inhibiting NADPH oxidase.
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- Zhi-Jie Fu
- Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Shandong Provincial Qianfoshan Hospital, Shandong University, Jinan 250014, China
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- Department of Cardiovascular Disease, Jinan Central Hospital Affiliated to Shandong University, Shandong, Jinan 250013, China
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- Department of Cardiology, The Second Hospital of Shandong University, Jinan 250033, China
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- Department of Pharmacy, QiLu Hospital, Shandong University, Jinan 250012, China.
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- Department of Pharmacy, QiLu Hospital, Shandong University, Jinan 250012, China
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Pang Q, Chi Y, Zhao Z, Xing X, Li M, Wang O, Jiang Y, Liao R, Sun Y, Dong J, Xia W. Novel mutations of CLCN7 cause autosomal dominant osteopetrosis type II (ADO-II) and intermediate autosomal recessive osteopetrosis (IARO) in Chinese patients. Osteoporos Int 2016; 27:1047-1055. [PMID: 26395888 DOI: 10.1007/s00198-015-3320-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/28/2015] [Accepted: 09/07/2015] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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SUMMARY Osteopetrosis is a group of genetic bone disorders. Mutations in the chloride channel 7 gene (CLCN7) lead to chloride channel defect, which results in autosomal dominant osteopetrosis type II (ADO-II), autosomal recessive osteopetrosis (ARO), and intermediate autosomal recessive osteopetrosis (IARO). In the present study, we identified seven novel mutations of the CLCN7 gene and reported the first case of IARO with compound heterozygous mutation in Chinese population. INTRODUCTION Osteopetrosis is a heritable bone disorder due to the deficiency of or function defect in osteoclasts. Mutations in the CLCN7 lead to chloride channel defects, which result in osteopetrosis with diverse severity ranging from asymptomatic or relatively mild symptoms in ADO-II to the very severe phenotype in ARO. Heterozygous mutations in CLCN7 are associated to ADO-II, while homozygous and compound heterozygous mutations in CLCN7 may result in ARO and IARO. To date, a total of 24 mutations in CLCN7 were identified in ADO-II, and only 3 mutations were identified in IARO. In the present study, we reported seven unrelated ADO-II patients and one IARO patient from Chinese population and elucidated the characteristics of CLCN7 gene mutations in these patients. METHODS All 25 CLCN7 exons and exon-intron boundaries from genomic DNA were amplified and sequenced in eight affected individuals suffering from ADO-II/IARO. The clinical, biochemical, and radiographic analysis were evaluated to compare the differences between ADO-II and IARO both in genotype and phenotype. RESULTS The results showed that there were seven novel CLCN7 mutations identified in these ADO-II/IARO patients, including six heterozygous missense mutations (p.L224R, p.S290Y, p.R326G, p.G347R, p.S473N, and p.L564P) and a novel splice mutation (p.K691FS). CONCLUSIONS The compound heterozygous mutations (p.L224R and p.K691FS) were firstly observed in one IARO patient. The present study would enrich the database of CLCN7 mutations and improve our understanding of this heritable bone disorder.
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- Q Pang
- Department of Endocrinology, Key Laboratory of Endocrinology, The Ministry of Health, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing, 100730, China
- Department of Endocrinology, The First affiliated Hospital of Shanxi Medical University, Taiyuan, 030001, China
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- Department of Endocrinology, Key Laboratory of Endocrinology, The Ministry of Health, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing, 100730, China
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- Department of Endocrinology, Key Laboratory of Endocrinology, The Ministry of Health, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing, 100730, China
- Department of Geriatrics, Beijing Friendship Hospital affiliated to Capital Medical University, Beijing, 100050, China
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- Department of Endocrinology, Key Laboratory of Endocrinology, The Ministry of Health, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing, 100730, China
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- Department of Endocrinology, Key Laboratory of Endocrinology, The Ministry of Health, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing, 100730, China
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- Department of Endocrinology, Key Laboratory of Endocrinology, The Ministry of Health, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing, 100730, China
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- Department of Endocrinology, Key Laboratory of Endocrinology, The Ministry of Health, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing, 100730, China
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- Department of Endocrinology, Key Laboratory of Endocrinology, The Ministry of Health, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing, 100730, China
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- Department of Endocrinology, Key Laboratory of Endocrinology, The Ministry of Health, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing, 100730, China
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- Department of Endocrinology, The First affiliated Hospital of Shanxi Medical University, Taiyuan, 030001, China
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- Department of Endocrinology, Key Laboratory of Endocrinology, The Ministry of Health, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing, 100730, China.
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Morethson P. Extracellular fluid flow and chloride content modulate H(+) transport by osteoclasts. BMC Cell Biol 2015; 16:20. [PMID: 26271334 PMCID: PMC4536797 DOI: 10.1186/s12860-015-0066-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/26/2015] [Accepted: 07/28/2015] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Background Bone resorption takes place within the basic multicellular units (BMU), and the surface to be resorbed is isolated from adjacent bone surfaces by a sealing zone between osteoclast membrane and bone matrix, which defines the limits of the resorption lacuna. Considering that the extracellular fluid (ECF) in both BMU and the resorption lacuna can be isolated from its surroundings, I hypothesize that flow and ion composition of the bone ECF in these sites might contribute to the regulation of osteoclast H+ secretion. To investigate this hypothesis, I evaluated the H+ secretion properties of individual osteoclasts and osteoclast-like cells (OCL-cells) and investigated whether changes in flow or chloride content of the extracellular solution modify the H+ secretion properties in vitro. Results The results show that 1) osteoclasts are unable to secrete H+ and regulate intracellular pH (pHi) under continuous flow conditions and exhibit progressive intracellular acidification; 2) the cessation of flow coincides with the onset of H+ secretion and subsequent progressive intracellular alkalinization of osteoclasts and OCL-cells; 3) osteoclasts exhibit spontaneous rhythmic oscillations of pHi in non-flowing ECF, 4) pHi oscillations are not abolished by concanamycin, NPPB, or removal of extracellular Na+ or Cl−; 5) extracellular Cl− removal modifies the pattern of oscillations, by diminishing H+ secretion; 6) pHi oscillations are abolished by continuous flowing of ECF over osteoclasts and OCL-cells. Conclusions The data suggest, for the first time, that ECF flow and Cl− content have direct effects on osteoclast H+ secretion and could be part of a mechanism determining the onset of osteoclast H+ secretion required for bone resorption. Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s12860-015-0066-4) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
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- Priscilla Morethson
- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil. .,Department of Biosciences, Federal University of São Paulo - Unifesp, R. Silva Jardim 136 Vila Mathias, Santos, 11065-201, SP, Brazil.
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Ohgi K, Kajiya H, Okamoto F, Nagaoka Y, Onitsuka T, Nagai A, Sakagami R, Okabe K. A novel inhibitory mechanism of nitrogen-containing bisphosphonate on the activity of Cl− extrusion in osteoclasts. Naunyn Schmiedebergs Arch Pharmacol 2013; 386:589-98. [DOI: 10.1007/s00210-013-0857-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/10/2012] [Accepted: 03/18/2013] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Barsony J, Sugimura Y, Verbalis JG. Osteoclast response to low extracellular sodium and the mechanism of hyponatremia-induced bone loss. J Biol Chem 2011; 286:10864-75. [PMID: 21135109 PMCID: PMC3060537 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m110.155002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 130] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/15/2010] [Revised: 11/18/2010] [Indexed: 02/02/2023] Open
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Our recent animal and human studies revealed that chronic hyponatremia is a previously unrecognized cause of osteoporosis that is associated with increased osteoclast numbers in a rat model of the human disease of the syndrome of inappropriate antidiuretic hormone secretion (SIADH). We used cellular and molecular approaches to demonstrate that sustained low extracellular sodium ion concentrations ([Na(+)]) directly stimulate osteoclastogenesis and resorptive activity and to explore the mechanisms underlying this effect. Assays on murine preosteoclastic RAW 264.7 cells and on primary bone marrow monocytes both indicated that lowering the medium [Na(+)] dose-dependently increased osteoclast formation and resorptive activity. Low [Na(+)], rather than low osmolality, triggered these effects. Chronic reduction of [Na(+)] dose-dependently decreased intracellular calcium without depleting endoplasmic reticulum calcium stores. Moreover, we found that reduction of [Na(+)] dose-dependently decreased cellular uptake of radiolabeled ascorbic acid, and reduction of ascorbic acid in the culture medium mimicked the osteoclastogenic effect of low [Na(+)]. We also detected downstream effects of reduced ascorbic acid uptake, namely evidence of hyponatremia-induced oxidative stress. This was manifested by increased intracellular free oxygen radical accumulation and proportional changes in protein expression and phosphorylation, as indicated by Western blot analysis from cellular extracts and by increased serum 8-hydroxy-2'-deoxyguanosine levels in vivo in rats. Our results therefore reveal novel sodium signaling mechanisms in osteoclasts that may serve to mobilize sodium from bone stores during prolonged hyponatremia, thereby leading to a resorptive osteoporosis in patients with SIADH.
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- Julia Barsony
- Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Georgetown University, Washington, DC 20007, USA.
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Antibodies against ClC7 inhibit extracellular acidification-induced Cl− currents and bone resorption activity in mouse osteoclasts. Naunyn Schmiedebergs Arch Pharmacol 2010; 383:79-90. [DOI: 10.1007/s00210-010-0576-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/29/2010] [Accepted: 10/24/2010] [Indexed: 01/20/2023]
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Kajiya H, Okamoto F, Ohgi K, Nakao A, Fukushima H, Okabe K. Characteristics of ClC7 Cl− channels and their inhibition in mutant (G215R) associated with autosomal dominant osteopetrosis type II in native osteoclasts and hClcn7 gene-expressing cells. Pflugers Arch 2009; 458:1049-59. [DOI: 10.1007/s00424-009-0689-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/29/2008] [Accepted: 05/29/2009] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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Volk APD, Heise CK, Hougen JL, Artman CM, Volk KA, Wessels D, Soll DR, Nauseef WM, Lamb FS, Moreland JG. ClC-3 and IClswell are required for normal neutrophil chemotaxis and shape change. J Biol Chem 2008; 283:34315-26. [PMID: 18840613 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m803141200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022] Open
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Polymorphonuclear leukocytes undergo directed movement to sites of infection, a complex process known as chemotaxis. Extension of the polymorphonuclear leukocyte (PMN) leading edge toward a chemoattractant in association with uropod retraction must involve a coordinated increase/decrease in membrane, redistribution of cell volume, or both. Deficits in PMN phagocytosis and trans-endothelial migration, both highly motile PMN functions, suggested that the anion transporters, ClC-3 and ICl(swell), are involved in cell motility and shape change ( Moreland, J. G., Davis, A. P., Bailey, G., Nauseef, W. M., and Lamb, F. S. (2006) J. Biol. Chem. 281, 12277-12288 ). We hypothesized that ClC-3 and ICl(swell) are required for normal PMN chemotaxis through regulation of cell volume and shape change. Using complementary chemotaxis assays, EZ-TAXIScantrade mark and dynamic imaging analysis software, we analyzed the directed cell movement and morphology of PMNs lacking normal anion transporter function. Murine Clcn3(-/-) PMNs and human PMNs treated with anion transporter inhibitors demonstrated impaired chemotaxis in response to formyl peptide. This included decreased cell velocity and failure to undergo normal cycles of elongation and retraction. Impaired chemotaxis was not due to a diminished number of formyl peptide receptors in either murine or human PMNs, as measured by flow cytometry. Murine Clcn3(-/-) and Clcn3(+/+) PMNs demonstrated a similar regulatory volume decrease, indicating that the ICl(swell) response to hypotonic challenge was intact in these cells. We further demonstrated that ICl(swell) is essential for shape change during human PMN chemotaxis. We speculate that ClC-3 and ICl(swell) have unique roles in regulation of PMN chemotaxis; ICl(swell) through direct effects on PMN volume and ClC-3 through regulation of ICl(swell).
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- A Paige Davis Volk
- Department of Pediatrics, W.M. Keck Dynamic Image Analysis Facility, University of Iowa College of Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA.
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Okamoto F, Kajiya H, Toh K, Uchida S, Yoshikawa M, Sasaki S, Kido MA, Tanaka T, Okabe K. Intracellular ClC-3 chloride channels promote bone resorption in vitro through organelle acidification in mouse osteoclasts. Am J Physiol Cell Physiol 2008; 294:C693-701. [PMID: 18234851 DOI: 10.1152/ajpcell.00251.2007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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ClC-7 Cl(-) channels expressed in osteoclasts are important for bone resorption since it has been shown that disruption of the ClCN7 gene in mice leads to severe osteopetrosis. We have previously reported that Cl(-) currents recorded from mouse osteoclasts resemble those of ClC-3 Cl(-) channels. The aim of the present study was to determine the expression of ClC-3 channels in mouse osteoclasts and their functional role during bone resorption. We detected transcripts for both ClC-7 and ClC-3 channels in mouse osteoclasts by RT-PCR. The expression of ClC-3 was confirmed by immunocytochemical staining. Mouse osteoclasts lacking ClC-3 Cl(-) channels (ClC-3(-/-) osteoclasts) derived from ClCN3 gene-deficient mice (ClC-3(-/-)) showed lower bone resorption activity compared with ClC-3+/+ osteoclasts derived from wild-type mice (ClC-3+/+). Treatment of ClC-3+/+ osteoclasts with small interfering RNA (siRNA) against ClC-3 also significantly reduced bone resorption activity. Electrophysiological properties of basal and hypotonicity-induced Cl(-) currents in ClC-3(-/-) osteoclasts did not differ significantly from those in ClC-3+/+ osteoclasts. Using immunocytochemistry, ClC-3 was colocalized with lysosome-associated membrane protein 2. Using pH-sensitive dyes, organelle acidification activity in ClC-3(-/-) osteoclasts was weaker than in ClC-3+/+ osteoclasts. Treatment of ClC-3+/+ osteoclasts with siRNA against ClC-3 also reduced the organelle acidification activity. In conclusion, ClC-3 Cl(-) channels are expressed in intracellular organelles of mouse osteoclasts and contribute to osteoclastic bone resorption in vitro through organelle acidification.
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- Fujio Okamoto
- Dept. of Physiological Science and Molecular Biology, Fukuoka Dental College, 2-15-1 Tamura, Sawara-ku, Fukuoka 814-0193, Japan.
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Nobles M, Higgins CF, Sardini A. Extracellular acidification elicits a chloride current that shares characteristics with ICl(swell). Am J Physiol Cell Physiol 2004; 287:C1426-35. [PMID: 15306547 DOI: 10.1152/ajpcell.00549.2002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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A Cl− current activated by extracellular acidification, ICl(pHac), has been characterized in various mammalian cell types. Many of the properties of ICl(pHac) are similar to those of the cell swelling-activated Cl− current ICl(swell): ion selectivity (I− > Br− > Cl− > F−), pharmacology [ ICl(pHac) is inhibited by 4,4′-diisothiocyanostilbene-2,2′-disulfonic acid (DIDS), 1,9-dideoxyforskolin (DDFSK), diphenylamine-2-carboxylic acid (DPC), and niflumic acid], lack of dependence on intra- or extracellular Ca2+, and presence in all cell types tested. ICl(pHac) differs from ICl(swell) in three aspects: 1) its rate of activation and inactivation is very much more rapid, currents reaching a maximum in seconds rather than minutes; 2) it exhibits a slow voltage-dependent activation in contrast to the fast voltage-dependent activation and time- and voltage-dependent inactivation observed for ICl(swell); and 3) it shows a more pronounced outward rectification. Despite these differences, study of the transition between the two currents strongly suggests that ICl(swell) and ICl(pHac) are related and that extracellular acidification reflects a novel stimulus for activating ICl(swell) that, additionally, alters the biophysical properties of the channel.
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- Muriel Nobles
- Medical Research Council, Clinical Sciences Centre, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College, Hammersmith Hospital Campus, London, United Kingdom.
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Schaller S, Henriksen K, Sveigaard C, Heegaard AM, Hélix N, Stahlhut M, Ovejero MC, Johansen JV, Solberg H, Andersen TL, Hougaard D, Berryman M, Shiødt CB, Sørensen BH, Lichtenberg J, Christophersen P, Foged NT, Delaissé JM, Engsig MT, Karsdal MA. The chloride channel inhibitor NS3736 [corrected] prevents bone resorption in ovariectomized rats without changing bone formation. J Bone Miner Res 2004; 19:1144-53. [PMID: 15176998 DOI: 10.1359/jbmr.040302] [Citation(s) in RCA: 126] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/28/2003] [Revised: 01/26/2004] [Accepted: 02/26/2004] [Indexed: 01/21/2023]
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UNLABELLED Chloride channel activity is essential for osteoclast function. Consequently, inhibition of the osteoclastic chloride channel should prevent bone resorption. Accordingly, we tested a chloride channel inhibitor on bone turnover and found that it inhibits bone resorption without affecting bone formation. This study indicates that chloride channel inhibitors are highly promising for treatment of osteoporosis. INTRODUCTION The chloride channel inhibitor, NS3736, blocked osteoclastic acidification and resorption in vitro with an IC50 value of 30 microM. When tested in the rat ovariectomy model for osteoporosis, daily treatment with 30 mg/kg orally protected bone strength and BMD by approximately 50% 6 weeks after surgery. Most interestingly, bone formation assessed by osteocalcin, mineral apposition rate, and mineralized surface index was not inhibited. MATERIALS AND METHODS Analysis of chloride channels in human osteoclasts revealed that ClC-7 and CLIC1 were highly expressed. Furthermore, by electrophysiology, we detected a volume-activated anion channel on human osteoclasts. Screening 50 different human tissues showed a broad expression for CLIC1 and a restricted immunoreactivity for ClC-7, appearing mainly in osteoclasts, ovaries, appendix, and Purkinje cells. This highly selective distribution predicts that inhibition of ClC-7 should specifically target osteoclasts in vivo. We suggest that NS3736 is inhibiting ClC-7, leading to a bone-specific effect in vivo. RESULTS AND CONCLUSION In conclusion, we show for the first time that chloride channel inhibitors can be used for prevention of ovariectomy-induced bone loss without impeding bone formation. We speculate that the coupling of bone resorption to bone formation is linked to the acidification of the resorption lacunae, thereby enabling compounds that directly interfere with this process to be able to positive uncouple this process resulting in a net bone gain.
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Okamoto F, Kajiya H, Fukushima H, Jimi E, Okabe K. Prostaglandin E2 activates outwardly rectifying Cl(-) channels via a cAMP-dependent pathway and reduces cell motility in rat osteoclasts. Am J Physiol Cell Physiol 2004; 287:C114-24. [PMID: 15044156 DOI: 10.1152/ajpcell.00551.2003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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We examined changes in electrical and morphological properties of rat osteoclasts in response to prostaglandin (PG)E(2). PGE(2) (>10 nM) stimulated an outwardly rectifying Cl(-) current in a concentration-dependent manner and caused a long-lasting depolarization of cell membrane. This PGE(2)-induced Cl(-) current was reversibly inhibited by 4,4'-diisothiocyanostilbene-2,2'-disulfonic acid (DIDS), 5-nitro-2-(3-phenylpropylamino)-benzoic acid (NPPB), and tamoxifen. The anion permeability sequence of this current was I(-) > Br(-) approximately Cl(-) > gluconate(-). When outwardly rectifying Cl(-) current was induced by hyposmotic extracellular solution, no further stimulatory effect of PGE(2) was seen. Forskolin and dibutyryl adenosine 3',5'-cyclic monophosphate (DBcAMP) mimicked the effect of PGE(2). The PGE(2)-induced Cl(-) current was inhibited by pretreatment with guanosine 5'-O-2-(thiodiphosphate) (GDPbetaS), Rp-adenosine 3',5'-cyclic monophosphorothioate (Rp-cAMPS), N-(2-[p-bromocinnamylamino]ethyl)-5-isoquinolinesulfonamide dihydrochloride (H-89), and protein kinase A inhibitors. Even in the absence of nonosteoclastic cells, PGE(2) (1 microM) reduced cell surface area and suppressed motility of osteoclasts, and these effects were abolished by Rp-cAMPS or H-89. PGE(2) is known to exert its effects through four subtypes of PGE receptors (EP1-EP4). EP2 and EP4 agonists (ONO-AE1-259 and ONO-AE1-329, respectively), but not EP1 and EP3 agonists (ONO-DI-004 and ONO-AE-248, respectively), mimicked the electrical and morphological actions of PGE(2) on osteoclasts. Our results show that PGE(2) stimulates rat osteoclast Cl(-) current by activation of a cAMP-dependent pathway through EP2 and, to a lesser degree, EP4 receptors and reduces osteoclast motility. This effect is likely to reduce bone resorption.
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- Fujio Okamoto
- Department of Physiological Science and Molecular Biology, Fukuoka Dental College, Fukuoka, Japan 814-0193.
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Understanding osteoclast formation and function: implications for future therapies for osteoporosis. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2003. [DOI: 10.1097/00001433-200310000-00007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Zaidi M, Blair HC, Moonga BS, Abe E, Huang CLH. Osteoclastogenesis, bone resorption, and osteoclast-based therapeutics. J Bone Miner Res 2003; 18:599-609. [PMID: 12674320 DOI: 10.1359/jbmr.2003.18.4.599] [Citation(s) in RCA: 111] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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Over the past decade, advances in molecular tools, stem cell differentiation, osteoclast and osteoblast signaling mechanisms, and genetically manipulated mice models have resulted in major breakthroughs in understanding osteoclast biology. This review focuses on key advances in our understanding of molecular mechanisms underlying the formation, function, and survival of osteoclasts. These include key signals mediating osteoclast differentiation, including PU.1, RANK, CSF-1/c-fms, and src, and key specializations of the osteoclast including HCl secretion driven by H+-ATPase and the secretion of collagenolytic enzymes including cathepsin K and matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs). These pathways and highly expressed proteins provide targets for specific therapies to modify bone degradation. The main outstanding issues, basic and translational, will be considered in relation to the osteoclast as a target for antiresorptive therapies.
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- Mone Zaidi
- Department of Medicine, Geriatrics and Physiology and The Mount Sinai Bone Program, Bronx VA Geriatrics Research Education and Clinical Center, New York, New York, USA.
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Krasznai Z, Weidema F, Ypey DL, Damjanovich S, Gáspár R, Márián T. A slow outward current and a hypoosmolality induced anion conductance in embryonic chicken osteoclasts. ACTA BIOLOGICA HUNGARICA 2001; 52:47-61. [PMID: 11396841 DOI: 10.1556/abiol.52.2001.1.6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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In this paper we report on a hypoosmolality induced current, I(osmo), in embryonic chicken osteoclasts, which could only be studied when blocking a simultaneously active, unidentified slow outward current, I(slo). I(slo) was observed in all of the examined cells when both the intracellular and extracellular solutions contained sodium as the major cation and no potassium. The current was outwardly rectifying and activated at membrane potentials more positive than -44 +/- 12 mV (n = 31). The time to half activation of the current was also voltage dependent and was 350 ms at Vm = +80 mV, and 78 ms at Vm = +120 mV. The current did not inactivate during periods up to 5 s. Extracellular 4-AP (5 mM), TEA (5 mM) and Ba2+ (1 mM), blockers of K+ conductances in chicken osteoclasts, did not influence I(slo). However, I(slo) was inhibited by 50 microM extracellular verapamil, which allowed us to study I(osmo) in isolation. Exposure of the osteoclasts to hypotonic solution resulted in the development of a depolarization activated I(osmo). It developed after a 1-min delay and reached its maximum within 10 minutes. Half-maximal activation occurred after 4.4 +/- 0.9 min (n = 9). The current activated within a few ms upon depolarization and did not inactivate during at least 5 sec. I(osmo) reversed around the calculated Nernst potential for Cl- (E(Cl) = +7.3 mV and V(rev) = +5.4 +/- 3.6 mV, n = 9). The underlying conductance, G(osmo) exhibited moderate outward rectification around 0 mV in symmetrical Cl- solutions. Ion substitution experiments showed that G(osmo) is an anion conductance with P(Cl) approximately = P(F) > P(gluc) >> P(Na). I(osmo) was blocked by 0.5 mM SITS but 50 microM verapamil, 5 mM TEA, 5 mM 4-AP, 1 mM Ba2+, 50 microM cytochalasin D and 0.5 mM alendronate did not have any effect on the current. Cl- currents have been implicated in charge neutralization during osteoclastic acid secretion for bone resorption. The present results imply that osmolality may be a factor controlling this charge neutralization.
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- Z Krasznai
- Department of Biophysics and Cell Biology, Faculty of Medicine, Medical and Health Science Center, University of Debrecen, Hungary.
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Weidema AF, Dixon SJ, Sims SM. Activation of P2Y but not P2X(4) nucleotide receptors causes elevation of [Ca2+]i in mammalian osteoclasts. Am J Physiol Cell Physiol 2001; 280:C1531-9. [PMID: 11350748 DOI: 10.1152/ajpcell.2001.280.6.c1531] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Extracellular nucleotides cause elevation of cytosolic free Ca2+ concentration ([Ca2+](i)) in osteoclasts, although the sources of Ca2+ are uncertain. Activation of P2Y receptors causes Ca2+ release from stores, whereas P2X receptors are ligand-gated channels that mediate Ca2+ influx in some cell types. To examine the sources of Ca2+, we studied osteoclasts from rat and rabbit using fura 2 fluorescence and patch clamp. Nucleotide-induced rise of ([Ca2+](i)) persisted on removal of extracellular Ca2+ (Ca), indicating involvement of stores. Inhibition of phospholipase C (PLC) with U-73122 or inhibition of endoplasmic reticulum Ca(2+)-ATPase with cyclopiazonic acid or thapsigargin abolished the rise of ([Ca2+](i)). After store depletion in the absence of Ca, addition of Ca led to a rise of ([Ca2+](i)) consistent with store-operated Ca2+ influx. Store-operated Ca2+ influx was greater at negative potentials and was blocked by La(3+). In patch-clamp studies where PLC was blocked, ATP induced inward current indicating activation of P2X(4) nucleotide receptors, but with no rise of ([Ca2+](i)). We conclude that nucleotide-induced elevation of [Ca(2+)](i) in osteoclasts arises primarily through activation of P2Y nucleotide receptors, leading to release of Ca2+ from intracellular stores.
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- A F Weidema
- Department of Physiology and Division of Oral Biology, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada N6A 5C1
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Kinard TA, Goforth PB, Tao Q, Abood ME, Teague J, Satin LS. Chloride channels regulate HIT cell volume but cannot fully account for swelling-induced insulin secretion. Diabetes 2001; 50:992-1003. [PMID: 11334443 DOI: 10.2337/diabetes.50.5.992] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022]
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Insulin-secreting pancreatic islet beta-cells possess anion-permeable Cl- channels (I(Cl,islet)) that are swelling-activated, but the role of these channels in the cells is unclear. The Cl- channel blockers 4,4'-diisothiocyanostilbene-2,2'-disulfonic acid (DIDS) and niflumic acid were evaluated for their ability to inhibit I(Cl,islet) in clonal beta-cells (HIT cells). Both drugs blocked the channel, but the blockade due to niflumic acid was less voltage-dependent than the blockade due to DIDS. HIT cell volume initially increased in hypotonic solution and was followed by a regulatory volume decrease (RVD). The addition of niflumic acid and, to a lesser extent, DIDS to the hypotonic solution potentiated swelling and blocked the RVD. In isotonic solution, niflumic acid produced swelling, suggesting that islet Cl- channels are activated under basal conditions. The channel blockers glyburide, gadolinium, or tetraethylammonium-Cl did not alter hypotonic-induced swelling or volume regulation. The Na/K/2Cl transport blocker furosemide produced cell shrinkage in isotonic solution and blocked cell swelling normally induced by hypotonic solution. Perifused HIT cells secreted insulin when challenged with hypotonic solutions. However, this could not be completely attributed to I(Cl,islet)-mediated depolarization, because secretion persisted even when Cl- channels were fully blocked. To test whether blocker-resistant secretion occurred via a distal pathway, distal secretion was isolated using 50 mmol/l potassium and diazoxide. Under these conditions, glucose-dependent secretion was blunted, but hypotonically induced secretion persisted, even with Cl- channel blockers present. These results suggest that beta-cell swelling stimulates insulin secretion primarily via a distal I(Cl,islet)-independent mechanism, as has been proposed for K(ATP)-independent glucose- and sulfonylurea-stimulated insulin secretion. Reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction of HIT cell mRNA identified a CLC-3 transcript in HIT cells. In other systems, CLC-3 is believed to mediate swelling-induced outwardly rectifying Cl- channels. This suggests that the proximal effects of swelling to regulate cell volume may be mediated by CLC-3 or a closely related Cl- channel.
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- T A Kinard
- Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Medical College of Virginia, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond 23298-0524, USA
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Lees RL, Heersche JN. Differences in regulation of pH(i) in large (>/=10 nuclei) and small (</=5 nuclei) osteoclasts. Am J Physiol Cell Physiol 2000; 279:C751-61. [PMID: 10942726 DOI: 10.1152/ajpcell.2000.279.3.c751] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/16/2023]
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Osteoclasts are multinucleated cells that resorb bone by extrusion of protons and proteolytic enzymes. They display marked heterogeneity in cell size, shape, and resorptive activity. Because high resorptive activity in vivo is associated with an increase in the average size of osteoclasts in areas of greater resorption and because of the importance of proton extrusion in resorption, we investigated whether the activity of the bafilomycin A(1)-sensitive vacuolar-type H(+)-ATPase (V-ATPase) and amiloride-sensitive Na(+)/H(+) exchanger differed between large and small osteoclasts. Osteoclasts were obtained from newborn rabbit bones, cultured on glass coverslips, and loaded with the pH-sensitive indicator 2', 7'-bis(2-carboxyethyl)-5(6)-carboxyfluorescein (BCECF). Intracellular pH (pH(i)) was recorded in single osteoclasts by monitoring fluorescence. Large (>/=10 nuclei) and small (</=5 nuclei) osteoclasts differed in that large osteoclasts had a higher basal pH(i), their pH(i) was decreased by bafilomycin A(1) addition or removal of extracellular Na(+), and the realkalinization upon readdition of Na(+) was bafilomycin A(1) sensitive. After acid loading, a subpopulation of large osteoclasts (40%) recovered by V-ATPase activity alone, whereas all small osteoclasts recovered by Na(+)/H(+) exchanger activity. Interestingly, in 60% of the large osteoclasts, pH(i) recovery was mediated by both the Na(+)/H(+) exchanger and V-ATPase activity. Our results show a striking difference between pH(i) regulatory mechanisms of large and small osteoclasts that we hypothesize may be associated with differences in the potential resorptive activity of these cells.
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- R L Lees
- Department of Pharmacology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5G 1G6
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Shuba LM, McDonald TF. External anions and volume-sensitive anion current in guinea-pig ventricular myocytes. Can J Physiol Pharmacol 2000. [DOI: 10.1139/y00-028] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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The objective of this study was to determine the effects of anion replacement on volume-sensitive anion current in guinea-pig ventricular myocytes. Myocytes in the conventional whole-cell voltage-clamp configuration were superfused and dialysed with Na+-, K+-, and Ca2+-free solution, and exposed to external 75 mM Cl- solution of one-half normal osmolality. Prolonged exposures to hyposmotic solution promoted the development of outwardly-rectifying currents that were inactivated at high positive potentials and reversed in a Cl--dependent manner (50 mV per decade pipette Cl- concentration). Replacement of external Cl- by iodide and aspartate affected the reversal potential (Erev) and slope conductance of the volume-sensitive current. Relative permeabilities calculated from changes in Erev were 1.49 ± 0.09, 1.00, and 0.29 ± 0.04 for iodide, Cl-, and aspartate, respectively; relative slope conductances between Erev and Erev + 40 mV were 1.21 ± 0.09, 1.00, and 0.43 ± 0.07, respectively. Replacement of Cl- also affected the time dependence of the volume-sensitive current; replacement by iodide reversibly enhanced the decay of outward current at positive potentials, whereas replacement by aspartate reduced it. These results are compared with earlier findings on non-cardiac time- and voltage-dependent anion current activated by hyposmotic solution.Key words: hyposmotic solution, Cl- current, iodide, aspartate, permeability, conductance.
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Weidema AF, Dixon SJ, Sims SM. Electrophysiological characterization of ion channels in osteoclasts isolated from human deciduous teeth. Bone 2000; 27:5-11. [PMID: 10865203 DOI: 10.1016/s8756-3282(00)00287-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Ion channels contribute to several important processes in osteoclasts, including proton transport and volume regulation. Although ion channels have been described in osteoclasts from several species, little is known about their properties in human osteoclasts. We devised a method for isolation of authentic human osteoclasts from deciduous teeth undergoing root resorption, and characterized currents in these cells using patch-clamp techniques. Three types of K(+) current were identified. Hyperpolarization elicited an inwardly rectifying K(+) current in most osteoclasts, which was inhibited by Ba(2+) in a voltage- and time-dependent manner. Depolarization elicited an outwardly rectifying and tetraethylammonium-sensitive current, consistent with a large-conductance Ca(2+)-dependent K(+) channel. In addition to these basal currents, extracellular adenosine 5'-triphosphate (ATP) elicited a linear current that was identified as a Ca(2+)-dependent K(+) current, based on its reversal potential close to that predicted for K(+), its blockade by quinine, and its activation by Ca(2+) ionophore. Last, an outwardly rectifying current was observed to activate spontaneously or in response to ATP, with properties of a swelling-activated Cl(-) current. This current reversed direction close to the Cl(-) equilibrium potential and was blocked by the anion channel blocker, niflumic acid, identifying it as a Cl(-) current. In summary, we have developed a novel method for isolation of authentic human osteoclasts and have characterized K(+) and Cl(-) currents. Cl(-) current mediates charge compensation during electrogenic H(+) transport, so activation of Cl(-) current may contribute to the stimulatory effects of extracellular ATP on bone resorption.
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- A F Weidema
- Department of Physiology and Division of Oral Biology, Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry, The University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada
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Watson I, Churchill D, Caveney S. Characterization of a chloride current in the larval epidermis of the beetle Tenebrio molitor. JOURNAL OF INSECT PHYSIOLOGY 1999; 45:895-906. [PMID: 12770282 DOI: 10.1016/s0022-1910(99)00065-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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Voltage-clamp analysis of single cuticle-attached epidermal cells dissected from the newly-ecdysed mealworm revealed the presence of a large inwardly-rectifying anion (i.e. outwardly-going) current. In many cells this current formed spontaneously on breaking into the cell with the patch pipette when the bath solution was isoosmotic with the pipette solution (415 mosmol/l). The current was evoked rapidly by electrical stimulation or by bathing the cells in hyposmotic saline (335 mosmol/l). The reversal potential of the activated current shifted in agreement with the Nernst prediction for Cl(-) when the transmembrane chloride gradient was altered by partially substituting bath or patch pipette Cl(-) with gluconate(-). Substitution of Na(+) with choline(+) or K(+) with TEA and Ba(+) in the bath or pipette solutions did not alter the reversal potential. Addition of 200 &mgr;mol/l cyclic AMP or 1 mmol/l cyclic GMP to the pipette solution increased the initial current strength and reduced the time taken to reach half peak amplitude from 117 sec to 49 sec and 41 sec, respectively. Cyclic AMP also raised the threshold at which the current developed under hyperosmotic conditions by about 20 mosmol/l. Addition of the Cl(-) channel blockers diphenylamine-2-carboxylic acid (200 &mgr;mmol/l) and diisothiocyanostilbene-2,2'-disulphonic acid (250 &mgr;mol/l) to the bath solution reduced the inwardly-rectifying anion current by 50%. This current was barely detectable in cells prepared from the mid-instar integument. This non-constitutive pattern of expression suggests that cellular Cl(-) efflux (and that of other anions) may be required during moult-cycle specific processes such as moulting fluid formation and cell volume regulation. As the strength of the epidermal anion current could be raised by the exogenous application of cytosolic cyclic nucleotides, the activity of the anion channels responsible for this current may normally be regulated by yet-to-be-identified hormone(s) or neuropeptide(s) acting on this tissue.
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- I Watson
- Department of Zoology, University of Western Ontario, London, Canada
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Sakai H, Nakamura F, Kuno M. Synergetic activation of outwardly rectifying Cl- currents by hypotonic stress and external Ca2+ in murine osteoclasts. J Physiol 1999; 515 ( Pt 1):157-68. [PMID: 9925886 PMCID: PMC2269141 DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-7793.1999.157ad.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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1. An outwardly rectifying Cl- (ORCl) current of murine osteoclasts was activated by hypotonic stimulation. The current was characterized by rapid activation, little inactivation, strong outward rectification, blockage by DIDS and permeability to organic acids (pyruvate and glutamate). 2. The hypotonically activated ORCl current was inhibited by intracellular dialysis with an ATP-free pipette solution, but not by replacement of ATP with a poorly hydrolysable ATP analogue adenosine 5'-O-(3-thiotriphosphate). The current amplitude was reduced when intracellular alkalinity increased over the pH range 6.6-8.0. 3. Intracellular application of cytochalasin D occasionally activated the ORCl current without hypotonic stress, but inhibited activation of the ORCl current by hypotonic stimulation. The hypotonically activated ORCl current was unaffected by a non-actin-depolymerizing cytochalasin, chaetoglobosin C, but partially inhibited by deoxyribonuclease I. 4. Removal of extracellular Ca2+ inhibited activation of the ORCl current by hypotonic shock, but did not reduce the current once activated. The hypotonically activated ORCl current was partially decreased by intracellular dialysis with 20 mM EGTA. 5. With 10 mM Ca2+ in the extracellular medium, the ORCl current was activated in response to more minor decreases in osmolarity than with 1 mM Ca2+. The increased sensitivity to hypotonicity was mimicked by increasing the intracellular Ca2+ level (pCa 6.5). 6. These results suggest that hypotonic stimulation and a rise in the extracellular Ca2+ level synergistically activate the ORCl channel of murine osteoclasts, and that the activating process is modified by multiple intracellular factors (pH, ATP and actin cytoskeletal organization).
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- H Sakai
- Department of Physiology, Osaka City University Medical School, Abeno-ku, Osaka 545-8585, Japan
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Chen L, Wang L, Jacob TJ. Association of intrinsic pICln with volume-activated Cl- current and volume regulation in a native epithelial cell. THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY 1999; 276:C182-92. [PMID: 9886934 DOI: 10.1152/ajpcell.1999.276.1.c182] [Citation(s) in RCA: 59] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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We investigated the relationship between pICln, the volume-activated Cl- current, and volume regulation in native bovine nonpigmented ciliary epithelial (NPCE) cells. Immunofluorescence studies demonstrated the presence of pICln protein in the NPCE cells. Exposure to hypotonic solution activated a Cl- current and induced regulatory volume decrease (RVD) in freshly isolated bovine NPCE cells. Three antisense oligonucleotides complementary to human pICln mRNA were used in the experiments. The antisense oligonucleotides were taken up by the cells in a dose-dependent manner. The antisense oligonucleotides, designed to be complementary to the initiation codon region of the human pICln mRNA, "knocked down" the pICln protein immunofluorescence, delayed the activation of volume-activated Cl- current, diminished the value of the current, and reduced the ability of the cells to volume regulate. We conclude that pICln is involved in the activation pathway of the volume-activated Cl- current and RVD following hypotonic swelling.
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- L Chen
- School of Biosciences, Cardiff University, Cardiff CF1 3US, United Kingdom
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Pharmacology of CFTR Chloride Channel Activity. Physiol. Rev. 79, Suppl.: S109-S144, 1999. - The pharmacology of cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) is at an early stage of development. Here we attempt to review the status of those compounds that modulate the Cl- channel activity of CFTR. Three classes of compounds, the sulfonylureas, the disulfonic stilbenes, and the arylaminobenzoates, have been shown to directly interact with CFTR to cause channel blockade. Kinetic analysis has revealed the sulfonylureas and arylaminobenzoates interact with the open state of CFTR to cause blockade. Suggestive evidence indicates the disulfonic stilbenes act by a similar mechanism but only from the intracellular side of CFTR. Site-directed mutagenesis studies indicate the involvement of specific amino acid residues in the proposed transmembrane segment 6 for disulfonic stilbene blockade and segments 6 and 12 for arylaminobenzoate blockade. Unfortunately, these compounds (sulfonylureas, disulfonic stilbenes, arylaminobenzoate) also act at a number of other cellular sites that can indirectly alter the activity of CFTR or the transepithelial secretion of Cl-. The nonspecificity of these compounds has complicated the interpretation of results from cellular-based experiments. Compounds that increase the activity of CFTR include the alkylxanthines, phosphodiesterase inhibitors, phosphatase inhibitors, isoflavones and flavones, benzimidazolones, and psoralens. Channel activation can arise from the stimulation of the cAMP signal transduction cascade, the inhibition of inactivating enzymes (phosphodiesterases, phosphatases), as well as the direct binding to CFTR. However, in contrast to the compounds that block CFTR, a detailed understanding of how the above compounds increase the activity of CFTR has not yet emerged.
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- B D Schultz
- University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pennsylvania, USA
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Mitogen-activated protein and tyrosine kinases in the activation of astrocyte volume-activated chloride current. J Neurosci 1998. [PMID: 9454830 DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.18-04-01196.1998] [Citation(s) in RCA: 113] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Astrocytes swell during neuronal activity as they accumulate K+ to buffer the increase in external K+ released from neurons. This swelling activates volume-sensitive Cl- channels, which are thought to be important in regulatory volume decrease and in the response of the CNS to trauma and excitotoxicity. Mitogen-activated protein (MAP) kinases also are activated by cell volume changes, but their roles in volume regulation are unknown. We have investigated the role of tyrosine and MAP kinases in the activation of volume-activated Cl- channels in cultured astrocytes, using whole-cell patch-clamp recording and Western immunoblots. As previously described, hypo-osmotic solution induced an outwardly rectifying Cl- current, which was blocked by NPPB and SITS. This Cl- current did not depend on [Ca2+ ]i because it was still observed when 20 mM BAPTA was included in the pipette, but it did exhibit rundown when ATP was omitted. Inhibition of tyrosine kinases with genistein or tyrphostin A23 (but not the inactive agents daidzein and tyrphostin A1) blocked the Cl- current. The MAP kinase kinase (MEK) inhibitor PD 98059 reversibly inhibited activation of the Cl- current by hypo-osmotic solution. Western immunoblots showed that genistein or PD 98059 blocked activation of Erk-1 and Erk-2 by hypo-osmotic solution in astrocytes. Therefore, activation of tyrosine and MAP kinases by swelling is a critical step in the opening of volume-sensitive Cl- channels.
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Crépel V, Panenka W, Kelly ME, MacVicar BA. Mitogen-activated protein and tyrosine kinases in the activation of astrocyte volume-activated chloride current. J Neurosci 1998; 18:1196-206. [PMID: 9454830 PMCID: PMC6792730] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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Astrocytes swell during neuronal activity as they accumulate K+ to buffer the increase in external K+ released from neurons. This swelling activates volume-sensitive Cl- channels, which are thought to be important in regulatory volume decrease and in the response of the CNS to trauma and excitotoxicity. Mitogen-activated protein (MAP) kinases also are activated by cell volume changes, but their roles in volume regulation are unknown. We have investigated the role of tyrosine and MAP kinases in the activation of volume-activated Cl- channels in cultured astrocytes, using whole-cell patch-clamp recording and Western immunoblots. As previously described, hypo-osmotic solution induced an outwardly rectifying Cl- current, which was blocked by NPPB and SITS. This Cl- current did not depend on [Ca2+ ]i because it was still observed when 20 mM BAPTA was included in the pipette, but it did exhibit rundown when ATP was omitted. Inhibition of tyrosine kinases with genistein or tyrphostin A23 (but not the inactive agents daidzein and tyrphostin A1) blocked the Cl- current. The MAP kinase kinase (MEK) inhibitor PD 98059 reversibly inhibited activation of the Cl- current by hypo-osmotic solution. Western immunoblots showed that genistein or PD 98059 blocked activation of Erk-1 and Erk-2 by hypo-osmotic solution in astrocytes. Therefore, activation of tyrosine and MAP kinases by swelling is a critical step in the opening of volume-sensitive Cl- channels.
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- V Crépel
- Neuroscience Research Group, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada T2N 4N1
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Ion Channels in Osteoclasts. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1998. [DOI: 10.1016/s1569-2590(08)60129-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register]
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Okada Y. Volume expansion-sensing outward-rectifier Cl- channel: fresh start to the molecular identity and volume sensor. THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY 1997; 273:C755-89. [PMID: 9316396 DOI: 10.1152/ajpcell.1997.273.3.c755] [Citation(s) in RCA: 514] [Impact Index Per Article: 19.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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The maintenance of a constant volume in the face of extracellular and intracellular osmotic perturbation is essential for the normal function and survival of animal cells. Osmotically swollen cells restore their volume, exhibiting a regulatory volume decrease by releasing intracellular K+, Cl-, organic solutes, and obligated water. In many cell types, the volume regulatory effluxes of Cl- and some organic osmolytes are known to be induced by swelling-induced activation of anion channels that are characterized by their moderate outward rectification, cytosolic ATP dependency, and intermediate unitary conductance (10-100 pS). Recently, simultaneous measurements of cell size by light microscopy and whole cell Cl- current have shown that the Cl- current density is proportionally increased with an increase in the outer surface area, which is mainly achieved through unfolding of membrane invaginations by volume expansion. Thus this anion channel can somehow sense volume expansion and can be called the volume expansion-sensing outwardly rectifying (VSOR) anion channel. Its molecular identity and activation mechanism are yet to be elucidated. Three cloned proteins, ClC-2, P-glycoprotein, and pIcln, have been proposed as candidates for the VSOR anion channel. The unitary conductance, voltage dependency, anion selectivity, pH dependency, and pharmacology of the VSOR anion channel are distinct from the ClC-2 Cl- channel, which is also known to be sensitive to volume changes. Recent patch-clamp studies in combination with molecular biological techniques have shown that P-glycoprotein is not itself the channel protein but is a regulator of its volume sensitivity. Although there is still debate about another candidate protein, pIcln, the most recent study has suggested that this is likely to be a regulator of some other distinct Cl- channel. Identification of the VSOR anion channel protein per se, its volume-sensing mechanism, and its accessory/regulatory proteins at the molecular level is currently a subject of utmost physiological importance.
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- Y Okada
- Department of Cellular and Molecular Physiology, National Institute for Physiological Sciences, Okazaki, Japan
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Weidema AF, Barbera J, Dixon SJ, Sims SM. Extracellular nucleotides activate non-selective cation and Ca(2+)-dependent K+ channels in rat osteoclasts. J Physiol 1997; 503 ( Pt 2):303-15. [PMID: 9306274 PMCID: PMC1159864 DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-7793.1997.303bh.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023] Open
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1. Extracellular ATP elevates cytosolic free Ca2+ concentration ([Ca2+]i) in osteoclasts, but its effects on ion channels have not been reported previously. Membrane currents and [Ca2+]i were recorded in isolated rat osteoclasts using patch clamp and fluorescence techniques. 2. At negative membrane potentials, ATP (1-100 microM) activated an inward current that peaked rapidly and then declined. A later current was outward at potentials positive to the equilibrium potential for K+ (EK) and showed oscillations. 3. The initial inward current, studied in isolation using Cs+ in the electrode solution, showed rapid activation, inward rectification and reversal at +3 +/- 4 mV. Reduction of [Na+]o to 10 mM shifted the reversal potential to -21 +/- 3 mV, indicating that ATP activates a non-selective cation current, consistent with involvement of P2X receptors. 4. The later current activated by ATP, studied with K+ in the electrode solution, exhibited a linear I-V relationship, and reversed at -71 +/- 4 mV. The reversal potential shifted 51 mV per 10-fold change of [K+]o, indicating that ATP activates a K+ current (IK). 5. In fura-2-loaded cells, ATP caused elevation of [Ca2+]i that persisted in Ca(2+)-free solution, indicating that ATP induced release of Ca2+ from intracellular stores, consistent with involvement of P2Y receptors. Simultaneous patch clamp and fluorescence recordings revealed that IK was associated with the elevation of [Ca2+]i. Using a Ca2+ ionophore (4Br-A23187) to elevate [Ca2+]i, IK activated when [Ca2+]i exceeded approximately 400 nM, with half-maximal activation at 580 +/- 50 nM. 6. In cell-attached patches, ATP activated a channel with a conductance of 48 +/- 6 pS, that reversed director, near EK. Channel open probability increased with elevation of [Ca2+]i, indicating the Ca2+ dependence of this channel. 7. These results demonstrate that rat osteoclasts express two types of purinoceptors. P2X receptors give rise to non-selective cation current. P2Y receptors mediate Ca2+ release from stores, causing activation of a Ca(2+)-dependent K+ channel.
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- A F Weidema
- Department of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Western Ontario, London, Canada.
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Mitchell CH, Zhang JJ, Wang L, Jacob TJ. Volume-sensitive chloride current in pigmented ciliary epithelial cells: role of phospholipases. THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY 1997; 272:C212-22. [PMID: 9038827 DOI: 10.1152/ajpcell.1997.272.1.c212] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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The whole cell recording technique was used to examine an outwardly rectifying chloride current activated by hypotonic shock in bovine pigmented ciliary epithelial (PCE) cells. Removal of internal and external Ca2+ did not affect the activation of these currents, but they were abolished by the phospholipase C inhibitor neomycin. The current was blocked by 5-nitro-2-(3-phenylpropylamino)benzoic acid, 4-acetamido-4'-isothiocyanostilbene-2,2'-disulfonic acid, and 4,4'-disothiocyanostilbene-2,2'-disulfonic acid (DIDS) in a voltage-dependent manner, but tamoxifen, dideoxyforskolin, and quinidine did not affect it. This blocking profile differs from that of the volume-sensitive chloride channel in neighboring nonpigmented ciliary epithelial cells (Wu, J., J. J. Zhang, H. Koppel, and T. J. C. Jacob, J. Physiol, Lond. 491: 743-755, 1996), and this difference implies that the volume responses of the two cell types are mediated by different chloride channels (Jacob, T. J. C., and J. J. Zhang. J. Physiol. Lond. In press). Intracellular administration of guanosine 5'-O-(3-thiotriphosphate) (GTP gamma S) to PCE cells induced a transient, time-independent, outwardly rectifying chloride current that closely resembled the current activated by hypotonic shock. DIDS produced a voltage-dependent block of the GTP gamma S-activated current similar to the block of the hypotonically activated current. Intracellular neomycin completely prevented activation of this current as did incubation of the cells in calphostin C. and inhibitor of protein kinase C (PKC). Removal of Ca2+ did not affect activation of the current by GTP gamma S but extended the duration of the response. Inhibition of phospholipase A2 (PLA2) with p-bromophenacyl bromide prevented the activation of the hypotonically induced current and also inhibited the current once activated by hypotonic solution. The findings imply that the hypotonic response in PCE cells is mediated by both phospholipase C (PLC) and PLA2. Both phospholipases generate arachidonic acid, and, in addition, the PLC pathway regulates the PLA2 pathway via a PKC-dependent phosphorylation of PLA2.
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- C H Mitchell
- Eye Research Lab, School of Molecular and Medical Bioscience, University of Wales, Cardiff, United Kingdom
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Sugimoto T, Yoshino M, Nagao M, Ishii S, Yabu H. Voltage-gated ionic channels in cultured rabbit articular chondrocytes. COMPARATIVE BIOCHEMISTRY AND PHYSIOLOGY. PART C, PHARMACOLOGY, TOXICOLOGY & ENDOCRINOLOGY 1996; 115:223-32. [PMID: 9375360 DOI: 10.1016/s0742-8413(96)00091-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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The membrane properties of cultured cells of rabbit articular chondrocytes were studied using the whole-cell patch clamp technique. The average cell capacitance was 37.9 +/- 9.0 pF (n = 13), and the cell resting potential was -41.0 +/- 7.0 mV (n = 11). We were unable to induce an action potential by applying a depolarizing current. Upon step depolarization, under voltage clamp conditions, one kind of inward and two kinds of outward currents were elicited. The inward current was initially observed at around -30 mV, peaked at 0 mV, and reversed at around +90 mV. Tetrodotoxin (TTX; 1 microM) was shown to completely block this inward current. At steady state, the inward current was half-inactivated at -51 mV, with a slope factor of 6.3 mV. Two outward currents were determined from measurements of activation threshold, reversal potential, and pharmacological responses. One was observed at around -30 mV, and its amplitude increased with membrane depolarization. Extracellularly applied 4-aminopyridine (4 AP) (1 mM) and tetraethyl ammonium chloride (TEA) (5 mM) blocked this current. The other outward current was observed at around +10 mV, and its direction reversed at a potential close to that predicted by the Nernst equation for a Cl- selective channel. This current fluctuated markedly, and the fluctuation did not decline throughout the 100 ms of the step pulse. Extracellularly applied 4-acetamido-4'-isothiocyanostilbenezene-2,2-disulfonic acid (SITS) (0.25 mM) blocked this current, but the same dose of 4,4'-diisothiocyanatostilbene-2,2'-disulfonic acid (DIDS) had little effect. These results suggest the presence of TTX-sensitive Na+, 4-AP- and TEA-sensitive K+, and SITS-sensitive Cl- channels in rabbit articular chondrocyte membrane. The functional significance of these channels is discussed.
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- T Sugimoto
- Department of Orthopedic Surgery School of Medicine, Sapporo Medical University, Japan
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Fujita H, Matsumoto T, Kawashima H, Ogata E, Fujita T, Yamashita N. Activation of Cl- channels by extracellular Ca2+ in freshly isolated rabbit osteoclasts. J Cell Physiol 1996; 169:217-25. [PMID: 8841438 DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-4652(199610)169:1<217::aid-jcp22>3.0.co;2-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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Ionic channels regulated by extracellular Ca2+ concentration ([Ca2+]o) were examined in freshly isolated rabbit osteoclasts. K+ current was suppressed by intracellular and extracellular Cs+ ions. In this condition, high [Ca2+]o evoked an outwardly rectifying current with a reversal potential of about -25 mV. When the concentration of extracellular Cl ions was altered, the reversal potential of the outwardly rectifying current shifted as predicted by the Nernst equation. 4',4-diisothiocyanostilbene-2' 2-disulphonic acid (DIDS) inhibited the outwardly rectifying current. These results indicated that this current was carried through Cl- channels. Cd2+ or Ni2+ caused a transient activation of the Cl- current in contrast to the sustained activation elicited by Ca2+. Intracellular 20 mM ethylene glycol-bis(beta-aminoethyl ether)-N,N,N',N'-tetraacetic acid (EGTA) inhibited the divalent cation-induced Cl- current. Either when the osmolarity of extracellular medium was increased, or when 100 microM cAMP was dissolved in the patch pipette solution, high [Ca2+]o still elicited the Cl- current, indicating that the divalent cation-induced Cl- current was carried through Ca(2+)-activated Cl- channels. Under perforated whole cell clamp extracellular divalent cations evoked the Cl- current, indicating that the activation of Cl- current did not arise from possible leakage of divalent cations from the extracellular medium under the whole cell clamp condition. This experiment further excluded a possible activation of volume-sensitive Cl- channels under whole cell clamp. Intracellular application of guanosine 5'-O-(3-thiotriphosphate) (GTP gamma S) activated the Cl current and it was inhibited by intracellular 20 mM EGTA, suggesting that the activation of Cl current was mediated through a G protein, and that an increase in [Ca2+]i was critical for the activation of Cl-channels. A protein phosphatase inhibitor, okadaic acid (100 nM), caused an irreversible activation of the Cl current, suggesting that protein phosphatase 1 or 2A was involved in the regulation of Ca(2+)-activated Cl- channels.
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- H Fujita
- Fourth Department of Internal Medicine, University of Tokyo School of Medicine, Japan
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Meyer K, Korbmacher C. Cell swelling activates ATP-dependent voltage-gated chloride channels in M-1 mouse cortical collecting duct cells. J Gen Physiol 1996; 108:177-93. [PMID: 8882862 PMCID: PMC2229317 DOI: 10.1085/jgp.108.3.177] [Citation(s) in RCA: 65] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023] Open
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In the present study we used whole-cell patch clamp recordings to investigate swelling-activated Cl-currents (ICl-swell) in M-1 mouse cortical collecting duct (CCD) cells. Hypotonic cell swelling reversibly increased the whole-cell Cl- conductance by about 30-fold. The I-V relationship was outwardly-rectifying and ICl-swell displayed a characteristic voltage-dependence with relatively fast inactivation upon large depolarizing and slow activation upon hyperpolarizing voltage steps. Reversal potential measurements revealed a selectivity sequence SCN- > I- > Br- > Cl- > > gluconate. ICl-swell was inhibited by tamoxifen, NPPB (5-nitro-2(3-phenylpropylamino)-benzoate), DIDS (4,4'-diisothiocyanostilbene-2,2'-disulphonic acid), flufenamic acid, niflumic acid, and glibenclamide, in descending order of potency. Extracellular cAMP had no significant effect. ICl-swell was Ca2+ independent, but current activation depended on the presence of a high-energy gamma-phosphate group from intracellular ATP or ATP gamma S. Moreover, it depended on the presence of intracellular Mg2+ and was inhibited by staurosporine, which indicates that a phosphorylation step is involved in channel activation. Increasing the cytosolic Ca2+ concentration by using ionomycin stimulated Cl- currents with a voltage dependence different from that of ICl-swell. Analysis of whole-cell current records during early onset of ICl-swell and during final recovery revealed discontinuous step-like changes of the whole-cell current level which were not observed under nonswelling conditions. A single-channel I-V curve constructed using the smallest resolvable current transitions detected at various holding potentials and revealed a slope conductance of 55, 15, and 8 pS at +120, 0, and -120 mV, respectively. The larger current steps observed in these recordings had about 2, 3, or 4 times the size of the putative single-channel current amplitude, suggesting a coordinated gating of several individual channels or channel subunits. In conclusion we have functionally characterized ICl-swell in M-1 CCD cells and have identified the underlying single channels in whole-cell current recordings.
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- K Meyer
- Zentrum der Physiologie, Klinikum der Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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Shuba LM, Ogura T, McDonald TF. Kinetic evidence distinguishing volume-sensitive chloride current from other types in guinea-pig ventricular myocytes. J Physiol 1996; 491 ( Pt 1):69-80. [PMID: 9011623 PMCID: PMC1158760 DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.1996.sp021197] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023] Open
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1. Kinase-mediated chloride currents (ICl) in guinea-pig ventricular myocytes were activated by application of phorbol ester or forskolin, and compared with currents induced by hyposmotic swelling. Swelling-activated current was identified as ICl from changes in reversal potential, outward rectification and conductance when the Cl-gradient was modified. 2. Kinase-stimulated currents were relatively time and voltage independent, whereas hyposmotic swelling-stimulated (hyposmotic-stimulated) currents inactivated during 100 ms pulses to positive potentials. Forskolin stimulated time-independent ICl in myocytes with current unresponsive to hyposmotic superfusion, and superimposed a similar pedestal on time-dependent ICl in swollen myocytes. 3. Less negative holding potentials depressed hyposmotic-stimulated ICl tested at +80 mV; inhibition was half-maximal at -25 mV. Pulses from -80 to +80 mV inactivated up to 75% of ICl along a multi-exponential time course; repolarization elicited inwardly developing tail currents whose time courses suggest complex gating. 4. Hyperpolarizations, after strongly-inactivating depolarizations, triggered reactivating tail currents whose amplitude and configuration were dependent on voltage and Cl-gradients; tails were large and inwardly developing at potentials negative to the calculated Cl-equilibrium potential (ECl), small and outwardly developing at potentials positive to ECl, and time independent near ECl. 5. These results suggest that the volume-sensitive Cl- channels investigated here are distinct from other Cl- channels in guinea-pig ventricular myocytes. However, their voltage-dependent properties strongly resemble those of volume-sensitive Cl- channels in certain epithelial cells.
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- L M Shuba
- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
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Zhang JJ, Jacob TJ. Volume regulation in the bovine lens and cataract. The involvement of chloride channels. J Clin Invest 1996; 97:971-8. [PMID: 8613551 PMCID: PMC507143 DOI: 10.1172/jci118521] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023] Open
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The purpose of this study was to investigate volume regulation in the lens and its involvement in lens opacification (cataract) and the role of chloride channels in these processes. Single, isolated lens fiber cells from the lens were whole cell patch clamped. When exposed to hypotonic solution, and outwardly rectifying whole-cell current was activated. The current increased from 1.0 to 32.6 pA/pF, reversed at the chloride reversal potential (Ec1 = O mV), and was blocked by the chloride channel blockers 5, nitro-2-(3-phenylpropylamino) benzoate (NPPB) and tamoxifen. Replacing all but 5mM of the external chloride with gluconate caused the reversal potential to shift +33 mV, consistent with a CL- current with a gluconate/chloride permeability ratio of 0.26. When the whole lens of the eye was exposed to hypotonic solution, there was an initial increase in anterior-posterior diameter (5-8 min), representing lens swelling of 6.5%. This was followed by a decrease in volume to a new steady state value that lasted for up to 2 h. In the longer term (> or = 2h), the lenses began to swell again. The simultaneous exposure to hypotonic solution and tamoxifen or NPPB caused swelling and prevented this volume regulation. Lenses incubated in hypotonic solution and hypotonic solution containing tamoxifen becane ipaque after a 2-h incubation period. We conclude that the lens is able to volume regulate. It possesses volume-activated Cl- channels, the inhibition of which results in inhibition of volume regulation, lens swelling and opacification. Our data suggest the long-term prophylactic use of tamoxifen may make the patient more susceptible to cataract.
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- J J Zhang
- Eye Research Lab, Physiology Unit, School of Molecular & Medical Biosciences, University of Wales, Cardiff CF1 3US, United Kingdom
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Arreola J, Park K, Melvin JE, Begenisich T. Three distinct chloride channels control anion movements in rat parotid acinar cells. J Physiol 1996; 490 ( Pt 2):351-62. [PMID: 8821134 PMCID: PMC1158674 DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.1996.sp021149] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023] Open
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1. We used the whole-cell configuration of the patch clamp technique to examine the different macroscopic Cl- currents present in single rat parotid acinar cells. 2. Cell swelling produced by negative osmotic pressure (hypotonic bath solutions) induced a large outwardly rectifying Cl- current with little or no time and voltage dependence. In contrast, an increase in intracellular [Ca2+] induced by ionomycin activated Cl- currents with very different properties. Ca(2+)-activated Cl- currents showed outward rectification, relatively slow activation kinetics and marked voltage dependence. These results are consistent with the existence of two different outwardly rectifying Cl- channels in rat parotid cells. 3. In conditions designed to eliminate the activation of these two Cl- currents, a third type of current was observed. This third current was activated in a time-dependent manner by hyperpolarized potentials and was about equally permeant to Cl-, I- and Br-. 4. The properties of the hyperpolarization-activated current were similar to those of the cloned ClC-2 channel. Polymerase chain reaction-based methods and ribonuclease protection analyses indicated the presence in parotid gland of mRNA homologous to ClC-2. 5. Individual parotid acinar cells expressed all three types of Cl- channels. Each type of channel may contribute to Cl- efflux in distinct stages of the secretion process depending on the intracellular [Ca2+], cell volume and membrane potential.
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- J Arreola
- Department of Dental Research, University of Rochester Medical Center, NY 14642, USA
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Arreola J, Hallows KR, Knauf PA. Volume-activated chloride channels in HL-60 cells: potent inhibition by an oxonol dye. THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY 1995; 269:C1063-72. [PMID: 7485447 DOI: 10.1152/ajpcell.1995.269.4.c1063] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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When swollen in hypotonic media, HL-60 cells exhibit a regulatory volume decrease (RVD) response as a result of net losses of K+ and Cl-. This is primarily caused by a dramatic increase in Cl- permeability, which may reflect the opening of volume-sensitive channels (11). To test this hypothesis, we measured volume-activated Cl- currents in HL-60 cells using the patch-clamp technique. The whole cell Cl- conductance (in nS/pF at 100 mV) increased from 0.09 +/- 0.06 to 1.15 +/- 0.19 to 1.64 +/- 0.40 as the tonicity (in mosmol/kgH2O) of the external medium was decreased from 334 to 263 to 164, respectively. Cl- currents showed no significant inactivation during 800-ms pulses. Current-voltage curves exhibited outward rectification and were identical at holding potentials of 0 or -50 mV, suggesting that the gating of the channels is voltage independent. The selectivity sequence, based on permeability ratios (PX/PCl) calculated from the shifts of the reversal potentials, was SCN- > I- approximately NO3- > Br- > Cl- >> gluconate. 4-Acetamido-4'- isothiocyanostilbene-2,2'-disulfonic acid (SITS; 0.5 mM) inhibits HL-60 Cl- channels in a voltage-dependent manner, with approximately 10-fold increased affinity at potentials greater than +40 mV. Voltage-dependent blockade by SITS indicates that the binding site is located near the outside, where it senses 20% of the membrane potential. These Cl- channels were also inhibited in a voltage-independent manner by the oxonol dye bis-(1,3-dibutylbarbituric acid)pentamethine oxonol [diBA-(5)-C4] with a concentration that gives half inhibition (IC50) of 1.8 microM at room temperature. A similar apparent IC50 value (1.2 microM) was observed for net 36Cl- efflux into a Cl(-)-free hypotonic medium at 21 degrees C. It seems likely, therefore, that the volume-activated Cl- channels are responsible for the net Cl- efflux during RVD. These Cl- channels have properties similar to the "mini-Cl-" channels described in lymphocytes and neutrophils and are strongly inhibited by low concentrations of diBA-(5)-C4.
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- J Arreola
- Department of Dental Research, University of Rochester, New York 14642, USA
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Levitan I, Almonte C, Mollard P, Garber SS. Modulation of a volume-regulated chloride current by F-actin. J Membr Biol 1995; 147:283-94. [PMID: 8558594 DOI: 10.1007/bf00234526] [Citation(s) in RCA: 66] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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We have examined whether F-actin integrity is involved in activation of a volume-regulated Cl- current (VRChlC) in B-lymphocytes. VRChlC activation was initiated in response to establishing a whole cell recording in the presence of a hyposmotic gradient. Parallel confocal microscopy experiments using Rhodamine-Phalloidin (R-P) as a specific marker of F-actin showed that the submembrane actin ring is reversibly disrupted in response to an hyposmotic gradient. Disruptions of cortical F-actin integrity by 50 microM cytochalasin B (CB) does not trigger activation of VRChlC under isosmotic conditions or potentiate the rate of activation when the osmolarity of the extracellular solution was decreased by 75%. However, incubation with CB increased the rate of VRChlC activation in response to a 90% hyposmotic gradient. Phalloidin, a stabilizer of F-actin, decreases the rate of VRChlC activation in response to a 90% gradient, but has no effect in response to a 75% gradient. These observations suggest that disassembly of cortical F-actin is not critical for VRChlC activation in B-lymphocytes. The integrity of cortical F-actin, however, can exert a modulatory effect on the rate of VRChlC activation in the presence of a hyposmotic gradient.
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- I Levitan
- Department of Physiology, Medical College of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia 19129, USA
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Arreola J, Melvin JE, Begenisich T. Volume-activated chloride channels in rat parotid acinar cells. J Physiol 1995; 484 ( Pt 3):677-87. [PMID: 7623284 PMCID: PMC1157952 DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.1995.sp020695] [Citation(s) in RCA: 59] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023] Open
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1. Rat parotid acinar cells undergo a regulatory volume decrease in response to hypotonically induced cell swelling that is sensitive to K+ and Cl- gradients. To investigate the potential mechanisms involved, the whole-cell patch-clamp technique was used to characterize a volume-sensitive Cl- channel in rat parotid acinar cells. 2. Exposure of cells to a hyposmotic gradient induced large Cl- currents that exhibited outward rectification and were not affected by membrane potential or the absence of intracellular Ca2+. Low external pH increased the currents at all potentials without affecting current kinetics. These currents were nearly abolished when the cells were in hypertonic conditions. This decrease in the current amplitude was correlated with a decrease in the cell size. 3. The volume-sensitive currents displayed little or no time dependence, whereas Ca(2+)-activated Cl- channels, present in the same cells, displayed slow activation kinetics and large, time-dependent tail currents upon repolarization to the holding potential. 4. The reversal potential of the osmotically activated channels was close to the predicted chloride equilibrium potential and was sensitive to the physiological extracellular Cl- concentration ([Cl-]o). The relationship between reversal potential and [Cl-]o was fitted to a modified Nernst equation with a slope of 51 mV per decade, consistent with a Cl- selective conductance. 5. The anion permeability sequence of the channel, obtained from the shifts of the reversal potentials of the volume-sensitive Cl- current, was: SCN- > I- > NO-3 > Br- > Cl- > formate > propionate = methanesulphonate = acetate > or = F- > or = butyrate > valerate > gluconate = glucuronate = glutamate. 6. The current through the volume-sensitive channels was inhibited by the Cl- channel blocker SITS (4-acetamido-4'-isothiocyanatostilbene-2,2'-disulphonic acid) in a voltage-dependent manner. 7. We conclude that rat parotid acinar cells express an outwardly rectifying Cl- current that can be activated by swelling under hypotonic conditions. This Cl- conductance may be an element of the cellular mechanisms of volume regulation in exocrine glands.
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- J Arreola
- Department of Dental Research, University of Rochester, NY 14642, USA
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Wiltink A, Nijweide PJ, Scheenen WJ, Ypey DL, Van Duijn B. Cell membrane stretch in osteoclasts triggers a self-reinforcing Ca2+ entry pathway. Pflugers Arch 1995; 429:663-71. [PMID: 7792143 DOI: 10.1007/bf00373987] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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Many cell types respond to mechanical membrane perturbation with intracellular Ca2+ responses. Stretch-activated (SA) ion channels may be involved in such responses. We studied the occurrence as well as the underlying mechanisms of cell membrane stretch-evoked responses in fetal chicken osteoclasts using separate and simultaneous patch-clamp and Ca2+ imaging measurements. In the present paper, evidence is presented showing that such responses involve a self-reinforcing mechanism including SA channel activity, Ca(2+)-activated K+ (KCa) channel activity, membrane potential changes and local and general intracellular Ca2+ ([Ca2+]i) increases. The model we propose is that during membrane stretch, both SA channels and KCa channels open at membrane potential values near the resting membrane potential. SA channel characterization showed that these SA channels are permeable to Ca2+. During membrane stretch, Ca2+ influx through SA channels and hyperpolarization due to KCa channel activity serve as positive feedback, leading ultimately to a Ca2+ wave and cell membrane hyperpolarization. This self-reinforcing mechanism is turned off upon SA channel closure after cessation of membrane stretch. We suggest that this Ca2+ entry mechanism plays a role in regulation of osteoclast activity.
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- A Wiltink
- Department of Physiology and Physiological Physics, Leiden University, The Netherlands
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Nilius B, Sehrer J, Viana F, De Greef C, Raeymaekers L, Eggermont J, Droogmans G. Volume-activated Cl- currents in different mammalian non-excitable cell types. Pflugers Arch 1994; 428:364-71. [PMID: 7816559 DOI: 10.1007/bf00724520] [Citation(s) in RCA: 81] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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The existence and properties of volume-activated Cl- currents were studied in 15 different cell types (endothelium: human umbilical vein, human aorta, bovine pulmonary artery; fibroblasts: Swiss 3T3, L, C3H 10T1/2 and COS-1; epithelium: KB3, HeLa and A6; blood cells: RBL-2H3 and Jurkat; endothelioma cells derived from both subcutaneous and thymic hemangiomas; skin: IGR1 melanoma). Volume-activated Cl- currents with common characteristics, i.e. small conductance, outward rectification, higher permeability for iodide than for chloride and sensitivity to block by 5-nitro-2-(3-phenylpropylamino)benzoic acid (NPPB) could be elicited in all cells. The block of this current by tamoxifen and dideoxyforskolin is different for the various cell types, as well as the time course and the amplitude of the responses induced by repetitive applications of hypotonicity. Volume-activated Cl- channels with similar biophysical properties are therefore wide-spread among mammalian cells. This may reflect either a single Cl- channel that is ubiquitously expressed or a family of functionally related Cl- channels with cell specific expression patterns.
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- B Nilius
- KU Leuven, Laboratorium voor Fysiologie, Belgium
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