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Rajan S, Shalygin A, Gudermann T, Chubanov V, Dietrich A. TRPM2 channels are essential for regulation of cytokine production in lung interstitial macrophages. J Cell Physiol 2024. [PMID: 38785126 DOI: 10.1002/jcp.31322] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/07/2024] [Revised: 05/06/2024] [Accepted: 05/09/2024] [Indexed: 05/25/2024]
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Interstitial macrophages (IMs) are essential for organ homeostasis, inflammation, and autonomous immune response in lung tissues, which are achieved through polarization to a pro-inflammatory M1 and an M2 state for tissue repair. Their remote parenchymal localization and low counts, however, are limiting factors for their isolation and molecular characterization of their specific role during tissue inflammation. We isolated viable murine IMs in sufficient quantities by coculturing them with stromal cells and analyzed mRNA expression patterns of transient receptor potential (TRP) channels in naïve and M1 polarized IMs after application of lipopolysaccharide (LPS) and interferon γ. M-RNAs for the second member of the melastatin family of TRP channels, TRPM2, were upregulated in the M1 state and functional channels were identified by their characteristic currents induced by ADP-ribose, its specific activator. Most interestingly, cytokine production and secretion of interleukin-1α (IL-1α), IL-6 and tumor necrosis factor-α in M1 polarized but TRPM2-deficient IMs was significantly enhanced compared to WT cells. Activation of TRPM2 channels by ADP-ribose (ADPR) released from mitochondria by ROS-produced H2O2 significantly increases plasma membrane depolarization, which inhibits production of reactive oxygen species by NADPH oxidases and reduces cytokine production and secretion in a negative feedback loop. Therefore, TRPM2 channels are essential for the regulation of cytokine production in M1-polarized murine IMs. Specific activation of these channels may promote an anti-inflammatory phenotype and prevent a harmful cytokine storm often observed in COVID-19 patients.
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- Suhasini Rajan
- Walther-Straub-Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Member of the German Center for Lung Research (DZL), LMU-Munich, Munich, Germany
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- Walther-Straub-Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Member of the German Center for Lung Research (DZL), LMU-Munich, Munich, Germany
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- Walther-Straub-Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Member of the German Center for Lung Research (DZL), LMU-Munich, Munich, Germany
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- Walther-Straub-Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Member of the German Center for Lung Research (DZL), LMU-Munich, Munich, Germany
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- Walther-Straub-Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Member of the German Center for Lung Research (DZL), LMU-Munich, Munich, Germany
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Scepanovic G, Fernandez-Gonzalez R. Should I shrink or should I grow: cell size changes in tissue morphogenesis. Genome 2024; 67:125-138. [PMID: 38198661 DOI: 10.1139/gen-2023-0091] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/12/2024]
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Cells change shape, move, divide, and die to sculpt tissues. Common to all these cell behaviours are cell size changes, which have recently emerged as key contributors to tissue morphogenesis. Cells can change their mass-the number of macromolecules they contain-or their volume-the space they encompass. Changes in cell mass and volume occur through different molecular mechanisms and at different timescales, slow for changes in mass and rapid for changes in volume. Therefore, changes in cell mass and cell volume, which are often linked, contribute to the development and shaping of tissues in different ways. Here, we review the molecular mechanisms by which cells can control and alter their size, and we discuss how changes in cell mass and volume contribute to tissue morphogenesis. The role that cell size control plays in developing embryos is only starting to be elucidated. Research on the signals that control cell size will illuminate our understanding of the cellular and molecular mechanisms that drive tissue morphogenesis.
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- Gordana Scepanovic
- Department of Cell and Systems Biology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5S 3G5, Canada
- Ted Rogers Centre for Heart Research, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5G 1M1, Canada
- Institute of Biomedical Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5S 3G9, Canada
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- Department of Cell and Systems Biology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5S 3G5, Canada
- Ted Rogers Centre for Heart Research, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5G 1M1, Canada
- Institute of Biomedical Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5S 3G9, Canada
- Developmental and Stem Cell Biology Program, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, M5G 1X8, Canada
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Okada Y, Numata T, Sabirov RZ, Kashio M, Merzlyak PG, Sato-Numata K. Cell death induction and protection by activation of ubiquitously expressed anion/cation channels. Part 3: the roles and properties of TRPM2 and TRPM7. Front Cell Dev Biol 2023; 11:1246955. [PMID: 37842082 PMCID: PMC10576435 DOI: 10.3389/fcell.2023.1246955] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/25/2023] [Accepted: 09/15/2023] [Indexed: 10/17/2023] Open
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Cell volume regulation (CVR) is a prerequisite for animal cells to survive and fulfill their functions. CVR dysfunction is essentially involved in the induction of cell death. In fact, sustained normotonic cell swelling and shrinkage are associated with necrosis and apoptosis, and thus called the necrotic volume increase (NVI) and the apoptotic volume decrease (AVD), respectively. Since a number of ubiquitously expressed ion channels are involved in the CVR processes, these volume-regulatory ion channels are also implicated in the NVI and AVD events. In Part 1 and Part 2 of this series of review articles, we described the roles of swelling-activated anion channels called VSOR or VRAC and acid-activated anion channels called ASOR or PAC in CVR and cell death processes. Here, Part 3 focuses on therein roles of Ca2+-permeable non-selective TRPM2 and TRPM7 cation channels activated by stress. First, we summarize their phenotypic properties and molecular structure. Second, we describe their roles in CVR. Since cell death induction is tightly coupled to dysfunction of CVR, third, we focus on their participation in the induction of or protection against cell death under oxidative, acidotoxic, excitotoxic, and ischemic conditions. In this regard, we pay attention to the sensitivity of TRPM2 and TRPM7 to a variety of stress as well as to their capability to physicall and functionally interact with other volume-related channels and membrane enzymes. Also, we summarize a large number of reports hitherto published in which TRPM2 and TRPM7 channels are shown to be involved in cell death associated with a variety of diseases or disorders, in some cases as double-edged swords. Lastly, we attempt to describe how TRPM2 and TRPM7 are organized in the ionic mechanisms leading to cell death induction and protection.
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- Yasunobu Okada
- National Institute for Physiological Sciences (NIPS), Okazaki, Japan
- Department of Integrative Physiology, Graduate School of Medicine, AkitaUniversity, Akita, Japan
- Department of Physiology, School of Medicine, Aichi Medical Uniersity, Nagakute, Japan
- Department of Physiology, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan
- Cardiovascular Research Institute, Yokohama City University, Yokohama, Japan
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- Department of Integrative Physiology, Graduate School of Medicine, AkitaUniversity, Akita, Japan
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- Institute of Biophysics and Biochemistry, National University of Uzbekistan, Tashkent, Uzbekistan
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- National Institute for Physiological Sciences (NIPS), Okazaki, Japan
- Department of Physiology, School of Medicine, Aichi Medical Uniersity, Nagakute, Japan
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- Institute of Biophysics and Biochemistry, National University of Uzbekistan, Tashkent, Uzbekistan
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- Department of Integrative Physiology, Graduate School of Medicine, AkitaUniversity, Akita, Japan
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Yamamoto S, Ishii T, Mikami R, Numata T, Shimizu S. Short TRPM2 prevents the targeting of full-length TRPM2 to the surface transmembrane by hijacking to ER associated degradation. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 2019; 520:520-525. [PMID: 31610913 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2019.10.065] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/17/2019] [Accepted: 10/05/2019] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Membrane proteins are targeted to the surface transmembrane after folding and assembling in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER). Misfolded- and unassembled-proteins are degraded by proteasomes following ubiquitination, termed ER-associated degradation (ERAD). Transient receptor potential melastatin 2 (TRPM2) is an oxidative stress-sensitive channel. One of the TRPM2 splicing variants, short TRPM2 (TRPM2-S) having only the N-terminus and first two transmembrane domains, was reported to prevent full-length TRPM2 (TRPM2-L) activation. Although TRPM2-S interacts with TRPM2-L, the inhibitory mechanisms of TRPM2-S are unclear. We found that TRPM2-S prevents transmembrane expression of TRPM2-L by targeting ERAD. TRPM2-S expression was lower than that of TRPM2-L, and was increased by an ERAD inhibitor. TRPM2-S was not expressed at the transmembrane. This suggests that TRPM2-S is a substrate for ERAD. Upon the simultaneous expression of TRPM2-S, the transmembrane expression of TRPM2-L was attenuated and the poly-ubiquitination of TRPM2-L was facilitated. Our study may clarify why TRPM2-S inhibits oxidative stress-induced TRPM2-L activation.
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- Shinichiro Yamamoto
- Division of Pharmacology, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Teikyo Heisei University, Tokyo, 164-8530, Japan.
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- Division of Pharmacology, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Teikyo Heisei University, Tokyo, 164-8530, Japan
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- Division of Pharmacology, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Teikyo Heisei University, Tokyo, 164-8530, Japan
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- Department of Physiology, Graduate School of Medical Science, Fukuoka University, Fukuoka, 814-0180, Japan
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- Division of Pharmacology, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Teikyo Heisei University, Tokyo, 164-8530, Japan
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Adenine nucleotides as paracrine mediators and intracellular second messengers in immunity and inflammation. Biochem Soc Trans 2019; 47:329-337. [PMID: 30674608 DOI: 10.1042/bst20180419] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/30/2018] [Revised: 12/19/2018] [Accepted: 12/20/2018] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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Adenine nucleotides (AdNs) play important roles in immunity and inflammation. Extracellular AdNs, such as adenosine triphosphate (ATP) or nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD) and their metabolites, act as paracrine messengers by fine-tuning both pro- and anti-inflammatory processes. Moreover, intracellular AdNs derived from ATP or NAD play important roles in many cells of the immune system, including T lymphocytes, macrophages, neutrophils and others. These intracellular AdNs are signaling molecules that transduce incoming signals into meaningful cellular responses, e.g. activation of immune responses against pathogens.
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Roles of volume-regulatory anion channels, VSOR and Maxi-Cl, in apoptosis, cisplatin resistance, necrosis, ischemic cell death, stroke and myocardial infarction. CURRENT TOPICS IN MEMBRANES 2019; 83:205-283. [DOI: 10.1016/bs.ctm.2019.03.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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Son A, Kang N, Kang JY, Kim KW, Yang YM, Shin DM. TRPM3/TRPV4 regulates Ca2+-mediated RANKL/NFATc1 expression in osteoblasts. J Mol Endocrinol 2018; 61:207-218. [PMID: 30328352 DOI: 10.1530/jme-18-0051] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
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Mechanical stress plays an important role in the regulation of bone turnover. However, the mechanism underlying hypo-osmotic stress-induced cellular response in osteoblasts remains poorly understood. In this study, we investigated the effect of hypotonic stress on the expression of bone remodeling factors, including the receptor activator of nuclear factor-kappa B ligand (RANKL) and the nuclear factor of activated T cells type c1 (NFATc1) in primary mouse osteoblasts and MC3T3-E1 cells. Hypo-osmotic stress induced significant increases in RANKL mRNA expression and intracellular Ca2+ concentration ([Ca2+]i) from the extracellular space. Hypo-osmotic stress-induced effects on [Ca2+]i and RANKL and NFATc1 protein expression were decreased by antagonists of transient receptor potential melastatin 3 (TRPM3) and vanilloid 4 (TRPV4). Agonists of TRPM3 and TRPV4 activated [Ca2+]i and RANKL and NFATc1 protein expression. Furthermore, genetic suppression of Trpm3 and Trpv4 reduced hypo-osmotic stress-induced effects in mouse osteoblasts. These results suggest that hypo-osmotic stress induces increases in [Ca2+]i through TRPM3 and TRPV4 to regulate RANKL and NFATc1 expression in mouse osteoblastic cells and that mechanical stress-activated TRP channels may play a critical role in bone remodeling.
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- Aran Son
- Department of Oral Biology, Yonsei University College of Dentistry, Seoul, Korea
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- Department of Oral Biology, Yonsei University College of Dentistry, Seoul, Korea
- BK21 PLUS Project, Yonsei University College of Dentistry, Seoul, Korea
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- Department of Oral Biology, Yonsei University College of Dentistry, Seoul, Korea
- BK21 PLUS Project, Yonsei University College of Dentistry, Seoul, Korea
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- Department of Oral Biology, Yonsei University College of Dentistry, Seoul, Korea
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- Department of Oral Biology, Yonsei University College of Dentistry, Seoul, Korea
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- Department of Oral Biology, Yonsei University College of Dentistry, Seoul, Korea
- BK21 PLUS Project, Yonsei University College of Dentistry, Seoul, Korea
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de Los Heros P, Pacheco-Alvarez D, Gamba G. Role of WNK Kinases in the Modulation of Cell Volume. CURRENT TOPICS IN MEMBRANES 2018; 81:207-235. [PMID: 30243433 DOI: 10.1016/bs.ctm.2018.08.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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Ion Transport across the cell membrane is required to maintain cell volume homeostasis. In response to changes in extracellular osmolarity, most cells activate specific metabolic or membrane-transport pathways to respond to cell swelling or shrinkage and return their volume to its normal resting state. This process involves the rapid adjustment of the activities of channels and transporters that mediate flux of K+, Na+, Cl-, and small organic osmolytes. Cation chloride cotransporters (CCCs) NKCCs and KCCs are a family of membrane proteins modulated by changes in cell volume and/or in the intracellular chloride concentration ([Cl-]i). Cell swelling triggers regulatory volume decrease (RVD), promoting solute and water efflux to restore normal cell volume. Swelling-activated KCCs mediate RVD in most cell types. In contrast, cell shrinkage triggers regulatory volume increase (RVI), which involves the activation of the NKCC1 cotransporter of the CCC family. Regulation of the CCCs during RVI and RVD by protein phosphorylation is a well-characterized mechanism, where WNK kinases and their downstream kinase substrates, SPAK and OSR1 constitute the essential phospho-regulators. WNKs-SPAK/OSR1-CCCs complex is required to regulate cell shrinkage-induced RVI or cell swelling-induced RVD via activating or inhibitory phosphorylation of NKCCs or KCCs, respectively. WNK1 and WNK4 kinases have been established as [Cl-]i sensors/regulators, while a role for WNK3 kinase as a cell volume-sensing kinase has emerged and is proposed in this chapter.
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- Paola de Los Heros
- División de Investigación, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Coyoacán, Mexico City, Mexico
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- Molecular Physiology Unit, Instituto de Investigaciones Biomédicas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Tlalpan, Mexico City, Mexico; Department of Nephrology and Mineral Metabolism, Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición Salvador Zubirán, Tlalpan, Mexico City, Mexico
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Orlov SN, Shiyan A, Boudreault F, Ponomarchuk O, Grygorczyk R. Search for Upstream Cell Volume Sensors: The Role of Plasma Membrane and Cytoplasmic Hydrogel. CURRENT TOPICS IN MEMBRANES 2018; 81:53-82. [PMID: 30243440 DOI: 10.1016/bs.ctm.2018.07.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/05/2022]
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The plasma membrane plays a prominent role in the regulation of cell volume by mediating selective transport of extra- and intracellular osmolytes. Recent studies show that upstream sensors of cell volume changes are mainly located within the cytoplasm that displays properties of a hydrogel and not in the plasma membrane. Cell volume changes occurring in anisosmotic medium as well as in isosmotic environment affect properties of cytoplasmic hydrogel that, in turn, trigger rapid regulatory volume increase and decrease (RVI and RVD). The downstream signaling pathways include reorganization of 2D cytoskeleton and altered composition of polyphosphoinositides located on the inner surface of the plasma membrane. In addition to its action on physico-chemical properties of cytoplasmic hydrogel, cell volume changes in anisosmotic conditions affect the ionic strength of the cytoplasm and the [Na+]i/[K+]i ratio. Elevated intracellular ionic strength evoked by long term exposure of cells to hypertonic environment resulted in the activation of TonEBP and augmented expression of genes controlling intracellular organic osmolyte levels. The role of Na+i/K+i -sensitive, Ca2+i -mediated and Ca2+i-independent mechanisms of excitation-transcription coupling in cell volume-adjustment remains unknown.
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- Sergei N Orlov
- Faculty of Biology, M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia; Siberian State Medical University, Tomsk, Russia; National Research Tomsk State University, Tomsk, Russia
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- Faculty of Biology, M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
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- Centre de recherche, Centre hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal (CRCHUM), Montreal, QC, Canada
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- Faculty of Biology, M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia; Centre de recherche, Centre hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal (CRCHUM), Montreal, QC, Canada
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- Centre de recherche, Centre hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal (CRCHUM), Montreal, QC, Canada; Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Montreal, Montreal, QC, Canada
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Tan CH, McNaughton PA. TRPM2 and warmth sensation. Pflugers Arch 2018; 470:787-798. [PMID: 29552700 PMCID: PMC5942353 DOI: 10.1007/s00424-018-2139-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/28/2018] [Revised: 03/08/2018] [Accepted: 03/09/2018] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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The abilities to detect warmth and heat are critical for the survival of all animals, both in order to be able to identify suitable thermal environments for the many different activities essential for life and to avoid damage caused by extremes of temperature. Several ion channels belonging to the TRP family are activated by non-noxious warmth or by heat and are therefore plausible candidates for thermal detectors, but identifying those that actually regulate warmth and heat detection in intact animals has proven problematic. TRPM2 has recently emerged as a likely candidate for the detector of non-noxious warmth, as it is expressed in sensory neurons, and mice show deficits in the detection of warmth when TRPM2 is genetically deleted. TRPM2 is a chanzyme, containing a thermally activated TRP ion channel domain attached to a C-terminal motif, derived from a mitochondrial ADP ribose pyrophosphatase, that confers on the channel sensitivity to ADP ribose and reactive oxygen species such as hydrogen peroxide. Several open questions remain. Male mammals prefer cooler environments than female, but the molecular basis of this sex difference is unknown. TRPM2 plays a role in regulating body temperature, but are other warmth-detecting mechanisms also involved? TRPM2 is expressed in autonomic neurons, but does it confer a sensory function in addition to the well-known motor functions of autonomic neurons? TRPM2 is thought to play important roles in the immune system, in pain and in insulin secretion, but the mechanisms are unclear. TRPM2 has to date received less attention than many other members of the TRP family but is rapidly assuming importance both in normal physiology and as a key target in disease pathology.
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- Chun-Hsiang Tan
- Department of Neurology, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
- Graduate Institute of Clinical Medicine, College of Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
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- Wolfson Centre for Age-Related Diseases, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, Guy's Campus, King's College London, London, SE1 1UL, UK.
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Koos B, Christmann J, Plettenberg S, Käding D, Becker J, Keteku M, Klein C, Imtiaz S, Janning P, Bastiaens PIH, Wehner F. Hypertonicity-induced cation channels in HepG2 cells: architecture and role in proliferation vs. apoptosis. J Physiol 2018; 596:1227-1241. [PMID: 29369356 DOI: 10.1113/jp275827] [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: 01/10/2018] [Accepted: 01/18/2018] [Indexed: 12/25/2022] Open
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KEY POINTS Na+ conducting hypertonicity-induced cation channels (HICCs) are key players in the volume restoration of osmotically shrunken cells and, under isotonic conditions, considered as mediators of proliferation - thereby opposing apoptosis. In an siRNA screen of ion channels and transporters in HepG2 cells, with the regulatory volume increase (RVI) as read-out, δENaC, TRPM2 and TRPM5 were identified as HICCs. Subsequently, all permutations of these channels were tested in RVI and patch-clamp recordings and, at first sight, HICCs were found to operate in an independent mode. However, there was synergy in the siRNA perturbations of HICC currents. Accordingly, proximity ligation assays showed that δENaC was located in proximity to TRPM2 and TRPM5 suggesting a physical interaction. Furthermore, δENaC, TRPM2 and TRPM5 were identified as mediators of HepG2 proliferation - their silencing enhanced apoptosis. Our study defines the architecture of HICCs in human hepatocytes as well as their molecular functions. ABSTRACT Hypertonicity-induced cation channels (HICCs) are a substantial element in the regulatory volume increase (RVI) of osmotically shrunken cells. Under isotonic conditions, they are key effectors in the volume gain preceding proliferation; HICC repression, in turn, significantly increases apoptosis rates. Despite these fundamental roles of HICCs in cell physiology, very little is known concerning the actual molecular architecture of these channels. Here, an siRNA screening of putative ion channels and transporters was performed, in HepG2 cells, with the velocity of RVI as the read-out; in this first run, δENaC, TRPM2 and TRPM5 could be identified as HICCs. In the second run, all permutations of these channels were tested in RVI and patch-clamp recordings, with special emphasis on the non-additivity and additivity of siRNAs - which would indicate molecular interactions or independent ways of channel functioning. At first sight, the HICCs in HepG2 cells appeared to operate rather independently. However, a proximity ligation assay revealed that δENaC was located in proximity to both TRPM2 and TRPM5. Furthermore, a clear synergy of HICC current knock-downs (KDs) was observed. δENaC, TRPM2 and TRPM5 were defined as mediators of HepG2 cell proliferation and their silencing increased the rates of apoptosis. This study provides a molecular characterization of the HICCs in human hepatocytes and of their role in RVI, cell proliferation and apoptosis.
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- Björn Koos
- Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology, Department of Systemic Cell Biology, Otto-Hahn-Strasse 11, 44227, Dortmund, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology, Department of Systemic Cell Biology, Otto-Hahn-Strasse 11, 44227, Dortmund, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology, Department of Systemic Cell Biology, Otto-Hahn-Strasse 11, 44227, Dortmund, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology, Department of Systemic Cell Biology, Otto-Hahn-Strasse 11, 44227, Dortmund, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology, Department of Systemic Cell Biology, Otto-Hahn-Strasse 11, 44227, Dortmund, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology, Department of Systemic Cell Biology, Otto-Hahn-Strasse 11, 44227, Dortmund, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology, Department of Systemic Cell Biology, Otto-Hahn-Strasse 11, 44227, Dortmund, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology, Department of Systemic Cell Biology, Otto-Hahn-Strasse 11, 44227, Dortmund, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology, Department of Systemic Cell Biology, Otto-Hahn-Strasse 11, 44227, Dortmund, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology, Department of Systemic Cell Biology, Otto-Hahn-Strasse 11, 44227, Dortmund, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology, Department of Systemic Cell Biology, Otto-Hahn-Strasse 11, 44227, Dortmund, Germany
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Okada Y. Channelling frozen cells to survival after thawing: opening the door to cryo-physiology. J Physiol 2016; 594:1523-4. [PMID: 26995260 DOI: 10.1113/jp271842] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/30/2015] [Accepted: 01/10/2016] [Indexed: 11/08/2022] Open
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- Yasunobu Okada
- SOKENDAI (The Graduate University for Advanced Studies), National University Corporation, Hayama, Kanagawa, 240-0193, Japan
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Pasantes-Morales H. Channels and Volume Changes in the Life and Death of the Cell. Mol Pharmacol 2016; 90:358-70. [PMID: 27358231 DOI: 10.1124/mol.116.104158] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/03/2016] [Accepted: 06/22/2016] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
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Volume changes deviating from original cell volume represent a major challenge for cellular homeostasis. Cell volume may be altered either by variations in the external osmolarity or by disturbances in the transmembrane ion gradients that generate an osmotic imbalance. Cells respond to anisotonicity-induced volume changes by active regulatory mechanisms that modify the intracellular/extracellular concentrations of K(+), Cl(-), Na(+), and organic osmolytes in the direction necessary to reestablish the osmotic equilibrium. Corrective osmolyte fluxes permeate across channels that have a relevant role in cell volume regulation. Channels also participate as causal actors in necrotic swelling and apoptotic volume decrease. This is an overview of the types of channels involved in either corrective or pathologic changes in cell volume. The review also underlines the contribution of transient receptor potential (TRP) channels, notably TRPV4, in volume regulation after swelling and describes the role of other TRPs in volume changes linked to apoptosis and necrosis. Lastly we discuss findings showing that multimers derived from LRRC8A (leucine-rich repeat containing 8A) gene are structural components of the volume-regulated Cl(-) channel (VRAC), and we underline the intriguing possibility that different heteromer combinations comprise channels with different intrinsic properties that allow permeation of the heterogenous group of molecules acting as organic osmolytes.
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- Herminia Pasantes-Morales
- División de Neurociencias, Instituto de Fisiología Celular, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico
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Zhou X, Naguro I, Ichijo H, Watanabe K. Mitogen-activated protein kinases as key players in osmotic stress signaling. Biochim Biophys Acta Gen Subj 2016; 1860:2037-52. [PMID: 27261090 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbagen.2016.05.032] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/25/2016] [Accepted: 05/21/2016] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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BACKGROUND Osmotic stress arises from the difference between intracellular and extracellular osmolality. It induces cell swelling or shrinkage as a consequence of water influx or efflux, which threatens cellular activities. Mitogen-activated protein kinases (MAPKs) play central roles in signaling pathways in osmotic stress responses, including the regulation of intracellular levels of inorganic ions and organic osmolytes. SCOPE OF REVIEW The present review summarizes the cellular osmotic stress response and the function and regulation of the vertebrate MAPK signaling pathways involved. We also describe recent findings regarding apoptosis signal-regulating kinase 3 (ASK3), a MAP3K member, to demonstrate its regulatory effects on signaling molecules beyond MAPKs. MAJOR CONCLUSIONS MAPKs are rapidly activated by osmotic stress and have diverse roles, such as cell volume regulation, gene expression, and cell survival/death. There is significant cell type specificity in the function and regulation of MAPKs. Based on its activity change during osmotic stress and its regulation of the WNK1-SPAK/OSR1 pathway, ASK3 is expected to play important roles in osmosensing mechanisms and cellular functions related to osmoregulation. GENERAL SIGNIFICANCE MAPKs are essential for various cellular responses to osmotic stress; thus, the identification of the upstream regulators of MAPK pathways will provide valuable clues regarding the cellular osmosensing mechanism, which remains elusive in mammals. The elucidation of in vivo MAPK functions is also important because osmotic stress in physiological and pathophysiological conditions often results from changes in the intracellular osmolality. These studies potentially contribute to the establishment of therapeutic strategies against diseases that accompany osmotic perturbation.
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- Xiangyu Zhou
- Laboratory of Cell Signaling, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan
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- Laboratory of Cell Signaling, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan
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- Laboratory of Cell Signaling, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan
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- Laboratory of Cell Signaling, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan
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Jentsch TJ. VRACs and other ion channels and transporters in the regulation of cell volume and beyond. Nat Rev Mol Cell Biol 2016; 17:293-307. [PMID: 27033257 DOI: 10.1038/nrm.2016.29] [Citation(s) in RCA: 206] [Impact Index Per Article: 25.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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Cells need to regulate their volume to counteract osmotic swelling or shrinkage, as well as during cell division, growth, migration and cell death. Mammalian cells adjust their volume by transporting potassium, sodium, chloride and small organic osmolytes using plasma membrane channels and transporters. This generates osmotic gradients, which drive water in and out of cells. Key players in this process are volume-regulated anion channels (VRACs), the composition of which has recently been identified and shown to encompass LRRC8 heteromers. VRACs also transport metabolites and drugs and function in extracellular signal transduction, apoptosis and anticancer drug resistance.
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- Thomas J Jentsch
- Leibniz-Institut für Molekulare Pharmakologie (FMP) and Max-Delbrück-Centrum für Molekulare Medizin (MDC), Robert-Rössle-Strasse 10, 13125 Berlin, Germany
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Christmann J, Azer L, Dörr D, Fuhr GR, Bastiaens PIH, Wehner F. Adaptive responses of cell hydration to a low temperature arrest. J Physiol 2015; 594:1663-76. [PMID: 26593308 DOI: 10.1113/jp271245] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/03/2015] [Accepted: 11/04/2015] [Indexed: 01/24/2023] Open
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Slow cooling leads to a passive dehydration of cells, whereas rehydration during warming reflects the active regain of functionality. The ability to modulate such an energy demanding process could be instrumental in optimizing the cryo-arrest of living systems. In the present study, various levels of hypertonic stress were used to disturb the water content of cells and to define the energy profiles of aquaporins and (Na(+) conducting) cation channels during rehydration. Na(+) import was found to be the rate-limiting step in water restoration, whereas aquaporins merely played a permissive role. Indeed, regulated Na(+) import was increased 2-fold following cryo-arrests, thus facilitating the osmotic rehydration of cells. Freezing temperatures increased cell viscosity with a remarkable hysteresis and viscosity was a trigger of cation channels. The peptide hormone vasopressin was a further activator of channels, increasing the viability of post-cryo cells considerably. Hence, the hormone opens the path for a novel class of cryo-protectants with an intrinsic biological activity.
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- Jens Christmann
- Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology, Department of Systemic Cell Biology, Dortmund, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology, Department of Systemic Cell Biology, Dortmund, Germany
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- Fraunhofer Institute for Biomedical Engineering, St Ingbert, Germany
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- Fraunhofer Institute for Biomedical Engineering, St Ingbert, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology, Department of Systemic Cell Biology, Dortmund, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology, Department of Systemic Cell Biology, Dortmund, Germany
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Hilton JK, Rath P, Helsell CVM, Beckstein O, Van Horn WD. Understanding Thermosensitive Transient Receptor Potential Channels as Versatile Polymodal Cellular Sensors. Biochemistry 2015; 54:2401-13. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.biochem.5b00071] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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- Jacob K. Hilton
- Center
for Personalized Diagnostics, Magnetic Resonance Research Center,
and Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Arizona State University, 551 East University Drive, PSG-106, Tempe, Arizona 85287, United States
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- Center
for Personalized Diagnostics, Magnetic Resonance Research Center,
and Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Arizona State University, 551 East University Drive, PSG-106, Tempe, Arizona 85287, United States
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- Center
for Personalized Diagnostics, Magnetic Resonance Research Center,
and Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Arizona State University, 551 East University Drive, PSG-106, Tempe, Arizona 85287, United States
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- Center
for Biological Physics and Department of Physics, Arizona State University, 550 East Tyler Mall, Tempe, Arizona 85287, United States
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- Center
for Personalized Diagnostics, Magnetic Resonance Research Center,
and Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Arizona State University, 551 East University Drive, PSG-106, Tempe, Arizona 85287, United States
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Uchida K, Tominaga M. The role of TRPM2 in pancreatic β-cells and the development of diabetes. Cell Calcium 2014; 56:332-9. [PMID: 25084624 DOI: 10.1016/j.ceca.2014.07.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/21/2014] [Revised: 06/30/2014] [Accepted: 07/02/2014] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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TRPM2 is a Ca(2+)-permeable non-selective cation channel that can be activated by adenosine dinucleotides, hydrogen peroxide, or intracellular Ca(2+). The protein is expressed in a wide variety of cells, including neurons in the brain, immune cells, endocrine cells, and endothelial cells. This channel is also well expressed in β-cells in the pancreas. Insulin secretion from pancreatic β-cells is the primary mechanism by which the concentration of blood glucose is reduced. Thus, impairment of insulin secretion leads to hyperglycemia and eventually causes diabetes. Glucose is the principal stimulator of insulin secretion. The primary pathway involved in glucose-stimulated insulin secretion is the ATP-sensitive K(+) (KATP) channel to voltage-gated Ca(2+) channel (VGCC)-mediated pathway. Increases in the intracellular Ca(2+) concentration are necessary for insulin secretion, but VGCC is not sufficient to explain [Ca(2+)]i increases in pancreatic β-cells and the resultant secretion of insulin. In this review, we focus on TRPM2 as a candidate for a [Ca(2+)]i modulator in pancreatic β-cells and its involvement in insulin secretion and development of diabetes. Although further analyses are needed to clarify the mechanism underlying TRPM2-mediated insulin secretion, TRPM2 could be a key player in the regulation of insulin secretion and could represent a new target for diabetes therapy.
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- Kunitoshi Uchida
- Division of Cell Signaling, Okazaki Institute for Integrative Bioscience (National Institute for Physiological Sciences), National Institutes of Natural Sciences, Okazaki, Aichi 444-8787, Japan; Department of Physiological Sciences, The University of Advanced Studies, Okazaki, Aichi 444-8585, Japan.
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- Division of Cell Signaling, Okazaki Institute for Integrative Bioscience (National Institute for Physiological Sciences), National Institutes of Natural Sciences, Okazaki, Aichi 444-8787, Japan; Department of Physiological Sciences, The University of Advanced Studies, Okazaki, Aichi 444-8585, Japan.
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Nilius B, Szallasi A. Transient Receptor Potential Channels as Drug Targets: From the Science of Basic Research to the Art of Medicine. Pharmacol Rev 2014; 66:676-814. [DOI: 10.1124/pr.113.008268] [Citation(s) in RCA: 348] [Impact Index Per Article: 34.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
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TRPM2 is the second member of the transient receptor potential melastatin-related (TRPM) family of cation channels. The protein is widely expressed including in the brain, immune system, endocrine cells, and endothelia. It embodies both ion channel functionality and enzymatic ADP-ribose (ADPr) hydrolase activity. TRPM2 is a Ca(2+)-permeable nonselective cation channel embedded in the plasma membrane and/or lysosomal compartments that is primarily activated in a synergistic fashion by intracellular ADP-ribose (ADPr) and Ca(2+). It is also activated by reactive oxygen and nitrogen species (ROS/NOS) and enhanced by additional factors, such as cyclic ADPr and NAADP, while inhibited by permeating protons (acidic pH) and adenosine monophosphate (AMP). Activation of TRPM2 leads to increases in intracellular Ca(2+) levels, which can serve signaling roles in inflammatory and secretory cells through release of vesicular mediators (e.g., cytokines, neurotransmitters, insulin) and in extreme cases can induce apoptotic and necrotic cell death under oxidative stress.
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- Malika Faouzi
- Center for Biomedical Research, The Queen's Medical Center, 1301 Punchbowl Street, Honolulu, HI, 96813, USA,
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Fedan JS, Thompson JA, Ismailoglu UB, Jing Y. Tracheal epithelium cell volume responses to hyperosmolar, isosmolar and hypoosmolar solutions: relation to epithelium-derived relaxing factor (EpDRF) effects. Front Physiol 2013; 4:287. [PMID: 24130533 PMCID: PMC3795350 DOI: 10.3389/fphys.2013.00287] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/10/2013] [Accepted: 09/21/2013] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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In asthmatic patients, inhalation of hyperosmolar saline or D-mannitol (D-M) elicits bronchoconstriction, but in healthy subjects exercise causes bronchodilation. Hyperventilation causes drying of airway surface liquid (ASL) and increases its osmolarity. Hyperosmolar challenge of airway epithelium releases epithelium-derived relaxing factor (EpDRF), which relaxes the airway smooth muscle. This pathway could be involved in exercise-induced bronchodilation. Little is known of ASL hyperosmolarity effects on epithelial function. We investigated the effects of osmolar challenge maneuvers on dispersed and adherent guinea-pig tracheal epithelial cells to examine the hypothesis that EpDRF-mediated relaxation is associated with epithelial cell shrinkage. Enzymatically-dispersed cells shrank when challenged with ≥10 mOsM added D-M, urea or NaCl with a concentration-dependence that mimics relaxation of the of isolated perfused tracheas (IPT). Cells shrank when incubated in isosmolar N-methyl-D-glucamine (NMDG) chloride, Na gluconate (Glu), NMDG-Glu, K-Glu and K2SO4, and swelled in isosmolar KBr and KCl. However, isosmolar challenge is not a strong stimulus of relaxation in IPTs. In previous studies amiloride and 4,4'-diisothiocyano-2,2'-stilbenedisulfonic acid (DIDS) inhibited relaxation of IPT to hyperosmolar challenge, but had little effect on shrinkage of dispersed cells. Confocal microscopy in tracheal segments showed that adherent epithelium is refractory to low hyperosmolar concentrations that induce dispersed cell shrinkage and relaxation of IPT. Except for gadolinium and erythro-9-(2-hydroxy-3-nonyl)adenine (EHNA), actin and microtubule inhibitors and membrane permeabilizing agents did not affect on ion transport by adherent epithelium or shrinkage responses of dispersed cells. Our studies dissociate relaxation of IPT from cell shrinkage after hyperosmolar challenge of airway epithelium.
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- Jeffrey S. Fedan
- Pathology and Physiology Research Branch, National Institute for Occupational Safety and HealthMorgantown, WV, USA
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Shimizu T, Fujii T, Takahashi Y, Takahashi Y, Suzuki T, Ukai M, Tauchi K, Horikawa N, Tsukada K, Sakai H. Up-regulation of Kv7.1 channels in thromboxane A2-induced colonic cancer cell proliferation. Pflugers Arch 2013; 466:541-8. [PMID: 23995773 DOI: 10.1007/s00424-013-1341-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/28/2013] [Revised: 08/22/2013] [Accepted: 08/22/2013] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Thromboxane A2 (TXA2) is known to stimulate colonic cancer cell proliferation, although the mechanism has not been clarified. In this study, we compared the expression levels of Kv7.1 K(+) channels between human colorectal cancer tissue and the accompanying non-tumor mucosa. Kv7.1 proteins were found to be consistently up-regulated in the cancer tissues from different patients. Kv7.1 was also expressed in human colonic cancer cell lines. Treatment of colonic cancer cells with 9,11-epithio-11,12-methano-thromboxane A2 (STA2), a stable analogue of TXA2, significantly increased whole-cell K(+) currents sensitive to chromanol 293B, an inhibitor of Kv7.1 channels, in parallel with an increased expression of Kv7.1 proteins. In contrast, TXB2, an inactive metabolite of TXA2, had no effects on expression level and function of Kv7.1. A TXA2 receptor antagonist (SQ29548) and an inhibitor of cAMP-dependent protein kinase (Rp-8-Br-MB-cAMPS) inhibited STA2-induced increases in both Kv7.1 expression and chromanol 293B-sensitive K(+) currents. Interestingly, STA2-stimulated proliferation of colonic cancer cells was inhibited by chromanol 293B. These results suggest that Kv7.1 channels are involved in the TXA2-induced cancer cell proliferation and that they are up-regulated by the TXA2 receptor-mediated cAMP pathway.
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- Takahiro Shimizu
- Department of Pharmaceutical Physiology, Graduate School of Medicine and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Toyama, 2630 Sugitani, Toyama, 930-0194, Japan
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Guinamard R, Simard C, Del Negro C. Flufenamic acid as an ion channel modulator. Pharmacol Ther 2013; 138:272-84. [PMID: 23356979 DOI: 10.1016/j.pharmthera.2013.01.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 98] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/01/2012] [Accepted: 12/26/2012] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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Flufenamic acid has been known since the 1960s to have anti-inflammatory properties attributable to the reduction of prostaglandin synthesis. Thirty years later, flufenamic acid appeared to be an ion channel modulator. Thus, while its use in medicine diminished, its use in ionic channel research expanded. Flufenamic acid commonly not only affects non-selective cation channels and chloride channels, but also modulates potassium, calcium and sodium channels with effective concentrations ranging from 10(-6)M in TRPM4 channel inhibition to 10(-3)M in two-pore outwardly rectifying potassium channel activation. Because flufenamic acid effects develop and reverse rapidly, it is a convenient and widely used tool. However, given the broad spectrum of its targets, experimental results have to be interpreted cautiously. Here we provide an overview of ion channels targeted by flufenamic acid to aid in interpreting its effects at the molecular, cellular, and system levels. If it is used with good practices, flufenamic acid remains a useful tool for ion channel research. Understanding the targets of FFA may help reevaluate its physiological impacts and revive interest in its therapeutic potential.
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Belrose JC, Xie YF, Gierszewski LJ, MacDonald JF, Jackson MF. Loss of glutathione homeostasis associated with neuronal senescence facilitates TRPM2 channel activation in cultured hippocampal pyramidal neurons. Mol Brain 2012; 5:11. [PMID: 22487454 PMCID: PMC3352021 DOI: 10.1186/1756-6606-5-11] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/13/2012] [Accepted: 04/09/2012] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Background Glutathione (GSH) plays an important role in neuronal oxidant defence. Depletion of cellular GSH is observed in neurodegenerative diseases and thereby contributes to the associated oxidative stress and Ca2+ dysregulation. Whether depletion of cellular GSH, associated with neuronal senescence, directly influences Ca2+ permeation pathways is not known. Transient receptor potential melastatin type 2 (TRPM2) is a Ca2+ permeable non-selective cation channel expressed in several cell types including hippocampal pyramidal neurons. Moreover, activation of TRPM2 during oxidative stress has been linked to cell death. Importantly, GSH has been reported to inhibit TRPM2 channels, suggesting they may directly contribute to Ca2+ dysregulation associated with neuronal senescence. Herein, we explore the relation between cellular GSH and TRPM2 channel activity in long-term cultures of hippocampal neurons. Results In whole-cell voltage-clamp recordings, we observe that TRPM2 current density increases in cultured pyramidal neurons over time in vitro. The observed increase in current density was prevented by treatment with NAC, a precursor to GSH synthesis. Conversely, treatment of cultures maintained for 2 weeks in vitro with L-BSO, which depletes GSH by inhibiting its synthesis, augments TRPM2 currents. Additionally, we demonstrate that GSH inhibits TRPM2 currents through a thiol-independent mechanism, and produces a 3.5-fold shift in the dose-response curve generated by ADPR, the intracellular agonist for TRPM2. Conclusion These results indicate that GSH plays a physiologically relevant role in the regulation of TRPM2 currents in hippocampal pyramidal neurons. This interaction may play an important role in aging and neurological diseases associated with depletion of GSH.
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- Jillian C Belrose
- Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, N6A 5 K8, Canada
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