SFEBES2012 Poster Presentations Obesity, diabetes, metabolism and cardiovascular (73 abstracts)
Mutations of the Chloride/Proton Antiporter, CLC-5, lead to Impaired Endosomal Acidification in Human Proximal Tubule Epithelial Cell-lines
Caroline Gorvin 1 , Martijn Wilmer 2 , Sian Piret 1 , Brian Harding 1 , Jonathan Lippiat 3 , Michael O'Hare 4 , Parmjit Jat 5 , Oliver Wrong 6 , Lambertus van den Heuvel 2 , Elena Levtchenko 2, & Rajesh Thakker 1
1Academic Endocrine Unit, Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom; 2656 Laboratory of Pediatrics and Neurology, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands; 3Institute of Membrane and Systems Biology, Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom; 4Research Department of General Surgery, Faculty of Medical Sciences, University College London, London, United Kingdom; 5MRC Prion Unit, University College London, London, United Kingdom; 6Division of Medicine, Faculty of Medical Sciences, University College London, London, United Kingdom; 7Department of Pediatrics, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.
Dent’s disease is a renal proximal tubular disorder characterised by low-molecular-weight proteinuria, glycosuria, hypercalciuria, phosphaturia, nephrolithiasis and abnormal urinary loss of other proteins which include insulin, parathyroid hormone (PTH) and vitamin D-binding protein, due to defective receptor-mediated endocytosis (RME). Mutations in CLC-5 cause Dent’s disease-1 whilst mutations in OCRL1 cause Dent’s disease-2 and the oculocerebrorenal syndrome of Lowe. CLC-5 is a chloride/proton antiporter which, in conjunction with the proton V-ATPase, allows progressive ionic gradients to be established in endocytic vesicles ensuring their continuation through the endosome-lysosome pathway. Studies of this pathway and Dent’s disease-1 would be greatly facilitated by the availability of human renal proximal tubular cell-lines from patients with Dent’s disease-1. We have therefore established such cell-lines, which are human conditionally-immortalised proximal tubule epithelial cell-lines (ciPTECs) harbouring one of three CLC-5 mutations, an in-frame histidine insertion at codon 30 (30:insHis), a deletion of codons 132 to 241 (del132–241) and a nonsense mutation Arg637Stop, from the urine of patients with Dent’s disease-1. We have used these ciPTECs and a control ciPTEC to study endosomal acidification by utilising live-cell imaging of pHluorin-VAMP2, a pH-sensitive-GFP construct. Endosomal pH in a control ciPTEC was 6.01±0.17 and the pH in endosomes from the ciPTEC with the 30:insHis was similar (6.13±0.21). However in ciPTECs with the del132-241 and Arg637Stop mutations the endosomal pH was significantly more alkaline (6.63±0.17 and 7.28±0.17, respectively, P<0.05) indicating an endosomal acidification defect. Addition of bafilomycin-A1, a V-ATPase inhibitor, raised the pH significantly in all ciPTECs, thereby demonstrating that the differences in acidification were not due to alterations in the V-ATPase, but instead to abnormalities of CLC-5. Thus, our studies demonstrate that despite the shared Dent’s disease-1 phenotype, endosomal acidification is not affected similarly by CLC-5 mutations, thereby suggesting the existence of other mechanisms in Dent’s disease-1.
Declaration of interest: There is no conflict of interest that could be perceived as prejudicing the impartiality of the research reported.
Funding: No specific grant from any funding agency in the public, commercial or not-for-profit sector.
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