Journal
KIDNEY INTERNATIONAL
Volume 99, Issue 2, Pages 350-363Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.kint.2020.08.023
Keywords
blood pressure; KLHL3; NCC; NHA2; sodium/hydrogen exchanger; thiazide; ubiquitylation; urine calcium; WNK4
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- Swiss National Science Foundation [31003A_152829]
- Swiss National Centre of Competence in Research (NCCR TransCure)
- Novartis Research Foundation
- Medical Research Position Award of the Foundation Prof. Dr. Max Cloetta
- Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF) [31003A_152829] Funding Source: Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF)
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NHA2 plays a critical role in kidney function and blood pressure homeostasis, affecting WNK4-NCC pathway; NHA2 knockout mice showed reduced blood pressure and attenuated response to diuretics; NHA2 regulates blood pressure homeostasis in the kidney by influencing WNK4-NCC pathway.
NHA2 is a sodium/proton exchanger associated with arterial hypertension in humans, but the role of NHA2 in kidney function and blood pressure homeostasis is currently unknown. Here we show that NHA2 localizes almost exclusively to distal convoluted tubules in the kidney. NHA2 knock-out mice displayed reduced blood pressure, normocalcemic hypocalciuria and an attenuated response to the thiazide diuretic hydrochlorothiazide. Phosphorylation of the thiazide-sensitive sodium/chloride cotransporter NCC and its upstream activating kinase Ste20/SPS1-related proline/alanine rich kinase (SPAK), as well as the abundance of with no lysine kinase 4 (WNK4), were significantly reduced in the kidneys of NHA2 knockout mice. In vitro experiments recapitulated these findings and revealed increased WNK4 ubiquitylation and enhanced proteasomal WNK4 degradation upon loss of NHA2. The effect of NHA2 on WNK4 stability was dependent from the ubiquitylation pathway protein Kelch-like 3 (KLHL3). More specifically, loss of NHA2 selectively attenuated KLHL3 phosphorylation and blunted protein kinase A- and protein kinase C-mediated decrease of WNK4 degradation. Phenotype analysis of NHA2/NCC double knock-out mice supported the notion that NHA2 affects blood pressure homeostasis by a kidney-specific and NCC-dependent mechanism. Thus, our data show that NHA2 as a critical component of the WNK4-NCC pathway and is a novel regulator of blood pressure homeostasis in the kidney.
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