Journal
ACTA PHYSIOLOGICA
Volume 202, Issue 3, Pages 387-407Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/j.1748-1716.2010.02195.x
Keywords
cation/H+ exchange; Cl/HCO3 exchange; diuretic peptides; H+ V-ATPase; proton pump; septate junction
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- National Science Foundation
- National Institutes of Health
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Isolated Malpighian tubules of the yellow fever mosquito secrete NaCl and KCl from the peritubular bath to the tubule lumen via active transport of Na+ and K+ by principal cells. Lumen-positive transepithelial voltages are the result. The counter-ion Cl- follows passively by electrodiffusion through the paracellular pathway. Water follows by osmosis, but specific routes for water across the epithelium are unknown. Remarkably, the transepithelial secretion of NaCl, KCl and water is driven by a H+ V-ATPase located in the apical brush border membrane of principal cells and not the canonical Na+, K+-ATPase. A hypothetical cation/H+ exchanger moves Na+ and K+ from the cytoplasm to the tubule lumen. Also remarkable is the dynamic regulation of the paracellular permeability with switch-like speed which mediates in part the post-blood-meal diuresis in mosquitoes. For example, the blood meal the female mosquito takes to nourish her eggs triggers the release of kinin diuretic peptides that (i) increases the Cl- conductance of the paracellular pathway and (ii) assembles V-1 and V-0 complexes to activate the H+ V-ATPase and cation/H+ exchange close by. Thus, transcellular and paracellular pathways are both stimulated to quickly rid the mosquito of the unwanted salts and water of the blood meal. Stellate cells of the tubule appear to serve a metabolic support role, exporting the HCO3- generated during stimulated transport activity. Septate junctions define the properties of the paracellular pathway in Malpighian tubules, but the proteins responsible for the permselectivity and barrier functions of the septate junction are unknown.
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