期刊
JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY
卷 291, 期 43, 页码 22472-22481出版社
AMER SOC BIOCHEMISTRY MOLECULAR BIOLOGY INC
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M116.742783
关键词
cardiovascular disease; renal physiology; sodium transport; structure-function; transporter
资金
- Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnologia (CONACYT) [222918, 165815, 188712]
- National Science Foundation [NSF-IOS 0844818]
The thiazide-sensitive Na-Cl cotransporter (NCC) is the major pathway for salt reabsorption in the mammalian distal convoluted tubule. NCC plays a key role in the regulation of blood pressure. Its inhibition with thiazides constitutes the primary baseline therapy for arterial hypertension. However, the thiazide-binding site in NCC is unknown. Mammals have only one gene encoding for NCC. The eel, however, contains a duplicate gene. NCC is an ortholog of mammalian NCC and is expressed in the kidney. NCC is present in the apical membrane of the rectum. Here we cloned and functionally characterized NCC from the European eel. The cRNA encodes a 1043-amino acid membrane protein that, when expressed in Xenopus oocytes, functions as an Na-Cl cotransporter with two major characteristics, making it different from other known NCCs. First, eel NCC is resistant to thiazides. Single-point mutagenesis supports that the absence of thiazide inhibition is, at least in part, due to the substitution of a conserved serine for a cysteine at position 379. Second, NCC is not activated by low-chloride hypotonic stress, although the unique Ste20-related proline alanine-rich kinase (SPAK) binding site in the amino-terminal domain is conserved. Thus, NCC exhibits significant functional differences from NCCs that could be helpful in defining several aspects of the structure-function relationship of this important cotransporter.
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