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The lumen of the epididymis is the site where spermatozoa undergo their final maturation and acquire the capacity to become motile. An acidic luminal fluid is required for the maintenance of sperm quiescence and for the prevention of premature activation of acrosomal enzymes during their storage in the cauda epididymis and vas deferens. We have previously demonstrated that a vacuolar H+-ATPase [proton pump (PP)] is present in the apical pole of apical and narrow cells in the caput epididymis and of clear cells in the corpus and cauda epididymis and that this PP is responsible for the majority of proton secretion in the proximal vas deferens. We now show that PP-rich cells in the vas deferens express a high level of carbonic anhydrase type II (CAII) and that acetazolamide markedly inhibits the rate of proton secretion by 46.2 +/- 6.1%. The rate of acidification was independent of Cl- and was strongly inhibited by SITS under both normal and Cl--free conditions (50.6 +/- 5.0 and 57. 5 +/- 6.0%, respectively). In the presence of Cl-, diphenylamine-2-carboxylate (DPC) had no effect, whereas SITS inhibited proton secretion by 63.7 +/- 11.3% when applied together with DPC. In Cl--free solution, DPC markedly inhibited proton efflux by 45.1 +/- 7.6%, SITS produced an additional inhibition of 18.2 +/- 6.6%, and bafilomycin had no additive effect. In conclusion, we propose that CAII plays a major role in proton secretion by the proximal vas deferens. Acidification does not require the presence of Cl-, but DPC-sensitive Cl- channels might contribute to basolateral extrusion of HCO-3 under Cl--free conditions. The inhibition by SITS observed under both normal and Cl--free conditions indicates that a Cl-/HCO-3 exchanger is not involved and that an alternative HCO-3 transporter participates in proton secretion in the proximal vas deferens.
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PMID:Proton secretion in the male reproductive tract: involvement of Cl--independent HCO-3 transport. 975 67

The effect of hypotonicity on H+-ATPase activity was examined in cultured inner medullary collecting duct (mIMCD-3) cells. mIMCD-3 cells were grown to confluence, loaded with 2', 7'-bis(2-carboxyethyl)-5(6)-carboxyfluorescein (BCECF), and assayed for H+-ATPase activity measured as the Na+- and K+-independent intracellular pH (pHi) recovery following an acid load. Exposure of mIMCD-3 cells to a hypotonic solution (150 mosmol/kgH2O) increased pHi recovery by approximately 350% (P < 0.0001). This effect was inhibited by diethylstilbestrol (an inhibitor of H+-ATPase) and was not dependent on external K+, indicating lack of involvement of H+-K+-ATPase. H+-ATPase activation was acute, independent of cell calcium, and was not secondary to Cl- channel activation. The magnitude of H+-ATPase upregulation was dependent on the osmolarity of the media, with maximum stimulation at 150 mosmol/kgH2O. H+-ATPase upregulation in hypotonicity was significantly blocked in the presence of staurosporine or calphostin C or in cells pretreated with phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate (PMA), indicating involvement of protein kinase C. Hypotonicity inhibited the Na+/H+ exchanger activity in mIMCD-3 cells, indicating that its stimulatory effect is specific to H+-ATPase. In conclusion, a novel regulatory mechanism of H+-ATPase by hypotonicity is described. The increased H+-ATPase activity in hypotonicity may be responsible for increased HCO-3 reabsorption and maintained acid-base homeostasis in hyposmolar states.
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PMID:Activation of H+-ATPase by hypotonicity: a novel regulatory mechanism for H+ secretion in IMCD cells. 975 20

The function of the apical Na+-K+-2Cl- cotransporter in mammalian choroid plexus (CP) is uncertain and controversial. To investigate cotransporter function, we developed a novel dissociated rat CP cell preparation in which single, isolated cells maintain normal polarized morphology. Immunofluorescence demonstrated that in isolated cells the Na+-K+-ATPase, Na+-K+-2Cl- cotransporter, and aquaporin 1 water channel remained localized to the brush border, whereas the Cl-/HCO-3 (anion) exchanger type 2 was confined to the basolateral membrane. We utilized video-enhanced microscopy and cell volume measurement techniques to investigate cotransporter function. Application of 100 microM bumetanide caused CP cells to shrink rapidly. Elevation of extracellular K+ from 3 to 6 or 25 mM caused CP cells to swell 18 and 33%, respectively. Swelling was blocked completely by Na+ removal or by addition of 100 microM bumetanide. Exposure of CP cells to 5 mM BaCl2 induced rapid swelling that was inhibited by 100 microM bumetanide. We conclude that the CP cotransporter is constitutively active and propose that it functions in series with Ba2+-sensitive K+ channels to reabsorb K+ from cerebrospinal fluid to blood.
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PMID:Functional demonstration of Na+-K+-2Cl- cotransporter activity in isolated, polarized choroid plexus cells. 984 18

Metabolic acidosis in vivo, as well as in vitro (1 h at pH 6.8 followed by 2 h at pH 7.4) stimulates H+-ATPase-dependent H+ secretion in outer medullary collecting ducts from the inner stripe (OMCDi) (S. Tsuruoka and G. J. Schwartz. J. Clin. Invest. 99: 1420-1431, 1997). Another group has shown that the adaptation to metabolic acidosis in vivo is mediated by an apical polarization of H+ pumps without an increase in total H+ pump mRNA or protein (B. Bastani, H. Purcell, P. Hemken, D. Trigg, and S. Gluck. J. Clin. Invest. 88: 126-136, 1991). To further address the mechanism of adaptation, we measured net HCO-3 absorption before and after applying protein/RNA synthesis and signal transduction inhibitors during the 1 h of low pH and a cytoskeletal inhibitor during the entire 3-h incubation. Net HCO-3 transport, measured by microcalorimetry, increased approximately 33% after in vitro acidosis. This increase was prevented by application during the first hour of anisomycin (10 microM) or actinomycin D (4 microM), but not by anisomycin applied during the 2-h incubation at pH 7.4. Similar results were obtained with the cell calcium chelator, 1, 2-bis(2-aminophenoxy)ethane-N,N,N',N'-tetraacetic acid acetoxymethyl ester (BAPTA-AM, 20 microM), the calmodulin antagonist, calmidazolium (30 nM), the endoplasmic reticulum Ca-ATPase inhibitor, thapsigargin (100 nM), and the protein kinase C (PKC) inhibitor, staurosporine (100 nM), applied during the 1 h at pH 6.8, but not with BAPTA-AM or thapsigargin used during the 2-h incubation at pH 7. 4. Colchicine (10 microM) applied during the entire 3-h incubation also prevented this adaptive increase in H+ secretion, whereas lumicolchicine (10 microM, the inactive congener) did not. Colchicine also reversibly prevented any adaptive increases in transepithelial positive voltage. Thus the adaptation to acidosis in vitro required RNA and protein synthesis, changes in intracellular calcium and PKC activity, and intact microtubules. Time was required for the adaptation to occur, as the increase in HCO-3 transport was small after <3-h incubation. Protein synthesis and changes in cell calcium were critical during the initial period of low pH but not once the acid stimulus had been removed. Exocytosis of H+ pumps appears to occur continually during the entire 3-h incubation. These data would suggest that the synthesis and regulation of proteins involved in shuttling H+ pumps in cytoplasmic vesicles to the apical membrane via exocytosis are important for the OMCDi to adapt to low pH in vitro and probably to metabolic acidosis in vivo.
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PMID:Adaptation of the outer medullary collecting duct to metabolic acidosis in vitro. 984 16

Intracellular pH (pHi) and its basolateral regulation were studied in isolated proximal-proximal and distal-proximal segments of garter snake (Thamnophis spp.) renal tubules with oil-filled lumens in HEPES-buffered and in HEPES-HCO-3-buffered media (pH 7.4 at 25 degrees C). pHi was measured with the pH-sensitive fluorescent dye 2',7'-bis(2-carboxyethyl)-5,6-carboxyfluorescein (BCECF) under resting conditions and in response to NH4Cl pulse. Resting pHi (approximately 7.1-7.2) and its response to and rate of recovery (dpHi/dt) from an NH4Cl pulse were not affected by the presence or absence of HCO-3 in either segment. Rate of recovery was depressed by Na+ removal in distal-proximal segments only and only in HEPES buffer. It was not affected by removal of Cl- or of both Na+ and Cl- or by reduction in membrane potential through addition of Ba2+ (5 mM) or high K+ (75 mM) in either segment in either HEPES or HEPES-HCO-3 buffer. The Na+/H+ exchange inhibitor ethylisopropylamiloride (EIPA) (100 microM) and the anion exchange inhibitor DIDS (100 microM) reduced dpHi/dt in the distal-proximal segments only and only in HEPES-HCO-3 buffer. The H+-ATPase inhibitor bafilomycin (1 microM), H+-K+-ATPase and K+/NH+4 exchange inhibitor Schering 28080 (10-100 microM), organic cation efflux inhibitor tetrapentylammonium (25 microM-20 mM), and K+ channel blocker tetraethylammonium (20 mM) had no effect on dpHi/dt in either segment. These data do not clearly support basolateral regulation of pHi in snake proximal renal tubules by commonly recognized Na+-dependent or Na+-independent acid or base transporters.
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PMID:Basolateral regulation of pHi in isolated snake renal proximal tubules in presence and absence of bicarbonate. 1036 47

Mice with a targeted disruption of Na+/H+ exchanger NHE-3 gene show significant reduction in HCO-3 reabsorption in proximal tubule, consistent with the absence of NHE-3. Serum HCO-3, however, is only mildly decreased (P. Schulties, L. L. Clarke, P. Meneton, M. L. Miller, M. Soleimani, L. R. Gawenis, T. M. Riddle, J. J. Duffy, T. Doetschman, T. Wang, G. Giebisch, P. S. Aronson, J. N. Lorenz, and G. E. Shull. Nature Genet. 19: 282-285, 1998), indicating possible adaptive upregulation of HCO-3-absorbing transporters in collecting duct of NHE-3-deficient (NHE-3 -/-) mice. Cortical collecting duct (CCD) and outer medullary collecting duct (OMCD) were perfused, and total CO2 (net HCO-3 flux, JtCO2) was measured in the presence of 10 microM Schering 28080 (SCH, inhibitor of gastric H+-K+-ATPase) or 50 microM diethylestilbestrol (DES, inhibitor of H+-ATPase) in both mutant and wild-type (WT) animals. In CCD, JtCO2 increased in NHE-3 mutant mice (3.42 +/- 0.28 in WT to 5.71 +/- 0.39 pmol. min-1. mm tubule-1 in mutants, P < 0.001). The SCH-sensitive net HCO-3 flux remained unchanged, whereas the DES-sensitive HCO-3 flux increased in the CCD of NHE-3 mutant animals. In OMCD, JtCO2 increased in NHE-3 mutant mice (8.8 +/- 0.7 in WT to 14.2 +/- 0.6 pmol. min-1. mm tubule-1 in mutants, P < 0.001). Both the SCH-sensitive and the DES-sensitive HCO-3 fluxes increased in the OMCD of NHE-3 mutant animals. Northern hybridizations demonstrated enhanced expression of the basolateral Cl-/HCO-3 exchanger (AE-1) mRNA in the cortex. The gastric H+-K+-ATPase mRNA showed upregulation in the medulla but not the cortex of NHE-3 mutant mice. Our results indicate that HCO-3 reabsorption is enhanced in CCD and OMCD of NHE-3-deficient mice. In CCD, H+-ATPase, and in the OMCD, both H+-ATPase and gastric H+-K+-ATPase contribute to the enhanced compensatory HCO-3 reabsorption in NHE-3-deficient animals.
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PMID:HCO-3 reabsorption in renal collecting duct of NHE-3-deficient mouse: a compensatory response. 1036 80

Mutations in human DRA cause congenital chloride diarrhea, thereby raising the possibility that it functions as a Cl(-)/HCO(3)(-) exchanger. To test this hypothesis we cloned a cDNA encoding mouse DRA (mDRA) and analyzed its activity in cultured mammalian cells. When expressed in HEK 293 cells, mDRA conferred Na(+)-independent, electroneutral Cl(-)/CHO(3)(-) exchange activity. Removal of extracellular Cl(-) from medium containing HCO(3)(-) caused a rapid intracellular alkalinization, whereas the intracellular pH increase following Cl(-) removal from HCO(3)(-)-free medium was reduced greater than 7-fold. The intracellular alkalinization in Cl(-)-free, HCO(3)(-)-containing medium was unaffected by removal of extracellular Na(+) or by depolarization of the membrane by addition of 75 mM K(+) to the medium. Like human DRA mRNA, mDRA transcripts were expressed at high levels in cecum and colon and at lower levels in small intestine. The expression of mDRA mRNA was modestly up-regulated in the colon of mice lacking the NHE3 Na(+)/H(+) exchanger. These results show that DRA is a Cl(-)/HCO(3)(-) exchanger and suggest that it normally acts in concert with NHE3 to absorb NaCl and that in NHE3-deficient mice its activity is coupled with those of the sharply up-regulated colonic H(+),K(+)-ATPase and epithelial Na(+) channel to mediate electrolyte and fluid absorption.
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PMID:Mouse down-regulated in adenoma (DRA) is an intestinal Cl(-)/HCO(3)(-) exchanger and is up-regulated in colon of mice lacking the NHE3 Na(+)/H(+) exchanger. 1042 71

Cholinergic agents increase the activity of the renal Na-HCO(3) cotransporter and have been shown to stimulate the production of nitric oxide (NO) in other cells. To study the role of NO in mediating the effect of carbachol on Na-HCO(3) cotransporter, we measured the activity of the cotransporter in rabbit proximal tubule cells treated with carbachol (10(-4 )M) or the NO inhibitor, L-NAME (10(-3) M), or carbachol+L-NAME. The activity of NaHCO(3) cotransporter was measured by recovery of intracellular pH (pH(i)) in cells loaded with pH-sensitive dye, BCECF. In control cells, carbachol significantly increased Na-HCO(3) cotransporter activity while L-NAME did not affect the activity of the cotransporter but completely blocked the enhancement induced by carbachol. Carbachol increased NO production by proximal tubule cells. We also studied the effect of the NO donor, SNAP (10(-3) M), on the cotransporter incubated for 1 h in cultured proximal tubule cells. SNAP caused a similar enhancement in the activity of the cotransporter suggesting that a different NO donor is capable of enhancing the activity of the cotransporter to the same extent as that observed with carbachol. Because the effect of NO is thought to involve cGMP, we examined the effect of 8-Br-cGMP (10(-3 )M) on the cotransporter. 8-Br-cGMP caused stimulation of the Na-HCO(3) cotransporter activity although to a lesser degree than carbachol. We have previously shown that carbachol increases cytosolic calcium but the role of intracellular calcium (Ca(i)) per se on the cotransporter has not been studied. We therefore studied the role of Ca(i) on the activity of Na-HCO(3) cotransporter in rabbit proximal tubule cells by utilizing the calcium ionophore, ionomycin, the microsomal Ca-ATPase inhibitor, thapsigargin, and the calcium chelator, BAPTA. Ionomycin, 5 microM, caused a significant stimulation of Na-HCO(3) cotransporter which was prevented by BAPTA. The microsomal Ca-ATPase inhibitor, thapsigargin, also increased the cotransporter activity. As expected both ionomycin and thapsigargin caused a significant increase in Ca(i). Calyculin A, an inhibitor of protein phosphatase 2A prevented the stimulation of the cotransporter by calcium (in pH units/min: control 1.8+/-0.13; Ca 2.22+/-0.07; p<0.05; Ca+calyculin A 1.9+/-0.09, p<0.025) suggesting that calcium acting through kinases/phosphatases, plays a role in the phosphorylation of the cotransporter. These results demonstrate that NO and Ca(i) modulate the activity of the cotransporter.
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PMID:Regulation of the renal Na-HCO(3) cotransporter X. Role of nitric oxide and intracellular calcium. 1043 2

NHE3 is the predominant isoform responsible for apical membrane Na(+)/H(+) exchange in the proximal tubule. Deletion of NHE3 by gene targeting results in an NHE3(-/-) mouse with greatly reduced proximal tubule HCO(-)(3) absorption compared with NHE3(+/+) animals (P. J. Schultheis, L. L. Clarke, P. Meneton, M. L. Miller, M. Soleimani, L. R. Gawenis, T. M. Riddle, J. J. Duffy, T. Doetschman, T. Wang, G. Giebisch, P. S. Aronson, J. N. Lorenz, and G. E. Shull. Nature Genet. 19: 282-285, 1998). The purpose of the present study was to evaluate the role of other acidification mechanisms in mediating the remaining component of proximal tubule HCO(-)(3) reabsorption in NHE3(-/-) mice. Proximal tubule transport was studied by in situ microperfusion. Net rates of HCO(-)(3) (J(HCO3)) and fluid absorption (J(v)) were reduced by 54 and 63%, respectively, in NHE3 null mice compared with controls. Addition of 100 microM ethylisopropylamiloride (EIPA) to the luminal perfusate caused significant inhibition of J(HCO3) and J(v) in NHE3(+/+) mice but failed to inhibit J(HCO3) or J(v) in NHE3(-/-) mice, indicating lack of activity of NHE2 or other EIPA-sensitive NHE isoforms in the null mice. Addition of 1 microM bafilomycin caused a similar absolute decrement in J(HCO3) in wild-type and NHE3 null mice, indicating equivalent rates of HCO(-)(3) absorption mediated by H(+)-ATPase. Addition of 10 microM Sch-28080 did not reduce J(HCO3) in either wild-type or NHE3 null mice, indicating lack of detectable H(+)-K(+)-ATPase activity in the proximal tubule. We conclude that, in the absence of NHE3, neither NHE2 nor any other EIPA-sensitive NHE isoform contributes to mediating HCO(-)(3) reabsorption in the proximal tubule. A significant component of HCO(-)(3) reabsorption in the proximal tubule is mediated by bafilomycin-sensitive H(+)-ATPase, but its activity is not significantly upregulated in NHE3 null mice.
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PMID:Mechanism of proximal tubule bicarbonate absorption in NHE3 null mice. 1044 85

The mechanisms of intracellular pH (pH(i)) regulation were studied in hepatocytes isolated from three species of teleost: rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss), black bullhead (Ameiurus melas) and American eel (Anguilla rostrata). Intracellular pH was monitored over time using the pH-sensitive fluorescent dye BCECF in response to acid loading under control conditions and in different experimental media containing either low Na(+) or Cl(-) concentrations, the Na(+)-H(+) exchanger blocker amiloride or the blocker of the V-type H(+)-ATPase, bafilomycin A(1). In trout and bullhead hepatocytes, recovery to an intracellular acid load occurred principally by way of a Na(+)-dependent amiloride-sensitive Na(+)-H(+) exchanger. In eel hepatocytes, the Na(+)-H(+) exchanger did not contribute to recovery to an acid load though evidence suggests that it is present on the cell membrane and participates in the maintenance of steady-state pH(i). The V-type H(+)-ATPase did not participate in recovery to an acid load in any species. A Cl(-)-HCO(3)(-) exchanger may play a role in recovery to an acid load in eel hepatocytes by switching off and retaining base that would normally be tonically extruded. Thus, it is clear that hepatocytes isolated from the three species are capable of regulating pH(i), principally by way of a Na(+)-H(+) exchanger and a Cl(-)-HCO(3)(-) exchanger, but do not exploit identical mechanisms for pH(i) recovery. J. Exp. Zool. 284:361-367, 1999.
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PMID:Intracellular pH regulation in hepatocytes isolated from three teleost species. 1045 12


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