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Query: UNIPROT:P41181 (collecting duct)
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Confluent M-1 mouse cortical collecting duct (CCD) cells express highly selective low-conductance amiloride-sensitive Na+ channels (B. Letz, A. Ackermann, C. M. Canessa, B. C. Rossier, and C. Korbmacher, J. Membr. Biol. 148: 129-143, 1995). Here we investigated the effect of forskolin on membrane voltage and whole cell currents of confluent M-1 cells using the patch-clamp technique. Forskolin (1 microM) reduced the hyperpolarization in response to amiloride (10 microM) from 17 to 4 mV and decreased the amiloride-sensitive Na+ inward currents from 81 to 26 pA. Furthermore, forskolin increased the hyperpolarization caused by changing from an apical low-Cl- solution (9 mM) to a high-Cl- solution (149 mM) from 11 to 30 mV and increased the magnitude of the inward current changes induced by alternating between high-Cl- and low-Cl- solutions from 25 to 138 pA. This demonstrates that forskolin stimulates an apical Cl- conductance. Anion substitution experiments revealed a permeability sequence SCN- > Br- > Cl- > I- >> gluconate. This suggests that the stimulated channels are cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR)-like Cl- channels. 3-Isobutyl-1-methylxanthine and 8-(4-chlorophenylthio)-adenosine 3',5'-cyclic monophosphate mimicked the effects of forskolin, whereas 1,9-dideoxyforskolin had no effect. We conclude that, in addition to amiloride-sensitive Na+ channels, CFTR-like Cl- channels are present in the apical membrane of confluent M-1 cells. An increase in intracellular adenosine 3',5'-cyclic monophosphate (cAMP) activates these Cl- channels and concurrently reduces the activity of the Na+ channels. This reciprocal regulation by cAMP suggests that the channels are functionally coupled.
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PMID:cAMP stimulates CFTR-like Cl- channels and inhibits amiloride-sensitive Na+ channels in mouse CCD cells. 912 10

Atrial natriuretic peptide (ANP) interacts with high-affinity, guanylyl cyclase-linked receptors in the inner medullary collecting duct (IMCD), where it exerts important regulatory control over sodium handling. We sought to determine whether receptor activity in these cells would be modulated (downregulated) by prolonged exposure to ligand. A number of natriuretic peptides (ANP, brain natriuretic peptide, and urodilatin) were found to decrease ligand-dependent natriuretic peptide receptor A (NPR-A) activity in IMCD cells. This inhibition was in direct proportion to their capacity to increase basal cGMP levels in this cell population. The reduction in receptor activity was accompanied by a dose- and time-dependent reduction in NPR-A mRNA levels in these cells. The decrease in transcript levels arose, in part, from a reduction in NPR-A gene transcription. ANP reduced NPR-A gene promoter activity in a transiently transfected IMCD cell population. 8-Bromo-cGMP was also effective in inhibiting NPR-A mRNA levels and NPR-A promoter activity, suggesting that the second messenger (i.e., cGMP) rather than ANP, itself, is responsible for downregulation of NPR-A gene expression.
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PMID:Ligand-dependent regulation of NPR-A gene expression in inner medullary collecting duct cells. 968 13

We investigated the effects of hyperosmolality on survival and proliferation of subconfluent cultures of mIMCD3 mouse renal collecting duct cells. High NaCl and/or urea (but not glycerol) reduces the number of viable cells, as measured with 3-(4, 5-dimethylthiazol-2-yl)-2,5-diphenyl tetrazolium bromide (MTT). Raising osmolality from a normal level (300 mosmol/kg) to 550-1,000 mosmol/kg by adding NaCl and/or urea greatly increases the proportion of cells in the G(2)M phase of the cell cycle within 8 h, as measured by flow cytometry. Up to 600 mosmol/kg the effect is only transient, and by 12 h at 550 mosmol/kg the effect reverses and most cells are in G(1). Flow cytometry with 5-bromodeoxyuridine (BrdU) pulse-chase demonstrates that movement through the S phase of the cell cycle slows, depending on the concentrations of NaCl and/or urea, and that the duration of G(2)M increases greatly (from 2.5 h at 300 mosmol/kg to more than 16 h at the higher osmolalities). Addition of NaCl and/or urea to total osmolality of 550 mosmol/kg or more also induces apoptosis, as demonstrated by characteristic electron microscopic morphological changes, appearance of a subdiploid peak in flow cytometry, and caspase-3 activation. The number of cells with subdiploid DNA and activated caspase-3 peaks at 8-12 h. Caspase-3 activation occurs in all phases of the cell cycle, but to a disproportionate degree in G(0)/G(1) and S phases. We conclude that elevated NaCl and/or urea reduces the number of proliferating mIMCD3 cells by slowing the transit through the S phase, by cell cycle delay in the G(2)M and G(1), and by inducing apoptotic cell death.
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PMID:Cell cycle delay and apoptosis are induced by high salt and urea in renal medullary cells. 1066 25

Using the patch-clamp technique, we investigated Cl- channels on the basolateral membrane of the connecting tubule (CNT) and cortical collecting duct (CCD). We found a approximately 10-pS channel in CNT cell-attached patches. Substitution of sodium gluconate for NaCl in the pipette shifted the reversal potential by +25 mV, whereas N-methyl-D-gluconate chloride had no effect, indicating anion selectivity. On inside-out patches, we determined a selectivity sequence of Cl- > Br- approximately NO3(-) > F-, which is compatible with that of ClC-K2, a Cl- channel in the distal nephron. In addition, the number of open channels (NP(o)) measured in cell-attached patches was significantly increased when Ca2+ concentration or pH in the pipette was increased, which is another characteristic of ClC-K. These findings suggest that the basis for this channel is ClC-K2. A similar Cl- channel was found in CCD patches. Because CNT and CCD are heterogeneous tissues, we studied the cellular distribution of the Cl- channel using recording conditions (KCl-rich solution in the pipette) that allowed us to detect simultaneously Cl- channels and inwardly rectifying K+ channels. We detected Cl- channels alone in 45% and 42% and K+ channels alone in 51% and 58% of CNT and CCD patches, respectively. Cl- and K+ channels were recorded simultaneously from two patches (4% of patches) in the CNT and from none of the patches in the CCD. This indicates that Cl- and K+ channels are located in different cell types, which we suggest may be the intercalated cells and principal cells, respectively.
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PMID:Similar chloride channels in the connecting tubule and cortical collecting duct of the mouse kidney. 1640 36

Cl- currents were observed under whole cell clamp conditions in cells of the rat cortical collecting duct (CCD), connecting tubule (CNT), and thick ascending limb of Henle's loop (TALH). These currents were much larger in intercalated cells compared with principal cells of the CCD and were also larger in the TALH and in the CNT compared with the CCD. The conductance had no strong voltage dependence, and steady-state currents were similar in inward and outward directions with similar Cl- concentrations on both sides of the membrane. Current transients were observed, particularly at low Cl- concentrations, which could be explained by solute depletion and concentration in fluid layers next to the membrane. The currents had a remarkable selectivity among anions. Among halides, Br- and F- conductances were only 15% of that of Cl-, and I- conductance was immeasurably small. SCN- and OCN- conductances were approximately 50%, and aspartate, glutamate, and methanesulfonate conductance was approximately 5% that of Cl-. No conductance could be measured for any other anion tested, including NO3-, HCO3-, formate, acetate, or isethionate; NO3- and I- appeared to block the channels weakly. Conductances were diminished by lowering the extracellular pH to 6.4. The properties of the conductance fit best with those of the cloned renal anion channel ClC-K2 and likely reflect the basolateral Cl- conductances of the cells of these nephron segments.
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PMID:Cl- channels of the distal nephron. 1716 96


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