AJP - Renal Physiology, Vol 273, Issue 6 961-F975, Copyright © 1997 by American Physiological Society

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BMP-2 and OP-1 exert direct and opposite effects on renal branching morphogenesis

T. D. Piscione, T. D. Yager, I. R. Gupta, B. Grinfeld, Y. Pei, L. Attisano, J. L. Wrana and N. D. Rosenblum
Division of Nephrology, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

The bone morphogenetic proteins, BMP-2 and OP-1, are candidates for growth factors that control renal branching morphogenesis. We examined their effects in embryonic kidney explants and in the mIMCD-3 cell model of collecting duct morphogenesis (mIMCD-3 cells are derived from the terminal inner medullary collecting duct of the SV40 mouse). Osteogenic protein-1 (OP-1), at a dose of 0.25 nM, increased explant growth by 30% (P = 0.001). In contrast, 100-fold greater concentrations of OP-1 (28 nM) decreased explant growth by 10% (P < 0.001). BMP-2 was entirely inhibitory (maximum inhibition of 7% at 5 nM, P < 0.0004). In an in vitro model for branching morphogenesis utilizing the kidney epithelial cell line, mIMCD-3, low doses of OP-1 (< 0.5 nM) increased the number of tubular structures formed by 28 +/- 5% (P = 0.01), whereas concentrations > 0.5 nM decreased that number by 22 +/- 8% (P = 0.02). All concentrations of BMP-2 (0.05-10 nM) were inhibitory (maximum inhibition at 10 nM of 88 +/- 3%, P < 0.0001). Stimulatory doses of OP-1 increased tubular length (P = 0.003) and the number of branch points/structure (3.2-fold increase, P = 0.0005) compared with BMP-2. To determine the molecular basis for these effects, we demonstrated that BMP-2 is bound to mIMCD-3 cells by the type I serine/threonine kinase receptor, ALK-3, and that OP-1 bound to an approximately 80-kDa protein using ligand-receptor affinity assays. To demonstrate that OP-1 can exert both stimulatory and inhibitory effects within a developing kidney, embryonic explants were treated with agarose beads saturated with 2 microM OP-1. OP-1 decreased the number of ureteric bud/collecting duct branches adjacent to the beads by 58 +/- 1% (P < 0.0001). In contrast, the number of branches in tissue distal to the OP-1 beads was enhanced, suggesting a stimulatory effect at lower doses of OP-1. We conclude that OP-1 and BMP-2 directly control branching morphogenesis and that the effects of OP-1 are dependent on its local concentration within developing kidney tissue.

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