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1Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, Oregon Health and Science University and the Portland Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Portland, Oregon 97239; and 2Department of Anatomy, Charite School of Medicine, 10115 Berlin, Germany
Submitted 10 November 2003 ; accepted in final form 4 March 2004
TRPV4, a nonselective cation channel of the transient receptor potential (TRP) family, is gated by hypotonicity. Expression of TRPV4 mRNA has been detected in the circumventricular organs of the brain responsible for sensing systemic tonicity and in the kidney distal convoluted tubule (DCT), among other sites. No analysis of TRPV4 expression at the protein level has been undertaken and no systematic analysis of expression of this channel has been reported in the kidney. Via RNAse protection assay and immunoblotting, abundant expression of TRPV4 was detected in the cortex, medulla, and papilla. The expression pattern of TRPV4 was characterized in both rat and mouse kidney, which revealed similar patterns of immunoreactivity. TRPV4 expression was absent from the proximal tubule (PT) and descending thin limb (DTL), whereas the strongest expression was observed in the ascending thin limb (ATL). The thick ascending limb (TAL) was strongly positive as was the DCT and connecting tubule. Importantly, the water-permeant cells of the macula densa were unstained. Moderate TRPV4 expression was noted in all collecting duct portions and in papillary epithelium; intercalated cells (type A) exhibited a particularly strong signal. In all positive segments, TRPV4 expression was concentrated at the basolateral membrane. Therefore, TRPV4 is expressed in only those nephron segments that are constitutively (i.e., ATL, TAL, and DCT) or conditionally (i.e., collecting duct) water impermeant and where generation of a substantial transcellular osmotic gradient could be expected. TRPV4 expression is absent from nephron segments exhibiting constitutive water permeability and unregulated apical aquaporin expression (i.e., PT and DTL). These data, although circumstantial, are consistent with a role for TRPV4 in the response to anisotonicity in the mammalian kidney.
water permeability; transient receptor potential
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