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Departments of 1Physiology and Biophysics and 2Medicine, School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, and 3Louis Stokes Veterans Administration Medical Center and Kidney Disease Research Center, Rammelkamp Center for Research and Education, MetroHealth System Campus, Cleveland, Ohio
Submitted 21 October 2004 ; accepted in final form 25 March 2005
Podocyte differentiation is required for normal glomerular filtration barrier function and is regulated by the transcription factor WT1. We identified WT1-interacting protein (WTIP) and hypothesized that it functions as both a scaffold for slit diaphragm proteins and a corepressor of WT1 transcriptional activity by shuttling from cell-cell junctions to the nucleus after injury. Endogenous WTIP colocalizes with zonula occludens-1 (ZO-1) in cultured mouse podocyte adherens junctions. To model podocyte injury in vitro, we incubated differentiated podocytes with puromycin aminonucleoside (PAN; 100 µg/ml) for 24 h, which disassembled cell-cell contacts, rearranged actin cytoskeleton, and caused process retraction. Podocyte synaptopodin expression diminished after PAN treatment, consistent with podocyte dedifferentiation in some human glomerular diseases. To assess podocyte function, we measured albumin flux across differentiated podocytes cultured on collagen-coated Transwell filters. Albumin transit across PAN-treated cells increased to levels observed with undifferentiated podocytes. Consistent with our hypothesis, WTIP, as well as ZO-1, translocated from podocyte adherens junctions to nuclei in PAN-treated cells. Because WTIP is a transcriptional corepressor for WT1, we examined the effect of PAN on expression of retinoblastoma binding protein Rbbp7 (also known as RbAp46), a WT1 target gene expressed in S-shaped bodies during nephrogenesis. Rbbp7 expression in PAN-treated podocytes was reduced compared with untreated cells. In conclusion, WTIP translocates from cell-cell junctions to the nucleus in PAN-treated podocytes. We suggest that WTIP monitors slit diaphragm protein assembly and shuttles into the nucleus after podocyte injury, translating changes in slit diaphragm structure into altered gene expression and a less differentiated phenotype.
nucleocytoplasmic translocation; glomerulosclerosis; LIM domain; slit diaphragm; cell-cell contacts
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