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Effect of urine fractionation on attachment of calcium oxalate crystals to renal epithelial cells: implications for studying renal calculogenesis

Urology Unit, Department of Surgery, Flinders Medical Centre, and Flinders University, South Australia, Australia

Submitted 14 November 2006 ; accepted in final form 27 January 2007

Our aim was to determine whether fractionation of human urine affects the attachment of calcium oxalate monohydrate (COM) crystals to renal cells. Urine collected from six healthy subjects was fractionated into sieved (S), centrifuged (C), centrifuged and filtered (CF), or ultrafiltered (UF). Attachment of [¹⁴C]COM crystals to Madin-Darby canine kidney (MDCK) cells was studied after precoating the crystals or the cells with the urine fractions and by using the same fractions as the binding medium. Protein content of the fractions and precoated crystals was analyzed with SDS-PAGE and Western blotting. All urine fractions inhibited crystal attachment. When fractions from the six urine samples were used to precoat the cells, the median inhibitions of crystal adhesion (40%) were not significantly different. Median inhibition after preincubation of crystals was the same for the S, C, and CF fractions (40%) but significantly greater than for the UF fraction (28%). When fractions were used as the binding medium, median inhibitions decreased from 64% in the S fraction to 47 (C), 42 (CF), and to 29% (UF). SDS-PAGE analysis showed that centrifugation and filtration reduced the amount of Tamm-Horsfall glycoprotein (THG), which was confirmed by Western blotting. Human serum albumin, urinary prothrombin fragment 1, and osteopontin, but not THG, were present in demineralized extracts of the precoated crystals. Fractionation of human urine affects the attachment of COM crystals to MDCK cells. Hence future studies investigating regulation of crystal-cell interactions should be carried out in untreated urine as the binding medium.

Madin-Darby canine kidney cells; renal calculi

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