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Laboratory of Kidney and Electrolyte Metabolism, National Heart, Lung,and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892-1603
Submitted 28 January 2003 ; accepted in final form 9 September 2003
In tests of osmotic tolerance of renal inner medullary cells in tissue culture, osmolality has usually been increased in a single step, whereas in vivo the increase occurs gradually over several hours. We previously found that more passage 2 mouse inner medullary epithelial (p2mIME) cells survive a linear increase in NaCl and urea from 640 to 1,640 mosmol/kgH2O over 20 h (which is similar to the change that may occur in vivo) than they do a step increase. The present studies examine accompanying differences in gene expression. Among mRNAs of genes known to be protective, tonicity-responsive enhancer binding protein and aldose reductase increase with a linear but decrease with a step increase; betaine transporter BGT1 decreases with a step but not a linear increase; heat shock protein 70.1 (HSP70.1) and HSP70.3 increase more with a linear than a step increase; and osmotic stress protein 94 and heme oxygenase-1 increase with a linear but decrease with a step increase. mRNAs for known urea-responsive proteins, GADD153 and Egr-1, increase with both a step and linear increase. A step increase in urea alone reduces mRNAs, similar to the combination of NaCl and urea, but a step increase in NaCl alone does not. HSP70 protein increases substantially with a linear rise in osmolality but does not change significantly with a step rise. We speculate that poorer survival of p2mIME cells with a step than with linear increase in NaCl and urea is accounted for, at least in part, by urea-induced suppression of protective genes, particularly HSP70.
osmotic stress; organic osmolyte; heat shock protein; mRNA abundance
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