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Use of phospho-specific antibodies to determine the phosphorylation of endogenous Na⁺/H⁺ exchanger NHE3 at PKA consensus sites

Departments of ¹Pediatrics, ²Internal Medicine, and ³Cellular and Molecular Physiology at Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut; and ⁴Department of Physiology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Submitted 16 March 2004 ; accepted in final form 21 January 2005

Transfection studies using mutant constructs have implicated one or both protein kinase A (PKA) consensus phosphorylation sites [serines 552 and 605 in rat Na⁺/H⁺ exchanger type 3 (NHE3)] as critical for mediating inhibition of NHE3 in response to several stimuli including dopamine. However, whether one or both of these sites is actually phosphorylated in endogenous NHE3 in proximal tubule cells is unknown. The purpose of this study was to generate phosphospecific antibodies so that the state of phosphorylation of these serine residues in endogenous NHE3 could be assessed in vitro and in vivo. To this end, polyclonal and monoclonal phosphospecific peptide antibodies were generated against each PKA consensus site. Phosphospecificity was established by ELISA and Western blot assays. We then used these antibodies in vitro to evaluate the effect of dopamine on phosphorylation of the corresponding PKA sites (serines 560 and 613) in NHE3 endogenously expressed in opossum kidney cells. Baseline phosphorylation of both sites was detected that was significantly increased by dopamine. Next, we determined the baseline phosphorylation state of each serine in rat kidney NHE3 in vivo. We found that serine 552 of NHE3 is phosphorylated to a much greater extent than serine 605 at baseline in vivo. Moreover, we detected a distinct subcellular localization for NHE3 phosphorylated at serine 552 compared with total NHE3. Specifically, NHE3 phosphorylated at serine 552 localized to the coated pit region of the brush-border membrane, where NHE3 is inactive, while total NHE3 was found throughout the brush-border membrane. These findings strongly suggest that phosphorylation of NHE3 plays a role in its subcellular trafficking in vivo. In conclusion, we successfully generated phosphospecific antibodies that should be useful to assess the phosphorylation of endogenous NHE3 at its two PKA consensus sites under a variety of physiological conditions in vitro and in vivo.

dopamine; proximal tubule; microvilli; coated pits; protein kinase A

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