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Correlation between hyperphosphatemia and type II Na-P_i cotransporter activity in klotho mice

¹Department of Molecular Nutrition, Institution of Health Biosciences, The University of Tokushima Graduate School, Tokushima; and ²Department of Pathology and Tumor Biology, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Sakyo, Kyoto, Japan

Submitted 2 July 2006 ; accepted in final form 6 September 2006

Recent studies have demonstrated that klotho protein plays a role in calcium/phosphate homeostasis. The goal of the present study was to investigate the regulation of Na-P_i cotransporters in klotho mutant (kl/kl) mice. The kl/kl mice displayed hyperphosphatemia, high plasma 1,25(OH)₂D₃ levels, increased activity of the renal and intestinal sodium-dependent P_i cotransporters, and increased levels of the type IIa, type IIb, and type IIc transporter proteins compared with wild-type mice. Interestingly, transcript levels of the type IIa/type IIc transporter mRNA abundance, but not transcripts levels of type IIb transporter mRNA, were markedly decreased in kl/kl mice compared with wild-type mice. Furthermore, plasma fibroblast growth factor 23 (FGF23) levels were 150-fold higher in kl/kl mice than in wild-type mice. Feeding of a low-P_i diet induced the expression of klotho protein and decreased plasma FGF23 levels in kl/kl mice, whereas colchicine treatment experiments revealed evidence of abnormal membrane trafficking of the type IIa transporter in kl/kl mice. Finally, feeding of a low-P_i diet resulted in increased type IIa Na-P_i cotransporter protein in the apical membrane in the wild-type mice, but not in kl/kl mice. These results indicate that hyperphosphatemia in klotho mice is due to dysregulation of expression and trafficking of the renal type IIa/IIc transporters rather than to intestinal P_i uptake.

phosphate transporter; klotho; fibroblast growth factor 23

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