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Cells derived from renal cysts of patients with autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD) are abnormally sensitive to ouabain, responding to physiological ouabain concentrations with enhanced proliferation and increased forskolin-induced transepithelial fluid secretion. This requires activation of the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR), Src kinase and the extracellular signal-regulated kinases MEK and ERK. Here, we have determined if the ADPKD phenotype obtained in mouse cortical collecting duct cells by stable overexpression of the C-terminal domain of polycystin-1 (PC-1 C-tail) also elicits the ADPKD-like response to ouabain in the cells. M-1 C20 cells expressing the PC-1 C-tail and M-1 C17 cells lacking expression of this construct were treated with physiological concentrations of ouabain, and cell proliferation, activation of the EGFR-Src-MEK-ERK pathway, forskolin-induced transepithelial Cl− secretion and the sensitivity of Na,K-ATPase to ouabain were explored. M-1 C20 cells responded to ouabain with increased cell proliferation and ERK phosphorylation. Ouabain also augmented forskolin-induced and cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator-mediated apical secretion of Cl− in M-1 C20 cells. These effects required activation of EGFR, Src and MEK. In contrast, ouabain had no significant effects on M-1 C17 cells. Interestingly, approximately 20 % of the Na,K-ATPase from M-1 C20 cells presented an abnormally increased sensitivity to ouabain. Overexpression of PC-1 C-tail in M-1 C20 cells is associated with an ouabain-sensitive phenotype and an increased ability of the cells to proliferate and secrete anions upon ouabain stimulation. This phenotype mimics the ouabain sensitivity of ADPKD cells and may help promote their cystogenic potential.
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This study was supported by a National Institutes of Health Grant (DK081431 to G.B.).
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Supplementary material 1 (DOCX 51 kb) Expression of PC-1 C-tail is specifically induced in M-1 C20 cells exposed to dexamethasone. Lysates from M-1 C17 and M-1 C20 cells were subjected to SDS-PAGE, blotted onto nitrocellulose membranes and immunoblotted. PC-1 was identified using a goat anti-human IgG Fc antibody conjugated to alkaline phosphatase (Jackson Immunoresearch, West Grove, PA) as previously described (Sutters et al. 2001)
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Jansson, K., Magenheimer, B.S., Maser, R.L. et al. Overexpression of the Polycystin-1 C-Tail Enhances Sensitivity of M-1 Cells to Ouabain. J Membrane Biol 246, 581–590 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00232-013-9573-4
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