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J. Biol. Chem., Vol. 282, Issue 50, 36534-36542, December 14, 2007
Phosphatidylinositol 4-Phosphate 5-Kinase Reduces Cell Surface Expression of the Epithelial Sodium Channel (ENaC) in Cultured Collecting Duct Cells* 1![]() ![]() 2![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() 3
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Received for publication, May 14, 2007 , and in revised form, October 11, 2007.
Ubiquitination of ENaC subunits has been shown to negatively regulate the cell surface expression of ENaC channels. We have previously demonstrated that epsin links ubiquitinated ENaC to clathrin adaptors for clathrin-mediated endocytosis. Epsin is thought to directly modify the curvature of membranes upon binding to phosphatidylinositol 4,5-bisphosphate (PIP2) where it recruits clathrin and stimulates lattice assembly. Murine phosphatidylinositol 4-phosphate 5-kinase (PI5KI ) has been shown to enhance endocytosis in a PIP2-dependent manner. We tested the hypothesis that PI5KI -mediated PIP2 production would negatively regulate ENaC current by enhancing epsin-mediated endocytosis of the channel. Expression of PI5KI decreased ENaC currents in Xenopus oocytes by 80%, entirely because of a decrease in cell surface ENaC levels. Catalytically inactive mutants of PI5K had no effect on ENaC activity. Expression of the PIP2 binding region of epsin increased ENaC current in oocytes, an effect completely reversed by co-expression of PI5KI . Overexpression of epsin reduced amiloride-sensitive current in CCD cells. Overexpression of PI5KI enhanced membrane PIP2 levels and reduced apical surface expression of ENaC in CCD cells, down-regulating amiloride-sensitive current. Knockdown of PI5KI with isoform-specific siRNA resulted in a 4-fold enhancement of ENaC activity. PI5KI localized exclusively to the apical plasma membrane domain when overexpressed in mouse CCD cells, consistent for a role in regulating PIP2 production at the apical plasma membrane. We conclude that membrane turnover events regulating ENaC surface expression and activity in oocytes and CCD cells can be regulated by PI5KI .
The epithelial sodium channel (ENaC)4 localizes to the apical plasma membrane of epithelial cells where it functions to regulate Na+ transport. ENaC activity is critical to the physiological maintenance of Na+ homeostasis, volume regulation, and thus, systemic blood pressure (1, 2). Because of its central role in responding to extreme changes in Na+ intake, ENaC transport rates are tightly regulated and defects in the channel or factors regulating the channel result in inherited forms of hypertension and hypotension. Key modulating factors in controlling epithelial Na+ transport are regulation of the mechanisms that facilitate ENaC surface expression or Po. ENaC surface expression is regulated by a variety of hormonal and non-hormonal factors, including mineralocorticoids and insulin as well as osmotic changes (2–5). The balance of membrane delivery and retrieval events are coordinated to regulate the number of channels available at the apical membrane for Na+ reabsorption (6, 7). Indeed, alterations in the removal of ENaC channel from the apical plasma membrane appear to be the underlying cause of Liddle's Syndrome (8). Clearly, identifying the factors that control insertion, retrieval, and recycling of membrane channels will aid in our understanding of the complex action of hormones, physiological and pathological conditions that are associated with altered channel expression or activity.
It is widely accepted that ENaC surface expression is negatively regulated by ubiquitination (9–13). Elegant studies have revealed that the ubiquitin ligase Nedd4-2 binds to a consensus PPXY motif in the C terminus of ENaC subunits and mediates the ubiquitination of lysine residues on the N terminus of the PIP2 clearly participates in the regulation of numerous cell processes in addition to endocytosis. Proteins responsible for actin polymerization and cytoskeletal rearrangement are recruited to specific membranes via their interactions with PIP2 (23, 24). Furthermore, a diverse class of ion channels and transporters can be regulated by direct interaction with PIP2 and/or are sensitive to dynamic changes in PIP2 concentrations at the plasma membrane (25). Indeed, PIP2 has been implicated in the up-regulation of ENaC activity by effects on exocytosis of channels or by direct effects on Po (26–30).
The versatility assigned to PIP2 suggests that there are spatially and temporally regulated pools of PIP2 in the plasma membrane. Generation of PIP2 at the plasma membrane can be accomplished by the three isoforms of the type I phosphatidylinositol 4-phosphate 5-kinases (PI5Ks)
Cell Culture and Adenoviral Expression—mpkCCDc14 cells (CCD cells) were derived from the cortical collecting ducts of SV40 transformed mice and were the generous gift of Alain Vandewalle (37). CCD cells were maintained in Dulbecco's modified Eagle's medium/Ham's F12 with 2% fetal bovine serum as previously described. For adenovirus infection, cultured CCD cells were grown on 12-mm transwells (0.4-µm pore; Costar, Cambridge, MA), rinsed extensively with PBS and incubated for 1 h at 37 °C on 50-µl drops of PBS-containing recombinant adenoviruses and 150 µl of PBS/virus on the apical surface of the transwell, using a multiplicity of infection (m.o.i.) of 100. Recombinant adenovirus encoding the constitutive expression of the tetracycline-repressible transactivator at an m.o.i. of 50 was included in all experiments to enable doxycycline-repressible synthesis of appropriate PI5KI tagged with an HA epitope (38). Following infection, cells were incubated in complete media supplemented with 20 ng/ml doxycycline for 24 h. Subsequently, cells were rinsed in complete media and incubated for 16 h in the absence of doxycycline to allow for expression of PI5KI constructs. Infection efficiency was visualized by immunofluorescence with anti-HA antibodies and was estimated at greater than 90% for all viruses.
DNA and Replication-defective Recombinant Adenoviruses—The cDNA for murine PI5KI
Channel Expression in Xenopus Oocytes—Complementary RNAs (cRNA) for wild-type and mutant constructs were prepared using a cRNA synthesis kit employing T3 RNA polymerase (mMESSAGE mMachine, Ambion Inc, Austin, TX). Xenopus oocytes (stage V-VI) were pretreated with 2 mg/ml collagenase (type IV) in calcium-free saline solution. Murine ENaC cRNAs (1–3 ng/subunit in 50 nl of H20) were microinjected into all oocytes. Oocytes in the experimental group were additionally injected with 5 ng of cRNA of the indicated PI5KI
Whole Cell Measurements—A two-electrode voltage clamp technique was used as preciously described. Whole cell inward amiloride-sensitive currents were measured in control oocytes expressing Cell Surface ENaC and ROMK Labeling—Plasma membrane expression of the external HA-tagged ROMK channel and external FLAG-tagged ENaC was measured in single oocytes following procedures outlined as previously reported (40) with slight modifications. In these studies, oocytes were fixed with 4% formaldehyde in oocytes Ringers for 15 min. at 4 °C and washed four times in oocytes Ringers. To block spurious antibody binding, oocytes were then incubated for 1 h at 4 °C in MBS containing 1% bovine serum albumin (BSA). Exposed HA or FLAG epitopes on the surface of intact oocytes were labeled with a rat monoclonal anti-HA antibody (0.5 µg/ml, Roche 3F10, 1% BSA, 4 °C, overnight) or 1 mg/ml mouse monoclonal anti-FLAG antibody (Sigma) for 1 h. Oocytes were washed with MBS containing 1% BSA, and incubated with horseradish peroxidase-coupled goat anti-rat or goat anti-mouse (1 µg/ml, Jackson Laboratories, 1% BSA, 1.5 h). After extensive washing, individual oocytes were placed in chemiluminescence substrate as described (41). Luminescence from single oocytes was measured as described previously (40, 41). Cell Surface Biotinylation—The cell surface pool of ENaC was determined by surface biotinylation as described (42). Briefly, CCD cells cultured on Transwells were washed (5 min) with ice-cold PBS with agitation on ice to remove growth media. Apical domain selective biotinylation was performed in borate buffer (85 mM NaCl, 4 mM KCl, 15 mM Na2B4O7, pH9) for 20 min. The basolateral surface was incubated in growth medium containing fetal bovine serum (FBS) to prevent biotinylation. The biotinylation was quenched by FBS incubation and PBS washing. Monolayers were lysed (0.4% DCA, 1% Non-idet P-40, 50 mM EGTA, 10 mM Tris-Cl, pH 7.4) at room temperature for 10 min. Protein concentration of the postnuclear supernatant was determined, and 200 µg of protein was combined with a streptavidin bead slurry (Pierce Chemical Co.) and incubated overnight at 4 °C. Samples were collected in 2x sample buffer containing 10% β-mercaptoethanol and incubated for 20 min at room temperature. Samples were SDS-PAGE and Western blot analysis and visualized with enhanced chemiluminescence. Equal concentrations of cell lysate were analyzed in parallel to determine total the total cellular pool of ENaC.
Indirect Immunofluorescence—CCD cells grown on transwell filters were infected with tet-responsive adenoviruses encoding HA epitope-tagged PI5KI Thin Layer Chromatography Analysis of Phospholipids—Lipid analysis was performed essentially as described in Ref. 44. Xenopus oocytes expressing appropriate cDNAs were incubated overnight with [32P]orthophosphate in modified Barth's media. The following morning samples were washed 1x with modified Barth's to remove unincorporated 32P. Oocytes were homogenized in 300 µl of 1 N HCl, and lipids were extracted as described below. AV-infected CCD cells grown on 6-cm dishes were starved in phosphate-free buffer for 30 min, radiolabeled for 4 h with 40 µCi/ml [32P]orthophosphate (ICN). Cells were rinsed gently in ice-cold buffer and scraped into a 4:3:3 mixture of CHCl3/CH3OH/1 N HCl. The organic phase was washed with equal volumes of CH3OH and 1 N HCl. Aliquots were counted using a scintillation counter, and equal counts/min were spotted onto oxalate-treated Silica gel 60 TLC plates (EM Science) and developed in 1-propyl alcohol, 2 M acetic acid; H2O (63:4: 33). Authentic lipid standards (Avanti%20Polar%20Lipids">Avanti Polar Lipids) were included in all experiments and visualized using iodine vapor. Radiolabeled products were visualized and quantitated using a phosphorimager (Bio-Rad). Internalization of IgA—IgA was radioiodinated using the iodine monochloride method as described (45). Endocytosis of 125I-IgA was performed essentially as described by Apodaca et al. (46). Briefly, cells were incubated with 125I-IgA applied either to the basolateral or apical surface on ice for 1.5 h. Cells were washed with ice-cold media and incubated in prewarmed 37 °C media in a water bath for appropriate time points. After each time point, 125I-IgA that was not internalized from the cell surface was removed by treating the cells with 25 mg/ml L-1-tosylamide-2-phenylethylchloromethyl-ketone-treated trypsin. The filters were washed and removed from the insert, and the amount of cell-associated 125I-IgA and that which was removed by washing and trypsin treatment were determined using a gamma counter (Packard Instrument, Downers Grove, IL) as described (46). An equal number of mock-infected CCD cells not expressing the pIgR were treated identically to determine nonspecific IgA uptake, and these values were subtracted from those of the pIgR-infected CCD cells. After the final time point, filters were cut out of the insert, and the amount of 125I-IgA in all samples was determined using a gamma counter. An equal number of mock-infected CCD cells not expressing the pIgR were treated identically to determine nonspecific IgA uptake, and these values were subtracted from those of the pIgR-infected CCD cells. Overexpression of Epsin—Mouse CCD cells were transfected with a Myc-tagged epsin construct (provided by Linton Traub, University of Pittsburgh) using Lipofectamine 2000 standard protocol. The following day, the cells were taken up by trypsin treatment, pelleted with a brief low speed centrifugation, and plated on 12-mm filter inserts (Transwells) at superconfluency. Two days later, the cells were used for electrophysiological or biochemical measurements.
siRNA of PIP5K
The effect of PI5KI -mediated PIP2 production on ENaC activity was initially examined using the Xenopus oocyte expression system. To determine to what extent PIP2 production was modified in oocytes expressing PI5KI , lipids were extracted from oocytes injected with PI5KI or control cRNAs and examined by thin layer chromatography. As shown in Fig. 1A PI5KI induced a 40% increase in steady state PIP2 production in oocytes compared with control. Whole cell amiloride-sensitive currents were measured in oocytes coinjected with cRNAs for β ENaC and PI5KI . Co-expression of PI5KI with β ENaC reduced amiloride-sensitive current by 80% (Fig. 1B). To confirm that the effect of PI5KI on ENaC surface activity is due to modulation of PIP2 production, we examined the effect of catalytically inactive mutants PI5KI D227A (47) and PI5KI D203A5 on ENaC activity in Xenopus oocytes. Co-expression of either mutant with ENaC has no effect on amiloride-sensitive currents compared with control oocytes expressing ENaC subunits alone (Fig. 1B), indicating that the catalytic activity of PI5KI is necessary for the down-regulation of ENaC channel activity.
PIP2 has been shown to enhance endocytic and exocytic events to control steady state levels of proteins in the plasma membrane. To determine whether the PI5KI
Type I PI5Ks have been shown to produce specific pools of PIP2 that can be utilized for distinct membrane trafficking events (34, 48, 49). To determine whether PI5KI -mediated PIP2 production is important for constitutive trafficking and steady state distribution of other membrane proteins, we tested the effect of PI5KI on the activity and surface expression of the renal potassium secretory channel, ROMK. Interestingly, PI5KI expression enhanced ROMK activity in oocytes (Fig. 2A). This effect was dependent upon PIP2 production, as catalytically inactive mutants had no effect on ROMK activity (Fig. 2A). Furthermore, PI5KI induced a 50% increase in ROMK surface expression in oocytes as detected by luminometry, indicating that the up-regulation in ROMK activity is caused by increased levels of ROMK channels at the membrane (Fig. 2B). These observations suggest that the PI5KI -mediated effects on ENaC surface expression may be related to specific protein-protein interactions relevant to ENaC internalization.
We have previously shown that the adaptor protein epsin, which contains an N-terminal PIP2 binding ENTH domain, functions in the retrieval of ubiquitinated ENaC from the plasma membrane (17). Co-expression of the epsin ENTH domain with ENaC subunits in Xenopus oocytes results in increased current compared with currents obtained upon expression of ENaC subunits alone. We hypothesized that expression of this domain sequesters PIP2 at the plasma membrane, thereby inhibiting endocytosis. To test this, we examined whether enhancing levels of PIP2 through co-expression of PI5KI would block ENTH domain-mediated stimulation of ENaC current. Indeed, PI5KI reversed the effect we observed with the ENTH domain alone by reducing amiloride-sensitive currents to below control levels in oocytes, (Fig. 3).
As noted above, the underlying hypothesis of this work is that ENaC subunits, ubiquitinated at the plasma membrane (11–13) is linked to clathrin adaptors by epsin, which in turn recruits PIP2 to the complex, facilitating internalization via clathrin-mediated endocytosis. Although our data in oocytes, along with data by ourselves and others (11, 12, 50) indicating interactions between ENaC and clathrin adaptors, tend to support this model, we next sought to examine this directly in CCD cells that endogenously express ENaC. We first examined the effects of overexpression of epsin and PI5KI on ENaC activity in CCD cells. As shown in Fig. 4A, both proteins induce a substantial and virtually identical reduction in ENaC current in CCD cells. To examine the functional role of the pool of PIP2 generated by PI5KI on native ENaC channels we determined whether expression of wild-type PI5KI would raise PIP2 production in CCD membranes. Following infection, cells were labeled with [32P]orthophosphate, lipids extracted, and analyzed by TLC (Fig. 4B). Overexpression of PI5KI more than doubled the amount of PIP2 produced in CCD cells compared with control infected cells. Transepithelial amiloride-sensitive currents were measured in parallel experiments to determine the effect of enhanced PIP2 production via PI5KI in CCD cells. Fig. 4A demonstrates that enhanced PIP2 production resulted in a significant reduction in ENaC activity, consistent with the effects observed in Xenopus oocytes (Fig. 1B). Furthermore, the expression of the catalytically inactive mutants PI5KI D227A of PI5K1 D203A had no effect on the amiloride-sensitive current in CCD cells compared with control (Fig. 4C). Next, we determined whether this effect was caused by changes in ENaC surface expression. The steady state levels of ENaC expressed at the surface were determined by domain-selective cell surface biotinylation as described under "Experimental Procedures." The total cellular pool of ENaC channels was unchanged by PI5KI expression in immunoblots of CCD lysates probed with anti- ENaC antibodies, (Fig. 5A, top panel). However, cell surface biotinylation of polarized CCD cells demonstrate that the amount of ENaC expressed at the cell surface was reduced by 60% in cells expressing PI5KI compared with control, Fig. 5A, bottom panel and Fig. 5B). These observations are consistent with the role of PIP2 in promoting internalization events at the plasma membrane. If this is correct, then knockdown of PI5KI in CCD cells should inhibit internalization, as it did in non-polarized cells (32), and potentially result in increased ENaC activity. As shown in Fig. 6B, CCD cells express all three isoforms of Type I PI5K. To knockdown expression of the specific isoform which we had previously overexpressed, CCD cells were treated with small interfering RNA (siRNA) constructs specific for the I isoform of murine PI5K. ENaC currents and abundance of PI5KI were measured 2 days later. As shown in Fig. 6A, treatment of the cells resulted in substantial reduction in expression of the kinase and a 4-fold enhancement of amiloride-sensitive current.
We next examined the localization of PI5KI in polarized and nonpolarized CCD cells. Cells were infected with HA epitope-tagged PI5KI and processed for immunofluorescence 16 h after induction of expression. PI5KI was highly enriched in the apical plasma membrane of polarized CCD cells as assessed by confocal microscopy. In xzy sections of CCD cells, PI5KI (green, Fig. 7A) localizes predominantly at the apical membrane and does not stain the lateral borders, delineated by antibodies staining the junctional marker, Zo-1 (red, Fig. 7A). When CCD cells are grown subconfluently on glass coverslips, PI5KI localizes predominantly at the plasma membrane (red, Fig. 7B) where it localizes with the PIP2-binding PH domain from PLC (green, Fig. 7B) as reported in the literature (32). PI5KI also can be found on intracellular structures in non-polarized epithelial cells (Fig. 7B), consistent with previous studies (39).
The reduced pool of ENaC at the cell surface in PI5KI
Here we have tested the role of PI5KI on regulating the surface expression of ENaC. We show that PI5KI down-regulated ENaC activity in Xenopus oocytes. The decrease in ENaC activity was dependent on the production of PIP2, as PI5KI mutants defective in catalytic activity had no effect. This observation could be reproduced in CCD cells which natively express ENaC, indicating that the mechanism for PI5KI -mediated down-regulation is preserved in a polarized epithelial cell model. Furthermore, a parallel decrease in surface expression with ENaC activity is observed in oocytes and in polarized CCD cells co-expressing PI5KI (Fig. 1, A and C and Fig. 4). Consistent with these observations, knockdown of PI5KI by siRNA resulted in striking increase in ENaC activity in CCD cells. Interestingly, the effects of this kinase on ENaC activity were not due to global changes in membrane internalization, as activity and expression of ROMK in oocytes was enhanced, consistent with an effect on exocytosis of this channel (Fig. 2, A and B). These observations indicate that the influence of PI5KI on ENaC activity and surface expression may be caused by the interactions required for ENaC internalization. We have previously shown that ubiquitinated ENaC interacts with epsin to promote its internalization through clathrin-coated vesicles (17). Epsin recruitment is PIP2-dependent; therefore, it is likely that PI5KI effects are caused by modulating epsin-PIP2 interactions through the ENTH domain in epsin. Indeed, we observed that while the expression of ENTH domain alone stimulated ENaC current in oocytes, this could be reversed by co-expressing ENTH and PI5KI with ENaC subunits. These data indicate that the ENTH-PIP2 interactions can be modulated by PI5KI and that this pool of PIP2 is important for the effects we observe on ENaC activity.
The ability of PIP2 to recruit clathrin-accessory proteins appears to have a rate-limiting effect on constitutive endocytosis. Generation of PIP2 at the plasma membrane is regulated by the type I PI5Ks, all three of which have documented roles in regulating clathrin-mediated endocytosis. The production of PIP2 via PI5KI
The localization of PI5KI
PIP2 has been shown to influence the activity of ENaC via changes in open probability by direct interactions with the channel such that increases in PIP2 concentration increase activity or prevent rundown in excised patch experiments (26, 28, 30). This points to a different type of local regulation of ENaC via PIP2 much like that described for GIRK channels, which are down-regulated in parallel with local depletions in PIP2. Therefore, a local increase in PIP2 might be expected to enhance ENaC activity, perhaps in an acute manner. While PIP2 has previously been shown to increase ENaC channel density in the membrane, these studies utilized the murine β isoform of type I PI5K (27, 29), therefore, it is likely that the influence of PIP2 on ENaC can be independently regulated by different isoforms of PI5K. Additionally, the isoforms of PI5KI are segregated in polarized epithelial cells, presumably to allow for independent modulation of PIP2 production at different surface domains. Moreover, prolonged up-regulation of PIP2 production could impact multiple pathways that affect channel number or cell surface residence time. Taken together, these data demonstrate that ENaC channel activity can be negatively regulated by the production of PIP2 via PI5KI
* This work was supported in part by Grants DK 57718, DK47874 (to J. P. J.), DK 064613 (to O. A. W.), DK 65161 (to T. S. K.), DK-63049 and DK-54231 (to P. A. W.) from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The costs of publication of this article were defrayed in part by the payment of page charges. This article must therefore be hereby marked "advertisement" in accordance with 18 U.S.C. Section 1734 solely to indicate this fact.
1 Supported in part by an NIH Institutional National Research Service Award T32 DK61296.
2 Supported in part by an NIH Institutional National Research Service Award T32 DK61296 and American Heart Association predoctoral fellowship. 3 To whom correspondence should be addressed: Dept. of Medicine, Renal and Electrolyte Division, University of Pittsburgh, 3500 Terrace St., Pittsburgh, PA 15261. Tel.: 412-648-9075; Fax: 412-383-8956; E-mail: Johnson{at}dom.pitt.edu.
4 The abbreviations used are: ENaC, epithelial Na+ channel; PIP2, phosphatidylinositol 4,5-bisphosphate; PI5KI, phosphatidylinositol 4-phosphate 5-kinase; HA, hemagglutinin; TLC, thin layer chromatography; BSA, bovine serum albumin; GFP, green fluorescent protein; PBS, phosphate-buffered saline.
5 C. Carpenter, personal communication.
We thank Tamas Balla and Chris Carpenter for their generous gifts of reagents.
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