CFTR induces the expression of DRA along with Cl(-)/HCO(3)(-) exchange activity in tracheal epithelial cells |
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Authors: | Wheat V J Shumaker H Burnham C Shull G E Yankaskas J R Soleimani M |
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Institution: | Department of Medicine, Biochemistry, and Microbiology, University of Cincinnati School of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio 45267, USA. |
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Abstract: | Thickening of airway mucus and lungdysfunction in cystic fibrosis (CF) results, at least in part, fromabnormal secretion of Cl and HCO3 across the tracheal epithelium. The mechanism of the defect in HCO3 secretion is ill defined; however, a lack ofapical Cl /HCO3 exchange may exist inCF. To test this hypothesis, we examined the expression ofCl /HCO3 exchangers in trachealepithelial cells exhibiting physiological features prototypical ofcystic fibrosis CFT-1 cells, lacking a functional cystic fibrosistransmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR)] or normal trachea (CFT-1cells transfected with functional wild-type CFTR, termed CFT-WT). Cellswere grown on coverslips and were loaded with the pH-sensitive dye2',7'-bis(2-carboxyethyl)-5(6)-carboxyfluorescein, andintracellular pH was monitored. Cl /HCO3 exchange activity increased by ~300% in cells transfected with functional CFTR, with activities increasing from 0.034 pH/min in CFT-1cells to 0.11 in CFT-WT cells (P < 0.001, n = 8). This activity was significantly inhibited byDIDS. The mRNA expression of the ubiquitous basolateral AE-2Cl /HCO3 exchanger remained unchanged.However, mRNA encoding DRA, recently shown to be aCl /HCO3 exchanger (Melvin JE, Park K,Richardson L, Schultheis PJ, and Shull GE. J Biol Chem 274:22855-22861, 1999.) was abundantly expressed in cells expressingfunctional CFTR but not in cells that lacked CFTR or that expressedmutant CFTR. In conclusion, CFTR induces the mRNA expression of"downregulated in adenoma" (DRA) and, as a result, upregulates theapical Cl /HCO3 exchanger activity intracheal cells. We propose that the tracheal HCO3 secretion defect in patients with CF is partly due to thedownregulation of the apical Cl /HCO3 exchange activity mediated by DRA. |
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