Accumulation of aquaporin-1 during hemolysininduced necrotic cell death |
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Authors: | Kelly Schweitzer Erran Li Venkataramana Sidhaye Virginia Leitch Sergey Kuznetsov Landon S King |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 5501 Hopkins Bayview Circle, Baltimore, MD 21224, USA;(2) Institute of Respiratory Disease, China Medical University, Shenyang, China |
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Abstract: | Altered tissue water homeostasis may contribute to edema formation during various stresses including bacterial infection.
We observed induction of aquaporin-1 (AQP1) during Staphylococcus aureus infection of cultured cells indicating a potential mechanism underlying altered water homeostasis during infection. To investigate
mechanisms of AQP1 induction, we examined the effects of the S. aureus α-hemolysin on AQP1 abundance in Balb/c fibroblasts. Fibroblasts incubated with 30 μg/ml hemolysin exhibited a 5–10 fold
increase in AQP1 protein within 4-6 hours of exposure. The use of multiple signaling cascade inhibitors failed to affect hemolysin-mediated
accumulation of AQP1. However, immunoprecipitation revealed an initial accumulation of ubiquitinated AQP1 followed by a decrease
to baseline levels after 4 hours. Immunofluorescence indicated that following hemolysin exposure, AQP1 was no longer on the
plasma membrane, but was found in a population of submembrane vacuoles. AQP1 redistribution was further indicated by surface
biotinylation experiments suggesting diminished AQP1 abundance on the plasma membrane as well as redistribution out of lipid
raft fractions. Live cell confocal microscopy revealed that the pattern of cell volume change observed following hemolysin
exposure was altered in cells in which AQP1 was silenced. We conclude that alpha-toxin alters proteasomal processing and leads
to intracellular accumulation of AQP1, which may likely contribute to disrupted cell volume homeostasis in infection. |
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Keywords: | Aquaporin Toxin Ubiquitin Lipid raft |
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