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Phosphorylation and activity of Na+/H+ exchanger isoform 1 of immortalized lymphoblasts in diabetic nephropathy

FP Sweeney, M Siczkowski, JE Davies, PA Quinn, J McDonald, B Krolewski, AS Krolewski and LL Ng
Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, Leicester Royal Infirmary, UK.

In both essential hypertension and diabetic nephropathy (DN), the ubiquitous cellular Na+/H+ exchanger (NHE) exhibits altered kinetics with increased transport activity. The mechanism for this phenotype and its dependence on the presence of serum are unknown, but increased lymphoblast NHE activity in DN has been attributed to a defect in post-translational processing of NHE-1 rather than an increased cellular exchanger number. Phosphorylation of NHE-1 has been proposed to play a role in its activation in a variety of cell models. We have examined, therefore, the role of NHE-1 phosphorylation and the effect of serum in determining the increased NHE-1 activity in lymphoblasts from patients with DN. Cells from these patients exhibited increased NHE activity in the presence and absence of fetal calf serum (range 42-59%, P < 0.005, analysis of variance) and an increased proliferation rate (P < 0.01) when compared with cells from both normoalbuminuric diabetic patients and non-diabetic control subjects. However, NHE-1 abundance was very similar among all groups in the presence and absence of serum, indicating that increased NHE activity in cells of nephropathy patients was due to an increased turnover number. This nephropathy phenotype was not accompanied by an increased net phosphorylation of NHE-1 in the presence or absence of serum. Our findings suggest that increased NHE-1 activity in cells of DN patients is independent of the presence of serum and is not attributable to altered NHE-1 phosphorylation. Additional post-translational mechanisms for activation of NHE-1, therefore, may be involved.
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