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01-07-2019 | Original article
Role of the putative PKC phosphorylation sites of the type IIc sodium-dependent phosphate transporter in parathyroid hormone regulation
Authors:
Toru Fujii, Hiroko Segawa, Ai Hanazaki, Shiori Nishiguchi, Sakura Minoshima, Akiko Ohi, Rieko Tominaga, Sumire Sasaki, Kazuya Tanifuji, Megumi Koike, Yuki Arima, Yuji Shiozaki, Ichiro Kaneko, Mikiko Ito, Sawako Tatsumi, Ken-ichi Miyamoto
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Clinical and Experimental Nephrology
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Issue 7/2019
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Abstract
Background
Injection of parathyroid hormone (PTH) rapidly stimulates renal Pi excretion, in part by downregulating NaPi-IIa (Npt2a/SLC34A1) and NaPi-IIc (Npt2c/SLC34A3) transporters. The mechanisms underlying the effects of PTH on NaPi-IIc are not fully elucidated.
Methods
We analyzed the effect of PTH on inorganic phosphate (Pi) reabsorption in Npt2a−/− mice to eliminate the influence of Npt2a on renal Pi reabsorption. In opossum kidney (OK) cells and Xenopus oocytes, we investigated the effect of NaPi-IIc transporter phosphorylation. Studies of mice with mutations of NaPi-IIc protein in which serine and threonine were replaced with either alanine (A), which prevents phosphorylation, or aspartic acid (D), which mimics the charged state of phosphorylated NaPi-IIc, were also performed to evaluate the involvement of phosphorylation in the regulation of transport function.
Results
The Npt2a−/− experiments showed that PTH administration rapidly inactivated NaPi-IIc function in the apical membrane of proximal tubular cells. Analysis of mutant proteins (S71, S138, T151, S174, T583) at putative protein kinase C sites, revealed that S138 markedly suppressed the function and cellular expression of mouse NaPi-IIc in Xenopus oocytes and OK cells. In addition, 138D had a short half-life compared with wild-type protein.
Conclusions
The present study suggests that acute regulation of NaPi-IIc protein by PTH is involved in the inactivation of Na+-dependent Pi cotransporter activity and that phosphorylation of the transporter is involved in the rapid modification.