Project description:Vasopressin, the antidiuretic hormone, acts on the renal collecting duct. In this experiment both vasopressin (AVP) and the V2R specific agonist dDAVP were infused into Aquaporin 1 knockout animals for 7 days. The aim of the experiment was to identify genes increased by vasopressin receptors in the renal medullary collecting ducts, in the absence of an increase in renal medullary osmolarity (the AQP1 knockouts are concentrating mechanism knockouts). All experiments used inner medulla tissue for the RNA isolation. Hybridizations were performed that compared kidney inner medulla total RNA from three control mice against kidney medulla total RNA from 3 mice infused with either arginine vasopressin (AVP) or des-amino-D-arginine vasopressin (dDAVP).
Project description:Vasopressin, the antidiuretic hormone, acts on the renal collecting duct. In this experiment both vasopressin (AVP) and the V2R specific agonist dDAVP were infused into Aquaporin 1 knockout animals for 7 days. The aim of the experiment was to identify genes increased by vasopressin receptors in the renal medullary collecting ducts, in the absence of an increase in renal medullary osmolarity (the AQP1 knockouts are concentrating mechanism knockouts). All experiments used inner medulla tissue for the RNA isolation. Keywords: Vasopressin treatment study
Project description:This series of microarray data contain transcript intensity of mpkCCD cells. Experiment Overall Design: The mpkCCDc14 cells were cloned into colonies with varying aquaporin 2 (AQP2) expression levels in the presence of vasopressin analogy dDAVP. Transcript profiling was done for the original cells and cell clones 2, 3, 9, 10, and 11. By studying transcripts that correlate with AQP2 mRNA levels among cell clones, the objective was to identify transcripts responsible for cell-specific expression of AQP2.
Project description:Vasopressin is the major hormone that regulates renal water excretion. It does so by binding to a receptor in renal collecting duct cells, triggering signaling pathways that ultimately regulate the abundance, location, and activity of the water channel protein aquaporin 2. We took an advantage of quantitative large scale proteomic technologies and oligonucleotide microarrays to quantify steady state changes in protein and transcript abundances in response to vasopressin in a collecting duct cell line, mpkCCD clone 11 (Yu et al. PNAS 2009, 106:2441-2446). This cell line originally developed by Alan Vandewalle’s group recapitulates vasopressin-mediated AQP2 expression and phosphorylation as seen in native colleting duct cells. The mpkCCD cells were grown on membrane supports to permit polarization. Once transepithelial resistance reached 5kohm per centimeter square and higher, the cells were exposed to the vasopressin V2 receptor analog, dDAVP, at a physiological concentration, 0.1nM, for 5 days. Control experiments were done with cells exposed to vehicle alone. Total RNA was harvested and processed for transcript expression analysis using Affymetrix GeneChip Mouse Genome 430 2.0 Arrays. Each experimental treatment, vehicle and dDAVP, was repeated 3 times.
Project description:Vasopressin, a peptide hormone, controls renal water excretion, largely through regulation of water channel aquaporin-2 (AQP2) in the renal collecting duct. There are two regulatory mechanisms of AQP2: 1) short-term regulation by membrane trafficking of AQP2; and 2) long-term regulation involving vasopressin-induced changes of protein abundance of AQP2 through regulation of gene transcription and protein half-life. Vasopressin binds a G protein-coupled receptor (V2R) activating several downstream signaling pathways. At downstream of V2R activation, many of transcription factors involve gene transcription process associated with status of chromatin structure. ATAC-Seq (Assay for Transpoase-Accessible Chromatin using Sequencing) is a recent technique to study chromatin accessibility (Buenrostro et al. Nat Methods 2013). We carried out ATAC-Seq following standard an ATAC-Seq protocol in mpkCCD cells treated with vehicle or dDAVP for 30 minutes.
Project description:Vasopressin regulates renal water excretion by binding to the Gs-coupled vasopressin receptor (V2R) in collecting duct cells, resulting in cyclic AMP-dependent increases in epithelial water permeability through regulation of the aquaporin-2 (AQP2) water channel. Our prior studies showed that CRISPR-mediated deletion of protein kinase A (PKA) in cultured mpkCCD cells largely eliminates these regulatory events. These PKA-null cells provide a means of identifying PKA-independent signaling downstream from the V2 receptor. We carried out large-scale quantitative protein mass spectrometry (SILAC) to identify PKA-independent phosphorylation changes in response to V2R-selective vasopressin analog, dDAVP. The results show that V2R-mediated vasopressin signaling is predominantly, but not entirely, PKA-dependent. Target motif analysis of the phosphopeptides increased in response to dDAVP in PKA-null cells indicates that the vasopressin activates of one or more members of the AMPK/SNF1 subfamily of basophilic protein kinases. Among the upregulated phosphorylation sites were three known targets of SNF1-subfamily kinases, namely Lipe (S559), Crtc1 (S151) and Arhgef2 (S151). One of the phosphorylation sites that increased in occupancy in PKA-null cells was Ser256 of AQP2, a site critical for vasopressin-mediated trafficking of AQP2 to the cell surface. Beyond this, PKA-independent active site phosphorylation changes were also seen for protein kinases Stk39 (SPAK) and Prkci (Protein kinase C iota). Cyclic AMP levels were ~10-fold higher in PKA-null than in PKA-intact cells in the presence of phosphodiesterase inhibitor IBMX, consistent with a marked acceleration of cAMP production in PKA-null cells. The findings are indicative of substantial PKA-independent signaling downstream from the Gs-coupled V2 receptor.
Project description:The E3 ubiquitin -protein ligases (E3s) plays a role as regulators of protein trafficking and degradation. We aimed to identify E3s in rat kidney which are associated with dDAVP-induced urine concentration. Kidney inner medulla collected from vehicle treated control (n=2), dDAVP infusion for 5 d (D5d, n=2) and 3 h-withdrawal of dDAVP after 5 d-infusion (D5d-3h, n=2) groups were subjected to a transcriptome analysis.
Project description:The Ca2+/CaM-dependent protein kinase 2-delta (CAMK2D) has been proposed to be involved in vasopressin signaling in the renal collecting duct, which controls water and salt excretion by the kidney. RNA sequancing and quantitative proteomics analyses identified the expression of multiple CAMK2 isoforms, with CAMK2D being the most abundant in collecting duct cells. To investigate the role of CAMK2D in regulating RNA expression in response to vasopressin signaling, the transcriptome of CRISPR/Cas9-mediated Camk2d knock-out mpkCCD cells was profiled using RNA-Seq in the presence of vasopressin analogue dDAVP.
Project description:In mammals, the peptide hormone vasopressin controls renal water excretion, largely through regulation of the molecular water channel aquaporin-2 (AQP2) in the renal collecting duct. Regulatory mechanisms of AQP2 show: 1) short-term regulation by membrane trafficking; and 2) long-term regulation involving vasopressin-induced changes in the abundance of the aquaporin-2 protein. Vasopressin activates a G protein-coupled receptor (V2R) increasing cyclic AMP and activating protein kinase PKA. Crebbp and Ep300 are known targets of PKA. They are histone acetyltransferases that acetylate histone H3 lysine-27, a histone mark associated with open chromatin and increased transcription (Tie F et al. Development 2009). The translocation of CREBBP and Ep300 into the nucleus in response to vasopressin in the collecting duct cells, predicts that vasopressin, working through PKA, may increase histone H3K27 acetylation of some genes. We tested this by performing ChIP-Seq for this modification.
Project description:The kidney distal convoluted tubule (DCT) plays an important role in body sodium regulation and thus control of blood pressure. The main sodium reabsorption pathways in the DCT are the epithelial sodium channel (ENaC) and the thiazide-sensitive NaCl cotransporter (NCC), the functions of which can be modulated by the hormone vasopressin (VP) acting via uncharacterized signaling cascades. We performed large scale stable isotope labeling by amino acids in cell culture (SILAC) based quantitative phosphoproteomics of cultured mouse DCT cells (mpkDCT) to map global changes in protein phosphorylation events upon acute treatment with the VP type II receptor agonist 1-desamino-8-D-arginine vasopressin (dDAVP). The aim of this study is to identify unique VP signaling cascades in DCT cells that may be important for regulating ENaC or NCC activity. These pathways may be novel targets for modulation of blood pressure.