Reversed polarized delivery of an aquaporin-2 mutant causes dominant nephrogenic diabetes insipidus.
Vasopressin regulates body water conservation by redistributing aquaporin-2 (AQP2) water channels from intracellular vesicles to the apical surface of renal collecting ducts, resulting in water reabsorption from urine. Mutations in AQP2 cause autosomal nephrogenic diabetes insipidus (NDI), a disease characterized by the inability to concentrate urine. Here, we report a frame-shift mutation in AQP2 causing dominant NDI. This AQP2 mutant is a functional water channel when expressed in Xenopus oocytes. However, expressed in polarized renal cells, it is misrouted to the basolateral instead of apical plasma membrane. Additionally, this mutant forms heterotetramers with wild-type AQP2 and redirects this complex to the basolateral surface. The frame shift induces a change in the COOH terminus of AQP2, creating both a leucine- and a tyrosine-based motif, which cause the reversed sorting of AQP2. Our data reveal a novel cellular phenotype in dominant NDI and show that dominance of basolateral sorting motifs in a mutant subunit can be the molecular basis for disease.
Kamsteeg
Erik-Jan
EJ
Department of Physiology, Nijmegen Center for Molecular Life Sciences, University Medical Center Nijmegen, Research Tower, 7th Floor, Geert 30, PO Box 9101, Nijmegen 6500 HB, The Netherlands.
Bichet
Daniel G
DG
Konings
Irene B M
IB
Nivet
Hubert
H
Lonergan
Michelle
M
Arthus
Marie-Françoise
MF
van Os
Carel H
CH
Deen
Peter M T
PM
D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D051399:Aquaporin 2; D051403:Aquaporin 6; D020346:Aquaporins / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism*; D001483:Base Sequence; D002460:Cell Line; D002462:Cell Membrane / Q000378:metabolism; D016764:Cell Polarity; D022162:Cytoplasmic Vesicles / Q000378:metabolism; D018500:Diabetes Insipidus, Nephrogenic / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism; D016368:Frameshift Mutation; D006801:Humans; D007930:Leucine / Q000378:metabolism; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009865:Oocytes / Q000502:physiology; D010375:Pedigree; D010641:Phenotype; D021382:Protein Sorting Signals; D021381:Protein Transport; D014443:Tyrosine / Q000378:metabolism; D014667:Vasopressins / Q000378:metabolism; D014982:Xenopus laevis
C496023:AQP2 protein, human; D051399:Aquaporin 2; D051403:Aquaporin 6; D020346:Aquaporins; D021382:Protein Sorting Signals; D014667:Vasopressins; D014443:Tyrosine; D007930:Leucine