Novel role for polycystin-1 in modulating cell proliferation through calcium oscillations in kidney cells.
OBJECTIVE
Polycystin-1 (PC1), a signalling receptor regulating Ca(2+)-permeable cation channels, is mutated in autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease, which is typically characterized by increased cell proliferation. However, the precise mechanisms by which PC1 functions on Ca(2+) homeostasis, signalling and cell proliferation remain unclear. Here, we investigated the possible role of PC1 as a modulator of non-capacitative Ca(2+) entry (NCCE) and Ca(2+) oscillations, with downstream effects on cell proliferation.


CONCLUSIONS
By employing RNA interference, we show that depletion of endogenous PC1 in HEK293 cells leads to an increase in serum-induced Ca(2+) oscillations, triggering nuclear factor of activated T cell activation and leading to cell cycle progression. Consistently, Ca(2+) oscillations and cell proliferation are increased in PC1-mutated kidney cystic cell lines, but both abnormal features are reduced in cells that exogenously express PC1. Notably, blockers of the NCCE pathway, but not of the CCE, blunt abnormal oscillation and cell proliferation. Our study therefore provides the first demonstration that PC1 modulates Ca(2+) oscillations and a molecular mechanism to explain the association between abnormal Ca(2+) homeostasis and cell proliferation in autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease.
Aguiari
G
G
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy.
Trimi
V
V
Bogo
M
M
Mangolini
A
A
Szabadkai
G
G
Pinton
P
P
Witzgall
R
R
Harris
P C
PC
Borea
P A
PA
Rizzuto
R
R
del Senno
L
L
D020013:Calcium Signaling; D002460:Cell Line; D002461:Cell Line, Transformed; D049109:Cell Proliferation; D018389:Codon, Nonsense / Q000235:genetics; D003593:Cytoplasm / Q000378:metabolism; D004789:Enzyme Activation; D006801:Humans; D007668:Kidney / Q000201:enzymology / Q000473:pathology*; D008954:Models, Biological; D050778:NFATC Transcription Factors / Q000378:metabolism; D016891:Polycystic Kidney, Autosomal Dominant / Q000201:enzymology / Q000473:pathology; D051571:Protein Kinase C-alpha / Q000378:metabolism; D034622:RNA Interference; D050396:TRPP Cation Channels / Q000378:metabolism*
D018389:Codon, Nonsense; D050778:NFATC Transcription Factors; D051571:Protein Kinase C-alpha; D050396:TRPP Cation Channels