USP10: the nexus between nexin and vasopressin.
USP10: the nexus between nexin and vasopressin.
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USP10:连接蛋白和加压素之间的联系。
DOI:
10.1152/ajprenal.90434.2008
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2008
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Johnson,JohnP
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Butterworth,MichaelB;Johnson,JohnP
FROM THE TIME ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL tools became available to renal physiologists, tissues have been bombarded with a variety of hormones and pharmacological compounds to investigate their role in “salt and water transport.” The investigations into the actions of antidiuretic hormone (ADH) on a variety of tissues from frog skin and toad bladder to rabbit kidney tubules have consistently demonstrated the rapid action of ADH (vasopressin) to increase transepithelial sodium transport. Over time these early investigations were confirmed in cell model systems. The translocation of epithelial sodium channels (ENaC) to the apical membrane to increase channel density appears to account, in large part, for the increase in sodium transport. While it has been documented that the cytoskeleton plays a role in this process, the mechanisms remained largely undescribed. There has been a figurative black box linking the binding of vasopressin to its V2 receptor, activation of adenylate cyclase, and production of PKA, with the increase in ENaC density observed at the apical surface of tissues and cells. In the work presented by Boulkroun and colleagues (1), the lid of the black box has been opened to offer a glimpse into the complexities of the signaling processes involved. The study describes not only the induction of vasopressin-dependant protein expression but goes on to associate one of the induced proteins to machinery which may regulate ENaC surface density. In this way, the authors uncover the cell’s ability to rapidly alter the expression of proteins in response to external signals and translate that expression into action. A deubiquitinating enzyme (DUB), USP10, was found to be rapidly induced by the application of vasopressin. This component of the study was carried out in a cell line derived from mouse cortical collecting ducts and natively expressing ENaC and its accessory and regulatory proteins. Recently, two other DUBs, UCH-L3 and USP2-45, have been demonstrated to deubiquitinate ENaC in the same cell line (2, 4). As expected, exogenous expression of USP10 with ENaC in a model cell line increased ENaC surface density. However, unlike the action of UCH-L3 and USP2-45, USP10 did not alter ENaC surface density by changing the level of ubiquitination of ENaC itself. By taking their study a step further, the authors sought to identify the mechanism of action of this vasopressin-induced DUB. Employing a yeast two-hybrid screen, they were able to fish out USP10’s interacting partner from the cellular morass and link the DUB to sorting nexin 3 (SNX3). SNX3 appears to be a target for USP10 while ENaC is not, and it is through SNX3 that ENaC is regulated. What this sets up is a complicated interaction of a DUB with a trafficking protein which regulates ENaC by yet to be defined mechanisms. This results in the increase in ENaC density at the cell membrane and an increase in sodium transport by vasopressin, which was described so many years ago in toads and frogs. Clearly, there are other players in this pathway, other DUBs which act on ENaC directly or on proteins which regulate ENaC, but the lid has been opened. The genomic and proteomic approaches being undertaken in this kind of study give cell physiologists new tools with which to work, to take our understanding of salt and water regulation into a new era. While the web of interacting proteins promises to be extensive, we have the tools to begin identifying the components of these hormonal signaling cascades.The current work also reinforces the emerging significance of deubiquitination in the regulation of trafficking and expression of membrane proteins such as ion channels …