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BIOLOGY OPEN
Volume 6, Issue 7, Pages 956-966Publisher
COMPANY OF BIOLOGISTS LTD
DOI: 10.1242/bio.024232
Keywords
WNK1; p38MAPK; NKCC; CFTR; Chloride cell; Accessory cell; Fundulus heteroclitus; Teleost fish; Freshwater; Seawater; Hypersaline; Immunocytochemistry; Forskolin
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- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada [RGPIN-2017-05196]
- Canada Foundation for Innovation grant
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Ionocytes of euryhaline teleost fish secrete NaCl, under regulation by serine and threonine kinases, including with-no-lysine kinase (WNK1) and p38 mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK). Mummichogs (Fundulus heteroclitus L.) were acclimated to freshwater (FW), full strength seawater (SW) and hypersaline conditions (2SW). Immunocytochemistry of ionocytes in opercular epithelia of fish acclimated to SW and 2SW revealed that WNK1-anti-pT58 phosphoantibody localized strongly to accessory cells and was present in the cytosol of ionocytes, close to cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) in the apical membrane and the sodium potassium 2 chloride cotransporter (NKCC) in the basolateral membrane. In FW acclimated fish, WNK1 localized to a sub-apical zone, did not colocalize with apical membrane-located sodium chloride cotransporter (NCC), and typically was present in one cell of paired ionocytes and in some single ionocytes. Forskolin treatment (10 mu M, 30 min) increased WNK1 immunofluorescence in SW ionocytes only, while hypertonicity had little effect, compared to controls. Anti-p38-MAPK antibody localized to the cytosolic compartment. The distribution of WNK1 and p38MAPK is consistent with a proximal position in regulatory cascades, rather than directly affecting transporters. The strong staining of accessory cells byWNK1 phosphoantibody infers an osmoregulatory function for WNK.
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