Abstract:
:We have characterized the selectivity filter of the water channel aquaporin-1 (AQP1) of proximal straight tubules (PST), as an equivalent cylindrical structure with a diameter of approximately 4.5 A, where water molecules single file. We report here efforts to evaluate its length. PST were dissected from rabbit kidneys, held with pipettes in a chamber bathed in a buffered mannitol isosmotic solution (MBS, 295 mOsm/kg). Changes in tubule cell volume with time (dV/Adt), were monitored, on line, with an inverted microscope, a TV camera and an image processor. Osmotic permeability coefficients, Pos, and reflection coefficients (sigma s) were measured with several solutes: mannitol (M), raffinose (R), sucrose (S), glycerol (G), acetamide (A) and urea (U). For this purpose PST were suddenly exposed (in approximately 80 ms and for 20 s) to a hyperosmolality step (delta Cs) achieved by adding to MBS a delta Cs of 35 mOsm/kg of either R, S, M, G, A or U. Cells shrunk within 500 ms of t = 0 to their osmometric volume and remained shrunk for the 20 s of the delta Cs. Pos was measured from the shrinking curves; Pos = 3000 +/- 25 microns/s with either R, S, M, G, A or U. This procedure also allowed to calculate sigma s; sigma s = 1.00 for R, S, M, G, A and U, indicating that these solutes do not penetrate the water channel. In contrast, the shrinking curves produced by a delta Cs = 35 mOsm/kg formamide (F) were 1/5th to 1/6th slower and smaller (subosmometric) than those produced by a delta Cs = 35 mOsm/kg of R, S, M, G, A or U. Furthermore, with F, cells did not remain shrunk. They recovered their original volume within 3 s. Pos (measured with F) is denoted as Pos*; Pos* = 480 +/- 30 microns/s. sigma s, formamide (denoted sigma sp) = 0.16 +/- 0.01. Use of sigma sp and Pos* values in Hill's equations for the bimodal theory of osmosis leads to n = 2-3, n being the number of water molecules single filing within the channel selectivity filter, whose length must lie within 6 to 9 A, a value lower than previous values calculated from the Pos/Pd* ratio.
journal_name
Biol Celljournal_title
Biology of the cellauthors
Whittembury G,González E,Gutiérrez AM,Echevarría M,Hernández CSsubject
Has Abstractpub_date
1997-08-01 00:00:00pages
299-306issue
5-6eissn
0248-4900issn
1768-322Xpii
S0248-4900(97)83382-5journal_volume
89pub_type
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