GC lectures Flashcards
Diffusional water permeability (Pa)
permeability to water when there is no osmotic gradient
rate= diffusional water permeability
influx=efflux
What does water balance under?
Water basic isotonic conditions- no net movement
Hypertonic / hypotonic solutions
hypertonic- cell shrinks
hypotonic- water moves into cells and it swells and bursts
Pf/Pd ratio
if this ratio is 1= then as water pore is present in the cell - water moves along the gradient
Which model do they use to measure the Pf/Pd ratio
Measured using a variety of cells, xenopus egg, amoeda, trout egg, zebra egg, frog egg
Why are they the model choices?
All spherical, easy to measure + diameter
large and easy to work with
Measuring Pd- cartesian diver balance
- diver rises- air bubble gets bigger
- air bubble gets smaller- diver sinks
* measure pressure needed to keep the diver @ a constant height
Technique used to measure cartesian diver balance
Small glass funnel- place cells in it
Top= air bubble
Balance air bubble and height- stays in water
Apply air pressure- air bubble gets smaller- less boyant- sinks down into solution
diver balance in D2O
Cells equilibriated in H20
cells placed in solution containing D20 (heavy water)- makes diver heavy
D20 exchanges with H20 in cells
cells become heavier- diver starts to sink- apply suction to keep the diver at a constant height
What is change of EP correlated to
Change in weight- from this change in cell weight can be measured then it is known how much D2O has moved into the cell and the Pd is calculated
Pd conclusion
Rapid exchange of cell water in all cells with the t1/2 of exchange <4.5 minutes for the cell types except for trout egg cells (5 hours)
*no evidence of D20 entering the trout cells
Measuring Pf
measure change in cell volume over time when exposed to a hypertonic or hypotonic solution
Equation to measure Pf using hypertonic or hypotonic solution
change in vol= Pf x SA x T x change C
Results of measuring Pf
All the cell types (besides trout) were a Pf/Pd ratio >1
indicates that these cells have some kind of water pore in their membrane except the trout cells which have no water permeability
osmotic water permeability drops if its put in water
Zebrafish in low solution
Cells explode
All laid into fresh water- osmotic permeability plummeted
protective mechanism
Red blood cells permeability
Osmotic permeability= 1.5 x 10-14
Diffusional permeability= 5.3 x 10-3
Equivalent to 0.64 x 10-14
Pf/Pd ratio for RBCs
2.5- water pores/ some kind of water pore
prediction in this study that it would be 3.5A
How many aqua1 are there in RBC
200,000
Aqua1- functional characteristics
CHIP28
mercurial sensitivity of aqua 1
structure and functional unit aqua1
aqua1
Identified by group of peter andre at john Hopkins
initially studies involved rhesus proteins
kept finding 28kd proteins that coprecipitated with a 32 Kd Rh polypeptide
isolated the 28kd protein and produced an antibody
What did the antibody show
recognises a 28KD Protein, and a higher mw band, never found any labelling of a 32kd protein
the 28kd and 32kd proteins are not related- doesn’t show up in traditional statins
What is the 32kd HMW band appearing to be?
High glycosylated form of the 28Kd
evidence the protein exists as oligomers in the membrane
Antibody staining in the proximal and distal thin limb
Band= probing with antibody- 3x4 times the size of the subunit
High MW version= high glysolyated
treat with PNGA- drops to anginal protein level
Cloning of aqua1
N terminal portion of the 28kd protein was sequence
with this information a combination of PCR and library screening was used to identify the message for CHIP28
What did sequence analysis predict
A protein with MW 28kd
What do we know about the structure of the water pore for sequence analysis?
6TM spanning domains
42% homology to MIP26 and high homology to several proteins with no known function
all related clones have tandem repeat of aa sequence NPA
speculate CHIP28 involved
Is CHIP28 as water channel- circumstantial evidence
actual copies of CHIP28 IN RBC and biophysical calculations of channel number are in the same region
28.5kd unit similar to 30kd functional unit of proximal tubule water channel
CHIP 28 transcript corresponds to RNA fraction of Kidney that produces greatest water channel activity
What is CHIP28 resistant to
Ezymatic digestion as in the RBC
experimental ecidence that CHIP28 is aqua1
CHIP28 was expressed in xenopus oocyte and exposed to hypotonic solution
in control oocytes the vol change is very slow
in oocytes expressing the CHIP 28 the vol change is rapid and oocytes explode in a few mins
What does CHIP28 do?
Confers high water permeability on RBCs and the proximal tubules
renamed aqua1
Aqua1- mercurial sensitivity? why do we think this
RBC is very sensitive to HGCl2 or the organic mercurial PCMBs
Experimental approach to see if aqua1 is mercurial sensitive
pre incubation in HgCl2 has no effect upon control oocytes
pre incubation in HgCl2 slows the volume change in oocytes expressing AQP1
The reducing agent B meracathathanol reversed the Hg induced inhibition
Result of the mercurial sensitive experiment
Express CHIP28- rapid change in volume when exposed to a hypertonic solution
When you add mercury H20 is reduced
= mercury sensitive
What is the basis of mercurial action
Mercurial agents exert an action by binding to cysteine residues
AQP1 contains 4 cysteine residues at amino positions 87,102,152 and 189
mutate each of the cysteine resides individually to serine- test effect on HgCl2 water permeability to these mutants
Results from mercurial action- mutating cysteine residues
Mutants have the same water permeability as WT aqp1
HgCl reduced water permeability in C87s, C102s and C1525S but had no effect on C189 s mutant
*conclude Hg binds 189
What do the mutants affect
Don’t disrupt function of water pore
all water pores + osmotic permeability don’t change in wt but change interaction with mercury
hourglass model
Amino and carboxyl ends are IC
6tm domains
loops between 2-3 and 5-6
as protein folds NPA motif come to lie together producing channel- hourglass
What shape is aquaporin 1 and how is it confirmed?
tetramer
early studies indicated that aqp1 formed as a tetramer in the membrane
confirmed by cyro-electron microscopy work
Small region indicates where NPA motifs overlapping, looks like pore in each region and has central pore
Discovering if aqp1 is a monomer or tetramer? Approach?
Construct a tandem dimers of wild type Aqua1 and C1892 mutant channel and express in xenopus oocytes
DNA sequence of aqua1 and mutant bolted together
Advantage of mixing tetramers
Force each tetramer to contain 2 wt and 2 mutant channels
if you inject both I there it contains lots of different combinations