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  • Title: Expression of the epithelial sodium channel (ENaC) during ontogenic differentiation of the renal cortical collecting duct epithelium.
    Author: Huber SM, Braun GS, Horster MF.
    Journal: Pflugers Arch; 1999 Feb; 437(3):491-7. PubMed ID: 9914408.
    Abstract:
    The NaCl-reabsorbing collecting duct epithelium develops by budding and branching of the embryonic ureter. The expression of Na+ channels during this branching morphogenesis was studied in the outermost branches of rat ureteric buds (UB; embryonic day E15 to postnatal day P6) and in cortical collecting ducts (CCD; days P7-P28) in primary monolayer culture. Expression of both Na+ channel mRNA and of Na+-selective membrane conductance were estimated by quantitative reverse-transcriptase polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) and by patch-clamp recording, respectively. UB and CCD uniformly represented a principal-like cell type in culture. Messenger RNA encoding the alpha-ENaC subunit was detected in oligo-dT primed cDNA (5 ng) of embryonic UB cells (E15-17) after 30 PCR cycles. The abundance of alpha-ENaC mRNA, when normalized by reference to beta-actin, was higher by a factor of 2 in postnatal (P1-6) UB and by a factor of 5 in CCD cells (P7-14) compared with the embryonic stage. Highly Na+-selective, low-conductance channels were identified in apical patches from both UB and CCD monolayers, but only CCD cells exhibited macroscopic, amiloride-sensitive Na+ currents in whole-cell patch-clamp recordings. We conclude that alpha-ENaC mRNA and functional Na+ channel protein are expressed already before morphogenesis of the CCD is completed and prior to the onset of epithelial NaCl reabsorption.
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