(Hypertension. 2000;35:958.)
© 2000 American Heart Association, Inc.
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Cyclophilin B Expression in Renal Proximal Tubules of Hypertensive Rats
From the Institute of Molecular Medicine (D.B.K., P.A.D.), University of Texas at Houston, and the Department of Cell Biology and Biochemistry (D.B.K.), Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Lubbock, Tex.
Correspondence to P.A. Doris, PhD, Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Texas HSC at Houston, 2121 Holcombe Blvd, Houston, TX 77030. E-mail pdoris{at}imm2.imm.uth.tmc.edu
Abstract—Rat cyclophilin-like protein (Cy-LP) is a candidate hypertension gene initially identified by differential hybridization and implicated in renal mechanisms of salt retention and high blood pressure. We report the molecular characterization of rat cyclophilin B (CypB) and demonstrate, through sequence analysis and an allele-specific polymerase chain reaction primer assay, that CypB but not Cy-LP is expressed in rat kidney. CypB is an endoplasmic reticulum–localized prolyl-isomerase that interacts with elongation initiation factor 2-ß, an important regulator of protein translation and a central component of the endoplasmic reticulum stress response to hypoxia or ATP depletion. Active renal transport of sodium is increased in the spontaneously hypertensive rat (SHR), and there is evidence that this coincides with hypoxia and ATP depletion in the renal cortex. In the present studies we have examined expression of CypB in rat proximal tubules, which contributes to the increased renal sodium reabsorption in this model of hypertension. We report that CypB transcript abundance is significantly elevated in proximal convoluted tubules from SHR compared with the control Wistar-Kyoto strain. This upregulation occurs in weanling animals and precedes the development of hypertension, indicating that it is not a simple response to hypertension in SHR. Further, CypB expression is also higher in a proximal tubule cell line derived from SHR compared with a similar line derived from Wistar-Kyoto rats, indicating that this difference is genetically determined. No sequence differences were observed in the CypB cDNA from these 2 strains. These observations suggest that a genetically determined alteration in proximal tubules from SHR occurs that leads to increased expression of CypB. In view of evidence linking CypB to the regulation of elongation initiation factor-2, the upregulation of CypB may result from metabolic stress.
Key Words: rats, spontaneously hypertensive • blood pressure • gene expression • polymerase chain reaction
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