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Polarization of gelsolin and actin binding protein in kidney epithelial cells
JH Hartwig, D Brown, DA Ausiello, TP Stossel and L Orci
Hematology Oncology Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston 02129.
Vasopressin regulates transepithelial osmotic water permeability in the kidney collecting duct and in target cells in other tissues. In the presence of hormone, water channels are inserted into an otherwise impermeable apical plasma membrane and the apical surface of these cells is dramatically remodelled. Because cytochalasin B and D greatly reduce the response of these cells to vasopressin, actin filaments are believed to participate in the events leading to an increase in transepithelial water permeability. Modulation of the actin filamentous network requires the concerted action of specific actin regulatory proteins, and in the present study we used protein A-gold immunocytochemistry to localize two important molecules, gelsolin and actin binding protein (ABP), in epithelial cells of the kidney inner medulla. Gelsolin and, to a lesser extent, ABP were concentrated in clusters in the apical cell web of principal cells of the collecting duct. Aggregates of gold particles were often associated with the cytoplasmic side of plasma membrane regions forming surface extensions or microvilli. The basolateral plasma membrane was labeled to a much lesser extent than the apical plasma membrane. In the thin limbs of Henle, ABP was localized over the apical plasma membrane in ascending limbs, but gelsolin labeling was weak in these cells. In thin descending limbs, the pattern of labeling was completely reversed, with abundant apical gelsolin labeling but only weak ABP immunolabeling. Although the significance of the distribution of actin regulatory proteins in thin limbs is unknown, the abundance and the predominantly apical polarization of both ABP and gelsolin in principal cells of the collecting duct is consistent with a role of the actin cytoskeleton in the mechanism of vasopressin actin.
Volume 38,
Issue 8,
pp. 1145-1153,
08/01/1990
Copyright © 1990 by The Histochemical Society
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