PMID- 18268134 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20080311 LR - 20171116 IS - 1524-4563 (Electronic) IS - 0194-911X (Linking) VI - 51 IP - 3 DP - 2008 Mar TI - Expression, transcription, and possible antagonistic interaction of the human Nedd4L gene variant: implications for essential hypertension. PG - 773-7 LID - 10.1161/HYPERTENSIONAHA.107.102061 [doi] AB - Net sodium balances in humans are maintained through various ion transporters expressed along the entire nephron. Among these ion transporters, epithelial sodium channels (ENaC) located along the aldosterone-sensitive distal nephron (ASDN) play a pivotal role in the homeostasis of sodium balance. This is supported by analyses of inherited hypertensive disorders, showing that genes encoding ENaC and other modulatory proteins cause hereditary hypertension, such as Liddle syndrome. Among various modulating proteins, E3 ubiquitin ligase, Nedd4L, binds the PY motif of ENaC COOH terminals and catalyzes ubiquitination of the NH(2) terminus of the protein for subsequent degradation. Both evolutionarily conserved and evolutionarily new C2 domains of human Nedd4L, a cryptic splice variant resulting in a disrupted isoform product formed by a frame-shift mutation, were reported previously. We focused on one of the isoforms, isoform I, generated by SNP (rs4149601), and studied its expression and interactions with other isoforms by molecular biological, immunohistochemical, and electrophysiological methods. We found that isoform I may interact with other human isoforms in a dominant-negative fashion. Such interactions might abnormally increase sodium reabsorption. Taken together, our analyses suggest that the human Nedd4L gene, especially the evolutionarily new isoform I, is a candidate gene for hypertension. FAU - Araki, Naomi AU - Araki N AD - Department of Medical Science and Cardio-Renal Medicine, Yokohama City University Graduate School of Medicine, Kanagawa-ken, Japan. FAU - Umemura, Masanari AU - Umemura M FAU - Miyagi, Yohei AU - Miyagi Y FAU - Yabana, Machiko AU - Yabana M FAU - Miki, Yuko AU - Miki Y FAU - Tamura, Koichi AU - Tamura K FAU - Uchino, Kazuaki AU - Uchino K FAU - Aoki, Reina AU - Aoki R FAU - Goshima, Yoshio AU - Goshima Y FAU - Umemura, Satoshi AU - Umemura S FAU - Ishigami, Tomoaki AU - Ishigami T LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't DEP - 20080211 PL - United States TA - Hypertension JT - Hypertension (Dallas, Tex. : 1979) JID - 7906255 RN - 0 (Endosomal Sorting Complexes Required for Transport) RN - 0 (Protein Isoforms) RN - 0 (RNA, Messenger) RN - 0 (Xenopus Proteins) RN - EC 2.3.2.26 (Nedd4 Ubiquitin Protein Ligases) RN - EC 2.3.2.26 (Nedd4L protein, human) RN - EC 2.3.2.26 (nedd4l protein, Xenopus) RN - EC 2.3.2.27 (Ubiquitin-Protein Ligases) SB - IM MH - Animals MH - Brain/metabolism/pathology MH - Cells, Cultured MH - Colon/metabolism/pathology MH - Electrophysiology MH - Endosomal Sorting Complexes Required for Transport MH - Female MH - Gene Expression Regulation/*physiology MH - Humans MH - Hypertension/*genetics/physiopathology MH - Kidney/metabolism/pathology MH - Liver/metabolism/pathology MH - Lung/metabolism/pathology MH - Nedd4 Ubiquitin Protein Ligases MH - Patch-Clamp Techniques MH - Protein Isoforms/genetics/metabolism MH - RNA, Messenger/metabolism MH - Transcription, Genetic/*physiology MH - Ubiquitin-Protein Ligases/*genetics/metabolism MH - Xenopus Proteins MH - Xenopus laevis EDAT- 2008/02/13 09:00 MHDA- 2008/03/12 09:00 CRDT- 2008/02/13 09:00 PHST- 2008/02/13 09:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2008/03/12 09:00 [medline] PHST- 2008/02/13 09:00 [entrez] AID - HYPERTENSIONAHA.107.102061 [pii] AID - 10.1161/HYPERTENSIONAHA.107.102061 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Hypertension. 2008 Mar;51(3):773-7. doi: 10.1161/HYPERTENSIONAHA.107.102061. Epub 2008 Feb 11.