Calpains mediate acute renal cell death: role of autolysis and translocation.

Abstract

The goals of this study were to determine 1) the expression of calpain isoforms in rabbit renal proximal tubules (RPT); 2) calpain autolysis and translocation, and calpastatin levels during RPT injury; and 3) the effect of a calpain inhibitor (PD-150606) on calpain levels, mitochondrial function, and ion transport during RPT injury. RT-PCR, immunoblot analysis, and FITC-casein zymography demonstrated the presence of only mu- and m-calpains in rabbit RPT. The mitochondrial inhibitor antimycin A decreased RPT mu- and m-calpain and calpastatin levels in conjunction with cell death and increased plasma membrane permeability. No increases in either mu- or m-calpain were observed in the membrane nor were increases observed in autolytic forms of either mu- or m-calpain in antimycin A-exposed RPT. PD-150606 blocked antimycin A-induced cell death, preserved calpain levels in antimycin A-exposed RPT, and promoted the recovery of mitochondrial function and active Na+ transport in RPT after hypoxia and reoxygenation. The present study suggests that calpains mediate RPT injury without undergoing autolysis or translocation, and ultimately they leak from cells subsequent to RPT injury/death. Furthermore, PD-150606 allows functional recovery after injury.

• Authors: X Liu, J J Rainey, J F Harriman, R G Schnellmann
• Journal: American journal of physiology. Renal physiology (Am J Physiol Renal Physiol) Vol. 281 Issue 4 Pg. F728-38 (Oct 2001) ISSN: 1931-857X [Print] United States
• PMID: 11553520 (Publication Type: Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.)

Chemical References

• Acrylates
• Anti-Bacterial Agents
• Calcium-Binding Proteins
• Caseins
• Cysteine Proteinase Inhibitors
• Fluorescent Dyes
• Isoenzymes
• PD 150606
• Antimycin A
• calpastatin
• Sodium
• Calpain
• Fluorescein-5-isothiocyanate

Topics

• Acrylates (pharmacology)
• Animals
• Anti-Bacterial Agents (pharmacology)
• Antimycin A (pharmacology)
• Autolysis (metabolism)
• Biological Transport, Active (drug effects, physiology)
• Calcium-Binding Proteins (metabolism)
• Calpain (analysis, genetics, metabolism)
• Caseins
• Cell Death (drug effects, physiology)
• Cell Membrane (enzymology)
• Cysteine Proteinase Inhibitors (pharmacology)
• Cytosol (enzymology)
• Female
• Fluorescein-5-isothiocyanate
• Fluorescent Dyes
• Gene Expression Regulation, Enzymologic
• Immunoblotting
• Isoenzymes (genetics, metabolism)
• Kidney Tubules, Proximal (metabolism, pathology)
• Mitochondria (drug effects, metabolism)
• Rabbits
• Reperfusion Injury (metabolism, pathology)
• Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction
• Sodium (metabolism)