UMMS Affiliation
Department of Neurobiology; Weaver Lab
Publication Date
2009-8
Document Type
Article
Subjects
Aldosterone; Animals; Cells, Cultured; Circadian Rhythm; Epithelial Sodium Channel; Gene Expression Profiling; *Gene Expression Regulation; Intracellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins; Kidney; Male; Mice; Period Circadian Proteins; RNA, Messenger; Rats; Rats, Sprague-Dawley; Receptors, Glucocorticoid; Receptors, Mineralocorticoid; Sodium
Disciplines
Neuroscience and Neurobiology
Abstract
The mineralocorticoid aldosterone is a major regulator of sodium transport in target epithelia and contributes to the control of blood pressure and cardiac function. It specifically functions to increase renal absorption of sodium from tubular fluid via regulation of the alpha subunit of the epithelial sodium channel (alphaENaC). We previously used microarray technology to identify the immediate transcriptional targets of aldosterone in a mouse inner medullary collecting duct cell line and found that the transcript induced to the greatest extent was the circadian clock gene Period 1. Here, we investigated the role of Period 1 in mediating the downstream effects of aldosterone in renal cells. Aldosterone treatment stimulated expression of Period 1 (Per1) mRNA in renal collecting duct cell lines and in the rodent kidney. RNA silencing of Period 1 dramatically decreased expression of mRNA encoding alphaENaC in the presence or absence of aldosterone. Furthermore, expression of alphaENaC-encoding mRNA was attenuated in the renal medulla of mice with disruption of the Per1 gene, and these mice exhibited increased urinary sodium excretion. Renal alphaENaC-encoding mRNA was expressed in an apparent circadian pattern, and this pattern was dramatically altered in mice lacking functional Period genes. These results suggest a role for Period 1 in the regulation of the renal epithelial sodium channel and more broadly implicate the circadian clock in control of sodium balance.
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DOI of Published Version
10.1172/JCI36908
Source
J Clin Invest. 2009 Aug;119(8):2423-34. doi: 10.1172/JCI36908. Epub 2009 Jul 1. Link to article on publisher's site
Journal/Book/Conference Title
The Journal of clinical investigation
Related Resources
PubMed ID
19587447
Repository Citation
Gumz, Michelle L.; Stow, Lisa R.; Lynch, I. Jeanette; Greenlee, Megan M.; Rudin, Alicia; Cain, Brian D.; Weaver, David R.; and Wingo, Charles D., "The circadian clock protein Period 1 regulates expression of the renal epithelial sodium channel in mice" (2009). Neurobiology Publications and Presentations. 28.
https://escholarship.umassmed.edu/neurobiology_pp/28