Identification and characterization of aquaporin-2 water channel mutations causing nephrogenic diabetes insipidus with partial vasopressin response |
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Authors: | Canfield MC; Tamarappoo BK; Moses AM; Verkman AS; Holtzman EJ |
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Affiliation: | Department of Medicine, SUNY-Health Science Center, Syracuse 13210, USA. |
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Abstract: | Congenital nephrogenic diabetes insipidus (NDI) is a rare disease caused
most often by mutations in the vasopressin V2 receptor (AVPR2). We studied
a family which included a female patient with NDI with symptoms dating from
infancy. The patient responded to large doses of desmopressin (dDAVP) which
decreased urine volume from 10 to 4 I/day. Neither the parents nor the
three sisters were polyuric. The patient was found to be a compound
heterozygote for two novel recessive point mutations in the aquaporin-2
(AQP2) gene: L22V in exon 1 and C181W in exon 3. Residue Cys181 in AQP2 is
the site for inhibition of water permeation by mercurial compounds and is
located near to the NPA motif conserved in all aquaporins. Osmotic water
permeability (Pf) in Xenopus oocytes injected with cRNA encoding C181W-AQP2
was not increased over water control, while expression of L22V cRNA
increased the Pf to approximately 60% of that for wild-type AQP2.
Co-injection of the mutant cRNAs with the wild-type cRNA did not affect the
function of the wild-type AQP2. Immunolocalization of AQP2-transfected CHO
cells showed that the C181W mutant had an endoplasmic reticulum-like
intracellular distribution, whereas L22V and wild-type AQP2 showed endosome
and plasma membrane staining. Water permeability assays showed a high Pf in
cells expressing wild-type and L22V AQP2. This study indicates that AQP2
mutations can confer partially responsive NDI.
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