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Sunil Yeruva, Klaudia Farkas, Jessica Hubricht, Katja Rode, Brigitte Riederer, Oliver Bachmann, Ayhan Cinar, Zoltán Rakonczay, Tamás Molnár, Ferenc Nagy, Jochen Wedemeyer, Michael Manns, Dirk Raddatz, Mark W. Musch, Eugene B. Chang, Péter Hegyi, Ursula Seidler, Preserved Na+/H+ exchanger isoform 3 expression and localization, but decreased NHE3 function indicate regulatory sodium transport defect in ulcerative colitis†, Inflammatory Bowel Diseases, Volume 16, Issue 7, 1 July 2010, Pages 1149–1161, https://doi.org/10.1002/ibd.21183
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Abstract
A major causative factor of diarrhea in ulcerative colitis (UC) patients is the loss of Na+ absorptive capacity of the inflamed colonic mucosa. Potential contributing mechanisms include reduced driving force for active transport, and impaired expression, mislocalization, or defective transport function of Na+ absorptive proteins. We therefore studied the expression, brush border membrane (BBM) localization, and transport capacity of the major intestinal Na+ absorptive protein, the Na+/H+ exchanger isoform 3 (NHE3) in biopsies from UC patients.
In UC and control biopsies, inflammation was graded histologically, NHE3, tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-α), villin, as well as other housekeeping genes were analyzed by quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR), BBM localization of NHE3 determined by immunohistochemistry, and confocal microscopy. Na+ absorptive capacity was assessed by 22Na+ isotope fluxes and NHE3 transport activity measured microfluorometrically in BCECF-loaded surface colonocytes within isolated crypts.
In mildly, moderately, and severely inflamed sigmoid colon of UC patients, neither NHE3 mRNA expression nor the abundance of NHE3 in the BBM was significantly altered compared to other structural components of the BBM. However, Na+ absorption was strongly reduced by ≈80% and acid-activated NHE3 transport activity was significantly decreased in the surface cells of sigmoid colonic crypts even in moderately inflamed mucosa.
In the colonic mucosa of patients with active UC, NHE3 transport capacity was found significantly decreased despite correct NHE3 location and abundance in the brush border, independent of current treatment. These findings suggest functional NHE3 transport as a novel factor for inflammatory diarrhea in UC patients. (Inflamm Bowel Dis 2010)
- polymerase chain reaction
- tumor necrosis factors
- process of absorption
- immunohistochemistry
- inflammation
- biopsy
- inflammatory bowel disease
- ulcerative colitis
- diarrhea
- electrolytes
- active biological transport
- genes
- housekeeping
- intestines
- isotopes
- tissue membrane
- microscopy, confocal
- protein isoforms
- rna, messenger
- sigmoid colon
- colon
- mucous membrane
- sodium
- inflammatory diarrhea
- colon biopsy
- sodium ion transport
- tumor necrosis factor-alpha
- brush border
- colonic mucous membrane
- quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction