Publications by authors named "Ivana Y Kuo"

Key Points: Cardiac localized polycystin facilitates natriuretic peptide signaling pathways. Hypertension associated with autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease may arise from impaired cardiac natriuretic peptide signaling.

Background: Hypertension is seen in 70% of patients with autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease by age of 30 years before decline in kidney function.

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Calcium signaling is a critical process required for cellular mechanisms such as cardiomyocyte contraction. The inability of the cell to properly activate or regulate calcium signaling can lead to contractile dysfunction. In isolated cardiomyocytes, calcium signaling has been primarily studied using calcium fluorescent dyes, however these dyes have limited applicability to whole organs.

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Cardiovascular complications are the most common cause of mortality in patients with autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD). Hypertension is seen in 70% of patients by the age of 30 prior to decline in kidney function. The natriuretic peptides (NPs), atrial natriuretic peptide (ANP) and brain natriuretic peptide (BNP), are released by cardiomyocytes in response to membrane stretch, increasing urinary excretion of sodium and water.

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Calcium signaling is a critical process required for cellular mechanisms such as cardiac contractility. The inability of the cell to properly activate or regulate calcium signaling can lead to contractile dysfunction. In isolated cardiomyocytes, calcium signaling has been primarily studied using calcium fluorescent dyes, however these dyes have limited applicability to whole organs.

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Calcium release from the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) is predominantly driven by two key ion channel receptors, inositol 1, 4, 5-triphosphate receptor (InsPR) in non-excitable cells and ryanodine receptor (RyR) in excitable and muscle-based cells. These calcium transients can be modified by other less-studied ion channels, including polycystin 2 (PC2), a member of the transient receptor potential (TRP) family. PC2 is found in various cell types and is evolutionarily conserved with paralogues ranging from single-cell organisms to yeasts and mammals.

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Polycystic kidney disease is typified by cysts in the kidney and extra-renal manifestations including hypertension and heart failure. The main genetic underpinning this disease are loss-of function mutations to the two polycystin proteins, polycystin 1 and polycystin 2. Molecularly, the disease is characterized by changes in multiple signaling pathways including down regulation of calcium signaling, which, in part, is contributed by the calcium permeant properties of polycystin 2.

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The development of skeletal muscle (myogenesis) is a well-orchestrated process where myoblasts withdraw from the cell cycle and differentiate into myotubes. Signaling by fluxes in intracellular calcium (Ca) is known to contribute to myogenesis, and increased mitochondrial biogenesis is required to meet the metabolic demand of mature myotubes. However, gaps remain in the understanding of how intracellular Ca signals can govern myogenesis.

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Transient receptor potential (TRP) channels participate in calcium ion (Ca) influx and intracellular Ca release. TRP channels have not been studied in or any other apicomplexan parasite. In this work, we characterize TgGT1_310560, a protein predicted to possess a TRP domain (TgTRPPL-2), and determined its role in Ca signaling in , the causative agent of toxoplasmosis.

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Transient receptor potential proteins (TRPs) act as nonselective cation channels. Of the TRP channels, PC2 (also known as polycystin 2) is localized to the sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR); however, its contribution to calcium-induced calcium release and overall cardiac function in the heart is poorly understood. The goal of this study was to characterize the effect of cardiac-specific PC2 deletion in adult cardiomyocytes and in response to chronic β-adrenergic challenge.

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Cardiovascular disorders are the most common cause of mortality in autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD). This review considers recent clinical and basic science studies that address the contributing factors of cardiovascular dysfunction in ADPKD. In particular, attention is placed on how dysfunction of the polycystin proteins located in the cardiovascular system contributes to extrarenal manifestations of ADPKD.

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Mitochondria and the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) have an intimate functional relationship due to tethering proteins that bring their membranes in close (~30 nm) apposition. One function of this interorganellar junction is to increase the efficiency of Ca transfer into mitochondria, thus stimulating mitochondrial respiration. Here, we showed that the ER cation-permeant channel polycystin 2 (PC2) functions to reduce mitochondria-ER contacts.

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Mutations in the polycystins cause autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD). Here we show that transmembrane protein 33 (TMEM33) interacts with the ion channel polycystin-2 (PC2) at the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) membrane, enhancing its opening over the whole physiological calcium range in ER liposomes fused to planar bilayers. Consequently, TMEM33 reduces intracellular calcium content in a PC2-dependent manner, impairs lysosomal calcium refilling, causes cathepsins translocation, inhibition of autophagic flux upon ER stress, as well as sensitization to apoptosis.

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The type 2a sarco-/endoplasmic reticulum Ca-ATPase (SERCA2a) plays a key role in Ca regulation in the heart. However, available techniques to study SERCA function are either cell destructive or lack sensitivity. The goal of this study was to develop an approach to selectively measure SERCA2a function in the cellular environment.

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Although autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD) is characterized by the development of multiple kidney cysts, the most frequent cause of death in ADPKD patients is cardiovascular disease. ADPKD is linked to mutations in PKD1 or pkd2, the genes that encode for the proteins polycystin 1 and polycystin 2 (PC1 and PC2, respectively). The cardiovascular complications have been assumed to be a consequence of renal hypertension and activation of renin/angiotensin/aldosterone (RAAS) pathway.

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Patch clamp electrophysiology is a powerful tool that has been important in isolating and characterizing the ion channels that govern cellular excitability under physiological and pathophysiological conditions. The ability to enzymatically dissociate blood vessels and acutely isolate vascular smooth muscle cells has enabled the application of patch clamp electrophysiology to the identification of diverse voltage dependent ion channels that ultimately control vasoconstriction and vasodilation. Since intraluminal pressure results in depolarization of vascular smooth muscle, the channels that control the voltage dependent influx of extracellular calcium are of particular interest.

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Noonan syndrome (NS) is a common autosomal dominant disorder that presents with short stature, craniofacial dysmorphism, and cardiac abnormalities. Activating mutations in the gene encoding for the Src homology 2 (SH2) domain-containing protein tyrosine phosphatase-2 (SHP2) causes approximately 50% of NS cases. In contrast, NS with multiple lentigines (NSML) is caused by mutations that inactivate SHP2, but it exhibits some overlapping abnormalities with NS.

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Autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease is caused by mutations in the genes encoding polycystin-1 (PC1) and polycystin-2 (PC2), which form an ion channel complex that may mediate ciliary sensory processes and regulate endoplasmic reticulum (ER) Ca release. Loss of PC1 expression profoundly alters cellular energy metabolism. The mechanisms that control the trafficking of PC1 and PC2, as well as their broader physiological roles, are poorly understood.

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Mutations in the gene for polycystin 2 (Pkd2) lead to polycystic kidney disease, however the main cause of mortality in humans is cardiac related. We previously showed that 5 month old Pkd2+/- mice have altered calcium-contractile activity in cardiomyocytes, but have preserved cardiac function. Here, we examined 1 and 9 month old Pkd2+/- mice to determine if decreased amounts of functional polycystin 2 leads to impaired cardiac function with aging.

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Mycoplasma contamination of cell cultures is a pervasive, often undiagnosed and ignored problem in many laboratories that can result in reduced cell proliferation and changes in gene expression. Unless contamination is specifically suspected, it is often undetected in two dimensional (2D) cultures and the resulting effects of mycoplasma contamination are rarely appreciated and can lead to incorrect conclusions. Three dimensional (3D) tissue cultures are increasingly utilized to explore tissue development and phenotype.

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Polycystin-2 (PC2) belongs to the transient receptor potential (TRP) family and forms a Ca(2+)-regulated channel. The C-terminal cytoplasmic tail of human PC2 (HPC2 Cterm) is important for PC2 channel assembly and regulation. In this study, we characterized the oligomeric states and Ca(2+)-binding profiles in the C-terminal tail using biophysical approaches.

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