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Cultured inner medullary collecting duct (IMCD) cells have been shown to secrete protons (H+) by two mechanisms: anN-ethylmaleimide-and dicyclohexyl-carbodiimide-sensitive electrogenic H+-ATPase or H+ pump, and an amiloride-sensitive, secondary active Na+/H+ exchanger. These cells also express Cl−/HCO3 − exchange and carbonic anhydrase activity in common with other renal epithelial cells involved in acid-base transport. Video fluorescence microscopy of individual cells using 2′, 7′-biscarboxyethyl-5(6)-carboxyfluorescein has demonstrated that adjacent-cultured IMCD cells show substantial functional intercellular heterogeneity. The development of H+-pumping activity is associated with high-baseline intracellular pH and peanut agglutinin (PNA) affinity, and loss of mitotic activity and of Na+/H+ exchange. The H+-pumping activity may be further enhanced by removal of fetal calf serum for 6–54 h or by selecting cells with high PNA affinity. IMCD cells in their most differentiated state form domes, which consistently showed the highest rates of H+-pumping activity, as well as high affinity for peanut lectin. When IMCD were plated at low density, domes developed relatively late (2–4 weeks), at which time cells located in the center of nests of contiguously growing cells were quiescent and showed H+-pumping activity but no Na+/H+ exchange. On the other hand, dense plating was associated with early development of domes (end of 1st week), at which time adjacent cells showed a high mitotic activity and Na+/H+ exchange, but no H+-pumping activity. We speculate that differentiation of IMCD cells results in the development of cell polarity. This could include either loss of the apical Na+/H+-exchange activity, or localization of this exchanger only to the basolateral membrane, while the H+ pump differentiates at the apical membrane.
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Brion, L.P., Schwartz, J.H., Zavilowitz, B.J. et al. Differentiation of proton-pumping activity in cultured renal inner medullary collecting duct cells. Pediatr Nephrol 4, 408–414 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00862527
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