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FXYD5 modulates Na⁺ absorption and is increased in cystic fibrosis airway epithelia

Departments of ¹Pharmacology and ²Pediatrics, School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio

Submitted 17 October 2007 ; accepted in final form 3 February 2008

FXYD5, also known as dysadherin, belongs to a family of tissue-specific regulators of the Na⁺-K⁺-ATPase. We determined the kinetic effects of FXYD5 on Na⁺-K⁺-ATPase pump activity in stably transfected Madin-Darby canine kidney cells. FXYD5 significantly increased the apparent affinity for Na⁺ twofold and decreased the apparent affinity for K⁺ by 60% with a twofold increase in V_max of K⁺, a pattern that would increase activity and Na⁺ removal from the cell. To test the effect of increased Na⁺ uptake on FXYD5 expression, we analyzed Madin-Darby canine kidney cells stably transfected with an inducible vector expressing all three subunits of the epithelial Na⁺ channel (ENaC). Na⁺-K⁺-ATPase activity increased sixfold after 48-h ENaC induction, but FXYD5 expression decreased 75%. FXYD5 expression was also decreased in lung epithelia from mice that overexpress ENaC, suggesting that chronic Na⁺ absorption by itself downregulates epithelial FXYD5 expression. Patients with cystic fibrosis (CF) display ENaC-mediated hyperabsorption of Na⁺ in the airways, accompanied by increased Na⁺-K⁺-ATPase activity. However, FXYD5 was significantly increased in the lungs and nasal epithelium of CF mice as assessed by RT-PCR, immunohistochemistry, and immunoblot analysis (P < 0.001). FXYD5 was also upregulated in nasal scrapings from human CF patients compared with controls (P < 0.02). Treatment of human tracheal epithelial cells with a CFTR inhibitor (I-172) confirmed that loss of CFTR function correlated with increased FXYD5 expression (P < 0.001), which was abrogated by an inhibitor of NF-B. Thus FXYD5 is upregulated in CF epithelia, and this change may exacerbate the Na⁺ hyperabsorption and surface liquid dehydration observed in CF airway epithelia.

Na⁺-K⁺-ATPase; sodium transport