ArticleThe Journal of biological chemistry2011
Tamm-Horsfall glycoprotein interacts with renal outer medullary potassium channel ROMK2 and regulates its function.
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- Association of serum uromodulin with diabetic kidney disease: a systematic review and meta-analysis.BMC nephrology · 2024Pooled it
- Common variants in UMOD associate with urinary uromodulin levels: a meta-analysis.Journal of the American Society of Nephrology : JASN · 2014Pooled it
- Serum uromodulin is associated with the severity of clinicopathological findings in ANCA-associated glomerulonephritis.PloS one · 2019Trial
- Recent advances in the clinical significance and physiological functions of uromodulin: a narrative review.BMC nephrology · 2026Review
- Endocrine regulation of uromodulin in aging.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2026Review
- Elevated Zinc and Potassium Levels in Renal Calculi Indicate Distinct Pathophysiological Mechanisms in Urolithiasis.Pathophysiology : the official journal of the International Society for Pathophysiology · 2025Article
- A salty symphony: unraveling the tale of uromodulin and sodium sensitivity.Journal of human hypertension · 2025Review
- Advances in uromodulin biology and potential clinical applications.Nature reviews. Nephrology · 2024Review
- Exosomal UMOD gene expression and urinary uromodulin level as early noninvasive diagnostic biomarkers for diabetic nephropathy in type 2 diabetic patients.Diabetology international · 2024Article
- Uromodulin biology.Nephrology, dialysis, transplantation : official publication of the European Dialysis and Transplant Association - European Renal Association · 2024Review
- Proteomic insights into the pathophysiology of hypertension-associated albuminuria: Pilot study in a South African cohort.Clinical proteomics · 2024Article
- Associations of Baseline and Longitudinal Serum Uromodulin With Kidney Failure and Mortality: Results From the African American Study of Kidney Disease and Hypertension (AASK) Trial.American journal of kidney diseases : the official journal of the National Kidney Foundation · 2024Article
- The role of uromodulin in cardiovascular disease: a review.Frontiers in cardiovascular medicine · 2024Review
- Unveiling the Hidden Power of Uromodulin: A Promising Potential Biomarker for Kidney Diseases.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- A founderJournal of medical genetics · 2023Article
- Role of Uromodulin in Salt-Sensitive Hypertension.Hypertension (Dallas, Tex. : 1979) · 2022Review
- Autosomal Dominant Tubulointerstitial Kidney Disease: An Emerging Cause of Genetic CKD.Kidney international reports · 2022Review
- The Post-Translational Modification Networking in WNK-Centric Hypertension Regulation and Electrolyte Homeostasis.Biomedicines · 2022Review
- Autosomal dominant tubulointerstitial kidney disease: A review.American journal of medical genetics. Part C, Seminars in medical genetics · 2022Review
- Phenome-Wide Association Study ofKidney international reports · 2022Article
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Abstract
Tamm-Horsfall glycoprotein (THGP) or Uromodulin is a membrane protein exclusively expressed along the thick ascending limb (TAL) and early distal convoluted tubule (DCT) of the nephron. Mutations in the THGP encoding gene result in Familial Juvenile Hyperuricemic Nephropathy (FJHN), Medullary Cystic Kidney Disease type 2 (MCKD-2), and Glomerulocystic Kidney Disease (GCKD). The physicochemical and biological properties of THGP have been studied extensively, but its physiological function in the TAL remains obscure. We performed yeast two-hybrid screening employing a human kidney cDNA library and identified THGP as a potential interaction partner of the renal outer medullary potassium channel (ROMK2), a key player in the process of salt reabsorption along the TAL. Functional analysis by electrophysiological techniques in Xenopus oocytes showed a strong increase in ROMK current amplitudes when co-expressed with THGP. The effect of THGP was specific for ROMK2 and did not influence current amplitudes upon co-expression with Kir2.x, inward rectifier potassium channels related to ROMK. Single channel conductance and open probability of ROMK2 were not altered by co-expression of THGP, which instead increased surface expression of ROMK2 as determined by patch clamp analysis and luminometric surface quantification, respectively. Despite preserved interaction with ROMK2, disease-causing THGP mutants failed to increase its current amplitude and surface expression. THGP(-/-) mice exhibited increased ROMK accumulation in intracellular vesicular compartments when compared with WT animals. Therefore, THGP modulation of ROMK function confers a new role of THGP on renal ion transport and may contribute to salt wasting observed in FJHN/MCKD-2/GCKD patients.
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