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ArticleScientific reports2016

Functional Recovery of AQP2 Recessive Mutations Through Hetero-Oligomerization with Wild-Type Counterpart.

Abdulah El Tarazi, Yoann Lussier, Sandra Da Cal, Pierre Bissonnette, Daniel G Bichet

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Article in Scientific reports, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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7 citing papers in PubMed, 11 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Abdulah El TaraziGroupe d'Étude des Protéines Membranaires (GÉPROM), département de Physiologie moléculaire et intégrative, Université de Montréal, C.P. 6128, Succ. Centre-Ville, Montréal, Québec, H3C 3J7, Canada.
Yoann LussierGroupe d'Étude des Protéines Membranaires (GÉPROM), département de Physiologie moléculaire et intégrative, Université de Montréal, C.P. 6128, Succ. Centre-Ville, Montréal, Québec, H3C 3J7, Canada.
Sandra Da CalGroupe d'Étude des Protéines Membranaires (GÉPROM), département de Physiologie moléculaire et intégrative, Université de Montréal, C.P. 6128, Succ. Centre-Ville, Montréal, Québec, H3C 3J7, Canada.
Pierre BissonnetteGroupe d'Étude des Protéines Membranaires (GÉPROM), département de Physiologie moléculaire et intégrative, Université de Montréal, C.P. 6128, Succ. Centre-Ville, Montréal, Québec, H3C 3J7, Canada.
Daniel G BichetGroupe d'Étude des Protéines Membranaires (GÉPROM), département de Physiologie moléculaire et intégrative, Université de Montréal, C.P. 6128, Succ. Centre-Ville, Montréal, Québec, H3C 3J7, Canada.
Université de Montréal · CAHôpital du Sacré-Cœur de Montréal · CA

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Aquaporin-2 (AQP2) is a homotetrameric water channel responsible for the final water reuptake in the kidney. Mutations in the protein induce nephrogenic diabetes insipidus (NDI), which challenges the water balance by producing large urinary volumes. Although recessive AQP2 mutations are believed to generate non-functional and monomeric proteins, the literature identifies several mild mutations which suggest the existence of mixed wt/mut tetramers likely to carry function in heterozygotes. Using Xenopus oocytes, we tested this hypothesis and found that mild mutants (V24A, D150E) can associate with wt-AQP2 in mixed heteromers, providing clear functional gain in the process (62 ± 17% and 63 ± 17% increases, respectively), conversely to the strong monomeric R187C mutant which fails to associate with wt-AQP2. In kidney cells, both V24A and D150E display restored targeting while R187C remains in intracellular stores. Using a collection of mutations to expand recovery analyses, we demonstrate that inter-unit contacts are central to this recovery process. These results not only present the ground data for the functional recovery of recessive AQP2 mutants through heteromerization, which prompt to revisit the accepted NDI model, but more importantly describe a general recovery process that could impact on all multimeric systems where recessive mutations are found.

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MutationProtein MultimerizationAnimalsAquaporin 2Cell LineCell MembraneDiabetes Insipidus, NephrogenicFemaleGenes, RecessiveHeterozygoteHumansKidney Tubules, CollectingMiceOocytesWaterXenopus laevisAquaporin 2Water

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