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1 Department of Medical Genetics, China Medical University, No. 92, Bei Er Road, Shenyang, Liaoning 110001, China 2 Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, The Second Affiliated Hospital, China Medical University, Shenyang, Liaoning 110004, China
(Correspondence should be addressed to Y Zhao; Email: yyzhao{at}mail.cmu.edu.cn)
*(C Li and Y Li contributed equally to this work) 
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It is well known that glucocorticoids increase water, sodium, and chloride reabsorption as well as potassium and calcium excretion both inside and outside of the kidney to modulate fluid and electrolyte balance. For example, prolonged glucocorticoid administration often leads to electrolyte disturbance and hypertension, and the prenatal administration increases the possibilities of sodium retention and hypertension in later life (Ortiz et al. 2003, Dickinson et al. 2007). In order to demonstrate the molecular basis of glucocorticoid-mediated fluid and electrolyte balance, it is necessary to find the effects of glucocoricoids on target molecules involved in electrolyte homeostasis in epithelia.
With-no-lysine (K) kinase-4 (WNK4) is a novel serine/threonine kinase lacking a characteristic lysine in the ATP-docking site and plays an important role in regulation of ion transport process. Human WNK4 (hWNK4) gene, when mutated, causes pseudohypoaldosteronism type II (OMIM no. 145260 [OMIM] ) featuring hypertension and hyperkalemia due to excessive renal sodium chloride and potassium retention (Wilson et al. 2001). The discovery of mutations in the hWNK4 gene has generated considerable interests in its function and the molecular mechanism leading to electrolyte disturbance and hypertension. Recent studies have shown that WNK4 is expressed in multiple chloride-transporting epithelia and predominantly expressed in the distal convoluted tubule, connecting tubule, and collecting duct. It is subcellularly localized near tight junctions, along lateral membranes, and within the cytoplasm. Experimental observations demonstrated that WNK4 is a natural inhibitor of diverse epithelial transporters. It inhibits the NaCl cotransporter and the renal outer medullary potassium channel activities via a kinase-independent mechanism, and increases paracellular chloride flux by phosphorylation of multiple claudins (Kahle et al. 2003, 2004, Yamauchi et al. 2004). Based on its anatomical and functional characters, WNK4 is proposed to regulate transcellular and paracellular ion flux across diverse epithelia and act as a molecular switch for electrolyte homeostasis. As mentioned above, most of the studies focused on the function of WNK4 gene, while little is known about its upstream regulator. In this current study, we aim to identify whether WNK4 is one of the targets for glucocorticoid-mediated electrolyte balance by investigating the effects of glucocorticoids on the hWNK4 expression and the mechanisms.
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Human embryo kidney 293 (HEK293) and African green monkey kidney (COS-7) cells were maintained in Dulbecco's Modified Eagle's Medium (GIBCO) with 10% fetal bovine serum, 100 unit/ml penicillin, and 100 µg/ml streptomycin at 37 °C in a humidified atmosphere containing 5% CO2. To examine the effect of dexamethasone (Dex; Sigma–Aldrich) on the hWNK4 gene expression, HEK293 cultures were switched to serum-free media and then exposed to 1 µM Dex or 1 µM Dex with 10 µM RU486 (Sigma–Aldrich) for 24 h. Total RNA was extracted from these cells using TRIzol reagent (Invitrogen).
Northern blotting analysis
Total RNA (20 µg) was fractionated in a 1.2% agarose–formaldehyde gel and then transferred onto a nylon membrane Hybond-N (Amersham Biosciences). A 321 bp antisense cRNA from hWNK4 cDNA was labeled, hybridized, and detected by CDP-Star using DIG Northern starter kit (Roche) according to the manufacturer's instructions. Signals of hybridization bands were detected on X-ray film and quantified by densitometric analyses. After exposure to film (5–60 min), the membrane was stripped and then rehybridized with the β-actin probe for normalization.
Reverse transcription and real-time quantitative PCR
Total RNA (1 µg) was reversely transcribed with random primers using reverse transcription reagent kit (Promega) following the manufacturer's protocol. Real-time quantitative PCR was performed in an ABI Prism 7500 Sequence Detection System (Applied Biosystems, Foster City, CA, USA) using a FAM-labeled probe, 5'-FAM-CTTCCTGCTCCCGCCGCCGC-Eclipse-3', and a pair of primers specific to the hWNK4 transcript giving a 144 bp product, forward 5'-GTGAAGGCTGCGGAAGACTC-3' and reverse 5'-CTGGGTCTCCATGTCCTCCTT-3'. The 25 µl reaction mixtures contained 10 mM Tris–HCl (pH 8.3), 50 mM KCl, 1.5 mM MgCl2, 200 µM dNTPs, 1.25 U Taq polymerase, 40 ng template cDNA, and 150 nM probe and primers (400 nM for each). All PCR reagents were from TaKaRa Biotech (Dalian, China). The reaction condition was 95 °C for 3 min followed by 40 cycles at 95 °C for 15 s and 60 °C for 50 s. As an internal control, β-actin was measured under the same conditions in real-time quantitative PCR with a FAM-labeled probe, 5' FAM-CCAGGGCGTGATGGTGGGCAT-Eclipse 3', and a pair of primers specific for β-actin transcript giving a 155 bp product, forward 5'-CCGTCTTCCCCTCCATCG-3' and reverse 5'-GTCCCAGTTGGTGACGATGC-3'. Cycle threshold values (Ct) were analyzed by the SDS1.4 software (Applied Biosystems) and relative quantification of hWNK4 expression was determined using the comparative Ct method (ABI Prism 7500, SDS User Bulletin; Applied Biosystems). Each sample was amplified in triplicate to obtain average Ct value. Reaction without cDNA templates was used as negative control. Results were expressed as relative hWNK4 expression compared with the untreated control that was taken as 100%.
5' rapid amplification of cDNA end (5'-RACE) assay
Human Kidney Marathon-Ready cDNA amplification kit (Clontech) was used according to the supplier's instructions. Forward primers were a 27-mer adaptor primer (AP1) and a 23-mer nested AP2. Reverse primers were gene-specific primers (GSP) of the hWNK4 gene exon 1 including outer primer (GSP1) and inner primer (GSP2): 5'-ACGCGCGGAGTCTTCCGCAGCCT-3' and 5'-CTGGGACATGAGGACGGTGGTCT-3'. The first-round PCR was performed using template Marathon-Ready cDNA and primers AP1 and GSP1. PCR product was diluted for the second-round PCR using primers AP2 and GSP2. The PCR products were analyzed by agarose gel electrophoresis. DNA from major band was cloned into the pMD18-T vector (TaKaRa Biotech) and then sequenced.
Plasmid construction
The luciferase reporter plasmids used in this study were derived from pGL3-Basic (Promega) lacking eukaryotic promoter and enhancer. The PCR fragment comprising –484 to +62 of the hWNK4 gene was generated using human genomic DNA with forward primer 5'-CACTGACCTCTCCGTTCGGC-3' and reverse primer 5'-GACATGAGGACGGTGGTCTC-3'. This PCR product was cloned into pMD18-T vector and subcloned into the unique KpnI/HindIII sites of pGL3-Basic vector to generate a reporter construct p484-luc. A series of 5'-deleted constructs were derived from the p484-luc by PCR. The forward primers were 5'-CGCACAAACAGGTT-3' (–337), 5'-TTTGCTCACTCTTAGTGCGG-3' (–325), 5'-CACTCAGTTCTGG-3' (–285), 5'-TGGCCTCAGAGTGAGACT-3' (–275), 5'-GAAAGAAGGGGACGC-3' (–241), 5'-GGCGGTGACTAAGGTGAG-3' (–216), and 5'-AGCGAGTCCGTCTGTCAG-3' (–52). The reverse primer was the same one as used in the construction of the p484-luc. All constructs were confirmed by sequencing with no coding frame shift in the luciferase gene. For transient transfection, the plasmids were prepared using Mid Pre plasmid kits (Qiagen).
Transient transfection and luciferase assays
HEK293 or COS-7 cells were seeded in 24-well plates, grown to 80–90% confluence, and transfected by Lipofectamine 2000 (Invitrogen) according to the manufacturer's protocol with 1 µg reporter construct, with or without 0.5 µg expression vector coding for human glucocorticoid receptor (GR; pRShGR
). Cotransfection of 0.01 µg pRL-TK (Promega), a plasmid encoding for Renillaluciferase, was performed to normalize transfection efficiencies. After 24 h, cells were treated with Dex (1 µM) in the presence or absence of RU486 (10 µM) and incubated for 24 h. Cells were then harvested and luciferase activities were measured using the Dual-Luciferase Reporter Assay system (Promega) on Lumat LB9507 luminometer (Bethold Technologies, Bad Wildbad, Germany).
Nuclear extracts preparation and electrophoretic mobility shift assay (EMSA)
Nuclear extracts from HEK293 cells with or without Dex treatment were prepared and EMSA was carried out as previously described (Zhao et al. 1999). Briefly, oligonucleotides corresponding to the putative glucocorticoid response motifs at the hWNK4 promoter (–285: 5'-CACTCAGTTCTGG-3' and –337: 5'-CGCACAAACAGGTT-3') and mutant oligonucleotides with underlined mutated bases (5'-CACTTAATTATGG-3' and 5'-CGCAATAACAAGTT-3') were synthesized and annealed. glucocorticoid response element (GRE) consensus oligonucleotides were purchased from Promega and anti-GR antibody was purchased from Santa Cruz Biotechnology (Santa Cruz, CA, USA). Probes were end radiolabeled with [
-32P]ATP (Furui Biotechnology, Beijing, China) using T4 polynucleotide kinase (TaKaRa Biotech). Binding reactions were performed in a volume of 30 µl containing 
5000 cpm labeled probe, 12 µg nuclear extracts, 1 µg/µl poly(dI-dC), and 1x binding buffer (10 mM HEPES, 50 mM KCl, 5 mM MgCl2, 0.5 mM EDTA, 1 mM dithiothreitol) on ice for 30 min. For competition assays, 100- or 500-fold molar excess of the unlabeled double-stranded DNA was added to the reaction mixture. For supershift assays, the anti-GR antibody was incubated for 30 min at room temperature before the probe was added. Reaction mixtures were loaded onto an 8% polyacrylamide gel and run at 150 V in 0.375xtris-borate-EDTA (TBE) for 4 h. The gel was dried under vacuum and autoradiographed.
Chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP) assay
HEK293 cells were treated with or without Dex for 24 h. Formaldehyde (1%) was added to the medium and incubated for 20 min at 37 °C. Cells were harvested, resuspended in lysis buffer (1% SDS, 10 mM EDTA, 50 mM Tris–HCl (pH 8.1)), incubated at 4 °C for 10 min, and then sonicated to generate approximate 100–300 bp DNA fragments. One-third of the lysate was used as DNA input control. The remaining two-thirds were diluted tenfold with ChIP dilution buffer (0.01% SDS, 1% Triton X-100, 1 mM EDTA, 10 mM Tris–HCl, 150 mM NaCl) followed by incubation with specific anti-GR antibody or with nonimmune rabbit immuno-globulin G (IgG) as a negative control at 4 °C overnight. Immunoprecipitated complexes were collected by protein A/G-agarose beads, washed, and incubated at room temperature for 20 min. Cross-linking of protein–DNA complexes was reversed at 65 °C for 5 h. Then, DNA was extracted with phenol/chloroform. PCR was carried out in 25 µl for 30 cycles using the primers specific for the hWNK4 promoter. The set of primers was as follows: forward 5'-CACTGACCTCTCCGTTCGGC-3' (–484) and reverse 5'-CGAGCAGCCCCTCACCTTAG-3' (–189) for a 296 bp fragment, forward 5'-CACTGACCTCTCCGTTCGGC-3' (–484) and reverse 5'-ggagcatcctcccgcactaa-3' (–295) for a 190 bp fragment, and forward 5'-TCCCACTCAGTTCTGGCCTCA-3' (–288) and reverse 5'-CGAGCAGCCCCTCACCTTAG-3' (–189) for a 100 bp fragment. PCRs using neuronal nitric oxide synthase (nNOS) gene-specific promoter primers (forward 5'-ATGTGGAAGACAGCATAGACC-3' and reverse 5'-AGAGGCAAAGAGGAAAACCACCA-3') to generate a 189 bp fragment without GR binding were used as a negative control. All PCR signals stained with ethidium bromide in 1.5% agarose gels were quantified by densitometric analyses to calculate the amount of PCR products. The values were normalized to that of input and shown as a percentage of untreated controls, which were taken as 100% for each group. All in vivo ChIP assays were repeated at least thrice with similar results and a representative result was shown.
Densitometric analyses and statistical analysis
All densitometric analyses were performed using LabWorks Image Acquisition and Analysis Software (Media Cybernetics, UVP Inc., Cambridge, UK). Data were shown as mean±S.E.M. from at least three independent experiments. Differences between quantitative datasets were analyzed by one-way ANOVA or t-test as appropriate and P<0.05 was considered significant.
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To assess whether glucocorticoids are implicated in modulation of the hWNK4 expression, we initially detected the hWNK4 mRNA level in HEK293 cells expressing endogenous GR (Oakley et al. 1999). Both northern blot and real-time quantitative PCR showed that the hWNK4 mRNA level decreased to 28–35% of the untreated control after treatment of 1 µM Dex for 24 h and was restored by concomitant treatment with RU486, a GR antagonist (Fig. 1). These indicated that glucocorticoids suppressed the expression of hWNK4 mRNA via GR.
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To determine the transcriptional initiation site of hWNK4, we performed 5'-RACE analysis to map the transcriptional initiation. With a primer binding to exon 1 and human kidney Marathon-Ready cDNA, we obtained a 442 bp band; furthermore, a 102 bp band was obtained by nested PCR. After cloning and sequencing the PCR products, we located a transcriptional initiation site at 21 bp upstream of the translation initiation ATG in the hWNK4 gene (Fig. 2). Then, we characterized the hWNK4 gene promoter. A 600 bp 5'-flanking sequence (GenBank AC016889
[GenBank]
) was analyzed for transcription factor binding sites with Match (public version 1.0) search (Kel et al. 2003). Results showed that the promoter exhibited no TATA-box motif, while a putative initiator element, which was thought to be strongly required for the transcription initiator activity of TATA-less promoter, was found at position –1 (CTACCCT). It conformed well to a consensus initiator sequence PyPyANA/TPyPy except for the underlined C. We also found several potential transcription factor binding sites in this region, such as GR, Sp1, AP-2, and C/EBP (Fig. 3).
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To confirm the suppression of hWNK4 mRNA level by glucocorticoids through GR, we transfected p484-luc (an hWNK4 promoter luciferase reporter construct spanning –484 to +62) with or without GR expression vector in COS-7 cells that do not contain endogenous GR (Oakley et al. 1999) and therefore provide a null background for GR expression. Luciferase assay showed that in the context of GR, Dex treatment reached the maximal suppression of the promoter activity (Fig. 4A). Furthermore, Dex-suppressed hWNK4 promoter activity in a dose-dependent pattern (Fig. 4B). These results suggested that the suppression of the hWNK4 promoter activity by glucocorticoids was in a GR-dependent pattern and the 484 bp upstream sequence of the hWNK4 gene was sufficient to confer the suppression of hWNK4 gene transcription by glucocorticoids.
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To delineate potential transcriptional regulatory elements, a series of luciferase reporter constructs containing 5'-flanking deletions of the hWNK4 promoter were generated (Fig. 5A) and transiently transfected into HEK293 cells. Luciferase assay of the basal promoter activity showed that there were multiple cis-acting elements essential for the promoter activity. A region between –216 and –52 was necessary for optimal activity. The deletion of p337-luc construct to –325 and p285-luc construct to –275 resulted in the increased promoter activity, implying that 12 bp from –337 to –325 and 10 bp from –285 to –275 were negative regulatory elements. In addition, three regions –484 to –337, –325 to –285, and –275 to –52 played positive regulatory role in the transcription of hWNK4 gene (Fig. 5B).
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Our attention is focused on the association of the negative elements with the Dex-reduced promoter activity. Significant decrease of promoter activity was observed in p484-luc, p337-luc, and p285-luc constructs, but not in p325-luc and p275-luc. Furthermore, the Dex-reduced activity was effectively abolished by RU486, a GR antagonist, confirming that these effects required GR binding (Fig. 5C). These observations suggested that negative GREs (nGREs) were located at positions –285 (nGRE1) and –337 (nGRE2) in the hWNK4 promoter.
Identification of two functional nGREs in the hWNK4 promoter
To identify whether GR binding to the putative binding sites (–285 and –337), we synthesized nGRE1 and nGRE2 oligonucleotides and performed EMSA with HEK293 nuclear extracts. Both nGRE1 and nGRE2 probes formed a strong complex with nuclear extracts that were competed by 100- or 500-fold molar excess of unlabeled nGRE1 and nGRE2 respectively (Fig. 6A), but not by 500-fold excess of unlabeled nGRE1 and nGRE2 mutant (in Fig. 6B and C). The GRE consensus binding was also competed by 100-fold molar excess of unlabeled nGRE1 or nGRE2 probe (Fig. 6A). Further studies showed that their binding activities were blocked by anti-GR antibody, but not by IgG control (Fig. 6B and C) and enhanced with Dex-treated nuclear extracts (Fig. 6D and E).
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B) binding site previously (Li et al. 2007; Fig. 7B). The amount of PCR products can reflect the level of GR binding in ChIP. Therefore, we quantified the PCR products and found that the amounts of 296, 190, and 100 bp products in Dex-treated group were higher compared with those in the Dex-untreated group (Fig. 7C). These indicated that nGRE1 and nGRE2 were located at position –285 and –337 of the hWNK4 promoter and Dex treatment resulted in a significant increase of GR binding to both sites.
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Glucocorticoids are critical physiological regulators of fluid and electrolyte homeostasis. They exert their major function by binding to the intracellular GR that acts as a ligand-activated nuclear transcription factor. Upon ligand binding, the receptor translocates to the nucleus where it interacts with GREs and regulates the transcription of specific gene in target epithelia (Fuller et al. 2000). The effects of glucocorticoids on epithelial transporter genes have been studied in a variety of epithelial cells and tissues (Wald et al. 1998, Snyder 2005). However, to date, there is no data about the modulation of the WNK4 expression by glucocorticoids. We used Dex, a synthetic glucocorticoid that is poor substrate for 11β-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase, to determine the effects of glucocorticoids on the hWNK4 expression in HEK293 cells. Dex decreased hWNK4 mRNA level to 28–35% of the control after 24-h treatment; and mRNA reduction caused by Dex was effectively prevented by RU486, a synthetic GR antagonist. This long-lasting cellular response to Dex may be caused by transcriptional regulation. Therefore, we identified a transcriptional initiation site of the hWNK4 gene and isolated the 5'-flanking region of the hWNK4 gene to generate the fusion construct with luciferase reporter gene. The luciferase assay demonstrated that Dex inhibited the hWNK4 transcriptional activity in GR-dependent pattern according with the decrease of the hWNK4 mRNA expression.
To our knowledge, GR exists in most cells and acts as ligand-activated nuclear transcription factors to exert the physiological functions of glucocorticoids. Upon ligand binding, the GR translocates to the nucleus where it activates or suppresses gene transcription. In this regard, we further investigated the effect of Dex on the various portions of the hWNK4 promoter in HEK293 cells. We found that the Dex-mediated suppression occurred significantly in p285-luc and p337-luc of the hWNK4 proximal promoter. Moreover, RU486 successfully blocked the reduction caused by Dex treatment. We subsequently identified the negative elements by EMSA and ChIP. The GR binding to negative elements was confirmed by the competition of consensus GRE and interaction with anti-GR antibody. All observations suggested that the negative elements at position –285 and –337 were responsive to glucocorticoids (nGRE1 and nGRE2). Whereas, p325-luc construct containing GRE1 showed no distinct response to Dex in luciferase assay. A possible explanation is that a positive regulatory element harbored in the region –325 to –285 and interfered in its response to Dex. We compared our nGREs with the published nGREs and proved again that nGREs, unlike GREs that share a common consensus, were different in sequence (Malkoski & Dorin 1999, Radoja et al. 2000, Ou et al. 2001). Considerable evidences indicated that the mechanisms of GR-mediated transcriptional repression involve either GR binding to a simple nGRE such as in the keratin gene (Radoja et al. 2000) or GR interacting with a second transcription factor, just like that in the osteocalcin, IL-6, and c-fms genes (Meyer et al. 1997, De Bosscher et al. 2000, Flick et al. 2002). Interaction of GR with a second transcription factor is a complex pattern including GR competing an activator binding to GRE (competitive nGRE), GR tethering a factor binding to nGRE (tethering nGRE), and both GR and a factor binding to nGRE (composite nGRE). Our EMSA showed that the in vitro binding was blocked by anti-GR antibody but not by AP-1 (c-jun and c-fos), NF-B (p65 and p50), and Oct-1 antibodies (data not shown); ChIP revealed that the binding of GR to the specific nGREs occurred in a native chromosome environment in vitro. However, these data could not rule out other factors interacting with nGREs of hWNK4 promoter in transcriptional repression. Indeed, in the case of competitive nGRE and composite nGRE, GR directly binds nGRE and undoubtedly tethers additional factors. For example, the Dex-mediated repression of the pro-opiomelanocortin (POMC) gene expression has been initially described as direct binding of GR to a nGRE (Drouin et al. 1993), and subsequent studies have attributed the Dex-mediated repression of the POMC promoter to tethering the transcription factor Nur77 (Philips et al. 1997). Therefore, we peculated that a combination of these mechanisms could contribute to the glucocorticoid transrepressive effect on the hWNK4 transcription. In addition, the glucocorticoid repression has been reported on posttranscriptional modifications in which the adenylate/uridylate-rich elements (AREs) within the 3'-UTR are now considered central cis-elements in the gene regulation (Stellato 2004). AREs interact with ARE-binding factors and mediate mRNA stability and translation. As we did not find a tandem AUUUA sequence in a TA-rich stretch of the 3'-UTR of the hWNK4 gene, we could not deduce the potential for posttranscription regulation in glucocorticoid repression of the hWNK4 mRNA expression.
In summary, our study demonstrates that glucocorticoids suppress hWNK4 mRNA expression in HEK293 cells, and this suppression can be mediated by two nGREs that are not only required for GR-mediated transcriptional repression but also essential for appropriate transcription level of the hWNK4 gene. Further studies will be necessary to identify the cofactors that participate in the glucocorticoid-mediated repression of the hWNK4 expression. Such analyses of the hWNK4 gene involved in the glucocorticoid regulation will facilitate the identification of responses that are desirable or undesirable for pharmacological effects such as electrolyte disturbance and hypertension. It may be feasible to produce glucocorticoid-related drugs that selectively target the inflammatory process and lead to individualized therapies.
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vector and Dr Jeunemaitre of INSERM U36 College de France for providing hWNK4 cDNA. This work was supported by National Natural Science Foundations of China (30500247, 30300204, and 30370785). The authors declare that there is no conflict of interest that would prejudice the impartiality of this scientific work. |
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Received in final form 12 November 2007
Accepted 14 November 2007
Made available online as an Accepted Preprint 14 November 2007
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