A role for the cytoskeleton in renal vitamin D metabolism

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications
J L Taft, R G Larkins

Abstract

Conversion of circulating 25-hydroxyvitamin D3 (25(OH)D3) to its active metabolite 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3 (1,25(OH)2D3) occurs in the renal tubule mitochondrion. Recent reports have implicated the cytoskeleton in certain other steroid metabolizing cells as a mediator of a rate-limiting mitochondrial transport step. Whilst the activity of the renal converting enzyme, a typical steroid hydroxylase, is known to be regulated closely by a number of well studied factors, no information is available to indicate whether an analogous transport step is relevant to the regulation of vitamin D metabolism. Cytochalasin B and vinblastine were used as chemical antagonists of the microfilamentous and microtubular elements of the cytoskeleton. Both agents inhibited the conversion of 25(OH)D3 to 1,25(OH)2D3 by isolated vitamin D-deficient chick renal tubules in a dose-dependent manner. At the concentrations required to inhibit 25(OH)D3-1 alpha-hydroxylase activity in whole cells, these agents inhibited neither isolated mitochondrial 1,25(OH)2D3 production, nor 24,25(OH)2D3 synthesis by vitamin D-replete tubules. The cytoskeletal antagonists were found to increase the content of labelled 1,25(OH)2D3 and 25(OH)D3 in a mitochondrial fraction prep...Continue Reading

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