Abstract
Low renin hypertension (LRH), which accounts for 10-20% of patients with idiopathic "essential" hypertension, bears hormonal similarities to mineralocorticoid-induced hypertension, but elevated mineralocorticoid concentrations have not been found. Some patients with LRH have normal, rather than suppressed, plasma aldosterone concentrations, so that the ratio of aldosterone concentration to PRA (Aldo/PRA) is high, suggesting inappropriately increased aldosterone biosynthesis. We characterized the CYP11B2 gene that encodes the aldosterone synthase, P450c11AS, in hypertensive and control populations in a single clinic in Santiago, Chile. We directly sequenced the entire CYP11B2 gene in 12 patients with LRH, 2 high renin hypertensive controls, and 2 normotensive controls. All sequences were identical, except that 8 of 24 LRH alleles encoded arginine rather than lysine at position 173. The Arg173 and Lys173 variants were expressed in transfected MA-10 cells, and their ability to convert deoxycorticosterone to aldosterone was measured; the apparent Michaelis constant (Km) for Lys173 was 2.73 mumol/L; the Km for Arg173 was 2.53 mumol/L. The apparent maximal velocity (Vmax) for Lys173 was 6.5 x 10(-3) micrograms/mL.24 h; the Vmax for A...Continue Reading
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