Process formation of podocytes: morphogenetic activity of microtubules and regulation by protein serine/threonine phosphatase PP2A

Histochemistry and Cell Biology
N KobayashiP Mundel

Abstract

Podocytes possess major processes containing microtubules (MTs) and intermediate filaments and foot processes containing actin filaments (AFs) as core cytoskeletal elements. Although the importance of these cytoskeletal elements for maintaining podocyte processes was previously shown, so far no data are available concerning the developmental regulation of podocyte process formation. A conditionally immortalized mouse podocyte cell line, which can be induced to develop processes similar to those found in vivo, was treated with various reagents to disrupt cytoskeletal elements or to inhibit protein phosphatases. MTs colocalized with vimentin intermediate filaments but not with AFs. After AF disassembly, major processes were maintained, whereas after depolymerization of MTs, podocytes lost their processes, rounded up, and maintained only actin-based peripheral projections. Suppression of MT elongation by nanomolar vinblastine or inhibition of serine/threonine phosphatase PP2A with okadaic acid abolished process formation. PP2A was expressed in undifferentiated but not in differentiated podocytes. One- and two-dimensional western blot analyses revealed a dose-dependent increase in serine/threonine phosphorylation after okadaic acid...Continue Reading

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