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Automatically associated channels: ClC4 , ClC5

Title: ClC-5, the chloride channel mutated in Dent's disease, colocalizes with the proton pump in endocytotically active kidney cells.

Authors: W Günther, A Lüchow, F Cluzeaud, A Vandewalle, T J Jentsch

Journal, date & volume: Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A., 1998 Jul 7 , 95, 8075-80

PubMed link: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9653142

Abstract
Loss-of-function mutations of the ClC-5 chloride channel lead to Dent's disease, a syndrome characterized by low molecular weight proteinuria, hypercalciuria, and kidney stones. We show that ClC-5 is expressed in renal proximal tubule cells, which normally endocytose proteins passing the glomerular filter. Expression is highest below the brush border in a region densely packed with endocytotic vesicles, where ClC-5 colocalizes with the H+-ATPase and with internalized proteins early after uptake. In intercalated cells of the collecting duct it again localizes to apical intracellular vesicles and colocalizes with the proton pump in alpha-intercalated cells. In transfected cells, ClC-5 colocalizes with endocytosed alpha2-macroglobulin. Cotransfection with a GTPase-deficient rab5 mutant leads to enlarged early endosomes that stain for ClC-5. We suggest that ClC-5 may be essential for proximal tubular endocytosis by providing an electrical shunt necessary for the efficient acidification of vesicles in the endocytotic pathway, explaining the proteinuria observed in Dent's disease.