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Am J Physiol Renal Physiol 281: F751-F762, 2001;
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Vol. 281, Issue 4, F751-F762, October 2001

Mechanical strains induced by tubular flow affect the phenotype of proximal tubular cells

Marie Essig, Fabiola Terzi, Martine Burtin, and Gérard Friedlander

Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale U-426 and Department of Physiology, Faculté de Médecine Xavier Bichat, Université Denis Diderot-Paris 7, F-75018 Paris, France

The effects of flow-induced mechanical strains on the phenotype of proximal tubular cells were addressed in vivo and in vitro by subjecting LLC-PK1 and mouse proximal tubular cells to different levels of flow. Laminar flow (1 ml/min) induced a reorganization of the actin cytoskeleton and significantly inhibited the expression of plasminogen activators [tissue-type (tPA) activity: 25% of control cells; tPA mRNA: 70% of control cells; urokinase (uPA) mRNA: 56% of control LLC-PK1 cells]. In vivo, subtotal nephrectomy (Nx) decreased renal fibrinolytic activity and uPA mRNA content detectable in proximal tubules. Nx also induced a reinforcement of the apical domain of the actin cytoskeleton analyzed by immunofluorescence. These effects of flow on tPA and uPA mRNA were prevented in vitro when reorganization of the actin cytoskeleton was blocked by cytochalasin D and were associated, in vitro and in vivo, with an increase in shear stress-responsive element binding activity detected by an electrophoretic mobility shift assay in proximal cell nuclear extracts. These results demonstrate that tubular flow affects the phenotype of renal epithelial cells and suggest that flow-induced mechanical strains could be one determinant of tubulointerstitial lesions during the progression of renal diseases.

kidney; tubulointerstitium; plasminogen activators; cytoskeleton; shear stress


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