Deletion of AQP1 in mice results in diminished urinary concentrating ability, possibly related to reduced NaCl- and urea gradient–driven water transport across the outer medullary descending vasa recta (OMDVR). To quantify the role of AQP1 in OMDVR water transport, we measured osmotically driven water permeability in vitro in microperfused OMDVR from wild-type, AQP1 heterozygous, and AQP1 knockout mice. OMDVR diameters in AQP1–/– mice were 1.9-fold greater than in AQP1+/+ mice. Osmotic water permeability (Pf) in response to a 200 mM NaCl gradient (bath > lumen) was reduced about 2-fold in AQP1+/– mice and by more than 50-fold in AQP1–/– mice. Pf increased from 1015 to 2527 μm/s in AQP1+/+ mice and from 22 to 1104 μm/s in AQP1–/– mice when a raffinose rather than an NaCl gradient was used. This information, together with p-chloromercuribenzenesulfonate inhibition measurements, suggests that nearly all NaCl-driven water transport occurs by a transcellular route through AQP1, whereas raffinose-driven water transport also involves a parallel, AQP1-independent, mercurial-insensitive pathway. Interestingly, urea was also able to drive water movement across the AQP1-independent pathway. Diffusional permeabilities to small hydrophilic solutes were comparable in AQP1+/+ and AQP1–/– mice but higher than those previously measured in rats. In a mathematical model of the medullary microcirculation, deletion of AQP1 resulted in diminished concentrating ability due to enhancement of medullary blood flow, partially accounting for the observed urine-concentrating defect.
Thomas L. Pallone, Aurélie Edwards, Tonghui Ma, Erik P. Silldorff, A.S. Verkman
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