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Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol 281: R1594-R1604, 2001;
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Vol. 281, Issue 5, R1594-R1604, November 2001

Eel urea transporter is localized to chloride cells and is salinity dependent

Abinash Chandra Mistry, Shinji Honda, Taku Hirata, Akira Kato, and Shigehisa Hirose

Department of Biological Sciences, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama 226 - 8501, Japan

Urea transporters (UTs) in the ureotelic vertebrates have been well-characterized, but little is known about those of the ammonotelic teleost fishes. To clarify the physiological roles of UTs in the ammonotelic teleosts, we determined the structure, tissue and cellular localizations, and regulation of expression of eel UT (eUT) by cDNA cloning, Northern analysis, and immunohistochemistry. A full-length cDNA (~1.9 kb) coding for a UT of 486 amino acid residues was isolated from a seawater eel gill cDNA library. Sequence comparison with those of other species indicated that the eUT is a short isoform with 10 transmembrane spans and has longer NH2- and COOH-terminal cytoplasmic tails compared with the mammalian counterparts. Northern blot analysis demonstrated high expression of eUT mRNA confined in the gill and a substantial increase of its levels when eels were transferred from freshwater to seawater. Immunohistochemistry showed that eUT is localized on the basolateral membranes of the chloride cells, establishing, at the cellular level, the site of urea excretion in the eel, an ammonotelic teleost.

ammonotelic teleost; complementary deoxyribonucleic acid cloning; euryhaline fish; gill; immunohistochemistry


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