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Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol 294: R2008-R2013, 2008. First published March 26, 2008; doi:10.1152/ajpregu.00737.2007
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Role of maternal glucocorticoid inducible kinase SGK1 in fetal programming of blood pressure in response to prenatal diet

Rexhep Rexhepaj,1,* Krishna M. Boini,1,* Dan Yang Huang,2 Kerstin Amann,3 Ferruh Artunc,1 Kan Wang,1 Jan J. Brosens,4 Dietmar Kuhl,5 and Florian Lang1

Departments of 1Physiology and 2Pharmacology, University of Tübingen, Tübingen; and 3Department of Pathology, University of Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany; 4Institute of Reproductive and Developmental Biology, Imperial College London, Hammersmith Campus, London, United Kingdom; and 5Department of Biology, Chemistry, and Pharmacy, Free University, Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Submitted 10 October 2007 ; accepted in final form 19 March 2008


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Maternal stress and malnutrition modify intrauterine fetal development with impact on postnatal blood pressure, nutrient, water, and electrolyte metabolism. The present study explored the possible involvement of maternal serum- and glucocorticoid-inducible kinase (SGK)-1 in fetal programming of blood pressure. To this end, wild-type (sgk1+/+) male mice were mated with SGK1 knockout (sgk1–/–) female mice, and sgk1–/– males with sgk1+/+ females, resulting in both cases in heterozygotic (sgk1–/+) offspring. Following prenatal protein restriction, the offspring of sgk1+/+ mothers gained weight significantly slower and had significantly higher blood pressure after birth. Moreover, a sexual dimorphism was apparent in fasting blood glucose and plasma corticosterone concentrations, with higher levels in female offspring. In contrast, prenatal protein restriction of sgk1–/– mothers had no significant effect on postnatal weight gain, blood pressure, plasma glucose concentration, or corticosterone levels, irrespective of offspring sex. Plasma aldosterone concentration, urinary flow rates, and urinary excretions of Na+ and K+ were not significantly modified by either maternal genotype or nutritional manipulation. In conclusion, maternal signals mediated by SGK1 may play a decisive role in fetal programming of hypertension induced by prenatal protein restriction.

dietary protein; body weight; plasma glucose

MATERNAL STRESS OR GLUCOCORTICOID excess has previously been shown to predispose the offspring to hypertension later in life (3, 8, 24, 31, 45). Glucocorticoids decrease food intake (6), and fetal blood pressure can similarly be programmed by low prenatal protein diet (9, 21, 23, 26–28, 32, 33, 38, 40, 43, 44).

The maternal mechanisms that link maternal protein depletion or glucocorticoid excess to fetal programming of blood pressure remain far from understood. A candidate signaling molecule is serum- and glucocorticoid-inducible kinase (SGK)-1, which was first identified as a gene regulated by glucocorticoids (11), but later shown to be also under the genomic influence of other hormones and mediators, including mineralocorticoids, gonadotropins, 1,25-dyhydroxyvitamin D3 [1,25(OH)2D3], transforming growth factor-β, interleukin-6, fibroblast and platelet-derived growth factor, thrombin, endothelin, as well as various other cytokines (reviewed in Ref. 22). SGK1 transcription is further stimulated by cell shrinkage, excessive glucose concentrations, heat shock, UV radiation, and oxidative stress (reviewed in Ref. 22). SGK1 is activated by insulin through a signaling cascade involving phosphatidylinositide 3-kinase and 3-phosphoinositide-dependent protein kinase-1 (5, 20, 30).

SGK1 is expressed in the maternal-fetal interface (10). Endometrial SGK1 gene expression is highly regulated on the postovulatory rise in circulating progesterone levels and thus is particularly high in secretory endometrium (10). Notably, excessive SGK1 expression in endometrial luminal epithelium correlates with female infertility (10), an observation suggesting a possible role for SGK1 in mediating the initial interactions between the implanting blastocyst and maternal tissues. Although SGK1 expression in the endometrial epithelium declines during the implantation window, it is subsequently highly expressed in decidualizing stromal compartment that controls invasion of fetal trophoblast and placenta formation (10). Moreover, SGK1 phosphorylates and inactivates forkhead transcription factor FOXO1, thereby regulating the expression of several decidua-specific genes, including prolactin (10).

The present study explored the role of maternal SGK1 expression in fetal programming of blood pressure in response to prenatal protein restriction. Experiments were performed in mice lacking functional SGK1 (sgk1–/–) and their wild-type littermates (sgk1+/+). To obtain the same offspring genotype, male sgk1–/– mice were mated with female sgk1+/+ mice, and male sgk1+/+ mice with female sgk1–/– mice. Our results suggest that maternal SGK1 expression is indispensable for fetal programming of blood pressure in response to prenatal malnutrition.


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All animal experiments were conducted according to the guidelines of the American Physiological Society, as well as the German law for the welfare of animals, and were approved by local authorities.

Mice deficient in SGK1 (sgk1–/–) on 129Sv background were generated and bred as previously described (19, 42). Before the experiments, all mice were fed a standard diet (1314, Altromin, Heidenau, Germany) ad libitum with free access to tap water. To yield offspring heterozygotic mice (sgk1–/+), wild-type (sgk1+/+) male mice were mated with SGK1 knockout (sgk1–/–) female mice, and sgk1–/– males with sgk1+/+ females (all at the age of 4 mo). During mating and pregnancy, the diet consisted of either the control diet (C1000, 18% protein, 0.25% Na+, 0.36% Cl–, 0.71% K+; Altromin) or a low-protein diet (C1003, 8% protein, 0.25% Na+, 0.36% Cl–, 0.71% K+; Altromin) with free access to tap drinking water. After birth, the diet was changed to standard diet, and the pups were weaned at 3 wk. The compositions of the diets are provided in Table 1. To minimize handling stress, animals were not weighed at birth. The same sets of animals were used for the plasma hormone levels, electrolytes, metabolic studies, and blood pressure measurements. In theory, differences in litter size could have influenced body weight and blood pressure in offspring. The average litter size was 4.1 ± 0.9 in protein-restricted and 2.8 ± 0.3 in protein-replete sgk1–/– mothers, and 5.7 ± 0.2 in protein-restricted and 5.0 ± 0.2 in protein-replete sgk1+/+ mothers (n = 8–9 for each group). Litter size was not statistically significantly different between protein-replete and protein-restricted mothers of either genotype. Moreover, under protein-restricted diet, there was no significant difference of litter size between sgk1–/– and sgk1+/+ mothers. However, in protein-replete mothers, the litter size was significantly smaller in sgk1–/– than in sgk1+/+ animals. Body weight and blood pressure of offspring from protein-replete mothers were not significantly different between the two genotypes.


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  		Table 1. Composition of the diets

 
One to three male and one to three female offspring were randomly selected from each of the eight to nine mothers per group and used for blood pressure and body weight measurements. For plasma glucose, hormone levels, electrolytes, and metabolic studies, two male and two female offspring were randomly selected from three mothers in each group.

For evaluation of renal excretion, at the age of 13 wk, offspring sgk1–/+ mice were placed individually in metabolic cages (Tecniplast Hohenpeissenberg) for 24-h urine collection (37). They were allowed a 3-day habituation period, when food intake, water intake, urinary flow rate, urinary salt excretion, and body weight were recorded every day to ascertain that the mice were adapted to the new environment. Subsequently, 24-h collection of urine was performed for 3 consecutive days to obtain the basal urinary parameters. To ensure quantitative urine collection, the inner wall of the metabolic cages was siliconized, and urine was collected under water-saturated oil.

To obtain blood specimen, animals were lightly anesthetized with diethyl ether (Roth, Karlsruhe, Germany), and ~200 µl of blood were withdrawn into heparinized capillaries by puncturing the retroorbital plexus. Blood samples were taken 1) at the end of the metabolic studies for determination of the Na+, K+, and aldosterone plasma concentrations; 2) 2 wk later for the determination of plasma corticosterone concentration; and 3) 1 further week later for the determination of blood glucose and plasma insulin levels following overnight starving.

Plasma and urinary concentrations of Na+ and K+ were measured by flame photometry (AFM 5051, Eppendorf). Plasma glucose concentrations were determined utilizing a glucometer (Accutrend, Roche, Mannheim, Germany) after an overnight fast. Plasma aldosterone concentrations were determined by using a commercial RIA kit (Demeditec, Kiel, Germany), and plasma corticosterone concentrations were determined using an ELISA (DRG Instruments, Marburg, Germany). In view of the circadian rhythm of hormone release (4), plasma corticosterone levels were determined before the beginning of the dark cycle at 5 PM.

Systolic arterial blood pressure was determined by the tail-cuff method (25, 29) 12 wk after exposure to the control diet. The advantage of this noninvasive method is the avoidance of prior operations, which may impact on blood pressure. The accuracy of the method is, however, limited. As reviewed previously (29), the tail-cuff approach to determine arterial blood pressure requires certain precautions to reduce the stress of the animals, including appropriate training of the mice over multiple days and prewarming to an ambient temperature of 30°C for 15 min. All of those precautions were obeyed in the present experiments. For each animal, 10–20 blood pressure traces were recorded in one session. The readings from 3 days were then averaged to obtain a mean blood pressure. All recordings and data analysis were done using a computerized data-acquisition system and software (Power Lab 400 and Chart 4; AdInstruments). All measurements within one series were done by one individual between 2 and 4 PM. Separate series of blood pressure measurements were performed and analyzed independently by two different collaborators (R. Rexhepaj and K. M. Boini). The differences of their measurements were 3.86, 3.94, 3.46, and 4.49 mmHg in the offspring of maternal low-protein diet sgk1+/+, control diet sgk1+/+, low-protein diet sgk1–/–, and control diet sgk1–/–, respectively. Most importantly, both observed a significant increase of blood pressure in offspring of female sgk1+/+ mice and not in offspring of female sgk1–/– mice under protein-deficient diet.

A further series of experiments was performed utilizing a second method of blood pressure measurements. In this series, 45-wk-old male offspring from female sgk1+/+ mice (n = 6 for each group) or sgk1–/– mice (n = 6 for each group) was anesthetized with intraperitoneal injection of 100 mg/kg thiobutabarbital (Inactin, Sigma), together with intramuscular injection of 100 mg/kg ketamine (CuraMED Pharma, Karlsruhe, Germany). Animals were then placed on a temperature-controlled operating table to keep rectal temperature at 37°C and prepared for clearance experiments, as previously described (18). Via the right jugular vein, isotonic saline (0.85% NaCl) at a rate of 350 µl/h was infused throughout the entire experiment. The left femoral artery was catheterized for continuous monitoring of blood pressure with a Statham instrument (WK 280, WKK, Kaltbrunn, Switzerland). After midline abdominal incision, a PE catheter was placed into the ureter for urine collection. After the end of preparation, the animals were allowed to equilibrate for 30 min to reach steady-state conditions, defined by stable systemic hemodynamics and constant urinary flow rate. Mean arterial blood pressure was recorded 10 and 30 min after the equilibration period.

Data are provided as means ± SE; n represents the number of independent experiments. All data were tested for significance using paired or unpaired Student t-test or two-paired ANOVA, where required, using GraphPad InStat or Prism version 5.00 for Windows (GraphPad Software, San Diego CA; http://www.graphpad.com). A P value <0.05 was considered statistically significant.


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The body weight of heterozygotic (sgk1+/–) offspring was comparable 6 wk after birth, irrespective of sex, prenatal diet, or maternal genotype. However, the subsequent increase in body weight between 7 and 12 wk postnatally was significantly lower in offspring from wild-type (sgk1+/+) mothers fed a protein-restricted diet during pregnancy than in offspring from sgk1+/+ mothers fed a control diet (Fig. 1). In contrast, prenatal protein restriction had no significant effect on body weight gain in offspring from SGK1-deficient (sgk1–/–) mothers. In addition, food intake per gram body weight was significantly enhanced in offspring upon prenatal protein restriction of sgk1+/+ mothers, whereas such dietary interventions did not alter food intake of offspring from sgk1–/– mothers (Table 2). Thus the effects of protein deficiency during pregnancy on postnatal weight gain and food intake of the offspring was dependent on maternal SGK1 expression.


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  		Fig. 1. Influence of maternal low-protein diet on offspring body weight. Values are means ± SE of body weight of male (top) and female (bottom) offspring from maternal serum and glucocorticoid-inducible kinase-1 (sgk1)+/+ mice and sgk1–/– mice exposed to control diet (open bars, n = 12 male and 12 female offspring from sgk1+/+ mice, n = 9 male and 9 female offspring from sgk1–/– mice) and low-protein diet (solid bars, n = 12 male and 12 female offspring from sgk1+/+ mice, n = 12 male and 12 female offspring from sgk1–/– mice) during pregnancy. *Significant difference (P < 0.05) from standard diet.

 

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  		Table 2. Influence of maternal low-protein diet on body weight, intake of food, plasma glucose, insulin, Na+ and K+, aldosterone and corticosterone concentration, urinary flow rate, and urinary Na+ and K+ excretion

 
Fasting plasma glucose concentrations in female but not male offspring from sgk1+/+ mothers were significantly enhanced upon prenatal protein restriction. In contrast, plasma glucose concentrations in male or female offspring from sgk1–/– mothers were not significantly affected by the maternal diet (Table 2). Moreover, plasma glucose concentrations in female offspring were significantly lower upon protein restriction of pregnant sgk1–/– mice compared with sgk1+/+ mothers. Plasma insulin concentrations, however, were comparable between offspring of sgk1+/+ and sgk1–/– mothers, irrespective of dietary manipulation (Table 2).

Plasma Na+ and K+ concentrations in offspring were not significantly modified by prenatal diet or maternal genotype (Table 2). Furthermore, urinary flow rates, urinary excretions of Na+ and K+, or plasma aldosterone concentrations in offspring were also not significantly modified by either prenatal diet or maternal genotype (Table 2).

However, maternal protein restriction significantly enhanced the plasma corticosterone concentration in female offspring, and there was a trend (P = 0.17) toward increased levels in male offspring from sgk1+/+ mothers (Table 2). On the other hand, there was no evidence of increased circulating corticosterone levels or sexual dimorphism in offspring from sgk1–/– mothers fed a low-protein diet during pregnancy.

The blood pressure of the offspring, determined with the tail-cuff method, was significantly higher on feeding pregnant wild-type sgk1+/+ mothers a protein-restrictive diet, irrespective of sex (male: 107.7 ± 1.6 vs. 102.8 ± 1.3 mmHg; female: 104.0 ± 1.0 vs. 97.1 ± 2.1 mmHg). In contrast, prenatal protein restriction had no significant effect on the postnatal blood pressure of male or female offspring of sgk1–/– mothers (male: 103.3 ± 1.4 vs. 102.8 ± 1.4 mmHg; female: 102.2 ± 1.0 vs. 101.0 ± 2.7 mmHg) (Fig. 2). Similar observations were made, when blood pressure was determined utilizing a Statham transducer connected to a catheter placed into the femoral artery of anesthetized animals. Utilizing this method, femoral blood pressure was again significantly higher in male offspring from protein-restricted sgk1+/+ mothers than in offspring from protein-replete sgk1+/+ mothers (Fig. 2C). Again, prenatal protein restriction had no significant effect on the postnatal femoral blood pressure of male offspring from sgk1–/– mothers (Fig. 2C). Moreover, the blood pressure was significantly lower in offspring from protein-restricted sgk1–/– mothers than in offspring from protein-restricted sgk1+/+ mothers (Fig. 2C). Accordingly, prenatal protein restriction leads to enhanced blood pressure, an effect again influenced by maternal SGK1.


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  		Fig. 2. Influence of maternal low-protein diet on offspring blood pressure. Values are means ± SE of blood pressure measured via tail-cuff (A and B) in male (A) and female (B) offspring from maternal sgk1+/+ mice and sgk1–/– mice exposed to control diet (open bars, n = 12 male and 12 female offspring from sgk1+/+ mice, n = 9 male and 9 female offspring from sgk1–/– mice) and low-protein diet (solid bars, n = 12 male and 12 female offspring from sgk1+/+ mice, n = 12 male and 12 female offspring from sgk1–/– mice) during pregnancy. C: mean blood pressure values (±SE) measured utilizing a Statham transducer connected to the femoral artery of offspring from maternal sgk1+/+ mice (n = 6 male offspring) and sgk1–/– mice (n = 6 male offspring) exposed to control diet (open bars) and low-protein diet (solid bars) during pregnancy. *Significant difference (P < 0.05) from standard diet. #Significant difference (P < 0.05) from sgk1+/+.

 

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The present observations confirm that low-protein diet during pregnancy predisposes for hypertension in adulthood (9, 21, 23, 26–28, 32, 33, 38, 40, 43, 44). As expected, prenatal protein restriction was associated with impaired weight gain and increased blood pressure of offspring from wild-type (sgk1+/+) mothers. In contrast, weight gain and blood pressure of offspring from SGK1 knockout (sgk1–/–) mothers was unaffected by maternal low-protein diet. Those observations suggest a critical role of maternal SGK1 in some aspects of fetal programming. Notably, the genotype of the offspring was heterozygotic (sgk1–/+) in both groups. Thus the offspring from sgk1–/– and sgk1+/+ mothers should be similarly sensitive to changes in amino acids or glucocorticoid exposure during pregnancy, and the differences in fetal programming cannot be due to genetic differences within the offspring. Rather, the phenotypic differences in offspring result from genetic differences between the mothers. Thus fetal programming of blood pressure in response to prenatal protein restriction may be dependent on maternal signals that involve SGK1.

Male mice were similarly exposed to low-protein diet, and, at least in theory, alterations in sperm or semen could impact on subsequent embryonic or fetal development. However, the effect of low-protein diet was virtually absent in the offspring of sgk1–/– females mated with sgk1+/+ male mice. If dietary restriction alters sperm, then the known effect in wild-type parental animals would depend on the genotype of the male and would be lacking in offspring of sgk1–/– male, not in offspring of sgk1–/– female, mice.

Our experiments suggest that maternal SGK1 expression is a prerequisite for the programming of blood pressure in the offspring. The present study did not attempt to define SGK1-sensitive maternal mechanisms. Nutrition of the fetus is accomplished by the interaction of maternal decidualized endometrium (sgk1–/– or sgk1+/+) and fetal placenta (sgk1+/– in each group). Thus it is tempting to speculate that endometrial SGK1 expression is involved. Indeed, SGK1 is abundantly expressed in endometrial glandular cells, which provide nutrients, growth factors, and cytokines for the early fetal-placental unit (13).

Presently, it is not known if and how SGK1 expression in maternal endometrium (10) is influenced by diet or stress. Notably, amino acids inhibit SGK1 expression (39), which, in turn, suggests that prenatal protein restriction may enhance maternal SGK1 expression. On the other hand, fetal programming of blood pressure can also be triggered by a maternal protein-rich diet (7, 14, 15, 34, 36). This latter effect has been attributed to a stimulating effect of protein-rich diet on glucocorticoid release (1, 12, 35), which, again, should stimulate SGK1 expression (11). Clearly, future experiments are required to elucidate the sensitivity of endometrial SGK1 expression to dietary manipulations.

The present study did not address the mechanisms that couple altered maternal SGK1 expression to impaired blood pressure regulation in the offspring. Increased blood pressure may be due to altered renal development in utero on nutritional restriction of the mother. As shown previously, maternal protein restriction causes offspring hypertension by suppressing the intrarenal renin-angiotensin system during development, leading to impaired nephrogenesis and a reduced number of nephrons at birth, which persists into adulthood (16, 38, 40, 41). The altered renal development could compromise renal electrolyte excretion and thus require a compensatory increase in blood pressure to eliminate the daily load. Low-protein diet has further been suggested to enhance sensitivity to angiotensin II (28, 33, 43) and to increase expression of the renal bumetanide-sensitive Na-K-2Cl cotransporter and the renal thiazide-sensitive Na-Cl cotransporter (26).

Maternal low-protein diet was followed by significantly enhanced blood corticosterone concentrations in female offspring of sgk1+/+ mothers and a trend toward increased levels in male offspring. Furthermore, plasma corticosterone concentrations following prenatal protein restriction tended to be higher in female and were significantly higher in male offspring of sgk1+/+ mothers compared with offspring of sgk1–/– mothers. It is tempting to speculate that, depending on maternal SGK1, protein restriction imposes stress on the offspring, which leads to enhanced stimulation of the adrenal gland. However, under a control diet, the plasma corticosterone levels were significantly higher in female offspring of sgk1–/– mothers than in female offspring of sgk1+/+ mothers. We have no ready explanation for this difference. In any case, the plasma corticosterone levels alone cannot explain the enhanced blood pressure in offspring of sgk1+/+ mothers subjected to low-protein diet. Plasma aldosterone levels in the offspring were unchanged, irrespective of prenatal diet or maternal genotype. Enhanced plasma aldosterone levels are found in sgk1–/– mice (42). However, the offspring consisted only of heterozygotic (sgk1+/–) animals, albeit from sgk1–/– and sgk1+/+ mothers, and thus we would not a priori expect differences in plasma aldosterone concentration.

Besides its influence on blood pressure, prenatal protein restriction of wild-type mothers was also associated with a slight, but statistically significant, decrease in body weight gain in the offspring. Again, this effect of maternal diet was absent in offspring from sgk1–/– mothers. Decreased body weight of offspring in response to prenatal protein restriction has been reported for rats (2, 38) and mice (16, 17) and is paralleled by decreased weight of kidney, liver, spleen, heart, and brain (16). In theory, impaired body weight gain in offspring of wild-type mothers fed a protein-deficient diet could have been due to decreased food intake. However, within the short period of metabolic cage experiments, food intake was rather enhanced. We cannot rule out the possibility that food intake was actually decreased in offspring from sgk1–/– mothers early after birth. Arguably, increased food intake in older offspring could be a compensatory response for limited nutrient availability in the early phases of development.

Maternal low-protein diet was followed by enhanced blood glucose concentration in female but not male offspring of wild-type mothers. Plasma insulin levels were slightly higher, a difference, however, not reaching statistical significance. Again, plasma glucose concentration was not significantly affected by maternal diet in offspring from sgk1–/– mothers. Sexual dimorphism in fetal programming has also been reported for the liver (16). Maternal protein restriction has been shown to result in decreased normalized (to body weight) liver weight in male offspring, but increased normalized liver weight in female offspring. It is tempting to speculate that the relatively enhanced hepatic glycogen stores in female offspring from wild-type mothers account for the maintenance of blood glucose levels following overnight fasting.

Perspectives and Significance

This study suggests that maternal SGK1 plays an integral role in fetal programming of blood pressure in response to prenatal protein restriction. The data reveal a novel function of SGK1 and shed new light on the mechanisms that account for the increased risk in cardiovascular disease in adult offspring of nutrient-restricted mothers. The definition of a maternal gene participating in fetal programming is an important step toward understanding the maternal side of fetal programming. The present observations are expected to direct future experiments defining the influence of dietary manipulations on endometrial SGK1 expression and hopefully disclose the SGK1-dependent mechanisms in the maternal-fetal interface.


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This work was supported by grants from Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft and Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (F. Lang).


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Address for reprint requests and other correspondence: F. Lang, Dept. of Physiology, Univ. of Tübingen, Gmelinstr. 5, D-72076 Tübingen, Germany (e-mail: florian.lang{at}uni-tuebingen.de)

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* R. Rexhepaj and K. M. Boini contributed equally to this work. Back


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