Original Article

Polarized Signaling via Purinoceptors in Normal and Cystic Fibrosis Airway Epithelia

Correspondence to: Anthony M. Paradiso, Division of Pulmonary Diseases, 6007B Thurston-Bowles Building, CB# 7248, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7248. Fax:(919) 966-7524 E-mail:paradiso{at}med.unc.edu.

Airway epithelia are confronted with distinct signals emanating from the luminal and/or serosal environments. This study tested whether airway epithelia exhibit polarized intracellular free calcium (Ca²⁺_i) and anion secretory responses to 5' triphosphate nucleotides (ATP/UTP), which may be released across both barriers of these epithelia. In both normal and cystic fibrosis (CF) airway epithelia, mucosal exposure to ATP/UTP increased Ca²⁺_i and anion secretion, but both responses were greater in magnitude for CF epithelia. In CF epithelia, the mucosal nucleotide–induced response was mediated exclusively via Ca²⁺_i interacting with a Ca²⁺-activated Cl^- channel (CaCC). In normal airway epithelia (but not CF), nucleotides stimulated a component of anion secretion via a chelerythrine-sensitive, Ca²⁺-independent PKC activation of cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator. In normal and CF airway epithelia, serosally applied ATP or UTP were equally effective in mobilizing Ca²⁺_i. However, serosally applied nucleotides failed to induce anion transport in CF epithelia, whereas a PKC-regulated anion secretory response was detected in normal airway epithelia. We conclude that (1) in normal nasal epithelium, apical/basolateral purinergic receptor activation by ATP/UTP regulates separate Ca²⁺-sensitive and Ca²⁺-insensitive (PKC-mediated) anion conductances; (2) in CF airway epithelia, the mucosal ATP/UTP-dependent anion secretory response is mediated exclusively via Ca²⁺_i; and (3) Ca²⁺_i regulation of the Ca²⁺-sensitive anion conductance (via CaCC) is compartmentalized in both CF and normal airway epithelia, with basolaterally released Ca²⁺_i failing to activate CaCC in both epithelia.

Key Words: cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator, purinergic receptors, triphosphate nucleotides, protein kinase C, anion secretion

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