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Human pendrin expressed in Xenopus laevis oocytes mediates chloride/formate exchange.

Scott DA, Karniski LP.

Am J Physiol Cell Physiol. 2000 Jan;278(1):C207-11.

"Pendred syndrome, characterized by congenital sensorineural hearing loss and goiter, is one of the most common forms of syndromic deafness. The gene causing Pendred syndrome (PDS) encodes a protein designated pendrin, which is expressed in the thyroid, kidney, and fetal cochlea. Pendrin functions as an iodide and chloride transporter, but its role in the development of hearing loss and goiter is unknown. In this study, we examined the mechanism of pendrin-mediated anion transport in Xenopus laevis oocytes. Unlabeled formate added to the uptake medium inhibited pendrin-mediated (36)Cl uptake in X. laevis oocytes. In addition, the uptake of [(14)C]formate was stimulated in oocytes injected with PDS cRNA compared with water-injected controls. These results indicate that formate is a substrate for pendrin. Furthermore, chloride stimulated the efflux of [(14)C]formate and formate stimulated the efflux of (36)Cl in oocytes expressing pendrin, results consistent with pendrin-mediated chloride/formate exchange. These data demonstrate that pendrin is functionally similar to the renal chloride/formate exchanger, which serves as an important mechanism of chloride transport in the proximal tubule. A similar process could participate in the development of ion gradients within the inner ear."

Functional differences of the PDS gene product are associated with phenotypic variation in patients with Pendred syndrome and non-syndromic hearing loss (DFNB4).

Scott DA, Wang R, Kreman TM, Andrews M, McDonald JM, Bishop JR, Smith RJ, Karniski LP, Sheffield VC.

Hum Mol Genet. 2000 Jul 1;9(11):1709-15.

"The PDS gene encodes a transmembrane protein, known as pendrin, which functions as a transporter of iodide and chloride. Mutations in this gene are responsible for Pendred syndrome and autosomal recessive non-syndromic hearing loss at the DFNB4 locus on chromosome 7q31. A screen of 20 individuals from the midwestern USA with non-syndromic hearing loss and dilated vestibular aqueducts identified three people (15%) with PDS mutations. To determine whether PDS mutations in individuals with Pendred syndrome differ functionally from PDS mutations in individuals with non-syndromic hearing loss, we compared three common Pendred syndrome allele variants (L236P, T416P and E384G), with three PDS mutations reported only in individuals with non-syndromic hearing loss (V480D, V653A and I490L/G497S). The mutations associated with Pendred syndrome have complete loss of pendrin-induced chloride and iodide transport, while alleles unique to people with DFNB4 are able to transport both iodide and chloride, albeit at a much lower level than wild-type pendrin. We hypothesize that this residual level of anion transport is sufficient to eliminate or postpone the onset of goiter in individuals with DFNB4. We propose a model for pendrin function in the thyroid in which pendrin transports iodide across the apical membrane of the thyrocyte into the colloid space."
 

The Pendred syndrome gene encodes a chloride-iodide transport protein.

Scott DA, Wang R, Kreman TM, Sheffield VC, Karniski LP.

Nat Genet. 1999 Apr;21(4):440-3.

"Pendred syndrome is the most common form of syndromic deafness and characterized by congenital sensorineural hearing loss and goitre. This disorder was mapped to chromosome 7 and the gene causing Pendred syndrome (PDS) was subsequently identified by positional cloning. PDS encodes a putative transmembrane protein designated pendrin. Pendrin is closely related to a family of sulfate transport proteins that includes the rat sulfate-anion transporter (encoded by Sat-1; 29% amino acid sequence identity), the human diastrophic dysplasia sulfate transporter (encoded by DTD; 32%) and the human sulfate transporter 'downregulated in adenoma' (encoded by DRA; 45%). On the basis of this homology and the presence of a slightly modified sulfate-transporter signature sequence comprising its putative second transmembrane domain, pendrin has been proposed to function as a sulfate transporter. We were unable to detect evidence of sulfate transport following the expression of pendrin in Xenopus laevis oocytes by microinjection of PDS cRNA or in Sf9 cells following infection with PDS-recombinant baculovirus. The rates of transport for iodide and chloride were significantly increased following the expression of pendrin in both cell systems. Our results demonstrate that pendrin functions as a transporter of chloride and iodide, but not sulfate, and may provide insight into thyroid physiology and the pathophysiology of Pendred syndrome."
 

Evidence for the placental transfer of tri-iodothyronine in human beings.

Raiti S, Holzman GB, Scott RL, Blizzard RM.

N Engl J Med. 1967 Aug 31;277(9):456-9.

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