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Published ahead of print on July 2, 2008
J Am Soc Nephrol 19: 1879-1890, 2008
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doi: 10.1681/ASN.2007101087
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Establishment of Conditionally Immortalized Mouse Glomerular Parietal Epithelial Cells in Culture

Takamoto Ohse, Jeffrey W. Pippin, Michael R. Vaughan, Paul T. Brinkkoetter, Ronald D. Krofft and Stuart J. Shankland

Department of Medicine, Division of Nephrology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington

Correspondence: Dr. Stuart J. Shankland, Division of Nephrology, University of Washington, Box 356521, BB-1265 HSB, 1959 NE Pacific Street, Seattle, WA 98195-6521. Phone: 206-543-2346; Fax: 206-685-8661; E-mail: stuartjs{at}u.washington.edu

Received for publication October 10, 2007. Accepted for publication April 15, 2008.

Parietal epithelial cells (PEC) are major constituents of crescents in crescentic glomerulonephritis. The purpose of these studies was to establish an immortalized PEC cell line with similar characteristics to PEC in vivo for use in future mechanistic studies. Glomeruli were isolated from H-2Kb tsA58 transgenic mice (ImmortoMouse) by standard differential sieving, and several candidate PEC cell lines were obtained by subcloning outgrowths of cells from capsulated glomeruli. One clone, designated mouse PEC (mPEC), was extensively characterized. mPEC exhibited a compact cell body with typical epithelial morphology when grown in permissive conditions, but the cell shape changed to polygonal after 14 d in growth-restrictive conditions. mPEC but not podocytes used as a negative control expressed claudin-1, claudin-2, and protein gene product 9.5, which are proteins specific to PEC in vivo, and did not express the podocyte-specific proteins synaptopodin and nephrin. The junctional proteins zonula occludens-1 and β-catenin stained positively in both mPEC and podocytes, but the staining pattern at cell–cell contacts was intermittent in mPEC and linear in podocytes. Finally, mPEC had thin bundled cortical F-actin filaments and no F-actin projections compared with podocytes, which exhibited thick bundled cortical F-actin filaments and interdigitating F-actin projections at cell–cell contacts. We conclude that immortalized mPEC in culture exhibit specific features of PEC in vivo and that these cells are distinct from podocytes, despite having the same mesenchymal origin. This mPEC line will assist in future mechanistic studies of PEC and enhance our understanding of glomerular injury.


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