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Secreted frizzled-related protein 4 is a potent tumor-derived phosphaturic agent
Theresa Berndt, … , Susan C. Schiavi, Rajiv Kumar
Theresa Berndt, … , Susan C. Schiavi, Rajiv Kumar
Published September 1, 2003
Citation Information: J Clin Invest. 2003;112(5):785-794. https://doi.org/10.1172/JCI18563.
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Article Nephrology

Secreted frizzled-related protein 4 is a potent tumor-derived phosphaturic agent

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Abstract

Tumors associated with osteomalacia elaborate the novel factor(s), phosphatonin(s), which causes phosphaturia and hypophosphatemia by cAMP-independent pathways. We show that secreted frizzled-related protein-4 (sFRP-4), a protein highly expressed in such tumors, is a circulating phosphaturic factor that antagonizes renal Wnt-signaling. In cultured opossum renal epithelial cells, sFRP-4 specifically inhibited sodium-dependent phosphate transport. Infusions of sFRP-4 in normal rats over 2 hours specifically increased renal fractional excretion of inorganic phosphate (FEPi) from 14% ± 2% to 34% ± 5% (mean ± SEM, P < 0.01). Urinary cAMP and calcium excretion were unchanged. In thyro-parathyroidectomized rats, sFRP-4 increased FEPi from 0.7% ± 0.2% to 3.8% ± 1.2% (P < 0.05), demonstrating that sFRP-4 inhibits renal inorganic phosphate reabsorption by PTH-independent mechanisms. Administration of sFRP-4 to intact rats over 8 hours increased FEPi, decreased serum phosphate (1.95 ± 0.1 to 1.53 ± 0.09 mmol/l, P < 0.05) but did not alter serum 1α, 25-dihydroxyvitamin D, renal 25-hydroxyvitamin D 1α-hydroxylase cytochrome P450, and sodium-phosphate cotransporter mRNA concentrations. Infusion of sFRP-4 antagonizes Wnt action as demonstrated by reduced renal β-catenin and increased phosphorylated β-catenin concentrations. The sFRP-4 is detectable in normal human serum and in the serum of a patient with tumor-induced osteomalacia. Thus, sFRP-4 displays phosphatonin-like properties, because it is a circulating protein that promotes phosphaturia and hypophosphatemia and blunts compensatory increases in 1α, 25-dihydroxyvitamin D.

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Theresa Berndt, Theodore A. Craig, Ann E. Bowe, John Vassiliadis, David Reczek, Richard Finnegan, Suzanne M. Jan De Beur, Susan C. Schiavi, Rajiv Kumar

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Western blots of renal homogenates obtained from rats infused with vehic...
Western blots of renal homogenates obtained from rats infused with vehicle (control) or sFRP-4 for 8 hours. Ab’s against β-catenin (upper panel) or phosphorylated β-catenin (phospho β-catenin) (lower panel) were used to detect proteins as described in Methods.
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