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Introduction
Alpha-Klotho (αKlotho) and fibroblast growth factor23 (FGF23) were independently discovered in 1997 [1] and 2000 [2] and were identified as an anti-aging protein and a novel phosphatonin, respectively. Interestingly, the FGF23-null mouse phenocopies almost all features of the αKlotho-null mouse suggesting that αKlotho and FGF23 may share common signaling pathways at least in the maintenance of mineral metabolism [3]. In vitro experiments further confirmed that membrane αKlotho functions as a mandatory co-receptor for FGF23 along with the FGF receptor (FGFR) to transduce FGF23 signaling to modulate calcium and phosphate metabolism as a calciophosphotropic hormone [4, 5].
The identification of αKlotho as co-receptor of FGF23 has broadened our understanding of mineral metabolism. Emerging evidence suggests that αKlotho also acts independently of FGF23 as a phosphate regulator. αKlotho contributes to phosphate homeostasis via interplay with other calciophosphotropic hormones (parathyroid hormone, FGF23, and 1,25-[OH]2 vitamin D) in the kidney, bone, intestine, and parathyroid gland. αKlotho deficiency triggers and aggravates deranged mineral metabolism, secondary hyperparathyroidism, vascular calcification, cardiac hypertrophy and fibrosis, and kidney fibrosis as evident in chronic kidney disease (CKD) and end-stage renal disease (ESRD). This review will update current understanding of αKlotho and its contribution to maintenance of phosphate homeostasis. The contribution of αKlotho to aging, acute kidney injury and chronic kidney disease has been recently reviewed [6–13].
Overview of phosphate homeostasis
Phosphorus, its element of phosphate, is the 6th most abundant element in the human being. About 1 % of body phosphate is present in extracellular fluid. Serum phosphate serves as an exchange pool among various phosphate-regulating organs (kidney, intestine, and bone) [9, 14]. Fecal and urine phosphate excretion is a major way to maintain phosphate homeostasis through a complicated, but tightly and efficiently regulated network consisting of several calciophosphotropic hormones (PTH, FGF23, 1,25-[OH]2 vitamin D) which are dedicated to both calcium and phosphate regulation [15–17].
FGF23, known as a phosphatonin, is predominantly synthesized in osteocytes and osteoblasts [12, 18–20]. It is regulated by dietary phosphate intake, serum phosphate, 1,25-(OH)2 vitamin D, PTH, and αKlotho, and mainly targets FGFRs through formation of a tertiary complex with membrane αKlotho protein to inhibit renal phosphate reabsorption by decreasing NaPi transport activity and to suppress 1,25-(OH)2 vitamin D production in the kidney [21–25]. FGF23 also decreases PTH production, which in turn decreases bone turnover [12, 26].
Synthesized by chief cells in parathyroid glands, PTH responses directly to extracellular calcium concentration via calcium-sensing receptor and changes in PTH mRNA stability [27, 28]. PTH acts as phosphaturic hormone, reducing tubular phosphate reabsorption through promoting endocytosis of the Na-coupled phosphate transporters NaPi-2a and 2c in proximal tubular epithelial cells, thus increasing urinary phosphate excretion [29–31]. PTH also modulates bone turnover, contributing to calcium and phosphate homeostasis of the skeleton [32]. In early stage of hyperparathyroidism, PTH stimulates bone release of calcium and phosphate, enhances intestinal absorption of calcium and phosphate, and increases renal calcium reabsorption while decreasing urinary phosphate reabsorption, thus maintaining a relatively normal serum phosphate concentration [33]. High PTH can stimulate the secretion of 1,25-(OH)2 vitamin D and FGF23 [12].
1,25-(OH)2 vitamin D, whose production is suppressed by membrane α-Klotho [8, 15], activates intestinal calcium and phosphate absorption. However, active vitamin D stimulates α-Klotho production in the kidney. Independent of changes in intestinal calcium absorption and serum calcium, 1,25-(OH)2 vitamin D represses the transcription of PTH by associating with the vitamin D receptor, decreasing renal excretion of phosphate [34]. High vitamin D may also decrease FGF23 levels, further limiting phosphate excretion [12].
αKlotho is predominantly expressed in renal distal convoluted tubules with lower abundance in proximal convoluted tubules, and also in parathyroid chief cells, making the kidney and parathyroid gland the primary FGF23 target organs [26, 35]. FGF23, without the participation of αKlotho, fails to regulate phosphate homeostasis. When HEK293 cells are co-transfected with a αKlotho and FGFRs, they acquire the ability to respond to FGF23 and activate FGF signaling [36]. Both FGF23-deficient [36] and αKlotho-deficient mice [1, 37] showed increased serum levels of phosphate and 1,25-(OH)2 vitamin D, which may result from impaired suppression of cyp27b1 [38] and NaPi activity [35, 39]. Both circulating soluble αKlotho and membrane αKlotho can suppress the secretion of PTH and 1,25-(OH)2 vitamin D, thus indirectly influencing the production of FGF23 [8, 15]. Whether αKlotho directly modulates FGF23 production in the bone remains to be confirmed.
Taken together, almost all players implicated in phosphate homeostasis are PTH, 1,25(OH)2 vitamin D, FGF23, and αKlotho that regulate phosphate metabolism independently and are also highly interrelated through modulation of other hormones’ metabolism.
Role of abnormal αKlotho in disturbed phosphate metabolism
αKlotho deficiency
The role of αKlotho in phosphate homeostasis was recognized as soon as αKlotho was discovered because the αKlotho-deficient mouse demonstrates severe hyperphosphatemia [1]. This was further confirmed by the fact that there is low serum phosphate in αKlotho-overexpressing mice [40]. A patient with homozygous missense mutation (H193R) in the αKLOTHO gene had severe calcinosis, dural and carotid artery calcifications, severe hyperphosphatemia, hypercalcemia, and high serum 1,25-(OH)2 vitamin D and FGF23 [41]. This mutation conceivably destabilizes KL1 domain of αKlotho, thereby attenuating production of membrane-bound and soluble αKlotho protein [41]. Therefore, αKLOTHO is a novel candidate gene for genetic hyperphosphatemia and calcinosis.
Emerging evidence in CKD and ESRD showed that kidney disease is a status of αKlotho deficiency. Although the mechanism of reduced circulating αKlotho is largely unclear, it is conceivable that αKlotho deficiency might be involved in the development of CKD–mineral bone disease (CKD-MBD): hyperphosphatemia, hyperparathyroidism, and vascular calcification. Hopefully αKlotho administration will be a novel strategy for CKD-MBD [7, 42].
αKlotho overexpression
It is interesting to note that extremely high-circulating αKlotho does not necessarily have better impact on mineral metabolism. In 2008, Brownstein and colleagues reported one case featuring hypophosphatemic rickets, hyperparathyroidism, >10- to 20-fold higher circulating αKlotho due to a balanced chromosomal translocation between 9q21.13 and 13q13.1 [43]. Unexpectedly, there were higher levels of circulating FGF23 and PTH which can trigger or exacerbate hypophosphatemia and osteodystrophy [43]. Up to now, the mechanism of αKlotho-induced elevation of these two phosphotropic hormones still has not been completely elucidated.
Similar phenotypic features were seen in mice with adenovirally delivered soluble αKlotho gene [44]. Mice had extremely high levels of circulating αKlotho (5- to 20-fold normal) and exhibited hypophosphatemia, hypocalcemia, reduced bone mineral content, expanded growth plates, and severe osteomalacia, and fracture. In addition, these mice had markedly elevated level of FGF23 (38- to 456-fold) in the circulation, and Fgf23 mRNA (>150-fold) in bone. Therefore, soluble αKlotho protein in very high levels potently stimulates FGF23 production through yet-to-be identified mechanism [44].
Taken together, modulation of circulating αKlotho within a desired range is required for the maintenance of phosphate balance to protect against phosphate toxicity. Both pathological increase and decrease in circulating αKlotho can cause disturbed phosphate homeostasis. Obviously, many clinical features in the patient with loss-of-function mutation in αKLOTHO gene [41] and in the patient with gain-of-function translocation of αKLOTHO gene [44] differ from those in αKlotho-deficient [1] or αKlotho-overexpressing mice [40], but the mechanism remains unexplained.
αKlotho effect on Na-dependent phosphate cotransporters
External phosphate balance is achieved through modulation of intestinal uptake of phosphate from diet, and renal reabsorption of phosphate from urine via regulation of NaPi activity. Type II (SLCA34) and type III (SLC20) Na-coupled phosphate transporters are responsible for uptake of extracellular phosphate [45–47]. The type II transporters NaPi-2a and NaPi-2c play a major role in phosphate reabsorption in the kidney and NaPi-2b mediates phosphate absorption in the intestine. Type III cotransporters including PiT-1 and PiT-2 are expressed in more broad tissues. PiT-1 also exists in bone and kidney and PiT-2 in intestine and bone. They are assumed to participate in control of phosphate absorption in the intestine, phosphate reabsorption and excretion in the kidney, and phosphate release and storage in the bone [45–48] (Table 1). Note that both NaPi-II and III isoforms control phosphate influx across the apical membrane, but the mechanism of phosphate efflux across the basolateral membrane remains to be identified.
αKlotho regulation of phosphate transport in the kidney
In the kidney, in addition to NaPi-2a and 2c whose expression pattern and function have been well characterized in proximal tubules, mRNA of both PiT-1 and PiT-2 was also detected, but only PiT-2 protein and its function in proximal tubular epithelia were noted [49, 50]. After a high phosphate diet, rats showed marked increase in serum phosphate with gradual down-regulation of phosphate reabsorption mediated by decrease in NaPi-2a (<1 h) followed by delayed and eventual down-regulation of PiT-2 (>8 h) and NaPi-2c (>24 h) [51]. NaPi-2a- and NaPi-2c-mediated transport is suppressed by 32 % and PiT2-mediated transport by 73 %, with phosphate loading, which proves PiT-2 to be highly regulated at an intermediate time course between NaPi-2a and NaPi-2c [51]. The biological function of PiT-1 in the renal phosphate transport is uncharacterized.
αKlotho deficiency up-regulates, and αKlotho overexpression or supplementation down-regulates NaPi-2a expression in the kidney and NaPi transport activity (Fig. 1) [35, 39, 52]. In addition, αKlotho deficiency is associated with up-regulation of NaPi-2c in the kidney [54], which should exacerbate hyperphosphatemia in αKlotho-deficient mice.
More interestingly, circulating soluble αKlotho can directly suppress NaPi transport activity, because αKlotho does so when directly added to cultured proximal tubule-like cells, and in cell-free brush border membrane vesicles (BBMV) without FGF23. The fact that FGF23 null mice preserve the ability to increase urine phosphate excretion in response to soluble αKlotho [35] further supports that αKlotho also has FGF23-independent pathway to induce phosphaturia. αKlotho appears to function as glycosidase acting on a yet unknown substrate in the brush border, since glucuronidase inhibitor can reverse αKlotho’s action on NaPi transport in both BBMV and cultured cells. Chronic effect of αKlotho on inhibition of NaPi-2a is associated with induction of NaPi-2a internalization and degradation through modification of moieties of sugar chain in NaPi-2a [35]. Thus far, mechanism of αKlotho effect on NaPi-2c is still completely elusive.
αKlotho effect on phosphate transport in the intestine
In the duodenum and jejunum, expression of NaPi-2b and both type III cotransporter isoforms (PiT-1 and PiT-2) has been reported [53, 54]. In mice, the functional NaPi-2b, PiT-1 and PiT2 are also present in ileum [55], but NaPi-2b and PiT-1 are thought to be most active in modulating intestinal phosphate absorption. In comparison with PiT-1, NaPi-2b is the major transporter that mediates phosphate absorption [53]. The αKlotho-deficient mice displayed an increased activity of intestinal NaPi transport, and increased levels of NaPi-2b protein compared with WT mice [52], indicating that up-regulation of NaPi-2b protein and activity may be one of the molecular mechanisms of hyperphosphatemia in αKlotho-deficient mice. The fact that co-expression of αKlotho decreased phosphate-induced current in NaPi-2b-expressing Xenopus oocytes [56] further supports that αKlotho directly down-regulates NaPi-2b activity (Fig. 1). But the effect of αKlotho on PiT-1 in the intestine needs to be identified.
αKlotho effect on the phosphate transport in the bone
Bone does not only provide mechanical support, but also contributes to the maintenance of circulating phosphate and calcium as a target organ of several calciophosphotropic hormones such as 1,25-(OH)2 vitamin D, PTH, FGF23, and αKlotho, and as an organ producing FGF23.
There is high PiT-1 mRNA with low PiT-2 mRNA abundance in osteoblasts [57]. Only PiT-1 rather PiT-2 mRNA was up-regulated by phosphate deprivation and Ca2+ treatment, which suggests that PiT-1 may play a more important role in phosphate trafficking across the bone [58]. Both NaPi-2a and NaPi-2b were recently found in osteoblast-like cell lines and play a role in phosphate flux to modulate mineralization [59]. But their responses to phosphate challenge differed, as phosphate supplementation only up-regulated NaPi-2a, and not NaPi-2b; whereas phosphate deprivation did not change either one. Whether these isoforms play distinct roles in phosphate trafficking across the bone individually, or in concert at different scenarios, remains to be explored.
The osteopenia in αKlotho-deficient mice has been recognized for more than one decade [1, 60–62]. However, there is no αKlotho protein expression in the bone; soluble αKlotho may be, therefore, a contributor to maintenance of bone formation (Fig. 1).
Conclusive remarks
Several lines of emerging evidence suggest that αKlotho deficiency and hyperphosphatemia are considered as risks for the high morbidity and mortality of cardiovascular diseases in CKD/ESRD [7, 63–71]. Therefore, the potential indication for αKlotho therapy will be genetic and acquired hyperphosphatemia such as CKD/ESRD. Better understanding of αKlotho physiology and pathophysiology will help to develop new drugs that may correct hyperphosphatemia and hypo-αKlotho-temia and to improve long-term outcome of CKD/ESRD patients.
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The authors acknowledge grant support from the NIH (R01-DK091392, R01-DK092461), The George M. O’Brien Kidney Research Center at UT Southwestern Medical Center (P30-DK-07938), and the Charles and Jane Pak Research Foundation. Ao Bian was in part supported by Visiting Scholar Award from National Natural Science Foundation of China (81170660H0509, 81270408H0220), and Provincial Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu, China (BK2011849). The authors thank Dr. Orson Moe for helpful discussions.
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Bian, A., Xing, C. & Hu, M.C. Alpha Klotho and phosphate homeostasis. J Endocrinol Invest 37, 1121–1126 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40618-014-0158-6
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