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AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY-GASTROINTESTINAL AND LIVER PHYSIOLOGY
Volume 299, Issue 6, Pages G1334-G1343Publisher
AMER PHYSIOLOGICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1152/ajpgi.00039.2010
Keywords
chloride absorption; human intestine; downregulated in adenoma; ERK 1/2 MAP kinase
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- Department of Veterans Affairs
- National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases [DK 54016, DK 81858, DK 33349, DK 71596, DK 74459, P01 DK 067887, 1942]
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Neuropeptide Y (NPY), an important proabsorptive hormone of the gastrointestinal tract has been shown to inhibit chloride secretion and stimulate NaCl absorption. However, mechanisms underlying the proabsorptive effects of NPY are not fully understood. The present studies were designed to examine the direct effects of NPY on apical Cl-/HCO3-(OH-) exchange activity and the underlying mechanisms involved utilizing Caco2 cells. Our results showed that NPY (100 nM, 30 min) significantly increased Cl-/HCO3-(OH-) exchange activity (similar to 2-fold). Selective NPY/Y1 or Y2 receptor agonists mimicked the effects of NPY. NPY-mediated stimulation of Cl-/HCO3-(OH-) exchange activity involved the ERK1/2 MAP kinase-dependent pathway. Cell surface biotinylation studies showed that NPY does not alter DRA (apical Cl-/HCO3-(OH-) exchanger) surface expression, ruling out the involvement of membrane trafficking events. Interestingly, DRA was found to be predominantly expressed in the detergent-insoluble (DI) and low-density fractions (LDF) of human colonic apical membrane vesicles (AMVs) representing lipid rafts. Depletion of membrane cholesterol by methyl-beta-cyclodextrin (M beta CD, 10 mM, 1 h) remarkably decreased DRA expression in the DI fractions. Similar results were obtained in Triton-X 100-treated Caco2 plasma membranes. DRA association with lipid rafts in the DI and LDF fractions of Caco2 cells was significantly enhanced (similar to 45%) by NPY compared with control. M beta CD significantly decreased Cl-/HCO3-(OH-) exchange activity in Caco2 cells as measured by DIDS-or niflumic acid-sensitive Cl-36(-) uptake (similar to 50%). Our results demonstrate that NPY modulates Cl-/HCO3-(OH-) exchange activity by enhancing the association of DRA with lipid rafts, thereby resulting in an increase in Cl-/HCO3-(OH-) exchange activity. Our findings suggest that the alteration in the association of DRA with lipid rafts may contribute to the proabsorptive effects of NPY in the human intestine.
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