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AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY-GASTROINTESTINAL AND LIVER PHYSIOLOGY
Volume 301, Issue 1, Pages G60-G68Publisher
AMER PHYSIOLOGICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1152/ajpgi.00035.2011
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organic anion transporting polypeptide; PKC-zeta; microtubules; actin; cyclosporin
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- NIH [DK023026, DK041918, DK041296]
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Murray JW, Thosani AJ, Wang P, Wolkoff AW. Heterogeneous accumulation of fluorescent bile acids in primary rat hepatocytes does not correlate with their homogenous expression of ntcp. Am J Physiol Gastrointest Liver Physiol 301: G60-G68, 2011. First published April 7, 2011; doi:10.1152/ajpgi.00035.2011.-Sodium taurocholate-cotransporting polypeptide (ntcp) is considered to be a major determinant of bile acid uptake into hepatocytes. However, the regulation of ntcp and the degree that it participates in the accumulation of specific substrates are not well understood. We utilized fluorescent bile acid derivatives and direct quantitation of fluorescent microscopy images to examine the regulation of ntcp and its role in the cell-to-cell variability of fluorescent bile acid accumulation. Primary-cultured rat hepatocytes rapidly accumulated the fluorescent bile acids, chenodeoxycholylglycylamidofluorescein (CDCGamF), 7-beta- nitrobenzoxadiazole 3-alpha hydroxy 5-beta cholan-24-oic acid (NBD-CA), and cholylglycylamido-fluorescein (CGamF). However, in stably transfected HeLa cells, ntcp preferred CDCGamF, whereas the organic anion transporter, organic anion transporting polypeptide 1 (oatp1a1), preferred NBD-CA, and neither ntcp nor oatp1a1 showed strong accumulation of CGamF by these methods. Ntcp-mediated transport of CDCGamF was inhibited by taurocholate, cyclosporin, actin depolymerization, and an inhibitor of atypical PKC-zeta. The latter two agents altered the cellular distribution of ntcp as visualized in ntcp-green fluorescent protein-transfected cells. Although fluorescent bile acid accumulation was reproducible by the imaging assays, individual cells showed variable accumulation that was not attributable to changes in membrane permeability or cell viability. In HeLa cells, this was accounted for by variable levels of ntcp, whereas, in hepatocytes, ntcp expression was uniform, and low accumulation was seen in a large portion of cells despite the presence of ntcp. These studies indicate that single-cell imaging can provide insight into previously unrecognized details of anion transport in the complex environment of polarized hepatocytes.
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