期刊
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY-RENAL PHYSIOLOGY
卷 303, 期 4, 页码 F527-F539出版社
AMER PHYSIOLOGICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1152/ajprenal.00134.2012
关键词
Xenopus oocytes; splice variants; hyperuricemia; hypouricemia; facilitative hexose transporters
资金
- Canadian Institutes of Health Research
- Queen Elizabeth II PhD Scholarship
- Alberta Diabetes Institute
Witkowska K, Smith KM, Yao SY, Ng AM, O'Neill D, Karpinski E, Young JD, Cheeseman CI. Human SLC2A9a and SLC2A9b isoforms mediate electrogenic transport of urate with different characteristics in the presence of hexoses. Am J Physiol Renal Physiol 303: F527-F539, 2012. First published May 30, 2012; doi:10.1152/ajprenal.00134.2012.-Human SLC2A9 (GLUT9) is a novel high-capacity urate transporter belonging to the facilitated glucose transporter family. In the present study, heterologous expression in Xenopus oocytes has allowed us to undertake an in-depth radiotracer flux and electrophysiological study of urate transport mediated by both isoforms of SLC2A9 (a and b). Addition of urate to SLC2A9-producing oocytes generated outward currents, indicating electrogenic transport. Urate transport by SLC2A9 was voltage dependent and independent of the Na+ transmembrane gradient. Urate-induced outward currents were affected by the extracellular concentration of Cl-, but there was no evidence for exchange of the two anions. [C-14] urate flux studies under non-voltage-clamped conditions demonstrated symmetry of influx and efflux, suggesting that SLC2A9 functions in urate efflux driven primarily by the electrochemical gradient of the cell. Urate uptake in the presence of intracellular hexoses showed marked differences between the two isoforms, suggesting functional differences between the two splice variants. Finally, the permeant selectivity of SLC2A9 was examined by testing the ability to transport a panel of radiolabeled purine and pyrimidine nucleobases. SLC2A9 mediated the uptake of adenine in addition to urate, but did not function as a generalized nucleobase transporter. The differential expression pattern of the two isoforms of SLC2A9 in the human kidney's proximal convoluted tubule and its electrogenic transport of urate suggest that these transporters play key roles in the regulation of plasma urate levels and are therefore potentially important participants in hyperuricemia and hypouricemia.
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