Involvement of rat organic anion transporter 3 in the uptake of an organic herbicide, 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetate, by the isolated rat choroid plexus
✍ Scribed by Yoshinori Nagata; Hiroyuki Kusuhara; Tomoki Imaoka; Hitoshi Endou; Yuichi Sugiyama
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2004
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 183 KB
- Volume
- 93
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0022-3549
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✦ Synopsis
2,4-Dichlorophenoxyacetic acid (2,4-D) is an anionic herbicide. The purpose of the present study is to examine whether organic anion transporter 3 (Oat3; Slc22a8) is solely responsible for the uptake of 2,4-D by the isolated rat choroid plexus (CP). When expressed in LLC-PK1 cells, rOat3 was mainly localized to the basolateral membrane. Although there was no vectorial transport of 2,4-D in the control LLC-PK1 cells, expression of rOat3 increased the basal-to-apical transport of 2,4-D fourfold without affecting the transcellular transport in the opposite direction. The basal-to-apical transport of 2,4-D in rOat3-LLC was saturable with a K m value of 20 mM. The uptake of 2,4-D by the isolated rat CP was determined using the centrifugal filtration method. Saturable uptake of 2,4-D was observed in the isolated rat CP with a K m value of 22 mM. Probenecid and substrates of rOat3, such as p-aminohippurate, benzylpenicillin, and cimetidine, inhibited the uptake of 2,4-D by the isolated rat CP. Their K i values were comparable with those for the uptake of benzylpenicillin by the isolated rat CP, which is mainly mediated by rOat3. Furthermore, benzylpenicillin was a competitive inhibitor for the uptake of 2,4-D by the isolated rat CP. These results suggest that 2,4-D and benzylpenicillin share the same transporter for their uptake by the isolated rat CP, and rOat3 is the most likely candidate transporter.