Membrane basolateral

Mineralocorticoids foUow a mechanistic route similar to that of glucocorticoids, though differing in the proteins expressed. The activated MR-DNA complex promotes the expression of aldosterone-induced proteins (AIPs), which then act to increase conductance of the luminal membrane and concurrently increase pump activity of the basolateral membrane. These actions result from a number of AlP-influenced cellular characteristics,... 

AQP4 is the predominant water channel in the central nervous system (CNS), where it is involved in maintaining brain water balance and neural signal transduction. It is mainly expressed in astroglial cells, which support the neurons. Outside the CNS, AQP4 has been found in the basolateral membrane of renal principal cells as well as in various glandular epithelia, airways, skeletal muscle, stomach, retina and ear. 

Lubiprostone, a drug used for treating obstipation, has been claimed to be an activator of C1C-2. This is based on a single paper showing activation by lubiprostone of currents thought to represent C1C-2. These currents, however, differ starkly from typical C1C-2 currents. Furthermore, C1C-2 is located in basolateral membranes of the intestine. This localization is incompatible with the hypothesis that its activation increases intestinal chloride and fluid secretion. Thus, the claim that lubiprostone is a Cl- channel activator must be subject to considerable doubt. 

Although a uniform nomenclature for Na /H exchanger isoforms has not yet been adopted, we will refer to the amiloride-sensitive type of Na" /H exchanger that is present in the basolateral membrane of epithelia (apical membrane of placental syncytiotrophoblast) and also widely distributed in non-epithelial cells as the sensitive-type. The relatively amiloride-resistant isoform present in apical mem-... 

A35 affinity matrix, and eluted with various media. A 25-kDa protein bound to the affinity matrix and was completely eluted with 5 mM free amiloride. The abundance of the 25-kDa protein in brush border and basolateral membranes correlated closely with Na /H exchange activity. Importantly, binding of the 25-kDa protein to the affinity matrix was blocked by MIA > amiloride > benzamil, a rank order identical to that for inhibition of Na /H exchange activity, which suggested strongly that the 25-kDa protein was a structural component of the transporter. 

Next, Reilly et al. [65] localized the Na /H exchanger gene product in renal epithelial cells where the distributions of the kinetic isoforms was well-established. The strategy was based on the observation that the resistant- and sensitive-types are restricted to the apical and basolateral membranes, respectively, in confluent LLC-PK]/Clone 4 cells [8]. Thus, if proteins encoded by the cloned cDNAs localized to the apical membrane this would indicate that they represent the resistant-type. Localization to the basolateral membrane would prove they were the sensitive-type and presence on both membranes would suggest that the two functional isoforms had identical primary structures. Na exchanger proteins were localized by... 

In contrast to these results, Ross et al. [33] found that antisera against a 20-amino acid peptide (Ser-613-Arg-632) of the cytoplasmic domain of the human Na /H exchanger recognized a 66-kDa protein in immunoblots of bovine renal brush border membranes. Since the purity of these membranes was not reported it is possible that this result was due to contamination with basolateral membranes (although the molecular mass would still differ from the basolateral Na /H exchanger in LLC-... 

Fig. 9 Schematic representation depicting the movement of molecules from the absorbing (mucosal or apical) surface of the GIT to the basolateral membrane and from there to blood. (A) transcellular movement through the epithelial cell. (B) Paracellular transport via movement between epithelial cells. (Q Specialized carrier-mediated transport into the epithelial cell. (D) Carrier-mediated efflux transport of drug out of the epithelial cell. (Copyright 2000 Saguaro Technical Press, Inc., used with permission.)...

Figure 10 Schematic of cotransporters and countertransporters (or exchangers) in en-terocyte mucosal and basolateral membranes.

Mucosal brush border membrane vesicles and basolateral membrane vesicles can be isolated to study solute uptake across specific enterocyte boundaries. These more isolated vesicle systems allow for investigation of solute transport across a particular membrane barrier and permit separation of membrane trans-... 

S Chapelle, M GiUes-BaiUien. Phospholipids and cholesterol in brush border and basolateral membranes from rat intestinal mucosa. Biochim Biophys Acta 753 269-271, 1983. 

SM Schwartz, HE Bostwick, MS Medow. Estrogen modulates ileal basolateral membrane lipid dynamics and Na+-K+ ATPase activity. Am J Physiol 254 G687-G694, 1988. 

Figure 31 Scheme for the protein-binding, diffusional, and partitioning processes and barriers that are encountered by a highly lipophilic and membrane-interactive drug (D) as it permeates through a cell within a continuous monolayer, h and h, thicknesses of the aqueous boundary layers. kd and ka, dissociation and association binding constants, respectively. P, protein molecule. Permeability coefficients Effective, Pe aqueous boundary layer, PABL and PW apical membrane, Pap basolateral membrane, Pbl. 

Table 19 Comparison Between Permeability Coefficients of the Apical and Basolateral Membranes from Independent Efflux Kinetics from Drug-Loaded MDCK Cell Monolayers...

Ho NFH, PS Burton, RA Conradi, CL Barsuhn. (1995). A biophysical model of passive and polarized active transport processes in Caco-2 cells Approaches to uncoupling apical and basolateral membrane events in the intact cell. J Pharm Sci 84 21-27. 

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