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Regulation of Human Organic Anion Transporter 4 by Protein Kinase C and NHERF-1: Altering the Endocytosis of the Transporter

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Purpose

Human organic anion transporter 4 (hOAT4) belongs to a family of organic anion transporters that play critical roles in the body disposition of clinically important drugs. We have previously shown that the activity of hOAT4 was down-regulated by activation of PKC and up-regulated by PDZ protein NHERF-1. Here, we investigated the mechanisms underlying such regulations.

Methods

COS-7 cells expressing hOAT4 were treated with PKC activator phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate (PMA) or transfected with dominant negative mutants of dynamin-2 or Eps15 or transfected with NHERF-1. The internalization and the function of hOAT4 were then determined.

Results

We showed that hOAT4 constitutively internalized from and recycled back to plasma membrane. Transfection of dominant negative mutants of dynamin-2 or Eps15 into the cells, all of which block clathrin-dependent endocytotic pathway, significantly blocked hOAT4 internalization. Treatment of cells with PMA accelerated hOAT4 internalization, whereas transfection of cells with NHERF-1 attenuated hOAT4 internalization.

Conclusion

Our studies demonstrated that i) hOAT4 undergoes constitutive trafficking between cell surface and intracellular compartments, ii) hOAT4 internalization partly occurs through clathrin-dependent pathway, iii) the down-regulation of hOAT4 activity by activation of PKC and the up-regulation of hOAT4 activity by NHERF-1 are mediated through alteration of hOAT4 internalization.

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ACKNOWLEDGMENT

This work was supported by grants (to Dr. Guofeng You) from the National Institute of Health (R01-DK 60034 and R01-GM 079123).

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  1. Department of Pharmaceutics, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, 160 Frelinghuysen Road, Piscataway, New Jersey, 08854, USA

    Qiang Zhang & Guofeng You

  2. Department of Physiology and Biophysics, UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Piscataway, New Jersey, 08854, USA

    Zui Pan

  3. Department of Pharmacology, UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Piscataway, New Jersey, 08854, USA

    Guofeng You

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Zhang, Q., Pan, Z. & You, G. Regulation of Human Organic Anion Transporter 4 by Protein Kinase C and NHERF-1: Altering the Endocytosis of the Transporter. Pharm Res 27, 589–596 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11095-009-9983-2

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