Yi J R, Lu S, Fernandez-Checa J, Kaplowitz N
Department of Medicine, University of Southern California School of Medicine, Los Angeles 90033.
J Clin Invest. 1994 Apr;93(4):1841-5. doi: 10.1172/JCI117170.
Using the Xenopus oocyte expression system, we have previously identified an approximately 4-kb fraction of mRNA from rat liver that expresses sulfobromophthalein-glutathione (BSP-GSH)-insensitive reduced glutathione (GSH) transport (Fernandez-Checa, J., J. R. Yi, C. Garcia-Ruiz, Z. Knezic, S. Tahara, and N. Kaplowitz. 1993. J. Biol. Chem. 268:2324-2328). Starting with a cDNA library constructed from this fraction, we have now isolated a single clone that expresses GSH transporter activity. The cDNA for the rat canalicular GSH transporter (RcGshT) is 4.05 kb with an open reading frame of 2,505 nucleotides encoding for a polypeptide of 835 amino acids (95,785 daltons). No identifiable homologies were found in searching various databases. An approximately 96-kD protein is generated in in vitro translation of cRNA for RcGshT. Northern blot analysis reveals a single 4-kb transcript in liver, kidney, intestine, lung, and brain. The abundance of mRNA for RcGshT in rat liver increased 3, 6, and 12 h after a single dose of phenobarbital. Insensitivity to BSP-GSH and induction by phenobarbital, unique characteristics of canalicular GSH secretion, suggest that RcGshT encodes for the canalicular GSH transporter.
利用非洲爪蟾卵母细胞表达系统,我们先前已从大鼠肝脏中鉴定出约4kb的mRNA片段,该片段表达对磺溴酞谷胱甘肽(BSP-GSH)不敏感的还原型谷胱甘肽(GSH)转运(费尔南德斯-切卡,J.,J.R.易,C.加西亚-鲁伊斯,Z.克内齐克,S.田原,和N.卡普洛维茨。1993年。《生物化学杂志》268:2324 - 2328)。从该片段构建的cDNA文库开始,我们现在分离出了一个表达GSH转运蛋白活性的单一克隆。大鼠胆小管GSH转运蛋白(RcGshT)的cDNA为4.05kb,有一个2505个核苷酸的开放阅读框,编码一个835个氨基酸(95,785道尔顿)的多肽。在搜索各种数据库时未发现可识别的同源性。RcGshT的cRNA体外翻译产生一种约96kD的蛋白质。Northern印迹分析显示在肝脏、肾脏、肠道、肺和大脑中有一个单一的4kb转录本。单次给予苯巴比妥后3、6和12小时,大鼠肝脏中RcGshT的mRNA丰度增加。对BSP-GSH不敏感以及受苯巴比妥诱导,这是胆小管GSH分泌的独特特征,表明RcGshT编码胆小管GSH转运蛋白。