Am. Torres et al., ROLE OF BSP BILIRUBIN BINDING-PROTEIN AND BILITRANSLOCASE IN GLUTATHIONE UPTAKE IN RAT BASOLATERAL LIVER PLASMA-MEMBRANE VESICLES/, Biochemical and biophysical research communications, 200(2), 1994, pp. 1079-1085
Glutathione (GSH) efflux in the liver is mediated by carrier proteins
sensitive to membrane potential (electrogenic), and it is inhibited by
organic anions. The hepatic uptake of tetrabromosulfophthalein (BSP)
is also a carrier-mediated function accomplished at least by two diffe
rent transport mechanisms, bilitranslocase (BTL) and BSP/Bilirubin Bin
ding Protein (BBBP). The two proteins operate in parallel, the former
operating electro-genically, the latter being insensitive to membrane
potential (electroneutral). To investigate the relationship between tr
ansport mechanisms for GSH and organic anions, the initial uptake rate
of S-35-labelled BSP into basolateral rat liver plasma membranes was
measured in the presence of external or intravesicular GSH. Electrogen
ic and electroneutral BSP uptake were neither cis-inhibited nor trans-
stimulated by GSH. H-3 glycine-GSH uptake in LPMV was not modified by
pre-incubating LPMV with anti-BTL or anti-BBBP antibodies. These data
indicate that GSH hepatic uptake is mediated neither by BBBP nor BTL.
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